For those who seeking a serene and nature atmosfere you can go east of Bali it"s Pantai Pasir Putih (White Sandy Beach) where there are only a few small eateries by the beach that offer simple menus and drinks around some chairs. The beach is located in Prasi village, Karangasem regency, and is about a two-hour drive from Denpasar, the capital of Bali. From the main road, the 5-kilometer ride through a forested area offers a scenic view of the surrounding green stretching all the way to the beach. Since eastern Bali is far from the city's hustle and bustle, there's no need to worry about the traffic here.
Visitors have also come to call the beach Pantai Prasi or Virgin Beach. The beautiful panorama is at once apparent when entering Prasi village where the beach is wedged in seclusion between two cliffs, Bukit Bugbug and Prasi. Its crystal clear water, calm waves and a sloping shoreline makes the visitor want to stay here forever. It also offers a good spot for snorkeling and for enjoying nature's beauty under water. For another pleasant getaway, it is highly advisable that visitors spend at least one evening at one of the hotels in Candi Dasa, only 7 kilometers away from Virgin Beach by car or motorcycle.
Besides its unique culture, Bali is very famous for its natural beauty. So, no wonder if natural attractions in this paradise island such as beaches are used to attract many tourists. Some beaches in Bali have been becoming favorite for tourists like Kuta, Sanur, Dreamland, and other beaches. That list will probably be added by a new member because recently, a new amazing beach has been opened and quickly become favorite for everyone.
tourists. Fortunately, the local government of Badung Regency realized the potential of this beach and quickly managed this beach then launched it as a new mainstay attraction. The result can now be felt such as a better access heading to the beach which is now become more convenient for any vehicles.
Pandawa Beach has a stunning panorama with serene and quiet atmosphere. When entering the beach area, we will be amazed by beautiful panorama of high cliff, flanking the road along 1.5 km. The road is purposively built through limestone hills in Kutuh Village, similar with the hills in GWK. Approaching the beach, these limestone hills are holed and carved artistically. In these holes, statues of Pandawa characters from Mahabaratha story are placed, such as Yudhistira / Dharmawangsa, Bima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadewa. Therefore, this beach is called Pandawa Beach.
When entering the area of Pandawa Beach, you will be madae astonished by beautiful view in front of you. The sand in this beach is so white and clean which is combined with a background of turquoise sea. The ambience is still quiet, serene, and clean. There are no garbages, and if there is any, those are only the remains of seaweed brought by the wave. This beach is very suitable for swimming because the wave and current is not so strong. Various activities can be done in this beach for example playing sand or sunbathing. Because of its geographical location in the east of Bali Island, we can see the amazing sunrise panorama in this beach.
In addition, we can also observe the activities of the seaweed farmers along the coast directly. Because of its shallow contour and short wave, Pandawa Beach is very suitable for cultivating seaweed. No wonder if lot of the local residents choose to be seaweed farmers.
Besides that, there is also an interesting recreation activity around this area which is called paragliding. If the weather is fine and the wind is quite strong, you can see or try this activity directly. The location for starting this activity is actually not in Pandawa Beach, but in Timbis Hill which is not too far from this beach. Usually, this paragliding activity is done in day or afternoon time, if the weather meets the requirements. While you are paragliding, you will be able to see the true beauty of Pandawa Beach from the height. Don't worry if you are a newbie or even a first-timer, because a training centre and instructors are available if needed. If you are interested in trying paragliding, you can go to Timbis Hill which is only a few kilometers away from Pandawa Beach.
Dreamland Beach... Woa! Whoever coming here, the eyes will be greeted by beautiful panorama. The overlaying of white sand and a big wave presenting a fantastic view that touch every heart of tourists. This area is very clean with high cliffs in front of the beach. When the sun illuminates the sea water, it is like bluish beach. Moreover, in the afternoon, there is a dazzling sunset which can astound the tourists. The atmosfer of the beach is romantic and also very suitable for honeymoon or couple who just spending holiday.
Dreamland Beach exist in the the area of Pecatu Graha, in Bukit Unggasan, Badung. To go there, visitors can pass Uluwatu street where it is stil one lane with Garuda Wisnu Kencana. The trip to this beach takes about 25 minutes from Ngurah Rai Airport or 45 minutes from capital city Denpasar. The visitors can go by car or motorcycle. Entering parking area, the visitors only pay IDR 5.000 per vehicle.
This beach offers good nuance and comfortable situation. Usually this situation is used by surfing lover who want explore the big and wonderful wave. Tourists that coming here also enjoy the scenery while sitting down or just laying on the sand. Even, this place once used as movie set and photo shooting for prewedding. "Most tourists who coming are foreigner such as Australia, China and Hawai. they choose this place because the situation is not too crowded," said Wayan Supadmi the owner of artshop in Dreamland.


Zach and Elle are a couple of rad & talented photographers we met in our recent trip through Oregon and California. They're super fun and nice and amongst their talents one is doing the robot dance, as you're about to see. We were in San Francisco, at the beach, at sunset, with the Golden Gate in the background, and we thought we have to shoot no matter what! Mikel, Daniel and I were fighting to get the most out of the little sun we had left, and this is my share. Thanks guys for such a cool afternoon!


A little legendary jazz with your wine? Jonathan Greenberg and Steve Young are two of jazz's most notorious legends living in Virginia. While Jonathan's trumpet accolades are far to long to list in full, it is worth mentioning that he was trained in the jazz capital of the world, the Big Apple of New York, where he was seasoned as a player in Broadway pit orchestras and played for such acts as Guys & Dolls, South Pacific, and Fiddler on the Roof. His jazz ascension continued from there, and he soon become a regular player with such legendary groups as the O'Jays, Temptations, Coasters, Drifters, the Blues Brothers and Tidewater Jazz All-Stars.
Joining Jonathan on the guitar is Steve Young, another local jazz legend in his own right. He got his playing stripes in the army corps, practicing assiduously for his three years of service before putting himself through music school. After receiving his masters in jazz from the New England Conservatory of Music, Jonathan's jazz career took off. He has since played throughout the east coast with many of the most recognizable jazz players and composers in the world, recording solo albums, composing, and keeping himself grounded – he regularly plays for veterans groups and homeless shelter charity events.
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Lucien Clergue in America
Founder of the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 1970, Lucien Clergue was the first photographer, with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, to be offered a chair at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France. The latest exhibition of his work at the FIAF in New York celebrates 50 years of his intimate relationship with America.
At the very back of the room, a large green shutter covers a window. On this November morning, the light barely passes through the iron slats. But on a nice day, Lucien Clergue, now in his 70s, welcomes in the light that striped his famous "zebra" nudes. The artist chose this apartment on 51st street., which doubles at his studio, to discuss his latest New York exhibition. A series of 36 photographs, Clergue in America marks the 50th anniversary of his arrival in this country. (A larger version of the exhibition was shown in Arles last May.)
The story of Clergue in America begins in 1961, when Edward Steichen, then director of the photography department at the MoMA, offered to exhibit a few of Clergue's pictures. The project, Steichen's last during his tenure there, launched Clergue's career. When the photographer, who had until then been working in a factory in Arles, arrived in America, he was immediately struck by its architecture. "When I first saw New York that year," he recalls, "I discovered for the first time a city made of squares. It was like nothing I had ever seen, having grown up surrounded by Roman and Romanesque architecture, where the curve reigns supreme. It was in New York, and later in Brasilia and Chandigarh, that I first formed close relationships with architects like Oscar Niemeyer and Marcel Breuer."
Clergue also has a background in painting. He was encouraged by a certain Pablo Picasso, to whom Clergue showed his photos when he was just 18. They remained friends until the painter's death. He then decided to devote his career to the exploration of shapes and symbols, often sexual in nature. Clergue traveled across the United States, taking in the majestic countrysides and the deserts of Death Valley. He followed in the steps of Edward Weston and became friends with Ansel Adams, two great American landscape photographers. It was then that he began to develop the analogy between rocky, sandy landscapes and the human body that would figure into the rest of his career. A photograph imitating Edward Weston's Point Lobos gave birth to Empreintes de Dieux and Langage de Sables. He would offer the latter as his university thesis "in images"—in those days, a decidedly non-conformist proposition.
Clergue's most famous photographs are undoubtedly his female nudes. "If you weren't sitting there," he said, "a model would be, and I'd be behind my camera." He finds in America an inspiration that elevates his work to a new dimension. It is due above all to the light, soft yet incisive, that he seeks out in this New York apartment (which he doesn't own), or in the dunes of Death Valley and White Sands, accompanied by both white and black models. "I naively thought that women of color couldn't get sunburns. One of poor girls I had lying out in the desert got burnt to a crisp." He has also found in America the freedom to undertake the kind of experiments that would lead to his "surimpressions," superimpositions of images inspired by his frequent visits to great American museums. (According to legend, the pictures were the result of an error.)
When Lucien Clergue, Academy member since 2006, isn't roaming the streets of New York or cruising the roads of Santa Fe, he spends time in Paris and Arles. It was there in 1970 that he founded the Rencontres d'Arles festival, the other great work of his life. At a time when the market for French photography consisted mainly of gifts and exchanges, Clergue brought to Arles the vigorous acquisition policy that he had witnessed in the United States. He invited the great photographers to come exhibit their work, and to add to his nascent collection. "I wrote to forty photographers that I admired, and only one responded: Henri Cartier-Bresson." Today a long list of photographers and industry luminaries converge on Arles every June. "Les Rencontres was in its youth like every child. It only had one thing on its mind: getting the hell out of the house! Now, it's living its own life."
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In this Dream Tour segment, the pop punk artist, bruiser, reveals who he would want on his ultimate tour lineup.
In this Dream Tour segment, the pop punk artist, bruiser, reveals who he would want on his ultimate tour lineup. You can check out their picks, after the break.
I have to preface this by saying I don't think this tour would make sense in any dimension or timeline but these artists are certainly in the running for my top influences. The first band on my tour would be Household. This band has consumed my Spotify for the last three years of my life after I saw them on tour with A Lot Like Birds at The Wire in Berwyn, IL. There is something about the way they transition from part to part in their songs that really drag me in. This band simply has a really cool and unique style that is willing to take risks that other bands in post-hardcore might not be willing to. The second band on the bill would have to be King Theta. He is mostly focused on music production currently but I am a huge fan of his as a person and songwriter. He has written every song with me and has inspired me on multiple occasions to push boundaries. The third artist would be 22gz. I would just want an excuse to listen to his music every night, to be honest. I got into a short-lived NY Drill phase with my fiancé and younger brother. 22gz felt like a standout artist in that genre. I really enjoy his flow and cadence. The last band on the bill would be UnityTX. This band is laying out the blueprint for what hardcore will turn into. They are mixing rap sounds with hardcore music in a really cool way. I have to add some honorable mentions here that barely missed the cut. Arm's Length, $hyfromdatre, Spite, Mannequin Pussy, and Pretty Sick.
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Sulphur yellow perianth with a yellow cup. Narcissus Carlton is a fabulous variety, reliable and strong excellent for naturalising and for cut flowers. Rabbit and deer resistant. RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Carlton is an heirloom narcissus which dates to pre 1927 a favourite of the cut flower trade because of it's long lasting flowers.


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The Competition and Markets Authority - Panel Members
The Competition and Markets Authority
Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Victoria House, 37 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AD
Panel Members are paid a per diem rate of £400.00. Costs incurred on casework, including travel to/from the CMA, are reimbursed in accordance with the CMA's travel policy.
Members will be asked to work on an ad hoc basis according to the caseload and their own availability. When appointed to an inquiry, Members will usually be asked to work up to 2 days a week for the length of an inquiry.
The Business Secretary, Greg Clark, has appointed 16 new members to the panel of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Lord Currie Added 23/03/2017
Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority. • Representative of Organisation
Anne Lambert Added 23/03/2017
Competition and Markets Authority Panel Chair and CMA Board Non-executive Director • Representative of Organisation
Chris Blairs Added 23/03/2017
Deputy Director for Consumer and Competition policy • Departmental Official
Rolande Anderson Added 23/03/2017
Independent Member
Tim Jarvis
Director for Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate • Departmental Official
Laura Carstensen
The CMA is seeking candidates who have had senior level experience (for example Board level or equivalent) in competition policy and law, consumer law and policy, economics, accountancy, business, public policy and/or regulation.
The Organisation:
The CMA is the UK's lead competition and consumer protection authority. The CMA's role is to promote competition, both within and outside the UK, for the benefit of consumers. The CMA is a non-Ministerial Department accountable directly to Parliament. Further information about the CMA can be found in the attached applicant pack or at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/competition-and-markets-authority
Panel Members are not required to be competition experts but should have recent expertise relevant to competition and have a broad perspective on consumer, business, and economic matters. A programme of tailored professional development training is offered while Members are expected to keep up to date in their area of expertise. Members must be independent and not represent particular interest groups.
The CMA is keen to get a breadth of experience and people from different personal and professional backgrounds to help decide the wide range of cases the CMA considers. We would welcome candidates from all countries and regions of the United Kingdom to reflect the UK-wide scope of the CMA's work and applications from women and other under-represented groups. All candidates will need to demonstrate the required knowledge and experience and meet the selection criteria.
Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following:
recent expertise relevant to competition and a broad perspective on business, consumer and economic matters;
the ability to think strategically, to offer direction on the analysis conducted by the staff team, and questioning skills to probe the positions of both staff and Parties;
the ability to assimilate detailed information (often large quantities thereof) and to assess and analyse complex economic, regulatory and legal arguments from a competition standpoint;
to serve on the specialist Newspaper, Communications and Utilities Panels, appointees will need to have the appropriate experience and skills in the relevant sector.
strong team-working and interpersonal skills, to work collaboratively with other Group members and staff to explore the issues with the aim of reaching collective agreement on the questions the CMA is required to decide;
the ability to work to tight timescales in considering evidence, offering consistency and logical analysis to reach fair judgments based on sound reasoning.
Members will be appointed for a period of up to 6 years. Successful candidates will take up their appointment at a mutually agreed date although it is hoped that the first new Members will be able to take up their role in summer 2017.
The closing date for applications is 25 April 2017.
Please submit the following documents by email to
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Alternatively, you can send your application in hard copy to:
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Mesta, Perle (12 Oct. 1889 or 1891–16 March 1975)
Mesta, Perle (12 Oct. 1889 or 1891–16 March 1975), political activist, businesswoman, diplomat, and hostess
Perle Mesta Right, with U. S. Senate candidate Marjorie Bell Hinrichs at the Democratic party jubilee in Chicago. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-92423).
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Mesta, Perle (12 Oct. 1889 or 1891–16 March 1975), political activist, businesswoman, diplomat, and hostess, was born Pearl Skirvin in Sturgis, Michigan, the daughter of William Balser Skirvin, a salesman, and Harriet Reid. The actual year of her birth was one of her best-kept secrets. Early in the twentieth century her father left Michigan for the oil fields of South Texas, where he made a fortune in the famed Spindletop field. The feisty "Billy" Skirvin moved to Oklahoma City, where he founded the American Oil and Refinery Company and built the luxurious fourteen-floor Skirvin Hotel. Pearl was educated in private schools in Galveston and studied voice and piano at the Sherwood School of Music in Chicago. In 1917 she married 54-year-old George Mesta, founder and president of the Mesta Machine Company located in Pittsburgh. During her years living in the nation's steel capital she changed her name to the distinctive "Perle."...
Post, Marjorie Merriweather (1887-1973), business owner, entertainer, and philanthropist
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Post, Marjorie Merriweather (15 March 1887–12 September 1973), business owner, entertainer, and philanthropist, was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter of Charles William Post, founder of Postum Cereal Company, and Ella Letitia Merriweather. After several of Charles Post's entrepreneurial ventures failed, his family entered him in a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1891. The sanitarium's doctor, ...


Ronald MacPherson* was a retired, well loved husband and father of three. One Sunday morning, Ronald got up early and went for a walk around his neighborhood. While crossing the quiet street where he lived, Ronald was struck and killed by a speeding, careless driver.
The Kahler Personal Injury Law Firm's car accident lawyers commenced a claim on behalf of Ronald's spouse and his three sons against the driver who caused Ronald's death. The Firm sought damages to help compensate Ronald's widow and his sons for their grief and for the loss of Ronald's valuable care, support and lost future income.
The defendant's insurance company rejected this claim.
The defendant's insurance company claimed that it was not responsible for damages for Ronald's loss of future income because he was a retired investor and his income was uncertain. The insurer also refused to pay for support workers to help care for Ronald's wife, who required care, because they believed that Ronald was too old to provide his wife the support she required.
The Kahler Personal Injury Lawyers gathered evidence establishing that had he not been killed, Ronald would have continued to earn a good income and that he did and would have continued to care for his wife. The Firm obtained expert reports which supported this claim and established the damages which the MacPherson family suffered as a result of Ronald's death.
Ultimately, the defence gave in. The Kahler Personal Injury Law Firm settled the family's claim and obtained for them the compensation they required to provide Ronald's widow support and care for the rest of her life.
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Truckmasters Sells Toyota Tacoma Models in Phoenix, AZ.
Residents of the Mesa, Scottsdale, and Glendale areas thinking about buying a pickup can find a wonderful selection now available at Truckmasters in Phoenix, Arizona! As our name suggests, we are a dealership that specializes in trucks. As such, you will find many sought-after options, including Toyota models like the Toyota Tacoma. These pre-owned vehicles are not only affordable but kept in outstanding condition as well so that our customers have the upper-hand when it comes to their next purchase!
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What makes the Toyota Tacoma stand out is the brand-exclusive technologies integrated into its design. It is known to wield a hard-working network of mechanical components inside, the heart of which is often an engine that supplies potent firepower. The result is an exponentially higher towing capacity. Tailored to enhance maneuverability, it also comes with the reinforcement of Trailer Sway Control, Vehicle Stability Control, and other standard features. Combined with high-end amenities like the automaker's Entune™ Audio System, it offers a degree of modernity too, keeping every ride feeling fresh!
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The Irish-born Edward Dagge Worthington (1820-1895) is described as "the doyen of the medical profession in the Eastern Townships" at the time of his death. He served as a Governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada and was the first President of the St. Francis District Medical Association. His "reminiscence" is a history of medical practice and training in Quebec in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of body-snatching, bleeding, and macabre operations, as well as a description of the first operations under anaesthetic (ether and chloroform) in Canada, which he performed.
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Wind Turbines: A New Spin on Energy
Lee Hudson Teslik
The Wind-energy industry, which for a decade has been one of the fastest-growing sources of energy production in advanced economies, hit a stumbling block in 2010 despite a promising start to the year. In April the U.S. federal government approved the first American offshore wind farm—the proposed Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts—buoying industry hopes for rapid development and stirring discontent among coastal communities along the waterway. By late summer, however, this momentum had been deflated by industry reports that wind-farm installations had dropped dramatically, falling by more than 70% compared with the same period in 2009. The news, alongside delays in U.S. Pres. Barack Obama's climate-change legislation, left a mixed outlook for an industry that has garnered increasing support from governments while also requiring large capital investments amid major economic constraints.
Trend of Industrial Development.
The long-term trend for wind-energy development in the United States and Western Europe remains one of growth. In 2008, despite the economic downturn, the United States funded wind development and surpassed Germany as the global leader in wind-power capacity. This growth appeared to be accelerating worldwide through 2009, a year when the world's economies added a record-breaking 37.5 gigawatts of wind-power capacity—a more than 30% increase in capacity over 2008. Projects subsidized by economic stimulus spending, particularly in China and the United States, played a major role in boosting this increase in capacity.
A few news events in early 2010 seemed to mark a continuation of this trend. Overall, the World Wind Energy Association estimated that 16 gigawatts of capacity were added in the first half of the year, which included the construction of three wind turbines on Ross Island in Antarctica. The proposal for the Cape Wind project called for a wind farm similar to those standing off the coasts of some European countries and China. In April Germany opened its first offshore wind farm, some 45 km (28 mi) off the coast in the North Sea, with a test field of 12 wind turbines. In July China's first full-size commercial offshore wind farm, the 102-MW Donghai Bridge Wind Farm in the East China Sea, began transmitting power. It initially provided electricity to the Expo 2010 Shanghai China. (See Sidebar.) The turbines were expected to generate enough power for 200,000 households in Shanghai. In September the Thanet wind farm, the world's largest offshore project to date, commenced operations off the coast of Kent, Eng. It boasted 100 turbines, which would be expanded to 341 turbines within four years.
Environmental Concerns.
Environmentalists cited different concerns about the installation of new wind turbines. One common refrain is that turbines result in bird and bat fatalities and sometimes obstruct bird migratory patterns. Environmentalists also argued that turbines could leak oils or other chemicals into the surrounding environment and worried about the effects of electromagnetic fields produced by windmills. The wind industry responded to these claims by pointing out that unlike most methods of producing electricity, wind turbines produce no carbon emissions. They also maintained that the quantities of chemicals used in constructing and maintaining wind turbines are relatively small compared with those used in other methods of producing electricity.
To help gauge the visual impact of offshore wind turbines, this seashore photograph was prepared with images of a typical wind turbine modified to show its appearance at various distances from the shoreline. © Deepwater Wind Holdings, LLC
Economic and Legislative Obstacles.
The biggest threat to wind-energy development in 2010 came not from environmental concerns but from economic and legislative ones. In some respects it was highly unlikely that the industry would repeat its heady 2009 performance, much of which was propelled by temporary economic-stimulus measures implemented by governments around the world. As these programs expired in 2010, financial pullback was inevitable, but analysts said that owing to expiring stimulus programs, the slowdown in turbine installations in 2010 had surpassed what might have been expected.
In July the leading industry research group, the American Wind Energy Association, reported that the installation of new turbines in the U.S. during the first half of 2010 fell 71% compared with the same period in 2009. The group projected that the decline in installations would continue and that the industry would install a little over half as many turbines in 2010 as it did in 2009.
The decline seemed to be the result of multiple factors. First, Spain, which was a leading source of industry growth, experienced a major economic downturn in early 2010 and thus sharply scaled back its investment in turbines. Second, slower growth trends in the United States were attributed to fragile credit markets that followed in the wake of the financial crisis. As a result, private investment was not freely available. Thus, companies had a difficult time making up for the withdrawal of government funding. In a capital-intensive industry that requires massive up-front expenditures in infrastructure, the lack of available credit proved to be a major impediment to growth.
Doubts also emerged in the second half of 2010 about whether the U.S. government would follow through on plans to expand wind-power capacity. President Obama's sweeping climate-change legislation, which once seemed likely to bolster the wind-energy industry, stalled in mid-2010, ahead of the congressional elections. Late in the year, analysts said that the industry's prospects going forward in the U.S. would depend heavily on whether (and in what form) this legislation eventually passed into law.
The Shanghai Expo
On May 1, 2010, the Expo 2010 Shanghai China opened to the public after eight years of preparation and some $50 billion in expenditures. By the time the event closed on October 31, China's first international exposition, or world's fair, was believed to have attracted a record 73 million visitors,…


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The Sagrada Familia is Barcelona's unmissable landmark. On this tour you'll discover one of the most widely admired buildings in the world and Gaudí's masterpiece.
Discover the meaning of Gaudí's artistic universe on this guided tour of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona's icon and the dream of the brilliant architect.
On the tour, you'll discover the different façades of the basilica and visit its surprising interior, inspired by nature and consisting of vast columns that make up an astonishing stone forest. Plans and models will reveal how Gaudí conceived his vision of 18 towers which, with some variations on the original design, are closer to completion every day as a result of the money raised from ticket sales and donations.
The tour ends at the museum which opened in 1961 and is located in the semi-basement on the Passion façade. Here you'll find out about the history and evolution of the basilica through sketches, plaster models and photos. This is certainly the best way to enjoy the splendour of a building that cannot be captured ina photo or postcard.
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Gordon R. Farquhar - Highly decorated Viet Nam War helicopter pilot and one of the original full-time flight instructors for the Delaware Army National Guard's aviation program. Bronze Star recipient with over 1100 combat hours and 16,000 total hours. Retired corporate pilot qualified in 19 different aircraft.
Robert L. Farris Jr. - Viet Nam War helicopter pilot and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient. Fixed wing National Guard fighter pilot. Flew five aircraft types during 35 year US Airways career. Strong promoter of aviation and mentor to young pilots.
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David Lidington confirmed European elections will take place on May 23. Picture by Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
European Parliament elections will go ahead in the UK on May 23, after the British government determined that there is not enough time left to complete the ratification of Brexit before that date, Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has said.
Speaking ahead of cross-party talks on Brexit, Mr Lidington said: "Parliament has had several occasions to vote on leaving the European Union.
"So far, every time there has been a majority against leaving with any particularly orderly deal, so we are engaged as a government in talks with the opposition, and with others across Parliament, to try and find a way forward that has maximum possible support amongst politicians of all political parties.
"But what this now means, given how little time there is, is that it is regrettably not going to be possible to finish that process before the date that is legally due for European Parliamentary elections.
"We very much hoped that we would be able to get our exit sorted and have the treaty concluded so that those elections did not have to take place. But legally, they do have to take place - unless our withdrawal has been given legal effect - so those will now go ahead.
"But we will be redoubling our efforts and talks with MPs of all parties to try to make sure that the delay after that is as short as possible. Ideally we'd like to be in a situation where those MEPs never actually have to take their seat at European Parliament, certainly to get this done and dusted by the summer recess.
"That will mean effort, hard work and compromise from different political parties, people from both the Leave side and the Remain side in the European debate. But I think that is what is in the national interest - deal with the outcome, respect the outcome of the referendum of 2016 and leave the European Union with a deal that protects jobs, investment and living standards in this country."
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Five Questions That Corporate Directors Should Ask
by Larry Colero, Crossroads Programs Inc.
One of the most lethal threats to any organization is misconduct within its own walls. We need only consider the sudden demise of Enron Corporation or Barings Bank – both fatally wounded by their own officers. Lack of attention to ethics can be a corporation's Achilles' heel, with the potential for a single employee to topple even large well-established companies. Adding to the threat, advanced technology gives individuals more power, raises the stakes and speeds up the action.
This is why there's no reassurance in stating that recent scandals like Enron, Xerox or WorldCom are aberrations rather than reflections of a systemic problem. Whether or not the majority of companies actually have these problems, they are all highly vulnerable under the wrong circumstances.
This paper presents five questions any board member can ask to begin a dialogue that will mitigate the risks presented by principle-agent relationships in larger organizations. But before we get to the actual questions, let's consider why they need to be asked.
Why does this concern the board?
Directors are essentially 'guardians' of a firm, charged with overseeing management to ensure that a firm's business is conducted with a sound strategy and prudence. More than just maximizing return on investment, good governance demands that directors do everything in their power to protect shareholders' assets.
Assuring the management of ethics is an important function of the board for the following reasons:
The board is ultimately accountable for corruption or impropriety in a company. Chairs have been asked to resign as a result of staff indiscretions. Some have been fined or imprisoned for their complicity in approving policies that encouraged misconduct.
Research indicates that corporate systems (e.g., incentive systems, hierarchies, and so on) often breed misconduct. Messages implied by the board's decisions on resource allocation, performance targets or promotions will always trump official statements of ethical values.
Generally, staff know more than auditors about what is really going on. Yet most corporate whistleblowers are given little or no protection if they choose to challenge dishonest management. For this and other good reasons, it's unlikely that a staff member would ever approach the board directly with an ethical concern about senior management, compromising the board's ability to 'supervise' management.
Many CEOs complain that they are prevented from managing ethics because of other business pressures. The board is in a key position to influence these 'pressures.'
As a steward of the company's interests, the board should insist upon the establishment of systems and structures designed to reduce 'agency risks' and nip problems in the bud.
Why isn't ethics management part of a typical board agenda?
Ethical risks can be difficult to discuss, since they tend to be nebulous and somewhat theoretical (…until someone's hand is caught in the till). A well-intentioned discussion of ethics can quickly be reduced to platitudes and moralizing by those who are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the subject. This is an effective way to shut down dialogue and avoid taking action.
For example, a CEO assures the board that the firm's business is conducted "with the highest standard of integrity." Sounds good, but what exactly does that mean? And how can a director question the meaning of such a lofty statement without insulting the CEO?
No matter how trustworthy, ethical or well-intentioned your CEO may be, it is naive and bordering on negligent to accept their word at face value when they tell you that the company's ethics are in good shape. Directors have a responsibility to pursue corporate ethics 'below the surface.' A reasonable CEO should understand this.
Yet even the best will misconstrue enquiries as a personal affront. Take for example a highly moral and trustworthy executive. They may well respond to the question defensively, instinctively declaring it a non-issue and giving full assurance that they and their management team are above reproach. In this case, that's true. The problem is that a lying, cheating, thieving executive would respond exactly the same way! After all, con artists are experts at generating confidence.
Clearly there's a need to pursue ethics beyond verbal assurances. But how can a board do this in a meaningful way without looking suspicious, or meddling in the day-to-day affairs of the business? There are various mechanisms such as internal or external auditors, risk management committees, and so on. Each has its benefits and inadequacies.
For the individual board member, it's a question of diplomatic assertiveness. As with other topics at the board table, directors should start by asking a few open-ended questions and continue asking until they are satisfied with the answers.
With regard to ethics management, try the following questions as starters:
What is our company's strategy to manage ethics?
Can someone describe the company's approach to ethics other than in broad philosophical terms? Where does ethics fit into the overall strategy? What are the moral implications of other strategic initiatives? (For example, incentive programs frequently provide motives for misconduct, and may need to be revised or balanced.) Was ethics management discussed at the last board retreat or strategic planning session?
What systems are currently in place to foster and monitor ethical behaviour? How effective are they? Is there any documentation to back up implementation? What are the company's objectives for the coming year(s) with regard to ethics management?
Who is responsible for ethics in our company?
The answer "everyone," while literally true, is not satisfactory. Unless your company is one of the few with a designated ethics officer, the accountability for managing ethics can bounce back and forth across disciplines and up and down the hierarchy of most companies like a hot potato, never landing anywhere.
In many companies the responsibility for ethics management is delegated to board committees, Human Resource or Compliance functions. Larger, more sophisticated firms appoint Ethics Officers. It helps to have a central focus for ethics that is clearly accountable and well known in the organization.
Are people in our firm equipped to recognize and resolve moral dilemmas?
Can the employees recognize ethical issues as they arise? An ethical problem can't be resolved unless it's first acknowledged as a dilemma. Ethical issues can build slowly like the 'thin edge of a wedge' or pass by so quickly that they are only seen in hindsight. What guidance does your company provide for employees who face ethical dilemmas?
As well, employees come from diverse cultural backgrounds, each with their own moral standards. (For a multicultural 'dilemma detector' see the paper A Framework for Universal Principles of Ethics.) Do your people need help understanding the company's moral expectations? Is there a code? Training? Ethics advisory service?
Are people in our organization provided with a safe opportunity to discuss ethical issues of concern?
A 1992 survey of over 4,000 U.S. workers found nearly one third felt pressured by their companies to violate official policies in order to achieve business success. Another third said that they had witnessed violations of ethics policies (such as stealing, lying to supervisors and falsifying records) but only half of these were willing to 'blow the whistle.' Conspiracies of silence place a company at significant risk, yet they are surprisingly commonplace and reasonably predictable.
Boards need to be satisfied that an effective reporting mechanism is in place to hold management and staff accountable, and bring wrongdoing to light before too much damage is done. What policies and systems are in place to protect 'whistle blowers'? Does your company have an Ombudsman, an Ethics Officer, or a Hot Line? (Human Resource departments don't count, and neither do so-called 'open door' policies or 'progressive managers.' It has to be safer than that, and less subject to hierarchical influence.)
Do we reward or punish ethical integrity and moral courage if it has a negative impact on the bottom line?
A 1990 study by Columbia University found that nearly half of 1,000 business executives surveyed admitted being rewarded for taking action on the job that they considered unethical. One in three reported that refusing to take unethical action resulted in penalties.
An overemphasis on immediate gains can cascade down the organization, sending a strongly implied message to staff that cutting corners and generating cash flow supercedes all other objectives, including personal integrity. Conveyed through subtle means, this message will always carry more weight than official proclamations of values, codes of ethics, and so on.
Consider what happens to someone in your firm when they stand up for ethical principles against the pressure of other business objectives. Are they punished or praised? If they're praised, is there also some tangible reward? (Ask your CEO for some examples.) How do the rewards compare to the possible incentives for unethical action? Compare a situation where someone cut ethical corners to make money, to another situation where an ethical principle was upheld at a significant bottom-line cost. How did each play out?
It is comforting but dangerous to assume that there are adequate internal mechanisms to prevent, detect and report unethical conduct, or that moral assertions from the executive team need not be challenged.
To be proactive, corporate directors need to minimize a company's ethical liabilities and maximize its ethical assets by:
recognizing the company's need to manage corporate ethics, and the dangers of taking it for granted
supporting management to prevent or protect against unethical activities
developing strategies to raise the ethical standard in the organization and build trust as a competitive advantage.
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December 11 2014 by Jordan von Manalastas
In the Belly of the Beast
It was the great English curmudgeon Edward Gibbon who called the Americans' struggle for independence "a criminal enterprise." (What more could one expect from the preeminent lamenter of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?) It would be years, of course, until the world would ratify our little tiff as the premonitory throb of a revolutionary era; and a century or so before our criminal zeal was codified into a human right. But did Gibbon, in all his grumpiness, doom us self-fulfillingly to the criminal specter haunting our short history? Yanqui exceptionalism goes by many names: "vigilantism" is one, and "rogue state" another.
Liberty, we are told, comes at a portly price: and if we loudmouths and dissidents but knew what troubles lurk in the untransparent crosshairs of our unelected watchmen, we would think twice before harping about. Dissent is the luxury of the unknowing; and like a finely ground bratwurst, the recipe is left better to the butchers. I am willing, more than others in my camp, to buy this. But when one steals a glimpse into those bleak and bloodied rooms—as we were treated to this week, against the butchers' best intentions—that steep purchase of liberty starts to reach a point of diminishing returns. And it looks a bloody awful lot like a front for racketeers and thugs.
There is a little gag I like to play at dinner parties, in the company of leftists, to keep the blood to a healthy simmer. "What's the most underrated revolution in history?" I ask my interlocutor, preferably in the middle of some anti-imperial rant. Haiti's slave revolt? The Philippines' Yellow Revolution? "The American," I answer for them, to mixed reviews. There are, I find, two types of people: those who think, at the day's end, that 1776 was a good year, and those who do not think of it at all.
We know by now the reasons for the latter. That it was a power grab for the white and the landed male; that it led to the expulsion and genocide of the native population; that it laid the groundwork for imperial ventures as diverse as Nicaragua and Guam. Against these I rejoin that the severance from royal supremacy, the freedom of speech and press, the codification of rights and the instatement of non-sectarian secularism still seem like good ideas. And to live in a nation founded upon alterable documents is a privilege few may share.
I spent the better part of a summer defending this quaint view in a region bursting at the seams with Yanqui-phobia. (That there exists in that location an exquisite hotel called The American Colony is hysterical, for more reasons than may seem obvious.) Yet a brutally occupied and bombarded territory proved uneventful. It was not till I returned that I was threatened with arrest, for the crime of simply asking why I had been Terry stopped. Earlier that month, an unarmed black teen was shot to death by a policeman, to an inevitably bathetic non-indictment. "But O," say the voices of law and order, "the boy was a reasonable threat!" Fair enough, I suppose. And the man who was chokeheld to breathless death by New York cops? "Don't bother about that one, too." Or what about those leaders who suborned the torture and savaging of detainees in secret black sites? "Pardon all of them," says Anthony Romero, executive director of the A.C.L.U. Eventually one starts to suspect in these impunities not quite a miscarriage of justice, but rather, as it were, an abortifacient.
Lately, those of us who insist on America's fundamental goodness have labored pitifully to pass the straight-face test. Our nation's name is now nearly a byword for institutional impunity. And see how quick the legions of bootlickers are to shame themselves. Suddenly the real problem in Ferguson is the rioting. (And after all we've done for them!) Why didn't Eric Garner just comply? (It was just the officer's job!) And don't we know the waterboarders got bin Laden? (You miserable ingrates!) There truly are no depths to which the State's cheerleaders will not sink—or, to use the jargon, dunk—for the catch-all sakes of "order" and "security."
One hears incessantly of the call for a "national conversation," as well as the linguistic horrorshow "enhanced interrogation techniques" (which is really the worst sort of euphemism, for it obscures nothing except our own collective self-disgust). There is no dialectic to be had. Either one abets and absolves institutional brutalization—which, one must recall, means "to make into a brute"; it works, so to speak, both ways—or one does not. After a while it grows tedious to debate the moral merits of anally administered hummus.
(There are in fact only three words to be said: Prosecute the bastards. And a bonus one, for the internationally inclined, since misery loves company: Extradite.)
The perennial task of our generation will be to answer this unanswered question: How did a land of tyrant-topplers become a home of torturers? And of the panty-sifting inspector, of the phone-perusing creep, of the snot-nosed drone assassin, of the militarized and unpunishable police.
Ithaca, 2014.
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The mixed media work of Daniel Segrove is impressive, to say the least. Even though this might be a contradictory statement, the work encapsulates an alluring 'refined messiness'. The expressive marks have an emotive quality that is contrasted with serene, nonchalant figures posing in a nondescript space. The combination of these elements join together harmoniously to showcase an intimate connection between subject and viewer. The figures are stripped of detailed ornamentation and are simplified to basic line and shading (with some realism intact), sometimes overlapped with deliberate scribbles, or placed in a space reminiscent of a sketchbook page. Perspective, empathy, identity, consciousness and emotions (like frustration and ecstasy) are common themes presented. The work is typically ambiguous in nature, leaving the viewer with an open-ended narrative to be explored without the confines of preconceived notions.
A full-range of style and technique is displayed in Daniel's work; abstraction, realism, and non-objectivity are all present throughout the body of paintings and works on paper.
If one were to make a connection to art history, some of the work Daniel has produced could be considered reminiscent of collage artist Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg created a lasting legacy with his "combines", layering prints of found images with expressive applications of paint, the product being a nontraditional exploration of media. The blending of media with various methods was ground-breaking at the time of Rauschenberg's rise, but now the technique is standard in contemporary art. The way images were overlapped and placed on a canvas determined the meaning and reception of the piece. The complexity of a piece is based upon the number of elements added by the artist.
An interesting aspect of Daniel's work is his age; he is only twenty-three years old, just graduating with his BFA at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2014. Daniel says that his age doesn't actually play a big role in the influence of his artwork, but of course trying to find a solid voice and to learn and grow as an artist while trying to establish a body of work and a career is challenging. Even at his age, he is already conscious of the importance of not falling into a mundane comfort zone and approaches each piece with and uneasiness or apprehension to maintain a level of freshness and spontaneity. Currently he is inspired by work that challenges him to slow down and really think, so he strives to do the same for people who interact with his work, so they can see art differently, feel connected, and be inspired as well.


Dr. Siddhartha Srivastava is an Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine at Queen's University and works at Kingston Health Science Centre. He has dual undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Biological Science from the University of Calgary, and a Master of Science in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia. He completed medical school at the University of Calgary, and residency and subspecialty training in General Internal Medicine at Queen's University. Dr. Srivastava subsequently joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at Queen's University in 2016.
Dr. Srivastava's clinical practice involves attending on the General Internal Medicine (GIM) clinical teaching units, GIM consult service, and outpatient care in perioperative medicine and refractory hypertension.
Dr. Srivastava's academic interests include clinical informatics, quality improvement, and medical education. He is passionate about the integration of technology and information in health care and how it improves healthcare providers' workflow, patient outcomes, and the healthcare system.


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Much to ponder, not least how to retain the hunger of those who still enjoy the Premier League riches
29th December 2014 By Rick Waghorn 21 Comments
What follows is pretty much an open question. I don't have an answer.
Hence why I'm throwing it open to the floor.
Because of the six teams that sit above Norwich City in the Championship table – Bournemouth, Ipswich, Middlesbrough, Derby, Watford and Brentford – none have graced the English Premier League of late.
I haven't done the full search, but I can't imagine either Bournemouth or Brentford have ever been in the top flight of English football.
Watford have been down for a good number of years; ditto Ipswich, Derby and Middlesbrough.
And yet all are better placed than Norwich. Or, indeed, Fulham. Or Cardiff. Or Blackburn. Or Bolton. Or Blackpool.
Why? I don't believe in that level of coincidence.
And yet listen to various folk after this weekend's 2-1 defeat at Reading – add to the list above – and the Canaries position in the table remains somewhere between disappointing and disgraceful. Four out of ten, to quote one.
We should be walking this league, is the general consensus.
'We're just down from the Premier League…' is cited as a plus, not a minus. Whereas if 'the table doesn't lie', then the reverse is true.
Indeed if you look at that table in the light of the above, Norwich are the best performing of the recently relegated Premier League teams.
In fact, they are bucking a trend. Because if you were to average out the positions of their relegated fellows, City would probably come out 11-12th.
To my mind, there must be something that binds all these teams together in terms of their near-universal 'under achievement' in their first years back.
And, by the same token, there must be a reason why the six clubs currently above them in the Championship pile are that much closer to the 'Promised Land'.
Six clubs without a bean in terms of Premier League parachute payments.
Or if they ever had them, that cushion has long since gone. And was never to the same scale that Norwich have enjoyed.
So, six of the 'poorest' clubs in the Championship sit above a dozen of the 'richer'. Certainly if you built a table around wage out-goings, you wouldn't have Bournemouth and Brentford in the promotion and play-off positions.
The argument against Norwich is that they are seventh due to an inexperienced manager whose squad is under-performing given the 'obvious' talent that sits in that dressing room.
And yet there are vastly more experienced managers than Adams sitting in lowlier positions.
So that argument doesn't explain why six clubs with no recent 'benefit' of Premier League football should be perched above all the clubs that have.
Which leads me back to the first question – why?
For me, I think the answer lies in the corrosive power of money.
Whoever the manager is.
The six clubs that lie above Norwich, and the rest of those clubs who have grown fat and soft on Premier League riches, have one common quality – a hunger to do well.
The same hunger to get on and get up that Norwich themselves had in spades under Paul Lambert – a hunger that was personified in the figure of Grant Holt.
He was on a journey. From non-league to Premier League. And it drove both player and club on.
Look around and who has that now? Not just at Norwich. But across the board with the ex-Premier League sides.
From a distance, Ipswich are driving on through young and hungry kids; let off the leash and given their chance in the absence of a Jimmy Bullard, Town's biggest challenge will be next month's transfer window. Can they keep Master Mings at home?
But the lad cares about his home town club. More than a Bullard, one suspects.
And this would be my feeling closer to home. If a decent offer comes in, let a player walk. People are getting out of this division on the back of players wanting it more than others.
Those that have had it wages-wise rarely offer the same edge as those that haven't.
And it's around those players – almost irrespective of age and experience – that you forge a promotion-winning team. The 'poor' relations.
To be seventh at the turn of the year with a squad full of players who have tasted Premier League riches remains no mean feat.
Filed Under: Column, Rick Waghorn
what rubbish mr waghorn i guess your invitation to carrow road is under threat, this squad is the best in the league and mr adams was given the best budget in the league, not even in the play offs at the turn of the year is a disgrace iam not bothered about what cardiff and fulham are doing we shoukd be doing better but thats what happens when u appoint a novice.
John Page says
Adams keeps suggesting that "City came up short again" but never seems to accept that it is anything to do with him or suggest what he is going to do about it!
Dave B says
Last season (according to many) we were relegated because a lack of money. This season we won't get promoted because we have too much?
I wonder what the right amount is.
Glen Smith says
Good article, the post relegation hangover does seem a common occurrence. Lets not forget the teams that carry on falling through the divisions. For me a team usually gets relegated because they are a poor team. Good players play well week in week out, average/poor players flatter to deceive. We have some good players, we also have a lot of players who are good on their day, unfortunately they outnumber the former. Consistency is required for any type of challenge in any league. How much of this is down to the management is something that I have no answer for. The bulk of our playing squad got us relegated – man management or are they not as good as we think?
Davidgallant says
I AGREE when Lambert was in charge he looked for players
with hunger to prove how good they were players from lower leagues wanting that chance ok he msy have been lucky how it worked out . Why can 't some off our players do this is down to
iNa not been there got the tshirt so speak . Our FRIENDS SEEM TO COPIED THIS FORMAL AND SEEMS TO BE WORKING OTBC
Nice piece, Rick. If you don't have an answer for us, you've still gone a long way by framing the question so clearly.
Just to nail one thing in passing. Norwich were not the biggest Championship spenders in the summer – Fulham spent £11m just on striker Ross McCormack (who's scored half the goals of Cameron Jerome while costing five times as much). But clearly City are a big fish in this pond, just as they were a small fish in the Prem.
There's another stat you don't mention but which graphically highlights the issue: the teams dropping from the Prem are always big favourites to go straight back up, but only one in four actually does. One in four. In their mid-table mediocrity this season, Cardiff and Fulham are more typical of relegated teams than Norwich. Despite all last night's wailing and gnashing of teeth, we've just had a month of promotion form and (yesterday apart) look well capable of clawing back the 3 points that separate us from the play-off places.
That said, of course we should be in the top six on playing strength. Hunger has a lot to do with it, as does managerial nous (almost every manager needs a wise head around him – think Brian Clough/Peter Taylor – and Mike Phelan perhaps now fits the bill for Neil Adams). I suspect we have a good deal of hunger behind the scenes, helped by selling Fer and replacing him with O'Neil, Jerome and Lafferty. But that hunger doesn't always translate onto the field. My own priority for January would be an assertive leader – as you say, that's something missing compared to the Grant Holt era.
Sorry for the ramble with no more answers than your piece! But December suggests we're maybe not too far off. Seems to me it's not radical change we need, just a couple of final pieces to the tactical and selection jigsaw.
Phill says
How would a Neil Lennon or Mick McCarthy be doing with this squad ? far better than the radio presenter i would guess .
Adams needs to go he is dragging this club down and we would have been far better to stick with Hughton .
Out of the frying pan into the furnace appointment and just about everybody called it apart from the Norwich City Board.
Ian Medals says
Of course giving the job to a newbie was risky but clubs who try to widen the managerial gene pool should be applauded. Bournemouth did it with Eddie Howe and I bet there were some of their fans who bleated that it needed an older man instead of a 'wet behind the ears' boy.
Losing 6 points in a month to a poor Reading side is massively disappointing – maybe after 11 home goals, a touch of complacency was kicking in? We're still in the hunt for playoff glory but can't afford anymore of those 'bad days at the office'.
Bournemouth on the 10th will sort the men from the boys in our side.
Kobecanary says
What all the teams above us in the league aren't burndened with which we are 1) having to pay part of the wages for dross like Bassong, hence why we have parachute payments and 2) a high percentage of their fan base with a misplaced sense of entitlement. I believe NCFC is moving in the right direction but the biggest risk to that is the unnecessary pressure brought about by unrealistic expectations.
Just one thing guys why do we get the same excuses
when we lose a bit like Hughton .I know we can 't
win every game .But how come set pieces cause
us problems like against Reading .We still.have
plenty to
play for .And perhaps a good FA cup Run We have
the best fans lets keep given our team all our support
we will b ok come May
Brentford were in the top flight in the 1930s.
stl says
Isn't it time to stop patronising Mr Adams by calling him a " novice"? Thirty years or so as a top class player and a coach ( with the FA Youth Cup on his CV) doesn't sound like a lack of experience.
Football is still sport, even if only just,sometimes.The glorious uncertainty is what makes it compulsive at it's best.
There is no guaranteed formula for winning. There was nothing inevitable about Norwich's past successes.Recently under Mr Lambert or long ago with Mr Saunders, City sides gave themselves a chance of outstanding achievement and were able to see it through. That was their glory .
Had they just missed out it would have been a disappointment, but never ,please , a disgrace.
The Fa youth cup on his cv , true so he should get a job managing a schools football team and stop pretending to be a Championship manager. The sooner he goes the better and i very much doubt you will ever see him employed as manager by any other club .
Phill (13): I'm certainly glad you weren't choosing the Norwich manager when Mike Walker was a candidate. We'd have had no top-three finish in the Premiership, no European adventure.
City aren't where we'd want them to be right now. But they're better placed than the average club that's come down from the Prem – not just this season, but over 20 years. And they've just had a month of promotion form (yes, including Reading).
So perhaps deserving a little more leeway than you're giving them?
Stewart Lewis (14) We are miles behind where we want to be , top two is almost as good as gone already and if we keep Adams much longer then play offs will follow .
Beating a couple of the leagues worst sides is not promotion form .
Would any other football league club in this country employ Adams as manager ? of course they would not, we have to be lumbered with him because its a whim of Delia Smiths .
While I don't see now as a good time to remove Adams, I do agree with Phill that, realistically, if we did fire Adams, he's unlikely to be hired by any team in the top 2 (or 3?) tiers.
Remember a lot of people said Hughton was a Premier standard manager, yet he's not being linked to any jobs as far as I can tell.
We've been short of top level quality in that dept. for a while now. Hopefully Phelan, with his experience, can keep the general upward trend going.
Ha. Should have checked the bbc before my last post. Hughton has joined a relegation threatened Championship club.
31st December 2014 at 3:28 pm
Re: Dave B(17)..as did Lennon and Mackay – and I would have preferred either of them to Adams.
If I was Brighton fan, I would be delighted to see such an experienced man coming in.
I genuinely wish Hughton the best of luck and am willing to put a tenner down for the Seagulls to swoop above us in the table by season end.
Ian (18): I'll take your tenner! Hughton has an excellent record as a Championship manager and I'm sure he'll get Brighton going in the right direction. But December – the month Adams and Phelan settled into their working relationship – has convinced me that Norwich are too.
As you say, Lennon and Mackay (trying not to write McCartney there) were offered and accepted jobs at lowly-positioned Championship clubs. Since when Adams has outwitted both of them.
Ian Medals(2) says
1st January 2015 at 9:53 am
Stewart (19) – Lennon's Bolton have gained 8 more points than we have since he was appointed. Mackay-Wigan is a different can of worms because of all the off-field distractions surrounding the owner and Mackay. Once that's settled down, I'm sure Malky will get them back on track.
It's going to be interesting to compare the records of Adams and Hughton over the next few months. I hope we finish above Brighton but if not, it might just shut up some of the continued vitriol being thrown in Hughton's direction.
I'll shake your internet hand on that tenner!
2nd January 2015 at 12:53 pm
Ian (20): good spot re Bolton's form – I was just thinking of the game at Carrow Road on 31 Oct. Now we've ended the bad run (I hope) maybe we'll reverse that one.
As I say, I'm optimistic for both City and Brighton. If we make the play-offs – at least – I'll be happy to lose the bet!
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Turkey's Hydro Politics and Use of water as a Tool
By Dr. Hussein Rabie, University professor
– Turkey's Hydro politics
There is a good water condition in Turkey. It indicates that the yearly rainfall in Turkey is more than 500 millimeters and it has an average precipitation in the world. In comparison with Iran, Iraq, Syria and other Middle East countries it is considered as water full countries. Of course, annual precipitation in different areas of Turkey varies. Two great rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, originate in the Taurus Mountains and Oxus (Jay Hun) and the Syr (Ceyhan) rivers flow down into Mediterranean Sea.
So regarding to water resources Turkey has the best condition among neighboring countries.
– Water Plans in Turkey in the past few decades
After World War I Turkey started to develop under the leadership of Kemal Ataturk. In the 1970's after a sudden rise in oil price, two important events took place. On the one hand, due to low financial resources Turkey couldn't afford to finance, therefore Turkey faced with energy crisis. On the other hand an increase in oil price made Arab countries holding more oil reserves become more influential in the region. Thus, Turkey felt a threat and in order to improve its economic situation, turned to energy resources and put pressure on neighboring Arab countries including Iraq and Syria. As a result, GAP project which consists of building twenty dams on the Tigris and Euphrates planned in 1970 so that they can develop agriculture in s southeast Turkey. It put pressure on powerful countries of Syria and Iraq and also made troubles in Iraqi Kurdistan.
In fact, Turkey began to political exploitation of waters flowing in Turkish territory. Turkey was upstream comparing to countries of the region.
– Turkey's current status and view on the Tigris and Euphrates
Due to agricultural and industrial development, Turkey is dependent on water. In recent years both Iraq and Syria were in crisis and Turkey could use water resources as a tool to threaten these countries, as it has done till now and despite of all pressures and protests for indiscriminate use of water by Turkey, it has continued the program. In recent years there was not any news from Turkey about a new project. But due to the recent drought, it was expected Turkey to more attention to water resources and reconsider amount of water which flows in Syria and Iraq but it never happened. This action caused droughts in Iraq and Syria, especially in southern Iraq and also resulted in desertification and dust problems.
– Turkey's Hydro Politics in The Middle East and Its Diplomacy toward the Arab world and Neighboring Countries
Turkey utilizes water as a tool of power. This strategy was being used in the past ,too. Turkey proposed to build a peace pipeline when there was a rise in oil price. In order to transport The Oxus (Jayhun) and The Syr's (Ceyhan) water in two pipelines (which flow down Mediterranean Sea ) to Persian Gulf costal countries and then to Jordan and Saudi Arabia and provide water for these countries. If the countries agree, this plan will lead to their dependency on Turkey as a water supplier. Now Turkey is following this idea and it utilizes water resources as a means of putting pressure on neighboring countries and increasing domestic power. Turkey's geopolitical power owes to water which flows in the country. In other words, Turkey's geopolitical power show off owes in the waters flow in the country.
– The prospect of Turkey's Approach Regarding to The use of Water Diplomacy
I believe that Turkey will revise its policy, especially because it seeks to increase influence over the region in Neo- Ottomanism approach. So Turkey will do everything in this way and water will be considered as an important factor of developing of authority. So they attempt to keep on this policy. There is no prospect that Turkey will provide more facilities and water for Iraq and Syria and change the situation. It means that not only Turkey's water policy won't change, but also it may put more pressure on neighboring countries.
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