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Crescent Oaks Country Club
Here is another in our occasional series of 60 day updates for various neighborhoods real estate activity. In the past 60 days in Crescent Oaks Country Club, there have been 5 houses sold. The average sold price for these houses in Crescent Oaks Country Club was $353,700. The average square footage was 3,432, and all were pool homes. The average sold price per square foot was $104.
The average days on market was 269. Days on market is how long it takes from the time a house is listed until it goes under contract. The shorter the days on market, the more accepting the market place is to the listed price.
In Crescent Oaks Country Club, of the five sold houses, one was on the market for only 35 days. At the other end of the spectrum was a home that sold for $345,000 and had 623 days on market.
There are currently 12 houses with active listings in Crescent Oaks Country Club. The prices range from a high of $873,233 for a 5,783 square foot pool home, to a low of $199,500 for a 3 bedroom villa. The villa only has 5 days on market. The higher priced home has 951 days on market.
If you would like to follow listings in Crescent Oaks Country Club, visit Sun Bay Associates search site, enter the name of whichever subdivision you want to search, and get the info you want.
The very best news is that the Crescent Oaks Country Club has re-opened the golf course. So take a look at the opportunity to own a home in a golfing community, with a newly opened and excellent golf course.


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In recent years, cable and TV providers have slowly lost subscribers as consumers have cut cords and turned to online streaming services like Netflix. Faced with the reality of the situation, some companies have tried to expand their online presence, and now it looks like one of the biggest players is making a bid for a larger piece of the online market.
On Tuesday, the Walt Disney Company revealed that it would be creating two of its own streaming services, one based around sports content under its ownership of ESPN and the other based around Disney and Pixar movies and TV shows. The move follows a recent decline in revenue and will undoubtedly put the company in direct competition with Netflix.
"I would characterize this as an extremely important, very, very significant strategic shift for us," said Disney chief executive Robert A. Iger in a quarterly earnings conference call.
Two new streaming services
The New York Times reports that the two streaming services will be powered by BamTech, a tech company in which Disney owns a 75% share. Iger says that the ESPN streaming service is scheduled to arrive in 2018 and will include programming for baseball, hockey, tennis, and college sports, as well as 10,000 regional and national events.
Users will be able to access this content through an updated version of the ESPN app, which is available to online users and those who pay for ESPN through their cable or satellite provider.
Its second unnamed streaming service will arrive in 2019 and provide exclusive access to new and old Disney films and a wide array of content from the Disney Channel, Disney Junior, and Disney XD. Iger said that the company has not yet decided if it will include films from its Marvel and Lucasfilm labels or if it will continue to let other services pay to use them.
"It's possible we will continue to license them to a pay service like Netflix, but it's premature to say," said Iger. "There has been talk about launching a proprietary Marvel service and 'Star Wars' service," he added, saying that Disney would move cautiously when it came to stand-alone services for film brands since they would require a large amount of content to satisfy subscribers.
A changing landscape
While Iger didn't address how much these streaming services would cost, he said that Disney's goal was to make the price low enough to draw subscribers while not upsetting traditional cable and satellite subscriptions. The executive hinted at the possibility that subscribers may eventually pay by how much content they watch.
So, what does all of this mean for other streaming services like Netflix? While Disney's competitors would lose out on access to original Disney and Pixar movies and ESPN channels, Iger intimated that he had "all the confidence in the world" that Disney would be able to maintain favorable deals with them.
"No one is better positioned to lead the industry into this dynamic new era," Iger concluded, adding that the company's base of loyal viewers would drive the streaming services' success.
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"I want to go home."
The tears weren't streaming down my face yet, but I could feel them coming; waiting at my lids like backed up traffic. Maybe he couldn't see them through the computer screen. My voice wasn't quavering I don't think, but it was full of desperation, as if he could do something about it, as if I could do something about it. But there was only silence at the other end.
I would finish my last course at the University of Jyväskylä in one week's time. I would be finished. There was nothing left for me here. There was only my longings for home and my wish to be with my fiance. There was only the lingering of winter and the cold freezing rain that kept falling. It felt like anxiety was the only thing controlling me. Why did I feel this way? But I had almost gotten over that part of my frustration. The only thing left was the strongest desire to leave this place.
It's not something people write about often whenever they go abroad. They don't write about homesickness. Or maybe they do, and I just happened to miss it. They don't write about the overwhelming feeling of hatred for where you are and the situation you seem to be stuck in. Your plane ticket back was booked months before. You're to the point where you're looking up how much one way flights are back. And then you bury your head in despair yet again when you read the price tag.
I remember reading in Philippians 4 that Paul knew the secret of being content in any situation. I can't count how many times in my life where I have felt discontent. Sometimes I would think of this verse. I used to get really upset with Paul. Well, that's easy for you to say, Paul. You're freakin PAUL. You're the badass apostle Paul. You're like one of the godliest people ever. Why would things not be easy for you? I used to get really upset with a lot of people who would say that you should learn to be content in every situation.
"I don't want to be here."
Yeah, Paul was freakin awesome. But he sure didn't have it easy. It took me a while in life to realize that those people that are talked about in the Bible didn't have it easy. They weren't extraterrestrial angelic creatures with extra superpowers just because they happened to be in the Bible. They were human just like me. They made mistakes like crazy, but God used them for amazing things. I remember how much I freaked out when this realization hit me.
I don't remember at what point in life this realization hit me, but every once in a while, I get hit again. Because even I can forget these things sometimes. Realizations like: I could be almost as badass as Paul. I mean, Paul was the ultimate guy. He was on a completely different path than what God wanted. He was actually persecuting God's people. But after God blinded him and woke him out of his stupor, he was radically on fire for God. He was the one being persecuted after that. But even though Paul was arrested and whipped and beaten and thrown in jail, what did he do? He sang praises to God in a jail cell.
I'm in Finland. I'm not in a jail cell.
Even though it felt pretty crappy and lonely at that point in time, there was a huge difference between my situation and Paul's. But even when you're in a pretty cool country, you can still feel homesick and alone. It helps to have friends and fellow Christians who can pray with you and encourage you. Paul had a pretty awesome buddy named Silas who was with him in the jail cell. They sang praises to God together, even when the other prisoners probably thought they were crazy. Since coming to Finland I have been blessed with meeting some awesome friends and being introduced to an awesome Church and small group which has helped me immensely throughout the past few months.
After my week of being in the depths of despair, I went to my friend and small group leader's house. We spent some time together, talked, prayed, and somehow I felt so much more refreshed. Maybe everything wasn't perfect, but the secret to being content wasn't having everything around you be perfect. The secret to being content is Jesus.
I rode home on my bike through the rain. The soft cool drops hit my face and I saw it clean everything around me. The snow and ice was almost gone. The rain was washing it away and bringing something new and bright into the horizon. The old was being washed away and the new was coming. Winter would soon be gone and the Spring was on its way. And I began to sing as I cycled in the rain. Everything might not be perfect, but learning to be content in imperfect situations is a part of life, no matter where you are.
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Integrity at the Core
by CMarkEaly on Feb.11, 2012, under Core Values, News Commentary, Politics/Economics, Relationships, Spirituality
Once I had a conversation with a lady who had come to talk about a potential home improvement product. Our conversation spontaneously began with talk about the state of affairs in the country and the world. We seemed to have automatically been in synch with each other — understanding, agreeing with and applauding our mutual desire for a better dialogue than that which we were hearing day to day.
After this warm, heart-to-heart dialogue, though, it was time to "get down to business." I was struck by how dramatically her mood shifted from one of seeming to care about the plight of people to one of wanting to make money.
This is not an indictment against her. Rather, it is an observation of the bigger system in which she and countless other people live, in which their lives are compartmentalized. In Box A is their genuine concern about the soul level issues of people and their well being — evidenced by the outpouring of good deeds when natural disasters strike. In Box B, though, is a totally contrary behavior that silently speaks, "I've got to do my part to make a profit — whatever it takes."
I suppose most people are not even aware of the conflicting dialogues taking place by their two internal boxes. They literally, 'just go along to get along.' I have read stories of some people who, when they became aware of the conflict, lost their jobs by trying to quietly bring justice within the system that was designed to bring profits. Make no mistake: resolving the conflict is no simple task or it would already be the predominant paradigm.
Ultimately, the mega systems must resonate with the ultimate system. When there is lack of integrity disturbances occur.
One person said that "passion" was the basis for his career, while "purpose" was the basis for his life. It takes a lot of courage to bring those two disconnected circles into synchronization with each other. And everyone may not be able to achieve 100% synchronization. It is a journey. Leaving them totally separate, though, may be like the married man who says, "Passion is my mistress, while purpose is my wife and family."
Being "on purpose" is what integrity is all about. It may not be easy, because there are surrounding systems where the water is dirty. But integrity is about "wholeness." It is not about legalism or moralism, or someone's list of standards. Integrity is about clarity of purpose. Scripture says, "Be perfect." That doesn't mean living up to someone's standard of righteousness, because other scriptures teach us that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." There are numerous other scriptures that negate a notion of righteousness based on one's ability to measure up to some arbitrary standard of living –established by some fallible group of people (who are not perfect).
What perfection, or integrity, does mean is the completeness illustrated by a circle: it is whole and cannot be broken. At core level, when we strive for integrity we will always exhibit love, because it is perfect.


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NEW YORK, Feb 13: A commuter plane dropped out of the sky without warning and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo house in a fiery crash that killed all 49 people aboard and one person in the home.
The cause of the disaster was under investigation, but other pilots were overheard complaining around the same time of ice building up on their wings — a hazard that has caused major crashes in the past.
The twin turboprop aircraft — Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, New Jersey — was coming in for a landing when it went down in light snow and fog at about 10.20pm on Thursday around eight kilometres short of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
Witnesses heard the plane sputtering before it plunged squarely through the roof of the house, its tail section visible through flames shooting at least 50 feet high.
"The whole sky was lit up orange," said Bob Dworak, who lives about a kilometre away. "All of a sudden, there was a big bang, and the house shook."
Two others in the house escaped with minor injuries. The plane was carrying a four-member crew and an off-duty pilot. Among the 44 passengers killed was a woman whose husband died in the World Trade Centre attack of Sept 11, 2001.
Federal investigators searched through the wreckage for the black box recorders that could shed light on what went wrong, but they said the smouldering debris was still too hot to look for bodies.
No mayday call came from the pilot before the crash, according to a recording of air traffic control's radio messages captured by the website LiveATC.net.
Erie County Emergency Coordinator David Bissonette said it appeared the plane "dove directly on top of the house"."It was a direct hit," Mr Bissonette said. "It's remarkable that it only took one house. As devastating as that is, it could have wiped out the entire neighbourhood."—AP


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"I have nothing to regret." With those words, at age seventy-one, the political career of Kakuei Tanaka came to an end. It was a career that had lasted through sixteen terms in the House of Representatives, beginning in 1947 and ending in 1990.
After a virtual four-year disappearance from public life, Tanaka made the announcement from his political stronghold in the city of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, on October 14, 1989. The moment had been expected ever since Tanaka was admitted to his private room on the ninth floor of the Tokyo Teishin (Postal) Hospital on Wednesday, February 27, 1985, at 8:30 p.m. He had collapsed with cerebral infarction, a partial paralysis that impaired his speech and paralyzed the right side of his body.
At the time of his stroke, Tanaka was officially listed as an Independent Dietman, just one of 512 legislators in the Lower House of Representatives. But on February 28, 1985, an estimated three hundred political and corporate leaders lined up in the Teishin Hospital foyer. For days, the news media spoke of little else and it was almost two weeks before the Japanese Diet (Parliament) resumed business. Internationally, the event went almost unnoticed. In Japan, one could sense the drama.
Influential Dietman Kozo Watanabe once said of Tanaka, "He is a genius born once in several hundred years. Is there anyone else but Tanaka who is so reliable and attractive in the political world? All politicians want to be a Tanaka, but none of them can be as successful as Tanaka."[1] This is high praise for the only Japanese Prime Minister in history to be convicted of bribery and sentenced to four years of hard labor.
Said famous journalist Takashi Tachibana, "Tanaka has established a dictatorial leadership faction within the ruling party that can replace a Prime Minister at its discretion. It is really extraordinary that criminal defendant Tanaka wishes to continue to be not only the kingmaker, but also the ruler who rules the Prime Minister of the time."[2] Tachibana's statement is a curious one, given the fact that Tanaka's official status was one of legislator without party or factional affiliation.
Career-long rival Takeo Fukuda said, "Tanaka's retirement would have no particular impact on the political world."[3]
Parliamentarian, historical aberration, kingmaker and criminal all are abbreviated truths that begin to describe a man about whom, it can be said, no Japanese holds a neutral opinion.
How incredible it is that in the West, amidst an explosion of interest in Japan, Tanaka has yet to rate more than a journalistic footnote, while in his own culture, he has inspired a literary industry onto itself, with over one hundred titles authored in Japanese.
The impact of individuals on institutions, perhaps for reasons of sociological bias, has become a default. Popular convention would have us view Japanese policy and politics in terms of collective will. To be sure, conformity, group harmony and acceptance of hierarchy exist within the culture, and the simplest proof is built into the linguistics of the nation. But it is an incomplete reality that ignores Japan's political affinity for thinly veiled, behind-the-scenes, power brokers.
Japanese political history is replete with examples of shadow lords. Every school child knows the saying "No aru taka wa tsume o kakusu," a hawk with true ability hides its talons. In the late nineteenth century, the word "Kuromaku "was coined to describe political hawks who hid their talons too well and corrupted this national virtue. Literally, "Kuromaku"means "black curtain." The bureaucratic meaning refers to a person who directs the actions of others from behind. For all practical purposes, to be a Kuromaku is to hold ultimate power in Japanese society. The man who attains the non-statutory title of Kuromaku is an individual in collective-minded Japan. More truthfully, the status of Kuromaku supports traditional sociology by shading responsibility from public view.
It is the predisposition of this chronicle that individuals in Japanese society play as important a role in the sweep of history as they do in American society. The form is slightly different, but the impact is equal in significance. Social institutions and tradition may indeed mold the individual, however, it is the individual, through conformity and dissent, who governs the direction of institutions.
It would be inconceivable to attempt an understanding of twentieth-century American politics and policy divorced from the names of Wilson, Roosevelt and Nixon. In like fashion, comprehension of the political history of twentieth-century Japan is futile if void of its Kuromaku.
A placid survey of this century's political history in Japan conjures up the names of Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909), father of the Meiji Constitution and champion of parliamentary government; Hideki Tojo (1884-1948), Prime Minister and Army General who went down in flames with his country at the end of World War II; and Shigeru Yoshida (1878-1967), the aristocratic Prime Minister who, in semi-disharmony with the MacArthur occupation, paved the way for Japan's dramatic post-war reconstruction.
Missing from this roster are the Kuromaku, Aritomo Yamagata and Yoshio Kodama. Aritomo Yamagata (1838-1922) was Ito's arch rival and principle defender of the oligarchy, totalitarian rule, military expansionism and superiority of the Japanese character. He was the primary road block to democratic development in post-feudal Japan. His nurturing of ultranationalistic elements in the army guided the nation toward war. Yoshio Kodama (1911-1984) was an ultranationalist, exponent of a capitalist Japan, financial founder and supporter of the Liberal Democratic Party, moneyman behind the majority of postwar Prime Ministers, black marketeer and extortionist.
Perhaps rightly, Tanaka's critics would argue that his is the final name to be added to this list of major league, shadowy, social movers. Others would argue that he was the hawk, with a couple of black feathers. What is true, within the sweep of modern Japanese history, is that Kakuei Tanaka was unexpected. Whether in the sun or in the shadows, as a single citizen, he was without peer.
Tanaka is the only self-made man in Japanese history to reach the pinnacle of power. Only two others were even close: Hideyoshi Toyotomi (1536-1598), defacto Shogun, and Takashi Hara (1856-1921), who in 1918 became Japan's first "commoner" Prime Minister. Both of these men overcame the nation's entrenched heredity-based caste system, yet neither came from as far down as Tanaka.
With Tanaka's rise to power came the fulfillment and expansion of the parliamentary process that Hirobumi Ito had promoted a century earlier. Tanaka tore down a number of hierarchical impediments to individualism, conquered the nation's elite bureaucracy and set the tone for Japanese-style politics. He is, in a very real sense, an assimilation of those who have gone before him, with one additional twist. Tanaka brought the concept of populism into the political process. In an exaggerated sense, with only perfidy as an ally, Tanaka led a peasant revolution of one, that reshaped party politics in Japan.
T. Harry Williams wrote in his biography of Huey P. Long, the late Governor of Louisiana, "In striving to do good he was led on to grasp for more and more power, until finally he could not always distinguish between the method and the goal, the power and the good. His story is a reminder, if we need one, that a great politician may be a figure of tragedy."[4]
Although it is not the intent of this book to focus on a Long/Tanaka comparison, it is intriguing that Japan could produce a character so familiar to Americans, and for such similar reasons. As a point of cross-cultural understanding, several parallel circumstances are worthy of mention. Some are geographic and others are the style extracted from that geography.
Born twenty-five years and two worlds apart, both men grew up in severely repressed communities repressed not by design but by political neglect. Long's community was Winn Parish in northern Louisiana and Tanaka's was Nishiyama, in the central part of Niigata Prefecture on the northwest coast. They were both born too rural. Not only were their respective communities disenfranchised from the centers of state power, but their states were also disenfranchised from the centers of national power. The childhood they knew was one of hard work and very simple values. Long was born the seventh child, in what he liked to refer to as a log cabin, albeit a very large log cabin, situated on 329 acres of land. Tanaka was born as an only son on 327 fewer acres. Both families were just one rung above tenancy. Prior to migrating to the big city, Long to New Orleans and Tanaka to Tokyo, Long had eleven years of schooling, Tanaka had only eight. Both men realized immediately that to be competitive in urban society they needed more education. Long completed a three-year law degree in one year; Tanaka attended a night school course in drafting. The dichotomy between rural and city life left a very deep impression on both young men an impression perhaps best described as a "yokel pathology," a degenerative disease inflicted on backwoods country folk by unspecified urban elites who had no intention of sharing technological progress with Winn Parish or Niigata Prefecture. The weakness in the system of patronage that existed was the fact that money superseded pedigree.
Because Long and Tanaka were not welcomed into the system, any system, they were driven to create a new one a system that would embrace not only them, but their kinfolk and neighbors as well. As a world view, it was narrow but more practical than most. As a political agenda, it was simple and unstoppable.
It has been said that Huey P. Long built 100 million dollars worth of the best roads Louisiana ever saw and it only cost the taxpayers 150 million dollars. Tanaka's style was identical.
Among the great unanswered questions in American history are: What if the powerful Senator from Louisiana had not been assassinated at age forty-two? What if his plan to split the Democratic Party in 1936 had been successful? Through his political machine and Share the Wealth Clubs would he have taken the presidency in 1940? Would he have been, as some suggest, America's first dictator?
Tanaka's story, in its own way, provides a possible answer to the Huey P. Long question. Tanaka did not get shot and he did come to dominate the political life of his nation.
Fascination, by itself, is one reason for writing a book about Kakuei Tanaka. As mentioned earlier, neglect is yet another reason. A third reason is to interject an element of human personality into what often is described as the byzantine world of Japanese politics not just any personality, but one that is already familiar to American culture. A fourth and final reason is that the life of Kakuei Tanaka spans the entire breadth of modern Japan.
In treating this subject we have adopted a two-tier style of communication. The first tier is biographical narrative. The second is illustrated research. Atypical of conventional practice, we have combined these two forms in deference to Tanaka's Niigata constituency. Illustrated research is our attempt to revive Japan's tenth-century literary style of emaki (picture scrolls). Other than denoting Tanaka's historical stature, the emaki approach hopefully will enhance the reader's feel for the subject and for a culture different from his or her own.
Out of necessity, we have relied almost exclusively on Japanese materials for our research and have paid particular attention to data generated in Niigata-ken. Compilation and verification of our work was done entirely in that prefecture under the watchful guidance of countless individuals to whom we are greatly indebted. A slight bias in favor of Niigata-ken was probably unavoidable.
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When it comes to Washington's GLBT community, Virginia isn't just a place that lies across the Potomac — it's a full and vibrant part of the community that creates and celebrates Capital Pride. And on the forefront of that is the Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance (AGLA), one of the Old Dominion's oldest organizations in the fight for GLBT equality.
"Some individuals hear the word 'Virginia,' and they paint the picture of the redneck bigot," says AGLA president Daniel Hays. "In fact, in Arlington County, almost 75 percent [of residents] voted against the marriage amendment."
Hays says Arlington is lucky not only in its citizenry, but in its stock of progressive leaders throughout the local government. But having that support is no reason to "sit on your laurels."
"If we just join together, we're able to accomplish much greater things," he says.
Founded in 1981, AGLA pursues a "tripartite mission": community service, social opportunities and political awareness. While the group has long been a participant in Capital Pride, being a Community Partner takes them a step further in all of AGLA's mission goals. It's also an opportunity to remind everyone that Capital Pride is a broad-based, regional community affair.
"We want to make sure were preserve the fact that Capital Pride is not 'Washington Pride,' and make sure Virginia is present," says Hays.
AGLA stays active in the community at large, with members serving in the local government, collecting food for the homeless and working on safe school initiatives, as well as other projects and activities. For Capital Pride, you'll find AGLA members marching as part of the Pride Parade and staffing their annual booth at the Pride Festival.
On June 7, AGLA will also host a NoVa Pride Concert and Fundraiser for Capital Pride at Freddie's Beach Bar in Crystal City, featuring performances by Jon Bozeman, Rachel Panay and Tom Goss, plus DJ Alicia and emcees Destiny B. Childs and Randi Miller.
The NoVa Pride event will be held Saturday, June 7 at 8 p.m. at Freddie's, 555 South 23rd St., Arlington. For more information about AGLA, visit its Web site at www.agla.org or e-mail email@example.com.


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Mendenhall Village Real Estate
Mendenhall Village Real Estate
Mendenhall Village was one of the first Planned Unit Developments (PUD) in Delaware. It was set up in the late 1970's as a combination of townhomes and single family homes on the horse farm of Wilhelmina Dupont Ross. Selling a portion of her lands was deemed to be a good way of establishing the value of the rest in her estate planning. At that time the location and the idea of a combination of townhomes and singles was considered a gamble. Jimmy DiSabatino, then in his mid 30's took the gamble and decided to build the homes. They were extraordinarily successful. So instead of going broke as area businessmen predicted, Jimmy was able to retire. The community is at the edge of the Hockessin 19707 zip and is a "sister" community to Limestone Hills next door. There is a playground, over 8 acres of common grounds and a park within the very pleasant real estate community.
- Number of Homes: 609
- Age of Homes 1980-1988
- Home Sizes: 1,700-2,750 sq. ft.
- Lot Sizes: 0.05-0.48 acres
- Price Range (in past 5 years): $195K - $395K
- Sales in the last 5 years: 104
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OK lately I've been bored or my usual games so I've been checking out some indy stuff here and there And I'm having a ball with some of them. So allow me to share.
Runman: Race around the World. This is a fun Sonic/Supermario style side scrolling clone. Cool blues music in background. graphics are pedestrian but seems like they were made that way on purpose. gameplay is fast and it is hella fun to waste some time on.
Star Guard. Fun little Megaman style side scroller with atari 2600 like graphics. fast game play, great little time waster. Too easy unfortunately.
Tasty Static. fun little Beamrider, Skyroads clone. yeah graphics are horrid better than the 2 above though. But once gain hella fun to play. and as you move on the game play gets faster and more difficult.
All are free. so there is no cost to deter you from trying them out. Runman is windows only. Star Guard is Win & Mac, Tasty Static is Win/Mac/Linux. have fun.


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ZIMS for Medical
ZIMS for Medical, the web-based medical module of our Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS), captures records about anesthesia, treatment, diagnostic testing, clinical observations and more. Powerful enough to replace any other third-party medical records application, it also identifies species-specific physiologic reference data and commonly used anesthesia drugs, dosages and potential risks for thousands of wildlife species.
ZIMS for Medical integrates seamlessly with ZIMS for Inventory and Husbandry records, pulling medical and husbandry information into the same comprehensive records system with a single point of access. It is also fully functional as a stand-alone application, replacing and significantly upgrading Species360 legacy software MedARKS (Medical Animal Record Keeping System).
ZIMS for Medical is designed for use by veterinarians, vet techs, keepers, and other staff working with a veterinary team.
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What are the institutional benefits of ZIMS for Medical?
ZIMS for Medical is a web-based information management application that replaces Species360 legacy software MedARKS (Medical Animal Record Keeping System). It provides:
- Improved medical information standardization, search and retrieval.
- Integration of medical records and drug regulatory compliance records
- Enhanced communication between staff members
- Access to medical records from any computer with an internet connection
- Available only in ZIMS: Drug usage information for more than 1,200 species
- Available only in ZIMS: Species-specific anesthesia protocols and outcomes for more than 1,200 species
- Available only in ZIMS: Physiologic reference data on more than 900 species.
What is the scope of ZIMS for Medical?
ZIMS for Medical's range of functionalities is far-reaching. It includes:
- Anesthesia records
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- Reports generated for complete medical histories, caseload management, daily medical summaries, aesthesia summaries, samples, tests and results, and unresolved medical issues.
Who can view my medical data?
No one or anyone. The option is completely up to each institution. Within your institution, there are discreet role controls that allow unique access for vets, medical admins, vet techs, and any other role you may need. You can also limit access to those roles and not allow sharing with other staff, if needed. Outside of your institution, no one has access to your detailed data, unless you choose to grant it to them. We have features to help you automate read-only access for other institutions by specific animal or taxa and for different groups of data, if you choose.


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I'm in college and I'm just not sure if I could make it in NY but I'm always fascinated by it. How are the neighborhoods for a middle class white guy?
At your age (college/ recent grad) it doesn't take anything more than roommates. Plenty of roommates. Defray the costs and you'll have an amazing time - particularly when you're young & unburdened. As long you can handle living in a group situation and a sarcophagus-sized bedroom, you can live in NYC on first job pay.
It's not until you require space and amenities (i.e., kids to feed, your own 2BR apt and a car) that you'll need to be making big money to live in the City.
Until then, find three roommates and go for it.
Upper East Side or East Village are probably the cheapest (close) neighborhoods to move to first...unless you're OK with moving north of 100th St. I lived on E75th for a few years and love the UES...great, fun neighborhood to start off with.
Lower East Side, Harlem, Morningside Heights... probably the most "budget friendly" areas of Manhattan, although there truly is no such thing. Look for a roommate, check out Queens and Brooklyn. And more than anything; have a job ready before moving.
Is there a happy medium between 'budget friendly' and safe?
Lower East Side is very safe.
I'm considering the LES for my sister and myself, as well. The time to decide is approaching...
I've been living in Harlem for over a year, and I feel pretty safe. That being said, I don't wander at 1 in the morning.
Another thing to add: Patience and a sense of humor. You will need both here. New York offers amazing opportunities and possibilities, but there are a lot of little things that can drive unprepped person to madness (three letters in particular: MTA). Also, be ready to desensitize yourself to things that would make you stop and stare in your hometown.
What I'm getting at is, besides the money, you'll need the mindset.
I would say that chances of trouble increase marginally once you go north of 100 but even then it's really a decent area. Anywhere in lower Manhattan is super safe I feel. You can always find a random whacko though, as with anywhere.


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Off-Season Beach Bargains
Provincetown, Massachusetts
What It's Like: In winter, when temperatures hover in the low forties, the town slows down and reverts to its historic New England whaling town roots.
What to Do: Though the second-home real estate boom has displaced some year-round residents, enough shops and restaurants stay open to keep the town lively (as long as you don't go looking for dinner after 8 p.m.). Fly a kite on starkly beautiful beaches, enjoy Italian and Portuguese cuisine without waiting an hour for a table, and shop for antiques without getting jostled by other tourists.
Where to Stay and Dine: With fireplaces de rigueur and few guests around, B&B's offer ideal accommodations, even for travelers who prefer anonymity. Try Brass Key Guesthouse (off-season doubles from $120), a collection of nine restored buildings, including cottages, surrounding a private courtyard. For dinner, try The Red Inn, a 200-year-old inn and restaurant with a seasonal menu that features freshly caught fish, or experience a Provincetown tradition at the Northern Italian Ciro and Sal's.
San Juan Island, Washington
What It's Like: Even Heathcliff and Cathy would agree: dramatically gray and misty days are even more romantic when watched from a window seat in a cozy hotel room. If a beach stroll is on the agenda, bring a waterproof jacket; temperatures are in the low forties.
What to Do: Rent a bike or drive to Lime Kiln State Park and the Lime Kiln lighthouse, the last in the state to receive electricity. In high season, visitors to the islands stand elbow-to-elbow at ferry railings to view the rugged landscape—Douglas firs teetering on rocky bluffs, bald eagles tracing circles overhead—but take the foggy half-hour ride from Friday Harbor to Orcas Island in winter, and you'll be able to hear the otters slip into the water along the shore in the stillness.
Where to Stay and Dine: Snag a room with a view, a fireplace, and a jetted tub at the Friday Harbor House, a 23-room boutique hotel just uphill from the water (off-season doubles from $119). Have a burger and local beer at the San Juan Brewing Co. and the Front Street Alehouse (1 Front Street; 360/378-2337; www.sanjuanbrewing.com), or sample Asian flavors at Thai Kitchen (140 First Street; 360/378-1917).
Ocracoke Island, North Carolina
What It's Like: It's deliciously lonesome out here; no development is permitted on the island's beaches, so even the boardwalks that bridge the dunes from water to parking areas seem strangely unnatural. Still, bundle up a bit when you board the ferry in winter—temperatures are usually around 50.
What to Do: Bring a book and maybe a kite, lazily keep an eye on the harbor for the next ferry, eavesdrop on the fishermen at dinnertime, linger a little in shops to pick up local news. You'll find yourself slowing down to island time. That alone is worth the trip.
Where to Stay and Dine: Captain's Landing Hotel, Dockage & Suites (252/928-1999; thecaptainslanding.com; off-season suites from $110) offers private decks, harbor views, and full kitchens. Grab a sandwich at Flying Melon (252/928-2533) and have lunch on the beach, then enjoy the lack of crowds at local favorite Café Atlantic (252/928-4861), on the water.
Sea Ranch, California
What It's Like: The collection of unpainted wood houses tucked into the sea grass and dunes above the churning Pacific offers a quiet and romantic exploration of the glorious Redwood Coast. It's not even very cold: winter temperatures are in the upper fifties.
What to Do: Stroll along the cliffs and through the misty redwood forest. Down on the beach, there's a lunatic soundtrack of laughing gulls and barking sea lions; starfish and urchins pose in tidal pools; cartoony brown pelicans fly by in formation; and gray whales can often be spotted migrating north from February to April. Don't miss a hike up to the Sea Ranch Chapel, an architecturally whimsical (and moving) shout-out to sixties' pantheistic spirituality.
Where to Stay and Dine: Stay (and eat) in the Sea Ranch Lodge (off-season ocean-view rooms from $169), where the only guest room without an ocean view offers a private hot tub instead, or take advantage of an off-season third-night-free special at the lodge's vacation home rentals, Sea Ranch Escape.
South Padre Island, Texas
What It's Like: The 34 miles of beaches and dunes are wonderfully undeveloped. Pre-spring break months are not only mercifully deserted (there are fewer than 3,000 residents) but also warm; the mercury can climb to the mid seventies.
What to Do: Active sports fans can try windsurfing, kite-surfing, or sand-surfing. Board-free doesn't mean bored, though: opt for a horseback ride on the beach or paddle a kayak through back bays and inlets, jump a fishing charter or dolphin-watching cruise—or just drive out to the end of the northbound road, cross the dunes to an empty beach, and pretend you're on a deserted island.
Where to Stay and Dine: The Brown Pelican Inn (207 W. Aries; 956/761-2722; www.brownpelican.com; off-season doubles $110) is a charming bay-side inn with wraparound porches and eight generous rooms. South Padre Brewing Company will prepare your catch and serve it up with a local beer, while at Ted's (5717 Padre Boulevard; 956/761-5327; open daily until 3 p.m.), you can eavesdrop on Texas-style surf lingo and enjoy a Tex-Mex breakfast.
Chincoteague Island, Virginia
What It's Like: You won't find many humans around Chincoteague and neighboring Assateague in winter, but rich wildlife (minus the mosquitoes) remains, despite the mid-forties temperatures.
What to Do: Rent a bike: the flat terrain can tempt even the laziest cyclists to meander down quiet side roads to investigate plantation houses, small towns, and fishermen's landings. Ride over the bridge to Assateague and pedal the 15 miles of trails and roads along long stretches of empty white beaches. Deer, snow geese, dolphin, horseshoe crabs, and piping plovers live here, but there are signs of previous human visitors—plaques commemorating shipwrecks, a cemetery overgrown with sea grass, and a curiously placed lighthouse.
Where to Stay and Dine: The Refuge Inn (7058 Maddox Boulevard; 888/257-0038; www.refugeinn.com; doubles from $78, closed until March 1, 2008) is a low-key, low-profile hotel with oversize rooms right at the entrance of the Wildlife Refuge. The hotel rents bikes and has its own herd of Chincoteague ponies. Suites with full kitchens afford a little freedom from uninspired seafood restaurants. Drive up to Easton or St. Michaels for fine dining. See T+L's list of suggestions.
Port Orford, Oregon
What It's Like: Winter weather hovers in the mid fifties (only 10 degrees cooler than summer), and the rainy season tapers off at the end of January, so dress accordingly—you'll want to be outside while you're here.
What to Do: Visit the lighthouse at Cape Blanco, a stark, whitewashed sentinel at the westernmost point in the continental U.S.; below, waves thrash and churn around sea stacks and dump tangled driftwood on the shore. Then follow the rugged coastline 10 miles north to Floras Lake State Park and hike the trail to Blacklock Point, which ends at the edge of a long, curving stretch of 80-foot-high coastal cliffs, complete with a waterfall that plunges right into the ocean.
Where to Stay and Dine: Home by the Sea B&B (Port Orford; 877/332-2855; www.homebythesea.com; off-season doubles from $95) offers two snug rooms, both with picture windows over the dramatic coast. Enjoy some post-hike chowder and homemade pie at Crazy Norwegian's Fish and Chips (259 Sixth Street, Port Orford; 541/332-8601)—there's even free Wi-Fi.
Charlevoix, Michigan
What It's Like: All north woods, beach dunes, and lakeshore, this region was both Hemingway's boyhood vacationland and location of most of his Nick Adams stories. It's bracingly cold here in winter, with daily highs a little below freezing, but that doesn't keep anyone indoors.
What to Do: Sled, snowshoe, snowmobile, ice-skate, and ski both downhill and cross-country, all within view of the lakes. And to really embrace the charms of cold weather, take a winter raft trip through the snowy woods along the Jordan River.
Where to Stay and Dine: Weathervane Terrace Inn and Suite (111 Pine River Lane; 800/552-0025; weathervane-chx.com) has suites, with fireplaces, kitchenettes, and lake views from $79. For dinner, Stafford's Weathervane is a grist mill-turned-restaurant styled by Earl Young, the local architect responsible for most of the Hobbit-y stone buildings in town. Get a table near the meteorite and boulder fireplace or by the window overlooking the channel that runs between the lakes. For a truly local breakfast or lunch experience, head to Juilleret's (1418 Bridge Street; 231/547-9212).
Block Island, Rhode Island
What It's Like: Peace, quiet, and…cold. It's wonderfully deserted here in winter, but be fully prepared for temperatures that hover around freezing—the mainland is 12 miles away, and in winter the ferry runs just once a day.
What to Do: Walk the hiking trails along the cliffs and the 17-mile shoreline where harbor seals loll and bark amid driftwood and smooth beach glass. Even the traffic-free roads bordered by those picturesque fieldstone walls make you feel like taking a walk in a different era. The maritime solitude begs an engrossing novel: Moby Dick or The Shipping News sound just right.
Where to Stay and Dine: The several properties managed by The 1661 Inn are just about your only choices at this time of year. Rooms start at $55, but opt for a larger one with a fireplace and hot tub. Restaurant options are limited; try Club Soda (401/466-5397), Swashbucklers (401/466-2822), and the Albion Pub (401/466-9990).
San Simeon, California
What It's Like: Winter temperatures stay comfortable (in the fifties and sixties), perfect for spying two-ton elephant seals and migrating gray whales from the long stretches of empty beach.
What to Do: Walk the rugged, lovely coastline at William Randolph Hearst State Beach, with its coves and rolling breakers and the dramatic bluffs above studded with outcroppings of native Monterey pine. Set aside time to visit the vast Hearst Castle, the newspaper magnate's fanciful Shangri-la.
Where to Stay and Dine: Yes, the Cavalier Oceanfront Resort is a Best Western, but the king ocean-view rooms have wood-burning fireplaces and private patios, and are priced from $139 a night. Head down the coast to the next town, Cambria, for a nice dinner at the Black Cat (1602 Main Street, Cambria; 805/927-1600; www.blackcatbistro.com).
The Hamptons, New York
What It's Like: The celebrities have packed up croquet mallets, backed their SUVs over the commoners, and driven back to the city for the season leaving, in their wake, silence. With no traffic, no restaurant lines, no parking permit headaches, no party circuit, the Hamptons are at their loveliest in winter.
What to Do: Cooper's Beach in Southampton will fulfill both your beach-combing and star-gazing impulses with views of the glorious, blustery seascape as well as the graceful rooflines of beachfront estates. Then stroll along Main Street in Southampton and East Hampton and visit the posh boutiques and stores. Though some have closed for the season, you can still hit the likes of Scoop, Eileen Fisher, DKNY, and Saks.
Where to Stay and Dine: At the Southampton Inn (91 Hill Street, Southampton, 800/832-6500; www.southamptoninn.com), the same rooms that run $489 a night in summer can be yours for $149 in winter (tip: request a Designer Suite when booking). Grab a table at hotspots Nick and Toni's or Della Femina (99 North Main Street, East Hampton, 631/329-6666; www.dellafemina.com) where you'll actually be seated without a wait and get to focus on the food without fighting the urge to gawk..


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Bill O'Reilly And His Anti Abortion (Zealot) Pals
Reported by Priscilla - June 22, 2009 -
During the last presidential campaign, there was lots of talk on Fox about Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers – or as Sarah Palin expressed it, "pallin around with terrorists." Meanwhile, Fox's Bill O'Reilly had less than six degrees of separation from a radical anti abortion organization and a Kansas attorney general who, like Captain Ahab, relentlessly pursued Dr. George Tiller – a pursuit aided and abetted by Bill O'Reilly who was recently praised, for his "coverage" of the Tiller pursuit, by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council – a right wing organization that seeks to end a woman's right to abortion. O'Reilly's background is in journalism but his role on Fox ("hard hitting reporting") and beyond seems to be more of an advocate – a role that would seem to contradict the notion of journalistic objectivity let alone "fair and balanced." His "hard hitting reporting" on Dr. George Tiller had little to do with a function of journalism; but, rather, was a conduit for the lies and smears perpetrated by his fellow anti abortion zealot, the disgraced former Kansas Attorney General, Phill Kline, whose quest, like Ahab's was unsuccessful. And while Ahab was killed by the whale, Kline's career has definitely taken a down-turn!
Bill O'Reilly and Operation Rescue operated in tandem. A search, on the Operation Rescue website, finds a number of videos in which Bill O'Reilly "reports" on Tiller and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Readers are urged to view these videos. One article, "Operation Rescue Agrees With O'Reilly – Calls Pro-Lifers to Wichita…," opened with how Bill O'Reilly was "taking" Tiller "to task" and how Operation Rescue agreed with Bill's crusader call to his viewers to protest at Tiller's clinic. O'Reilly's anti abortion articles were also carried on the Operation Rescue Website. The article, "Who Will Save the Babies," includes Bill's trademark (and ongoing) lie about Tiller and misogynistic belief about those women who utilized Tiller's services: "But in Kansas, if the mom is feeling a bit blue on Tuesday and carries a certified check, Dr. Tiller is willing and able to terminate the baby." Like the Family Research Council, Operation Rescue is a Christian group which seeks to end a woman's right to an abortion.
Bill O'Reilly and former Kansas Attorney General also formed a tag team in that O'Reilly echoed (and continues to echo) Kline's unsubstantiated accusations against Tiller and also gave Kline some face time on the Factor. Kline, like O'Reilly, is also revered by Operation Rescue in that he was named their 2006 "Man of the Year." (Abortion, for Operation Rescue, is a "man's world!). But apart from the world of Operation Rescue, Kline isn't exactly a hero. What O'Reilly's viewers don't know, because I don't believe Bill has ever mentioned it, is that Phill Kline is being investigated for ethics violations which may be connected to his conduct involving the Tiller case. This comes on the heels of a scathing report, issued by the Kansas Supreme Court, which was very critical of Kline's use of medical records and his court conduct during the Tiller investigation. I don't think O'Reilly has cited this report which states that Kline "exhibits little, if any, respect for the authority of this court or for his responsibility to it and to the rule of law it husbands... It is plain he is interested in the pursuit of justice only as he chooses to define it...he was demonstrably ignorant, evasive, and incomplete in his sworn written responses…" During a court hearing, last November, in which Tiller's attorneys were seeking to dismiss criminal charges, one of Kline's investigators, Jared Reed said, regarding Kline's team, that "They were willing to do whatever it took, including breaking the law or going above the law, to get a conviction." It isn't surprising that anti Tiller, anti abortion zealot, Bill O'Reilly, palled around with this crew.
But flash forward to June 2009 and Phill Kline is teaching at Liberty University and is scrounging for cash donations to defray his legal bills. Just prior to Tiller's murder, Kline's solicitation, mailed to his supporters, cited his role in persecuting Tiller. Bill O'Reilly continues to insist that Tiller broke the law – which, clearly, according to the law of the state of Kansas, isn't true. He continues to say that women had abortions for "casual reasons" and, once again, there is no legal basis to substantiate that allegation. But O'Reilly is looking out for fetuses and, clearly, not the women who carry them. Bill claims that he was merely "reporting" on a late term abortion provider who was murdered for doing his job which was in accordance with the law. I do wonder how Bill O'Reilly would react to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann actively and vociferously supporting, on their shows, a liberal group representing gay activists - a group which in turn uses their comments in pursuit of their agenda. As I noted, Bill O'Reilly was providing validation and free air time for some very unsavory characters who seek to impose their narrow theology onto all American women – not real journalism and so not "fair and balanced."


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A detailed and extensive look at the African, Caribbean and Asian war effort with video clips and interviews with black Spitfire & bomber pilots, Nigerian and Somali troops fighting in Burma, Black and Asian women secret agents, u-boats in the Caribbean and the importance of Africa and India's raw materials
Black History Walks has delivered this event at the Imperial War museum for over ten years. Despite being on the British school curriculum many people have no idea that Black people played any part in either World War 1 or World War 2. This interactive presentation will fill in the huge gaps as well as provide references and resources.
Next film event Afrofuturism, Spirituality, Activism and Media Saturday 17 June 2 to 6pm. A whole day of films about Black women in heroic roles plus Q & A. Films include:
Caleb, A lone Black female astronaut fights the alien takeover of her world
Ori Inu, a young New Yorker confronts her Christian family with Brazilian Candomble.
Summer of Gods, a beautiful little Brazilian girl undergoes rights of passage which link her to African Godesses
Rise of the O, A black female superhero series which draws on West African Orishas
Plus Q&A with Director/producers of Ori Inu, Author, Dr Michelle Asantewa, and other special guests


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Targeting at creating high-quality products, STADA-Vietnam maintains a well-established and continuous developing quality management system in accordance with EU-GMP. In addition to multi-level scientific documentation system prepared and managed by an experienced, competent staff, STADA-VN employs technology and synchronous automation as an effective tool for quality management and risk minimization.
Application Software in Production Equipment
Most of the equipment in production areas are controlled by Programmable Logical Controller (PLC) to set parameters of production and ensure uniformity of each batch.
Device in the manufacturing sector are equipped with SCADA systems to ensure control, manage the database and history of the production processes.
All software used in the processes of manufacturing and testing meet the requirements of 21 CFR part 11.
Heating, Ventilating, Air-conditioning (HVAC) System
An HVAC system consisting of 60 air handling units (AHUs), 6 special dehumidifiers, a dust collecting system, chillers and an air ducting network are designed and installed in compliance with EU-GMP requirements, to ensure that the environnement in production and storage areas satisfy the temperature, humidity and cleanliness required by the European GMP.
BMS System for Controlling Production Environment
Building Management System (BMS) controls humidity, temperature and air velocity with the support of SCADA system for the control, monitoring and data acquisition complying with requirements of EU-GMP. The system assures all materials and products are processed in good condition, minimizing risk factors of cross contamination and alerted when problems arise.
RO-CDI Purified Water System
Advanced water treatment technologies such as RO-CDI for water purification, hot water sanitization, automated control through PLC, electro polishing, pipe fitting and orbital welding are customized in the water system in order to generate purified water in compliance with the criteria stated in European and US pharmacopoeia.
"Calibration Schedule Manager"
Management software is utilized to alert of maintenance schedule for production equipment, to test and calibrate equipment and sensors, and notify of necessary repairs. The software has been reviewed and assessed under the provisions of 21 CFR part 11 of the GMP - United States.
STADA-VN's quality control department was established in accordance with GLP requirements with experienced qualified analysts, state-of-the-art instruments and validated testing procedures in order to facilitate quality control and stability of commercial products in accordance with ICH rules.
Data archive and acquisition are checked and updated on a regular basis on system equipment, which are connected to a server and management software application that has been evaluated under 21 CFR part 11, matching the European GMP, WHO and FDA standards to ensure accuracy, safety and the ability to recover data in case of incidents.
Standard and Working Principles
Committed to the objective of developing products for regulated markets, STADA-VN establishes its research and development in compliance with ISO 9001:2008 and implements its activities in accordance with ICHQ8 guidelines.
Investment for a Better Future
Every year, STADA-VN financially invests significantly in research and product development, primarily in the areas of modernization of equipment and technology, and training researchers. Production development involves testing bioequivalence and evaluating suppliers of raw materials. To keep up with the latest technology, STADA-VN actively searches for and exchanges technology with various partners as part of the CRO to improve and research pharmaceutical development. In order to fulfill the mission and commitment to supply quality products to patients, STADA-VN constantly invests in research and training of the staff with technological and professional knowledge by experienced experts from Germany and India.
People – the Decisive Factor
STADA-VN is proud of its team of young, qualified, dedicated and creative scientists. Pharmacists, chemists and other staff working in R&D are willing to devote to research activities and cooperate with other divisions in establishment of a strong and stable business.
Technology and Innovation – the Key to Success
State-of-the-art facilities and equipment similar to those of production areas facilitate research and development activities as well as technology transfer processes. In addition, our laboratories are well equipped with high performance analysis instruments such as our liquid chromatography with auto sampler, differential scanning calorimetry, particle size analyzer, etc. These high performance instruments are utilized for research, analysis and quality control.
Many approaches to novel knowledge, inventions and technologies are available for staff's mastering and application in their work to create high-quality products.
AchievementsSTADA-VN has successfully launched 200 of 300 developed products of various therapy groups to the market.
Since 2006 STADA-VN has already completed bioequivalent studies of 11 products. In the future, STADA-VN is aiming at carrying out bioequivalent studies of other products to assure that effective and safe medicines are being offered to its valued customers.


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The H.A.L.O. Overdrive pedal is not your average overdrive pedal. This unique design and radical approach delivers amazingly flexible control of even order harmonic distortion. This produces an incredibly warm, rich overdrive sound that is thick and multi-dimensional. The response to touch dynamics must be experienced to understand.
The touch-sensitive response to picking strength and individual player articulation is one characteristic of the H.A.L.O. that sets this pedal apart from previous attempts at solid-state overdrive equipment.
The unit is easy to understand and operate, with highly intuitive, flexible controls that allow the guitarist to tweak in "their sound." The H.A.L.O. doesn't disguise or detract from the individual sound and uniqueness of your guitar, the way you play. The pedal allows you to get any amount of natural sounding overdrive and compression at any level. The result is a sound that is very "amp-like" and full.
1.GAIN 1 - Sets the amount of overdrive in this channel. Turn down for less gain. With the control fully to the left, the sound is clean. Turning it to the right increases distortion and sustain.
2.GAIN 2 - Sets the amount of overdrive for this channel. It is similar to Gain 1, but has additional gain that kicks in past 12 o'clock. Set near full for a screaming tone.
3.TONE - Controls the high frequency boost and cut. This shapes the overall timbre of the sound. With the control turned down,
the sound is darker. Turn this up for a crisp, bright sound with aggressive bite.
4.LEVEL 1 - Controls overall volume when Gain 1 is engaged. (see gain select).
5.LEVEL 2 - Controls overall volume when Gain 2 is engaged. (see gain select).
6.BASS - Controls the low end. Turn up for boost at approximately 100 Hz. Gives a thick, robust sound.
7.CONTOUR - Controls mid-range shape and imaging. Turning it down gives a "scooped" response, and turning it up gives a tighter, focused mid image.
8.PRESENCE - Controls the higher mid-range frequencies. This is useful for dialing in the amount of clarity and imaging of the overall tone. In the full clockwise direction, the sound is clearer and seemingly closer to your listening environment.
9.SHAPE - Control distortion characteristics.
Three position switch selects:
Right Position - Symmetrical clipping mode. Bright overdrive distortion with medium compression and harmonic complexity.
Left Position - Asymmetrical clipping mode. A bit darker overdrive distortion with increased harmonic complexity resulting in more overtones and compression.
Center Position - Clean boost mode.
A brilliant sounding distortion mode that can enable the unit to provide up to 17 dB of clean boost in conjunction with the gain and level controls. This setting also provides a very open overdrive distortion with minimum compression and harmonic complexity.
10.SATURATION - Post Gain control added distortion/compression.
Three position switch selects:
Right Position - On in Gain 2 select only.
Left Position - On in both Gain 1 and Gain 2 select settings.
Center Position - Off .
This feature adds an additional layer of complex distortion for more saturation. Adds smooth, long sustain.
11.OUTPUT - 1/4" phone jack. This connects to the amplifier. The output is derived from a discrete FET/Bi-polar circuit that doesn't alter the sound of the guitar. This output is low impedance and can drive long cable runs without loading down the guitar pickups.
12.INPUT - 1/4" phone jack. Plug your guitar in here. This high impedance input doesn't suck the tone out of your guitar, even in bypass. The 9 volt battery is engaged only when the guitar is plugged in.
13.STATUS LED - (Blue) On = effect in. Off = bypass mode. The bright BLUE LED becomes dim when the 9 volt battery wears down to 7 volts and will NOT illuminate when the battery is below the critical 7 volt level (REPLACE THE BATTERY AT THIS POINT).
14.GAIN STATUS LED - Yellow = Gain 1. Red = Gain 2.
15.BYPASS - Turns the effect on and off. Blue LED on = effect on.
16.GAIN SELECT - This switch alternates between Gain 1 & Gain 2.
17.DC POWER INPUT - 9 to 18 volt DC input. While the unit works great with a single 9 volt battery, an external supply of 18 volts increases available headroom.
18.BATTERY COMPARTMENT - External battery holder makes battery replacement easy; just pull out with "drawer" motion.
Specifications subject to change without notice.
Alairex™, Select-o-drive™, H.A.L.O.™ ©2012 Alairex Inc. All rights reserved.


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We had a great time in London last Sunday.
After a quick lunch at Leon's we walked up to Brick Lane's bric a brac market, where every building and space available held a market from food to vintage clothing, bands playing in the street and even a hair salon in the park.
We followed the trail of people carrying plants up to Columbia Road flower market, where the street was lined with lilies, pansies, orchids and herbs.
A shop I always love to visit is J & B The Shop, run by Jessie and Buddug. It's full of beautifully handmade pieces with an old fashioned feel to it.
This sweet shop was amazing. I love their window display of royal tins full of sweets.


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The flight from Paris to Rome was, thankfully, uneventful. We drove past the Colosseum, which is larger than I would have guessed. We arrived at our hotel, settled in…and took a nap…don't judge! 🙂
After the we ventured out to meet Steve's friend and coworker Ashley with her travel group at the Trevi Fountain.
We then walked to a bar and enjoyed way too much Chianti!
Thursday is our walking tour of Rome.


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Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band in Osoyoos B.C.
Kevin Libin, National Post · Feb. 20, 2008 | Last Updated: Nov. 23, 2010 3:54 PM ET
From property taxes to private schools, condos to casinos: How a new generation of aboriginal people is trading reliance on government for a return to self-sufficiency. With this, the National Post begins a five-week series examining some surprising solutions to the challenges that have plagued the reserve system.
Whatever we agree, or don't, about the history of Canadian aboriginals, or about their current station, and what they do or don't need, are or aren't entitled to, we can all surely concede one fact: For thousands of years, Indians in North America -- or, if you prefer, Turtle Island -- somehow managed to get by. How well? That, like everything else, is up for interpretation.
But we do know this: They survived. Even flourished. They built homes. They created forms of governance and social organization. They provided their own food -- enough to allow, despite almost certain scarcity at times, their numbers to grow from a small band of northeast Asians who wandered here something like 10,000 years ago to a population somewhere in the millions as of the 15th century, before Europeans began establishing permanent settlements here and cooking up plans for what to do about all those natives.
"For 9,700 years we weren't reliant on government or anybody," says Calvin Helin, son of the hereditary chief of the Gitlan Tribe of the Tsimshian Nation and a Vancouver lawyer and author. Of course, there was no choice. There was no Indian Affairs department to provide housing, no provinces to issue welfare payments.
Put aside, for a moment, debates about land claims, fishing rights, self-governance and the hundred other aboriginal-related issues Canadians continue to wrestle with, and Mr. Helin sees an obvious cause-and-effect relationship.
After more than a century of increasing government control, the ability of First Nations to provide for themselves has diminished to a point where today nearly all bands are heavily or, often, completely dependent on handouts to survive.
The conclusion is inescapable: If government money were the key to aboriginal prosperity, Mr. Helin expects they might be the most prosperous people in history.
"Money in and of itself can't solve anything," he says. "You can throw $100-billion at the problem and you would get an even more massive welfare trap."
Mr. Helin represents part of an emergent wave of aboriginal thinkers and leaders who have begun publicly rejecting the status quo, wherein bands have been conditioned to seek sustenance from without -- Ottawa -- rather than from within, and instead calls for a reawakening of ancient aboriginal ideals of self-sufficiency.
"A lot of our people think that we are owed something because of all of the bad things that have happened," says Mr. Helin, who laid out a new vision in his book Dances With Dependency: Indigenous Success Through Self-Reliance. "Basically what you are saying is that it is okay to sell your dignity and your control over your life for a few welfare crumbs. It's not . It is simply not acceptable that we be taking our women and children and throwing them to the sharks. That's what we are doing right now. We've got to do something that is different."
The desire to abandon the more-money-more-problems cycle that has created ever more dependency, while seemingly achieving little in bringing typical Canadian living standards to reserves, is being picked up across the country. You will hear similar calls from Patrick Brazeau, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, who argues "the reserve system as we know it is broken and needs to be replaced," and the best way to fix things is "get rid of a lot of chiefs." Or Clarence Louie, chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in B.C.'s Okanagan region, famous for posting signs such as "Real Warriors Hold A Job" around his reserve, and who spouts philosophies including, "Get off of welfare. Get off your butt."
Typically, though, for a huge segment of First Nations people, getting a job isn't as easy as simply a change in attitude, not if there are no jobs to be found in the first place, as is often the case on reserves, and not when the majority of people there lack a basic high-school education. Attracting investment in industry to create jobs, and improving education standards so people are ready to fill them, is something non-native communities figured out a long time ago. What aboriginals need is the ability to do the same on reserves.
That probably means, among other things, reforming the way First Nations are governed by bringing transparency and accountability to chiefs and band councils; loosening Ottawa's grip on reserve-land holdings so that First Nations are free to develop, exploit and borrow against one of the few assets they have; and giving aboriginal parents some say in the way their children are educated, so they might have some shot at doing better than their parents and getting out of poverty.
To be sure, some of these ideas and the politically incorrect opinions of reformers such as Mr. Helin and Mr. Brazeau are frequently at odds with those of the establishment, epitomized by the Assembly of First Nations, and they remain outside the mainstream -- for now. But for a number of reasons, the moment for a new movement of aboriginal thinkers and leaders may have finally arrived. Canadians now face a series of economic and demographic factors threatening to conspire shortly in a way that would make the long-standing troubles on Canada's reserves tenable no more.
Growing up in Winnipeg's North End, on the wrong side of the Slater Street Bridge in the 1970s, it might have once been hard for Larry Morrissette to imagine the place getting much worse. The Eastern European immigrants and Jews that had once settled in neighbourhoods such as Lord Selkirk Park and Dufferin had scraped together their wages and migrated to more middle-class digs, leaving behind the shoddy, pre-war clapboard homes and flophouse taverns to thousands of poor aboriginals
moving in from remote reserves around the province.
There was plenty of poverty then, and plenty of crime. But things have indeed gotten worse. Unlike the immigrant class before them, the aboriginals have not moved up and out of the North End. They remain.
Thirty years ago, Mr. Morrissette was among the crews of young, aimless aboriginals, with little to do but get into, and cause, trouble. But it wasn't like today, he says. Not like the organized, lethal force that aboriginal gangs are now. There were a half-dozen gang-related killings in this part of town last year. "They basically organize around drugs and territory and making money behind that activity, and given the poverty within the community, it's a survival thing," says Mr. Morrissette. He runs an organization, Ogijiita Pimatiswin Kinamatwin (Ojibway for "warrior spirit"), that offers aboriginal ex-cons a way out of thug life, putting them to work renovating houses and getting them back to school.
In the five years since he started the group, Mr. Morrissette estimates he's helped about 70 to 100 former gang members, some of whom went on to university. But for every troubled young aboriginal he helps -- there are 30 at any given time on the group's waiting list -- new gang members are minted every day. In many communities, it is no longer even an option.
"If you're native, it's almost like it's a given that you have to be part of some organization," Mr. Morrissette says. He packed up his family and moved to another part of town after his own son was knifed after refusing to join one of the gangs.
Aboriginal gangs are not just an urban phenomenon, either. Their reach extends into small towns, villages and onto reserves, where they run drugs and other criminal rackets, moving "fluidly on and off reserves" according to a report from the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada. Anywhere you find aboriginal communities today, Mr. Morrissette says, you'll find aboriginal gangs.
"If you go into North Winnipeg and you talk to the aboriginal community and you ask them a question, 'How many of the boys in your community, under 18, are gang-involved?' most often I get the answer, 'All of them,'" says Michael Chettleburgh, author of Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs. "If you went up to Edmonton or you go up to the Hobbema Reserve, you will see in those communities a level of poverty like I see down in some big cities in the United States. If you are a young aboriginal male, growing up in that community where there is a persistent and an ambient sense of danger all the time, where there are ample drugs, where there are other gang-affiliated kids, when the economic prospects are marginal .
"People will ask me, 'Why are kids joining gangs?' I say to them, 'Why aren't they joining gangs?' "
For more than 100 years, the terrible plight of natives in this country has been one that most Canadians could conveniently put out of mind, the squalid living conditions and appalling social ills largely hidden from view on unseen reserve lands, the collective conscience soothed by the tens of billions of federal dollars spent on quieting native leaders. But the rapidly growing criminalization among aboriginal is not only bringing the problem to non-aboriginal doorsteps in a very tangible way. It is a straw in the wind, a worrisome sign that Canada's native predicament is about to get much worse, and soon, unless our approach to the issue is quickly and substantially changed.
"The consequences of young people not having a meaningful life is they're going to hurt themselves or they're going to hurt somebody else," says Michael Adams, founder of Environics Research Group. It is, he says, "in our enlightened self-interest" to wake up to the problem. "We've got a lot of people who are not living with a standard of living and quality of life in a sustainable way where they can be good parents and they're going to have good kids, and those kids are going to be able to realize themselves. And we know that's the case on many reserves and we also know it's the case in our cities."
Calvin Helin has seen what lies ahead--a vision of what he calls a "demographic tsunami" and, he warns, it threatens devastation. As he sees it, there are several elements right now conspiring to present a dangerous wave of trouble for Canada when it comes to First Nations matters.
For one, aboriginals are significantly younger than the rest of the population, their birthrates significantly higher. There are likely a number of factors behind it, but the most obvious, Mr. Helin points out, is that "most aboriginal people are poor. The birth rates amongst the poor populations of the world are almost universally higher than the wealthy population. Essentially, what that is saying is that your biggest population activity is taking place in the poorest population, in the least-educated group of people."
When Statistics Canada released 2006 census data on aboriginals this week, it found 1,172,790 people in Canada identifying as First Nations, Inuit and Metis. In the past 10 years, that's a 45% increase in size, a growth rate nearly six times that of the non-native population, which expanded 8% in the same period. The median age for aboriginals, 27 years, is a full 13 years younger than among non-aboriginals. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where aboriginals make up the largest proportions, their median ages were 22 and 24 years respectively. About 1/5 of aboriginals are under 10, compared with just 11% of non-natives.
It's what Mr. Chettleburgh refers to as "the pig in the python," a massive cohort progressing steadily along the Canadian timeline. If anything like these rates simply hold steady over the next 25 years, there could be almost three million aboriginals in Canada by 2031, representing as much as 8% of the population. In provinces with heavier aboriginal concentrations and older non-native populations, such as Manitoba or Saskatchewan (natives make up 15% of the population in both cases, currently), demographers project that by the time today's high school graduates reach retirement age, aboriginals could very well make up more than half the population.
There would be little reason to be concerned with these figures if Canadian aboriginals were as healthy, independent and economically productive as any other group. But the reality is otherwise: Roughly half of aboriginal Canadians subsist on an annual income of less than $10,000, according to the most recent data; unemployment among aboriginals is 26%, three times the national rate; Statistics Canada calculates that more than half of native kids are living in poverty; ¾ drop out of school before completing Grade 12; the incarceration rate of aboriginal men is 11 times that of non-native men; of women, it is 250 times the rate for non-native women. There are a hundred more depressing statistics: dramatically higher rates of violence, injuries, health problems, suicide, addictions and on and on and on.
All of these terrible conditions persist despite the significant amounts of money that governments have spent on the native community. When it comes to the 500,000 natives living on reserve alone, Ottawa spends nearly $9-billion annually. And that may soon get a lot bigger. Despite a current federal spending cap of 2% increases yearly, the population growth of aboriginals alone, well beyond that rate, could pressure Ottawa into expenditures several times that in the next few decades.
But there are unseen bills that may yet come due. For one thing, native leaders already consider current funding levels not nearly enough, persuading, at one point, Paul Martin's Liberal government to create the Kelowna Accord in 2005, promising another $2-billion in annual aboriginal spending -- though the legislation was not passed before Mr. Martin's minority government fell and the incoming Conservative government shelved it. The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, meanwhile, is pressing for greater support for natives living off-reserve (currently the 60% of aboriginals living in urban areas receive only 3.5% of spending). The Metis, who number nearly 400,000 according to the latest census, have succeeded in winning partial aboriginal rights at the Supreme Court, and they are likely to seek equal funding, too. If they succeed through the courts, Mr. Helin predicts, Ottawa could one day face a doubling of total government spending on aboriginal groups.
"That is just completely not sustainable," he says.
The aboriginal population and the non-aboriginal population are headed in two very different demographic directions. When Baby Boomers, the largest working generation, retire en masse by 2011--living longer, consuming record levels of social and health care spending -- and cease contributing to the tax base, their mounting demands on the system are
fated to collide with the stark reality of a younger generation increasingly unable to provide for them.
"The question is, are we talking about $36-billion [in aboriginal transfers] at a time when a third of the Canadian population is going into retirement, and will not be paying into the tax coffers of the country, and will be relying on very, very expensive social welfare programs?" Mr. Helin asks.
It isn't hard to sense a stewing frustration among some Canadian taxpayers today, not so much about the amount of money Ottawa puts into reserves and the bureaucracies that oversee them, but that all those billions seem to yield such deplorable results. Unlike other federal programs such as, say, medicare, where you can easily locate no shortage of people ready to debate both the pros and cons of the current system, start asking about Canada's aboriginal policies and virtually everyone who knows anything about it -- individual aboriginals, First Nations chiefs, politicians, academics -- agrees that our long-standing approach has largely failed.
That failure has apparently been, until now, a bearable one, from at least an economic point of view (the morality of perpetuating such misery is a different story). And whether it's the mounting expense, the rising criminal and militant culture among aboriginal youth, or the perverseness of sustaining a generation of bright, young aboriginal men and women on welfare at the precise moment in our industrial history that employers in this country are the most desperate for skilled workers --a labour shortage that many economists say threatens to hobble Canada's international competitiveness for decades --it is hard to see how the condition of aboriginals can be allowed to persist much longer.
"It's not just about them anymore. It's about us," says Andre Le Dressay, director of Fiscal Realities Economists, a B.C.-based firm that specializes in helping First Nations improve economic development. "Our potential depends on their productivity."
Efforts have come to naught for so long that bridging the gap between the quality of life, education and prosperity may seem irresolvable. In some cases, the solutions are, indeed, less than obvious. And yet, some problems have existed for so long that in many cases, certain improvements have become nothing less than self-evident, untried if only for their political volatility.
But the mounting demands for fresh approaches from some native leaders and, particularly, aboriginal youth may finally overwhelm the inertia and force us away from the ruinous, century-old, paternalistic, welfare-state approach to First Nations challenges. An Ekos Research poll conducted a few years ago for the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs found that among First Nations people themselves, a huge majority -- 69% -- ranked "improving economic conditions" as one of their top priorities.
In his book, Mr. Helin itemizes many ideas offered up as a "way out of the storm." They take the form of eminently sensible (if somewhat politically incorrect) ways of getting Canada's First Nations into a better situation using formulas other than the current welfare-dependency trap that ensnares them--by changing, for instance, the way local and national chiefs are elected, so First Nations can benefit from democratic representation and accountable institutions as the rest of us do; by reforming the absurd structures that frequently stand in the way of First Nations developing their own lands and resources to become more economically independent; improving the education and training of young aboriginals so they can take advantage, to the same extent as their non-native peers, of Canada's ample economic opportunities and a First-World quality of life, rather than the Third-World existence to which so many would otherwise be doomed.
Many aboriginal leaders and communities are already putting these ideas into practice, and with encouraging success. Over the next few weeks, the National Post will examine the key ones. Some may be considered drastic, particularly by those --and there are always a minority few -- who benefit from the state-controlled status quo. And perhaps, within the current, stagnant context, some of these proposed reforms are. Yet, it is hard to imagine how, given the desperate and hopeless existence among so many aboriginals today, anything less than far-reaching and even drastic measures will possibly do.
9.1 amount in billions of dollars in annual federal spending on programs and services for aboriginals
7.5 amount in billions of dollars that actually reaches First Nations
1 amount in billions of dollars spent on overhead for the ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs
615 number of First Nations bands in Canada
205 number of First Nations bands who report water system quality as unfit to drink
44 percentage of on-reserve houses in need of significant renovation
11 percentage of Canadian aboriginals living in " crowded dwellings"
27,000 average settlement, in dollars, awarded to aboriginals qualifying for compensation under the residential schools settlement
70 amount of dollars billed, in millions, by lawyers who negotiated the residential school settlement
4 number of times more likely a treaty-status Indian in the Calgary area will suffer a serious traumatic injury compared to the nonaboriginal population
2 number of times more likely they are to die of their injury, compared to the nonaboriginal population
800 approximate number of outstanding First Nation land claims
123 number of claims currently under negotiation
51 number of staff working for Indian Land Claims Commission
1 amount of dollars, in billions, spent by senior governments on treaty negotiations since 1993
6 number of weeks of wait time for a mother with a high-risk pregnancy on the War Lake reserve in Manitoba to see a specialist in Winnipeg
150 number of aboriginal doctors among the 60,000 physicians practicing nationwide
500,000 income, in dollars, in a lifetime, lost by an aboriginal male who drops out of school
8.3 amount of dollars, in billions, that aboriginals would add to Canada's GDP in 2017 if they had the same education levels as non-aboriginals
21 percentage of aboriginals reporting some form of physical or sexual violence from a spouse between 1999 and 2004
6 percentage of nonaboriginals reporting spousal violence in the same time period
8.8 average homicide rate for aboriginal people per 100,000 population
1.3 average homicide rate for nonaboriginals per 100,000 population
10 number of times more likely it is an aboriginal will be charged with homicide, relative to nonaboriginals
28,900 number of crimes per 100,000 people on reserves in 2004
8,500 number of crimes per 100,000 people on reserves in 2004
13,500 median income, in dollars, for a Canadian aboriginal in 2000
22,400 median income, in dollars, for nonaboriginals that same year
52 percentage of aboriginals who have graduated high school
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