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ESA and Inmarsat Global Ltd announce on Friday 23 November in Paris the formal signature of the contract for Alphasat satellite, one of the world’s largest telecommunications satellites.
The Alphasat programme is a major cooperation between the public and private sectors. With Alphasat, Inmarsat will be the first commercial customer for the Alphabus platform, the new European high-power telecommunications platform jointly developed by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space and initiated by a partnership between ESA and CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) as a coordinated European response to the increased market demand for larger telecommunication payloads, for new broadband, broadcasting and mobile communications services.
Astrium Satellites is the industrial prime contractor for the development of the satellite, including its advanced L-Band mission, which will augment the successful services already being offered by Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN). Key to the implementation of this payload is the advanced Integrated Processor, being developed by Astrium Satellites in the UK, which will provide payload flexibility enabling full coverage reconfiguration and flexible power allocation.
For this application, the flexibility of the Alphabus platform design will be demonstrated by implementing a ‘geomobile configuration’ with a 90 degree change to the satellite flight orientation and a large deployable reflector (12 metres in diameter).
Alphabus is a programme initiated by ESA and CNES to combine the technical resources of Astrium and Thales Alenia Space in the development of a Large multipurpose geostationary communications platform which would extend the capabilities of European Telecommunications platforms beyond those currently offered by the existing product lines of Eurostar E3000 and Spacebus 4000.
The Alphabus/Alphasat activities of ESA are implemented within the frame of the element 8 of the ARTES programme which is worth about € 440 million in terms of to-date subscriptions. The following sixteen countries contribute to this programme: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
For Alphasat this platform is utilised at the lower end of its capabilities, but the Alphabus is capable of supporting missions with more than 8 tonne launch mass and 18 kilowatt payload power.
Whilst being a new platform development, the Alphabus is a careful blend of core technologies resulting from the extensive heritage of the two industrial partners with the inclusion of well proven new technologies where deemed appropriate.

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Oh dear… I haven’t spent much time watching Ozzie & Harriet, but based on this 1957 clip I’d say they sure earned that reputation for corniness. If ever there was a party that needed its punch spiked, it’s this weirdly stiff affair.
Thank goodness someone thought to invite Harry Owens to the party. Harry Owens was the bandleader at the legendary Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki, starting in 1934. He had a big role in developing the hapa haole sound that defined “Hawaiian” music for at least a generation, and he enjoyed introducing tourists from the mainland with aspects of traditional Hawaiian culture. He plays that role in this clip, too, by sprinkling the luau with Hawaiian fun facts. It’s a treat to see him in action, and the outfits are pretty covet-worthy, too.
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I have been in this hobby for over a decade and finally switched over. I was running a system that later trends would call the Triton Method with large Chaeto fuge about 35% of tank size. I had a stable system and some great success and also some possible old tank syndrome that had me frag tank out that was fairly mature.
I recently started this method as I had the start of a dino outbreak with low nutrients and cured dry rock that was not as forgiving as some live rock. To dismay of some here I cured issue with Dr. Tim's Waste Away and RedSea NOPX rather quickly along with filter socks. I seemed to fair better with UV off with this method. I recently got the Korallin Zucht 4l reactor and starter kit and will give it 6months try. I am leaving a chaeto reactor on as a back up though.
My tank is large for hobbyist as I have a basement TV room.
I am basically seeking to confirm my starting point on a low nutrient system and manage costs somewhat. Bacteria I will admit is out of wack and the main reason I am here. Dino bloom has been receding for 3 weeks now. I prefer growth over pastels as well going forward.
11. Type of light (Watt, color temp, how old, etc.) – 4x Ecotech G3 Radion; want to get 4 ATI 60" bulbs too.
Abandoned Triton due to unavailability when reordering.
Hello, dino problem It seems to be helpful to let tank in the dark, and check the "hose" used in the pipeline, whether it can release the entire tank picture and sump picture.
Hydrogen peroxide also seems to reduce dino. It is not recommended to use germicidal lamps for the kz system.
1. Place 3 liter zeovit in a Zeo Reactor. Water flow around 320 US gallons per hour. Connect the reactor pump to a clock timer and run the reactor pump with a 3 hour on / 3 hour off / 3 hour on interval. Please make sure the zeolite is not exposed to air while the pump is switched off. Clean the material daily. Leave the zeolite 4 weeks in the filter until you do the first change out. This is the first changing interval, others could be lengthen to 6 – 8 weeks.
2. Place 1 liter activated carbon in a filter sock and keep it in a passive water flow in your sump, changed every 30 days. Knead the carbon daily to keep the surface clean. Most users get perfect results with korallenzucht carbon.
3. Dose 12 drops ZeoBac daily for the first 2 weeks, flowed by a 2 – 3 x weekly dosage of 12 drops. Dose 1.2 ml ZeoStart 2 x daily (morning & evening). Dose those in front of the Zeo reactor pump while it is switched on.
You can keep the algae and the algae reactor running as long as the algae do not die off because of the nutrient reduction. Many algae are doing well even in a nutrient poor environment but usually their growth is slower.
With the system it is not recommended to use UV so I would recommend to switch it off when you start with ZeoVit.
Because of the Dinoflagellate I would recommend to first see they go away over the next couple of weeks because of the system changes. To support this process it might make sense to dose 2.4 ml Coral Snow daily for 10 days pure additional. Please also check the quality of your RO water. A accurate TDS meter should show a ZERO reading.
The other products you already have can be used later.
Thanks G.Alexander for the detailed and quick response. I appreciate your dedication here. I do see a few immediate concerns in the switch to this system.
First I am glad I check as I had Zeostart dosage wrong and will adjust. I used Eheim liquidoser that is now discontinued and 1.2ml is one rotation on a liquid doser attachment on a daily feeder typical for freshwater tanks with small pellets. Is another device like this better suited for daily ZeoStart3 dosing?I am not thinking a dosing pump running 2 min a day is relaible enough for such a small dosage.
As far as Potassium replacement goes, I prefer to stick with Salifert tests and replenish with Potassium Iodide solution instead of Potassium Chloride solutions. Is this a common question? Perhaps KI soltion is not enough to keep up?
My main start up question is after reading user manual, what is guidance or reaction to lowering zeobak or zeostart? I already have zero Nitrates and zero phosphates. I am aware of need to replace beneficial bacterial but was would be the taper down indicators.
Also don't forget that zeolite plays an important role. The zeolite exchanges sodium and potassium as ammonium ions. Zeo used in salt water prefers ammonia because ammonium is adsorbed by the crystal structure, and bacteria living on the zeolite send food to them. Therefore, by adding a carbon source, all the bacteria in the tank will get some extra food. However, because those bacteria on the zeolite are more likely to obtain ammonia than other bacteria in ammonia, and their amount far exceeds that of other bacteria, they can get a better "profit" from carbon addition.
There is another nutrient removal method in the zeolite filter. With the accumulation of bacterial biofilms, many nitrogen compounds are actually immobilized in the biomass and thus removed from the water. When the biofilm becomes too thick and tears, the skimmer may capture them, removing these biologically fixed nutrients from the water.
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I understand role of system and nutrient reduction. I am interested in certain stability, all but secretive contents.
Are you able to respond to the questions I had above?
I don't quite understand what you mean. I think there is a question for answering your question. Maybe I understand the problem with your mistake. Let us listen to G.Alexander.
If you have to increase the potassium level PIF does not work as the potassium concentration in the product is to low to have any measurable impact. You might try K-Balance Strong instead.
Once if the system does run nutrient poor stabile you usually can lower the ZeoStart dosage a little bit without having any negative impact to nutrients or corals but I would not go lower then 2/3 of the recommended quantity to keep the biology stabile.
I have Salifert test kit coming to target 380 ppm and will run this basic for two months.
The only change I made is biomate 2x per week and coral snow 4x per week added until gone. Dino is definitely receding. Snails I had for 2 years faired poorly.
So from reading next step is to change food source to separate components ZeoFood blend when I want of Zeofood is used up?
Once your system runs nutrient poor stabile and corals tissue does start to become lighter because of the decreased nutrients it makes sense to use additional products to fine tune corals coloration and growth. ZeoFood is just one of the possibilities. If you like to give it a try it is usually dosed 2 x weekly @ 1 drop / 25 US gallons. It does contain some kind of coral food and does also nourish bacteria.
Well kit had Zeofood and I wanted to feed more in general, so I will use that. Nitrates and phosphates are near zero. I feed spirulina pollock frozen cubes, reef frenzy, and nori. I also started reef roids, or freeze dried marine plankton.
Water clarify improved and dino are mostly gone, so pleased with that. I also have a 1.5" thick acrylic tank so I prefer to clean tank walls less if possible,To be honest I started system with out reactor and will add that next week. I wanted the bacteria in the tank first. I don't think it will matter long term.
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“that Homo sapiens has become ‘localized’ by having to depend upon learned, culture-specific modes of interacting.” (Bruner 2005: 693).
Humans are constantly immersed in culture and social interactions and at the same time extremely dependent on it, and human ontogeny fundamentally differs from that of any other primate species. Human infants are even more helpless and completely dependent on others, and remain unable to feed and care for themselves for a uniquely long time span. Furthermore, childhood and adolescence are two additional and prolonged states of mental development and cultural learning absent in any other species. These phases seem to be vitally important for the development of culturally adept and cognitively highly sophisticated human beings (Locke & Bogin 2006).
The fact that social interaction, learning, and cultural transmission play such a vital and important role for children’s ongoing cognitive development suggests that they may have a biologically-based “adaptation for culture” which has to be operative from early on. Comparing young children’s and infants cognitive abilities with that of the other great apes may be a useful indicator of the biological foundations of what makes us uniquely human. In addition, we can gain crucial insights on what platform the evolution of human cognition could have started because chimpanzees are often described as a “conservative species” that has always lived in tropical forests, which is why they didn’t have to change as much as we did to adapt to fundamentally new environments and selection pressures. This also means that chimpanzees are more similar to the last common ancestor we shared with them than we are (Gazzaniga 2008: 51, this line of reasoning has been criticized quite heavily recently, however, especially since the detailed publications on Ardi).
If we now compare the performance of 2.5 year-old children and other great apes (in this case chimpanzees and orangutans) across a wide range of domains we indeed find that in some domains the differences are much more marked than in others (see also, this post). In the physical domain, which includes the understanding of space, quantity and causality, the subjects were tested by rewards that were out of reach and could only be retrieved with a stick (causality), or had to locate a reward that was not directly accessible but had to be located (space). In the social domain, subjects had to follow “an actor’s gaze direction to a target,” solve “a simple but not obvious problem by observing a demonstrated solution” (social learning), or understand what an actor intended to do, but in the end failed to. (intention attribution or Theory of Mind).
“the current results provide strong support for the cultural intelligence hypothesis that human beings have evolved some specialized social-cognitive skills (beyond those of primates in general) for living and exchanging knowledge in cultural groups: communicating with others, learning from others, and “reading the mind” of others in especially complex ways“ (Hermann et al. 2007: 1365).
If we follow this line of reasoning we are justified in further looking for uniquely human attributes in the socio-cognitive development of children (but for a different view see Elizabeth Spelke’s critique that Iwrote about in in my last post). This is whay in my next post I will look at studies that compare the social cognition of infants and chimpanzees in some crucial areas.
Bruner, Jerome (2005): “Homo Sapiens, a localized species”. In:Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28:5, 694–695.
Inoue S. and T. Matsuzawa (2007). Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees. Current Biology, 17(23), R1004-R1005.
Kaminski, Juliane, Riedel, J., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2005) Domestic goats (Capra hircus) follow gaze direction and use social cues in an object choice task. Animal Behaviour, 69(1), 11-18.
Locke, John L. and Barry Bogin. (2005) “Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29, 259–325.
Miller, Earl K., David J. Freedman and Jonathan D. Wallis (2002.) “The Prefrontal Cortex: Categories, Concepts and Cognition.” In:Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 357: 1123–1136.
Cool post. On a related note: Fernald & Clayton (2008) provide a useful organisational heuristic outlining two vectors of influence for understanding social behaviour in the context of genes and neurobiology: ““Vector 1 describes how social information leads to changes in brain gene expression, brain function, and social behaviour, and Vector 2 describes how genetic variation between individuals leads to variation in social behaviour.” Here’s the link.
Thanks a lot. Their approach looks very interesting.
Vector 1 “Social information alters gene expression in the brain to influence behavior” does look especially interesting in light of the question how much the domestication process really had to alter things on the genetic level, and how much is achieved by “culture rewiring the brain,” so to speak. This is all the more interesting given one aspect I didn’t discuss in my post:in some social cognition tasks, especially in the domain of ‘rational imitation’, human-reared, enculturated chimpanzees act in a way much more similar to the way human children do and not like “wild chimpanzees. (link here.) So enculturation seems to play quite a big part in the development of social cogniton, maybe even more so than domestication.
Totally agree. For me, I think a large aspect of the apparent discontinuity between human and animal minds can be accounted for from this process of, to use your term, culturally rewiring the brain. Of course, this is not to completely discount selection processes taking place across evolutionary timescales. We just need to also acknowledge that selection processes operate across developmental and cultural timescales too.
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The Sherfadin Wells Project – Shingala Azad, the Slovak Catholic Charity, the Conference of Slovak Bishops.
Today we had a ceremonial opening of two wells which we built together with the Slovak Catholic Charity and the Conference of Slovak Bishops. The following prominent people took part: Mr Kasem Shascho, general for the Shinghal area, Mr Naif, members of the Shingala Azad organization, Mr Pavol Kosnač – representative of the Slovak Charity, the brave Peshmergas, Sech Ismail, Mr Reit from Zagros TV and many others. We would like to thank everybody for their participation.
Great thanks also go to Mr Hogo Gloss from Shingala Azad, His Excellency the Bishop Mr. Josef Halko who visited us in Shinghal in person in April and to Mr pavel Kosnač.
We are looking forward to the future joint projects.
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I would start with the salvage yards, something like 247spares or Breakerlink, the exhaust system is stainless steel so shouldn't ever rust and I don't think they ever changed since the first model.
Thanks Steve, will give them a try.

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Happy New Year from Rock Road! We look forward to seeing new (and renewed!) members in our Group Fitness classes in 2015. We offer Group Fitness and Mind/Body classes for all levels, including Yoga Basics & Gentle Yoga, R30 (a 30-minute spin class) and FitLife, strength training, Zumba, aquatics classes and much more. If you’re new, please come introduce yourself to the instructor and he/she will help get you set up for class. See you in the studios!
Thursday’s noon Men’s Yoga class is now open to women and will be Hot Yoga with Beth.
Also, we’re no longer offering Monday night 6:45 p.m. Zumba, but our friends at East Central still offer that very class at that very time.
We’re thrilled to offer variety in our Ride room, so in addition to our daily selection of Ride and R30 classes, we now offer G-Cycle & Sculpt, a 60-minute cardio and strength training class. We’ll provide the equipment; just join Anne in Studio B on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.
This month, we meet Danielle (Dani), a 22-year group fitness pro. She currently teaches Group Power and Group Centergy, although over her career with Genesis, she’s taught nearly every format imaginable!

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Millennials make up about 22% of travelers, and the fact is, their travel habits are very different from the generations of tourists before them.
One key underlying concept behind many of the trends in attracting traveling Millennials is authenticity. While hotspot attractions seen in movies and TV are still appealing to many, Millennials would often rather experience a destination the way the locals do. They don't want to sight-see, they want an experience, to learn something new they can't from home. They want inexpensive, hole-in-the-wall places that they discovered from word-of-mouth or user-generated content.
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What does this mean for destinations and tour operators? It means the tide has turned, but you don't have to get caught in the undertow. This new group of travelers is both a challenge and an opportunity. With the right adjustments to your methods and marketing, you can ride the wave to increased tourism and traveler satisfaction.
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Limited edition LP vinyl re-issue of the 1983 album classic! Recorded with the Roots Radics and mixed by Soldgie at Channel One Studio, produced by Henry "Junjo" Lawes. The sweet backing vocals are courtesy Al Campbell, The Tamlins, and Tony Tuff. John Holt's long line of hits both solo and with The Paragons has made him one of reggae's most successful and respected artists and in 2004 he was honoured by the Jamaican government with the Order Of Distinction for his contribution to Jamaican culture!


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Time for our first Newsletter of 2019. You should see one a month being produced. Feel free to sign up for notifications at the bottom of our News page.
Included in this edition we mention our forthcoming Away Day at Micklepage plus a quiz that looks back on trends in 2018. See if you can all five questions right.


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In Nellie's case the circus was the big-top and acrobats type; clowns, monkey in a fez, all that game. In H&W's, it was an FA-cup inspired media circus. What differs, you could argue (ignoring the obvious), is the manner of departure. Nellie left of her own accord, turning on a sixpence (as much as an elephant can) and doing one out the door, whereas our circus eventually upped sticks and left us, reportedly seen in February heading off in the direction of Barnsley.
However, despite our expectation, the circus has come to find us again, TV crews once again queuing up to film our bar, our club shop and our players at work, at their other work (if it provides a suitable visual metaphor) and at play. You might argue then that the Hawks and old Nell are not the same at all, but the way I see it, both have been the masters of their own destiny. Nellie fancied doing the off, and did so, whilst we fancied being centre of attention again, so went out and grabbed it at Crawley despite form, despite a lack of confidence and despite the strength of the opposition.
Semi-professional footballers rarely get the limelight so you can imagine they love it when it comes and although we may only have four fellas left from our previous trip to the circus, you can tell they got a taste for the 15 minutes+. In fact, our lot have been getting so used to the featurette appearances on sports programmes and the general showbiz lifestyle that part of last years cup run money had to be spent on a giant mirror surrounded by light bulbs for the changing room.
So, let me tell you a bit about the return of our circus. Pushing through the turnstile an hour prior to kick off, one of the first faces I saw walking around our gradually-filling ground was Clive Tyldesley’s, and it was wearing a look that said “Are you sure about this? I’ve done Champions League finals.” Not long after, Andy Townsend strolled out, caked in so much make-up he appeared to have mistaken being at the game for being on it. I half expected him to give those of us standing nearby a cheeky wink before inhaling sharply through his nostrils and proclaiming “the smell of the greasepaint, dear, smell of the greasepaint” like a semi-retired ham pining for the music hall.
Joining Andy in the shed-on-stilts that was the pundits lounge was Steve Rider, a man so slick you would usually find him coating sea-mammals next to a stricken tanker, and Martin Allen, borrowing Deirdre Barlow’s larynx for the occasion. Elsewhere, a weather-beaten Ned Boulting was being sent to explore the nooks and crannies of West Leigh Park, sneaking a look at the player’s willies over Shaun Gale’s shoulder in the dressing room, and loading the pockets of his winter coat with coronation chicken sarnies whilst chatting to our chairman in the board room.
Everyman Andy, being a dogger that turned out for Weymouth and Welling in his distant past (before going on to be a dogger at a much higher level) was sent down to join Ned on the pitch and try to remember if he turned out for his early clubs on it. Given WLP would have looked a lot different when he was a nipper, you can forgive his struggling memory. Chances are he probably didn’t, given Havant Town were in the Hampshire League at the time. Indeed, he reacted to, and banged on so much about the slope in one of our corners, that I’ve barely noticed in watching 170-odd games there, it was not so much like a man who has never been there before so much as a man who really, really doesn’t fancy a skiing holiday.
Anyway, I’m droning on about the telly coverage like I was sitting at home flicking between the ITV build-up and the EastEnders omnibus. I was there though, and I’ll happily bore you to tears by fast-forwarding-a-bit-then-rewinding-a-ooh-nearly-there-yeah-ah-just-missed-it-there-THERE-just-behind-that-guy-in-the-clown-wig-no-not-that-guy-in-the-clown-wig-the-other-guy-in-the-clown-wig-ing you through my video of the entire three hour broadcast to prove it.
It says something about our club, or perhaps about our recently acquired collective hubris, that we can react to a defeat by a league side with some degree of disappointed disbelief. Let’s face it, ITV were here for our ‘form’ in this area, and it had got to the point where we feared not Football League and Premiership giants, only Conference South strugglers, amongst whose number, I should add, we have recently arrived.
However the protective bubble of the cup has now evaporated, as have the talismanic powers of Young Adrian’s lucky hat. It was rubbed, as tradition dictated, but still we lost. I do hope Adrian’s mother can knit something new up for next season, as I will need something to rub, and I’d really feel disloyal and wrong if it wasn’t attached to Adrian’s head at the time.
So we’re disappointed, after all we gave it a good go, particularly in the second half, and had we been able to convert something from the six-yard-box scramble at 2-1 down in the 81st minute, we’d likely have had a draw, or more, to celebrate. As it is, we suffered the old, old story: boy meets girl / girl meets boy / team going gung-ho for equaliser get caught on the break.
So, another memorable cup campaign. However with that bubble gone all pop, we now (unless we can get a run going in the FA Trophy – which might be nice in the sense that we can keep singing “Wem-ber-lee, Wem-ber-lee…” for a little while longer – but otherwise might be too much of a distraction) have to focus on our league form. Five defeats on the spin ain’t pretty, in fact it’s as gruesome as a pancake-faced Andy Townsend.
For next weekend’s match against Newport County, with whom we are currently wrestling for the ‘Biggest Underachievers’ trophy (there is a trophy too, a pewter figurine, atop a little wooden base, of an unshaven man in a three-sizes-too-small vest and ragged pants asleep in an armchair), and who are managed by former Hawk Dean Holdsworth, we will need to get our feet back on the ground quickly, and for them to be running as they hit.
1. H&W aren't about to slip of their iron chains and run off to the Hindustan, never to be see again. At least one would hope.
2. Brentford might not have hit the net three times if Nellie had been parked in front of it.
3. One is football club, one is ephelant. QED.


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Family and friends of April Winter-Bruno are raising money to pay for uninsured injury-related expenses associated with April’s spinal cord injury.
April has chosen to fundraise with Help Hope Live – The Leader in Fundraising Assistance and Support for Transplant and Catastrophic Injury – in part because Help Hope Live provides both tax-deductibility and fiscal accountability to contributors. Contributors can be sure that funds contributed will be used only to pay or reimburse medically-related expenses. Please consider making an end-of-year tax-deductible donation today by clicking the GIVE button.
Hi All! Well, the past six months have been “interesting”. Some parts were and are fun. However, it started out rather challenging with a frightening diagnosis of breast cancer (for me). Once I dealt with that, thankfully, life took a more upbeat turn. Cameron got his drivers license!! Definitely not frightening, but fun to watch!
Now Zack, on the other hand, decided to go on a mission trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea. He will be gone for six months! I miss him very much, but the experience is worth the tears!
I'm praying for you during this time.
I made a donation in the memory of Charlie Love. Keep up the great work!
Hi April! I was just thinking of you and have not heard much about how you are doing. I think of you often and send prayers your way. Hugs to you, your mom and dad, and the boys. Shane often thinks of your iguana and thinks it was pretty cool. HUGS and GOOD THOUGHTS coming your way.
April, I just learned about your accident yesterday via a lovely letter from your mom. I'm in shock and have shed so many tears for you. Please know that you are in our prayers and thoughts. You are one incredible woman! Sending love and hugs to all!
April, you are a special lady! I am so happy to have met you! You are always on my mind and in my prayers. God bless you and your family.
My friend, I am blessed to know you and to be a part of your life. You are in my thoughts and prayers daily.
Beautiful feature, Beautiful woman! April, I am really looking forward to getting to know you, better! Thank you for your inspiration in my life, and to so many others. May God bless you, every day, in a very special way!
Hope sign up for the golf tournament is going well. Goofey golf is more my speed! Good luck!
This is a good idea. Thanks to Tess for keeping us informed.
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1144 persons have died in motor accidents within the time period between 1st of January to 31st of May this year.
According to DIG of Traffic and Road Safety Amarasiri Senaratne, the number of deaths have dropped in comparison to the previous year.
DIG Senaratne stated this while addressing a media briefing held at the National Council for Road Safety this morning.


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for his first installation and video art piece. His work is found in many museums and public collections in Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Jordan, UAE, Norway and the UK.
In Mazen Rifai’s small-scale paintings, thick brushstrokes traverse the horizontal axis of the canvas, often interrupted midway by more abundant planes of color ranging from pastel to night blue. A thin powdery white line, moving in parallel, marks the skyline. Rifai produces anti-illusionistic abstract works, but they are also landscapes of the Bekaa Valley. His move away from illusionism in the landscape is indebted to a modernist legacy of Lebanese painting in this genre, whose high point is often considered to be the artwork of Saliba Douaihy. Rifai’s landscapes are morphologically distinct from Douaihy’s, but a similar operation is at play in both, in which the move toward abstraction denaturalizes, and yet maintains, the referent.
Mazen Rifai is a Beirut-based painter and engineer. He has a degree in Fine Arts from Macerata, Italy, and a degree in interior architecture from the Lebanese University. He has also taught fine arts at the Lebanese University. Since 1974, he has participated in numerous editions of Sursock Museum’s salon d’Automne. In more recent years, he has had solo exhibitions in Beirut at Galerie Rochane (2016), Galerie Aida Cherfan (2014), Gallery 6 (2010), and Agial (2007), as well as in Paris at Galerie 34 Bonaparte (2016), and Galerie Alex Menem (2009). Rifai is an art director at “Engineers, consulting & contracting”, an engineering and architecture firm since 1990, and remains a consultant in the domains of construction, rehabilitation and renovation for the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR). In 1984, he contributed to the Beirut Central District Reconstruction Plan with Oger Liban. He is a member of the Baalbeck International Festival Committee.


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Roasted chicken is one of the most versatile dishes. Cater it to the season and make it with veggies that taste like Spring.
In a small dish, mix garlic, chopped herbs, Italian seasoning, olive and salt and pepper. Thoroughly rub the mixture all over the entire chicken.
In a large bowl, toss onions, carrots, potatoes and Brussel sprouts with the remaining mixture.
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JP Software announces the release of its revolutionary real-time backup and archiving solution. CascadePoint was created to provide a solution for individuals and organizations to backup and archive multiple versions of their desktop documents.
User tells CascadePoint what types of documents to protect and how many versions (up to 99) of each type of document to keep in the archive. CascadePoint watches user work and makes backup versions in the background each time user open or save a document. It supports local and network archives simultaneously.
Laptops continue to archive when away from their home networks and synchronize with the network archive when they return. Current versions of documents can be recovered.
CascadePoint is available immediately from JP Software and our resellers globally. It’s priced at US$34.95 per copy with discounts available for multi-copy purchases and site and enterprise licences.
EMC Corp. rolled out a line-up of storage systems and software to help customers to store information.
The EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 series of high-end storage systems.
In addition, Symmetrix includes a set of built-in security features from RSA, The Security Division of EMC, including integration with the RSA enVision platform that integrates audit logs from Symmetrix into the enterprise-wide view of audit logs for security and compliance that RSA enVision provides.
The EMC Celerra NS20 and NS40 multi-protocol storage systems.
The EMC Celerra series of systems will also support 750 GB SATA II disk drives, which can reduce Celerra power consumption by up to 33 per cent.
Management Appliance (FMA) enables organizations to implement policy-based file management and automatically move and retrieve files across the entire NAS infrastructure. It works with EMC Celerra, other NAS systems and EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) systems. In addition, customers can upgrade from the FMA to the full Rainfinity Global File Virtualization solution.
EMC CLARiiON CX3 networked storage system capabilities.
This version of the CLARiiON FLARE storage operating environment incorporates functionality with the addition of built-in security capabilities that provide customers with improved access control and expanded compliance and audit features.
The Centera Generation 4 LP Nodes and the Rainfinity File Management Appliance are generally available. The Symmetrix DMX-4 series, Celerra NS20 systems, Celerra multi-protocol NS40 systems and CLARiiON enhancements will be available in August 2007.
LJZsoft announces XLReportGen 3.5.0, a report generator that uses Microsoft Excel to output reports in Excel spreadsheet format.
To create a report, XLReportGen reads a report template file and an XRF file. The report template is a Microsoft Excel workbook that defines the layout and format of a report. The XRF file contains SQL statements and some information and its purpose is to tell XLReportGen how to get data from database and how to put data into a report.
XLReportGen creates a blank report using the report template file, executes SQL statements in the XRF file to extract data from database, and fills data into the report to generate the report in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format.
The program supports all types of SQL, such as DML, DDL and DCL and can execute multiple SQL statements in one report building process. You can perform queries on databases, insert data into databases and create database objects like tables.
As for the layout and format of a report, you can take advantage of the formatting and presentation capabilities of Microsoft Excel, including cell formatting, formulas, filtering, sorting, drawing, pictures, charts, multiple sheets, page setup, headers and footers, preview and printing and many other options.
XLReportGen works with Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, MySQL, Microsoft Access and dBase. The program supports Windows mode and command line mode.
XLReportGen 3.5.0 runs under Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and later. The product starts at US$99.95 for Standard Edition. Registered users are entitled to free technical support by email. Additional information on the product as well as its free 30-day evaluation copy is available from www.ljzsoft.com.


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It’s about to get a whole lot sunnier in the home solar sector in the Peach State, thanks to the recent passage of a piece of Georgia state legislation which could open up the Georgia solar financing ecosystem and spur residential solar growth.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed the Solar Power Free Market Financing Act (HB 57) into law in March, after being passed by the Georgia House earlier this year. The bill, which essentially allows homeowners to have a lot more financing options through agreements with third-party solar providers, will take effect on July 1, 2015, which may end up being a landmark solar date for Georgia.
“This forward-looking new law will help to greatly expand the use of clean, reliable and affordable solar energy across Georgia, and we applaud state legislators – especially the bill’s author, Rep. Mike Dudgeon – Georgia’s electric utilities, the Georgia Property Rights Council, the Georgia Solar Energy Association and many other groups for working together to benefit all Georgians.
Although the Georgia Solar Power Free Market Financing Act is a great step in the right direction, Georgia still lags behind in a few key solar policies, namely the lack of good net metering regulations (whereby solar homeowners can sell their excess electricity generated by their panels back to the grid at retail cost) and the lack of a state Renewable Portfolio Standard (which would require utilities to procure a certain percentage of electricity from renewable energy, such as home solar). According to EnergyWire, Georgia’s net metering program only allows solar homeowners to “sell back the power at avoided costs only, which is significantly lower” than full retail cost.
For those who choose to go solar in Georgia, there are some solar incentives in place, including the federal 30% tax credit, ranging from local solar rebates from utilities (no standard state solar rebate is in place in Georgia) to energy efficiency loan programs or rebates. The DSIRE site has the full listing of Georgia renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives.
Find out how you can put solar to work for you in just a few minutes!

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text: Carnegie Hall is recognized worldwide, associated with the heights of artistic achievement and a multitude of famous performers. Yet its beginnings are not so well known. In 1887, a chance encounter on a steamship bound for Europe brought young conductor Walter Damrosch together with millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his new wife, Louise. Their subsequent friendship led to the building of this groundbreaking concert space. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the conception and building of Carnegie Hall, which culminated in a five-day opening festival in May 1891, featuring spectacular music, a host of performers and Tchaikovsky as a special guest conductor.


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Last fall in Florida, I sat and watched three people on the beach. A man and woman who appeared to be in their mid sixties supported a very frail, elderly woman between them as all three waded gingerly into the ocean. They had barely wet their feet when the woman in the middle went down, falling flat where the waves met the sand. The couple tried to help her up and in the process, both fell into the water as well. The two more able bodied of the trio crawled onto the shore, literally dragging the other woman as she tried to scrabble to safety out of reach of the waves. They sat, catching their breath — and I hoped, coming to their senses. It turns out I had underestimated their determination and after a few minutes, they struggled to their feet and set off again. The result was the same, with a little more drama added this time as the elderly woman was pulled farther into the water before they were able to haul her out. A third try ensued. A fourth. I was appalled and immediately formed a judgment about the irresponsibility of the nearby lifeguard, whom I assumed was not monitoring the area. It turns out that he was attentively observing — and it wasn’t until I walked over and looked at things from his vantage point that I realized he could see something that I could not. All three people were laughing hilariously and thoroughly enjoying the experience. Not everything is what it appears to be.
Our opinions and judgments about things in life will almost always change when we change our perspective. That’s why it’s such a good idea, and so very useful.


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When I posted yesterday’s inaugural LA Haters post, I honestly thought it would be a series I’d add to maybe once or twice a month. Little did I know that more anti-LA vitriol was already seeping out of the internet and I’d pretty much have to make this column a full-time job.
@stevenchean Yep, it is a kind of self-satire of the aggressive NYer (until the end) but never mind tone, I guess.
Or more specifically, a “kind of self-satire of the aggressive New Yorker.” Which may be a new brand of satire that only aggressive New Yorkers understand? After discussing this with the #LAhaters advisory board, we have determined that even if O’Rourke’s piece is, indeed, satire—and we’re not sure we even believe her—it should stack up both in stereotypes (and in hyphenates). So with that in mind, your rankings. But never mind tone!
A parlor game played by pretty much any New Yorker temporarily living in Los Angeles: a running tally of “How They’re Different.” After spending four months in the land of kale chips, sunshine, and helicopters, my list is almost entirely consumed by thoughts about driving.
No, here in L.A., drivers peacefully wait for you to look up (from your smart phone, most likely) and notice the left-hand signal is green. Once you do, you can take your time, inching forward like a glowworm. It’s fine if only one car gets through per green arrow. No one seems to care. And as for intersections without a left-turn arrow—and this is truly confusing—drivers don’t bother to creep into the intersection. They wait, like sedated animals, back at the light.
The roads here are like snails, spiralling around. As you drive along, wondering where the hell to turn, a car may rush upon you, honk accusingly, and pass you dangerously on a turn, only to pull into a driveway two houses up. Be prepared, Easterners: L.A. traffic is calm except in the Hollywood and Beverly Hills, which are islands of suitably East Coast sclerotic impatience among the placid sea of the rest of L.A.
Get over the relaxed driving—perhaps it’s all that medical marijuana in the air, or the vegan lifestyle (too enervated to care?)—and take a walk, and you’ll realize that no one else, like you, is walking hurriedly down the street, arms akimbo, as if they really have to get somewhere; they stroll instead, sucking down a coconut-milk smoothie, yoga mat under the arm.
On the East Side, where I live, life is languid and full of the sounds of barking dogs. Pitbulls abound, and Chihuahuas. Bring your earplugs if you wish to have a peaceful walk through the bougainvillea-covered streets, or, if you prefer, take some tranquilizers, so the dogs, ready for some diversion to give them a sense of purpose, don’t make you jump out of your skin.
It used to be the case that L.A. seemed utterly different from Eastern cities in one crucial way: it was already hauntingly apocalyptic, a place of steep hills, deep predator-filled canyons, terrible earthquakes, and winds bearing plutonium from Japan.
Whatever those helicopters are, they give L.A. the feel of being constantly under siege, the way the coyotes that howl down in the ravine do, the way the wildfires, itching into flame as soon as the thermometer rises, do.
One day last week, the smoke in Glendale was so thick that authorities shut down the highway I use to get home from work. California’s monumentalities still have a desperate, dangerous edge: it’s what you get living on a giant fault by the ocean.
Given all this, L.A.’s soot raining down from a sky of sun seems relatively normal: a kind of pathetic fallacy for our climate-changing, end-days era. I’ll miss it. The other night, I drove home in the fog from a screening of an old David O. Russell movie at the New Beverly Cinema. In the mist on Beverly Boulevard, the palm trees stood out like strange lollipops, the sweets of a precarious Candyland.
Congratulations! O’Rourke has taken the lead!
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The New Yorker piece is pretty lame on so many fronts. Like I said on Twitter, any Northeasterner who refers to L.A. as “apocalyptic” has clearly never driven the Pulaski Skyway into Newark — a vista that trumps L.A. for apocalypse 1000 times over. But the part about Angelenos not knowing how to make an unguarded left turn is totally true. Plus there’s “invisible car syndrome” — in which drivers leave a full car’s length of space between them and the car in front of them. That would never fly in New York. You’d have three taxi cabs fighting over the space before you could so much as put your car into first. It may hurt, my fellow Californios, but sometimes you just gotta cop to the truth.
Don’t worry, we won’t have to wait long for another article!!
Also: ““Medical marijuana” +420” Touché.
Your scoring system while seemingly idiosyncratic is uncannily accurate. Perhaps it will become a such a world standard that even Martin Filler will start to Tweet about it. In the interim, I will enjoy watching Baywatch reruns to fill the time until your next #LAhaters assessment.
Your scoring system while seemingly idiosyncratic is uncannily accurate.
Baywatch reruns to fill the time until your next #LAhaters assessment.
I don’t understand this L.A. hate at all, It seems like there something about the name “Los Angeles” that gets people all riled up. There are worst cities that I won’t name that are well known for high crime, poverty, etc. that get more praise than L.A. does!
Most of the L.A. hatred comes from New York and Northern California (mainly the Bay Area) and the morons in those regions often praise each other while tag teaming to bad mouth our great city.
These are good. THANK YOU!
Like I said, I’m no expert on driving. I will investigate this.
Thanks for noticing that, Michael!
Kudos to O’Rourke’s piece as classic Manhattan-centric LA guano that has been profitably mined for well over 150 years. She sank a new shaft and came up with more of the same. Hope her check didn’t bounce.
Brilliant. I was naive to LA before I moved here 6 months ago sort of hesitantly—I’ve heard so many bad things about the city. Since being here I have fallen in love. LA has all the amenities of a world class city, plus beautiful year round weather, natural beauty and a laid back attitude. I never want to leave! And sure there are things that need to be improved: traffic, public transportation, bike lanes, etc. But seriously, I don’t get all the hate really; I think most people are jealous.
So do I and I’m an L.A. native ! Can’t wait to be an L.A. Expat !

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The EHDN supports HD research and clinical development at all stages, from basic and applied science projects in cells, worms, fruit flies and mice, to the development of new treatment strategies, clinical assessment tools and best clinical practice, to site feasibility assessment, site selection and patient recruitment for clinical trials. These are all necessary steps towards the fulfilment of the EHDN’s mission.
The EHDN is running the global HD observational study Enroll-HD in collaboration with CHDI. Enroll-HD ensures worldwide standardized collection of high quality coded, longitudinal clinical data and biosamples from HD family members and controls that are easily accessible for researchers. Enroll-HD is the successor study of Registry, which was the first pan-European HD observational study run by the EHDN. In the Registry study more than 14,000 individuals participated, meaning that approximately one third of the European HD population was involved in the study. This fantastic achievement was made possible thanks to the collaboration and enthusiasm of all the clinical sites and HD families involved in the project. Now, with thousands of participants recruited to Registry and Enroll-HD, the EHDN is in a position to provide coded, longitudinal clinical data and biosamples to HD scientists, and collaborate with industry to facilitate site selection, recruitment and support for clinical trials.
In addition, the genome-wide association study carried out by the Genetic Modifiers of Huntington’s Disease (GeM-HD) consortium is complete. In this study, more than eight million common SNPs were tested in 1,835 Registry participants, and the results are open to all qualified researchers. More information about the data and the results of the first study can be found here.
Twice a year the EHDN awards seed funds up to a limit of €50,000 to fast-track pilot studies that will form of the basis of applications for larger grants from other organisations or to estimate the statistical power needed for larger studies (e.g., in clinical trials). The EHDN grant manager is also available to help identify funding calls, write grant applications and facilitate new research collaborations, and she gives her assistance free of charge.
It is important to be able to describe with accuracy the clinical signs and symptoms of HD in order to follow the course of the disease and assess the efficacy of treatments. The EHDN working groups have developed three clinical assessment tools for this purpose so far: the Huntington’s Disease Clinical Characteristics (HDCC), the Quality of Life questionnaire for HD (QoL-HD) and the short version of the Problem Behaviours Assessment (PBA-s).
The HDCC is a qualitative assessment of the broad spectrum of HD symptoms and signs. The tool was developed by EHDN researchers to be applied by HD medical professionals as part of the core assessments in Registry. The HDCC is now also a core assessment in the global observational study Enroll-HD.
The QoL-HD, the original version of which was developed by American psychologist John Flanagan in the 1970s, has been adapted to many chronic illnesses to provide a meaningful way of determining the impact of healthcare when no cure is available. The EHDN Quality of Life working group adapted the questionnaire for use with HD patients and families.
The EHDN behavioural phenotype working group developed the PBA-s as a semi-quantitative assessment tool for the behavioural symptoms of HD. The PBA-s is a core assessment in Enroll-HD and raters are required to attend an approved training session before administering it.
The UHDRS motor assessment is a core assessment in Registry and Enroll-HD, as well as in numerous clinical trials. To reduce inter-rater variability, the EHDN motor phenotype working group has developed an annual certification for all EHDN motor raters. If you would like to be a certified EHDN motor rater, but do not yet have a login for the EHDN website, please fill in this contact form.
The EHDN working groups have developed a number of evidence-based guidelines with a view to optimising and standardising the clinical care of HD patients worldwide. In February 2010, the physiotherapy working group published the first edition of the physiotherapy guidance document. This was edited into a short, practical guidance document that has since been translated into most European languages. In February 2012, the standard of care working group published a series of clinical care guidelines, and in March 2013 the genetic testing working group published a revised version of its predictive genetic testing guidelines.
The EHDN created the HD Clinical Trial Task force (HD-CTTF) as part of its 2011-2015 Scientific Strategic Plan to expedite and improve the design of HD clinical trials. The HD-CTTF provides advice and assistance with HD research programmes and/or protocol development. In order to access further EHDN clinical trial services, a study must be endorsed by the EHDN Executive Committee. Such an endorsement is a statement to the HD community that a protocol is scientifically and ethically acceptable. It is highly influential within that community, being used by participants and sites to guide them in their decision about whether or not to participate in a trial. Once a study has been endorsed, the EHDN offers a range of services to facilitate start-up and recruitment: feasibility assessment, operational support, expedited recruitment and rater training. For clinical sites interested in participating in clinical trials, an HD Clinical Trial Site Certification scheme has been developed.
Since the creation of the EHDN in 2005, EHDN members and collaborators have published more than 70 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. A full list of publications is available here.


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by Amelia Templeton Follow OPB April 3, 2018 10:55 a.m. | Updated: April 3, 2018 4:24 p.m. | Portland, Ore.
There’s a new twist in the long saga of Wapato Jail, the Multnomah County facility that cost $58 million to build but has never been used to house inmates.
On Monday, Portland developer Homer Williams and his partner, Don Mazziotti, sent a letter to the county chair and offered to buy the facility on behalf of their nonprofit, Harbor Of Hope. They offered to pay $7 million in cash, minus the cost of maintenance, repairs and other unknown costs.
They said a group of private sector benefactors wishes to redevelop the Wapato facility “as a multi-service restoration campus to bring housing, training, employment and productivity to the guests of such a center,” Mazziotti wrote.
In a proposed purchase agreement, Harbor of Hope gave the county until April 19 to accept its offer.
The nonprofit offered $250,000 in refundable earnest money and asked for 120 days to conduct a feasibility study to determine if the jail can be re-purposed into a shelter.
Williams and Mazzotti, the former director of the Portland Development Commission, created Harbor of Hope last year. The nonprofit’s board of directors includes David Bangsberg, the dean of the joint Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health, and Bill Russell, the executive director of the Union Gospel Mission.
Harbor of Hope had previously attempted to lease a warehouse on city-owned industrial land in Northwest Portland for a similar purpose. The partners envisioned a 100-bed homeless shelter modeled after a Texas shelter and treatment facility, Haven of Hope, that Williams had visited.
The Portland Housing Bureau backed out of the deal after Harbor of Hope was unable to find a credible and experienced partner to operate the shelter and provide services there.
Harbor of Hope’s offer letter to Multnomah County does not elaborate on who would operate a shelter at the Wapato site.
The letter comes as the county board prepares to vote on whether to accept a significantly reduced offer from developer Marty Kehoe for the property.
Kehoe had initially offered $10.8 million for Wapato, which he planned to re-purpose as a distribution center. He repeatedly asked the county for extensions to the due diligence period.
Last week, the county announced that Kehoe had changed his offer to $5 million shortly before his deal expired. The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners said it would need to take a public vote before it could move forward with the Wapato sale.
On Tuesday, the county board met in an executive session to consult with their attorneys regarding Kehoe’s offer. Reporters are allowed to attend those sessions, but not to report on what was said.
After the session, the county released a letter written by Kehoe’s attorney, Gregory Baum, dated March 23. The letter states that Kehoe “has determined that the contemplated acquisition is not economically viable,” and wants to terminate the sale agreement and recover his $200,000 earnest money deposit.
The letter then states that Kehoe would be willing to reconsider terminating the sale if the county reduces the price to $5 million and gives him an exclusive option to buy it by April 20.
Kehoe declined to comment, citing the upcoming county vote. Williams said he hopes his vision of a shelter at the site prevails.
After the session, Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith, the sole board member who voted against pursuing the deal with Kehoe, said she believes the county’s agreement with Kehoe is terminated.
“This is a giveaway and there are other greater offers that can be secured,” she said.
Smith, who is running for a seat on the Portland City Council, held a press conference at Wapato on Monday, calling for the county to turn the facility into a homeless shelter.
“I think we need to take a look at this opportunity and make sure we don’t have another 88 people dying on our streets like we did last year. That’s unacceptable,” Smith said.
The jail does not have individual cells and has more than 500 beds. But numerous legal, zoning and logistical obstacles could make it difficult to operate a shelter there. The 18-acre site is in an isolated location on land zoned as heavy industrial. A decision last year by Oregon’s Land Use Board of Appeals held that mass shelters are prohibited on industrial land.
Jail facilities are permitted on industrial land as a conditional use.
In addition, a binding agreement the county signed with the Port of Portland also requires the property be maintained as an industrial zone.


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Duncan Sinclair maintains a deliberately broad practice in public law, planning and environmental law, EU / competition law (including public procurement) and commercial disputes.
A former head of legal at the energy regulator and competition authority Ofgem before returning to the Bar in 2010 “He has excellent knowledge of energy regulation, and is down to earth and easy to work with” (Legal 500). On his return to the bar, Duncan was one of The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” lawyers across the UK legal profession and remains a leading practitioner in this and related fields.
Acting in a judicial review to a planning approval to build a waste-from-energy incinerator (on environmental and heritage).
Instructed by the Competition and Markets Authority as external Counsel in its Energy Market Investigation (2014-2016).
Representing a UK competition authority in National Grid v ABB (and ors) in the damages claim (one of The Lawyer’s top 25 cases of 2015).
Acting in judicial reviews (some listed below), including many of the major recent cases in regulated sectors (including energy and aviation) and cases involving environmental issues.
Advising Coventry City Council on procurement and state aid law in relation to a major redevelopment of the city centre.
Acting in the commercial (TCC) court on 3 procurement law disputes and two pure commercial/contractual disputes.
Representing bodies before sectoral regulators in contested proceedings and licensing/disputes involving legislative interpretation.
Acting for third sector bodies in disputes in the High Court and the European Court.
State Aid Modernisation and Recent Cases: A Changing World?

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dc.identifier.citation Man and Environment, Vol.23; 77-86p.
dc.description.abstract Explorations along the shore and in the intertidal zone at Bet Dwarka island, Gujarat, India were carried out by the Marine Archaeology Centre of National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India between 1981-1994. Artefacts of both the protohistoric and historic period were found. The former include a seal, inscriptions and pottery, while the latter consist of coins and pottery. The earliest settlement at Bet Dwarka may be dated to the late phase of the Indus Civilization, i.e. c. 1400 B.C. Bet Dwarka then was perhaps deserted for several centuries and was re-occupied in the 3rd century B.C.
dc.publisher Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies.


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My first job was a lot of different jobs. Then one day a very good friend of mine told me I could earn some good money by simply using my creativity.
2. Please describe, in your own words, what your job is and what work it entails.
Every day me and my team try to create something relevant for our clients. Something both we and the client can be proud of. It’s not an easy job but we try harder every single day.
3. How did you discover that the creative world was right for you? Was there a time in your life that you credit to this discovery? What was there train of events that brought you to where you are today?
It was the only way to live my life. I grew up thinking of me as a drummer, a writer, a designer. I’ve never thought I could became an artist but I knew from the beginning I could not work a 9 to 5 work routine.
4. In your constantly growing and expanding industry, how do you find inspiration to keep your work fresh, innovative and relevant?
Curiosity is key. Besides working with young people, watching my kids playing, reading as much as I can. I’m literally obsessed with knowledge. I have to know more than my clients in order to surprise them.
5. If you had to pick one piece of work or project that you are most proud of, more for the creative work and innovation it required, rather than its recognition or industry “success,” what would it be?
I tend to get bored of things quickly. The next one is gonna be my favorite. At least for a week.


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Loved the original, back in the day I found the art style really fresh! Will be keeping an eye on this.
My time is becoming very limited to be playing open world games like this, but I have friends who worked on this and it legit looks interesting to me, both the tech and gameplay. Gonna get this day 1, it's showing a lot of potential.
Half Life 1. And on hard. Its hard. Also sorry for offending die hard hl fans, at least I'm playing it on a old laptop, the way it was meant to be played!
@ElectroSheep the reason my terrorists are further back is to let the CTs get to sites first but nuke has both teams back, which they should just move both forward and it won't effect timings. Also moving the split back reduces the amount of area in the map that only gets used at the start of the round and slows down CTs that push through sites.
Thanks, yeah I’m lucky my boss just had one as well and I’m seeing the toll it’s taking… I need to start being regular in my sleep. my gf thought would be nice to give an Italian name so we have run a few ideas, but we are not final. Although I have my top pick already since Jan and I was a bit sneaky calling the baby the name I like so seems it’s sticking. But we were just talking of proper writing down the list and see to decide. It’s gonna be a (gamer) girl!
What's the problem withe the T corridor n? It's like this on Nuke and I guess you can adjust the timing of terros by easily changing the lengh of this corridor.
I hate to tell ya this, but I believe there was already another map with the name Downtown that was featured in an operation a while ago. Aside from that, I can't wait to give this a try!
@SmityHead Cool dev texture. Is that a custom one?
I've created some official documentation for VMT Editor and Substance shaders. VMT EDITOR USER GUIDE Hopefully you'll find this useful and discover some new features.
Bombsite A is a little secluded for afterplant scenarios from the underpass-mid area. I think this is nice, but I feel like the T side has a little more room to breathe than the CT side.

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CHICAGO—In the movie “Shaft,” the lead character is a baaad … well, you know the rest.
But the actor who played the iconic character told an audience here that even John Shaft would have a difficult time navigating the hurdles of prejudice and racism that exist in Hollywood.
Richard Roundtree joined a host of other Black Hollywood actors, writers and producers March 11 in a conversation about “Race and the Media: Series 1” at the DuSable Museum on the city’s South Side. The event was the first in a series of gatherings the museum will host to discuss the current state of the performing arts and controversies of race and inclusion.
Mr. Roundtree said the difficulty for Blacks in Hollywood today is the White toll booth at the production door.
“Unless you are able to get your project produced and mounted it don’t mean a damn thing,” he said emphatically.
That sentiment was echoed from others on the panel that included actresses Dawnn Lewis and Margaret Avery, musician Najee, filmmaker D. Channsin Berry and screenwriter Rodney Barnes. The crowd of 200 leaned in on every word of what has become a common refrain in discussions about the racism that exists in the institutions throughout the country.
“White writers and producers write what they think we would say. They get it wrong most of the time. And they inflict in casting their prejudices,” she said, explaining that once she wasn’t cast as a lawyer because the producers didn’t think Whites in the South would believe a Black woman could be a lawyer.
“We don’t make judgements about the Holocaust so how do they make judgements about us,” she asked.
Mr. Barnes, a co-producer of the “Boondocks,” described Hollywood as a high-school cafeteria where if you don’t fit in at the table you’re excluded. He said he pitches different ideas to mostly White producers who try to change the concept into something they can relate to. If the process goes on long enough, “I don’t recognize the idea anymore,” he said.
“It’s difficult to be culturally specific as long as it’s filtered through White thought. Even though you’re seeing more Black faces, they don’t sound like Black people,” he said.
Ms. Lewis, known for her character Jaleesa on “A Different World,” was the most vocal on the panel, declaring that change will come in Hollywood when Blacks start withholding their financial support from programs that don’t properly reflect Black people.
She said projects get the green lit based on whether they will make money, adding that if she were White with the same talents she has today, she would have been offered a wider variety of character roles.
Black actors get called in for specific roles and age groups, and Hollywood too often goes to the same Black actors as if others didn’t exist, she said.
Channsin Berry took the entrepreneurial route to producing his documentaries. After studying the pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and Tyler Perry’s independent model, Mr. Berry said he took his documentary “Dark Girls” to venues on the road like a concert.
He used social media, marketing and networking to make the screenings an event and a movement. After getting 6 million hits on social media, the film made $125,000 the first weekend out, he said.
“I went out and talked to my people on social media and you guys started tweeting. The next thing I know I’m in Newark, in London, in Paris. I’m in Africa because of social media and what you have done. It was between us and our relationship,” he said.
Musician Najee has scored music for several films. He said Hollywood needs to “include more of the Diaspora of the human experience” and be more truthful. He expressed the irony of the movie “Gods of Egypt” featuring White lead actors.
Mr. Berry also called on the community to stop bootleggers and downloading content for free because such actions deprive artists of making a living and being able to produce new content.
Young actor Jason Jack Edwards, who appeared in commercials and the film “Black Dynamite,” attended the event to hear how to survive in the industry.


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Architosh reader Jim Anders, wrote in to tell us that eDrawings for iPad also works fine with cloud services such as DropBox, SkyDrive and others. He notes: “This is a great app for us SolidWorks users and it works well on my first generation iPad.” This tidbit compliments our report earlier in the week.
Altair’s thinkLabs design studio team has come up with an ingenious device for handling the power cords of Apple MacBooks. The kickstarter project has developed a prototype and there is a good little video here to show you how it works. The kickstarter deadline is today so act quickly!
01 - Altair's thinkLab design studio team came up with this clever little device for your MacBook.
The Nemetschek Vectorworks folks want people to be aware that they will be at the AIA National Convention & Design Expo this month. The note says….” ‘Like’ us on Facebook and then visit booth #2009 for a prize.” Each day until the festivities start on May 17, we’ll be revealing exciting ways for you to design, collaborate, perform advanced renderings and animations, simulate pedestrian traffic, and present ideas with augmented reality tools!
From their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/Vectorworks) you can get involved.


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