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Ministers have been urged to reverse cuts to flood defence spending to prevent a repeat of the chaos which bought Tyneside to a standstill last year.
MPs said they were concerned that massive cuts to budgets were putting communities at risk.
But they also warned that many landowners seemed unaware they they also had a responsibility to maintain flood defences on their property.
The warning was issued by the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, including North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon and South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck, which held an inquiry following winter floods which devastated parts of the country.
Parts of the North East and Yorkshire were hit by floods late in 2013 while the South and South West of England were affected in early 2014.
A tidal surge caused the River Tyne to reach its highest level for 30 years in December, leaving parts of Newcastle's Quayside under three feet of water when the river burst its banks.
Quayside workers were evacuated and the road was closed from the Law Courts to Chase bar following the tidal surge along the North East coastline, and traffic came to a standstill as the 400-metre stretch between the Tyne Bridge and the Millennium Bridge was flooded almost instantly.
Thousands of people also lost power as workers struggled to cope with power cuts.
But the Environment Agency, which is responsible for most flood defences, has been hit by major cuts, and overall funding for maintenance fell from £170m in 2012/13 to £147m in 2013/14.
The Environment Agency has also been forced to cut staff numbers. Paul Leinster, the agency's chief executive, told the Committee that it had started the year with about 11,000 full-time staff and this had fallen to 10,600 full time staff by April 2, while the number was expected to be 10,250 full-time staff by October.
The MPs said: "Frontline services in flood and coastal risk management must not be reduced. It is essential that funding cuts do not lead to unintended consequences where funding is redirected to one operational area to the detriment of another.
"In its response to this report, we ask Defra to reassure us that there will be no cuts to frontline flood and coastal risk management jobs at the Environment Agency. Funding for maintenance is at a bare minimum and needs to increase in line with funding for new capital schemes and the increasing flood risk caused by more frequent extreme weather events."
Concerns were also raised by Mrs Lewell-Buck as she questioned Ministers in the House of Commons.
She asked Environment Minister Dan Rogerson: "Despite the lessons of this winter, the Environment Agency is still set to lose hundreds of front-line staff because of DEFRA budget cuts.
"The agency's chief executive has admitted that that will mean fewer resources for maintenance work. Does the Minister think it is responsible to cut the agency's resources at a time when flood risk is increasing?"
Mr Rogerson said: "Front-line vital services provided by the agency are protected, and it will use the expertise of more than 10,000 staff who will be in place throughout this year to do their work."
Responding to the winter floods report,Mr Rogerson said: "We are working to help people rebuild their lives and get back on their feet following the winter floods.
"We are spending £3.2bn over the course of this parliament on flood management and protection from coastal erosion. That is more than ever before."


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The world's greatest super-heroes face Brain Storm (origin & 1st appearance), the Key (intro), the Royal Flush Gang (intro), Felix Faust, and more threats from across the cosmos! Hawkman joins, Metamorpho and Zatanna guest, the Justice Society shows up for "Crisis on Earth-A," the G.A. Sandman reappears, Wonder Woman and Manhunter leave, Black Canary joins. Plus Murphy Anderson inks many of the covers, and Neal Adams is in his early days with six covers!
There's all kinds of special appearances, first appearances, cameos by Robin and Batman, a cross-over with the first appearance of the Golden Age Superman and another with the Golden Age Wonder Woman, reappearances and early appearances by Golden Age characters like The Penguin, The Spectre, Mr. Terrific, etc.
Over-sized Omnibus format with hours of fun reading, collecting classic ten cent, 12 cent, and 15 cent issues from the prime of DC's Silver Age.
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text: Nearly married shoot in Epson woods in Surrey as featured on Whimsical Wonderland Weddings with Ashley and Nick " With a mutual love of the countryside after many camping/'glamping' holidays and our proposal taking place in the beautiful lakes, it seemed fitting to have our shoot in the countryside too. We chose Banstead woods as its somewhere we have enjoyed many a lazy sunday walk and where we know we will continue to go enjoy in the future. It was a lovely opportunity to get some nice pictures of the two of us as Nick usually avoids the camera!


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Initial pictures have emerged of the lorry driver believed to have been arrested by police after 39 bodies were found.
The man has been named locally as Mo Robinson, a 25-year-old from Portadown, Northern Ireland.
He is allegedly being held by police on suspicion of murder.
Media sources in Northern Ireland and national television and other media outlets believe Mo Robinson to be the man being questioned.
The bodies were discovered in Waterglade Industrial Park, in Grays, at 1.40am this morning.
It is believed the truck had travelled from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Purfleet - arriving at roughly 12.30am.
A teenager was among the bodies found, while the other 38 are believed to be adults.


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Soccer Ramps Up Efforts To Support Gay Players And Fans
With an out gay player, Major League Soccer announces partnership to help advance equality efforts in the league. "The diversity found in our League has always been a point of pride for us," MLS Commissioner Don Garber says.
With its first out gay player, Robbie Rogers, playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy, Major League Soccer is launching a new effort to stop anti-gay attitudes and encourage diversity that aims to build on existing league efforts at opposing discrimination in the league.
Partnering with the You Can Play Project, a program started by Patrick Burke to fight homophobia and transphobia in sports, Wednesday's announcement by the MLS follows a similar partnership announced by the National Hockey League in April.
"The diversity found in our League has always been a point of pride for us. Our MLS WORKS 'Don't Cross the Line' initiative is a strong statement that we are a league that stands against discrimination," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in a statement. "We are proud to partner with You Can Play to ensure that all of our fans and players know that MLS is committed to providing a safe environment where everyone is treated equally, and with dignity and respect."
The effort aims at improving the environment for both players and fans, as You Can Play's president, Patrick Burke noted.
"This partnership with MLS and the MLS Players Union confirms the message that MLS will not tolerate discrimination of any kind inside the locker rooms, on the field or in the stands. We will be able to provide vital resources directly to the players, while also ensuring that every soccer fan feels welcome to attend MLS events," Burke said.
Rogers made his comeback to the game following a brief retirement after he came out earlier this year on May 26, after having announced his trade to the LA Galaxy just a day earlier.
Rogers is the first out gay man to play in the leading five major league team sports of baseball, basketball, football, hockey or soccer.
Todd Dunivant, an LA Galaxy defender and member of the MLS Players Union executive board, supports the effort, saying in a statement, "As MLS players, we believe that our clubs are strongest when everyone feels safe and included in the locker room. In addition, we love our fans and want all of them to feel safe in our stands. We are excited to work with You Can Play to ensure that both our locker rooms and our stadiums are welcoming to the LGBT community."
According to a news release announcing the partnership, You Can Play will build upon MLS' existing anti-discrimination education and training resources and it will provide players with the ability to seek counseling or ask questions confidentially.


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Royal Enfield
Royal Enfield was a brand of Enfield Cycle Company and it is among the oldest motorcycle companies started in 1893 by British Automakers. The Enfield Cycle Company manufactured and sold motorcycles, bicycles, lawnmowers and stationary engines. Presently, Royal Enfield and indigenous Madras Motors are the subsidiaries of Eicher Motors Limited, an Indian automaker. The company makes the Royal Enfield Bullet, and other single-cylinder motorcycles.
The Indian government wanted motorcycles for its police and army, for patrolling the country's border. The Royal Enfield Bullet was chosen for this as the best suitable bike. The government ordered 800 Bullet 350 cc model bikes. To complete the order the Redditch company and Madras Motors in India formed 'Enfield India' to assemble the 350 cc Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle in Chennai under license. The tooling was sold to Enfield India so that they could manufacture components. By 1962, all components were made in India.
Royal Enfield has a manufacturing plant in Thiruvottiyur, Chennai and one more greenfield manufacturing facility at Oragadam near Chennai since 2013. The total manufacturing capacity of the two plants is 450000 units per annum. In order to double its total production one more manufacturing plant will be set up in Vallam Vadagal on the outskirts of Chennai in the year 2018. Royal Enfield motorcycles are still made in the old fashioned way. i.e. they are handcrafted in Chennai.
The brand Royal Enfield, popularly known as 'RE' by biking enthusiasts in India, has created a whole new revolution for the love of Motor-biking. Though it could be titled as one of the youngest brands to be re-born in India, the brand has leaped forward with brilliant strategies. The popularity of the bikes, have even made tougher terrains in the Himalayas to be termed as 'Royal Enfield Biking paths'. The urban population has also accepted the motorbikes and have a become a sensation amongst the population. There are many biking groups, which unite riders of 'Royal Enfield' motorbikes and indulge in exploring new trails around metro cities. Numerous women riders have also found liking towards these bikes.
Beats of Indian Freedom – Royal Enfield Commercial Ad
Popular Royal Enfield Motorcycles in India
- Cafe Racer – Continental GT
- Retro Street – Classic Squadron blue
- Standard Street – Thunderbird 500
- Cruiser – Bullet 500
- Himalayan
- 5th position in Motorcycle sales in India leaving behind Yamaha which is currently on 6th position. Learn more about it here.
- It records highest-ever sales milestone in March 2016. Enfield reported total domestic sales of 50,059 units during March 2016 as against sales of 32,854 units in March 2015. Learn more about it here.
- Enfield overtook top world brand Harley Davidson in terms of sales; approximately 3,00,000 units were sold by Enfield in 2014 as compared to 2,67,000 sold by Harley Davidson. Learn more about it here.
- The newly launched motorcycle Himalayan is most versatile motorcycle, able to take riders almost everywhere either on-road or off-road. They claim Himalayan is 'Built for all roads. Built for no roads'.
- Thunderbird 500, Thunderbird, Continental GT and Bullet classic c5 have won different awards like '2012 Enthusiast Motorcycle 250cc –500cc', 'Motorcycle of the Year','Indian Motorcycle of the Year' and 'Best Bike (Metric-Stock)' respectively.
The manufacture has an online store where you can buy apparels, accessories and bags. It has all the riding essentials used on working day or on weekends, versatile riding gear for every whether and terrain and many latest accessories and apparels.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield_(India)


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Among many other risks that a business might face, loss due to thieving employees is one of the most complicated things to deal with. In such cases, a business does not only lose a part of their assets or stocks, but they are also at risk of facing unfair dismissal charges from these dishonest employees. Nevertheless, this does not mean that you should be ignoring these events, particularly if an employee had taken quite a significant amount of assets from you. A good example would be what happened in a coal mine near Newcastle.
According to reports, a 38-year-old mineworker has been charged for stealing over 300 kilograms of copper wire from a coal mine at Black Hill. Police found three 100 kilogram spools of copper wire (worth around $3,500) from the mineworker's car during a search, the same quantity which was reported to be stolen. This extent of theft could have jeopardised the company's productivity and bottom line, for although it might seem like a small amount, it could eventually lead to bigger losses if other employees are stealing bit by bit.
What Constitutes Employee Theft
Theft, or the unlawful retainment of the property of another with the intention of depriving the true owner, is an example of serious misconduct, as stated in the Fair Work Act. Employers, however, have to be careful when dismissing an employee due to theft, since some circumstances might only warrant a verbal warning. In any case, an employer must be able to conduct a thorough investigation of the whole incident and should be able to prove the employee's guilt.
Businesses Reluctant to Apprehend
Unbeknownst to many, employee theft is even more prevalent in recent years than reported. This is because most business owners are reluctant to report or apprehend dishonest employees, particularly those to whom they had developed a close relationship. Theft in the workplace could be anything from small items such as stationery and staplers to bigger ones such as computers and, the most recent one, copper wires. Even intangible assets like trade secrets and time can be stolen.
Moreover, a single case of theft is not a sufficient ground for dismissal, and business owners run the risk of facing an unfair dismissal charge. As most experienced business owners know, having a proper management liability insurance policy, which covers crimes such as employee theft, provides invaluable protection.
Fortunately, most insurance brokers, such as Insuring theProduct, offer management liability insurance in the Sunshine Coast, providing coverage for employee theft and other losses resulting from dishonest acts. With the proper management liability insurance policy, a business can be protected from litigation, significant financial hardship, and would be able to reclaim their losses.
(Source: Copper thievery under investigation, Australian Mining, March 4, 2015)


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text: Region residents are invited to join a ranger for a hike through the Indiana Dunes National Park's exceptional Miller Woods every Sunday this summer, from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, starting from Paul H. Douglas Center. The hike follows the recently renamed Paul H. Douglas Trail which park officials say is spectacular in its varied habitats including globally rare black oak savanna, interdunal pannes, wetlands, and towering sand dunes that offer views of Lake Michigan and Chicago. The hike could be as long as three miles with a stop at the lakefront. Participants are advised to wear sturdy shoes and bring water and insect repellent. The Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education is located in the western portion of the national park at 100 North Lake Street, about one mile north of U.S. Highway 12 in the Miller neighborhood of Gary. For more information on this or other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park, call 219-395-1882 or visit their website at www.nps.gov/indu and Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IndianaDunesNPS.


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Handbook of Governance and Security
Edited by James Sperling
Chapter 19: Energy
Gawdat Bahgat
Energy is the lifeblood of civilization. Both as individuals and nation states we depend heavily on energy. In almost everything we do, we rely on one or several sources of energy. Many people and governments once took the secure availability of energy sources for granted. Our deepening reliance on energy and the rise of a combination of geopolitical, geological and environmental challenges have cast doubt on this assumption that energy will always be there. Little wonder that energy security has become a major concern for almost all countries in the world. In recent years, policymakers and scholars have examined different aspects of energy security. These include production, consumption, reserves, refining, shipping and investment among others. Indeed, the last few decades have witnessed a proliferation of political and academic conferences, industry journals and books on energy security. Each side has sought to promote its interests with little ground for neutrality and objectiveness. A major characteristic of energy is the mismatch between resources and demand. Generally speaking, major consuming regions and nations (the United States, Europe, Japan, China and India) do not hold adequate indigenous energy resources to meet their large and growing consumption. On the other hand, major producers (that is, the Middle East, Russia, the Caspian Sea and Africa) consume a small (albeit growing) proportion of their energy resources. This broad global mismatch between consumption and production has made energy products the world's largest traded commodities.
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Aided by tips from the public, police identified an Inland Empire man sought in connection with a package theft caught on camera just hours after posting video of the incident on the department's Twitter account on Wednesday, officials said.
The suspect, who is accused of misdemeanor theft, had not been arrested, but investigators determined his identity and planned to submit a case to the district attorney's office for prosecution, Covina police Lt. Trevor Gaumer said.
He's believed to be a man pictured in surveillance camera footage scooping up packages from a porch in the 1200 block of North Fairvale Avenue, Detective Ivan Ostarcevic said. The packages contained clothing valued between $50 and $100.
After exhausting other leads in the case, detectives elected to release the footage to the public on Wednesday via Twitter.
Before the end of the day, tips from the public had helped investigators identify the suspect, Gaumer said.
@covinapd thanks you for your attention to our WANTED pics and vids. The community has helped us positively identify this suspect. Keep up the good work! pic.twitter.com/NUq8jQpHF5
— Covina PD (@covinapd) November 9, 2017


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Here are cover images from my magazine that was published from 1999 to 2005.
I've just discovered an interesting artist, Alan Uglow, thanks to an article by Gregory Williams in The Brooklyn Rail (Image courtesy of Brooklyn Rail) The painting on the right is from 1994, the serigraph "portrait" of the painting is from 2000.
This was going to be about Uglow and me and possibly Gerhard Richter and how copying your own work is a way forward from appropriation, the arbitrariness of subject matter, and the general flatness of everything. Then I got upset.
The problem started when I searched for Sherrie Levine to confirm she was the one who did rephotographing. That's when I stumbled on this painting of hers, part of a series completed between 1987 and 2002. This particular one is from 1988.
So why am I upset?
I made these two plywood knot paintings in 1993, and called them The Things at the Edge of the Universe 1 and 2, 45″ x 50″ and 15″ x 26″.
So of course they have something to do with appropriation and how it is related to the difficulty deciding on subject matter when all things seem equal. They are 'found' compositions to some extent. All I had to do was colour them in.
We're living on a very smooth plain, it's difficult to find things sticking up enough to warrant sincere attention. This also has a bearing on attitudes to copyright, which is the reason everything I publish has been under
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
But there is more. These two paintings are not just about appropriation, the lack of reasons and commitments, and the act of choosing itself. The latter two were well covered by Warhol and Duchamp respectively. The first one, appropriation art, is mainly a rehash of Warhol and Duchamp's ideas taken to their end point. When youthful spite subsides, it's time to respect your tradition. That's the only way to change it. (T. S. Eliot, more or less.)
These two paintings have rounded corners, mildly suggestive of cathode ray tubes, what TV's looked like in 1993. They are covered in very scratched quarter-inch plexiglass which elevates visibility to a second simultaneous picture plane. The plexiglass has a gridded array of holes drilled in it for finishing nails and the occasional screw. The grid is not square with the sides of the work, which gives the grid some tilt, but no vanishing point.
The nails hold the layers together, but they are also visible objects that travel through all the virtual objects generated with paint and scratches. Nails as wormholes perhaps, the things at the edge of the universe maybe – and all along we thought it was the painted knots. "Ha ha", as Bosse-de-Nage the dog faced baboon would say. (Please refer to Alfred Jarry's Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician).
For the most part I don't mind obscurity, but there are times when it's frustrating. Frustrating because I feel compelled to defend and explain my work when I come across things that look quite similar – plywood knot paintings for example. But as Mosheim apparently said, "Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness" [I got this from J. W. Von Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann (Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne, 1901), p. 6. And I have no idea who Mosheim is.]
Thankfully, I think it's possible to feel schadenfreude for my own misfortune. Grimly satisfying wound licking isn't half bad. While flattering myself that my work measures up to his, I can easily imagine myself in the circumstances of Kurt Schwitters. He said we shouldn't worry about his obscurity and poverty because he knew very well how important he was. And he is important – his shadow continues to grow, just as Picasso's shrinks. Therefore, I will not be bothered by the fact that I seem to have made a career of being overlooked and underestimated.
1923 – and it contains seeds of almost all the 'retinal' art that follows. ("Retinal" is a reference to Duchamp's pejorative term for all art that isn't 'conceptual', for lack of a better word. It seems to me though, that visual art would use a retinal vehicle.) And looking at this one humble collage from 1923, I know I have a lot of work to do. The insidious influence of theory still drives me, I'm not retinal enough.
Sherrie Levine has made her career as an "appropriation artist". She came to my attention in 1980 when she rephotographed pictures by Walker Evans and showed them as her own. It was a brilliant choice because Evans was such a damned earnest photographer, living in a time when artists really thought they were making a difference (aesthetic, political or both) – Schwitters, John Heartfield, Rodchenko, and so on. Levine's move was a refreshingly bitter thing to do.
I'm sympathetic with appropriation, and in the 1970's I tried my hand at it with a series of one-piece collages. From time to time, from 1976 to 1999, I tore things from newspapers, magazines, brochures, and maps that appealed to me, mounted them and signed them. These two are both coincidentally from 1979. I picked them because they look nice on my computer screen.
Seeing that map once again makes me think it would make a great painting – a little bit of a Richard Diebenkorn Ocean Park Series thing going on.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Diebenkorn%27s_painting_%27Ocean_Park_No.129%27.jpg
My use of appropriation was sour grapes and cleverness to some extent, but it still had a hint of vicarious escape from media saturation in it. I took back the initiative, the choosing, I was less of a passive consumer. That was the do-good, Schwitters part, but that's hardly adequate.
Appropriation is basically a rehash of Conceptual and Pop art. It is the blindingly obvious thing to do after Duchamp and Warhol. It's also a one-trick pony to establish an art career – but if you keep doing the same thing for long enough, you'll probably get famous. Morris Lewis demonstrated it and General Idea satirized it. As far as appropriation goes, I couldn't be bothered with anything more than some scrap booking – there are so many other things to think about.
So much for being vexed, and onto the matter of copying your own work. I have three rules for art making: It needs charm, it acknowledges its roots in a tradition, and it contains some other idea, hopefully a new way to see or understand something. That's a tall order, and I know I don't always succeed.
In 1977 I propped a book on the arm of a chair. It was open to a photograph of Marcel Duchamp taken by Alfred Stieglitz and I photographed it. I then signed and dated the photo. If art were physics, then Duchamp's Law would be, "The art of a thing is the choice." I chose Stieglitz's photo to be my art.
Levine's photos of Evan's photos are more pointed – they're just the photos with no surrounding context, they're about appropriation, pure and simple. My photo is polluted with context: the image, the book and the chair in my living room – frames within frames. Besides appropriation, it's also about my sense of being on the outside, looking through a window into the art world, like watching a family dinner while standing in the snow. Art students sometimes feel that way, very Dickens.
I also enjoyed signing the front – photographers rarely do that.
I 2000, I photographed my photograph and printed it on enough paper to write a screed. It was intended to be amusing like my Artist Statement from a previous post.
It says, "I don't think Jeff Koons and Sherrie Levine are Postmodernists. I see them as Academic Modernists, Duchamp's epigoni reworking the readymade concept ad nauseum. My student work of 1977 reflects the same concerns: I accepted what I was taught about permissible museum-grade transgression. To a certain extent, Modernism seems to have been about the quiddity of art itself. Assuming this problem has been solved, and as far as I know, it hasn't, the next logical step is the quiddity of quiddity. Unfortunately this issue is extremely abstract, and artists are better applied than theoretical philosophers. Instead, let's suppose for a moment that some point would be served if we were to force historical facts into a dialectical process. This granted, the next dialectical step is to reconsider the ideas negated by Modernism. Notwithstanding De Stijl and Earthworks, (because historical facts must be carefully chosen) the negated ideas are the Beautiful and the Sublime. The other next dialectical step is to chose the particulars of Modernism which need to be negated. Let these be transgression and the logical model of art practice. Therefore, I am pleased to announce that my dialectical thinking has discovered the possibility of a post Modernism. It only lacks a name."
This definitely illustrates that I had developed some hostility towards theory.
Not much more to say. Here are three related works:
When I came across Berndaut Smilde, I immediately liked his work. There's a good reason for this: To a certain extent we're ploughing the same field. I herewith have a passable excuse for posting some of my own work.
Brain Cloud, from 1983, 16″ x 22″. It's a fresco of sorts – acrylic paint mixed into Polyfilla(TM) on aluminum window screening stapled to particle board with a hardwood frame painted with commercial enamel. This is also my opportunity to point out that I came up with the silly idea of a brain cloud way before Tom Hanks was diagnosed with the same affliction in the movie Joe and the Volcano. It also seems to be the case that I have based my career on materials and approches that beg to be underestimated. It's passive-aggressive I suppose.
Another silly title … A Case of Meteorological Hyphenization, 1988, 7″ x 9.5″. This one's a colour photograph (a C41 print in fancy talk) mounted on plywood (which I gessoed to protect the print from acid in the plywood), surrounded by linoleum and covered with clear table top epoxy. On the very top there are two blobs of titanium white oil paint connected with a cotton thread that came out of my clothing – my pants probably. One needs to seize opportunities when they arise. The usual description of art would have said, "mixed media", but that's not very informative.
I only just realized, while writing this, that this hyphen in the sky is a precursor of work to come close to twenty years later.
This one's included because after all these years, I still really like it: The Infinite Choice of Primaries, 1992, 20″ x 29″. It's a copper foil covered circuit board painted with acrylic and mounted with linoleum on plywood. I obtained a stash of un-etched circuit boards from my local scrapyard which is a great place to browse – except for the dog. My friend was bitten by the dog once, but perhaps because he's a communist, he didn't sue the proprietor. He needed a lot of stitches.
My daughter's friend tried putting on some red/blue glasses that came with a 3D comic book to look at this painting. Hilary was a funny girl. She's still funny, but now she's a woman. Little did she realize that as an art college student I had spent quite a while experimenting with various "hand-tooled" methods to suggest or produce virtual three dimensions.
David Rabinowitch – Metrical Construction in 13 Masses Montreal
The lovely thing about the circuit boards are the arrays of tiny holes. They remind me of miniature David Rabinowitch sculptures, an artist I'm fond of.
At one time, 1974 maybe, I made a scale model painting of Barnett Newman's Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III, 1967. It was about 8 inches wide, on stretched canvas, just like Barney's version. HO scale New York School is a very amusing idea, especially when you don't take the weave of the canvas into consideration. That makes it more of an "essencing" as opposed to a model. I made up "essencing". Unfortunately, I'm not sure where the painting is now.
This pencil drawing is called, Externalization Phenomenon, 1976, 8.5″ x 13″. I was an art student at the time and I was teaching myself how to draw, because you don't learn that kind of thing in art college – it's more about attitude, networking and fashionable theory. At the time it seemed radical to me to develop a skill, and in particular, a skill in one of the least valued mediums at the time. The futility of hand rendering in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction was extremely appealing to me: It seemed like a conceptual art kind of thing to do – a do-it-yourself homemade variety Sol Lewitt or Andy Warhol process. I've always found it easy to commit subversion in a way that no-one notices. In my student days I also made some Minimalist pieces with hand tools – take that Donald Judd! The art hanging on the wall in the drawing was a pseudo-minimalist piece I did the year before. As for the title, I was reading a lot of Jung at the time and he uses the term 'externalization phenomenon' to refer to synchronistic events. With my developing drawing skills, I embarked on a series of drawings of ghosts.
I still draw from time to time. This is a drawing of the newspaper from 2007, 22″ x 30″. In all modesty I can say it's amazing what I can do with a 2B pencil.
And this is a single object still life from 2008, also 22″ x 30″. I like single object still-lifes because multiple objects gets a bit too narrative for me. I don't do allegory.
This is Kipping, 20″ x 28″, 1984, oil on corrugated fiberglass, named for a good friend of mine who painted many clouds back in the day and also liked to distress the support to create ambiguity, something Clement Greenberg called one of the chief sources of pleasure in art.
I like to put things in boxes and I don't often use masking tape. Instead, I'm obsessively careful and usually get into a very pleasant meditative state when I do it. Untitled, acrylic on MDF, 11″ x 14″, 2006.
Untitled, graphite on paper, 9″ x 11″, 2007. Peculiar clouds, I don't know what came over me. It might be about the formation of clouds as putative objects.
These last two show my interest in IBM Selectric(TM) typewriter balls which has been with me at least a decade. They give me an interesting new take on clouds. The black one is untitled, acrylic on panel, 16″ x 16″, 2009. I press the typewriter ball into the dried surface and then rub the white paint into the crevice as if I were inking an intaglio printing plate.
This is also untitled, coloured pencil on paper, 9″ x 11″, 2012. With dry media, I press the typewriter ball first and then the pencil scoots right over the crevice.
The point of all this is much more difficult to articulate than how I did it. Suffice it to say that language seems to reflect our hard wired fundamental categories of understanding (Steven Pinker). But I suspect that the cart is sometimes put in front of the horse in that language is given the honour of being the filter. Oh, never mind, this is irrelevant, my hostility towards post-structuralism is irrelevant, and there's no way I'm sufficiently well informed to venture anything useful on this subject. Once again theory tries to step in to justify art. Art needs no justification whatsoever.
I just think it's interesting to pretend that linguistic elements are real in the same way as rocks and clouds, although, it would be easier to devise a language/cloud analogy than a language/rock analogy. Then again, maybe not. That would make quite the poetry contest. Nonetheless, it's certainly easier for me to draw and paint language as cloud-like as opposed to rock-like, but that's probably because it's the cloud metaphor that intrigues me. The letters look as if they came into being in the sky, just like clouds and stars do. That thrills me. It seems so mythological.
A detail of the drawing to make it easier to see. I have around 20 typewriter balls thanks to eBay – various fonts, scientific symbols, Japanese.


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The departure of yet another Berton House writer, Jeanne Randolph, brought to my mind the number of writers in residence who have come and gone – and come again over the last few years.
This happens to quite a few people other than writers, and is referred to locally as the Dawson Boomerang Effect.
Randolph actually went through this process in reverse, having been here two years earlier as part of the ODD Gallery's annual "Natural and the Manufactured" art installation.
Having been here once as an artist, she got to return as a writer.
Mylène Gilbert-Dumas was also here during the last month, having boomeranged to Dawson for the second time since her Berton House stint in 2010 in order to sample the atmosphere of solstice.
Gilbert-Dumas has written a trilogy of historical novels in French set in Dawson in the Gold Rush era, and visited here originally as part of her research. I'm hoping the Lili Klondike books (VLB Éditeur) will be translated someday so that I can read them.
She is now working on a book about a modern woman lured to the Klondike, and is determined to sample every season here.
She is also planning a non-fiction book about real women she has met and interviewed during her two long residences (one at Berton House, one as a house-sitter), so she may be back again.
Linda Goyette was here in 2009 to collect stories for her book, Northern Kids (Brindle and Glass), tales of historical and current children's lives in the North.
She and her husband returned within a few months to fill a sudden vacancy at the residence and they came back again last fall to launch her book.
Frances Backhouse had visited Dawson before her 2008 residency, and had already written Women of the Klondike (Whitecap, 1995) before deciding to expand the project 15 years later with Children of the Klondike (Whitecap, 2010).
She came back to Dawson for the Yukon launch of the book and the reissue of its companion volume last August.
One month later Charlotte Gray arrived in town to show off her new book, Gold Diggers (HarperCollins), which she worked on here in 2008.
She could not actually launch the book here, as it wasn't due to be in book stores until later that same week, but she did an extensive reading and talk about her characters in the Oddfellows' Hall ballroom.
The book got rave reviews everywhere and will surely win an award eventually. The National Post review said, "Charlotte Gray's new history of the Klondike Gold Rush shows why those hardscrabble years captivate us still ..."
The year 2008 was particularly fertile at Berton House. It also brought us Monica Graham, who completed her research on The Great Maritime Detective (Nimbus), the true story of Peter Owen Carroll, the most successful Maritime detective of his era.
"Peachie" Carroll, like many, was captivated by the lure of the Gold Rush and part of his story is how he made it as far as Atlin in his unsuccessful quest for the yellow mineral.
Gold, it seems, was one of the few fugitives he could not find.
There are other books and other writers I could mention who have boomeranged back to Dawson. Perhaps another time.


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In the last few weeks we have delivered 4 HVAC applications. The image attached is a recent application that was created using MobileDataforce's PointSync Mobility Platform and delivered to a Dutch company.
The ROIs found from automating work and service orders are easily defined:
- Daily service orders can be wirelessly dispatched directly to the service technician in the field.
- Schedules can be dynamically changed on the handheld
- Driving directions can be included and wirelessly dispatched to the handheld and integrated with numerous GPS navigation systems available on PDAs
- Customer history and equipment warranty information can be included in the work order and dispatched to the handheld device
- Parts can be ordered on the application and wirelessly synchronized with the office
- Parts inventory levels and shipping status can be queried on the handheld device
- Completed service orders can be invoiced and printed on a mobile printer and left with the customer for fast payment
- Completed service orders can be synchronized and integrated with the office database, so no re-typing is required.
These are just a few of the common features in the mobile HVAC applications we have recently delivered using MobileDataforce's PointSync Mobility Platform.


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Here it is folks! The new Super Deluxe American Imperial! Now before I mention the price, let me tell you what went into the making of this automobile. Aluminum for the engine and transmission from Surinam, Haiti, and Jamaica. Chrome for alloys and trim from Turkey, South Africa, and Philippines. Tungsten for alloys from Bolivia, Thailand, South Korea, and Burma. Tin for alloys from Indonesia, Malaya, Bolivia, and Congo. Copper for the electrical system from Rhodesia, Canada, and Congo. Rubber for tires from Malaya and Indonesia. Oil for lubrication and fuel from Venezuela and the Mid East. And lots more!
We used to rip off lots of copper from Chile before they nationalized it. Later for them. It takes Amerikan ingenuity and know-how to organize this global rip-off and turn it into a fine looking automobile. So when you hear the mellow sound of your new American Imperial V-8, you can feel a warm sense of pride in knowing why your son died in Vietnam.
Flyer from Peoples Press, San
Francisco, early 1970s
(Before the CIA-supported overthrow of Chile's elected President Salvador Allende, 1973)
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Saw this animation (I think it is from angry bird) on this special day of the year to all Chinese people.
It is the Chinese New Year, the year of rooster (my year)
Information for those people don't understand how does this work:
There were 12 different animal in Chinese traditional calender which they all represent different meaning, and each of them take a year.
I was born in the year of rooster (24 years ago)
The sign goes around every 12 years.
(here is more information: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ChineseNewYear/ZodiacStory.aspx)
Anyway, back to the animation.
I think it is quite lovely that a chicken fall in love with a worm.
At the very end of the story… I thought there will be some sort of a twist that the chicken will ate the worm…. but thank god there is no suck scene in it. However, it also says that…. It doesn't even know which one is the worm it fall in love into.
In terms of the movement, I think it really stand out how the chicken using it's wings just like hands. And the animation was really smooth and successful!


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The Westerville Parent Council, Roush Honda, the Superintendent of Schools and the Westerville City Schools Board of Education recognized Great Educator and Mentor (GEM) award winners at a reception and special ceremony held at Westerville North High School on Monday evening, April 20. GEM awards are given to individuals who make a difference in the lives of the students in the Westerville School District. All GEM winners promote the welfare of pupils in the home, school and community, and each goes above and beyond the call of duty. This year, 27 deserving individuals and one business were recognized as GEM award winners.
Elementary Schools
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Congratulations to our "Friends of Ernie" portfolio member Weingut Robert Weil on having their 2009 Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Trocken named a Wine Spectator Top 100 wine for 2010!
Deep in mineral-driven aroma and rich on the palate, this distinctive Riesling comes from Weil's wholly owned parcel beneath the medieval Gräfenberg tower in the Rheingau.
Here's what Wine Spectator says:
[93] Wine Spectator – "Top 100"
"A pungent, aromatic white, with gooseberry, peony and spice on the nose. Racy and vividly flavored, with citrus intensity and a laserlike finish. A bit extreme, yet full of personality and a sense of place." – Rated #81 in the 2010 Top 100.
About Weingut Robert Weil
Founded in 1875, Weingut Robert Weil is considered to be one of the Rheingau's younger wine estates. It is located in the heart of Kiedrich, a village first documented in the year 950. Kiedrich Turmberg, one of the estate's top vineyards, is among the finest sites in the Rheingau.
About the Kiedrich Turmberg Vineyard
Kiedrich Turmberg ("tower hill"), a separate hill right next to the Gräfenberg vineyard, is rated as premier cru.
The German wine law of 1971 incorporated Turmberg into the Gräfenberg, but in 2005 it was reinstated as an individual, classified site.
The steep, southwest-facing site has a slate base with a thin topsoil layer composed of stony, gritty phyllite mixed with loess and loam. It produces very fine, elegant wines that are less massive than their counterparts from the Gräfenberg.
Accolades for Winemaker Wilhem Weil
More about Weingut Robert Weil
Here is a report from JancisRobinson.com on a recent tasting of Weingut Robert Weil wines (subscription required).
Be sure to put this fabulous wine on your must-drink list!


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5 Benefits of Pet Chew Toys for Cats and Dogs
5 Benefits of Pet Chew Toys for Cats and Dogs
Pets love to chew. From shoes and furniture to clothes and even your fingers, your dog or cat will munch on just about anything they can get their furry little paws on. Destructive chewing is one of the top pet peeves pet parents face. Providing your cat or dog with the best pet chew toys has a host of benefits that will foster safe, healthy chewing habits. Here are a few important reasons chew toys are great for your dog and cat.
1. Fights Boredom
Just like you, pets get bored. But unlike you, they can't pass the time away, cooing over the latest cat-trending YouTube video on their smartphone. Being stuck indoors all day is no fun for anyone—your pets included. Without external stimuli, your dog and cat can get into all kinds of trouble, like tearing into the trash, knocking over plants, making friends with your goldfish, and driving your neighbours up the wall with constant barking. Chew toys give your lovable furballs something to occupy their time (and their teeth) when you're not home, making them less fidgety and bored, not to mention easier to handle.
2. Provides Great Oral Hygiene
The best pet chew toys are not only great for keeping your pets occupied, they also help promote healthy teeth and gums. Chewing on a toy acts like a toothbrush for your pets, scraping away harmful plaque that can lead to gum disease. Another great benefit of cats and dogs grinding away on chew toys is fresher breath—a gift that is sure to put on smile on your face.
3. Relieves Teething Pain
Speaking of teeth, nothing is more painful and uncomfortable for puppies and kitties than teething pain. New teeth coming in can cause whining, whimpering, and crying, keeping them and you up all night. When your cat or dog chews on a pet toy, it will help provide some much-needed pain relief for your pet's aching gums.
4. Saves Your Household Items
Imagine coming home to your beloved pooch or adorable kitty sprawled out across something that used to resemble your antique rug. Without a chew toy to keep their choppers (and claws) busy, it is only a matter of time before your pets make abstract art out of your sofas, chairs, cushions, and that handmade quilt that's been in your family for generations.
5. Delivers Endless Entertainment
The best pet chew toys are the ones that are made to last. There are tons of indestructible toys out there, made with tough material that will keep your dogs and cats noshing away until their little hearts are content. Just make sure to choose safe non-toxic toys. The last thing any pet owner wants is to
make their best friend sick!
So, what are you waiting for? Run out and pick up some pet chew toys today. Your dog, your cat, and your furniture will thank you. Contact Langley Animal Clinic with your pet questions and concerns.
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My family and I LOVE this tomato soup. I got the recipe several years ago from my friend. As you probably know, I never met a recipe I couldn't tweak, so this is my take on it.
With crackers crumbled into it I am transported back to wintery days of my childhood and lunches of tomato soup with Ritz Crackers. Now I use these lovely crackers.Hope you enjoy it!
Fred's Tomato Soup
1 28 oz can San Marzano* tomatoes, run thru blender, FP or immersion blender
(Or 4 cups fresh, crushed tomatoes)
1 medium onion, grated or very finely minced in FP
2 garlic cloves "
1 quart stock/broth or water
S & P to taste
3/4 cup full fat or light coconut milk (orig recipe calls for heavy cream)
In a large pot, saute' onion for 8-10 minutes in EVOO or ECVO, adding garlic at the end for 30 secs or so.
Add tomatoes and stock, bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer uncovered for 25-30 minutes.
Stir in Coconut milk and let it sit for a few minutes.
Serve garnished with avocado, bacon, basil, croutons, crumbled crackers etc. as you wish.
We practically lick the bowl clean. 🙂
* I prefer San Marzano but you can use any organic tomatoes.
You can easily do this recipe in the Instant Pot.
Use saute' function for onion and garlic.
Add all other ingredients except cream or coconut milk. And only 6 cups broth/water/
Set on Manual for 30 minutes with the valve open so steam is released during cooktime.
When finished, add cream or coconut milk, stir and let it sit a few minutes.
Love to hear how you like this.
As always I hope you SPARKLE!
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Question: What is Hering's Law?
Answer: Hering's Law states that: "All healing occurs from within out, from the head down, and in the reverse order in which the symptoms have appeared."
Question: Who came up with Hering's Law of Cure?
Answer: Many years ago, a now famous Doctor observed this healing phenomenon and thus, this healing event was named after him, Dr. Constantine Hering (1800 – 1880) – Father of American Homeopathy.
Question: What does Hering's Law mean?
Answer: Hering's Law describes an event or process that may occur after you begin to detox or do a cleanse on your body, especially if you have cleansed too much and / or too fast. Essentially, the body will follow a certain pattern of healing as described below:
"From within-out" – getting rid of toxic accumulations from the inside of the body to the outside (through the skin).
"From the head down" – A good philosophy is part of getting well-a philosophy that brings cheerfulness, happy moments and an attitude of determination to overcome. Where is a person's philosophy? The answer is in the head. The person who nurtures hate, destructive ideas, misery and other negative feelings is sowing the seeds of dis-ease, not health. Such an individual will experience difficulty in getting well. We must re-evaluate and restructure the "nourishment" that goes into the body in order to regenerate and rejuvenate the body.
"In reverse order that the symptoms appeared" – Recent conditions leave first, earlier conditions leave or are eliminated last. It may take years for organs in a chronic state to revitalize to the point where old, dried catarrh (mucous) can liquefy and be brought out through the elimination channels.
Question: What exactly happens with a healing crisis?
Answer: As a patient is being brought out of a chronic condition by all natural means, old dried-up mucous membranes become moist again. Through movement of catarrh, toxins and wastes that were once trapped in the affected parts of the body are carried away. This marks the onset of a healing crisis. While it may seem that the disease has returned, the difference is that the healing crisis comes at a time when the patient's general health has greatly improved, and the elimination of catarrh is simply a step in the "reversal of symptoms" as predicted by Hering's Law. The elimination is frequently accompanied by fever and always accompanied by tissue inflammation. It is only through a complete elimination through the healing crisis and the re-balancing of the chemical elements that a cure to be manifested. Allopathic medicine knows this process as a Herzheimer Reaction.
Question: What is catarrhal discharge?
Answer: A catarrhal discharge is an inflammation of the mucous membranes with a resulting free discharge of mucous. It is completely normal and the desired result.
Question: What are the symptoms of a healing crisis?
Answer: Everybody is different and has had different experiences, illnesses, genes, etc. and thus will respond / react differently than others. Some people will experience symptoms such as sore throat, swollen glands, and headaches. Others will complain of low grade fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. Many also re-experience past illnesses and traumas. But these symptoms do not last as long as the original illness nor are they as severe. Most healing crises will last approximately a few days before they quickly disappear. Some healing crisis can be severe, last a week or more and be quite scary; some can be quite subtle and barely even noticeable. The key is not to panic if you have a healing event. Just be aware that you may be experiencing a healing crisis, if you have been doing things such as fasting, cleansing or altering the quality of ingested foods, improving your standard of living and increasing your pH level.
Hering's Law of Cure Further Explained
- Symptoms of a chronic disease disappear in definite order, going in reverse and taking about one month for every year the symptoms have been present.
- Symptoms move from the more vital organs to the less vital organs; from the interior of the body towards the skin.
- Symptoms move from the top of the body downward.
You can check this out yourself by doing an internet search with Hering's Law.
Hering's Law of Cure is the basis of all healing.
Hering's Law of Cure is the basis of all healing. This is the way the body heals or cures itself. "All cure starts from within out, from the head down and in reverse order as the symptoms have appeared or been suppressed".
"We don't catch diseases, we create them by breaking down the natural defenses according to the way we eat, drink, think and live". Hering's Law is a very important law to understand and remember. It is imperative to follow this law in order to allow the body to eliminate toxins created daily.
The definition of Hering's Law of Cure is as follows:
"We heal from the head down". This means that before we can even begin to heal we must believe we can heal. We must be mentally prepared and strong in order to allow the body to heal. We must not doubt the body's ability to heal itself.
"We heal from within out". This means we must allow the body to cleanse. In order for the body to eliminate toxins it must be allowed to do so by not suppressing any kind of discharge.
Most over-the-counter medications and prescriptions do suppress discharges. This is not good as these toxins can go deeper into the body and create other weaknesses. The body must be allowed to cleanse itself in whatever manner it needs to without interruption by synthetic suppressive substances.
"We heal in reverse order as the symptoms have appeared or been suppressed". This means that most of the time the last problem someone has is the first problem to be dealt with by the body in the reversal process.
For instance, let's say the last illness you had was a sinus infection and a suppressive medication was used to stop any sneezing, coughing, dripping nose or sinus drainage.
In order for the body to heal itself it must eliminate these toxins and mucous that were suppressed at this time. Since this was the last illness it is the easiest for the body to heal.
The body may stimulate the Immune System to create a fever to burn out the toxins, the toxins may be eliminated through the Lungs or Bronchioles causing a large amount of phlegm to exit these areas, it might eliminate them through the skin causing breakouts or it could eliminate them through the Colon in which case mucous, old feces and food that hasn't been eaten for quite a while may be eliminated. These are just a few ways the body heals itself.
Unfortunately, Hering's Law of Cure is not used today in Orthodox medicine. Orthodox medicine generally believes that because the symptoms are suppressed the problem is cured, or by removing the organ, which is not functioning correctly, it can cure the problem.
Perhaps this is why no one knows what a "Cold" is today. A "Cold" is the body's way of eliminating toxins, which it does by increasing the mucous from the mucous membranes in order to free the toxins. Toxin elimination is imperative in order for the body to stay healthy. Disease reversal is also imperative in order for the body to "cure" a disease.
— This article is derived from following source – Hussain Kaisrani – Homeopathic Consultant —


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Private Equity Real Estate Investment Firm, Cohen Asset Management, Inc., and its Affiliate Cincinnati LeSaint Industrial Capital LLC, Complete Financing in Westchester, Ohio
Los Angeles, California (May 15, 2013)
An affiliated company of Cohen Asset Management, Inc., obtained a new loan secured by a 700,000 square foot Class A industrial building located within the Westchester, Ohio submarket of Cincinnati.
"We are pleased to announce that we executed a new fixed-rate loan procured at a competitive interest rate and obtained on terms that meet the investment objectives of the property's ownership. The lender is a major U.S. life insurance company that has been a lender in our portfolio of industrial real estate assets for several years," stated Bradley Cohen, President.
"This refinancing is a good example of how Cohen Asset Management is working to maximize the benefits to our investors in this portfolio by executing debt at historically low interest rates. This achievement is indicative of our close lender relationships, the high quality of our industrial real estate assets, the benefits of low leverage, creditworthy tenants and the strong interest lenders have in our portfolio" stated Jason Haas, Chief Operating Officer.
About Cohen Asset Management™
Cohen Asset Management, Inc. is a private commercial and industrial real estate investment firm. The firm's relationships extend to high net worth individuals and institutional investors. The private real estate investment firm is an active operator and investor of commercial and industrial real estate assets and has a well-established reputation as a value added investor focusing on commercial and industrial real estate opportunities that are inefficiently priced due to a variety of circumstances such as vacancies, rollover risk, sub-optimal management, inefficient current use, deferred maintenance, long-term undervalued leases or other unfavorable property and market conditions.


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- A 2018 world happiness report show Nigerians are happier than Ghanaians
- Nigeria, South Africa and Ivory Coast had impressive results unlike Ghana
- Issues related to crime, unemployment and high cost of living could be part of the reasons why Ghanaians are unhappy
The 2018 World Happiness Report has shown that Nigerians are happier than Ghanaians.
In this report, Ghana was unable to beat other African countries including Nigeria which scored the 91st position as against 108th position for Ghana.
READ ALSO: Did Shatta Wale ask for money to perform at Ebony's tribute concert?
This comes at a time when the government claims the economy is on the right path to recovery and job creation is also being achieved.
Looking at the measure of happiness the report measured, it is clear that issues related to the rise in armed robbery cases coupled with high cost of living could trigger the high level of unhappiness in the country.
Nigeria also remains one of the largest economies in Africa considering the huge population rate and returns from the exploration of oil in large quantities. But the largest West African economy also faces some grave challenges like corruption and terrorist attacks from Boko Haram and other Jihadist forces.
Just before the NPP administration took office, Ghana's macroeconomic outlook was just unconscious talking about the rising levels of non-performing loans at the banks, the $2 billion energy bond debt, burgeoning rate of inflation, energy crisis, dwindling of investor confidence, the list goes on and on.
But now we have the NPP administration in place and in just 10 months, Ghanaians continue to see the various policies that this government is putting in place to transform the economy. But take some time to find out the secret plan for government's transformation agenda and then you will come to appreciate more the trajectory it is taking.
Just before the NPP took over power, their main plan was to transform the economy. That was the plan. In doing so, the Nana Addo-led administration had just one thing left to embark on this flamboyant move which is the attraction of capital from both foreign and local investors.
But these investors can never sacrifice their capital to a struggling economy like Ghana unless they saw some key things that could help their business adventure flourish.
So then government devised a new strategy that will be aimed at restructuring the foundations of the economy. This was how come we first heard about the paperless port system which has transformed doing business at the ports especially when businessmen would now be free to clear their goods without the strain of bureaucracy and bribes.
If any investor heard of this brave move by Ghana, there is no doubt in our minds that they would rush to invest. Beyond the paperless system did we see the recapitalization of the banking sector which saw the Bank of Ghana clean the sector with the recent closure of UT and Capital Bank through a takeover by GCB.
In every economy, the banking sector remains one of the foundations of success since a break down of confidence and subsequent collapse of banks will possibly see investors withdraw their funds and rush out to other ventures.
Through the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), the government continues to create he best case for investors to invest in the various sectors of the economy.
In fact, the poorest performing sector which is Agric has also seen a major boost through many bold interventions like the planting for food and jobs, one-district-one-factory, one-district-one warehouse and also the one-village-one-dam interventions - all aimed at making Ghana's Agric sector work again.
READ ALSO: Did Shatta Wale ask for money to perform at Ebony's tribute concert?
So there we have it, it's all about attracting investor confidence in the country and increasing foreign direct investments in the short to medium term. Because when we get investors coming, they come with huge capital and this subsequently results in the creations of new business ventures which subsequently translates into job creation and ultimately an economic boom.
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Technology and elegance all in one
The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac is a Quebec City landmark. Inaugurated in 1893, this renowned hotel, located in Old Quebec and overlooking the St. Lawrence River, it today merges technology with elegance. As part of its renovation in 2016, the hotel's public areas, restaurants, bars and meeting rooms were equipped with new lighting, sound and control systems.


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skinned Curlew
Hawgster posted a topic in Kudzu Craft ForumI got the Curlew skinned. Getting close to putting a finish on it.
New Mexico, Thanks, working on the skinning.
This is a view from my home, sort of what the terrain looks around here . It is very different than New England.
Sorry about the FOSH instead of the FROG. In the mountains were I live, grass lawns are not readily available. I will try to improvise and come up with something.
Curlew FOSH
Hawgster posted a topic in Kudzu Craft ForumFrame on sawhorse. I hope to get this skinned this week. I lofted the curlew offsets from Jeff's book. I ripped the stringers out of cedar 2x6 and made the sections from Baltic Birch.
plywood size
Hawgster replied to Hawgster's topic in Kudzu Craft ForumThank you for the tips. I found some 5x5 BB. I am going to pick some up tomorrow.
plywood size
Hawgster posted a topic in Kudzu Craft ForumI have been trying to find good plywood (marine okoume, baltic birch) locally (New Mexico) and not having any luck. It is starting to look like I will need to have plywood shipped to me. Having the plywood cut into smaller pieces will save tremendously on shipping costs. I would like to know what would be the optimal size to have these pieces cut into from a 4x8 sheet? I am looking at building a Poco Barta or Curlew.
Thanks for your reply. I just finished a Seabee 13 foot and put it in the water last week. I scarfed all the stringers on that one. My decision is based more on which kayak will fulfill my needs for use on inland lakes in New Mexico. Even though I like the idea of using non-scarfed stringers.
I found the answer to my question in a much earlier post. A similar question was asked with the same post title. The answer was to add a foot to the overall length of the boat to the stringers. Now I have to decide to either scarf wood for the Poco Barta or just build the Curlew without having to do any scarfing.
stringer length
Hawgster posted a topic in Kudzu Craft ForumHello forum members this is my first post, I found the posts on this forum very interesting and informative. I discovered a fairly clean 16 foot cedar plank at a near by home improvement store. I ripped it and got 6 decent boards plus an additional board that would be good for scarfing. I am planning on building the Poco Barta. I would like to ask if someone would tell me if 16 feet is long enough for the gunwales, chines and keel or would I have to scarf a little extra in order to build the Poco Barta? I am also considering the Curlew. I recently lofted and built a Seabee 13 foot for my wife so now it is time to build myself a decent kayak.


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On a warm day in September 1946, the great and the good of the University of Zurich gathered in its auditorium and turned their attention to a bowtie wearing gentleman who had risen to speak.
Despite the fatigue of a heavy travel schedule, Winston Churchill spoke energetically of his vision of how to maintain peace after seven years of war. An idea of "some kind of United States of Europe."
The European Union and full integration across the region is still relatively young as an economic concept. Formed in the shadow of World War II, the primary desire was to protect against another war, coupled with the burgeoning notion that bigger is better and a united Europe would allow them to compete more effectively on the global stage in the face of a rising challenge from Asia.
A founding father of the concept of the United States of Europe (USE), Churchill was rarely seen without his bowtie.
No one knows why he was so keen on them. One theory is it was a tribute to his father, who he had a difficult relationship with.
The Greeks have their own 'difficult relationship' at the moment. Threatening a 'Grexit' by leaving the union, Greece's ruling party, Syriza continue to rock the boat and demand an end to the imposed austerity measures.
The radicalism that got them elected in January has lessened now as Europe continues to deny their demands like a firm parent slowly losing patience with a tempestuous toddler. With no progress being made, the Greek people too are losing enthusiasm for the Syriza party's policies and the move by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to requisition an estimated €1-2bn from local government coffers to attempt to stave off a default has understandably not gone down well either.
The yields of a country's government bonds are an easy measure of the market's concern for its fiscal health, so the fact the Greek's yields have started to fall back to 15% after spiking at around 20% for five year bonds is telling. This is compared to the UK equivalent, which yields about 1.4%.
Despite this, Greece remains in the minority and it is still seen to be better to be in the EU than not. From the original six countries there are now 28 and as it continues to grow; being a country outside the EU is increasingly politically and economically uncomfortable.
If European integration is so good, why then is Greece waiting at the door with its coat on? It could be argued that the aim of full integration has been filed under 'in progress' for too long and the time it is taking to reach the cherished land is leading to a loss of faith in the idea.
If the US has been a noble steed galloping over the horizon of economic recovery then Europe has been a camel lumbering behind like a horse designed by committee. The US started quantitative easing in 2008, a few months after the Lehman Brothers collapse, Europe announced its own quantitative easing this January. US unemployment has fallen to 5.5%, the European Union's is 9.8%.
Until there is a full integration of both the economic and political fronts and a streamlining of the burdensome bureaucracy, there will always be potential issues.
When the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957, the purpose was to enhance economic prosperity.
It was not until 1992 that we first saw mention of political elements, when the Maastricht Treaty was put together to prepare for the beginning of the Euro currency, which brought its own issues.
There is still much work to do but the final destination is still a fully integrated United States of Europe. Remember it was a bloody, war torn path before the USA emerged in 1776, so it would be wrong to think the path to the USE would be easy.
But there is still a long way to go before the European flag stops resembling a patchwork quilt.
Jeffrey Ball, Assistant director, Brewin Dolphin


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'The Dragon Prince' season 2 release date revealed at Anime Los Angeles
The Dragon Prince season 2 is coming surprisingly soon!
The animated series' second season will hit Netflix on Feb. 15, co-creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond announced today. The Dragon Prince season 2 will continue the adventures of the human princes Callum and Ezran, and their Elf companion/assassin Rayla, as they struggle to resolve an ancient divide between the human and magical kingdoms of Xadia.
Also, they have a baby dragon now. Does anyone know what those things eat?
According to Wonderstorm, the studio behind The Dragon Prince, Callum, Ezran, and Rayla's journey in the nine-episode second season "won't be easy: every step of the way, they'll be challenged by new foes and old friends alike. They'll struggle with trust and betrayal, face down vicious dragons, and be tempted by the lure of dark magic, all while protecting the newly-hatched Dragon Prince, Zym."
All in all, it looks like the stakes (which in season 1 involved the sacrifice of a parent, and a young mage challenged to choose her mission over her brother's life) will get even more intense in The Dragon Prince season 2. But we're sure there will be moments of fun along the way, like in the new image released for the season. Setting aside the rictuses of terror, don't they look like they're having fun?
The Dragon Prince season 2 dragons onto Netflix on Feb 15.


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LRADAC, the Project CARE Coalition, MADD South Carolina, and Richland School District Two's Parent Institute are hosting a Dinner and Dialogue event on Thursday June 22, 2017 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. to teach families about effective communication tools to help facilitate healthy family dialogue about youth substance use.
Families in attendance will hear from experts about youth substance use, participate in MADD's Power of Parents and Power of Youth trainings, and share experiences on communicating with youth and teens about alcohol and drug use. Parents will also take home a recipe book and written sample conversations starters to use at home.
The event will take place at the Richland Two Institute of Innovation at 763 Fashion Drive in Columbia. Families interested in attending the event can register at careconnectsdd.eventbrite.com.
LRADAC is the designated alcohol and drug abuse authority for Lexington and Richland Counties. The public, not-for-profit agency offers a wide array of prevention, intervention and treatment programs in locations convenient to residents of both counties. The agency has a budget of approximately $8 million and serves more than 4,500 clients per year. For more information on programs and services visit LRADAC's website at www.lradac.org.


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Hey, kittens!
It's the first Sunday of the month so here's what I plan to review in May.
Number of books: two
Genres: Adult, YA, NA, Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance, Straight Romance, LGBT Romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal
A lot of genres, I know, but that's because the first book is an anthology including sixteen stories from sixteen Wattpad authors.
SNOW – Stories of Forbidden Love
Kelly Anne Blount, Gabriela Cabezut, Megan DeVos, Rachel Meinke, Noelle N., M.C. Roman, Delilah Mae, Gavin Hetherington, Shaun Allan, Lindsey E. Lippincott, Lucy Rhodes, R. Diamond, Sarah Benson, J.M. Butler, Debra Goelz and Neilani Alejandrino
YA, NA, Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal
One cabin. Sixteen stories of forbidden love.
With an online audience of over one million combined followers, and hundreds of millions of reads on their stories, the SNOW anthology showcases talented Wattpad authors from around the globe.
Journey into the woods where you will discover a cabin surrounded by snow, filled with secrets…
The SNOW anthology features sixteen original novellas and novelettes in multiple genres, including Young Adult, New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal.
Don't wait for the snow to melt before you uncover these stories of love, loss, and self-discovery.
Stories included:
Back to Us by M. C. Roman
Whiteout by Sarah Benson
Tobacco & Pine by Lucy Rhodes
Red Snow by Debra Goelz
Fawn by Gavin Hetherington
Seeing Him Again by Delilah Mae
Of A Feather by Lindsey E. Lippincott
Through the Paintings Dimly by J. M. Butler
Chasing Jupiter by Rachel Meinke
Limbo by Noelle N.
Crash by Megan DeVos
Snowed In by Kelly Anne Blount
Unexpected Love by Gabriela Cabezut
Wings by Shaun Allan
Sober by R. Diamond
True Love's Kiss by Neilani Alejandrino
SNOW release date: Tuesday, May 09
My review will be posted on: Monday, May 08
The next book is an ARC I received and no, not by a wattpadder.
The Master Will Appear by L.A. Witt
Genres: LGBT Romance, BDSM
WARNING: Mature Content
Dr. Mikhail "Misha" Budnikov takes one look at fellow fencer Ryan O'Connor and instantly knows his type. The undisciplined hothead is all ego with no finesse and even less control. In short, Misha's pet peeves personified. To put the arrogant kid in check, Misha challenges him to a sparring match, which he predictably wins.
Not so predictably, Ryan asks him to be a mentor and show him how to fence. Startled by the moment of humility, Misha agrees.
What begins as fencing lessons becomes something much hotter, and before they know it, Misha is giving Ryan an entirely different kind of education. Dominance, submission, pain, pleasure—at the hands of an older, experienced man, a whole new world is opening up for Ryan.
As the trust deepens and their bond strengthens, though, Ryan retreats because that sham called love left him jaded long ago. Cynical beyond his years, he's not letting his guard down, least of all for a thrice-divorced man twice his age.
Now Misha has to find a way to crack through those defenses…or accept defeat and walk away from the submissive who might just be the love of his life.
The Master Will Appear release date: Tuesday, May 16
My review will be posted on: Sunday, May 14


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The Italian Volleyball Championship side Calzedonia Verona announced that they have reached an agreement with the U.S. Men's National Team member Garrett Muagututia for the current season.
This summer, the 31-year-old Muagututia competed in the FIVB Volleyball Nations League, in which he won the silver medal, and in the FIVB Intercontinental Qualifier, in which he helped his team earn a promotion to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The outside hitter came to Verona from the Greek vice-champions P.A.O.K.
Muagututia came as a replacement for his compatriot Thomas Jaeschke who dislocated his right shoulder in the 2019 FIVB World Cup match between the USA and Poland and will be sidelined for a long time. This will be the second season in a row which Jaeschke will not start from the beginning. Actually, he missed out entire last season after injuring his left knee in the 2018 FIVB Nations League.
Verona will not be Muagututia's first experience in Italy, but will be his first experience in the Italian top division. He played in Sieco Service Ortona in the 2012/13 season, in which the club competed in the second division.
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Investor Contact
Mike Stephens
SVP of Strategy, Finance & Investor Relations
(479) 471-2610
VAN BUREN, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--USA Truck, Inc. (NASDAQ:USAK), a leading capacity solutions provider headquartered in Van Buren, AR, today announced it will participate in the Stephens Fall Investment Conference in New York City on Wednesday, November 11, 2015.
The Company will participate in a "fireside chat" on Wednesday, November 11 at 8:00 AM ET and will also meet one-on-one with institutional investors during the day. USA Truck will be represented by President and CEO Tom Glaser and Executive Vice President and CFO Michael Borrows. The conference will be held at The New York Palace Hotel.
The Company's presentation will be webcast at http://wsw.com/webcast/stph25/usak, where it will be archived for 90 days. A replay of the presentation and USA Truck's slide presentation will also be archived for 90 days on our web site, www.usa-truck.com, under the "Events & Presentations" tab of the "Investor Relations" menu.
To obtain additional information about USA Truck's participation in the conference, please contact LHA.
About USA Truck
USA Truck is a capacity solutions provider of transportation and logistics services that include truckload, dedicated contract carriage, intermodal and brokerage spot market throughout the continental United States, Mexico and Canada.
This press release and related information will be available to interested parties at our web site, www.usa-truck.com, under the "Financial Releases" tab of the "Investor Relations" menu.
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All years: A request to update your blog.
This months 'Post With the Most' will be released this weekend so please make sure your blog is up to date and contains all of your current work. The Post With the Most is sent out across the world and is viewed by industry, having work ready online is the only way you can be included.
Year 3.
This weeks tutorials with Phil on Monday are mandatory. Pleae make sure you attend (10am -1pm).


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In video production, my strengths are research and writing. I'm okay with most other jobs on a project, but not voiceover; because, though my voice is clean and clear thanks to ten weeks of voice and diction lessons, it is also flat and lifeless. Except when I sing. Voila! Voiceover and other forms of narration are voice performances, like singing.
I began listening to audio books on CD while studying Chaucer in school. I didn't have a clue about how old English should sound, and we students had to memorize large passages from The Canterbury Tales for class and recite them to the professor for credit, so I needed help. The narrator on my Chaucer CD was a godsend, a relief from the nervous, stuttering voice in my head that made lines unintelligible.
Audio CDs were expensive then, so I didn't buy very many. But, a few years later, I started listening to more affordable, downloadable audio books; at first to give my eyes a rest from the 200+ page per day reading requirements in graduate-level literature classes; but later, because I was fascinated by the differences between how my mind voiced characters as I read, compared to how professional narrators voiced them.
It wasn't long before I began collecting audio books, and developing a list of favorite narrators, some with almost superhuman skills, for example, narrator Charles Keating performing Bernard Cornwell's Agincourt.
The more I listen, the more I learn – and practice – voice performance.


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POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously injured following a crash in Euxton this morning.
The accident happened shortly after 9am on Runshaw Lane when a Vauxhall Corsa collided with a Volvo that was travelling in the opposite direction. The Vauxhall then hit a tree on the offside of the carriageway.
The driver of the Vauxhall, a 23-year-old man from Morecambe, sustained serious injuries to his head and neck and was taken to Royal Preston Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.
PS Mick Young of the Road Policing Unit said: "An investigation into how this collision occurred is underway and I would urge anyone who witnessed the accident to come forward and contact us."
Anyone with information can contact the Road Policing Unit on 01772 209674 or Lancashire Police on 101 quoting LC-20150506-0243.
Alternatively, they can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at Crimestoppers-uk.org. No personal details are taken, information is not traced or recorded and you will not go to court.


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