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Chandler Marley is a very old man. He lives on a farm on Legacy Island with his seven teenage sons. The farm has been in his family for generations and he wants one of his sons to inherit it and keep it in the family..... but which son will he give it to?
In his Will he has set the conditions: 1. All his sons must live on the farm, work it and learn self-sufficiency. 2.They must all go to university and get a degree in either Technology (to maintain the equipment), Business (to manage the resources), Science (to crossbreed and identify seeds), Fine Arts (for landscaping), and communications (to talk to the plants and animals). If one fails to get a degree, he is cut out of the will. 3. If they travel, they must all travel together, if one stays behind, he is disinherited. 4. They must all find and marry a wife who already has at least two traits related to farming and family, (Green thumb, Loves the outdoors, Animal lover, Eco-friendly, Vegetarian, Frugal, handy, Angler, Family Oriented, Equestrian, Nurturing, Ambitious or Workaholic). The one who marries someone without these traits is disqualified. 5. Lastly, the one who meets all the requirements AND harvests the most produce takes the farm.
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Start out with 7 teenage sons and one father. Their competing starts at young adulthood and ends when they all reach adulthood.
All traits for the sons must be randomly chosen. Traits for the wives cannot be chosen or changed but must already exist or be randomized.
All harvesting must be done by hand. Tractor can only be used for watering and Fertilizing.
The first crops are ready for harvesting. The brothers go out and start gathering the produce by hand which requires hard work on their part.
The time has come for them all to leave for university in order to fulfill another part of the Will. Before leaving, Chauncy goes to visit Sabrina. She doesn't want him to be available to other college women so she proposes. Although she meets the requirements in the Will, she's Unstable and could lose those valuable traits leaving him without a qualifying wife. But he loves her and takes a chance by accepting her proposal.
After attending the Meet and Greet on the first day of university, the brothers all head out to the local diner for dinner. It's very crowded and they meet a lot of single women.......
Chadwick has met a very interesting student who has really taken a liking to him. She proposes they go steady, but Chadwick turns her down. She is pretty and has the qualities required but he doesn't really know her well enough to make a commitment - after all, this is only the first day and there may be other females he would like to get to know.
Channing meets Ashley Desorrento at the local coffee house. Desperate to find a wife he wastes no time in trying to find out who she is. Being more environmentally inclined, he mind melds with her to try to find out her traits but discovers nothing.
But Chadwick, on the other hand, uses his Irresistible charm and takes a more romantic approach. After spending time getting to know her, he gives her an amorous hug and discovers she has four of the required traits. feeling no guilt in stealing her away from his brother, he plans to make this woman his future bride.
Chauncy is in the building but instead of being in class writing his exams, he's in the science lab playing virtual games.
It's Saturday night and Chance meets Shannon Arkers in the park. He knows she is the one for him, and she meets the requirements for the inheritance. He proposes they go steady and she accepts.
On the first day of classes, Ester Atkins proposed going steady with Chadwick but he turned her down. Determined to get into this family, she sets her sights on Chester and makes him the same offer. He likes her and accepts her proposal.
Channing is the only one not involved with a girl. He's worried he won't find someone with the right traits to qualify for the inheritance. Although his brother Chadwick is planning on making a permanent commitment to her he takes action and invites her over to the dorm. While Chadwick leaves Ashley to take a phone call, Channing moves in on her and gives her flowers. There is an instant attraction and Channing plans to follow it through. After all, everything is fair in "love and war" and this is every brother for himself.
While some of the brothers study for finals, Channing makes sure Ashley stays his girl and proposes they go steady. She accepts and they become a couple.
The brothers have all fulfilled one of the stipulations of the inheritance, they have all graduated university with a degree. CHASE with an "C" in Physical Education, and gained the Disciplined and Party Animal traits. CHANCE with an "A" in Technology, and gained the Eccentric and Workaholic traits. CHESTER with a "C" in Communications and gained the Hopeless Romantic and Great Kisser traits. CHARLIE with a "B" in Fine Arts and gained the Neurotic and Flirty traits. CHANNING with a "C" in Science and Medicine and gained the Loves the Heat and Vegetarian traits. CHAUNCY with a "C" in Technology and gained the Perceptive and Animal Lover traits. And CHADWICK with an "A" in Fine Arts and gained the Savvy Sculptor and Hopeless Romantic traits. Now they only have to fulfill two more requirements before an heir is named.
The next day, all the brothers register at city hall as self-employed gardeners. Back home they start tending their crops and harvesting. It's a race to see who can harvest the most before time runs out.
Chadwick is looking for a girlfriend since his brother, Channing, stole a girl away from him in college. While eating at a diner he meets Hillary and discovers she has the traits he's looking. Hillary doesn't waste any time, she sees what she wants and goes for it. When she proposes going steady, although she is just an acquaintance Chadwick accepts. It's raining and they're getting wet, so he invites her back to his place.....
Back at the house, Chadwick asks Hillary to marry him and she accepts. He has secured a future wife and is back in the running. Now it's "Party Time!"
Chadwick throws an engagement party - just to show his brothers he hasn't lost yet. His brother Chase steps it up and exchanges rings with his girl and turns the party into a wedding celebration. That puts him ahead in the race for the farm. He has completed two requirements - a degree and a wife.
A few days later, Esmeralda tells Chase she's pregnant. Chase is going to be a father.
Eventually, Esmeralda gives birth to a baby girl. They didn't plan on having children until after the inheritance was settled, but here she is, little baby Rose.
Little Rose needs a teddy bear so uncle Chester goes out looking for one.
Meanwhile, back at the house, Charlie proposes marriage to Raquel. The next day, he meets her after work and takes her as his wife.
Chadwick is the next to get married. He marries Hillary on the porch of the farm with his brother Chance as a witness.
Chauncy takes his girl, Sabrina, to the beach and marries her under the stars. He knows she doesn't have the right traits but being a Hopeless Romantic, he marries her anyway. She is Unstable and her personality traits change so he hopes she will get the traits needed.
With only a few days left before the heir to the farm is chosen, the remaining single brothers invite their college sweethearts to visit. Chance marries Shannon, Chester marries Esther and finally, Channing marries Ashley.
When Chauncy brings his wife Sabrina back to the house Channing, knowing she is Unstable, tries to intimidate her by telling her she and Chauncy don't stand a chance of inheriting the farm. He is the one that will take it all. He then tells her she might as well pack up and move out now with her husband.
While the brothers are all harvesting the crops Rose grows into a toddler.
The night before the brothers age up to adults and the heir is revealed, the brothers go out and harvest the final crop of the year. This is their last chance to harvest as much as they can.
After their birthday Chase calls the family together on the porch of the farm. He sits down at the head of the table and opens the record books. He won't give the results to the group but will reveal the outcome to each couple individually.
First, Chase meets with Chauncy and Sabrina. He tells Chauncy that he completed the first requirement, getting a degree. However, He didn't harvest the most and is disqualified because of marrying a wife with only one of the required traits. It seems Sabrina's Unstable personality caused her to lose a valuable trait. Chanuncy and Sabrina will have to move.
Next, Charlie and Raquel sit down with Chase. Chase tells him that he has been disqualified for not meeting the requirement of marrying a woman with with the right traits. Charlie didn't expect to inherit the farm, he chose love over money and is happy to move out with his wife.
Chase tells Chadwick that although he married a woman with the right traits and got a degree, he didn't work the farm hard enough and harvested the least amount of produce. He will not inherit the farm. Chadwick doesn't care, he never wanted to be a farmer, he wants to be a Master of the Arts. He is ready to move out with his wife.
Chase calls his wife Esmeralda out to the porch. He tells her that he didn't succeed in harvesting the most produce and therefore, they will not inherit the farm. They will have to move out with their daughter to a nice simple home.
Next Chase calls Chance and Shannon to the table. He tells Chance that he did a very good job but unfortunately he has come in third. He will not inherit the farm and will have to take his wife and move out.
Finally, Chase calls Chester and his wife Esther and Channing and his wife Ashley to the table. One of them has inherited the farm and will take it all. He turns to his brother Chester and tells him he is a Couch Potato, a Slob and a Coward, not good qualities to inherit a farm that requires hard work. However, his wife has some great traits. She is Brave, Loves the Outdoors, Excitable, Good, Never Nude and has a Green Thumb. Plus, she has almost completed a degree in Science and Medicine. Great farm qualities. Then he turns to Channing and tells him that he knows how ruthless he is, how he stole his brother's girlfriend in college and tried to intimidate his other brother's wife. He does have the qualities needed to run a farm, he Loves the Outdoors, has a Green Thumb and Loves the Heat. His wife Ashley has some problems, she is Neurotic and Over Emotional but is also Family Oriented, a Vegetarian, Perfectionist and an Angler. She has also almost completed a degree in Communications. But only one of them has become the heir...........
Chase announces Chester and Esther as the heirs to the farm. He tells Chester that the farm cannot be sold, he must keep it in the family, continue to work it and pass it on to one of his children.
Chester calls Channing out to the porch and explains that he is not interested in farming. He wants to be a professional author. Now that he has title to the farm, he wants to move into a smaller house with his wife and write books. He asks Channing if he will stay on at the farm and work it for him. Channing agrees but only if he can become co-owner. Chester accepts his terms and they become partners.
The farmhouse stays in the family and is owned by Chester and Channing Marley. All the brothers, including Chester and their wives move out and leave the farm to be run by Channing and his wife Ashley. When the time comes for one of their children to inherit the farm, who will it be - a child of Chester or Channing? The answer lies in a future challenge....
The End


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Initially, inventory levels for all products must be entered manually. From then on, inventory levels are tracked automatically as orders are filled. To set a product's inventory level, see SKUs. First, however, you must have your warehouses in order.
Using a Single Warehouse
If you have only one warehouse, there is no need to geocode its location. However, if you integrate your system with a shipping company's (see Shipping Methods for details), you must enter your warehouse's address to calculate shipping costs.
Follow these steps:
Go to Site Menu → Commerce → Settings and click the Shipping tab.
Make sure the Use Single Address radio button is selected.
Fill in the form, giving your warehouse a name and entering its address. Click Save.
Using Multiple Warehouses
If you have more than one warehouse, then you not only must track inventories at different locations separately, but also must determine from which warehouse a product should be shipped.
First, you must enter the location of each warehouse. Follow these steps:
Go to Site Menu → Commerce → Settings and click the Shipping tab.
Make sure the Use Closest Warehouse radio button is selected and click Save. A new tab, Warehouses, appears at the top of the screen.
Click the button on the Warehouses tab. Enter a name, description, and address for the warehouse. The Active box must be checked before the warehouse can be used, but the latitude and longitude fields can be left blank for now (see Geocoding, below). Click Save.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all of your warehouses have been added.
Geocoding Warehouses
Liferay Commerce automatically processes orders so products are shipped from the closest warehouse. On its own, however, the software cannot calculate which warehouse is closest to the delivery point solely on the basis of street address—maintaining a record of the coordinates of every address on the planet isn't in the mission profile.
The default solution is integration with Microsoft's Bing Maps, which Microsoft makes available free of charge—though this depends on use case and volume. At the time of this writing, instructions on obtaining a Bing API key are published at Microsoft Developer Network.
Once you have an API key, follow these steps to set products to ship from the closest available warehouse:
Go to Control Panel → Configuration → System Settings. Find the Commerce section and click Shipping.
Paste your key from Microsoft into the API Key field and click Save.
Return to the Warehouses tab in Site Menu → Commerce → Settings and click → Geolocate for each facility.

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Haydock, W., 2014. The 'civilising' effect of a 'balanced' night-time economy for 'better people': class and the cosmopolitan limit in the consumption and regulation of alcohol in Bournemouth. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 6 (2), 172 - 185 .
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The British night-time economy today has been characterised by academics across various disciplines as the result of neoliberal attempts to regenerate the evening economy 'on the cheap', leading to the dominance of 'mainstream nightlife' at the expense of subcultural traditional working- class alternatives. One preferable alternative offered is the ideal of a 'diverse' and 'inclusive' 'creative city', with a greater focus on 'culture'. This article shows how such ideas have been taken up in the planning and regulation of the night-time economy in Bournemouth. Despite the current emphasis on the value of making the Bournemouth night-time economy 'more diverse', offering more 'balance' than the current vista, policymakers, like drinkers, are aware of the considerable distinctions within the night-time economy. The emphasis on diversity as a policy objective can be understood rather as an attempt to encourage a particular drinking style. In this context, a 'balanced' night-time economy refers more to the overall atmosphere than the variety of consumer choice. The ideal drinking style is seen as characteristic of a wealthier group of customers, who will exert a 'civilising' influence on the town, as wealth is associated with broader cultural attributes of these 'better people'. It is therefore argued that local alcohol policy can be seen as neoliberal in the sense of actively creating a particular form of market, rather than letting a free market develop and determine outcomes. The intersection of cultural, economic and social factors suggests that the local approach can be understood as both reflective and constitutive of class.
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Susan Smith has worked as an editor and writer in the technology industry for over 16 years. As an editor she has been responsible for the launch of a number of technology trade publications, both in print and online. Currently, Susan is the Editor of GISCafe and AECCafe, as well as those sites' … More »
I/Map Editor and I/Map Editor for ArcGIS Now Available
June 3rd, 2015 by Susan Smith
The result of a collaboration between Esri and Intergraph Security Government and Infrastructure (SG&I) announced in March is the release of I/Map Editor for ArcGIS, a new product that works directly with Esri's ArcGIS Platform to migrate geospatial data into Intergraph's Computer-Aided Dispatch Software (I/CAD), allowing tighter integration between those two products. The new product was unveiled at this week's HXGN LIVE 2015 in Las Vegas. Vice president of Public Safety Products, Intergraph SG&I Kalyn Sims, talks to GISCafe Voice about the announcement.
GISCafe Voice: "I/Map Editor for ArcGIS brings advanced mapping features to Intergraph's map build environment, automating and streamlining map creation in I/CAD." Can you describe how users might use this tool?
Kalyn Sims: Intergraph´s I/CAD system uses a proprietary map format that supports many different types of functions, such as validating addresses that come in through 911 calls, geocoding those addresses and more. Built on Esri's ArcGIS Platform, I/Map Editor for ArcGIS enables I/CAD map production within ArcGIS. An extension hosted in ArcMap, it natively connects to Esri data sources.
With I/Map Editor for ArcGIS, users can:
GISCafe Voice: "I/Map Editor for ArcGIS is designed to minimize the number of different systems and steps required for ArcGIS users, offering them a one-stop shop for uploading data into their I/CAD system." Can you describe how this make it easier for the data from ArcGIS to come into I/CAD systems?
Kalyn Sims: Previously, ArcGIS users were required to go through multiple steps in order to get their data transferred into the format required by I/CAD. We understood this created challenges for customers in managing GIS data on multiple systems. I/Map Editor for ArcGIS streamlines that process and allows customers to convert their data in ArcGIS, making the process more efficient.
GISCafe Voice: Is this a free feature with subscription to I/CAD and Esri ArcGIS or is there an additional cost?
Kalyn Sims: Yes, there is a cost attached to both options: I/Map Editor and I/Map Editor for ArcGIS.
According to company materials, built on Intergraph's GeoMedia, I/Map Editor permits the use of GIS data from third-party systems as the source of map graphics in I/CAD. Built on ArcGIS, the new I/Map Editor for ArcGIS enables I/CAD map production within ArcGIS. An extension hosted in ArcMap, it natively connects to Esri data sources.
Intergraph's I/CAD system is critical to public safety operations, enabling agencies to promptly answer emergency and non-emergency calls, create and update incidents and manage multiple resources in real time. Intergraph's I/Map Editor products facilitate the use of GIS data as the source of mapping information in I/CAD.
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The Comox Valley Artwork Gallery is devoted to presenting and fostering up to date art by professional artists from the area, the country and past. Levine Flexhaug A Chic Vernacular: The Landscape Work June 30 to September 24, 2017 B.C. Binning Gallery A Chic Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug affords the first overview of the extraordinary profession of Levine Flexhaug (1918 – 1974), born in the Treelon space near Climax, Saskatchewan.
In particular, nationwide artwork galleries have been thought to incite feelings of nationalism This has occurred in each democratic and non-democratic international locations, though authoritarian regimes have traditionally exercised more management over administration of artwork museums.
In Great Britain , however, the corresponding Royal Assortment remained in the non-public palms of the monarch and the first objective-built national artwork galleries had been the Dulwich Picture Gallery , based in 1814 and the National Gallery opened to the general public a decade later in 1824.
The Gallery gratefully acknowledges the continuing monetary help of Metropolis of Richmond, Richmond Artwork Gallery Association, British Columbia Arts Council, Province of British Columbia, Canada Council for the Arts, TD Bank Group, & RBC Foundation.
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North Fork man caught trying to bury stolen car
Shane Anthony Shaffer, 35, of North Fork, was jailed after being accused of trying to bury a stolen car.
He was taken into custody Sunday, July 28 after authorities received a tip at around 12:30 p.m. The anonymous caller stated subjects at a residence on Wyle Ranch Road in North Fork were trying to bury a stolen car.
When Deputy Jeff Noland arrived on scene he saw a dozer and a car that had been stripped — tires gone, door panels missing, and parts of the vehicle's dash board were removed.
Upon inspection, Noland discovered the car, a 2013 silver four-door Ford Focus, had been reported stolen out of Tulsa, Okla.
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text: Experts say this private fund would allow the queen to bequeath part of her fortune and avoid specific taxes [Reuters]The Belgian government has announced plans to speed up reforms and likely limit financial support to the royal family after the prime minister rebuked Queen Fabiola for setting up a special inheritance system widely seen as a tax evasion. Elio Di Rupo said on Friday he planned to change the system by which the royals receive about $20m a year and force them to reveal what the funds are spent on. Di Rupo said he wanted "more transparency, so that we are aware of how the stipends of the royal family are handled". Fabiola is facing widespread accusations that she is trying to shield some of her fortune from taxes, a move that has frustrated many people struggling in tough economic times. Experts say legal constructions like the private fund would allow the queen to bequeath part of her fortune to relatives like nieces and nephews, and to her favourite charity causes, without having to pay the regular amount of taxes. Di Rupo called the queen's plan to create a private fund to deal with her inheritance ethically flawed even if it was strictly legal. "Because of the position of Queen Fabiola and the stipend annually provided by parliament, this fund causes ethical problems," he said. The prime minister also said the queen had not told the government or the king about her plans, which broke in the media on Wednesday. Fabiola, who is childless, insisted in a statement that none of the money granted by the government, almost $2m a year, would be used in the new fund, which would only include her private money. She said she spends the government stipend on "housekeeping, of which the biggest part is staff wages". It is the latest in a series of scandals to embroil the Belgian monarchy, one of the few remaining symbols that unite the divided nation of 6.5 million Dutch-speaking Flemish and 4.5 million French-speaking Walloons.With much of Europe hit by a majors debt crisis, monarchies are often seen as living in the lap of luxury, feeding off annual public stipends while other families struggle. Politics Human Rights Europe


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Fine Arts Gallery in Laumeier Sculpture Park
Continuing an on-going relationship with the Laumeier Board of Trustees and the St. Louis County Parks Department, Farnsworth Group provided site design services in support of the project architect, Trivers Associates. The board commissioned the design team for a 7,500 SF fine arts gallery building.
The new building is perched at the southern end of the parking lot that was completed during the construction of the new entry road. A new plaza entry was created between the existing estate house and the new gallery to both welcome visitors and funnel them into the park. This plaza can also be converted into an event space with support from the catering kitchen inside
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The site was a grading and stormwater management challenge. The building was placed half on the existing drive and half on the existing 3:1 slope that was constructed during the previous project. The area behind the new gallery had to then be re-graded to a 3:1 slope and incorporate walls to mitigate the clearing of a larger portion of the existing tree mass. The grading on the plaza had to be analyzed to maintain ADA cross slopes and connect to both the gallery and the existing estate building without directing the runoff to the end of the plaza. Farnsworth Group was careful during this process not to create a "muddy mess" where the plaza meets the park lawn.
Other stormwater challenges included stormwater quality and flood protection storage. The previous projects had already added additional enough run off that any additional work in the park would require flood protection storage. After multiple iteration using bioretention area for stormwater quality and a dry basin for flood protection storage, the design team suggested removing the existing asphalt parking stalls and installing pervious pavement. The pervious pavement would reduce the run off enough so that flood protection storage would no longer be required and would be the stormwater quality BMP. In addition, the costs for the two scenarios were approximately equal but the pervious pavement scenario was a much cleaner look for the park.


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It's been a tough year for President Obama. Chuck Todd said his administration often "looks like they're struggling to run the government." Fred Hiatt used phrases like "besieged and befuddled" and "image of haplessness." Peggy Noonan described the president as "unserious," writing that "he seems disinterested, disengaged almost to the point of disembodied." Even some Democrats were shaking their heads.
In this context, it was heartening to see President Obama do well at something last week, when he delivered a comedic monologue on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" that lasted nearly six minutes.
In the interview portion of the show that followed, however, things went off the rails. When asked whether he'd sign into law a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, his answer was full of disingenuous, debunked talking points. Compare President Obama's words to the actual facts:
"Keystone is going through an evaluation process."
- It's been six years and three months (2,281 days) since the application to build the pipeline was filed with the State Department. Both World War II and the construction of the Hoover Dam spanned less time.
- President Obama announced in November 2011 that his administration would not make a decision until after the 2012 election. Forced by legislation passed by the House and Senate to issue a decision, President Obama rejected the pipeline in January 2012. Within months, another application to build the pipeline was submitted to the Obama administration, which again delayed the evaluation process in 2013 and earlier this year.
"Right now, it's being held up by a court in Nebraska[.]"
- This has been roundly mocked as an "excuse" by newspaper editorial boards around the country, from the Chicago Tribune to The Washington Post to The Dallas Morning News. The latter called the court case "a side issue, and the White House knows it's not a legitimate reason to delay a decision."
"And in the first instance, I don't make the initial decision, the State Department evaluates it."
- True – in the same way it's true that the Defense Department made the initial decision to launch a raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout.
- Every State Department evaluation of the project has effectively given it a green light (see below). Keystone sits unapproved for lack of a "Presidential Permit" – it's called that for a reason.
"I'm going to make sure that if we look at this objectively, we've got to make sure that it's not adding to the problem of carbon and climate change. … Keystone is a potential contributor of that."
- According to data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the "annual increase [in carbon emissions] from Keystone would amount to less than three-tenths of one percent of our total annual CO2-e emissions — [or] 0.286546 percent," The Washington Post's Wonkblog reported, also noting that "more than 10 times that much CO2-e gets released into the atmosphere each year from methane produced by cows."
- The government's two environmental analyses of the project both concluded it would have little impact on the environment.
- Looked at objectively, there is no scientific reason for blocking the pipeline.
"We have to examine that, and we have to weigh that against the amount of jobs it's actually going to create, which aren't a lot. … It could create a couple thousand jobs in the initial construction of the pipeline."
- The president earned a pair of Pinocchios from The Washington Post's Fact Checker for a similar claim in 2013. PolitiFact rated it "False." The Associated Press piled on with the headline "Obama understates Keystone XL jobs."
- According to the U.S. State Department, a "total of 42,100 jobs throughout the United States would be supported by construction of the proposed Project," and it "would contribute approximately $3.4 billion to GDP[.]"
- James Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, wrote last week that "Completing the final segment of the pipeline from Nebraska to the Canadian border would employ upwards of 2,500 Teamsters and would infuse millions of dollars into local economies. … It is like a private sector economic stimulus that could fuel improvements in small towns across the Midwest."
- Remember when President Obama thought temporary construction jobs were great? In 2009, one of his very first priorities was a massive stimulus package with nearly $1 trillion in new government spending, partly aimed at "rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees … upgrading mass transit, building high-speed rail lines[.]"
"Essentially there's Canadian oil passing through the United States to be sold on the world market. … It's good for Canada."
- President Obama made a similar claim in November that earned him a rating of "Mostly False" and three Pinocchios from fact checkers. "Most Keystone oil would stay in North America," PolitiFact concluded.
- According to the U.S. State Department, "Construction of the proposed Project would contribute approximately $3.4 billion to GDP[.]" It's beyond dispute that Keystone is good for American workers and families.
- President Obama is blocking Keystone because doing so is good for big campaign donations courtesy of a liberal, billionaire super-donor. The president's stance is also very good for China.
- "The connection between Canada and the United States should not be underestimated," Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has said. "This is a pipeline that will connect two of the strongest allies in the world. They are an essential economic ally to the United States, and the partnership between Canada, the United States, and Mexico is absolutely critical to the safe and secure development of the United States."
January marks the start of the new American Congress, and Republicans will have new majorities in both the House and the Senate. A strong majority of the American people support Keystone, and a bill approving the project will arrive on President Obama's desk very soon. "Vetoing an overwhelmingly popular bill would be a clear indication that he doesn't care about the American peoples' priorities," Speaker Boehner has said. "It would be [the] equivalent of calling the American people 'stupid.'"
It would also be another indication that President Obama is hopelessly out of touch.


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Made in Jablonec 2019
The jubilee year of this celebration of fashion at the Eurocentrum in Jablonec is fast approaching!
The beautiful outfits in perfect symbiosis with costume jewellery will be paraded on the catwalk at the Made in Jablonec 2019 fashion show for the tenth time. This show bears the opulent sub-title: Haute couture style.
The gala evening full of magnificent fashion and costume jewellery collections will take place once again in the first week of January, on Thursday 10. 1. 2019, and we warmly invite you to attend. This festive Jablonec event, which has a long tradition here, involves the presentation of the local producers of glass and costume jewellery and schools with an artistic focus.
Preciosa Ornela has supported and been actively involved in the preparation of a number of outfits through its cooperation several secondary schools. The company has provided the Applied Arts Secondary School and College in Jablonec, which has designed two evening gowns, the Applied Arts Secondary School in Železný Brod and the College of Fashion Design in Prague with glass materials and costume jewellery components in order to enable the students to create youthful fashion designs.
16 costume jewellery and jewellery companies, 13 fashion salons and 21 teams from 7 art schools have signed up for the January fashion show. There is once again a great deal of interest in tickets for the afternoon and evening shows. Almost half the tickets were sold out already during the course of November.


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A quick background on the problem. Each Bitcoin Block has a hard limit of 1MB, meaning that there is a finite amount of Transactions that can be included in each Block. To accommodate for more Transactions, one would need to increase that hard limit. However, at the same time increasing the limit is a short-term solution if we set a new limit (eventually the Bitcoin Network might outgrow that limit as well), while removing the limit entirely can be dangerous to the overall health of the Network.
Without further ado, here is a possible solution to those problems as proposed by me half a year ago:
So a few days ago ago I was discussing some Bitcoin stuff and the topic of block size came up - its expansion and so forth. This got me thinking about the potential implications when the size will be increased.
If we set a block size to any arbitrary limit, we probably will reach it sooner rather than later as Bitcoin adoption picks up. But since the blockchain is a shared resources we shouldn't allow for unlimited block size - it would open up a vulnerability to potential attacks (create a ton of microtransactions, bloat a block to 1GB size, kill the network). To counter that, we should introduce some cost for the miners to create big blocks. Preventing blocks from containing certain transactions (very small ones, very young ones, ones not seen by the client) would probably not go over well. Making the miner pay a part of the coinbase to generate a bigger block would also not work as it would screw with the coin generation schedule and not be sustainable in the long run.
On the other hand, there is a way we can make the miners "pay" for creating large blocks - by having to do more work. We already have the normal means - target adjustment every so often to keep the blocks generating at a steady pace. Building on that, we could require miners creating blocks bigger than 1MB to solve the work for higher difficulty - 2MB would require difficulty x2, 10MB - x10 and so forth. This approach would allow blocks of arbitrary size to be created without the fear of bloating up the blockchain uncontrollably - it would be prohibitively costly for a malicious miner to do so. Honest miners could increase the block size as needed to accommodate lucrative transactions that are coming in to offset the increased size. The downside is that a miner would need to commit to the size of a block before mining - if they find a solution to a normal difficulty, they would not be able to use that to publish the block.


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Mary Honeybun, founder and organizer of `Bread Tags for Wheelchairs, sorts and sends away over 400kgs of plastic bread tags every six weeks or so. This translates into an incredible 20 black bin bags of bread tags. Mary an octogenarian who lives in Noordhoek has been collecting bread tags, those plastic tags used to seal the top of bread bags since 2006 to raise funds to purchase wheelchairs. In this time she has bought 217 wheelchairs for people in need who can not afford to buy their own. It is a lot of work she admits, but also very rewarding. Mary showed me a file with happy photos and the wonderful letters of gratitude she receives from the recipients of the wheelchairs.
Why Bread Tags?
Bread tags are made from High Impact Polystyrene and being dense have a good market value. According to Mary, the tags are reprocessed to produce seedling and germination trays. This just goes to show that even the small things we discard without thinking have value. Mary Honeybun's co-ordination of the collection and sale of bread tags has removed millions of bits of `plastic' from the environment to be turned in to re-newed products and has provided over 217 disabled people from Ocean View in CT to Springbok with wheelchairs. She has also been able to purchase 2 special walking frames for children with cerebral palsey. These frames have to be imported from Belguim and cost almost as much as a wheelchair. The difference they make to the children's quality of life is priceless. The Rotary Wheelchair Foundation has helped her to source good quality affordable wheelchairs.
It takes Mary hours every day to sort the tags from other weird items that slip into the collection boxes. The sorted tags are packed into black bags and stored in her garage to await their delivery to Groplast a polystyrene recycling plant in Randfontein. She has found a fuel efficient answer in Brett Young of Bay Flora who runs a nursery that receives plants and seedling trays from the Randfontein area. He ensures that Mary's bread tags hitch a ride via his existing transport back to Groplast saving her the transport costs. At Groplast the tags are reprocessed with other polystyrene products to make `ingots' which are sent to specific companies who make new products (e.g. picture frames, skirtings, cornices, seedling trays, coat hangers) and so the cycle continues.
How we can help?.
Join the network of people who care enough to collect bread tags. Take your tags to a drop-off point close to you or contact Mary on 021 7891831 for more information about getting the bread tags to her. The network is so large that Mary doesn't even know who is collecting for her any more. About 1 million tags raises enough money to buy a basic wheelchair – so everyone's help is a huge help. Photo on RHS: a box of blue and white bread tags on Mary's table waiting to be cleaned and weighed to make up 1kg bags.
Drop off places in the Scenic South:
TEARS Charity Shop on Recreation Road, Fish Hoek, collection boxes at Noordhoek Farm Village and apparently at the Standard Bank. If you have kids at school find out if your school is one of the many that collect bread tags for wheelchairs. According to Mary, Bergvliet High is the top tag collector, but Kenridge and Fairmont also do a great job sending her tens of thousands of tags. Fish Hoek High also send her tags. You can also post your bread tags to PO Box 215, Noordhoek, 7979, South Africa.
Schools you can help too!
As the volume of bread tags increases, so does Mary's burden of cleaning and sorting them into 1kg bags. Come on schools – surely this is a project you could provide support for. Scholars who need to do some reflective thinking in detention can sort bread tags and feel good about making a positive contribution. Classes could compete with each other in a Tag o War or with other schools to see which can collect and sort the most bread tags. Whatever you do, don't ditch them. Get in on a class act and send us photos of your achievements.


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Home prices and sales in the Twin Cities rose in March, suggesting the onset of a turnaround in the region, a report said Wednesday.
March is the first time in nearly two years that the region's median sales prices came in higher than the same period a year before, the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors said.
The median sales price for Minneapolis-St. Paul rose 6.4% year-over-year in March, reaching a price point of $149,000 last month, the largest gain since April 2010. Overall, the median price point improved even though it dropped when evaluating the types of homes sold.
That price increase, however, reflects a shifting market share in terms of sales volumes and not price gains in the traditional, foreclosure and short sale segments, the association cautioned.
Prices on traditional home sales fell 1.2% to a $195,000 median, while prices on foreclosures declined 2.8% to $105,000 and short-sale prices dropped 3.8% to $128,950 in the most recent report.
Pending home sales in the Twin Cities surged 20.4% as the monthly supply of inventory declined 40% to 4.6 months, making it the lowest inventory level since January of 2006.
The number of homes on the market also fell 27.5% from last year to 17,081 total listings, the lowest reading since January of 2004.
"Don't mistake price gains for a fully recovered market," said Cari Linn, president of the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors. "Supply is down, and the mix of homes selling is shifting toward traditionals. We'll accept that as progress and build upon it."
Homes in the Minneapolis and St. Paul are taking about 144 days to sell compared to 160 days a year earlier. On average, sellers are getting about 92.1% of their asking price, compared to 88.7% in March of 2011.
"It's looking increasingly likely the worst is behind us," said Andy Fazendin, MAAR president-elect. "We continue to see encouraging signals from the market that allow for an improving view on residential real estate in 2012."


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By Mallika Naguran
Another dazzling sunset at Kri pier when the day sighs to a close.
West Papua, 28 March 2009. Being eco can mean a number of things to different people; the first thing that springs to mind for most is the preservation of nature. For Max Ammer, a pioneer dive operator in Raja Ampat and owner of Kri Eco Resort and Sorido Bay Resort at Papua, Indonesia, people are at the heart of any ecology-related business.
"Eco to me means working with the local people to build a better future," he tells over dinner. A gecko emerges from behind the ketchup bottles, approaching us cautiously on the wooden table. I wonder if I should remove my hand that's resting in its path – I do love animals, but I don't fancy my body becoming part of their habitat.
Max extends his hand out to the gecko to crawl on. "You know when I built this place 15 years ago, I didn't have to specially rear these wild things. They just appeared – we have monitor lizards, ducks and birds just roaming around."
Every night, following dinner, the guests gaze at the juvenile bamboo sharks wading in the shallows just below the dining lounge on stilts. In the morning, we are awakened by hysterical cackles from endemic birds such as eclectis parrots, brush turkeys, sulphur crested cockatoos and hornbills. No need for alarm clocks here.
The omnipresent sweetlips.
At breakfast, we are startled to see a pair of coconut crabs huddled around a bamboo pylon at the lounge ceiling. Hideous as they are, they are also harmless and rather immobile; apparently they lie on coconut trees and love cracking the solid nuts with their rock-hard pincers. I sat a respectable distance away from them.
The guest rooms at Kri Eco Resort are also perched above the waters, so a daily sight would be numerous fish species flitting around the pylons, seeking shelter from sea currents or storms. Baby barracudas pursue parrotfish of amazing variety, tagged along by turtles.
Little of the coral reefs at Cape Kri (house reef) is destroyed with the building of Kri Eco Resort, including the jetty that Max' father helped to build, aided by local talent and muscle. One such talent couldn't measure straight, resulting in the construction of a not so perfect wooden platform that scuba divers walk on to get to the dive equipment center at the end of the jetty and to hop on to the dive boats.
Everything about Kri Eco Resort is handmade: the Sunset Lounge and its lazy deck chairs, the bamboo chalets, the coconut leaf and nut wall finishing and décor. Even the bricks are made by hand by the senior folks, whom Max employs, with the job title of "All Rounders".
"I want local people to make the money," says Max, who reveals that he could have built the resorts (including the higher-end Sorido Resort) and run the operations quicker with more experienced staff from other parts of Indonesia. In fact the dive crew are all Papuans, a number of them barely made it through school.
But Max is committed to Raja Ampat's people in more ways that one, and its not always for business. He builds local talent and skills in this remote region of Indonesia spanning from tourism-related ventures to trades for livelihood to careers in scuba diving.
Mad Max
Max landed on Pulau Kri, part of Raja Ampat in 1992 on a motorized rubber boat. He found himself in the heart of darkness, away from civilization, close to indigenous Papuans who are warm, dark and beautiful, and this suited him fine. It reminded him of his growing up days in Nigeria though born in Holland.
Max Ammer explores Papuan islands.
He had in the last few years explored the area for World War Two wrecks, specially commissioned by the US aviation authorities, and found quite a few aircrafts buried in silt.
Aircraft, after motorbikes, is Max' passion. He had fiddled as an aircraft mechanic for a few years before flying one finally and is fixated with all things that fly (and more so if they crash).
Retrofitting classic Harleys as a youth, Max' building streak has led him to design the two resorts on Kri island – based on sketching on paper – and a load of islanders to saw things and nail them together. A pinch of inspiration and a chunk of madness is all that it took to get Max Ammer going into building an eco-led business in the unknown territory of Papua.
Conservation of Raja Ampat
You can lose yourself swimming with the mantas here.
The pristine reefs of Raja Ampat and the plentiful marine species were under threat with destructive fishing practices such as bomb fishing and deep-sea trawlers. The big fish started to dwindle. Logging and mining on the islands impacted the waters with pollution.
Max knew he had to do something to stop the destruction and pollution. Raja Ampat needed protection, or better, conservation, or risk losing its intrinsic beauty and biodiversity. It was a stroke of luck when Dr Gerald Allen, renowned marine scientist and author, ventured into this path. Dr Allen was impressed with the numerous species of freshwater fishes found here, and the pristine state of corals. In two single dives, he recorded the highest count of fish species: 283 species at at Cape Kri and 281 at South Fam group. A benchmark for an excellent fish count is 200.
The Passage is a highlight in Papua diving.
A consultant with Conservation International (CI), Dr Allen canvassed for Papua to be considered in the organisation's conservation programme, and after three years, in 2001, it happened. Plans for a marine park were drawn; by mid-2007, the Raja Ampat Marine Park was formally declared.
When I visited Kri Eco Resort in March 2009, I found out that the zonation and management plans were still under development, however, an important regulatory mechanism had already kicked in: the Raja Ampat Tourism Entrance Fee of Rp500,000 that involves the issue of an annual waterproof plastic entrance tag.
Max' passion to preserve Papua soars high.
Part of the fee goes to community development, conservation and enforcement, covering marine areas and land-based activities such as logging and mining. In 2007 and 2008, priority was given to the "Posyandu" system, which is a healthcare provision for mothers and children. Something that's also close to Max' heart: in the early days, he had improved the water wells in Raja Ampat with chlorination and safety measures and created 13 new wells for the people.
Conservation at Raja Ampat now is taking on new heights with an aerial monitoring programme sponsored by CI and other NGOs. This involves a light aircraft surveillance to keep an eye on illegal activities on water and land. And the pilot keeping vigil behind the wheels is no other than Max Ammer himself.
People Welfare and Development
Nikson Soor born in Batanta, Raja Ampat, is just one example of how a Papuan is groomed to become an asset in Raja Ampat tourism industry. This amiable and energetic Papuan dive master is a manager at Papua Diving with over 11,000 dives logged.
Nikson now protects turtles and more.
Nikson tells me that he first met Max when he was a wee boy, selling turtles that he had just caught with his fisherman father. Max bought those turtles from him and promptly released them. Nikson couldn't understand this white man's actions, but soon learnt the beauty and fragility of marine life.
"He just put a tank on me and took me down," grins Nikson, who added, "and my eyes opened wide looking at the underwater life." Nikson, who was just 14 then, was instantly converted.
It is the start of a long and deep friendship between the two; Nickson who is 34 years old, and Max, 47. Today, Nikson is not just a top dive guide sought after in Raja Ampat, he is also an environment advocate, concerned with pollution and illegal fishing. "I will teach Nikson how to fly even," laughed Max, who is eager to begin the aerial surveillance.
Don't expect to see a Western dive guide or master at Papua Diving, because there isn't one. Max believes in investing in local education and training local Papuans, a road he's taken that's often long and bumpy.
"They are good people and I want them to learn a new trade and to earn some income," he said, hoping to get them out of the poverty cycle. Dive guides at Papua Diving are given proper employment contracts; they are also paid fair wages, provided with food and shelter, and given weekly day off plus regular vacation.
Staff on boat excursion with Max and guests on their day off.
Two kitchen help, both women, had expressed interest in becoming dive guides and today they are being trained for this career prospect. It is no wonder that there is a deep sense of belonging among the staff at Max' resorts.
Sustainable Clam Trade
Giant clams are a delight to behold in a number of the dive sites around Raja Ampat. These, however, are taken away by local fishermen and sold as food. Clams, like fish, are an important source of nutrition for Indonesians.
Once Max had bought 10 giant clams from a fisherman for US$80, and then released them. But he realized that couldn't keep doing that.
Max now has an idea. By introducing a clam farm, Papuans will learn how to grow clams and sell them in a sustainable fashion and will soon learn to leave the giant clams in dive sites alone.
An ecology treat awaits the Papuan explorer.
Other plans afoot are homestays and kayaking adventures around the exotic mushroom islands. This augments what he has already established with the locals – bird watching tours in particular the Red Bird of Paradise. Proceeds go entirely to the villagers, who then see the value of this tourism activity and stop them from catching these birds and selling them overseas as exotic pets.
A trip to Max Ammer's resorts is worth every dime. If you plan a trip in 2010, you may just enjoy his other service, a live aboard dive boat, one which he hopes to start designing soon - and by himself of course.
Photography by: Scotty Graham, BittenBySharks.com and Mallika Naguran. Have a chuckle reading Scotty Graham's photo blog.
Up next, destination stories on Raja Ampat and Kri Island.
More information on Kri Eco Resort, Sorido Bay Resort and Papua Diving at:
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Phone: +62 (951) 328 038
Fax: +62 (951) 328 038
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This trip was kindly sponsored by SilkAir (from Singapore to Manado, Indonesia) and Express Air (from Manado to Sorong).
About Silkair
Singapore-based SilkAir flies one of the youngest fleets in the Asia region, with an average age of 5.5 years. It operates fifteen aircraft, nine Airbus A320-200 and six Airbus A319-100 aircraft. SilkAir positions itself as a premium, short-to-medium haul regional carrier offering unique appeal amongst leisure and business travelers in Asia. Visit www.silkair.com for more information.
In conjunction with its 20th anniversary celebrations, SilkAir recently announced the adoption of Friends-International, an award-winning Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) which focuses on reducing the number of street children across Asia and beyond, as its official charity. Sharing Friends-International's vision to give children access to education, SilkAir will offer two children from the NGO's vibrant Phnom Penh headquarters SilkAir Scholarships to study English at the Australian Centre for Education in the Cambodian capital.
About Express Air
The gateway to East Indonesia with daily schedule service from Jakarta to Makassar, Ternate, Sorong dan Jayapura. Its route network includes other new destinations within Papua such as Kaimana, Fak-Fak, Manokwari, Nabire, Tanah Merah, Babo etc.
Express Air has six 32 seats Dornier 328 turbo-prop, a modern advance high performance aircraft with latest technology on board to serve number of destinations along West-East Papua axis, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Nusa Tenggara.


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i dreamt of this voice last night.
it was my own and it spoke louder and louder, it said stop ignoring me or shutting me out. I woke and asked questions that came through my sleeping lips, "why are you doing what you're doing?"
"How does it serve you?"
I felt more of the inner workings of my body this week.
I worked with Debby and the session was a hazy dream, a dream of looking at things, feeling things, allowing space and being in the body.
Amy called me and I told her these pictures showed what I felt like I was under all this skin, "glowing white goodness."
The essence of whats inside. A moon body.
It's the full moon today, which always feels like a day of celebration and illumination.
The "perilous questions" that Debby shared with me this week are, "whats true for me, and what do i want?"
The answers becoming more and more clear each moment.
Whales came to me in my dreams, whales mixed with sharks. We rode on their backs and they took us to shore.
The ocean representing the emotions of our lives, and the whales harboring them, the sharks, moving through them with confidence and clarity. Both carrying the wisdom and protection to show a clear way through something that feels so vast. Life.
It's been raining recently and with it comes a purifying calm.
I've been keeping this picture of this happy deer present.
To keep myself smiling through every different emotion and moment that passes.
Live presently, feel continuously. I can sense all these halves of myself becoming whole, rebreeding and becoming whole again.
I met a girl yesterday who told me "I trust my feelings completely and even if they are somewhat wrong , they aren't wrong I just learn from them."
She was a sort of other worldly warrior goddess. I did a shoot with her and admired the strength she seemed to carry in her self trust.
We spoke of someone who is going to be bringing a baby into the world, and what a gift it is. Life is such a gift, I saw an accident on the side of the road on our way to the desert, these cars all smashed up and flipped over and thought, life is fragile.
I asked my dreams last night to show me a clear path, I danced through an airport and fell in love with everyone I met, people coming around me to support me.
At the end I bought some glitter to help this girl shine.
Everyone here to help each other shine, move forward and grow.
I may be headed out towards new orleans and new mexico for a bit, but body therapy continues!
(and You can reach Debby at firstname.lastname@example.com and debbyjay.com)


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Mariposa Lodge's location is the best vantage point from which to start any diving experience and is your best option for a hotel in Roatan to stay at while you experience the best scuba diving in the world.
Our location in the West End Village, just steps away from the beautiful beaches, means you have to walk a mere one hundred metres to the start of your scuba diving experience.And what an experience that diving will be. There are more than thirty absolutely stunning dive sites between the western tip of the island and Spooky Channel that are literally minutes away by boat. Each site can be done dozens of times at varying depths without every feeling you've seen it all. With the variety of dive options from cavern to wreck diving, exploring your personnel depth limits, increasing your training or just watching fish. West End has it all.
But the West End is by no means the limit of diving. There are literally too many great dive sites on Roatan for us to describe, but the good folks at the Roatan Marine Park have built a great website for you to check out the hundreds of possible dives with their interactive dive site map.The highlight of diving in Roatan is the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, or the Great Mayan Reef. The reef is home to an astonishing breadth of marine plant life and all more marine animal life than can be translated into words.The reef stretches over 600 miles starting at the Isla of Contoy and finishing at our little Bay Island, Roatan. It is the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and is second in size only to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
The ecosystem of the reef is made up of more than sixty-six coral species which provide life and shelter for more than five hundred species of fish. The reef also draws in sea turtles, dolphins, and whale sharks. The clarity of the Caribbean water means that you will get to see all of this, first hand, on your diving excursion.
At the heart of Mariposa Lodge is our own passion for scuba diving. When booking with us, we offer you not only the best location for your diving trip, but un paralleled knowledge of the waters off our shore and unparalleled diving advice backed by our own hands on diving experience and intense love of diving. Choosing Mariposa Lodge as your diving destination means your scuba diving trip will go off without a hitch and be nothing but an amazing experience that you will want to repeat again and again.MIKE'S FAVORITE DIVE SITESI consider the diving off West End, Roatan to be the best in the world. Despite the easy access, the reef around West End remains healthy and strong.
While poachers still take their share of large groupers, game fish conch and lobster, the abundance of life here is staggering. Eagle Rays and Turtles are seen on nearly every dive. Yellow tail snappers follow us everywhere, and schools of blue tang dance in the currents. But beyond the obvious, is a breathtaking world of tiny creatures. Sea Horses, Neck Crabs and Pipe Fish can all be found if you slow down and look. Peterson Shrimp and Gobies will happily provide a manicure to anyone with good enough buoyancy skills to hover over their homes. There are more than thirty absolutely stunning dive sites between the southern tip of the Island, and Spooky Channel that are literally minutes away by boat.
Each site can be done dozens of times at varying depths without every feeling you've seen it all. With the variety of dive options from cavern to wreck diving, exploring your personnel depth limits, increasing your training or just watching fish. West End has it all.
"If common sense were common there would be far fewer problems in the world"
Never dive alone
Know your limits and stick to them
Plan your own dives (Don't trust anyone else with your life)
Avoid all contact with the reef
Never harass marine organisms
Never remove a marine organism, alive or dead
Never purchase products made from shell or coral
Don't litter
Take only memories, leave only bubbles
Never stop training
The most important facet of dive instruction is Safety.Please ensure that you speak directly to the instructor that you will be working with you to ensure there is a mutual level of trust. It is important to have fun, but you are paying them to teach! Dive instruction in West End, follows PADI standards. PADI is one of 58 Scuba certifying agencies worldwide and is recognized internationally. Your academic instruction will be done via DVD and use of text books and quizzes. In shallow water you will be shown the basics and asked to perform various tasks at the surface and underwater. Like any new skill, learning to dive is about practice, becoming familiar with the life support equipment and the new and wondrous environment.
The more you dive the better you get at it. It is an evolutionary process.
"On the planet earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, Wars and so on – while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons" Douglas Adams


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Mark V. Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the author of fifteen books, most recently Out Of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle Over Guns. Out Of Range is honest guide to both sides of the 2nd amendment debate and an insightful analysis of how our view of the 2nd amendment reflects our sense of ourselves as a people. Part of Oxford's Inalienable Rights Series, Tushnet's book challenges our views of one of our most controversial freedoms, the right to bear arms. In the post below Tushnet lays out the argument. Be sure to check back tomorrow for part two.
With Constitution Day today, it seems like a good time to talk about a constitutional issue that's likely to get to the Supreme Court's attention pretty soon: the Second Amendment. Shortly after it opens its term in October the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear an appeal from the District of Columbia challenging a court of appeals decision striking down the city's ban on handgun possession as a violation of the Second Amendment's guarantee of the "right to keep and bear arms."
In these posts I'll outline the arguments on the gun-rights and gun-control side, and then try to explain why whatever the Court does is unlikely to get us out of the blind alley of gun policy today.
Let's begin with the best arguments for the gun-rights side. The Second Amendment has a preamble – "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" – and a rights-guarantee, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Without the preamble, interpretation of the Second Amendment would be pretty straight-forward. The right to keep and bear arms would be a right lodged in each of us as an individual, just as freedom of speech is.
From the gun-rights point of view, the preamble doesn't change anything, and might even support the gun-rights position. The preamble might simply explain why we have an individual right to keep and bear arms, and not place any condition on who has the right or when it comes into play. More important, though, there's a fair amount of evidence from the framing era – that is, from the period when the Second Amendment was proposed and adopted – that the preamble's reference to the "Militia" pointed not to the state-organized militias (roughly, today's National Guard) but rather to what some have called the "unorganized" Militia, or, as some put it in the founding era, the "body of the people."
The unorganized Militia consisted of everyone in the society, and not just those pulled together by state officials in the organized militia. The unorganized Militia – and the right of members of that militia, which is to say everyone, to keep and bear arms – was important for two reasons. The unorganized Militia was one of the methods the people could use to resist an oppressive government, just as they had resisted the oppressive British government during the Revolution. But, to resist effectively, the people had to have weapons. In addition, the people gave up some of their rights when they formed a government, but only because they were assured that the government would protect them. If the government fails – if, for example, marauding criminals roam freely – then the right to keep and bear arms allows the people to protect themselves.
These arguments, based on the Constitution's text and some aspects of the understanding of the Second Amendment's terms as they were used in the late eighteenth century, aren't intrinsically bad. Gun-control proponents can point to some material from the founding era supporting other interpretations of the Amendment, but my judgment is that, on balance, the gun-rights position has somewhat more support in the originalist materials than the gun-control position.
But that's not the end of the story, as I'll indicate in my next posting.


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He has toured internationally reaching audiences in the United States, Europe, Russia, India, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Central and South America. As a performer for concert audiences, festivals, yoga classes or at the bedside of hospital patients, Todd invokes the feelings of nature in his melodic, and rhythmic playing to inspire and soothe his listeners.
Todd Boston's music has been gaining popularity and recognition worldwide. His albums have received numerous nominations and awards and have been featured on radio stations internationally. His album Touched by the Sun produced with Grammy winner Will Ackerman (Windham Hill Records) was chosen Best Acoustic Instrumental Album of the Year at the 2012 ZMR Music Awards and charted #1 on the World/New Age listening charts. In 2013 Todd collaborated on Peter Kater's Grammy nominated album Illumination and on Wouter Kellerman's 2015 Grammy Nominated album Love's Language. Todd Spent 2012-2013 touring with singer Snatam Kaur and Ramesh Kannan as touring bandmates.
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Most of the oil pumps at Kara-choh are currently inoperable, according to RT journalists that managed to visit the complex. Furthermore, the Kurds would've been unable to sell the oil themselves even if they tried: the territories to the west and to the south are controlled by Daesh, Iraq to the east doesn't require any surplus oil, and Turkey to the north apparently considers Syrian Kurds a bigger threat than even the Islamist terrorists.
"Turkey was always against us – they were hostile from the start. They stopped anything from crossing the border: medicine, food, goods," head of the Kurdish Energy Organization Suleiman Khalef told RT.
In an attempt to satisfy their need for fuel, the Kurds managed to construct makeshift oil refineries. These facilities can only be used to successfully produce low-quality diesel fuel and petrol, so the Kurds simply store oil waste they can't refine in the open for later use.
"We only extract oil from wells that have the most gas. We use it to run a gas power plant, which keeps our towns and cities at least partially supplied. We give priority to essential enterprises, such as bakeries, hospitals, and schools," Suleiman Khalef added.
According to RT, several years ago the Kurds used to control only about 1,000 oil pumps, but since then this number has tripled as the YPG keeps dislodging Daesh forces from the oil production facilities and depriving the terrorist movement of a sizeable portion of its revenues.
Daesh forces have been relying heavily on revenues from the black-market sales of drugs, smuggled crude oil and human trafficking. According to an assessment made by Adam Szubin, a US Treasury official, in December, the Daesh militants are earning up to $40 million per month selling oil stolen from production facilities in Syria, and have gained up to $500 million in total from their illegal oil trade.


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In 1974, the twin sons of British geologist Christopher Southgate were abducted during a visit to Oman. They were never heard from again, and they were not the only set of twins to vanish. Fast-forward to the present, and Jessica Gleeson, also British, in Minsk, Belarus, is poring through Russian archives to complete a paper in her field of clinical psychology and discovers that someone has placed a folder labeled "Project Genome" on her desk. Later, when Jessica disappears, MI6 in London takes notice. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Anton Adamovich is a rising political star who's favored by the Russian president to be his successor—but he also has enemies. Pell has the action play out across a broad landscape that includes the Crimea, Odessa, Belarus, Moscow, and London, with a large cast of tough guys that are good, bad, or somewhere in between. It's left to MI6's Andrew Ball to uncover the mystery that is Project Genome. Ball, Pell's recurring hero, isn't an action figure; the elegant, 60-something, semiretired agent has spent months recuperating from injuries received in Pell's previous novel, set in Eastern Europe. But when his boss, Daniel Davis, calls upon Ball's Russian-language expertise to translate some Genome documents, he's back on the case. Although he's not quite the central protagonist, he certainly holds the novel's disparate pieces together. Pell is methodical in weaving a complicated plot that brings together an assortment of miscreants risen from the ashes of the fallen Soviet Union—political hacks, newly minted billionaires, former KGB agents, and, of course, the women who attach themselves to the powerful. Overall, the pages are filled with murder and mayhem, and lots of vodka, delivered in fluid, comfortable prose. Fans will be happy to learn that there's a new Pell novel scheduled.
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The painting of Yosemite
...was done from a photograph sent to me by two hikers. I studied the forms of the landscape through a rough sketch and immediately was compelled to paint the view as though I had been there myself. Painting on location the past several years gave me practice with the skills needed to move past looking at a photograph to feeling the presence of the landscape.
Mentally, I was there taking in the view and exaggerating colors to match the emotions within me that result in the wonder and awe of standing in the presence of greatness. Each mountain and cliff defined by individual beauties as they towered over the plain below lifted the forest to the sky and pointed my view towards heaven.
The painting process for Yosemite started with finding the horizon and marking in key forms. It developed through layers of colors starting with loose strokes of oils thinned with mineral spirits to thick definitive marks. Cooler ultramarine blues were placed in distant forms and warmer cerulean blues in closer forms. Warm sienna colors were placed in the fields and marked the cliff faces and layers of warm and cool whites packed the distant peaks with snow.
I focused on capturing the feeling of being present with the land, rather than copying the photograph verbatim.
The below journal entry from six years ago resonated with me while I was reflecting on the process of painting Yosemite. I found similarities in how I studied the colors and forms of the landscape and the ever reappearing truth that each painting certainly does take on a life of its own. There is a point in painting a landscape when the conversation shifts from allegiance to the landscape to the painting.
Excerpt from my painting journal:
Painting Practice Class with Duncan Martin 2011.
Week 3, Monday, reflection after painting from 4-6pm
Yesterday I found the colors I want to use. Today I studied George Nick. His colors were realistic, but heightened and his forms clearly defined.
Today my goal was to be truthful by painting clear shapes with colors I saw at the field location.
Rockwell Kent painted snow beautifully with intense blue shadows, gray blue areas, and cool yellow lit snow. I started with a single wash of ultramarine blue, the under-painting (Nick always does blue).
I thought this under-painting would give the piece a cool feeling and help me simplify form by unifying the painting. I also felt it would help me stick with colors that relate to the landscape.
Today I was ready to think more about form. I used the photograph and saw something I hadn't seen before: shapes of shadow in the snow. Not just the field's shadow shape, but also ripples from the wind and terrain. Looking at Kent, Thomson, and Nick helped me notice colors and shapes, which I've been working out in each piece.
I have more control over the paint. I'm not mixing it and piling it all on the canvas. I am being more deliberate with the strokes and color temperature.
I need to see what the painting needs for a sky. It has taken on a life of its own, so I look to it for an answer.
The snow needs to be broken up in an intense area because it draws away from the rest of the painting. Right now it looks like a night sky with moonlight.


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A few thoughts while thinking about the passing of Davy Jones:
- Valerie was an underrated Monkees tune. The guitar riff in the intro was impressive. I wonder if Mike Nesmith actually played or if it was done by some LA studio ace. Me and my grade school musician buddies were in awe.
- My daughter Nina is into American Idol. I was watching a little with her and Steven Tyler actually started tearing up during a very mediocre a cappella performance by one of the contestants. I know getting older can make you sentimental and we're in the new sensitive-guy age but, come on Steven; you sing Walk This Way remember?
- I think one of the criteria to being selected to play on Saturday Night Live is that you not rock.
- Satellite has saved radio. Two of my favorite stations are Outlaw Country and Little Steven's Underground Garage. I can't get enough.
- Speaking of Little Steven; has that guy had great second act or what? First the Sopranos and then starting one of the great rock radio stations on the air today (and doing a fantastic job as a DJ) and lately starring in a TV show streaming on Netflix called Lillehammer which is excellent.
- My three favorite stations to stream while I work are KJazz in Long Beach, WFUV in New York and the mighty WMBR in Cambridge.
- John Funke who does the Backwoods show on WMBR Saturdays at 10:00 AM is the funniest guy on the dial.
- Springsteen has written and performed some great songs: Adam Raised a Cain, It's Hard to be a Saint in the City and Tunnel of Love are a few of my favorites. But his political shtick has completely turned me off.
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I'm about to get on my bike and ride about 125km to Mt. Vernon. And then! I'm going to get up the next day and ride another 115km or so to the finish line. I know. I am trying to remember that I signed up for this. This was my decision. I had reasons and there was thought involved and this wasn't some crazy whim. But right now I am just terrified.
I'll try to update Instagram throughout the ride if you want to follow along (and laugh at my discomfort). Hopefully all goes well and I'll be telling you all about how sore my butt is on Monday.
Let's do this.
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The Bearded Prince
Title: The Bearded Prince
Author: Rajesh Talwar
Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore
Rating: 5 out of 5 fairies
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Synopsis: After much persuasion, Princess Roopali, 'the beautiful one', agrees to have a swayamvara. This is an ancient Indian ceremony in which an unmarried girl who has come of age chooses a husband from among several suitors. According to the tradition, at the end of the ceremony, the princess is required to place a marigold garland around the neck of the prince she has decided to marry. She is happy to meet with all the princes who will attend the ceremony, and are keen to be chosen by her. She explains to her parents, the king and queen that she does not, however, wish to meet anyone with a beard. Over the past few years there have been a string of armed robberies by a gang of tough-looking bearded thugs. The princess has come to dislike beards. Her father, the king, explains to her that it would be discourteous for them not to extend an invitation to any eligible prince, but he would be surprised if any of them still sported a beard. Will Princess Roopali find the prince of her dreams? A delightful tale set in Ancient India the story provides a window into an exotic culture and will appeal to children from all age groups – particularly those from the ages of five to one hundred.
About the Author: Rajesh Talwar studied at the University of Nottingham after going to the UK on
Talwar's career in writing includes writing on different subjects for major media outlets including The Guardian, The Economic Times, The Sunday Mail, and The Pioneer. He has also published books on the topic of law, addressing law reform as well as trying to demystify the subject such as in 'How to Choose a Lawyer - and Win Your Case.'
Review: A wonderful new fairy tale, 'The Bearded Prince' is a must read for all lovers of the genre. The story emphasizes that appearances can be deceiving, and that often there are things beneath the surface, and motives behind choices and actions that one cannot begin to imagine until delving deeper. An important lesson for all to learn and remember.


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This is part of Flormar's Wet Look series with super shiny crellies. I did use Poshé on this for drying purposes, but it was equally shiny without it! The brush in these bottles is flat and nice to work with. The formula was stellar - I was good in two easy coats, but added a third one because... well, because I'm neurotic about vnl?
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