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Failed Plan Leaves Llamas Dying in Tropics
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER and SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES APRIL 23, 1989
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Thousands of miles from their home in the cool mountains of South America, a herd of woolly llamas and alpacas have been stranded on a Caribbean island and are slowly dying from heat and stress in the broiling sun.
The gentle, long-necked llamas and alpacas, distant cousins of the camel, were shipped here by American investors who hoped to sell them in the United States for about $30,000 each as pets, pack animals for hikers and breeding stock in a skyrocketing market.
But when a group of local people, feuding with the Antigua Government and angry at one of the Americans, blocked access to a quarantine station, the animals were shunted to a barren chunk of coral rock and scrub brush, off the east coast of Antigua, where there is little shade and no fresh water. 'They've Never Seen a Tree'
About a month ago the Americans left Chile with 268 llamas and alpacas. By today 179 were still alive, including the last survivor of what had been a group of 20 nursing mothers.
''We're losing about two a day,'' said Francie Stull, a Russian wolfhound breeder from Texas who contracted to buy 160 of the animals for $1.2 million and has already resold 49 of them for $500,000.
''These animals were born and raised above the tree line at 14,000 feet,'' Ms. Stull said. ''They've never seen a tree and they don't know to seek shade. We spend all day getting them up and running them into the shade. And there's very little shade to run them in to.'' A Small Shaded Area
The Antigua Government is offering no suggestions on what to do with the animals and the Americans say they are at a loss. Since the orginal reason to quarantine them was concern that they might be carrying foot and mouth disease, experts say it is unlikely that any country would permit their entry.
Each day as the sun climbs toward its zenith, the docile animals huddle silently, staring vacantly at the scrub brush and the sparkling Caribbean sea.
''When their temperatures hit 102 degrees we move them to the infirmary,'' Ms. Stull said, indicating a small shaded area covered by a blue plastic tarpulin with intrevenous bottles and tubes dangling from a tree limb.
Some experts have recommended shearing the animals, but Ms. Stull said some of the first to die were those whose coats had been thinned. Plan for Wildlife Park
In the last decade llamas have become a trendy pet in the United States. The International Llama Association in Denver estimates that there are 25,000 in the country. Michael Jackson has one. Kim Novak and Dennis Weaver breed them, according to the association. Llamas were reportedly kept near the home of Abbie Hoffman, who died last week. Some females have sold for as much as $80,000, the association said, and a prize stud llama recently brought $115,000 at auction.
The association says Llamas are tranquil animals and that many people just ''like being around them.'' Owners say llamas can be housebroken.
The herd of llamas and alpacas landed here, about 250 miles east of Puerto Rico, as the result of a complicated plan devised by two American friends, David Strickland, who has been doing business in Antigua for about 10 years, and Keith Kerr, a Florida construction company owner. Mr. Strickland is a partner in a cement company here with Lester Bird, the Deputy Prime Minister, and two other Cabinet ministers.
It got started, Mr. Strickland said, with a remark by the Deputy Prime Minister that it would be marvelous if Antigua, which lives almost entirely from tourism, had a zoo or some sort of wildlife park.
Mr. Kerr had a private zoo and the two Americans decided to move his lions, tigers, elephants and monkeys to Antigua. To do that, they had to build a quarantine station. Opposition to Union
Mr. Kerr had heard there was money to be made in llamas, and he persuaded Mr. Strickland that with two plane loads of the animals they could raise $2 million or so to pay for the wild-life park and the quarantine station.
They both insist they were not looking for profit but merely wanted the pleasure of displaying the animals.
After some vaciliation on where to put the two installations, the Government suggested the neighboring island of Barbuda, a nearly deserted place about 10 minutes by air from Antigua with about 1,200 residents and a wild, unspoiled beauty.
The two islands became the independent nation of Antigua-Barbuda in 1981. But Barbuda doggedly fought against the union and begged Britain to permit it to remain a colony rather than fall under the domination of Antigua and its 80,000 people.
Last November, Antigua notified Barbuda of Mr. Strickland's plans. Barbuda protested and, according to Barbudans and a central Government official, the Government agreed to shelve the projects.
Two weeks later, however, Mr. Strickland began building the quarantine center.
The Barbudans have been quarreling with Mr. Strickland for years. To them, he has been the main figure in a company that has been exporting the island's sand for use in construction and paying the Barbudans only a fraction of what they think it is worth.
On March 23 a barge loaded with llamas and alpacas arrived in Barbuda.
A crowd quickly formed and blocked the landing. The Barbudans say they feared disease, but that they also decided to take a stand against Antigua and Mr. Strickland.
Antigua sent police reinforcements. But eventually the Americans left with their llamas.
Mr. Strickland said he and Mr. Kerr and two other American partners have lost several hundred thousand dollars.
There are some puzzling aspects to their enterprise. One is that the Department of Agriculture said that the quarantine station does not meet Washington standards and that the animals probably would not have been permitted into the United States in any case. Another is that Mr. Strickland expresses surprise at the Barbudans's rejection of the scheme. Antigua Is Faulted
He faults the Antigua Government for authorizing the quarantine station and not forcing the Barbudans to back down and said he had appealed to American Congressmen and Senators to ''put pressure'' on Antigua for compensation.
Mr. Bird said through an aide that he was too busy to speak with a reporter. Other Government officials did not return phone calls. On Thursday Mr. Bird's aide said the Government had decided that the Americans could turn the barren island into a temporary quarantine station as they had requested.
The Americans said they never asked for that and that the idea was ''unacceptable.'' In the meantime, they started putting up more tarpulins for shade.
Ms. Stull said she just wanted to get the llamas off the little island to some place ''where we don't have to struggle for survival every day.''
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 279/2009
of 6 April 2009
amending Annex II to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the recognition of professional qualifications
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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (1), and in particular its Article 11(c)(ii),
Whereas:
Slovakia has submitted a reasoned request for amendment to Annex II to Directive 2005/36/EC. It has requested the addition of the profession of dental technician (zubný technik), which meets the conditions provided for in Article 11(c)(ii) of Directive 2005/36/EC, as is apparent from the Government Regulation No 742/2004 Coll. on professional qualifications of health professionals.
Denmark has submitted a reasoned request for amendments to Annex II to Directive 2005/36/EC. It has requested the removal from Annex II to Directive 2005/36/EC of the profession of optician (optometrist) which has been upgraded to the level of the diploma, as provided for in Article 11(d) of Directive 2005/36/EC, and therefore no longer meets the requirements of Article 11(c)(ii) of that Directive. Denmark has also requested the removal from Annex II to Directive 2005/36/EC of the professions of orthopaedic technician (ortopædimekaniker) and of orthopaedic boot and shoemaker (ortopædiskomager) which are no longer regulated in Denmark.
Directive 2005/36/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the recognition of professional qualifications,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Annex II to Directive 2005/36/EC is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 6 April 2009.
For the Commission
Charlie McCREEVY
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 22.
Annex II to Directive 2005/36/EC is amended as follows:
in point 1, under the heading 'in Slovakia', the following is added:
dental technician (zubný technik),
which represents education and training of at least 14 years, including eight or nine years of primary school education, four years of secondary education followed by two years of post-secondary education at a secondary healthcare school, completed by theoretical-practical General Certificate of Education (GCE) examination (maturitné vysvedčenie).';
in point 2, the heading 'in Denmark' and the entries for Denmark are deleted.

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If you've always dreamed of creating a self-portrait out of Lego bricks, rejoice! A nifty machine at the toy maker's London store can finally set you on that path.
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The result itself, a simple pixelated but generally accurate representation, is vaguely reminiscent of a Chuck Close work, if his medium were reduced to a bunch of little black, white, yellow and gray (two shades) plastic chips. Conceptually, it's a good fit for the social age, when it's easy to imagine superfans of the brand not only spending the three hours or so required to assemble the portrait, but sharing it—the world's most laborious analog selfie—online. Maybe even making it a profile picture.
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Senator Konni Burton Appointed Vice Chair of Veteran Affairs & Military Installations
AUSTIN, TX— Senator Konni Burton (R-Colleyville) today announced her committee assignments for the 84th Legislature. Burton will serve as Vice Chairman of the Veterans Affairs and Military Installations Committee, and additionally will serve on the Higher Education, Criminal Justice, and Nominations Committees.
"I am excited to start work on the committee assignments Lt. Governor Patrick handed down this afternoon," commented Senator Burton. "It's truly an honor to serve as Vice Chair of the Veteran's Affairs and Military Installations Committee, and I look forward to making real progress on issues like Veteran's mental health and properly caring for our Texas men and women in uniform. I also look forward to helping improve our higher education system in Texas and beginning the process of lowering tuition and preparing our students for skilled, high paying jobs. These committee assignments are a stellar opportunity to act on issues like border security and increasing government transparency that we campaigned on last November."
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 Klub Sportowy GKS Glinik Gorlice
 Park Miejski
 Szkoła Podstawowa nr. 1 im. Stanisława Konarskiego
 Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych im. Jana Pawła II
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Na przełomie 2014/2015 na gorlickim osiedlu Zawodzie powstał jednosekcyjny amatorski klub tenisa stołowego - Osiedlowy Klub Sportowy "Zawodzie" Gorlice.

Skrzyżowanie szlaków
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Q: CSS positioning relative to total page area I hope I can explain this.
I have an image which is "stuck" to the right hand side of the browser window, so when the browser window changes size it remains stuck to the right. The style I use is:
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I also have a minimum body width of 1024px:
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This all works great until the window is resized less that 1024, then the image is still stuck to the right hand side of the window. But I would like it to stick to the right hand side of the total page area. If you see what I mean.
Thanks,
AJ

A: the css position attribute calculates based on a positioned parent. If your image does not have any parents which are positioned, then the absolute will be relative to the screen. You should be able to fix this by putting position:relative; in your css for the body or by wrapping everything in a div of the correct size with position:relative;

A: You may succeed with using a position: relative in a div containing your image, with some code like this :

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Q: What is the administrative effort to run a self hosted CI and version control system? our small team of 2 people recently got upgraded to 5, which means we should introduce a bit more infrastructure around our project in order to work efficiently together. Its a university research project.
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Of course we would like to mainly work on the project itself, but since the toolstack keeps growing by time we are not sure if a SaaS solution is what we need.

A: With these inputs be ready to spend from one to several weeks of one from the five.
Instead you might want to check which leading hosting companies provide free services for open source or educational projects.


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What You (may have) Missed Part 2
One month ago, we promised wed round up all the big news in the mobile marketing world at the end of each month. One month later, here we are coming good on that promise. Sit back, relax and catch up
Well what a month its been. As in October, the month ended on a bang. No big telecoms buyouts this time round, but rather the sudden and unexpected departure of 3 Chief Operating Officer Gareth Jones, who has left the company without another job to go to.
On the face of it, its smiles all round, with 3 CEO Bob Fuller paying tribute to Jones for his "hard work over the last two and half years", and Jones saying that its been "a privilege working with all the team at 3." What lies behind Joness departure is a moot point, but the influential magazine Marketing says in this weeks issue that Joness departure comes during a restructure of the UK operation.
On a happier note, 3 unveiled a number of special offers to entice new customers over the Christmas period, and opened its 10th store at the Bluewater shopping arcade.
Elsewhere in November, most of the excitement was around Mobile TV. 3 struck a deal with ITV to show Im A CelebrityGet Me Out Of Here!, Emmerdale, and Coronation Street on 3 mobiles, while Vodafone and Sky got together to launch Sky Mobile TV, and claimed a cool 1 million streams in the first two weeks of operation.
Yet more excitement came with communications regulator Ofcoms announcement of a year-long debate on how the broadcasting spectrum that will be freed up when the analogue TV signal is switched off will be used. Mobile operators are, of course, keen to get a slice of the spectrum for more Mobile TV services.
Mobile postcard company Mobycards launched an affiliate programme that offers travel companies the ability to target new prospects via their existing customers in the form of branded mobile postcards, while mobile agency Incentivated was handed a brief to provide the first mobile communications platform for Mayor of London, Ken Livingstones Peoples Question Time (PQT) initiative, and Orange rolled out its Orange Wednesdays 2-for-1 cinema ticket offer in Romania.
Figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA) revealed that UK mobile users are on course to send a record 32 billion texts in 2005. No surprise then, that Andrew Bud, Executive Chairman of mobile transaction network mBlox, told Mobile Marketing, in an exclusive interview that he expected SMS to dominate the mobile marketing landscape for the next 10 years.
A poll of the UKs coolest technology brands placed three mobile brands in the top 5 positions, out of 10 brands overall. Sony Ericsson was ranked second, Blackberry third and Nokia fifth. The section was headed by PlayStation, with Bose in fourth place.
Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) took the award for Best Use Of Wireless, for its work with 02 on the mobile ticketing for the Live8 concert this summer, in the second New Media Age Interactive Marketing And Advertising Awards.
And finally, on the subject of awards, tomorrow, 1 December, sees the first inaugural Mobile Marketing Awards. No, we cant take the credit for these. They are the culmination of Mobile Marketing 2005, a one-day conference and awards ceremony devoted to mobile marketing, organised by Vantage Conferences, and taking place as you read this (probably). Mobile Marketing magazine will be at the conference and well have details of all the winners up on the site on Friday.
Lets hope December is just as exciting.
Chiquita celebrates the beauty of yellow in latest campaign
MoEngage raises $32.5m to expand in key regions
Vodafone UK to reintroduce roaming charges in Europe
The Marketing Practice acquires Omobono
Celebrities join MINI UK for the Big Days Out campaign
DISQO raises $85m to advance zero-party data


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The task of the architectonics aggregation is normally breach into three capital elements: exoteric design, autogenous design, and blush and trim design. Graphic architectonics is aswell a facet of automotive design; that is about mixture amidst the architectonics aggregation because the advance artist sees match. Architectonics focuses not alone on the abandoned alien look of auto components, however concentrates on the mixture of anatomy and function, ranging from the automobile package deal. Within the fullness of this vision, all the help and upkeep staffs, most of the instructing workers and the administrative equipment may be lopped off the public rolls, and the bodily plant (formerly often known as the campus) may be offered to the private sector for more productive and worthwhile use. It is a paradigm for different such schemes for a 'Digital Public Sector' or the 'Virtual State'. Like Digital Reality, users enable their senses to delude them into believing that they are somewhere they aren't, that they are really doing things that are not taking place in any respect. The opiate of the plenty certainly.
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7 Myths About Multiple Sclerosis, Debunked
What's fact and what's fiction? This is what you can really expect if you—or someone you love—has been diagnosed.
By Denise Mann
Getty ImagesThe Myth: MS is a death sentence
The facts: Life expectancy is normal or close to normal for most people with MS. "We think of it as a chronic disease that can be managed," says Nancy L. Sicotte, MD, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "Many people live full and active lives."
The Myth: You'll need a wheelchair
The facts: Many people with MS will never end up in a wheelchair or need any other assistive device to get around. "When patients come in after their diagnosis, they are usually devastated because they think it means that they will be in a wheelchair in five years, but this is simply not true," Dr. Sicotte says. In fact, thanks to earlier detection and better treatments, you can't assume that you'd know for sure if someone has MS.
The Myth: Everyone's MS follows the same path
The facts: This is not your neighbor's MS or your mother's or that celebrity you follow on Twitter's. The truth is, no two cases of MS are alike. Some people have mild numbness in the limbs; others may develop severe paralysis or loss of vision. "You can't even look at family members who have MS to say, 'This is how my MS will behave,'" says Carrie Lyn Sammarco, DrNP, a nurse practitioner at the Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
The Myth: Only old people get MS
The facts: MS is not a disease of aging. Most people get it in their 20s, 30s or 40s. That said, young children, teens and even seniors can develop MS. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society reports that 200 people in the United States are diagnosed every week.
The Myth: Women with MS can't get pregnant
The facts: Pregnancy may actually be a good thing for women with MS. The majority will go into remission during their third trimester, although many relapse after delivery. There is even a growing body of evidence that pregnancy can lower a woman's risk of developing MS in the first place. One Australian study showed that women with at least one child were about 50 percent less likely to develop MS than those without kids. The reduction of risk becomes even greater with each subsequent pregnancy. Researchers don't know why that's the case, but they suspect that hormones are a factor.
The Myth: MS risk is all in your genes
The facts: Genes do play a role, but they are not the be-all and end-all. "If you have multiple sclerosis, there will most likely be other cases of MS or autoimmunity in your family, but this is just part of the equation," Dr. Sicotte explains. Your risk of MS is about 20 times higher if you have an immediate family member with the disease, but environmental factors and possibly infectious agents may also determine who develops the disease and who doesn't.
The Myth: MS is curable
The facts: Unfortunately, there is no cure yet. That said, long-term remission is possible for many people. Some may never experience any further symptoms after being diagnosed, but evidence of progression can still pop up on new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain. "MRI changes occur 7 to 10 times as frequently as clinical activity," Dr. Sicotte says. The good news is that there are more treatments available today than ever before—and advances in stem cell transplants, as well as other cutting-edge technology, may one day lead to a true cure.


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Got Questions About Sexuality?
By Andrew Bunt | Friday 15 January 2021
We all have lots of questions about sexuality and identity. These are questions that face us because sexuality has become one of the key areas of disagreement between Christians and non-Christians. Many of us used to feel most nervous about being quizzed on issues of science and creation, but now we're probably most nervous of questions about sexuality. But these questions also face us because we know they are relevant to real people, people made and loved by God, and loved by us. We have questions because we care. Wouldn't it be great if there was a free, easily accessible library of resources to help us with these questions? Well, good news, now there is.
Today, Living Out have launched a new website that is full of just the kind of resources we all need to help us as we work through our many questions about faith, sexuality and identity.
Living Out was launched a number of years ago by three same-sex attracted pastors. Since then, they've been serving the church in the UK and beyond through their website and training events, and many have already been helped by their work, including many of us who are ourselves same-sex attracted.
At this point, in the interests of full disclosure, I should note that I am not unbiased in my praise of Living Out. Last year I joined the team as an associate and have been working alongside them to bring the new website into being. I can genuinely say that joining the Living Out team was one of the highlights—perhaps even the highlight—of 2020 for me. They are a great group of people who deeply love Jesus and deeply love people (and who know how to have a good laugh).
Head over to the new website for lots of articles, reviews, and animations. Keep an eye on the blog where we'll regularly be posting our musings and engaging with things going on in the world around us. Take a look at the church leaders' area for resources specifically designed for those in leadership, and subscribe to our podcast, the first series of which will be interviews with some of those who have written for us (and the first episode of which is actually an interview with me).
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Infiniti previews QX60 and Q50 prior to Detroit Auto Show
Infiniti has revealed details on enhancements to two key models – the 2016 Q50 sports sedan and 2016 QX60 premium crossover – at a special media preview prior to their appearance at the upcoming North American International Auto Show in January.
Infiniti announced the availability of three new turbocharged engines for the Q50, including an advanced 400 hp 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6, and debuted the 2016 QX60 with restyled exterior and interior designs and improved driving dynamics.
The 400 hp configuration will be available in the new Infiniti Q50 Red Sport 400 model beginning in early spring 2016.
A 300 hp version will be available across the Q50 lineup in late spring. The new VR-series engine family replaces the award-winning Infiniti 3.7-litre VQ-series V6, which has been the industry good standard for many years.
The third new powerplant added to the 2016 Infiniti Q50 lineup is a 208 hp 2.0-litre turbo inline four-cylinder engine developed in conjunction with Daimler and produced at Infiniti's new engine facility in Decherd, Tenn.
It will be offered in base and Premium Q50 2.0t models beginning in late winter.
Also available in late winter 2016 is the Q50 Hybrid, featuring a 3.5-litre gasoline-electric hybrid system with a net 360 horsepower rating.
Along with the new 2016 Q50, QX60 and 2017 QX30, Infiniti will display the all-new 2017 Infiniti Q60 sport coupe at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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In today's global business environment, mutually beneficial relationships and partnerships – or even mergers into a single organisation – are a key element for success. We can think of supplier/buyer strategic procurement relationships, joint venture or partnership relationships, and mergers of organizations, as three distinct types of business relationships that represent a continuum, ranging from two independent organizations all the way to merging into one.
Although these collaborative, or even merged organization, relationships can increase corporate value, efficiency and growth, many such "partnerships" do not realize their full potential. Schroeder & Schroeder can help you and your organization achieve more value out of your "partnerships" – whether by identifying new sources or types of partnerships, increasing the value out of an existing partnership, or to helping to strategize and facilitate a new merger.
External pressures are increasingly forcing organizations to take a strong look at their partnership activities and strategy. Our professional consultants have worked with countless organizations on merger/acquisition (M&A) projects, joint venture or partner formation and management, and procurements (including contract management),. We believe that a good M&A, partner management or procurement program starts with a feasible strategy that incorporates the right balance of "art & science" from the beginning. Partnerships inherently involve people and trust relationships – something that Schroeder & Schroeder places a special emphasis on getting just right.
Do we get the most out of our existing partnerships or is there room for improvement?
Do we consider the needs of our partners equal to our own?
Does our organization have a partnership strategy that clearly outlines the benefits that partnership will bring and how those benefits help meet our business objectives?
If we are thinking about M&A, does our organizational culture match or closely relate to the other organizations?
If not, how are we going to integrate the two cultures to ensure efficiency and effectiveness?
What level of resistance do we see or anticipate from our partnerships?
Will some of our staff lose their responsibilities?
Different organizations, even different departments within the same organization, can have differing methods for measuring and communicating performance expectations and results.
Relationships can't be faked. Whether dealing with a supplier or a new service provider, it is important to treat your partner's concerns as equally important to your own.
Entities within "partnerships" typically have different cultures. Especially within post-merger/acquisition, it is important to identify which culture is best suited for the new organization and to develop a strategy to implement that culture.
All partnerships are real relationships that involve real people. Most often it is not the strategy that goes off the rails, but the implementation. There is often resistance and fear of the unknown, the right balance of "art & science" is particularly crucial here.
Having a contract is one thing, but "living together" is another. At the start, it is impossible to think of every single scenario that could arise in a "partnership" relationship. The right balance of "art & science" in these situations is necessary for a healthy, value-add relationship.
Situation Our client was a transportation company experiencing difficulty integrating all the companies that they had acquired over the years….


To celebrate 10 Years Of Critical Music, label boss and drum & bass visionary Kasra has sewn together the brand new 'Critical X' compilation to round off the label's most ground breaking year yet. Withstanding the stormy seas of the modern day music industry for this long is an astounding achievement, and due in no small part to one of the best A&R brains in the business. Here Kasra reminds fans the world over of a staggering back catalogue, full to the brim of the stars of today and tomorrow, and drops some brand new upfront vinyl material to lead us into 2013; the perfect collectors edition album for any electronic music aficionado. With a Fabric mix and the heavily lauded Enei album already under the belt this year, 'Critical X' is the icing on the cake and a reminder of why Critical has been voted one of the Labels Of The Year at the 2012 Drum & Bass Arena Awards, yet again.
Digital Compilation also includes 5 New Exclusive tracks!


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A ceramic Rudolph Treats Plate with Personalised names.
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The Lyman Christy Farmstead is northwest of Meriden in Jefferson County, Kansas at 9001 Christy Road. Lyman Christy purchased his 160-acre farm in two land sales: the first 80 acres in 1879, and the second 80 acres in 1880. Today, the farmstead's six contributing buildings sit on a 22-acre piece of the original homestead. The bank barn, built in 1892, is the most notable of the farmstead's buildings. Near the barn lies a historic loafing shed, chicken coop, oil house, and tool shed. All contribute to the historic integrity of the farmstead. There is also a hay shed, garage, three grain bins and a ranch house, all considered non-contributing resources. The Lyman Christy Farmstead retains a high level of integrity of location, setting, materials, design, workmanship, feeling, and association. The property is nominated as a Farmstead property type described in the "Historic Agriculture-related Resources of Kansas" Multiple Property Documentation Form. The property's period of significance begins in 1892 with the building of the barn to 1951 when the farm was no longer used for subsistence farming.
31943 and 31860 W 247th St.
The Martin Farmstead is in the northwest corner of Miami County in the Paola vicinity at 31943 and 31860 West 247th Street. The property nomination includes two separate farms, the Endock Martin Farm and the Montie Martin Farm, that were combined once Montie Martin took ownership of both farmsteads in 1924. The farmstead consists of sixteen resources including on contributing site (the farmstead), nine contributing buildings, three contributing structures (the windmill and silos), two non-contributing buildings, and one non-contributing structure. The farmstead was nominated under the Multiple Property Documentation Form "Historic Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas" with a period of significance established from 1879 when Endock Martin acquired the northeast farm through 1964 with the death of Montie Martin who acquired the southwest farm in 1910.
The 1927 Hillsboro Water Tower was constructed as part of Hillsboro's first municipal water and sewer system. The first efforts toward a municipal fire protection system in Hillsboro came in 1888, when the city purchased a man-powered water pump. This $700 implement, which consisted of a tank, pump and hose mounted on a two-wheeled wagon, required eight to ten volunteers to operate it. In an 1897 fire that threatened John G. Hill's Badger Lumber Company, the apparatus proved no better than a bucket brigade. This equipment was used until 1900, when - at the apparent urging of Mayor Hill, who had just lost his coal sheds to fire - the city purchased new equipment. In 1912, the year the city established its first fire department, the city's "water system" consisted of wells and cisterns with a capacity of 11,000 gallons. Without adequate water pressure, all the equipment and firemen in the world proved futile against the inevitable infernos - and a dependably clean water supply would have been impossible. Hillsboro's citizens voted in favor of a bond issue in 1926 and a comprehensive water project was completed in 1927. The 75,000-gallon steel-plated water tower was nominated for its local significance in the area of community planning and development.
This building was nominated for its architecture and its association with a women's social organization that was significant for its contribution to the promotion of the arts. Originally constructed as the residence of Judge Snakey in 1887, two additions have been made to the original two-and-one half story Queen Anne home. The first addition, done in the Commercial style, was completed in 1925. In 1931, George Siedhoff was hired as the contractor for an Art Deco addition designed by Lorenz Schmidt. Louise Caldwell Murdock founded the 20th Century Club as a part of the Chautauqua movement in January 1899. The 20th Century Club grew from 110 members at its inception to over 1,500 members in 1963. The club purchased the Judge Snakey home in 1923 to use as a permanent clubhouse. The 20th Century club continually worked to promote performing arts, literature, and science in Wichita.
The 800 West Douglas Historic District (809, 811, and 815 West Douglas) in Wichita was nominated for its association with the early town of Delano, located just west across the Arkansas River from Wichita. In 1880, Delano was incorporated into the City of Wichita as its fifth ward. Today the area is known as "West Wichita." Between 1887 and 1906 construction of the three contiguous, two-story commercial/residential buildings by prominent business men, Christian Kimmerle, Fred W. Israel, and L. Frank Means, helped turn Delano into a thriving commercial district during the first two decades of the 20th century. The 800 West Douglas Block is one of the only remaining pieces of the once thriving Delano commercial district.
The 900 block of North 7th Street in Garden City developed during the early 20th century into one of the city's finest residential areas, and it reflects the growth of this ranching, agricultural, and industrial community. Local bankers, lawyers, merchants and ranchers flocked to the North 7th Street neighborhood to build their homes. The neighborhood is locally known as Silk Stocking Row because of the saying around town that the people living on 7th Street were the only ones who could afford silk stockings. The small district includes five single-family residences that reflect a variety of turn-of-the-century architectural styles including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Four Square.
The ATSF Steam Locomotive #3415 is a Class 3400 Pacific-type 4-6-2 passenger engine built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1919. The 4-6-2 designation refers to the engine's wheel arrangement - the first number notes the number of leading wheels, the second number notes the number of driver wheels, and the third number notes the number of trailing wheels. This engine originally burned coal, but was converted to oil burning in the 1930s. It was operated by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad for 34 years and was donated to the City of Abilene in 1955. It sat in Eisenhower Park until 1996 when it was removed from the park for restoration. The locomotive is now situated on an abandoned segment of the Rock Island Railroad track that is used by the Abilene-Smoky Valley Railroad, a not-for-profit organization that operates a railroad museum and excursion train. When not in use, the locomotive is stored in the engine house at 411 South Elm Street in Abilene. It is one of only three 4-6-2 3400 class Pacific-type steam locomotives remaining in Kansas, and the only member of the class that is operational.


Why can't Pittsburgh's building boom produce better buildings?
Pittsburgh is about to get a very nice mixed-use building for multi-unit housing and retail on Baum Boulevard, in Friendship. The Vitmore (whose developer is Vitmore LLC) is a seven-story, 103-unit project, designed by Workshop/APD architects of New York. Its combination of community support, sustainable amenities and high-quality architectural design is making it an exception among Pittsburgh real-estate developments, many of which have lacked some or all of these attributes.
Please, everybody, try to act normal.
For its part, the city's Planning Commission reacted effusively, full of praise and unexpected pleasure. Commission head Christine Mondor commented, "The architects laid out very clearly both private amenities and public benefits. It went beyond what was laid out in the criteria" of the Baum Centre Overlay District Guidelines, which provide minimum standards for the area. Such overachieving designs should appear all the time — not leave us thinking that the commission had never really seen a decent building design before. Maybe they haven't.
Pittsburgh is experiencing a building boom, but so much of it is bad. The Yards, in the Strip, by Oxford Development, is all cheap materials and grudgingly small fenestration in an underdeveloped façade. Whatever the landscape amenities might be, the architecture is just awful. Likewise, the apartments called Skyvue 3333 Forbes, in Oakland, are some of the worst architecture the city has seen in recent memory. This frantic agglomeration of hackneyed and mishandled motifs is a desperate but failed effort to make this beast look somehow less monstrous than it really is. For this we lost the Allegheny County Health Department, a building whose admirable restraint and dignity clearly made no impression on the architects of Skyvue. How this thing passed the Planning Commission is a mystery. Meanwhile, the housing at Bakery Square is by turns too large, too cheap and too unimaginative.
If Pittsburgh is going to engage best practices and international standards, then architectural design needs to be part of the equation. It's as easy as keeping up with quality design journals, domestic and foreign, then holding our favorite local developers to such standards, instead of letting them fall short time after time. But Pittsburgh seems to be too busy patting itself on the back to realize that good architecture does not stop with a few environmentally sustainable features here or some community involvement there. Those things are necessary but not sufficient. We have zero-energy buildings, which are admirable, but you couldn't pick them out of a lineup. And we are too busy having Sally Field-esque "You really like me" moments with inconsequential hipster blogs instead of getting serious about good design (among our other our perennial needs for critique and improvement).
So it was actually a great and necessary pleasure a few months ago when Mondor called out U.S. Steel for the anonymous and undercooked suburban-office-park design that they unveiled with such fanfare for the old Civic Arena site.
Suddenly, a public figure, with actual credentials and responsibilities to pass judgment on architecture, was doing so. In the ensuing flurry of activity, a few design changes on the order of rearranged deck chairs were proposed, but were neither convincingly posted, published or debated. Now, U.S. Steel is announcing layoffs by the thousands. Frankly, we'd be better off if this forgettable design were forgotten.
In this context, the Vitmore seems rather miraculous, when it is in fact simply good. Make your bloated floorplate as huge as possible in the lamentable but common local practice? No. The architects carved a portion of the center of the building out for light and air. "We felt we'd get a good public amenity from [that]," says architect Andrew Kotchen, in a phone interview. Complain about how hard it is to make money with decent design in the Pittsburgh market? No. "The numbers are completely different than New York, but we had a desire and interest in achieving a high level of design while being mindful of the budget." Take your unfinished, context-free construction documents and present them to the planning commission? No. "The planning commission seemed to like the quality of our presentation." Throw two colors of Dry-vit, add a few balconies and call it a day? No. "I think we did well with the overall design of the project and the skin of the project. Creating a big box is not always an easy thing." Indeed, among the building's many features, this compositional sense is especially balanced — fresh and rhythmic while maintaining neighborliness.
Kotchen is quick to credit a team starting with the developer and including Moshier Architects locally. "I don't think we are doing anything that novel," he says. "Study the site, study the conditions, look at the program."
They seem like they do this all the time. Why the hell don't we?


Founded by the local police and rescue folks, Ghetto Rescue Ffoundation is providing life-saving services to animals on the streets on Los Angeles, California. They rescue dogs living on he streets or in overcrowded shelters. They provide vaccination clinics to the pets of homeless folks, making it just a little easier to take care of their best friend.
Cold Noses saw the vital nature of their work- taking on dogs who's owners could not pay them a penny, or dogs who didn't have owners as a true example of heroism and goodness that this world is in such need of.
We granted GRFF $5000 to help provide medical assistance to pets and strays in the Los Angeles area to help them save more lives. With these funds, they were able to save 27 dogs! Included in this group was a sad Chihuahua "dropped off" at the local shelter(commonly relinquished to shelters in CA) who was in need of surgery to remove mammary and mouth tumors and receive a dental service. She was 11 years old. When GRFF stepped in they were able to provide her much needed medical treatment thanks, in part, to the Cold Noses grant!
We are so proud of the amazing work this small, effective group is doing and so honored to be able to help be the vehicle for their work.


Research from Oxford University suggests that 47% of jobs currently performed by people are at significant risk of being taken over by computers in the next 20 years. Not just manual jobs – accountants, lawyers, doctors and pilots are all at risk.
A Luddite attempt to prevent the new technology from taking over.
The first of those approaches is unsatisfactory and the second doesn't work. So what to do?
What the world needs is a system of education that equips today's children to survive and stay ahead of the machine when they become tomorrow's adults. And, so far, that system is not being put in place. The curriculum in place at Coláiste Ráithín, like the curriculum at every other place of secondary education in Ireland, is set by the Ministry for Education and Skills. It's very much the same curriculum as would have applied eighty years ago; there's been a little tweaking, a little modernization – but not much. Not enough. The core subjects have not changed.
The individuals who do best in the years to come will have skills in abstract reasoning. They will be creative people. They'll need to be, because the tasks left to them will be those that resist automation. It's computation, in a sense, but it's not the kind of computation that machines can do. It's known as "computational thinking". And it isn't taught in schools. Yet. Or even encouraged in schools. Yet. But it will have to be, if humans are not just to survive in tomorrow's world but thrive there.
Ireland has put a lot of effort and spent a lot of money on bringing technology into schools like Coláiste Ráithín. What Ireland has to do now is to invest similar time and effort into teaching computational thinking. And not just in schools like Coláiste Ráithín. The work has to begin at primary school level.
Daunting? Well, yes. But challenges exist to be overcome.


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He's embarrassed to admit the extent of his anger. Embarrassed and a bit bemused to admit to his writing group that he had visions of "accidentally" pushing his wife into the path of an oncoming bus. He's bemused because he supposes he is not alone in this. Still, he has never imagined he could be so twisted up inside that such thoughts would gain a foothold in his mind.
He often senses how ridiculous it is to be so angry, but he can't help going over and over the wrongs he has had to endure, the thoughtless and selfish individuals in his life, the genetics, the history–all the justifications for his righteous indignation, or the keen awareness of justice mishandled, or justice just missed.
The assignment for his writers group has roiled and gotten beneath the mostly peaceful eddies inside him. He is torn between finally being open about his rage and maintaining his image as the cool outsider above such human foibles. They've asked for a two-page essay that reveals some unknown quality of the author. It's a valid assignment, given that true art is always an exercise of self-revelation.
His mind locks on to another of his unlearned life lessons: expectations. Maybe he could write about how that one word and all its power has perplexed and confounded him. Jesus, what a briar patch.
His father told him once, drunk after a Christmas party during which the hostess actually put a lampshade on her head, that the most important thing in life wasn't what he did, but striving to be the best at whatever he chose, having the respect of his peers, and finally, whatever his choice, leaving the world a better place for his having done whatever it was.
Great. Just great, given that his father was a prominent national politician and public servant whose own father was a giant of Wall Street from its earliest existence, with a mansion in New Canaan, Connecticut, a huge apartment in Manhattan, a beach-front home in Honolulu and his own private island off the coast of North Carolina. If it weren't for the fact that he was simply grateful that his father was talking to him man-to-man, for the first time in his young life, he might have realized how Herculean this simple credo would be to undertake.
He rolls the two ideas around in his mind like those Chinese meditation balls, conceding that they are intertwined and there's nothing he can do about it. He has studied and knows the truth of the exhortations by great mystics and spiritual leaders to be in the Now, to live in the breath, to accept that the present moment is the only moment that matters. There is a part of him that yearns for the peace that would come by accepting their wisdom.
But goddamn it, there is so much to be angry about! And anyway, let's be real, who wants to live like a mystic, for God's sake? Who really wants to turn the other cheek, when the real satisfaction would be to respond with a backhand? What's so great about living clean and sober, eschewing alcohol, or drugs, or food, or sex, or anger, or whatever happens to float your boat, just so you can get along? Fuck that noise.
He's read the books, and briefly recalls the mantra, "Don't sweat the petty stuff." He can't help but falling back on his sometimes sick sense of humor and thinking, "Yeah right, don't pet the sweaty stuff."
"Just be nice and fit in," he can hear his mother saying so many years ago. "Don't be so angry. Anger is bad."
All those years of lectures and bedtime chats after "incidents" at school, or in the neighborhood, only to find out that she was as hypocritical and two-faced as anyone else, and that she stuffed her admittedly justifiable anger in the bottom of a bottle of vodka so she could still pretend that they had the "best family anyone could ever hope for." It's much easier not to be angry when you're checked out, right?
It wasn't until rehab that he learned that anger was just another emotion. It was institutionalized and structured at the Center: Got a problem with a brother or sister? Write it down, put it in the Group Box, and wait until the staff can put the two of you in a group together, so you can express "healthy" anger. (Right. Put two junkies in a room and watch them tear each other's heads off over a perceived slight at the breakfast table.)
So he's just supposed to live the lie, accept the faults of others, find peace in the sacrifice of Jesus, shuffle along, be happy, let go, and live happily ever after?
He's found that it is impossible to ignore the Vesuvian inferno eating away at his gut. He remembers saying, not so long ago, that he's one trauma away from a one-way ticket out. But he knows he won't pull that trigger, because he's still interested in what's going on somewhere else, anywhere else. At the same time, he is aware too that the old saw, "wherever you go, there you are," is waiting to waylay him in his quest for inner peace.
Still, the fantasy often overpowers the logic, and he finds some daydream solace in the notion of a life lived the way he wants to live it: free of the wife who seems to need him physically when the trash is full, or emotionally when her favorite contestant gets knocked off American Idol; free from the kids who seem to need him when their purses are empty, or they're bored and need a road trip to the nearest Wendy's; free of the constant nagging feeling that his life is living him, not the other way around, and he's fast nearing the age when quantum shifts are going to be tough to come by.
"No," he thinks. "If I give voice to this, it will have a power that is too frightening to envision. They'll know something about me that I can't share, even with strangers."
What else, then? Maybe that thing from his earliest childhood.…
"Jesus," he thinks. "How can I even think about talking about that when I can't talk about something as mundane as an angry young man?"
Instead, he pushes back from his desk and calls out to his wife. "Let's go, honey! If we hurry we can make the bus."
Alexander Dominick is a contributor to Jet Planes and Coffee. He describes himself as a lover of words and language. "Writing has always been a beacon and a terror for me," he writes. "What if I don't succeed? What if I do? An ex-wife convinced me that writers were people who hid behind life rather than live it." Thankfully for his readers, he has stories to tell and an undeniable urge to tell them. "My hope is that they will resonate with those who read them." Alex has traveled extensively in the United States and Europe, and lived and worked in Paris for nearly ten years.
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Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once said: "Let food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food." Food therapy is the foundation of Chinese medicine.
For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has focused on food cures.
One of the major differences between Chinese medicine and Western medicine with regard to food therapy is that the former uses diet to prevent and cure illness, while the latter seldom uses foods for symptomatic treatment of disease, other than using diet exclusively for treating obesity problems.
Another major difference is that Chinese medicine takes into consideration not just the nutrients of foods, such as carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals, but also the flavors, the energies, and the movements of foods in relation to different body organs.
In Chinese medicine, foods have five flavors: bitter, pungent, salty, sour, and sweet. Flavors in foods don't just give you the taste: they have an impact on your internal organs.
Foods with bitter taste, such as bitter melon (Chinese vegetable), lettuce, and radish, affect your heart and small intestine. Such foods reduce your body heat and dry your body fluids. This explains why herbs used to treat fever and diarrhea always taste bitter because of their "drying" effect.
Foods, such as chive, clove, coriander, ginger, parsley and peppermint, have a pungent flavor, which acts on your lungs and large intestine. Foods with pungent flavor induce perspiration and promote energy circulation.
Foods with salty flavor, such as salt, kelp, and seaweed, affect your kidneys and bladder. Salty foods can soften hardness, and therefore they are ideal for treating symptoms involving the hardening of muscles.
Foods, which are sour in taste, such as mango, lemon, pear, and plum, affect your liver and gall bladder. Such foods obstruct movements, and are therefore ideal for treating diarrhea and controlling excessive sweating.
Foods with a sweet flavor are sugar, banana, beef, chestnut, and watermelon, and they affect your stomach and spleen. These foods slow down acute symptoms and neutralize the toxic effects from other foods. In Western medicine, sweet foods make you gain weight because they are often loaded with "empty calories." From the perspective of Chinese medicine, sweet foods affect your stomach and spleen, weakening your digestive functions, and therefore making you eat more and gain more.
It should be noted that some foods have more than one flavor, and this is not uncommon. Beef is sweet, while pork is both salty and sweet.
According to Chinese medicine, foods are also considered for their energies because they generate heat or cold; that is to say, they give sensation of heat or cold to the human body. For example, if you drink a glass of cold water, you body feels cold; but that sensation is only temporary, while the sensations from foods are more lasting.
The foods, whether they are hot or cold, have a more lasting sensation on your body. Foods have five energies: hot, cold, warm, cool, and neutral. Tea, for example, gives cold energy, even if it is hot tea. Pepper provides hot energy, even if it is chilled. Chicken gives warm energy, and corn has neutral energy, that is, neither hot or cold. Accordingly, if your arthritis pain is more acute and severe in cold winter days, then you should take more foods that provide hot or warm energy to reduce the cold in your joints.
Furthermore, foods have four movements: the outward movement that induces perspiration and reduces pain; the inward movement that eases bowel movements and abdominal pain; the upward movement that relieves diarrhea; and the downward movement that stops vomiting or asthma.
Chinese medicine is based on balance and harmony, in which food therapy plays a pivotal role through its flavors, energies and movements. For thousands of years, the Chinese have used food science for food cures.
For more information on how to be healthy the Oriental way, go to Stephen Lau's websites: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom; and Are You Healthy?. Stephen Lau is a writer and researcher with websites on longevity, eating disorders, mental depression, Chinese natural healing and Zen health.


Huyton Gallery presents this colourful solo exhibition of work by Liverpool-based artist, Paul Romano, as his first exhibition in Knowsley.
Paul's studio is in Liverpool's Duke Street Studios and he is very much part of the Liverpool Art Scene. His work has reached private collections globally, from New York to the Far East. At one of his recent exhibitions at Editions Gallery, Liverpool, his work almost sold out on the opening night!
Paul sites his main inspirations as graffiti art and things that "just spill out of my head". His work doesn't have any specific intentions, nor does it try to depict literal scenes, so if when you look and see faces or other objects emerging from the vibrant colours and shapes, then it could be deliberate or just a happy accident.
His approach to painting is very organic, so much so, that many of his canvases have been worked over repeatedly and redeveloped.
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We are a month and a half away from Tampa Bay Beer Week, and this year, it is kicking off with a rumble. On Friday, March 4th, fourteen Tampa Bay area breweries will go head to head in the inaugural Ultimate Brewer competition. Held at Rapp Brewing in Seminole, this will be the official Tampa Bay Beer Week kickoff party.
So what is this battle about? Are we going to see Wayne Wambles and Jon McCracken throw down in the Octogon? We will finally get to see Khris Johnson perform his devastating MLF finishing maneuver and send a message to nemesis Devon Kreps? Well, as entertaining as those scenarios might be, this one will actually be much cooler.
On Thursday, January 7th, representatives from all 14 participating breweries gathered at St. Pete Brewing. The reason: to select their ingredients for a special brew. How would you feel about a beer made with toffee and bananas? Or cinnamon and lemon peel? What about onions? Each brewery had a blind draw for one of 16 ingredients or ingredient combinations. The results will be kept secret until the event when there will be a blind tasting at The Ultimate Brewer on March 4th.
Who drew which ingredients? What will these creative crazies do with them? To find out, you'll have to join Tampa Bay Beer Week for the first ever Ultimate Brewer championship!
More details will be coming soon, but mark your calendars. You won't want to miss this one for sure!
~ by Sean Nordquist on January 12, 2016.


A fugitive crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine seeks to uncover the truth behind suspicious orders in the recently-cancelled action-thriller TV show Last Resort: The Complete Series.
Daisy Betts follows through on Andre Braugher's orders in Last Resort.
The U.S. ballistic submarine Colorado sits 500 feet below the Indian Ocean when orders come in to fire nuclear missiles at Pakistan. Captain Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher, TV's Men of a Certain Age) and XO Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman, The Vow), both question the legitimacy of the order and ask for confirmation, but instead receive missile fire from another U.S. submarine. Left for dead at the bottom of the ocean, the Colorado finds refuge on an exotic island. As troops come toward the island, the members of the crew must work to clear their name and find out who is involved in a conspiracy of nuclear proportions.
Created by Karl Gajdusek (Oblivion) and Shawn Ryan (TV's The Shield), the series also features Daisy Betts (Shutter), Camille de Pazzis (Gamer), Autumn Reeser (The Big Bang), Jessy Schram (Unstoppable) and Robert Patrick (Gangster Squad).
Though the critics were generally positive in their assessment of Last Resort and early on, it had all the makings of a hit, Last Resort was cancelled in the middle of its first season. The makers needn't worry about a bomb going off in their show—the very program itself detonated..
The DVD contains the following bonus feauturettes—13 of'em!! Almost seems like the producers thought the series was going to run a loooong time….
Making the Pilot – Taking viewers behind the scenes for a look at the making of the pilot episode.
· Profiles in Courage – Co-creators and executive producers Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek explore the dossiers of the USS Colorado crew members.
· Conn Artists — Production Designer Jim Spencer and Set Decorator Brenda Meyers-Ballard reveal the secrets of the nerve center of the USS Colorado.
· Grace Under Fire — Daisy Betts reflects on the obstacles Grace Shepard confronts in "Skeleton Crew" and how the lieutenant's role is evolving.
· Ties That Bind – Will Christine defend Sam to the end? The stars discuss the strain on this crucial relationship and how Sophie and Paul are complicating matters.
· Subvirtual — A look at how the Fuse FX team created the show's stunning computer-generated visual effects.
· Turning Point – Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek recap the Naval SEAL mission in Pakistan that sets off the chain of events in the series.
· The Mole – Jessica Camacho peels away the layers around Cortez's undercover role aboard the USS Colorado.
· Serrat's Lair – A look inside the ornate and elaborate estate that serves as Serrat's island compound.
· I, Kylie – As troubles at home come to a head, Autumn Reeser recounts the motives and evolution of the outspoken Kylie Sinclair.
· Epilogue – Cast and crew recount the harrowing events in "Controlled Flight Into Terrain" and speculate on where the characters would go from here.


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HUD AWARDS $51 MILLION TO CLEAN UP LEAD HAZARDS IN PUBLIC HOUSING
Funding to identify and control potentially dangerous lead in thousands of homes with young children
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded nearly $51.4 million to 25 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) in 19 states to identify and reduce lead-based paint hazards in thousands of older public housing units. Provided through HUD's Public Housing Capital Fund, these grants will be targeted to public housing units currently occupied by families with young children. See funding chart below.
"In order to be healthy, it's important to have a healthy home," said HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge. "Protecting families with young children from lead and other health hazards is an important part of HUD's mission, and we don't take it lightly. It is also a matter of environmental justice, and HUD is committed to President Biden's directive to prioritize environmental justice and equity for disadvantaged communities."
Although lead-based paint was banned for residential use in 1978, HUD estimates that about 24 million older homes still have significant lead-based paint hazards today. While most public housing has already undergone abatement, there are still some properties where lead-based paint remains, and where hazards have redeveloped. Lead-contaminated dust is the primary cause of lead exposure and can lead to a variety of health problems in young children, including reduced IQ, learning disabilities, developmental delays, reduced height, and impaired hearing. At higher levels, lead can damage a child's kidneys and central nervous system and can even be deadly.
On January 27, 2021, President Biden issued (www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/27/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-executive-actions-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad-create-jobs-and-restore-scientific-integrity-across-federal-government) an Executive Order that placed environmental justice at the forefront of efforts to tackle the climate crisis. HUD's awarding of this $51 million in funding is in line with the President's order, as lead poisoning disproportionately affects people of color.
Today's funding is the third round of funding under this program. To date, HUD has awarded $46.1 million to 51 grantees, to make approximately 4,610 units lead safe. HUD has a long history of working to ensure lead-safe housing, which fits into the broader federal response to address lead hazards found in paint, dust and soil, and other sources like water and consumer goods. For 25 years, HUD's Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes has worked to improve methods to identify and address home-related health and safety hazards, including those from lead. Since 1993, HUD has awarded more than $1.58 billion in grants to communities for identification and control of lead-based paint hazards in over 190,000 low-income privately owned housing units. In addition, HUD supports research on best practices for identifying and controlling lead-based paint hazards, and conducts an outreach program to raise public awareness and knowledge about lead poisoning.
HUD is awarding capital funding to the following local public housing authorities to identify and clean up lead hazards in their properties:
Sylacauga Housing Authority
Greene County Housing Authority
Alabama Total
Winslow Public Housing Authority
Arizona Total
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
California Total
Housing Authority of the City of New Haven
Housing Authority of Bristol
Connecticut Total
Plant City Housing Authority
Florida Total
Lyons Housing Authority
Georgia Total
Scott County Housing Authority
Illinois Total
Lafayette Housing Authority
Housing Authority of the City of Opelousas
St. James Parish Housing Authority
Louisiana Total
Housing Authority of Baltimore City
Maryland Total
Flint Housing Commission
Michigan Total
Housing Authority of the City of Tupelo
Mississippi Total
Ayden Housing Authority
Robeson County Housing Authority
North Carolina Total
New York City Housing Authority
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Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority
Ohio Total
Philadelphia Housing Authority
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Rock Hill Housing Authority
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Housing Authority of the City of San Antonio
Alice Housing Authority
Livingston Housing Authority
Texas Total
Housing Authority of the City of Seattle
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Here you have a list of opinions about Municipal corporation and you can also give us your opinion about it.
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Municipal incorporation occurs when such municipalities become self-governing entities under the laws of the state or province in which they are located. Often, this event is marked by the award or declaration of a municipal charter.
With the notable exceptions of the City of London Corporation and the Laugharne Corporation, the term has fallen out of favour in the United Kingdom, but the concept remains central to local government in the United Kingdom, as well as former British colonies such as India and Canada.
In the image below, you can see a graph with the evolution of the times that people look for Municipal corporation. And below it, you can see how many pieces of news have been created about Municipal corporation in the last years.
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Q: Displaying Array Data From a File using For Loop [C++] Doing an assignment and struggling hard. I think I've narrowed down my problem to the for loop. Can anyone explain how to fix this? I can't find an answer on google or here that's helping me get it. I have to make an array of some data files I was given. Then use a for loop to display the results. The input is:
1/8/2016,98.550003,96.959999,70798000
1/11/2016,98.970001,98.529999,49739400
1/12/2016,100.550003,99.959999,49154200
etc.
The expected output should be clean numbers like above.
The observed output is a mess of numbers that's way too big.
//Variable Declaration
const int SIZE = 400;
double stockOpen[SIZE];
double stockClose[SIZE];
double stkCloseAVG=0;
double minStkClose;
double maxStkClose;
int stockVolume[SIZE];
int i = 0;
string name = "r";
string stockDate[SIZE];
string stockName;
string filename;
ifstream in;
string stkDate, stkOpen, stkClose, stkVol;
int actSize;
cout << "Welcome to " << name << "'s stock majigger thingy!" << endl;
cout << "Please enter the stock name (aapl; spy)" << endl;
cin >> stockName;
filename = stockName + ".table.csv";
in.open(filename.c_str());
if (!in)
{
    cout << "File Error! Please try again! I BELIEVE IN YOU, LOVE!" << endl;
    system("pause");
    exit(-1);
}
while (!(in.eof()) && i < SIZE)
{
    getline(in, stkDate, ',');
    getline(in, stkOpen, ',');
    getline(in, stkClose, ',');
    getline(in, stkVol, '\n');
    i++;
    // Check:cout << stkDate << endl <<endl<< stkOpen<<endl << stkClose<<endl << stkVol;
    //system("pause");
}
actSize = i;
//system("clr");
for (int i=0; i < actSize; i++) // <- Need help here
{
    cout << "Stock Daily Performance Report -" << stockName << endl;
    cout << setw(10) << "Date" << setw(7) << "Open" << setw(7) << "Close" << setw(11) << "Volume" << endl;
    cout << setw(10) << stockDate[i] << fixed << setprecision(2) << setw(7) << stockOpen[i] << setw(7) << stockClose[i] << fixed << setprecision(0) << setw(11) << stockVolume[i] << endl;
    stkCloseAVG= stkCloseAVG + stockClose[i];
    minStkClose = stockClose[1];
    maxStkClose = stockClose[1];
    if (stockClose[i] < minStkClose)
        minStkClose = stockClose[i];
    if (stockClose[i] > maxStkClose)
        maxStkClose = stockClose[i];
}
cout << "Stock Price" << endl;
cout << endl;
cout << "Average" << setw(5) << stkCloseAVG << endl;
cout << "Minimum" << setw(5) << minStkClose << endl;
cout << "Maximum" << setw(5) << maxStkClose << endl;

system("pause");
return 0;


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public:

  virtual ~IPreprocessor() {}
  virtual cv::Mat		apply(cv::Mat* image, bool target = false) = 0;
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Watch: TMC MP Mahua Moitra Slams Centre Over Unaccountability Of PM-CARES In Lok Sabha
Moitra gave a fierce speech and raised various questions on the establishment of the fund, saying that it is clearly against the public interest, as it stays unanswerable to Parliament, even though it collects funds from the public.
India | 21 Sep 2020 10:02 AM GMT / Updated : 2020-09-21T16:03:01+05:30
Writer : Devyani Madaik | Editor : Shubhendu Deshmukh | Creatives : Abhishek M
CREDITS - patrika

CREDITS - patrika

On Saturday, Lok Sabha witnessed heated discussions between the Modi government and the opposition parties over lack of transparency in the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance And Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES).
Trinamool Congress lawmaker Mahua Moitra gave a fierce speech and raised various questions about the establishment of the fund. She alleged that PM CARES is against the public interest, as it has no accountability to the Parliament, even though it collects funds from the public.
She argued that the fund takes away statutory promises made under the GST regime, and corners public funds to the detriment of state relief funds. She said PSUs competing to donate money to PM Cares are like 'courtiers of the Emperor, competing with each other to give gifts with public funds'.
I wish to ask the naked emperor- WHERE ARE YOUR CLOTHES?https://t.co/YvgnAUCElh via @YouTube
— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) September 19, 2020
She asked the government to stop lying about everything being put into question - about foreign incursions into the country, about growth rates, migrant welfare, other expenditures and the Fund. "Secondly, the government should stop marketing the ₹20,00,000 crore packages as relief measures, when the truth is that it's the mixture of the money already spent and the allotted. Third, the centre should stop spending money on vanity projects and put it where it's actually needed, one being returning states their dues/compensation."
Further, Moitra asked the government the need for setting up the Fund, in the presence of an existing one - PMNRF, which is for the same cause. "The very name – PM Fund makes people think this is a government authority, and keeping it under RTI, it clearly lacks transparency, which the government is obliged to. "Prime Ministers will come and go, but the existence of a fund is not up for discussion? What is this need to name everything after one individual."
She alleged PM Cares of diverting funds from local communities into this dark hole where not even a speck of light can enter. "Coal India has committed ₹221 crores to a fund, while it cannot contribute to the state relief funds of West Bengal and Jharkhand, where it has 90 per cent of its operations…it's almost like the courtiers of the emperor are competing with each other to give gifts to the emperor with public funds," she said.
The TMC leader further said that unfair treatment of state and central relief funds is in violation of Article 14 of the constitution, and also stands against the public interest, against public policy, and completely disincentives corporate contributions which the state governments would have received.
She said that the objective of the Bill is to give blanket clearance without holding any accountability to PM Cares Fund.
Speaking during the debate on Taxation and other Laws (Relaxation & Amendment of Certain Provisions) Bill, Moitra said, "The Centre cannot run away from its responsibility. It must cover up to ₹2.35 lakh crore by borrowing. I ask myself in such a situation: is incompetence post majeure (an event or effect that can be neither anticipated nor controlled)? Is criminal negligence post majeure?"
The funds are being raised on the basis of a public office, and not opening it to RTI clearly shows the lack of transparency, she added. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in May clarified that the PM-CARES Fund was not a public authority under section 2 (h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, and therefore it won't be able to divulge information sought in the application. The RTI was filed on April 1 by a student of the Azim Premji University, by Harsha Kandukuri.
"I am sure no dying Indian would want to be on a ventilator paid for by enemy money at this time. The dangers of these foreign donations are amplified by the fact that the PM Cares Fund is exempt from FCRA regulations, even though it doesn't meet the precondition of a body whose funds are audited by the CAG."
Moitra slammed the government for accepting money from Chinese firms like Tik Tok, which gave ₹30 crores to the fund. Xiaomi, which has been accused of spying on people, gave ₹10 crores to the fund. Huawei, which has been banned worldwide for its documented links to the Chinese army, gave ₹10 crores. Moitra questioned why the tainted money has not been returned by the government, especially considering that some of these have been banned amid the ongoing standoff between the two countries.
"Many sectors made it compulsory for employees to donate at least their one month salary and some had deductions in their pay every month. So, how some individual is expected to not adhere to it. This is an atmosphere of fear and vengeance that this government has created in the country," she added.
These PSUs are basically public money and without an audit, it gives rise to a conflict of interest.
"The honourable minister, while introducing the Bill yesterday, read out a long list of schoolchildren and pensioners who had easily given away their meagre savings to the PM Cares (Fund). But the honourable minister was strangely silent on the 38 PSUs that donated more than ₹2,100 crores to the Fund. More than 70 per cent of the Fund's corpus comes from these 38 donations," Moitra said.
Almost 38 public sector companies contributed ₹2,100 crores to the Fund, which is 70 per cent of the total amount, and hence, the accounts should be presented to the public, she added.
She ended by saying that today's India reminds her of Hans Christian Anderson's stories of the emperor's new clothes, where the emperor was cloaked in nothing, but the sycophantic courtiers could not tell him so.
"The Bengali poet, Dhirendra Nath Chakraborty, in his poem 'Ulongo Raja (The Naked King)' also said only one small innocent boy in the entire kingdom had the courage to stand up and ask the naked emperor, "Raja, tor kapod koi?" Today, I ask the same question: Emperor, where are your clothes?"
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Devyani Madaik
Trainee Digital Journalist
A media enthusiast, Devyani believes in learning on the job and there is nothing off limits when it comes to work. Writing is her passion and she is always ready for a debate as well.
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