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Toronto's waterfront, previously underused and unappreciated, is becoming a priceless public asset that is accessible to everyone.
We’re rethinking, reimagining and redefining what our waterfront can be. This is the largest urban revitalization project in North America. We are bringing together the most innovative approaches to sustainable development, urban design, real estate development, and leading technology infrastructure in order to deliver on important public goals, including reducing urban sprawl, developing sustainable communities, increasing the supply of affordable housing, expanding public transit and increasing economic competitiveness.
Our priorities are simple. We put people first and reconnect them with the waterfront. We emphasize parks and public spaces, and we design in a way that’s environmentally and economically sustainable.
Our approach is strategic revitalization as opposed to simple real estate development.
Revitalizing our waterfront represents an unparalleled opportunity to re-establish a positive, meaningful relationships with the lake and to transform these underused lands into vibrant public and cultural spaces for all Torontonians. At the same time, our waterfront is becoming a highly local environment featuring dynamic, sustainable, mixed-use neighbourhoods with strong connections to adjacent communities. The quality-of-life experience on the waterfront is drawing a new generation of employment to it, and is helping to guarantee that Toronto’s waterfront is recognized locally and internationally as a premier place in which to live, work, learn and play.
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From stormwater management to flood protection, Waterfront Toronto is creating next-generation infrastructure that adds value by future-proofing the city while optimizing form and function to serve multiple uses.
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From re-naturalizing the mouth of the Don River, to soil recycling, flood protection, improving Toronto’s urban forest, and restoring wetlands and wildlife habitats, Toronto’s waterfront will be an urban refuge and greener than ever.


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With Google Apps, you can easily organize, find, contact, and track information about all the people and groups you correspond with-both personal contacts and people in your organization. You can manage contacts in an online address book called the Contact Manager. And you can quickly find addresses when composing mail messages or setting up calendar events.
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If you don't have a Groups service, you’ll have to get the group address from the group's owner.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Glitzy IAPM Mall on Shanghai’s Huai Hai Zhonglu, one of the city’s two main shopping arterials, seems a strange place to start to delve into the city’s food culture.
Shanghai today is home to upscale global dining but search hard enough and you can still find local gems.
Glitzy IAPM Mall on Shanghai’s Huai Hai Zhonglu, one of the city’s two main shopping arterials, seems a strange place to start to delve into the city’s food culture. But as Lost Plate helps you discover, shadowing it a couple of blocks either side are hidden local eateries.
Shanghai for the late Anthony Bourdain meant two culinary obsessions, namely soup dumplings (xiaolongbao) and noodles. Unfortunately the famous Nanxiang version featured in Parts Unknown has succumbed to the tourist hordes. Instead Lost Plate takes you to a shop off Changle lu.
Behind a glass window a young chef dexterously wraps pork dumplings. “There are three important things with xiaolongbao. First the size – they should be bite size. Then there is the delicacy a good one has 20 pleats whereas many street vendor versions only have 10. Thirdly the soup should be light coloured. If it is dark they have added soy sauce and sugar because they are not confident of the taste” says Nick Zhang, guide and manager Lost Plate, Shanghai.
Xiaolongbao makes for an excellent appetiser until the next stop, one sure to have met with Bourdain’s approval. Ducking down a lilong (alleyway) of old shikumen buildings the tour enters the Yu family’s front room. Waiting on the lazy Susan are fried rice and a cold dish of cucumbers in sweetened vinegar. Soon they are joined by the piece de resistance glistening plates of sliced hongshaorou pork. Yu cooks the quintessential Shanghai dish the old way – a method that takes much of the day and where the sauce is added only at the end. The result is pork that melts in your mouth with little hint of all the fat of the cut. Strictly invite only the Yus, former government officials, first opened their home six years ago. Like with many old style buildings Mr Yu cooks in an open kitchen around the back.
Crossing Huai Hai Central Road the groups call in on what was one of the first private restaurants in Shanghai after China opened up. Run by the same family for over twenty years it looks as if not much has changed during that time, and why indeed change when the food is this good? Most of the tables are conversing in the local dialect and not only is the menu here in Chinese but you also have to write down your order making it near inaccessible for outsiders. Food is a modern interpretation of Shanghai style. There is marinated beef covering baby bok choy with a raw egg on top, morning glory (water spinach) with a fermented soybean sauce, and finally deep fried winter melon chips.

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I had the good fortune a few moments ago to dine at Armando al Pantheon, in Rome. Just steps from the Pantheon, Armando offers a paradise amidst a sea of mediocre and embarrassing tourist traps. As my friend Katie Parla has documented, restaurant culture in Rome has declined in the last decade, and it is harder and harder to eat well in the historic center of Rome. Armando feels like the most unlikely and precious of gifts.
Armando is a traditional Roman trattoria. That is, it is family run (multi-generational), small (about 30 seats), and traditional (mostly classic Roman dishes). By a stroke of great luck, it was the first place I ever ate in Rome, and I’ve been going back ever since. The kitchen at Armando is run by Claudio, while his brother Fabrizio runs the dining room, and what is most remarkable about Armando is that Claudio’s cooking is pitch perfect every time. In a city where even the best restaurants do some dishes better than others, Armando has a consistency which places it in a special class.
All good cooking, like most good things, is based on having good taste. This is the difference between a decent and a great string quartet performance, or a decent performance and great performance of a play. Good taste is hard or impossible to teach, but those that have the gift can perceive it. Tonight at Armando, I had one of the most classic and simple of Roman pastas: spaghetti all’ aglio, olio, e peperoncino (garlic, oil, and hot pepper). As I’ve written before, this is one of the most devilish sauces, because its minimal ingredient list requires everything to be perfect and balanced. At the center of successful cooking is proper seasoning with salt, the ability to draw out flavor from ingredients, but in a subtle and unobtrusive way, in a way that simply makes the ingredients taste more of themselves. This is this gift Claudio seems to have. Every bite of his cooking is full of character, but one never tires or wearies eating his cooking, as is the case in so many restaurants, particularly good ones in America. In America, so many chefs seem trained to produce flavors which are exciting for a few bites, but quickly make one weary through over-seasoning or lack of freshness. Others restaurants, such as the one I visited for lunch today, offer excellent dishes, but portion size is so overwhelming that the dishes can hardly be enjoyed through the end before weariness sets in.
This elusive quality of balance and taste is what we strive for at Old Tioga Farm, and dining at restaurants such as Armando inspires us to seek that same ideal. Great cooking is not at all about being a “celebrity chef”, but rather about the ability to be humble enough to make one’s cooking about honoring the integrity of high-quality ingredients.
As my friend Katie explained today, even many Romans have lost the taste for quality that is needed to appreciate Armando. If you find yourself in Rome, go to Armando. You might not speak Italian, you might not be Roman, you might show yourself immediately to be a tourist, but express delight in Claudio’s cooking, heap praise upon the wonderful dishes that come from his kitchen, and you’ll earn gratitude and appreciation from one of Rome’s finest restaurants.


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- The HP 1620 Gigabit Switch Series is an entry-level, smart-managed switch ideal for small businesses looking for basic network features to enhance network performance but without the added complexity and cost of more advanced switches. Part of the HP OfficeConnect portfolio, these switches are plug-and-play out of the box.
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Pakistan generally makes it to the headlines mostly due to wrong reasons nowadays. But behind all the geo-political turmoil, it has a rich tradition of culture, arts and music that generally goes unnoticed. Its actors and musicians have been working in the entertainment industry of neighbouring India for a long time. But what is lesser known is the new breed of contemporary artists who are making waves in the international circuit. More encouragingly, women have been at the forefront of this movement, which is no mean achieving in a highly conservative and patriarchal society. So, here is an attempt to introduce a few shining starts of the Pakistani art scene who are already well known in the western art scene and may achieve further glory in the future. They are not the only ones, but they should help you get acquainted with the scene.
Soraya Sikander: This versatile painter works on diverse mediums including ink painting, silkscreen paintings, woodblocks and oil canvases. She gained fame through her take on capitalism at the height of recession of 2008-2009. She uses her multi-cultural background as a motivation to promote tolerance and nonviolence through her art that uses natural colours and inspirations.

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General Motors has slowly retreated from unprofitable markets around the globe. Once an automaker that spanned nearly every corner of the world, GM largely focuses on North America and China today. And China auto sales could be in for a historic drop.
Bloomberg reported Friday that passenger-car purchases by dealerships declined 12 percent, which leaves the entire market up just 0.6 percent for the entire year. The figure is a stark contrast of years of intense growth, which has led to nearly every automaker investing millions to shore up their presence locally.
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said it sticks by its prediction that sales will still grow through the end of 2018. However, the escalating U.S.-China trade war has kept Chinese consumers out of dealerships as companies pass on price increases. The U.S. most recently levied another 10 percent duty on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. The country responded with a fresh round of tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods.
Many automakers have warned the Chinese market will likely hurt profits, and some have already begun idling plants to reduce inventories as demand for new cars slumps.
General Motors reported a 15 percent decrease in sales since the trade war began escalating this past July, and a slowing auto market comes as the automaker prepares for a variety of new electric cars in the market. GM will introduce 20 new electric cars by 2023, and although the company hasn’t confirmed where the cars will launch, China is ripe for an expanded EV portfolio. The government will begin enforcing electric-car quotas if automakers want to continue doing business in the country.
If China auto sales end the year with a slump, it would be the first contraction in the market since the 1990s.
Well, entering in a trade war with China and not delivering more electric cars is a good recipe to generate such a decline.
With the trade war, what is keeping this proud country from turning their own brands into legitimate contenders and saying good bye to GM for good?
The Koreans turned Hyundai, Kia from junk to respectable in little time, I’m guessing the Chinese could do the same and they wouldn’t even have to rely on the export market.
They are now focusing on their own market of 1.4 B people. 4 X the population of the US.
Auto sales down, double digits.
Trade deficit hits all-time monthly high in Sept ($34.1b) – China’s exports to the US were up 15% – US exports to China down 9%.
Seems the trade war is off to a rocky start.
didn’t one of the writers on this blog say that gm didn’t make that much money in china since they have to split the profits with their chinese partner?
if that is the case, this slowdown shouldn’t matter that much.
Except that it does matter a lot. The US being a zero growth market, GM’s future is totally focussed on Asia.
GM has invested billions in China and has transferred processes and technology to build the Chinese industry which will now compete against Western companies and put many out of business.
Ya – GM and SAIC do a 50/50 split. And the margins on Cadillac, I guess, aren’t as generous as they are in NAm.
No idea what the numbers are on the tariff situation. But whatever they are, it’s likely not good.
Ford got hammered, too. Minus 40%.
Ford is in really rough shape in China. War has erupted with their Chinese partner which is now seeking the help of the communist party. That can’t be good. Ford may be the first to leave China.
Reality check, China is a communist dictatorship and not a capitalist democracy. Sun Tzu, The Art of War is actually a manual in the art of deception.
Profits from China, (GM’s portion), have been around $2 billion per year. No doubt we will see continued monthly weakness until something is worked out on trade. Although, the Chinese Government could cut sales taxes on new vehicles from 10% to 5% or 0%, to help mitigate sales weakness, just like they did several years ago before increasing them back to 10%.
China is still a very big growth story, and 12%-15% sales weakness over the last quarter may not lead China into a true sales plummet.
This trade and tariff issues continue to increase pressure on both the U.S. and China. Ever increasing negative feedback from industry leaders is pressing Trump and Chairman Xi to go back to the negotiating table in November.
GM gone from Indian market for efficiency reason but they could still be present with a national dealer or distributor. The same for South Africa, Russia Europe and North Africa.


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The R&F Starter Kit takes the guesswork out of getting started with encaustic painting.
A beautiful, versatile, and durable medium, encaustics are a popular alternative to oil and acrylic paints. They can be modeled, layered, textured, sculpted, or combined with collage materials. No drying time required.
The Starter Kit includes five 40 ml (1.4 oz) R&F encaustic cakes in Cadmium Pale Green, Cadmium Yellow Light, Quinacridone Red, Titanium White, and Ultramarine Blue.

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Abstract : The nosology of migraine premonitory (PS) and resolution (RS) symptoms was studied in 100 migraineurs consulting their general physician. They were asked to fill in, for three attacks, a PS and RS questionnaire. 'True' PS/RS were those experienced the day before (or the day after) the headache had started only if they were not present in a questionnaire completed in a pain-free period.
True PS and RS were experienced by 84% and 80%, respectively, of subjects for the first attack. The mean and range (per patient) of PS were 6.8 and 0-21 and of RS 4.7 and 0-15. Anxiety, phonophobia, irritability, unhappiness and yawning were the commonest PS, whereas asthenia, tiredness, somnolence and concentration difficulties were the most common RS. Gender, age and Migraine Disability Assessment scores did not influence PS and RS.
Both PS and RS were more frequent in migraine with aura subjects. Patients on preventatives showed a decreased frequency of PS and, to a lesser degree, of RS. Severity of headache was associated with a higher frequency of RS. Individual RS and especially PS were quite consistent after three attacks. Almost two-thirds of the symptoms were noticed in at least two out of three attacks, while more than a half of PS and more than a quarter of RS repeated in three out of three attacks.
In conclusion, around 80% of unselected migraineurs experience RS and PS. Migraine with aura and severe pain are risk factors for experiencing PS and RS, while preventatives were protective, especially for PS.
Migraine is a frequent disorder characterized by attacks of unilateral, pulsating headache often accompanied by a constellation of non-headache symptoms, of which nausea, phono- and photophobia are an established part of the International Headache Society (IHS) criteria for migraine diagnosis. Leaving migraine aura aside, non-headache symptoms have been associated with the three stages of the attack: the premonitory symptoms (PS), the headache and the resolution symptoms (RS) phases.
Little attention has been paid to the variety of PS preceding the headache phase, while RS, though clinically recognized (9), remain almost unstudied. In the 1980s, Blau published the first results of a clinical assessment of the PS. He studied 50 patients who had only migraine without any additional symptoms, such as tension-type headache. He found that 17 patients had early PS, such as mood changes, somnolence, changed mental state, unusual appetite or fluid disregulations from 1 h to 1 day before the attack. He proposed the term 'complete migraine' for those migraine patients also experiencing PS. Isler has since 1970 evaluated the answers of 100 migraine patients to the specific queries about prodromes in his questionnaire. He found that 65 patients had mentioned prodromes which were different from focal aura symptoms, occurring from within minutes to within several days before the headache. In 1985, Waelkens described the characteristic warning symptoms in 49 selected migraine patients with 'complete migraine'. Fewer than 10% of his patients spontaneously reported the existence of PS symptoms. He distinguished evolutive symptoms appearing from a few minutes up to a few hours before the headache and including visual aura from the non-evolutive early warning symptoms beginning up to 48 h before the attack, which he found in 88% of his patients. A 30-mg dose of domperidone, but not an equivalent dose of cisapride, a nonantidopaminergic stimulant of gastrointestinal motility, taken at the first appearance of the PS prevented two-thirds of the attacks in a doubleblind, placebo-controlled crossover study. The question of whether PS accurately predict headache, with relevant implications in the pathophysiology and management of migraine, was addressed in 120 patients who reported PS that they believed predicted migraine headache in at least two out of three attacks. Using electronic diaries, patients correctly predicted 72% of migraine headaches (12). Finally, a retrospective review of the frequency of PS in 893 headache patients seen consecutively at a tertiary Headache Clinic showed that 39.2% of 627 IHS migraine patients had PS.
The heterogeneous studies reviewed above do not allow us to define the actual frequency of PS and especially of RS. In addition, it is far from clear how clinically to classify PS and RS and their nature and pattern. These vary considerably among the different studies regarding both the clinical pattern of these symptoms and their number, which has ranged from 59 to 21 potential PS. One crucial point is that many of these symptoms are experienced outside of the attacks and none of these studies has recorded the background to these symptoms interictally. As an example, estimates for fatigue in the general population are high, around 35%. [n the only study analysing migraine postctromes, a total of 255 RS were reported by 40 migraineurs who were asked to complete a questionnaire the day after the attack.
To sum up, the few studies which have examined PS and RS in migraine have been flawed for many methodological reasons, such as retrospective data collection, absence of diaries, scarcity of patients, heterogeneous classification or by the lack of interictal testing. Our study was undertaken to clarify the nosology of PS and RS in the standard migraine patient.
e recorded the background prevalence of these symp:1 toms interictally, which could be methodologically 10 compared to offering the results of a clinical trial t without taking into account a placebo arm. This approach turned out to be crucial when interpreting e the final results, as the frequency of some interictal symptoms was in fact relevant. As shown in Table 1, symptoms such as asthenia, fatigue, anxiety, speech difficulties, yawning or irritability were referred to by 15% or more of our patients in a headache-free period. The questionnaire, comprising 28 items (see Table 1), included the PS symptoms already and consistently described in the literature in migraine patients. In order to avoid repetition and to increase the clarity of results, we made an effort not to include: items with the same meaning (e.g. headache tension, headache tightness), anecdotal PS (e.g. irritated by collar, aversion from menstruation) or untrue PS (e.g. pain above the eyes, typical aura), which has been one of the reasons for the variability of the results among previous studies. Collection of exact information about migraine PS and RS, however, is complicated by different kinds of bias. Recording may be biased by the individual's difficulties in describing important characteristics, especially if the patient is confused or sleeps during the attack, and towards the more severe or recent episodes. The present data were collected using a complete and easy to answer questionnaire, but are limited by the memory of the participants. In this regard and to avoid including interictal and not true PS, we decided to consider PS/RS only those experienced by the patient the 24 h before/after the headache had started. Even though PS have been described several days before the headache phase, most PS have been shown to occur up to 24 h before the aura/headache phases appear (1-4). This was confirmed in the prospective electronic diary study, where most headaches were predicted within 24 h, in spite of a 72-h limit for PS (12).
This study shows that both PS and RS are very prevalent and numerous in migraine attacks. Even after discounting headache-free symptoms and considering the 24-h period, PS and RS were noticed in 84% and 80% of the attacks, respectively. The average was seven PS and five RS per migraine attack (1, 16). The prevalence of RS is largely unknown, while the prevalence of PS in previous studies has ranged from 7% to 88%, depending largely on study methodology (1-8, 12). Even though the symptoms were collected after 24 h and not exactly prospectively with electronic diaries, the high frequency of the symptoms found here probably reflects our improved methodology, with specific and immediate data collection, a clear and easy questionnaire and experienced together with personalized interview. Anxiety, phonophobia, irritability, unhappiness and yawning were the most common PS, being noticed in between almost one-half and more than one-third of the attacks, whereas asthenia and tiredness and, to a lesser degree, somnolence and concentration difficulties were the most common RS. We arbitrarily grouped the individual symptoms into four categories: neuropsychiatric (encompassing 'pure' psychiatric symptoms), sensory (symptoms due to 'neurological' hypersensitivity), digestive and general. Neuropsychiatric (82%) were the most frequent PS, while general (69%) were the most frequent RS.
habituation which increases continuously during the migraine interval until sudden normalization on the first day of the attack. Other studies have shown an increase in early contingent negative variation amplitude the day before an attack which is associated with changes in EEG power spectrum from 4 days before the attack. This increasing interictal abnormality in cortical hyperexcitability may reflect a neurophysiological readiness to generate an attack and an increasing susceptibility of the migrainous brain to precipitating factors. A further study has shown normalization of visual and auditory evoked potentials just before and during migraine attacks compared with interictally, which may represent the brain's attempt to abort the impending attacks by activation of appropriate sensory-modulating systems.
Individual RS, and especially PS, were quite consistent after three attacks. Almost two-thirds of the symptoms were noticed in at least two out of the three attacks, while more than one-half and a quarter of PS and RS, respectively, repeated in three out of three attacks. This high consistency agrees with previous data obtained in more selected migraine patients and may allow us to investigate in more detail the therapeutic potential for the management of migraine in the premonitory phase. Non-randomized trials have suggested that naratriptan and dopamine antagonists may be effective in preventing the development of migraine attacks when given during the PS phase. There is also evidence that the dopamine antagonist domperidone can prevent migraine, but only if taken at least 6 h before the expected attack. The type of symptoms reported may also give us some insight into migraine pathophysiology. For example, excessive yawning, which is associated with dopamine release, was one of the most common and consistent PS, which again suggests that dopaminergic mechanisms, possibly involving brainstem nuclei, may play a role in the premonitory phase.
With regard to the influence of clinical and demographic variables, gender, age, severity of headache and MIDAS scores did not clearly influence the frequency or the profile of PS. Even though the global numbers were not significant due to the low proportion of aura attacks in this series, migraine with aura patients experienced more PS and RS than migraine without aura patients. Interestingly, the individual symptoms which were significantly more frequent in migraine with aura patients were those usually associated with the headache phase, such as nausea and phono- and photophobia, raising the question as to when 'headache phase' really begins. Other authors have noticed that some patients added voluntarily 'headache of different quality or severity' as a PS although they had been instructed to record only non-headache symptoms. They considered that headache evolves from the PS phase over a variable period, with full-blown migraine headache finally developing when a critical physiological threshold is reached. It seems logical to propose that patients with migraine with aura attacks experience more relevant CNS changes and cross this physiological threshold more easily and intensely compared with migraine without aura subjects. Future studies with a greater and more balanced number of migraine with and without aura patients are therefore necessary. Of interest is the finding that patients on preventatives showed a significantly decreased frequency of PS, and to a lesser degree of RS, compared with those not on these medications. This suggests that preventatives, known to reduce the frequency and sometimes the intensity of the headache phase, are also able to reduce the non-headache symptoms and that these medications can reduce in some way the CNS activation occurring before the headache phase. In line with this, the use of preventatives has been shown to revert the increased intensity dependence of auditory evoked potentials seen in migraineurs. Finally, severity of headache was significantly associated with a higher frequency of RS, which suggests that, together with specific nonheadache symptoms beginning before and remaining after the headache through to the resolution phase, at least some of the RS may be non-specific transient sequels of a severe, full-blown migraine attack.

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Broward County Public Schools students will get a chance to help decide new cafeteria menu items for next school year. Students from Riverland Elementary School and Crystal Lake Middle School will participate in the District’s Food and Nutrition Services Annual Food Show on Friday, December 9, 2016, at Pompano Beach High School.
The student food critics will sample as many as 25 potential menu items and share instant feedback on iPads located at each food taste test station. The most popular items will become potential selections for meals served next school year in cafeterias across the District.
The Food Show will also include cooking demonstrations by Celebrity Chef Rudy Poindexter, who will show students how to prepare nutritious and delicious meals at home. Chef Poindexter will reveal that healthy meals can be tasty and easy to prepare. Students will sample recipes, such as Santa Fe chicken salad, pasta with a twist and roasted butternut squash.
Some of last year’s Food Show standouts and current menu favorites include chicken n’ waffle bites, boneless wings, chicken sliders, ham and cheese on an Hawaiian roll, spicy sweet potato fries, and Greek strawberry yogurt and mango swirl.
“Committed to educating all students to reach their highest potential.” Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) is the sixth largest school district in the nation and the second largest in the state of Florida. BCPS is Florida’s first fully accredited school system since 1962. BCPS has over 271,000 students and approximately 175,000 adult students in 236 schools, centers and technical colleges, and 101 charter schools. BCPS serves a diverse student population, with students representing 208 different countries and 181 different languages. To learn more, visit browardschools.com. Follow BCPS on Twitter @browardschools and Facebook at facebook.com/browardschools, and download the free BCPS mobile app.

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A group of prominent Italian privacy advocates and jurists have launched the Italian Institute for Privacy (www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/en/), a public policy think tank focused on improving privacy protection in the digital age. This broad-based coalition of prominent Italians will focus its efforts on the protection of personal privacy online for citizens in Italy and throughout Europe.
Protection of personal privacy and data online is a growing problem that will challenge European policy-makers. Implementation of an appropriate legislative and regulatory framework that is pro-consumer, transparent and allows for customer control is an important first step in the protection of privacy.
Recent actions by the Italian Government demonstrate that steps must be taken to protect online data. The government's release of the tax returns of Italian citizens is just one example of a large-scale breach of privacy.
"It is quite scary that citizens can suddenly have their personal data displayed online for everyone to see," said Luca Bolognini, spokesman for The Italian Institute for Privacy. "The government's decision to make private financial information about every Italian citizen available to the general public was a fundamental breach of trust. This extreme action shows how vigilant we citizens must be in defense of our basic right to privacy."
Protecting personal data online transcends across all of Europe, not just Italy. As the internet grows it offers new and innovative services to online users. While these innovations are exciting, they also pose significant risks to consumers. It is the obligation of ISPs and content providers to ensure that privacy protections are in place and that users are able to make informed decisions about their participation in online services.
Recently, the Article 29 Working Party, composed of Data Protection Authorities of the EU Member States and chaired by the European Commission, issued a landmark report that recommended that the storage length of personal data that can be reasonably justified by search engines be limited to no more than six months. Internet search providers and content providers must disclose their data collection, retention and privacy policies upfront.
"The Institute believes it will be imperative for European policy makers, especially those in Brussels, to ensure appropriate action is taken to protect people's privacy online," said Bolognini.
The Italian Privacy Institute, based in Rome, works to ensure that Italian and European Internet users are properly protected against invasions of their personal privacy. We conduct our analyses and formulate our policy proposals based on the following principles: Privacy is a basic human right. Without privacy, citizens are not fully free to search for information, conduct business, and participate in the public debate online; The Internet industry (i.e. service providers, search engines, and others) has a responsibility to ensure the privacy of their customers; Governments have a responsibility to ensure the privacy of its citizens, including properly safeguarding personal information in public databases; and Governments should not be able to infringe on privacy without proper cause and due process. To learn more about The Italian Institute for Privacy, visit www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/en/.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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As the spring of 2014 approaches or is already upon us (depending on when you are reading this) it is time to start thinking about what you want done to your lawn for this year. First off when the snow has all melted and you can get a better view of your lawn, you may want to give it a quick assessment. Are there any bare or thinned out areas in the lawn? was there any insect damage you noticed that started last fall eg. Grubs that may still be there and has it gotten any worse? how compacted is your soil? some of these questions may not be answered until the soil temps begin to rise and your grass starts to green up a little. In parts of eastern Ontario grubs still continue to be an ongoing problem. Nematode applications should be high on your list for late August or September. Here are a few important services that we can provide to help your lawn maintain it’s health and vigour for the year. Call us any time for your free estimate and lawn assessment. Also ask us about our new seed and feed service that will help thicken your turf this spring.
after a spring clean up applying soil and seed may be the first thing you want to do when soil temperatures begin to rise.
a good seed starter is also recommended after seeding is done.
remember to water your seed on a regular basis to ensure good germination.
Fertilization once you have managed to fix you damaged areas. Start a good fertilizing program as soon as possible. weed control In May when weeds begin to prevail. Applying a weed control product may be necessary to help combat many weeds in your lawn. Remember that for best results with a herbicide applying the product in cooler temperatures help to ensure better results. Spring Aeration If your lawn has a significant compaction problem. Aerating your lawn may be a good idea. Aerating your lawn spring or fall is a good yearly practice to get into the habit of doing anyway.


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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Phil Hester, our Senior Vice President of R&D. Phil was a valued friend and colleague and will be greatly missed. Phil is survived by wife, Joan; son, Will; and his mother and father.
As Senior Vice President of R&D at National Instruments, Phil Hester strategically guided and advised his growing worldwide research and development team on innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction with NI products and services.
Recognized as an “Outstanding Young Alumnus” by the University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering, Hester held more than 10 patents related to microprocessor architecture, memory controllers, and microprocessor testability and served as the director for ON Semiconductor where he also chaired the Science and Technology Committee. He also served on the Engineering Advisory Board at the UT Austin Cockrell School of Engineering.
Prior to joining NI in 2009, Hester served as the senior vice president and chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and chief technology officer and vice president of systems and technology for the PC division of IBM.
Hester held a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.


text: Fluff up your room with this luxurious modern throw pillow. The front fabric of this chic throw pillow for couch is polyester in Taupe color; origin: China back fabric color: tan invisible zipper for a tailored look pillow insert: down alternative polyfill (included) available in different sizes, single sided or double sided. Handmade in USA.


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Jin, you said you want to talk so I made this post.
Thanks Fiona! Soo.. now what?
Ooo!! Another friend!!! Ugh. Stop being so cheery. Stop being so dark!! Sorry. They are my dark side, and cheery side. I barely use my cheery side. But it is good to see you, Bracha.
I have a question, I know this is silly but I really want to know what you look like. I have long blond hair and blueish-greenish eyes.
It's not silly. I have black hair a little below shoulder length and brown eyes.
Wow. That's actually kind of what I thought.
Really? Wow. I kinda though you had blue or green eyes. I just messed up on the hair.
Cool, I got the eyes right and I thought you would have black or brown hair.
Heloooo!!!! More friends to help take over the world!!!!!!!!!!
Ughhhh.... Nova go away! Sorry you had to see hat jin, that's just mah flipside supernova/nova.
She was given this idea on the SAMB to take over the "world".
Wait wha are those pokey things??
I know that this is silly but I can all of you come to http://doublecross.scholastic.com/forums/topics/330471 and tell me something. I want to know if I should drop the RP and just make a book out of it because I have always wanted to base a book on the Forbidden Island game but I thought it would be a fun RP or; keep the RP. I know this is silly but I want to know.
Lizzy (What should I call you?), hi! Good to see you again! I haven't seen you on The New Generation a lot. How are you? Fiona, you can do both.
Hi jin!!!! Long time no see! Sorry.... i have been becoming more active on the SAMB because this one is cough cough dieing cough cough, and i dont really care what u call me, I am known on the SAMB more as stardust tho.
Jin, (if you're here any more). Remember Lewis, the guy who said he wanted to date you. All his posts are gone, did that happen to you or is my computer crazy?
Oh Jin I inagine the right hair but with green eyes.... Yeah Lizzy I haven't spoken to you in a while. Are you finishing The Dreamers? I have long dirty (but clean) blond hair and deep blue, sometimes green, eyes.
Wow, you have dirty blond hair and blue eyes?! I thought you would have brown hair and definitely not blue eyes!
Fiona, your computer's not crazy. I think it happened because I reported him abuse.
Bracha, I wish I had green eyes.
Hey. I found out something and I wanted to tell you guys. So I took a test and it was called "What should your name really be?" and it said my name was supposed to be Violet. Then, a few days later, I ask my dad what my name means, (it's a chinese name. Hsiangjin, if you want to know. Pronounced shiangjin) and he says it means lucky violet. So guess what? My name is Violet!
That's so cool! Fiona, I guess you thought of me as Krystal, but I just made her up based on nothing.
jin~ long time no see. you saved my life and i will return the favor. someday. when I leave Russia And go to NC to meet you again. its been 3 years!
Athena, what are you talking about?
he he hi me is bored and not using any known form of grammar.
Oops, I meant Bracha reminds my of Lucy, not Jin.
Please post more.... I like to think I remind you of a cat, no sarcasm.
Meow. Hello! I know that you are busy, but... I've recently made an RP, and no one has joined. I'm hoping that you guys can join. it's name isn't original, it is called, "the 39 Clues, Vespers RP". Could you Jin, Bracha, and everyone else, please join my RP!
Jin, do you want to make an RP/story that's private just for us/we write together? Just an idea.
Fiona, yes, we can! I was thinking about that.
Story or RP, story means we have the plot planned out but we write it together RP means we make it up as we go.
Sorry, I don't like RPs.
What do you think? Planning it might be hard, because we aren't able to go to each others houses.
I'll make a planning thread.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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I’ve been thinking about gender differences in Standers. We can learn from each other. My thoughts began a bit unfairly. I was thinking how male Standers seem to handle the crisis well. Not all, I’ve dealt with my share of angry male Standers who insisted on clinging to their anger until it infected them with hatred and rage. But there are skills and practiced-conditions within each gender that are beneficial to all of us. Presently the forum population is 25% men. Women may initiate the majority of divorces, but some of those are not the instigators of the divorce and women are more likely to join a support-group type of community and are probably more likely to consider being Standers. Women cope with the turmoil of the crisis by coming together, whereas men have a greater tendency to withdraw and may be more hesitant to participate.
I frequently read new men commenting about how amazed they are about you ladies, how they are amazed at our strength and convictions and how they doubt they could do what we are doing or have done. But to the guys: I am often amazed out how quickly you pick up on Self-Focus and what to do—faster than a lot of the women. Oh, everyone goes through the initial panic and anxiety and the feeling that the situation is hopeless. That is normal. But you have advantages too.
So what attributes common to each gender can help everyone? I’m really just brainstorming and guessing with this post. It’s meant as a conversation starter, not answers, so talk about these differences, your thoughts and how you men can help the women and how we women can help the men.
Women are relationship-oriented, creating bonds through shared experiences. Woman also tend to share intimate details of their lives as a part of relationship building. In teams and leaderships roles they are group and team-oriented toward equality.
Men are competitive and hierarchical. Rather than sharing intimate details, they compare experiences, often bigger, better, faster… They build relationships through active experience—completing tasks together.
Now please understand these are all generalizations and stereotypes. Some women will have more male attributes and some men will have more female attributes.
Men may have an easier time with GAL. Some of the differences are based on culture and experience. Women are more likely than men to stay at home to care for children, while men work outside of the home. Both men and women may lose themselves in their roles. Women often lose themselves in their familial roles and men in their professional or career roles. In the circumstances of being a Stander there is a greater disadvantage to losing one’s Self in the familial roles. For many, work is a part of Getting a Life. Men already leave the home 5 days a week. Even when a woman works, she may still do a disproportionate amount of the household and childcare duties. Being relationship-oriented exacerbates this disadvantage.
So men: what advice can you give to the women about Getting a Life? What can we learn from you—your actions as well as your attitudes?
How is being task and goal-oriented advantageous and how can the rest of us incorporate that to our benefit?
Some people may misinterpret men and women by thinking men are solution-oriented and women problem-oriented. No. We have different ways of solving problems. As I said above, men are task-oriented. That means action! They make a goal and work to achieve it, so get going. Women want to solve the problem too, but we see understanding as a means to a solution. It is less direct and thus seems as though it is problem-focused because we first seek to understand the why’s.
Men ask why too, but often I find they are screaming the question to God or the universe—why me—rather than seeking to answer the question. Those who do not eventually seek to understand risk outward depression in the form of anger advancing to rage. The women who fall into this trap fall into an inward pity party of depression and may risk the doormat.
So women: what advice can you give to men about empathy and understanding? Why is it important? What are the hazards? How is being relationship-oriented advantageous and how can the men—and others—learn to relate emotionally rather than competitively?
Both GAL and Understanding are components of detachment. Both men and women struggle with that the most, but if we pool our skills, we can help each other.


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They will be welcomed by gentle waters and rolling surf.
Anticipate larger than life encounters.
The shores hugging the Cabot Trail are teeming with sea life and present one of the best locations in Nova Scotia to experience a close encounter. Cape Breton’s whale watching captains bring you in close so you can say hello to the Atlantic Ocean’s gentle giants: pods of friendly Pilot and Minke whales, great Humpbacks and Finbacks, as well as dolphins, porpoises, seals and many other marine wildlife.
Cape Breton has some of the best coastline in the world and a great way to explore it is by canoe or kayak, allowing you to sit as close as one can to the water, giving you an intimate and engaging experience with your surroundings. Our tour operators offer guided excursions, lessons and rentals in several locations across the island.
Take a dip in the western shores of Cape Breton where you can swim in the warm, salty waters of the Gulf, beachcomb, and enjoy a front row seat to some of the most picturesque sunsets. Local favorites include Port Hood Beach, Inverness Beach, West Mabou Beach, and Chimney Corner Beach. On the south coast, Point Michaud Beach is a renowned beach ideal for surfing.
Tie a fly and cast for wild Atlantic salmon on the Margaree River. Just minutes from the Cabot Trail, The Margaree Valley is known as a world class fly fishing destination with many seasoned tour guides. Other notable fishing holes exist in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park which offers recreational fishing opportunities, in season, on its many lakes and streams.

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While the international community and Colombian citizens applaud efforts to end the country’s conflict with the FARC guerrilla group, another part of the country continues to suffer the consequences of war.
Colombia's second largest rebel group, the ELN (National Liberation Army), called a four-day national strike that it threatened to enforce at gunpoint. CCTV America's Michelle Begue has more.
Around 54,000 Colombian children in eastern Colombia couldn’t attend school this week, because they had no way to get there. Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, called a four-day national strike that it threatened to enforce at gunpoint.
Citizens across four provinces were not allowed to use public transport or conduct business. Those who wanted to use their own vehicles risked having them confiscated and burned.
The Colombian armed forces have been airlifting to nearby cities patients who need urgent care such as kidney dialysis.
The ELN, which stands for National Liberation Army, was formed in 1964. Government estimates say that the group only has 1,300 rebel members.
But one analyst said ELN fighters have great control over certain parts of the country because they are deeply embedded in those communities.
Some speculate that the ELN violence is a strategy to increase the guerilla’s leverage during peace negotiations with President Juan Manuel Santos. Talks were announced back in 2014 but have not yet materialized.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Who doesn’t love a good soak! It’s the perfect way to unwind, relax, and destress. That’s why I made this DIY Floral Milk Bath Soaks Set. These ingredients are nourishing and will help your skin feel great. They are also remarkably pretty. So pretty in fact that they make a lovely gift!
This DIY Floral Milk Bath Soaks Set is the type of bath soak that you could leave in your guest room as a little surprise. Each one is just a little bit different but they all fit together in such a fun way. They are also Etsy perfect and totally sellable beauty products. They just require a few simple materials to make them! So let’s do it!
First prep all your glass jars by making sure they are clean, dry, and remove the lids. Start by adding your epsom salt to the jars. For every 1 part of epsom salt, use 2 parts of powdered milk. You can make the DIY Floral Milk Bath Soaks Set one at a time or all together. I started with the Rose + Heather Flowers.
After adding the epsom salt, sprinkle with a sprig of heather flowers. Then spoon in a touch of the powdered milk and give it a little mix. Before the jar is completely full, add your rose essential oil and then top off with powdered milk and epsom salt until full.
I used tiny jars – so I only needed about 5 drops of essential oil. You can add as much as you would like. If you like it strong, add a lot! If you like something neutral – just add a few drops.
Once all of your ingredients have been added, mix them together by giving the jar a little twist!
I repeated that process for the next two scents. First, add 1 part epsom salt. Then add a sprig of dried hibiscus in one. And I added dried chrysanthemum in the other. Next, add just a touch of powdered milk. I added geranium essential oil to the jar with the hibiscus and ylang ylang to the jar with the chrysanthemum. Now, just fill with powdered milk and epsom salt and twist to blend.
You can even top your jars off with a little extra flowers and essential oils! What’s great about this DIY Floral Milk Bath Soaks Set is that the ingredients do not need to be perfect! Adding a little extra dried flowers is a great touch to make them so pretty.
Milk baths are so relaxing and healing for your skin! Lactic acid provides a gentle exfoliation so your skin will come out nice and smooth. Epsom salt is great for skin health too and helps tired muscles feel great.
The essential oils have lots of benefits too. If you just can’t get enough Essential Oil Recipes here are some of my favorites! And we made these Bath Soak Recipes into a Pinterest Perfect printable chart!
So what are you going to do with your Floral Bath Soaks? Use them yourself or give them as a gift? Tell us what you thought of this recipe in the comments.


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Upbeat on their maiden housing project in Cavite, property developer Century Properties Group Inc. (CPG) and Mitsubishi Corp. signed on Wednesday a deal to create a new joint venture corporation that will bring to the property market around P57 billion worth of affordable homes in the next five years.
Seeking to cover part of the country’s huge backlog of 6.6 million housing units, the new venture plans to launch about 15 new housing projects equivalent to around 33,000 housing units within the next five years. Each unit will be priced between the P1 million and P6 million range, targeting middle-income first time homebuyers.
The joint venture company, to be named Phirst Park Homes Inc., will be incorporated after the joint venture agreement has secured clearance from the Philippine Competition Commission. The projects will be launched in key locations outside of Metro Manila under a new brand called PHirst Park Homes.
Capital expenditures for the first five years are estimated at around P10 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, CPG will subscribe to 60 percent and Mitsubishi to 40 percent of the authorized capital stock equivalent to P5 billion over the same five-year horizon.
From a return on equity point of view, deepening their affordable housing partnership is seen beneficial for both CPG and Mitsubishi because of the faster turnaround time and higher margins from this type of development compared to high-rise residential developments.
“Our joint venture partnership with Mitsubishi Corp. solidifies Century’s plans of diversification and strengthens its positioning not just in the affordable housing category, but in the broader first home buyer market. We thank Mitsubishi for its continued trust and confidence in Century Properties. Our relationship has certainly been fruitful to date with our two projects with them – both for the office building in Century City, and in Tanza, Cavite to date. It is but natural to take it to the next level,” said Century Properties chair Jose E.B. Antonio.
“The big housing demand, coupled by the natural and good chemistry between Century Properties and Mitsubishi Corp., led us to a great milestone today – the signing of an agreement to form a joint venture company for affordable housing. This is not just for one project but for a long-term relationship that will make significant contributions in addressing the housing backlog in the Philippines,” said Mitsubishi general manager of ASEAN Urban Development Department Hidetoshi Suzuki.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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Your mattress can negatively affect your quality of sleep as it ages, and when that is the case, it is probably time for a new one.
Your mattress can negatively affect your quality of sleep as it ages, and when that is the case, it is probably time for a new one. There are some general guidelines for when to replace mattresses, but since mattresses are so widely varied, they can last anywhere from 5-10 years before it is time for you to replace it.
There are several ways that you can determine whether your mattress is in need of replacement.
*Sagging in a specific spot on the mattress. Usually this is remedied by frequent rotating and turning of the mattress, but it does still occur naturally over time regardless.
*Ability to feel the springs. In an innerspring mattress, you should not be able to feel the individual springs when you sit or lie down on the bed. If you can, it means that either the coils are deteriorating, or that the layer above the coils is deteriorating.
*Inability to sleep comfortably. Although you might think that stress or other factors are causing your discomfort while you sleep at night, the culprit might actually be your mattress. If you have noticed that you are not sleeping as restfully as you once did, it is time to start shopping around for a new mattress. Chances are that you will need to look at an entirely new one as well, as people’s comfort needs can change over time.
*The mattress is coming apart. Whenever you change the sheets, take note of the mattress’s condition. If it is a regular innerspring mattress, check all sides to make sure there are no tears along the seams.
Because mattress deterioration takes place gradually, it can be difficult to detect these changes immediately, because some of these changes might have simply been things you have gotten used to over time. However, if you have had your mattress for over five years, it might be time to start looking for another one if any of the aforementioned changes apply to it.
Everyone can appreciate a bargain, but then again, there is the old saying “you get what you pay for.” When it comes to getting a good night’s sleep, it is never a good idea to cut corners. However, there are always good deals to be had on mattresses – the important thing is differentiating between what is a good deal and the many other cheap mattresses on sale.
Thanks to the Internet, people can find user reviews on just about any product on the planet. However, people usually only write about products they feel passionately about – either good or bad. Regardless of the product’s overall quality, you will probably find some scathing reviews for just about every mattress on the market. You will know a good or bad mattress, though, when you read enough reviews that start to echo one another.
Once you have found some mattresses within your budget that have favorable reviews, it is time to test out those mattresses at a store. While there are plenty of mattresses available online, a good idea is to try out the exact model at a mattress store, even if you plan on coming back online to purchase it.
Finally, mattress retailers are always having sales. When possible, try to buy a mattress that is on sale rather than one that is cheaper to begin with. Better mattresses use higher quality of materials and craftsmanship and are therefore worth more than those that are mass manufactured or made with lower quality materials. Although a cheaper mattress might be a viable solution for a guest bedroom that is rarely used, it is important to invest in a better mattress for your own room, since this is where you will be sleeping every night for the next five to ten years.
Overall, there are always plenty of deals available on mattresses. The key to distinguishing between a good deal and a cheap mattress, however, is to do the research and shop around until you can find one with a solid reputation.
Decide on your priorities, i.e. style of bed, storage, size, the larger the better, access to the room and price .
Try and lay on a selection of beds with your partner.
Give yourself plenty of time, try laying on your side, back etc.
Remember a supportive bed is what most people need. To firm or to soft is not ideal.
When the bed is delivered give your body time to adjust to the new bed. It will take time, but soon you will feel the benefits.
Still confused? The Sleep Council has an excellent Guide on Bed Buying or you can visit www.bedcentre.co.uk online and choose from a wide range of top brands.


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Companion Pet Rescue partners with rural animal shelters like the one I volunteer with to help us meet the needs of our community. We are a small organization made up primarily of volunteers and a few people who are really so poorly paid they are practically volunteers, and our entire operating budget comes from donations and fundraisers. We are bombarded daily with animals that are a victim of circumstance. They happened to be born in the rural south where altering dogs or keeping them on heartworm prevention is not as common as it should be. Often people can’t afford to take themselves to see a doctor when they are sick much less for routine check-ups, so it is unsurprising that a disheartening number of animals here don’t receive regular vet care. None of this is because people are terrible or don’t love their dogs, and this is certainly not applicable to every pet owner in the south, but it is to a large degree a situation that is a product of economics and people just doing what everyone has always done.
Our humane society tries to rehome adult dogs, cats, and kittens, we offer low cost spay and neuter to the community, and we do our best to help our community do right for their pets. Volunteering can be very difficult and sometimes pretty heartbreaking. We get dogs that are dumped, emaciated, ill, injured, crawling with fleas, full of parasites, you name it. It can be really hard to deal with all of this on a regular basis. But, volunteering can also be the best. My favorite role as a volunteer is coordinating to send our dogs and puppies with CPR. We have partnered with CPR to send many of our fantastic, adoptable dogs to New England adopters along with all of our puppies to help reduce the number of excess companion animals in our area. Almost every Tuesday morning I drive an hour each way to take puppies and dogs to the vet clinic for their health certificates so they can start their trip to New England with CPR. We send hundreds of puppies and up to a hundred adult dogs annually with CPR.
Cutie pants Holland ended up at a local, open intake shelter and we pulled her to avoid her being euthanized….and now she is definitely living her best life with her incredible mom.
We are very fortunate that CPR takes many special needs dogs and puppies and places them as well. Lila and Lola are two hearing impaired puppies that are now living the good life up north.Lila’s adopters were so awesome they returned and adopted another dog who came from us and they are bff’s now.
And sweet, hearing impaired Clio, who also has light sensitivity, now has an amazing family of her own and takes better vacations than I do.
And Chance, another deaf dog, now lives on a campus with his mom and furry sister.
Beautiful Stella has gone from being abandoned when her people moved out to hiking with her mom on vacation.
Athena is a special needs dog. She and her litter mates were part of a cruelty case and she has lasting physical effects that will require care for the duration of her life. And still…she was adopted and is so loved.
Marley’s litter broke with parvo and somehow all survived. She was smaller than the rest and was a sweet little baby. Now she is beautiful and has a wonderful mom!
Kara was surrendered with her litter of pups after being dumped. She is now super spoiled!
Paris was unwanted in Tennessee and now works in a first grade classroom with her mom as a certified therapy dog.
Sweet, old Brody was surrendered when his owner became very ill and is now a much loved family member.
There are so many other great stories like these and I am thankful to be able to play a part in getting these dogs to their new families. This partnership is incredibly important to our little shelter but for me it is also personally the most rewarding thing about volunteering. I get to be a part of this network that has developed between us working down here in Tennessee, the incredible CPR fosters and volunteers in New England, and CPR adopters. CPR has created a huge, extended family and I am so happy that I am able to be a part of it. There is nothing better than seeing these dogs get the lives they deserve and having the pleasure of working with other people who are so passionate about improving the lives of these dogs.
So here is my shameless pitch…if you want to be a part of this and volunteer some free time doing something wonderful …..join our family. Foster, volunteer, adopt! I promise you will not regret it.


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Want to Play the Palos Verdes Real Estate Pricing Game?
It’s Friday, and I’m in the mood to have a little fun with my real estate blog writing exercise. As I pondered what luxury real estate topic to tackle today, I decided it would be fun to review the most expensive listings for sale on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Since I needed to narrow the field, I selected $9,000,000 as the low end starting price range. That search yielded eight Palos Verdes properties, six in Palos Verdes Estates and two in Rolling Hills.
Location matters, and it’s established Palos Verdes Estates is the frontrunner with Rolling Hills a distant second. Now to move on to how price and value match up on Palos Verdes’ priciest listings. I like to play with numbers (I’m a big Sudoku fan), but it may be even more fun to figure out the methods and accuracy of pricing real estate in Palos Verdes. For this exercise, I’ll give the MLS price followed by Zillow’s (since most sellers like to check that site) and lastly the Los Angles County Tax Assessor’s value. It should be a hoot to see how these three match up and agree or disagree.
1 Buggy Whip Dr. Rolling Hills: MLS–$40,000,000. Zillow–$24,747,368. Tax Assessor–No value given.
705 Via La Cuesta, Palos Verdes Estates: MLS–$15,999,000. Zillow–$16,737,086. Tax Assessor’s High Value–$9,024,791.
1508 Paseo La Cresta, Palos Verdes Estates: MLS–$14,900,000; projected value. Zillow–No value given. Tax Assessor’s High Value–vacant land; no value given.
2228 Via Cerritos, Palos Verdes Estates: MLS–$9,999,000. Zillow–$9,585,538. Tax Assessor’s High Value–$9,039,468.
609 Paseo Del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates: MLS–$9,500,000. Zillow–$8,236,852. Tax Assessor’s High Value–$9,310,855.
1816 Paseo Del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates: MLS–$9,500,000. Zillow–$7,552,456. Tax Assessor–No value given (shows as a vacant lot).
3 Appaloosa Lane, Rolling Hills: MLS–$9,350,000. Zillow–$5,839,951. Tax Assessor’s High Value–$8,940,184.
Obviously, number crunching does not take into consideration the value of condition and view. Some of these properties have panoramic views or even bluff front lots at the ocean’s edge. The importance of having a “feet on the ground” real estate agent working for you is apparent since they do know the interior condition, the landscaping, schools, and the neighborhood nuances. A robot reading sales and averaging price per sq. ft. simply does not have the “eyeball” experience a local agent possesses. Hence, the vast discrepancies between the low price and high price when comparing these three valuation methods.
Days on the market is another “tell” when it comes to real estate values. Too many days on the market is a red flag indicating the property may be optimistically priced. The eight properties referenced above have cumulative days on market total of a whopping 4,137 days with an average of 517 days on the market. Sometimes pricing leads the market to higher levels, but sometimes an overpriced property will languish unsold until the market catches up or the property price is aligned with market value. Since buyers for homes in the upper price range are not as plentiful, a seller may be content waiting for the right buyer to come along. Therefore, seller motivation is another “tell” in the game of real estate.
Real estate is a numbers game, but it also requires the art of knowing local values, housing trends, and the ability to place a value on view, and the benefits of the coastal lifestyle on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. In summary, check the online value sites, but when you’re serious about selling call an experienced local agent to help you pinpoint value and establish the price for your property.
For more information about Palos Verdes luxury homes contact Norma Toering at 310.493.8333 or Norma@CharlemagneProperties.com.


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Problem. A coin collector has 100 coins that look identical. He knows that 30 of the coins are genuine and 70 fake. He also knows that all the genuine coins weigh the same and all the fake coins have different weights, and every fake coin is heavier than a genuine coin. He doesn’t know the exact weights though. He has a balance scale without weights that he can use to compare the weights of two groups with the same number of coins. What is the smallest number of weighings the collector needs to guarantee finding at least one genuine coin?
Now it’s solution time. First we show that we can do this in 70 weighings. The strategy is to compare one coin against one coin. If the scale balances, we are lucky and can stop, because that means we have found two real coins. If the scale is unbalanced, the heavier coin is definitely fake and we can remove it from consideration. In the worst case, we will do 70 unbalanced weighings that allow us to remove all the fake coins, and we will find all the real coins.
The more difficult part is to show that 69 weighings do not guarantee finding the real coin. We do it by contradiction. Suppose the weights are such that the real coin weighs 1 gram and the i-th fake coin weighs 100i grams. That means whatever coins we put on the scale, the heaviest pan is the pan that has the fake coin with the largest index among the fake coins on the scale.
Suppose there is a strategy to find a real coin in 69 weighings. Given this strategy, we produce an example designed for this strategy, so that the weighings are consistent, but the collector cannot find a real coin.
For the first weighing we assign the heaviest weight, 10070 to one of the coins on the scale and claim that the pan with this coin is heavier. We continue recursively. If a weighing has the coins with assigned weights, we pick the heaviest coin on the pans and claim that the corresponding pan is heavier. If there are no coins with assigned weights on pans, we pick any coin on the pans, assigned the largest available weight to it and claim that the corresponding pan is heavier.
After 69 weighings, not more than 69 coins have assigned weights, while all the weighings are consistent. The rest of the coins can have any of the leftover weights. For example, any of the rest of the coins can weigh 100 grams. That means that there is no coin that is guaranteed to be real.
Puzzle. We have 32n identical-looking coins. One of the coins is fake and lighter than the other coins, which all are real. We also have three scales: two normal and one random. Find the fake coin in the smallest total number of weighings.
Here is my son Sergei’s solution. Divide the coins into nine groups of equal size and number the groups in ternary: 00, 01, 02, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, and 22. On each scale we put three groups versus three groups. On the first scale we compare the three groups that start with 1 with the three groups that start with 2. For the second scale we do the same using the last digit instead of the first one, and for the third scale we use the sum of two digits modulo 3. Any pair of scales, if they are assumed to be normal, would point to one out of nine groups as the group containing the fake coin.
If all three pairs of scales agree on one group, then this is the group containing the fake coin. Thus in three weighings, we reduce the number of groups of coins by a factor of nine. If the pairs of scales do not agree, then the random scale produced a wrong weighing and thus can be found out. How do we do that? We have three out of nine groups of coins each of which might contain the fake coin. We compare two of the groups on all three scales. This way we know exactly which group contains the fake coin and, consequently, which scale generated a wrong weighing. If we know the random scale, we can speed up the rest of the process of finding the fake coin. Thus in the worst case we require 3n+3 weighings.
The big idea here is that as soon as the random scale shows a wrong weighing result it can be found out. So in the worst case, the random scale behaves as a normal scale and messes things up at the very end. Sergei’s solution can be improved to 3n+1 weighings. Can you do that?
The improved solution is written in a paper Взвешивания на «хитрых весах» (in Russian) by Konstantin Knop, that is published in Математика в школе 2009-2. The paper contains an even stronger solution that provides a better asymptotics.
Suppose we have 3n identical-looking coins. One of the coins is fake and lighter than the other coins which all are real. We also have a random scale. That is a scale that at each weighing behaves randomly. Find the fake coin in the smallest number of weighings. Oops! That won’t work! It is impossible to find the fake coin. The scale can consistently misbehave in such a way as to blame a specific real coin for being fake.
Let’s try something else. Suppose we have two scales: one normal and one random. Find the fake coin.
What am I thinking? The normal scale can point to one coin and the random scale can point to another coin and we are in a “she said, he said” situation which we can’t resolve.
Puzzle. We have 3n identical-looking coins. One of the coins is fake and lighter than the other coins, which all are real. We also have three scales: two normal and one random. Find the fake coin in the smallest total number of weighings.
Let’s start with this strategy: repeat every weighing on all three scales and have a majority vote. At least two of the scales will agree, thus pointing to the true result. This way we can use a divide-into-three-equal-groups strategy for one scale to find the fake coin. It will require 3n weighings.
Can we do better? Of course, we can. We can repeat every weighing on two scales. If they agree we do not need the third scale. If they do not agree, one of the scales is random and lying, and we can repeat the weighing on the third scale to “out” the random scale. After we identify one normal scale, the process goes faster. In the worst case we will need 2n + 1 weighings.
Can we do even better? Yes, we can. I will leave it to the readers to find a beautiful solution that is asymptotically better than the previous one.
Update on Dec 24, 2016. The total number of coins should be 32n, not 3n. We are looking at the worst case scenario, when the random scale is adversarial.
I want to come back to a middle-school Olympiad problem I posted a while ago.
Streamline School Olympiad 2000 (8th grade). You have six bags of coins that look the same. Each bag has an infinite number of coins and all the coins in the same bag weigh the same amount. Each different bag contains coins of a different weight, ranging from 1 to 6 grams exactly. There is a label (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) attached to each bag that is supposed to correspond to the weight of the coins in that bag. You have only a balance scale. What is the least number of times you need to weigh the coins in order to confirm that the labels are correct?
The answer is unpretentious: one weighing is enough. We can take one 5-gram coin, two 4-gram coins, three 3-gram coins, four 2-gram coins and five 1-gram coins for the total of 35 grams. This number is not divisible by 6, so we can add one more 1-gram coin and weigh all of them against six 6-gram coins. I leave it to the reader to show that this solution works and to extrapolate the solution for any number of bags.
My new challenge is to find a weighing for the above problem using the smallest number of coins. What is the number of coins in such a weighing for a given number of bags?
I manually calculated this number for a small number of bags, but I would like to get a confirmation from my readers. Starting from 6 bags, I don’t know the answer. Can you help me?
New coins are being minted at n independent mints. There is a suspicion that some mints might use a variant material for the coins. There can only be one variant material. Therefore, fake coins weigh the same no matter where they’ve been minted. The weight of genuine coins is known, but the weight of fake coins is not. There is a machine that can precisely weigh any number of coins, but the machine can only be used twice. You can request several coins from each mint and then perform the two weighings in order to deduce with certainty which mints produce fake coins and which mints produce real coins. What is the minimum total of coins you need to request from the mints?
The post was accompanied by my paper Attacking ApSimon’s Mints.
Unfortunately, both the post and the paper contain wrong information. They both state that the number of coins as a sequence of the number of mints is 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 38, 74. This is wrong. I took this data from the sequence A007673 in the OEIS database. The sequence had incorrect data lying dormant for 20 years. I believe that the sequence was generated from the paper of R. K. Guy and R. J. Nowakowsky, ApSimon’s Mints Problem, published in Monthly in 1994. To the credit of Guy and Nowakowsky, they never claimed to find the best solution: they just found a solution, thus providing a bound for the sequence. Someone mistook their solution for the optimal one and generated the sequence in the database.
After my post, my readers got interested in the problem and soon discovered the mistake. First Konstantin Knop found a solution for 6 mints with 30 coins and for 7 mints with 72 coins. Konstantin is my long-time collaborator. I trust him so I was sure the sequence was flawed. Then someone located a reference to a paper in Chinese A New Algorithm for ApSimon’s Mints Problem. Although none of my readers could find the paper itself nor translate the abstract from Chinese. But judging from the title and the formulae it was clear that they found better bounds than the sequence in the database. My readers got excited and tried to fix the sequence. David Reynolds improved on Konstantin’s results with a solution for 6 mints with 29 coins and for 7 mints with 52 coins. David did even better on his next try with 28 and 51 coins correspondingly. He also found a solution with 90 coins for 8 mints. Moreover, his exhaustive search proved that these were the best solutions.
Now the sequence in the database is fixed. It starts 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 28, 51, 90.
For future generations I would like to support each number of the sequence by an example. I use the set P(Q) to represent the sequence of how many coins are taken from each mint for the first(second) weighing. For one mint, only one coin and one weighing is needed. ApSimon himself calculated the first five values, so they were not in dispute.
a(2) = 2: P=(1,0) and Q=(0,1). Found by ApSimon.
a(3) = 4: P=(0,1,2) and Q=(1,1,0). Found by ApSimon.
a(4) = 8: P=(0,1,2,3) and Q=(1,0,2,2) or P=(0,1,1,4), Q=(2,0,1,1). Found by ApSimon.
a(5) = 15: P=(0,1,1,4,5) and Q=(2,1,2,5,0). Found by ApSimon.
a(7) = 51. P=(2,3,7,2,8,12,0) and Q=(0,2,1,7,7,12,12). Found by David Applegate and David Reynolds.
a(8) = 90. P=(4,6,6,7,3,13,15,3) and Q=(4,0,1,6,12,12,1,27). Found by David Applegate and David Reynolds.
There is a solution for nine mints using 193 coins that is not confirmed to be optimal. It was found by David Reynolds: P=(1,2,4,12,5,4,20,39,43) and Q=(0,1,3,3,25,33,34,18,27). In addition, David Reynolds provided a construction that reduces the upper bound for n mints to (3(n+1)−2n−3)/4. The following set of coins work: P=(1,3,7,15,…,2n−1) and Q=(1,4,13,40,…,(3n−1)/2).

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We had entered 2 of our own females. Ciluca and Dezmir in the class 7-10 months.
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"Fossils." Earth, Story of the Earth, Q-files Encyclopedia, 22 Aug. 2013.
Earth, Story of the Earth, s.v. "Fossils," accessed April 22, 2019.
Fossils are remains of once-living things preserved in rock. Most living things are eaten or die and their soft parts rot away leaving no trace. But sometimes hard body parts remain, like the shells, bones, teeth, horns and claws of animals and the bark, cones and seeds of plants. These are the parts most likely to form fossils. Trace fossils are not actual body parts but signs and traces of living things such as animal burrows, footprints and droppings.
A Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil from Holzmaden, Germany. The shadow of the original body shape is visible.
How a fossil forms. When a creature dies under water (1) its bones and teeth may be buried under sediments (2). The water dissolves away the remains and replaces them with minerals. The sediments also turn into rock. If undisturbed, the remains turn into solid rock: a fossil (3). This may one day be exposed at the surface (4).
This sequence of illustrations shows how a dinosaur that perished many millions of years ago came to be preserved as a fossil which we can study today.
When a creature—in this example, a dinosaur—dies under water (1) the hard parts, such as bones and teeth, may be buried under sediment particles such as sand grains on a beach, silt on a river bank or mud on a sea bed (2). Slowly the surrounding water dissolves away the remains and replaces them with rock minerals from the water.
Meanwhile the particles around them also turn into rock. If undisturbed, the remains keep their original shape but they are now solid rock. They are now fossils (3). The remains of animals and plants that lived at the same time become fossilized in the same rocks. So scientists can use fossils to work out what life-forms existed at different times in the past.
Fossils take millions of years to form. As a result of Earth movements caused by plate tectonics and the wearing-away forces of erosion, the rocks in which fossils form may one day be exposed at or near the surface (4).
Experts called palaeontologists search for fossils, dig them from the ground, study their shapes and structures, and compare them with similar body parts of living things today. From this evidence, it is possible for them to recreate what dinosaurs, mammoths and other animals and plants that lived millions of years ago looked like, and even gather information about how they lived.
Fossils form only in sedimentary rocks. They are destroyed if the rock is heated or squashed too much so they do not occur in igneous rocks or metamorphic rocks. Some sediments contain layer upon layer of fossils, like certain types of limestone.
The oldest fossils known are of blue-green bacteria (cyanobacteria). Dating from around 3500 million years old, they were discovered in Western Australia.


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My blogging has not been great this month, probably because every opportunity I have had to sit down on the sofa ( my blogging desk!) I have fallen asleep…. and thats probably because baby number 3 is well and truly on the way.
After a big surprise, some weeks of keeping it a special little secret we have shared the news with our family and friends and we are preparing for life with 3 children under 4 and the madness that is surely going to bring. Little D is pretty excited and I’m sure growing up with siblings is one the best things we can give her, friends for life. We are so excited to have a big family and all that it entails and ready to enjoy what will be our last baby and the craziness of having a new born, a toddler and a pre-schooler at home. I’m pretty sure we can kiss goodbye to willing baby sitters and sleep for a good few years but am sure it will all be SO worth it when we have 5 of us to enjoy all of our adventures.


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