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A careful reading of recent policy statements in advanced economies points to an intriguing possibility: after being forced into quite a similar stance, individual central banks will try to implement more differentiated monetary policy approaches. The driver is greater evidence of multispeed economic growth. The challenge is for other components of economic policies to support the more differentiated set of central bank policies. And what is fundamentally at stake is the much-desired shift from policy-induced growth to genuine self-sustaining private sector engines.
First through quantitative easing 2 and then “Operation Twist” and “QE3”, the US Federal Reserve’s prolonged reliance on unconventional monetary policy confronted country after country with a difficult choice: to either tolerate a significant exchange rate appreciation – thereby risking competitiveness, jobs and, in some cases, domestic financial stability – or follow the Fed in loosening monetary policy.
Nowhere was this dilemma greater in the advanced economies than in Japan, which experienced a sharp currency appreciation in the context of an already prolonged period of inadequate economic growth. The dramatic policy shift that occurred in late 2012 has turned the Bank of Japan into one of the most aggressive users of its balance sheet to boost the economy.
In countering the appreciation of its currency, the BoJ has transitioned to a very expansionary policy stance. Moreover, based on recent signals from Haruhiko Kuroda, its governor, the BoJ may also find that, by the end of this year, it is among the last central banks voluntarily pursuing a hyper-accommodative stance.
Notwithstanding moderating inflation, and having already stopped its QE operations, the Bank of England will likely come under growing pressure during this year to signal a further reduction in policy accommodation; and to do so by changing its “forward guidance” regarding the maintenance of a floor on interest rates. In the process, it will likely be leading western central banks on the “rate normalisation” path starting next year.
For its part, and absent a major economic slump, the Fed will complete its full exit from QE by the end of this year. But, unlike the BoE, it will not be signalling any impending interest rate move in the first part of 2015. Instead, it will likely strengthen its forward guidance by replacing its simple unemployment threshold with more holistic measures of the labour market and a more explicit inflation floor.
The European Central Bank will likely come third in this line-up, led by the BoE at one end and the BoJ at the other. Specifically, it is unlikely to join its American and British counterparts in gradually removing either price or quantity accommodation. Indeed, to do so would strengthen further the single European currency at a time when the eurozone is only modestly existing recession. But it will also resist joining Japan as a massive implementer of QE.
Instead, the ECB is likely to opt for some type of “credit easing” as a means of supporting the flow of credit to rationed companies and individuals – an action that will attract significant media attention but is unlikely to dramatically change economic conditions on the ground.
The prospects for this more varied mix of central bank policies is, at least for now, consistent with underlying trends in real and nominal gross domestic product in each of the economies. But its viability can only be ensured if other components of the overall economic policy stance evolve appropriately in supporting the still-elusive (and much-needed) shift to more sustainable private sector-led growth – starting in the UK where the government is eager to rebalance the economy from consumption and housing to exports and investment.
Absent such comprehensive policy support, and given the unbalanced and still-fragile state of the advanced world’s growth engines, this attempt at central bank policy differentiation could well lead to significant currency realignments and a more general risk of financial market instability. The result of which would likely force central banks into renewed policy convergence, or what Michael Spence, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, once labelled a “non-cooperative co-operative game”.
PARIS – Last month, the European Commission unveiled its much-anticipated blueprint for banking reform, aimed at reining in risk-taking by the European Union’s largest banks. But the proposal has met significant resistance, with some warning that it would erode European banks’ competitiveness, and others arguing that it is inadequate to mitigate banking risks effectively. How this debate unfolds will have profound implications for the EU’s future.
According to Michel Barnier, the EU commissioner spearheading the reform effort, the proposed measures – including regulatory authority to divide banks’ riskier trading activities from their deposit-taking business, and a ban on proprietary trading by the largest banks – would enhance financial stability and protect taxpayers. But the draft regulation falls far short of the recommendations made by a high-level expert group in 2012, which included an impermeable wall between banks’ speculative-trading business and their retail and commercial banking activities.
The positions taken in this complex debate do not align neatly with the traditional left-right political spectrum. Barnier is a center-right Frenchman recommending more public control over private banking activities. (Indeed, stricter banking regulation has been endorsed by all.) And, while Noyer’s position at the central bank makes him independent, he is championing banking-sector autonomy in a country led by a left-wing government. What is at stake is Europe’s capacity to avoid another financial meltdown – one that could be even more devastating than the 2007 crisis.
Of course, to some degree, a capitalist system will always be vulnerable to shocks and crises. The question is how to respond to them to minimize the fallout, while bolstering the system’s resilience.
In 1929, a crisis among speculating capitalists prompted poorly conceived and excessive reactions, leading to a deep and prolonged depression. Less than four years later, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s newly elected government passed the Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited commercial banks from trading securities with clients’ deposits.
By forbidding investment banks from holding cash deposits, Glass-Steagall helped to support more than a half-century of financial stability after World War II. This – together with the gold exchange standard, which ensured that credit did not exceed the economy’s productive capacity – contributed to sustained global economic growth.
Everything changed in 1971, when US President Richard Nixon, unable to contain the fiscal deficit resulting from spending on the Vietnam War and expanded social-welfare programs, abolished the dollar’s direct convertibility to gold. The resulting exchange-rate, interest-rate, and commodity-price volatility continues to this day.
The financial sector has since made every effort to design instruments that protect against price fluctuations, to transform private debt into tradable financial securities, and to gain access to speculative markets. But these efforts were conducive to fraud and delinquency, and thus spurred a wave of new financial crises – in Europe in 1992, in Asia in 1997, and in Russia in 1998 – as well as a recession in Europe and the United States in the early 2000’s.
Two other destabilizing developments emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century: a strong incentive to use debt to prop up demand, and a shift toward financing public debt through private institutions at market prices, under the pretext of fighting inflation. These trends boosted public-debt burdens, while flooding the global financial system with liquidity generated by private banking activities that were unconnected to transactions in the real economy.
As a result, by 2006, global liquidity amounted to more than twice the value of world GDP. Add to that the American financial sector’s untenable subprime and securitization activities, and it is not surprising that the next two years brought the global financial system to the brink of outright collapse.
To prevent the crash from triggering another Great Depression, governments intervened with massive taxpayer-funded bailouts, causing public-debt burdens to swell further, reaching unsustainable levels in many developed economies. Making matters worse, the US, the United Kingdom, and Japan began implementing quantitative-easing policies – that is, they began printing money – in an attempt to sustain GDP growth.
Through all of this, governments have strengthened bank regulation only slightly, leaving key issues like liquidity creation, exposure to derivatives, and tax avoidance largely unaddressed. Today, 98% of the $750 trillion in global liquidity is in speculative markets. Like all bubbles, this one is bound to burst.
The European Commission has acknowledged the danger, declaring that the only way to mitigate it is to separate the real economy from speculative markets by preventing banks from being involved in both. But, according to Noyer, such a move would not work in the eurozone, where banks’ profits depend largely on their risky activities. If those activities move to the UK, the eurozone economy will suffer considerably.
From a short-term perspective, Noyer’s position is largely correct. But the profits that would be lost remain lower than the potential costs of another major financial crisis. The eurozone’s member states should never again have to face such costs.
Michel Rocard, former First Secretary of the French Socialist Party and a member of the European Parliament for 15 years, was Prime Minister of France from 1988 to 1991.
Central banks have been on the back foot recently. The Federal Reserve has been criticised for its tapering strategy. Forward guidance in the US and UK has become a little discredited.
Higher policy rate expectations are played down but are no longer an academic issue. The European Central Bank’s unused lender-of-last-resort policy tool for sovereign governments may have been rendered unusable.
Controversially, perhaps, we should welcome these developments. They could help us to stop obsessing about the capacity of central banks alone to address our economic challenges, and, more generally, to focus on building a more robust financial system.
There are no constants in central banking, and we should embrace the opportunity for change. Under Bretton Woods, central banks had to obey the rules dictated by fixed exchange rates. After 1971, they made up their own rules, until the necessity of fighting inflation. In the credit boom, they were part of the flawed consensus that economies would be self-correcting if only low, headline inflation targets were respected.
Since 2009, central banks have occupied the dominant role in economic policy making, driven partly by circumstance and partly by governments’ withdrawing from the sharp end of economic management.
We have ended up with a chronically unbalanced policy infrastructure that is liable to compromise our ability to cope with the next economic downturn or crisis. It is appropriate, therefore, for central banks to step back a bit.
The Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing exit strategy will sometimes sit awkwardly alongside short-term economic trends, and may again be blamed for financial instability in emerging markets. However, the Fed’s strategy to normalise monetary policy in keeping with its economic judgment is fundamentally right. Spillover effects into emerging markets are best addressed via central bank swap facilities if needed, and by the agreement of G20 governments on best practice policies designed to strengthen emerging countries’ resilience.
We also know that forward guidance does not have the “scientific” properties that were on the tin. It turns out, in fact, to be quite a woolly concept, as both Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have acknowledged.
It was always tenuous to link nominal policy rates to real, labour market phenomena such as unemployment, especially when employment and participation rates, wages and hours worked are structurally in transition for demographic and technological reasons. We cannot be sure what a given level of unemployment actually means nowadays. Central banks will have to judge the glide path back to appropriate policy rates under new economic circumstances, but addressing those circumstances is the responsibility of governments.
The ECB’s Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme is now subject to a future ruling by the European Court of Justice, but the German Constitutional Court also deemed it to be constitutionally illegal in Germany, and outside the capacity accorded to the Bundesbank. However these issues are resolved, the OMT programme may not be usable, and would in any case amount to much less than Mr Draghi’s “whatever it takes within our mandate”. Perhaps it no longer matters, given that the current convergence of bond yield spreads is more related to deflationary conditions.
This makes QE by the ECB a much bigger call, economically, but arguments will rage about the meaning of the ECB’s mandate for price stability, what constitutes monetary financing of governments, and who bears the ultimate fiscal risk in the event of loss.
The ECB has an unequivocal mandate concerning lending to banks and improving the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, but politics have undercut its capacity to perform other key functions. Perhaps, though, this will help Europe acknowledge that only governments can address the problem of asymmetric economic adjustment.
These developments in advanced economies suggest it is time to call time on fallible central banks. Unorthodox monetary policies have served their purpose but their legacy is increasingly one of politics, limitations and unintended, negative consequences. Instead, we need to deploy a wider array of policy tools, not least government policies that prioritise high levels of employment and training, more robust income formation, and a ‘long-termism’ that requires corporate and fiscal governance reform.
Central banks should not be accountable for economic outcomes that lie outside their remit. Their primary function should be financial stability, including the management of goods and asset price inflation, of narrower banking structures, and of international monetary transmission effects.
We would all be better off if central banks were reassuringly vague in carrying out monetary policy, rather than firm in holding out economic hostages to fortune. The price may be slightly more animated yield curves, and more volatile market interest rates, but in the bigger scheme of things, this would be no bad result.
The protesters in Kiev were largely responsible for the fall of the Ukrainian president. But his way out of office was paved by two of the country's most powerful oligarchs. Made rich by Viktor Yanukovych, the pair made early preparations for his departure.
Nobody told Ukrainian parliamentarian Yuri Blagodir that you had to be physically fit to be a representative. But last Thursday, the ability to run fast suddenly became a key skill. Just before 10 a.m., the parliament in Kiev was finally assembling in an effort to find a way out of the spiraling chaos that had gripped the country. Then came the order to clear the building.
Gunfire rang out, explosions shook the government quarter and special police and secret service units rushed to the scene. The opposition, it was said, intended to storm the parliament and the seat of government.
Blagodir, 40, ran up the street along with the other parliamentarians, away from the city center and away from the parliament building. They felt like they were running for their lives -- a pack of representatives being hunted by the people they represented.
It was afternoon before they returned to their workplace and the greatly anticipated special session only began at 5 p.m. For Yuri Blagodir, the session was of particular importance. Just a day earlier, he had still been a member of the Party of Regions, the governing party led by President Viktor Yanukovych.
Thursday was to be the first day of his new political life. A day prior, he had posted the following on his website: "The events of the last three months have shown that the official response to the crisis can only lead to civil war and the disintegration of the state." He joined three other Party of Regions members in renouncing their membership. A day later, 10 more representatives turned their backs on Yanukovych and huge numbers of functionaries across the country did the same.
It marked the beginning of the rapid end of Yanukovych's grip on power. It was his worst-case scenario: By the end of the day on Thursday, a third of his parliamentarians had abandoned him.
The reason was clear. Civil war no longer seemed merely a theoretical possibility. Snipers had opened fire on protesters in the city center, killing dozens with shots to the head, neck or chest. Over 50 people were killed on the streets of Kiev that day -- a day which was supposed to be one of mourning for the protesters who lost their lives that Tuesday. In total, according to Ukrainian authorities, 88 people died in the conflict last week.
As government loyalists and protesters battled it out on and around Independence Square, the rest of the city was ghostly silent. The subway was closed, as were shops, restaurants and banks. Only ambulances sped through the city streets. In front of the Radisson Hotel, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski climbed into a car to drive with his counterparts Frank-Walter Steinmeier, from Germany, and Laurent Fabius, of France, to a meeting with Yanukovych in an effort to re-establish peace.
Parliamentarians, meanwhile, began debating a crisis solution of their own -- even as others were pouring oil onto the fire. The country's secret service head demanded that the battle against the "terrorists" be fought to the bitter end. And former head of government Yulia Tymoschenko, still locked up in Kharkiv at the time, said that the many deaths in Kiev were the result of "negotiations with the dictatorship that were hopeless from the outset." It was essentially a call for a violent overthrow.
Yet by then, it had long since become clear that a solution to the crisis would not be found on Independence Square. Nor would it come from Moscow, Washington, Berlin or Brussels. Rather, it would have to come from parliament -- together with those people who had supported the president. The opposition was faced with the prospect of winning them over in order to establish a political majority.
More than anything, though, the opposition had to reach an understanding with the two men who controlled roughly half of Yanukovych's party: Rinat Akhmetov and Dmitry Firtash, the two most influential oligarchs in the country.
"The two knew that, were Yanukovych to fall, they would be the biggest losers. That is why they did everything to prevent the radical solution sought by the protesters on the Maidan," says Vadim Karasev. Karasev was an advisor to President Viktor Yushchenko, who came to office following the 2004 Orange Revolution only to lose it a short time later due to deep differences with his one-time ally Tymoshenko. Currently, Karasev heads up one of Ukraine's most important think tanks.
Our meeting with Karasev took place in an empty café at the Premier Palace Hotel, across from where Kiev's Lenin monument stood until it was pulled down by radical nationalists in December. "If Yanukovych had attempted to solve the crisis with violence, he would have lost, but the oligarchs would have too," Karasev says. "Tymoshenko would have replaced him immediately and then we would have seen a repeat of what happened after the Orange Revolution: the dispossession of the rich. But all of Ukrainian politics depends on them. The men who became rich thanks to Yanukovych want guarantees for their holdings."
Akhmetov and Firtash: Those two names have repeatedly surfaced in Kiev in recent weeks. But they have been careful to stay out of the spotlight and declined interview requests. It was reported over the weekend that they were both in London. Still, they both have been busy pulling strings in recent weeks.
Akhmetov is the more important of the two. The 47-year-old is worth $15 billion and is head of the holdings company System Capital Management, which controls more than 100 companies with some 300,000 employees. They include metallurgical and pipe factories, banks, real estate firms, mobile phone enterprises and a large media company. He is the de-facto ruler of Donbass, the home of Ukrainian heavy industry, and owns the football team Shakhtar Donetsk. He is also among the leaders of Yanukovych's Party of Regions.
In recent weeks, Ukrainian protesters have staked out houses of his in both Donetsk and London. They held up signs reading: "Just one phone call from him and the killing will stop."
Only once did Akhmetov show himself to the protesters. He drove up in his Mercedes and told them that he was prepared to talk. The worst for him, he said, would be if he "could no longer walk through Donetsk and breathe Ukrainian air." Akhmetov, who started "at zero" 25 years ago, as he likes to emphasize, didn't want to belong to the losers.
He comes from a poor mining family. "We lived in just 20 square meters (215 square feet) and had no toilet or sink at home," he has said. But then, at the beginning of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he made his first million trading coal in the mining city of Donetsk.
Nobody knew him at the time. He only entered the spotlight when Akhat Bragin, who was president of the Shakhtar football team at the time, was assassinated in an explosion during a game in 1995. Bragin was the godfather of Donetsk.
Akhmetov had had business dealings with Bragin and became his successor at Shakhtar. Just before, he had founded his first bank in Donetsk. He later said that he became rich via "a few risky deals immediately after the disintegration of the Soviet Union."
A short time later, the former automobile mechanic Viktor Yanukovych, previously convicted of robbery and assault, was named head of the Donetsk regional government. A business relationship developed between him and Akhmetov -- one which ultimately blossomed into a friendship. When Yanukovych became head of government in Kiev in 2002, Akhmetov's career looked to be on the rise.
The budding oligarch of course went on to back Yanukovych's 2004 presidential candidacy. But when he failed -- after seeking to ride Russian support and clumsy electoral fraud to the presidency, and touching off the Orange Revolution in the process -- things began looking grim for Akhmetov as well. The country's new leadership, under Yushchenko, began confiscating parts of his steel conglomerate, accusing him of having obtained them illegally.
Then, in 2005, he was accused of involvement in economic crimes and police began raiding his properties and offices. He fled to Monaco and stayed there for a time, avoiding the unpleasantness at home. Ultimately, though, he returned and became a key sponsor of Yanukovych's Party of Regions. When Yanukovych finally did become head of state in 2010, the future looked bright for Akhmetov.
The second oligarch, Dmitry Firtash, 47, followed a similar path to his riches. After serving in the army, he became a fireman and began his business career with a deal that profited him $50,000: In Hong Kong, he traded 4,000 tons of evaporated milk from Ukraine for cotton from Uzbekistan.
Later, he went to Moscow where he lived in the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow, located across from the Kremlin. It is where Soviet businesspeople gathered and while there, he got to know key players in the Turkmen natural gas industry. He quickly entered the trade, receiving natural gas in exchange for foodstuffs.
He too advanced quickly. He bought a chemical factory in Estonia and later purchased an Austrian firm which specialized in natural gas transportation. In 2004, he joined the Russian gas company Gazprom in opening the company RosUkrEnergo, which specialized in transporting natural gas to Western Europe.
It was this company which later put him at odds with the Orange Revolution: A dubious 2009 deal between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ruined Firtash's business. He and Tymoshenko became bitter enemies.
When Yanukovych ascended to power, it was good for Firtash as well. He expanded his empire and today, with his media conglomerate Inter Media Group, controls several television channels.
There are, of course, differences between Akhmetov and Firtash. For one, Firtash is worth less than a billion dollars, in contrast to the monumentally rich Akhmetov. Furthermore, he works closely with partners in Russia whereas Akhmetov's business empire is more focused on Europe. But the two have divided the political playing field between them and they control their country's political scene as though it were a business joint venture. Key positions, whether in ministries or in parliament, are all occupied by their people. Yanukovych's economics minister, for example, came from Akhmetov's team while the deputy prime minister, in charge of natural gas issues, answered to Firtash. It is a loveless marriage of convenience, but it has held.
In the last parliamentary elections, Akhmatov filled roughly 60 spots on the Party of Regions list with his people while Firtash chose 30. That is how politics in Ukraine is done: Whereas Putin took power away from the oligarchs in Russia, they are still at the controls in Ukraine.
The pair came to the conclusion well before the current crisis that Yanukovych would not be around for much longer. They began carefully looking around for alternatives. Akhmetov, for example, had always gotten along well with Tymoshenko, in contrast with Firtash, and began supporting Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who took over the leadership of her Fatherland alliance when she was incarcerated. Firtash, for his part, backed Vitali Klitschko's party UDAR.
"In reality, Firtash early on placed people in Klitschko's UDAR Party, a former head of secret service, for example," says Vadim Karasev. "The contacts were made via the head of the presidential office."
"It may sound hard to believe," Karasev says, "but Firtash was looking for an alternative for the eventuality that Tymoshenko was released and claimed the right to the presidency. It would have been advantageous were Klitschko already there, as a puppet of Firtash."
That's how Akhmetov and Firtash built up options for a possible future without Yanukovych. When the protests broke out on Independence Square in November and both oligarchs saw how obstinately Yanukovych reacted, they began to distance themselves. It was clear to both of them that if worse comes to worst, and the West imposed sanctions on Ukraine, their businesses would be the first to be affected.
Akhmetov made it known that he was in favor of negotiations between the government and the opposition. Firtash also quickly called for a peaceful resolution of the conflict, emphasizing that people on both sides of the barricades were Ukrainians.
Last Tuesday's bloody conflicts tipped the scales. On Wednesday both Akhmetov's and Firtash's TV stations changed their coverage of Independence Square: Suddenly the two channels, Ukraina and Inter, were reporting objectively on the opposition. The message of the oligarchs was clear: We're letting Yanukovych fall.
And in parliament -- where the majority party had barely budged a millimeter in the past weeks -- the mood suddenly changed: Suddenly they were looking for a compromise after all. It became clear on Thursday what this would mean: the forming of a broad coalition, the return of the old constitution and, with it, a reduction of the presidential powers as well as an accelerated presidential election.
Friday was a cheerful day, with bright blue skies. There was still sporadic gunfire but on Independence Square it was hard to believe that, just a few days earlier, people had been gunned down there.
Shortly after noon Yanukovych addressed the people as though he were still calling the shots. He declared that he would "initiate" new elections, constitutional reform and the formation of a new government with national support.
Then, things began moving very fast. On Friday evening, parliament got back its full former powers, dismissed the hated interior minister and ultimately Yanukovych himself and smoothed the way for the release of Yulia Tymoshenko.


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Our Lincoln 3P White primed glazed door offers a premium solid core door with crisp styling, that's ready for final finishing on-site. The quality of the primed coating is second to none, leaving you with the simple task of finishing the door the way you want it.
The solid core construction is strong and feels incredibly authentic, with a clear glazing that blends effortlessly into the bright, white wood. These doors are a perfect solution for any home that requires a bit of an internal 'lift' and fits a modern sensibility. The neutral white shade means that any finish you desire can quite easily be applied and still look natural.
The design itself is traditional, but with a distinct, contemporary pattern, setting the neutral, light, white wood against a panel of clear glass, with two parallel strips of wood further embellishing the design.

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Conveniently located in South Tacoma, Washington, Mill Outlet Lumber has been providing top quality, low priced cedar fencing and decking products to the Puget Sound Region since 2002. Our unique combination of high quality and low overhead brings our customers the best value in cedar, plywood and pressure treated lumber products. Mill Outlet is what a lumberyard should be and it is our goal to keep it that way.
Owned by Norris and Jeannie Nickerson, their tireless pursuit of value and integrity has earned them a loyal following by both home owners and contractors alike. With a great selection of products available in many different grades the goal of Mill Outlet Lumber is to match your project needs with your budget.
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Suzuki Jimny Boot Space, Size, Seats | What Car?
There’s decent headroom for tall adults in the front, and while the Jimny is narrow, you shouldn’t be rubbing shoulders with the person sitting next to you.
The door bins are small, although there’s a handy cubby in front of the gearlever for stowing phones and keys. Usefully, USB and 12V sockets live above it, making charging your device a cinch. There’s also a useful ledge above the glovebox for storing other odds and ends, plus a couple of cupholders, mounted quite far back between the front seats.
The Jimny’s short length limits the amount of leg room in the back, but you’d be surprised how much it can offer, with two average-height adults sitting behind one another quite happily. That said, that the rear seats are flat, uncomfortable and quite close together, while access is restricted by the three-door layout.
The rear seatbacks can be folded down in a 50/50 split, and they lie totally flat when dropped. Furthermore, they can be reclined for more comfort, although this eats into boot space. The icing on the cake is front seats that can be reclined to horizontal, making a bed if you're either short or don't mind resting your feet on the top of the dashboard. The backs of the seats are all made from plastics that can be wiped clean, which is handy when chucking muddy boots in the back, but things will slide around while you’re driving.
At a minuscule 85 litres, the Jimny’s boot is less than half the size of most city cars’ with the rear seats erect. Fold them down and you’re left with a flat load area with a hard plastic base that should prove easy to clean. Even then, boot space is still less than the Volkswagen Golf’s with its rear seats in place.
The boot floor is high, so there’s no lip to heave items over, although the side-hinged tailgate will prove impractical in tight spaces.

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Every morning and evening I read a few pages from Teju Cole's remarkable book, Blind Spot. I suspect when I finish it, I'll reread it, probably not page to page but just open it here and there.
I'm not someone who rereads books or rewatches movies (with the exception of Apocalypse Now and Badlands), though there are plenty of poems I read and reread. And I'm not someone who has much of a daily practice except for making the commitment to spend some part of the day writing and several times a week (once it was daily, now less often) take a photograph. If you are not familiar with Bind Spot, it looks like this.
So you can see (literally) why it appeals to me. I don't think anyone has made better use of short pieces of writing than Cole. Here is the opening passage from "Brooklyn" (pictured above). "One of the common uses of the word 'shadow' was as a synonym for 'photograph.' This was the sense in which Sojourner Truth used it when she wrote, on the 1864 photographic postcard bearing her image, 'I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.'"
And just now writing this, I see that shadow behind the photograph (a scan of my grandmother's garden scissors) which inspired the following poem, published by Best Friends Feminist Collective in Albuquerque in the early 70s.
Resonance: that is how Blind Spot is working on me. And why, for now, it is so valuable.

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It’s the beginning of month 1 out of 12 and I’m feeling optimistic. Since learning the value of rest, I’ve made sure to actually rest each time I get a chance to. So, I’ve spent the last month doing just that. Resting. I feel rejuvenated and… strange. The strange feeling is something I’ve felt for months now. I feel somewhat disconnected from everyone and unable to truly deeply connect with just about anyone. It’s been a blessing because I’ve redirected my energy towards myself (and I’ve made great progress), but also a curse because I feel like I’ve been a terrible, cold friend to those who should be getting my warmth.
Going into this month I’ve got a long to-do list. I’ve also got pages and pages of side-hustle brainstorming because I really want to create some sort of brand, business, and/or platform this year. I’d prefer something based around my creative interests. I have a feeling that the month will pass quickly and that I’ll be blessed abundantly by the end of it. I’m so curious about what’s in store for me over the next 12 months.


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20 years ago today, on March 9th, 1997, The Notorious B.I.G. was tragically killed.
New York City was buzzing this weekend in celebration of The Notorious B.I.G.’s birthday.
P. Diddy is giving the fans what they want, Puff Daddy-style.
'Life After Death' continues, because new Biggie tracks are on the way.
J. Cole surprised fans during his headlining performance at Air + Style’s two-day festival in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

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You’ve heard of carrying coals to Newcastle. It means doing something worthless, because Newcastle is loaded with coal so why would they need any more?
Of course that expression derived from Newcastle, England. This Newcastle is the coal center of Australia, which is how it got its name.
Anyway there is only so much coal that you can watch in this unattractive city so we went to a recently closed high security prison, Maitland, down the road a bit.
A former inmate gave us the chilling tour. He confirmed what all of us know regardless of political bent – once you start on the road of crime it is tough to stop. He was cynical of politicians, rich people, homeless and even prisoners themselves.
He feels that convicts do not get reformed and why should they since they can’t get work and are too lazy to work anyway. Besides these days they live better in jail then their families do on the outside.
One thing I did agree with was that juvenile offenders ought to be forced to spend time with older convicts who scare them into shaping up. Social workers just don’t have the respect or proper background and understanding.
We learned a couple easy ways to kill people quickly with just things like toilet paper, toothbrushes, and cigarette filters.
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he says it has 180k miles on the body with about 6k on the motor, i was thinking of trading an 01 civic ex 155k miles bone stock for it, do you guys think its a good trade or should i ask some questions?
I know him. Really great guy, pretty damn honest. Idk his car that well tho.But he drove past me with it sounded good. Didn't notice any smoke. I'm pretty sure his more interested in cash than a trade. He has a kid and is selling alot of things right now. He probably won't trade from 01 civic knowing him. For 5k that's a steal even if you parted it out.
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It is well-established that art inspires life and vice versa. Satire, however, usually remains fictional. When humorist Dave Barry's "How to Win Arguments" was originally published in the 1980s, it was clearly in fun. It has since supplanted Machiavelli's The Prince as the the go-to treatise on how to accumulate power. Now, the blowhard who was once avoided at parties is on his way to being nominated by one.
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This was an amazing month ; but it almost broke me from overwork. Maybe I should look into outsourcing fulfillment - I will look at some options after the summer vacation. At this point I only have a few international orders and a couple larger orders left to pack and ship. I am sure I will be done with everything tonight or tomorrow.
Once again, thanks for your interest. When you receive your decals, please let me know what you think about them.
Thanks for all your hard work and effort.
Hi Kursad - Your TF-9J Cougar decals just arrived in my mailbox this afternoon. They look amazing of course and I can't wait to use them on my Sword kit. I'm stuck on cleaning up the wing to fuselage joints now but I think your decals may just be the inspiration I need to carry on. I'm going to do the VT-22 bird for a Navy vet I know who served with the unit back in '68.
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Yet another month where the quantity of orders just overwhelmed my ability to ship them on time. I received more than twice the usual number of orders this time around. Your preorders might have been delayed if they included CD48138 (F-117) and CD48150 (Early F-15). I will clear the backlog before the end of the week and have everything in the mail. Thanks for your patience.
The commercial aircraft industry lives and dies on backlog. Good on you.
Does that also include CD144016 (KC-10 Extender)? Just wondering & waiting patiently as I don't think I am the only one waiting on this sheet.
No, I shipped most of the domestic orders including this sheet in the last two weeks, and some more today. You should see movement in your tracking numbers tomorrow.
Getting ready for a marathon shipping weekend - most of your remaining orders will be on their way to you soon.
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Thanks Kursad, I see there is an update in the tracking history. I was just checking as I have had problems with the post office deliver my mail to another address on occasion.
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This article was updated June 11.
The ranks of the diocesan priesthood increased by three June 10 as Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge ordained three men at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More. It was the bishop’s first priesthood ordination as the fourth bishop of Arlington.
“Never allow the demands and busyness of priestly ministry to take you away from what is most essential: being still with the Lord each day in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament."
The newly ordained and their first assignments include: Father Steven G. Oetjen (St. James Church in Falls Church), Father Stephen M. Vaccaro (Church of the Nativity in Burke) and Father Jordan M. Willard (St. Theresa Church in Ashburn).
Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde presided at the Mass, which was concelebrated by more than 100 priests. Bishop Burbidge was the homilist.
“What a blessed and glorious day for the church and our diocese as these three men, your sons, brothers, family members and friends, are about to be ordained priests,” Bishop Burbidge said in his homily.
“We are about to witness a miracle as these three men, through the laying on of hands and the Prayer of Ordination, will be ordained priests and forever configured to the very person of Jesus Christ,” the bishop said.
He told the candidates that with God’s grace, especially through the Sacrament of Penance, the faithful will be made ever more aware of God’s great love and of the truth that no sin is greater than His divine mercy.
“Never allow the demands and busyness of priestly ministry to take you away from what is most essential: being still with the Lord each day in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; praying fervently, including the daily recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours and constantly calling upon our Blessed Mother for her powerful intercession.
Michael Oetjen, the father of Father Oetjen, said he felt blessed as he watched his oldest son’s ordination. He said one of their family members always said that when Steven was little he had a halo over his head.
Father Stephen Vaccaro joins his older brother Christopher as a member of the diocesan clergy. Father Christopher T. Vaccaro, who was ordained in 2009, is the Catholic chaplain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. Another brother, Brian, is a seminarian with the Redemptorists.
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So, it’s the Second Sunday of Advent. I don’t know how you feel but I’m looking for a baby shower invitation from Joseph and Mary. Or at the very least I’d like to hear the story of John the Baptist leaping in Elizabeth’s womb as a pregnant Mary visits her cousin.
Seriously? How am I supposed to put THAT on a Christmas card? In all fairness, this is the gospel lesson that is assigned for the First Sunday of Advent. However, John Propst and I switched weeks, so he could do his John the Baptist skit while I was in Europe. Little did I know that when I said “yes” to him, this is what I would have to preach on. I guess that’s the price you pay for taking a vacation at the beginning of Advent!
So what do we do with these ominous words from the gospel of Luke? How are we to understand this apocalyptic reading in the midst of our preparations to celebrate the birth of a baby? I gave this some thought before I left for Europe, and the insight that was the most helpful to me, was something I told our Sunday school class last fall as we studied the book of Revelation. I give the credit to Pastor Tim Caniff-Kuhn for this insight because it helped me to understand Revelation in a new and different way. This insight applies to our gospel lesson as well, since its language is apocalyptic in nature.
Are you ready for it? Here it goes: The key to understanding Revelation is to ask the right question. Most people ask “What does it mean?” or “When will it happen?” The real question we need to ask is “How does it make us feel?” The answer to this question is that in the midst of events that cause us to be anxious and afraid, Revelation reminds us that God is in control and has already won the battle. When we see Revelation in this light we come to understand it as a book of comfort, hope and encouragement.
It sounds a bit like what we’re experiencing in our nation this past year. I lost count of the natural disasters that have left ravaged our nation. We experienced two hurricanes on the East Coast and devastating wildfires on the West Coast. Hawaii had a volcano eruption. Some states are dealing with extreme drought, while others, like ours, have had record rainfalls and devastating floods.
Furthermore, politics is more divided than ever. People are downright hostile to those who dare to disagree with them. Even Christianity is being shaken as two very different views of who Jesus is and what it means to be the Church have emerged. Gun violence and mass shootings are out of control. And I never thought I would see the day when white supremacy and hate speech would be so visible and pervasive.
I could go on, but I know you’re well aware of what’s happening around us. The heavens are being shaken, alright, along with our nation and our lives. And it leaves us feeling scared, worried and anxious.
Like the book of Revelation, Jesus is tells us that we should not lose heart. We should not give into despair. God is in control and has already won the battle. It’s a done deal. The reign of Christ will prevail. God’s kingdom will replace all the earthly kingdoms that are being shaken at this present moment. And so I believe Jesus is trying to encourage us here. He is trying to remind us that God is bigger than all the troubles we are facing at this moment in our nation’s history. Jesus, himself destroyed death forever. This is our hope in the midst of our despair.
At this point in the sermon, you might be wondering “What does all this have to do with preparing for the birth of a baby?” Well, we know that this baby is no ordinary baby. He is Emmanuel, God With Us. He is the light who shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not defeat him. Without his presence in our lives i would be easy to give into despair. But because he promises to journey with us we have hope.
This hope is grounded in the signs we see all around us that another kingdom, another way of living, is being born in our midst. Like the fig tree in our gospel lesson that begins sprouting leaves, we see signs of this kingdom sprouting all around us. These signs are the things that give us hope, and remind us of who is ultimately in charge.
This is how I begin to reconcile the terrifying vision in our gospel lesson with our preparations to celebrate the birth of a baby. We, as people of faith, believe this baby changes everything. He was born in an era where people felt like their world was being shaken as well. Rome was a brutal occupier that demanded much from the people of Israel. Justice was something that only the powerful and influential could experience. A small handful of people lived well, but most folks struggled just to feed their families and have a roof over their heads.
And so, a people who felt shaken, who mourned in lowly exile, were looking for a baby shower invitation. They were looking for God to birth something new in their midst. We believe that God delivered on this promise in the person of Jesus, the Word made flesh, who came to live among us. Jesus give us a vision of how the world could be if God were in charge and all the other rulers of church and state were not. We love to tell this story because it mirrors our reality. As a people who also feel like we’re being shaken, our hope lies in this same baby who changed the world forever.
The way we navigate this scary and uncertain time is to continually be “on the watch” for signs of Christ’s kingdom that are already among us. These signs are the very thing that give us hope. It is where our shalom, our sense of peace and well-being, take root and grow.
In our gospel lesson, Jesus ends his apocalyptic vision by telling us to be “alert.” I take this to mean we see the world for what it is. We don’t turn a blind eye to all the sadness and injustice we witness in our world. But it also means we don’t let all this sadness and injustice get the best of us. We continue to look for and become the living signs of the reign of Christ, our world desperately needs. We continue to be the faithful, humble, and compassionate servants Christ has called us to be. We don’t give up. Don’t give in.
to us a Son is given, authority rests upon his shoulders. And his name is Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. This is our hope and strength in good times and in bad. In life and in death. Amen.


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In a Jan. 31 report, Newsweek is asking “What’s the chance of catching the Zika virus?” The answer depends upon where you live. The unasked question on many minds is “What are the chances that a Zika infection will hurt my unborn baby?” The answer to that question, at this time, is that public health authorities just do not know.
Brazil is the first place that concerns about Zika infections during pregnancy arose. A report from the AP dated Jan. 27 states that the government has received 4,120 reports of a serious birth defect called microcephaly in the period Oct. 22 through Jan. 23. Other media reports indicate that the Brazilians are noting an increase in a condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).
AP states that the Brazilian authorities have investigated 732 of the 4,120 reports at this time. The review found that 63 percent were incorrect diagnoses and not microcephaly.
Brazil does not have a robust public health system for tracking conditions like microcephaly. A report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Jan. 22 notes that the official incidence of microcephaly published by the Brazilians was far less than that which would have been expected.
Basic statistical work using incidence rates from published studies and other authoritative sources suggests that Brazil has between 347 and 1,772 cases of microcephaly in an average year. If the ratio of investigated cases is applied to the reported 4,120 cases, 1,524 of them will be confirmed as accurately diagnosed.
Brazil has not released any data on the number of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Columbia has reported 41 cases. El Salvador reports 46 cases.
Similar statistical work has been done to establish estimated levels of Guillain-Barré syndrome in those nations. In addition, all of the nations are already experiencing significant epidemic levels of dengue and chikungunya illnesses which can result in the syndrome. Brazil is also experiencing West Nile and measles that also can produce GBS.
There is not enough data to prove a link between Zika viral infections in pregnant women and microcephaly in newborns. The is also not enough data to demonstrate a link between Zika illnesses and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Reports of the effects of a Zika infection do not equal confirmation. Many of the reports of microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome are likely to be misdiagnoses. At this time, it is entirely possible that any confirmed cases are within norms and not an increase.


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I constructed a realistic roller coaster simulation incorporating calculus and physics as well as a face recognizer program using Haar cascade classifier for detection and Eigenface for the recognition algorithm.


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Beyond Bling: Are Diamonds A Girl’s Only Best Friend?
As a Mellon Fellow of the Conservation Research Laboratory, I work on different projects to answer questions that curators and conservators have about the art objects they are working on. The Lois Boardman Jewelry project was unique for multiple reasons: the number of objects in the collection that needed analysis (more than 300 contemporary jewelry pieces), the diversity of the materials used (plastics, metals, fabrics, and more), and the opportunity to compare our results to surveys that the decorative arts and design curatorial department had sent out to the artists. The survey was created to help collect information for each piece; the artists described the techniques and the materials employed. Interestingly, in some cases, during the scientific examination of the objects, we found some discrepancies between our results and the artist survey.
Of all the objects that we analyzed for the project, I found the ones with gemstones the most interesting because the identification of the stones was the most challenging. Any analysis we performed had to be non-invasive (no damage to the piece); we performed elementals analysis (X-Ray Fluorescence spectroscopy) and chemical bonds analysis (Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy). In the beginning, gems of the same colors, from quartz to diamonds to topaz, looked all the same to me. And for many objects, identification was not possible with the non-invasive scientific techniques we had in the laboratory. Therefore, we asked for help from our colleagues at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM): Alyssa R. Morgan, Collections Manager, Mineral Sciences, and Brittany Bednash, a volunteer at the NHM and a certified gemologist. With their gemstone kit and experienced eyes, they helped us identify some of the more exotic gemstones, distinguishing the natural gems from the synthetic ones, including a girl’s best friend: diamonds.
One object that was particularly memorable is Trouble with Beauty, a necklace (with matching earrings) by George Dobler. The necklace has two strings of brown, transparent gems that are linked to 2 beetle-shaped ornaments made with silver, which are attached to a large mounted gemstone that was also brown and transparent. The earrings are made with silver clips and each earring has two suspended gemstones; the gems are similar in size and color to the four larger beads at the back of the necklace, and they all have visible needle-like inclusions (the four earring beads were taken out of the necklace and made into earrings at a later date). Our scientific testing indicated that all the stones are some variety of quartz. Through visual examination, Brittany was able to suggests we describe these gemstones as smoky quartz, and those in the earrings and in the back of the necklace as rutilated smoky quartz. Typical rock crystal quartz is colorless, but smoky quartz comes in various shades of brown-gray, owing its color to impurities in their crystal structure (aluminum) and exposure to radiation (naturally or artificially). Rutilated smoky quartz is a smoky quartz that also happens to have needle-like rutile (a titanium containing mineral) inclusions embedded inside the gem.
Another interesting piece was Brooch #70 C by Stanley Lechtzin. The brooch has an amazing design; the metal structure is made of gold-plated silver. In its center, there is a red-brown gemstone. When we did the scientific analysis on the gem, the results were not conclusive. The elements (silicon, calcium, and aluminum) we found were not from any red-brown gems we had encountered so far. Dr. Anthony Kampf, another scientist at the NHM, was able to identify the gem as hessonite grossular garnet after we sent him a picture we took of the piece under our digital microscope.
The hessonite is a variety of grossular garnet. While most varieties of grossular garnet are green, hessonite is known for its characteristic honey-yellow to brown-red “cinnamon” color, which is consistent with the gemstone in Stanley Lechtzin’s brooch.
These two jewelry pieces are just a couple of examples from this amazing jewelry collection. You can see Trouble with Beauty by George Dobler and Brooch #70 C by Stanley Lechtzin as well as many other exceptional pieces in the exhibition Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection, in the Ahmanson Building through Sunday, February 5, 2017.
I would like to dedicate this post to the late Dr. Frank D. Preusser, my mentor for the past three years and head of the Research Laboratory at LACMA’s Conservation Center for more than 11 years. Without his support, there would not have been a Boardman Jewelry project. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.


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A real estate developer known for his ties to the Montreal Mafia was shot dead Thursday morning.
Tony Magi, who survived a brazen rush-hour murder attempt in 2008, was the victim of Montreal’s first homicide, a well-placed source confirmed to The Canadian Press.
Tony Magi on Sept. 22, 2010. Magi was known to police and survived an assassination attempt in 2008.
Police said they received a call at about 11:15 a.m. that an unconscious man was lying on the ground at the entry to a garage in west-end Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grace neighbourhood.
Officers who arrived on the scene found the man suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his upper body. Witnesses reported hearing several gunshots.
Police say the victim, a man in his 50s, died in hospital. No arrests have been made.
Magi was well-known to police. In 2008, he was wounded but survived when his Range Rover was riddled with bullets as he drove to work. He was also kidnapped in 2005. Both of those crimes are unsolved. His wife’s vehicle was shot at while she was driving near the family home in 2011. She was unharmed.
In December 2009, Magi confirmed to the Montreal Gazette that he was in business with Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto. Later that month, the younger Rizzuto was shot dead outside the offices of Magi’s construction company.
Magi’s name also came up during Quebec’s public inquiry into corruption in the province’s construction industry. Wiretaps played at the inquiry captured Magi discussing a real estate development with Vito Rizzuto in 2004.
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Signing up for a gym membership is a big investment. Not only do you have monthly dues, but there are also joiner fees, contracts and hefty cancellation fees if you decide to leave early. By picking the right gym, you can avoid some of these costs and minimize the chances of trying to get out of a contract early.
Price is probably the most important part of a gym. If you can’t afford it, there’s no reason to look inside. Aside from the monthly dues, there are lots of other fees associate with joining. Get information on all of them before you sign anything. Joining, cancellation, some classes, certain equipment and personal trainers may not be included in the basic membership.
A lot of gyms also make you sign contracts that tie you up for an year or longer. Trying to get out of the contract early can cost you. Sometimes there are exceptions such as moving out of the area but make sure you read everything before signing anything.
Once you get all the cost issues out of the way, you need to find out about the amenities. Take a tour of the gym and look at all the equipment. Figure out what your goals are and pay closer attention to the equipment you’ll be using. If you’re really into cardio, take a look at the treadmills, elliptical and bikes. If you’ll be mostly lifting weights, check out what kind of free weights, benches and racks they have.
The best way to make sure that a gym is what you want it to be is to get a trial membership. Some gyms let you workout for free for a few days to see if you like their services. These are the gyms you should looks for. Be careful, there are gimmicks that require you to sign a contract to get a free “trial” membership.
If a sales person is unwilling to let you try out the place for free then walk out and find another gym. It isn’t worth throwing money at something you can’t try.
Remember not to rush into anything. Joining a gym is a long term commitment to yourself and sometimes a company. You shouldn’t second guess wanting to join a gym but sometimes you might have to keep looking.
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Mastectomy procedures are available at Bayindir Hospital Icerenkoy and the prices range between $5,358 and $11,857. Bayindir Hospital Icerenkoy is located in Levent Mahallesi, Istanbul, Turkey and performs 114 procedures across 18 specialties. It is 12 Km away from the City and was established in February of 2010.
The inside of the hospital is good for cleaning. They are trying to please the customer. The employees are also gul-faced. One of the points I did not like is; they would open the vein pathway from the mother's arm. As an inexperienced person can not find a vessel, my mother will be in vain. Then another nurse came and he went inexperienced in the same way. I think these people are not aware of the seriousness of what they do. They do not care about the pain of the other side. You need to put the needle in those nurses and keep it alive so you know what you're doing. I would ask the authorities to give such an inexperienced person, after the painful work has come to a certain level of experience.
The kitchen staff were very comfortable and the meal that came at 12.00 came at 1.00. If you order from the kitchen you can order, but there are not many varieties!
Our father, Mehmet Ali Gorguy, is a heartfelt human being who successfully performs heart surgery, changes the clogged heart veins and restores the health of our father. Dr. We present to all of the team members who are in operation, especially Burak Kıran Bey, 3rd floor health and nurse group with endless thanks and gratitude. We also thank you again and again for this wonderful team who made us feel at home, making ourselves and their companions (mother) comfortable during the treatment of our patient in Bayındır Hospital. Your honorable doctor. d. Burak Kıran Bey Thank you exist.
Bayındır Hospital; Neurosurgery, Neurology, Oral and Dental Health, Brain and Nerve Surgery, Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Pediatrics, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics and Traumatology , Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Dermatology, Anesthesia and Reanimation, Laboratory and Radiology branches. a fully equipped imaging center where interventional procedures are also being carried out, and a Sleep Disorders Center. 6 operating theaters equipped with state-of-the-art technology, intensive care units with separate planned areas for infant and heart patients, imaging center and laboratories for the early diagnosis and Bayındır Hastanesi İçerenköy; it was not only Istanbul, but the medical reference point of the region. The rooms consist of single, double and suite rooms. Suit rooms are located on the 2nd and 4th floors. Each room has adjustable beds, nurse call system, emergency call system, bathroom / toilet, air conditioning system, television, safe and internet connection. There is also a single bed and a mini-bar in the suites.
The other staff are very good as well as the doctors. They are friendly and polite.
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text: The Spirit of St. Louis Region hosted its 33rd Annual Meeting on Sunday, November 11, 2018, at the fabulous Moto Museum in mid-town St. Louis, Missouri. The museum houses a private collection of unique motorcycles obtained from over twenty countries from around the globe covering almost a century of motorcycle development. Fifty-four members and guests gathered at noon to enjoy cocktails and the company of fellow members while touring the motorcycles on display. Following the cocktail hour, guests enjoyed either a choice of a beef, chicken or vegetarian entree at a sit down luncheon against a backdrop of motorcycles ensconced in wall cavities surrounding the dining area.


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No Divot - A Golf Blog: What is your handicap?
Other times, I get just as frustrated that my handicap doesn't go up. Have you ever caught yourself trying to console yourself after a bad round by saying, "Well, at least my handicap will go up so I'll get more strokes next time!" ? Funny thing -- it never happens.
The USGA's Handicap Research Team tells us that the average player is expected to play to his Course Handicap or better only about 25 percent of the time, average three strokes higher than his Course Handicap, and have a best score in 20, which is only two strokes better than his Course Handicap.
Yikes! And I've been giving strokes to people with honest faces who tell me their average score is about the same as my index!
How do you get a handicap? The best way is to go to the nearest golf course, public or private, and join the men's club, or the women's club if you're female. I think most places will let females join the men's club if they want to play from the men's tees, but the converse usually isn't true. Post five scores, and you're off and running. Having an officially sanctioned USGA handicap lends credibility to your negotiations with other golfers. But using the computer programs is better than nothing.
Conclusions? Well, if you want your handicap to go down, your ten best scores have to improve! And, as you've long suspected, nobody anywhere cares what your ten worst scores were. And if you intend to bet on golfing, don't do it on the basis of your opponents' averages!
This is very useful. I have heard and read that the Hdcp is suppose to measure the potential of players. I never thought about playing someone who who doesn't carry a handicap and wants to play with their avg score, that's bad.
Our local course doesn't have a membership, so no GHIN service. I'm going to talk to the part-time PGA Pro to see if our Friday 9-hole league might sponsor a USGA eligible "club" for GHIN handicapping...though our league's local rules might to be liberal for USGA handicapping-purposes.


text: Sufix Performance Braid is the longest-casting and easiest handling braid on the market. Exclusive Y6 braiding produces a rounder, smoother, thinner and quieter braided line. Performance Braid handles effortlessly, casts a mile, resists wind knots while still being ultra-abrasion resistant and super-sensitive.

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This 16 page full color brochure is sure to boost your groups sales with its winning combination of products. Brochure features something for everyone including kitchen gadgets, tupperware sets, wrapping paper, gifts, kids items, and more! You just have to turn the pages and see what’s available!
Gift brochure is available with or without the frozen food section shown below which features all our frozen food options like cookie dough, pies, pizzas, cheesecake, etc. Most groups love having the food available and find it to be some of their top selling items, but it is up to you!
An irresistible selection of top selling frozen foods including 9 flavors of Grandma Parker's Cookie Dough, Cheesecake, Pie, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Cinnabon Gooey Bites, Pizza and more!
This can be sold along with the Road to Success Gift Brochure or on its own!
You will love our delicious smelling Heritage Candles, made right here in the USA! Our Earth Candle line includes twelve 12 oz canning jars and six 14 oz tumblers. All candles come in gift boxes!
Eight flavors of snack mixes including nuts, chocolate covered treats, and seasoned mixes in resealable pull top cans! A quick, easy, and delicious fundraiser!
Pastry Puffins are light, fluffy, and delicious pastry treats! The Pastry Puffin fundraiser includes 7 flavors of fruit-filled pastries and a Pepperoni PuffCrust Pizza! One product, one price, one easy fundraiser!
Six scrumptious varieties made with the highest quality ingredients! All flavors come in resealable bags (if you can stop yourself from finishing the whole thing off, that is!).
The old Entertainment Book, now available as an APP! Thousands of discounts available at retailers and restaurants nationwide as well as online. Location services allow the app to notify you when you are near a deal, so you will never forget to use it again! SPECIAL 50% PROFIT = $10 PER CARD SOLD!
Magazines can be sold as a stand alone program. They are also available as part of the Road to Success Gift Brochure. Vouchers are purchased for $10, $20, or $30 and used to purchase a variety of subscriptions online. GUARANTEED 50% profit!!


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1. A changeling; a foolish child left by fairies in the place of another.
2. A dolt; an idiot; a blockhead.
A changeling; a foolish child left by fairies in the place of another. Drayton.
A dolt; an idiot; a blockhead.
Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.
SMARAG'DINE, a. [L. Smaragdinus.] Pertaining to emerald; consisting of emerald, or resembling it; of an emerald green.


text: New Era Fitted Yale Baseball Cap - White. Officially Licensed White Yale University Baseball Cap exclusively available from DelMonico Hatter. Fitted baseball cap Made by New Era, the supplier of on-field caps to Major League Baseball and the Originators of True Fitted(R). This is the authentic 59Fifty shape. White wool cap with the Blue Yale "Y" on the front and the Yale Bulldog on the center-back of the cap. DelMonico Hatter, Est 1908 is based in New Haven Connecticut, the home of Yale University.


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Team-member oriented, great work-life balance, excellent work culture and respect for what I do.
EGL is a horrible commute both directions, everyday. Wish it was is a different location such as Jayanagar or MG Road.
Thank you for everything you do to keep the team members motivated and happy.
"Join Target only if you can lick your manager"
day dreaming sleep in office good if you do not like to work and financially very strong to work without JOB someday.
Fire few managers from data quality. They are not donig anything for you and most of times they work from Home.. They are reason for your bad reputation.


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Sometimes AV gives false alarms over reverse engineering fixers. You can have such issue because crack downloads sometimes have unusual system behaviour. In 99.9% of cases cracks and keygens are clean. However you must look through antivirus check report below and decide for yourself whether to proceed to download or not.
Here you will see scan result from all known AV software. At the end you will see total theoretical danger level.
Discussion for Fairy Land 1.10 Russian crack.
As an alternative you can try to look for Fairy Land 1.10 Russian torrent file. You may need a little bit more time to download it but in fact bittorrents usually offer a full pack (software+crack) so you will not need to bother about product version match.


text: They have a special relationship with the universe. Sometimes they feel deeply connected like their bond is so strong and powerful, but sometimes they feel so distant like they don’t understand the world anymore. It often feels like it’s them against the universe and that’s a battle they can’t figure out how to win.


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Conveyor Components releases the model VA and VAX bucket elevator alignment control to its line of conveyor controls and accessories.
The model VA and VAX are designed to indicate when the head or boot section of a bucket elevator drifts too far out of alignment. They can be used to signal a problem or simply shut down the bucket elevator leg.
This control device has a sequential two-pole double-break microswitch rated for 20 amps at 120, 240, or 480 VAC. The switch actuation is field adjustable with a simple 3/32 hex wrench adjustment. The metal roller is sturdy and bi-directional, and designed to survive in difficult environments. The housing is rugged cast aluminum with a specially designed non-accumulating pocket.
The model VA microswitch is rated for NEMA 4 weatherproof, or NEMA 7/9 explosion proof (model VA-X). Epoxy powder coating or polyester powder coating is an option.


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Greens. The proclaimed enemy of many a child, greens are one of the most important parts of any well-rounded and nutrient-rich diet. Unfortunately, it is difficult to ingest adequate amounts of these nutrient-rich greens for several reasons. Salads, now ubiquitous, are often not much more than a bit of cellulose (fiber) and some water, making them a pleasant vehicle for the delicious toppings, but offering very little in terms of the important alkaline-forming vitamins and minerals. Vegetables, once canned, frozen, or cooked also lose a great percentage of their nutritional value. Both spirulina and chlorella are forms of algae which provides an extremely potent and well-balanced nutrient profile. Excellent for helping the body detoxify, assisting with a strong immune system, and rounding out a well-balanced diet, these easily absorbed tablets also alleviate the strong taste that comes with most powdered or liquified green food supplements.
Spirulina and chlorella are two types of consumable algae that serve as excellent sources of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. As a dietary supplement, spirulina and chlorella are approximately 55% protein, contain all the essential amino acids, and are primary sources of omega-3 fatty acids. As one of the worlds oldest food sources, this 50/50 blend of consumable algae has incredible detoxifying and immune-assisting properties that make it one of the best-known superfoods available.
Chlorella supplementation has been shown to assist in accelerating the clearance of heavy metals and removal of exogenous toxins through improving liver function. Animals fed a diet containing chlorella showed significant decreases in blood mercury concentrations. Chlorella has a protective effect on the liver by reducing the accumulation of heavy metals.
Blue-green algae has a long history as a valuable food source for ancient civilizations, such as the Aztecs, yet the array of benefits of Spirulina and Chlorella on the human body has only recently been uncovered. Packed with anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds, spirulina and chlorella can help the body aid the liver in detoxification and assist in elevating the immune system to help maintain optimal health. Daily incorporation of this superfood is a highly recommended component to an enhanced dietary nutrient profile.


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Get your vegan bulk wine from us, click the link below.
Bulk wine buyers still find it difficult to find bulk wines that are Vegan. Large buyers, in for example the Scandinavian countries, are currently pressuring their suppliers to use vegan friendly processes. But It takes time for large wineries to adjust their production methods, and even longer to get the final decision approved. The need for began bulk wine is predicted to rise also in the US, England, Holland and Germany.
At Premium Wine Broker we have reason to believe that vegan wines will outnumber non-vegan wines within 20 years, but we are not there yet.
Vegan wines are produced without any processes, ingredients or help (such as vineyard horse) derived from the animal kingdom. All young wines are slightly hazy and contain particles. The fastest way to make a young wine clear is through a process called “fining”. The issue is that the fining agents used for this process can be derived from animals, agents such as casein, albumin, gelatine and isinglass are common. Instead of using these products, vegan wines are using for example Bentonite, a sort of clay. Another ingredient that is unsuitable for vegan wine is the enzyme Lysozyme (E 1105) that is sometimes used to stop the malolactic fermentation.
All wines need to have a unique selling point, and vegan might just be the one you want to use. We recommend using “vegan” as a complement to other concepts on your wine label. It’s clear to us that consumers consider a vegan wine more clean and healthy, even non-vegans have positive ideas about vegan wine.
Where do I find vegan wine in bulk?
The problem that many private label owners are facing is that most bulk wine wineries do not produce vegan wines, in fact, very few does. This will change in time, but at the moment sourcing a continuous supply of vegan bulk wine is a hassle. As the first bulk wine broker do to so, we have sought out a wide variety of premium quality bulk wines produced in a vegan friendly manner.
After sampling close to all vegan bulk wines on the market we have come to the conclusion that the best value wines in the vegan category are to be found in Romania. Perhaps unexpectedly Romania has a similar vineyard size as Chile and Portugal, but close to no reputation in export markets. 2017 was a key year in the history of Romanian wine, the poor harvests elsewhere in Europe made buyers consider Romanian wine seriously for the very first time. Buyers with a sharp eye for value have been dealing with Romanian wine since the 1990s, but quality has always been better elsewhere. This is no longer true, as any taster of our selection can see for themselves.
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text: This little Pilgrim Girl is a perfect companion for that special Thanksgiving lover in your life! He’s a super cute decoration or a delightful toy for a child. Perfect teacher gift!! He is 5” tall and just perfect to hold in your hand!


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A display showcases historical artefacts, including the original pestle and mortar used by founder John Cadbury to grind cocoa beans at his first shop in Bull Street, Birmingham, as well as a video presenting a list of guidelines, called the Suggested Rules of Health, aimed at encouraging the village residents to maintain healthier lifestyles.
Enjoy reminiscing over Cadbury packaging and products from the early 1900s right through to the present day in Sweet Delights, modelled on an old fashioned sweet shop.
The Bournville Experience is a great way to celebrate the unique development of Bournville and to understand how the ideas of George Cadbury a century ago were so far ahead of their time.
No booking required. The Bournville Experience is free to enter.
If visitors would like to also visit Cadbury World, standard admission prices will apply.

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Please join us for a half-day meeting of the BayBunch user group hosted by Linuxcare. BayBunch is a regional group consisting of zSeries and Linux enthusiasts. If you are interested in issues relating to zSeries and Linux, you won't want to miss this exciting get-together!
This presentation will focus on the value proposition for Linux in the business marketplace. We will look at software solutions, hybrid solutions and some real world examples of large-scale consolidations that are in production. We will discuss real world objections and issues regarding cost justification of Linux in a mainframe environment.
z/VM Platform Update: In the span of two years since its launch in July of 2001, z/VM Version 4 has already seen three releases of new functionality. This session will give you an overview of the latest capabilities shipped in z/VM 4.3.0. You'll also find out how z/VM V4 is priced differently than VM/ESA or z/VM V3, offering cost savings for current VM customers and making it easy to deploy Linux with z/VM on your zSeries processor complex. Hear the latest about z/VM V4 and an overview of announcements since last year's BayBunch meeting.
z/Architecture Overview and z/VM 64-bit Internals: z/VM operates in a new architectural mode, called z/Architecture, that provides 64-bit real and virtual addressing and arithmetic operations. This presentation gives a brief overview of the new architecture and explains how VM exploits this architecture to deliver new features and functions.
To encourage and reward those who fill out the evaluations and attend the entire meeting, we will be having a drawing at the end of the meeting for fun prizes! You must be present to win.
Directions to 650 Townsend Street: Linuxcare is located at the corner of 8th Street and Townsend Street in San Francisco's South of Market district. Driving directions to Linuxcare can be found at www.linuxcare.com/aboutus/contact/sf.epl. Parking lots can be found in the immediate vicinity. Beware that much of the street parking is limited to 2 hours.