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Senate President Steve Sweeney is proposing towns should share services - or face the prospect of losing state aid.
No, they shouldn't - unless they want to see their property taxes double overnight.
The Democrats need to try some scams that are a bit less transparent. Everyone with an IQ over 10 knows that regionalization and shared services are a device to make homeowners in responsible, low-tax towns pick up the burden for the Democrats running irresponsible, high-tax towns.
That's what happened to the residents of Loch Arbour last year, as I noted in the above link. They had made a deal with neighboring Ocean Township to share police and education services.
Once that deal was in place, the Democrats then declared Loch Arbour wasn't paying its fair share - even though both side had agreed on the amount.
So the state doubled property taxes in Loch Arbour.
The same thing happened with Seaside Park way back in 1976. Any mayor ever thinking of making the mistake of sharing services should ponder the example of that small town by the sea.
Years before the town had agreed to join the Central Regional school district. Big mistake. One reason was that the high school was far inland, a long, long bus ride from the town.
The other mistake was trusting Trenton. When the Democrats imposed the income tax in 1976 they also unilaterally canceled all school-funding agreements in regional districts.
Towns that had paid on a per-pupil basis were forced to pay on a ratable basis. The effect was that some towns ended up paying as much as $40,000 per kid.
Worse, they could never get out of the agreements. Breaking up a regional district requires referendums in all towns, and the towns getting the benefit of this scam would never let it end.
These days Seaside Park is literally within sight of Toms River East High School, yet the kids must be bused at great expense far into the pines to Central Regional High School. They pay more money for a worse education farther away.
So small towns shouldn't fall for Sweeney's shared-services scam. It's just a first step towards incorporating Republican-leaning towns into Democrat-controlled cities.
And I suspect most won't be intimidated by the senate president's threat - for an entirely different reason.
And that reason is: The threat of removing state aid is mostly meaningless. Many small towns don't get any state aid worth mentioning. Trenton takes all of their income-tax revenue and sends back almost nothing in property-tax relief.
The true test of Chris Christie's governorship will be whether he manages to reverse that state of affairs. That will be the big story of 2011.
But if 2011 is like the years preceding it, I'll be the only journalist reporting on it.


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By default the slider with this theme has different random transitions.
I would like to make the transition one only i.e. slide from right-to-left.
How can I do this?
Select the "Adaptavia Slider" and add one or more slides to the slideshow. Then click on "Show" (on the right side next to the thumbnails) and click on the "Adaptavia Options" tab. The dropdown option offers various transition types – select one for each slide and save the post.
I have the Corona theme and would like to find or 'add' a slider functionality that I thought was available.
When using Aviaslider with transition type as slider, the only options for movement are diagonal, winding, randomized and all of these.
I would like to have a full width, simple slider from right to left for some of my pages. Can you advise code or CSS I can add to make this possible please?
Thanks, Siobhan
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This week I worked on some more punch needle stockings so I would have six, in total. I did two in crazy quilt pattern, which look more like stained glass. Two were, hit and miss stripes and the last two I did in the traditional red and white stripe, ticking pattern.
I took a piece of jute and wound a piece of red homespun around that and tied it to my curtain rod. I used mini wooden clothes pins that I stained with walnut. They seem a bit bare all by themselves so I added a piece of homespun in between them. I think I like the idea of making the ropes with homespun ties and some with bells and other items, then I can hang stockings or mittens from them. Lots of possibilities and it will be fun experimenting.
This is a closer look at the new ones, that I made this week. I aged them all with walnut ink, so they have a nice grungy look. I think the hit and miss stripes is my favorite. This is a great way to use up those scraps. The stockings are about 6 1/2" long and 1 1/2" wide.
I was going through old photos, trying to find some Christmas photos, when the kids were young and found this photo. I had forgotten all about these. I made them in the 80's and sold them to my friends. We lived in a townhouse complex, so I had lots of customers for my hand made items. I just wish I knew where I got the pattern from, I think a box of old magazines got thrown out by accident since i cannot find the ones with my wood nativities in them. Would love to make these again, so if you happen to stumble onto it, in one of your old magazines, would love to have the pattern again.
Not the best photo, I should have scanned it in at a higher resolution and maybe clean my scanner glass;)


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Elton John, Rod Stewart, and the English National Ballet were just some of the dozens of performers who paid tribute to Britain's late Princess Diana in London Sunday on what would have been her 46th birthday.
Her sons, Princes WIlliam and Harry, hosted the memorial concert amid high security at Wembley Stadium.
They said the concert celebrated what their mother loved in life - music, dance, charity, and her friends and family.
William said he does not want Diana's charitable activities for victims of AIDS and landmines to be forgotten.
Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, were killed in an automobile crash in Paris in August,1997.
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Being a young mom doesn't make you a bad mom. Find out how will your life change if you decide to become a mother in your 20s.
I really don't know if age is overrated. Being a young mom can be a problem, being older than 40 and pregnant can also be a problem, being a single mother is another issue.
Maybe we got used to judge much too fast. Around us everything
changes, our ideas, our habits, our plans, our body.
Any mother asks herself at a certain moment: "what I am doing with this whole parenting thing?" or "am I doing the right things?" For teenage mothers, it's very likely to have these questions on their mind.
Before the baby, the 20-something girl's concerns are fashion, going out, boys. Aha, boys. This is how this whole baby thing appeared in the first place.
After getting pregnant, the 20 something now mother-to-be, changes. She changes her high heels to flats, she changes her small Couch purse with a much bigger diaper bag, and the most important, she changes her perspectives of life.
A baby's growing inside. For most teenage mothers, this whole pregnancy thing came unexpectedly. But those who decide to keep their baby and try a different lifestyle will probably not regret it.
They will be able to be there for their kid step by step, as
they grow, not worrying about being confused with their
Love has no age, and she will be able to love a child just as well as any mother at any age could do it. In fact, studies show that teenage girls who have children actually turn out better than society seems to expect them to.
The outcome tends to depend on what help - from relatives and social agencies - is available. Studies are cited and the racial aspects and roles of the fathers are analyzed.
The sociologists of the University of Texas at Austin discovered that the best age for motherhood is 34-35 years. At this point of her life, the woman achieves the perfect balance of her health and well-being but also financial stability. Maybe this is why younger mothers face the financial problems, because usually, it's not that simple to combine motherhood with a career. This is why younger women normally experience serious health problems, as well as their children. In the lucky stories, 20-something moms still have a family and their parents to take care of this.
But, as we all know, the problem is larger and more serious that it might seem. It's a matter we all should think about, from time to time.


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Verbal (born August 21, 1975) is a Japanese third generation Zainichi Korean hip hop recording artist, music video director and record producer who debuted in 1998 as a member of the Hip hop group m-flo.
m-flo's hits in the early 2000s, such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again" led to Verbal rapping and producing a wide range of acts in Japan such as Crystal Kay, BoA, Kumi Koda and Namie Amuro. Verbal considers his role in m-flo as a "host" than a rapper or producer,[1] though their success and critical acclaim established them as an iconic and influential hip-hop production team throughout Asia[2]
Verbal is also a member of other hip-hop groups such as Mic Banditz and Teriyaki Boyz and has worked with Kanye West, Pharrell and Kylie Minogue amongst many others.
Verbal is also the chairman of music label Espionage Records (an imprint of Rhythm Zone under Avex Group), production agency Kozm and has a fashion brand called Ambush, co-founded with his wife Yoon.[3][4]
He launched his solo career in March 2011 with the album "Visionair".[5]Contents 1 Biography 1.1 m-flo 1.2 Mic Banditz 1.3 Teriyaki Boyz 1.4 Solo activities 2 Trivia 3 Discography 4 References 5 External links Biography
Verbal was born in Tokyo with Korean background in 1975. In 1985, his parents moved to Boston in the United States for work. When at a YMCA summer camp, Verbal was first exposed to hip-hop music, in the form of Run–D.M.C.'s "It's Tricky" when the other children sung the song on the bus for the camp.[6][7] He was impressed and influenced by the hip-hop culture of New York City, and at 14 years old he started writing lyrics in English. His parents moved back to Tokyo, and Verbal attended St. Mary's International School. He met Taku Takahashi there, and the pair formed a rap rock band called N.M.D. in 1992. The band received many offers from major record labels after their live performances, however as Verbal did not see being a rapper as a practical career, he turned down these offers.[8]
Verbal returned to the United States, to study philosophy and marketing at Boston College.[1][9] In his first year of university, he abandoned these plans after a great romantic disappointment, converting to Protestantism and deciding to study for a masters in divinity[1] at Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary to become a pastor.[10][11]
Verbal has said that his influences began with gangster rap groups like NWA. After he mistakenly purchased a Gang Starr album, he became interested in East coast hip hop including De La Soul and Pete Rock & CL Smooth.[1][12]m-flo
In 1998, Verbal returned for winter break to Japan. During this time, he recorded a rap for a cover of Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" that Takahashi was producing. Masaji Asakawa from the DJ group GTS, a contact of Takahashi's, believed the song was very high quality. M-Flo was then officially formed, with Verbal and Takahashi recording many songs together. Asakawa believed one of these songs, "Been So Long," featuring vocals from a mutual friend of both Verbal and Takahashi, Lisa, was high enough quality for him to try to convince Verbal to become a full-time musician.[13] He was convinced, and the group debuted as a three-person group (with vocalist Lisa) in 1999 with "The Tripod E.P.," which debuted in the top 10 on the Japanese singles chart.[14]
The group achieved great success in 2000 and 2001 with the songs "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again," with the former selling more than 220,000 copies, and the latter approximately 390,000 copies.[14] The band's second album, Expo Expo, debuted at #4 on the charts.[14] During the group's first two albums, Verbal was travelling back and forth between Japan and America to finish his studies.[15] During these initial years, Verbal had collaborated with a great number of Japanese artists already, including producing the female rap unit Heartsdales.
In 2002, Lisa left M-Flo following a disagreement to pursue a solo career. During this time, Verbal and Takahashi's solo works intensified, with Verbal taking a major part in two different hip-hop supergroups, Mic Banditz and Suite Chic.
In 2003, M-Flo returned from hiatus, but instead of using a new full-time vocalist, the band featured a different famous musician on each of their songs.[1]Mic Banditz
In 2002, Verbal formed the Japanese hip-hop supergroup Mic Banditz on his Espionage Records label imprint. The group comprised rappers Verbal, Arkitec, 51-Goichi-, Coyass, and Clench and Mr. Blistah of the duo Clench & Blistah. The group represented a more traditional hip-hop sound in contrast to M-flo's pop-influenced sound. They released two full-length albums of majority Japanese-language rap, 2003's Sixth Sense and 2004's Johnny Astro & the Diamond Crooks, and collaborated with Japanese R'n'B singer Emi Hinouchi, who was at the time signed to fellow M-flo member Taku Takahashi's Tachytelic Records imprint. The group have been on hiatus since 2005.[16]Teriyaki Boyz
In 2005, Verbal became a member of another hip-hop supergroup, Teriyaki Boyz. The group has collaborated with many famous Western hip-hop musicians, such as The Neptunes, the Beastie Boys, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.[1] The group came to the most prominence in the West with the eponymous theme song for the film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006.
In 2007, M-Flo released their final album featuring different vocalists, Cosmicolor. After this point, the group have released sporadically, with a succession of different compilation albums. Verbal has consistently been working with other artists since then, producing songs for such artists as BoA and Halcali. Some of his biggest collaborations since then have been a cover of Godiego's song "The Galaxy Express 999" with Exile, which has been certified as double platinum for cellphone downloads by the RIAJ,[17] and a collaboration with Kana Nishino, "Kimi no Koe o," which has been certified gold for cellphone downloads.[18] In 2010, Verbal directed his first music video, Minmi's "Pa to Hanasaku," which also features Verbal.[19]Solo activities
In September 2004, Verbal married his college sweetheart, Korean American Yoon.[4][20] Together they started jewelry label Ambush, with the initial aim of custom-making jewelry for Verbal. They have since produced several lines of jewelry, collaborating with brands including A Bathing Ape and selling custom pieces to celebrities including Teriyaki Boyz collaborator Kanye West.[21]
On March 16, 2011, Verbal released his debut solo album Visionair, though the March 11 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami overshadowed the release, causing cancellation of its promotion.[5]
Verbal appeared as the opening act for the tour of Kylie Minogue to Japan in April, and the two recorded a charity song titled "We Are One" to raise awareness and encourage donations to unicef.[5]
Visionair featured collaborations with international acts Nicki Minaj, Jermaine Dupri, Swizz Beatz and Lil' Wayne, as well as Japan's Namie Amuro.
The first single from the album, "Fall Out feat. Shunya," is the opening theme song for the drama Perfect Report, and was released digitally in December.[22][23]
May 2011 saw Verbal take Visionair out on the road with the "Angree Yung Robotz" tour alongside electro DJ Mademoiselle Yulia.[5]Trivia
Verbal's lucky charm is his underwear. He wears red underwear to remind myself 'today I'm going to be hot!' and wears Superman underwear if he need lots of energy or is going to close a big deal.[1]Discography Main article: Verbal discography Visionair (2011) References ^ a b c d e f g Robert Michael Poole (2009-10-30). "m-flo's Verbal spreads the love". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2011-05-15. ^ Robert Michael Poole (2006-03-17). "J-pop goes def". Metropolis (free magazine). Archived from the original on 2014-06-27. Retrieved 2011-05-03. ^ iLOUD (2009-03-27). "VERBAL × MADEMOISELLE YULIA 対談". Retrieved 2009-04-22. ^ a b CNNGo. "Verbal and Yoon: Tokyo's ultimate fashion power couple". Retrieved 2011-07-22. ^ a b c d Robert Michael Poole (2011-05-05). "Verbal wants to hit the reset button on pop". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2011-05-15. ^ CROWN JEWEL (2006-11-24). "Clothes Relay - VERBALさん(m-flo ミュージシャン)". Archived from the original on 2009-05-08. Retrieved 2009-04-12. ^ Hypebeast (2009-04-20). "Exchanging Freshness for Freshness with Verbal". Retrieved 2009-04-21. ^ "金剛地武志 /TOMORROW: これから二十歳を迎える若者と昔二十歳だった人々へ". J-Wave. November 16, 2006. Archived from the original on October 21, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2010. ^ クリエイターズカフェKOOTS×an. "スーパークリエイターズトークショー Vol.3 guest VERBALさん". Retrieved 2009-04-22. ^ TOKYO姉妹. "セレブの恋愛Talk - Vol.10 m-flo VERBAL". Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2009-04-19. ^ commmonsmart (2009-04-10). "music BATON|【#016】VERBAL". Retrieved 2009-04-19. [permanent dead link] ^ Semtex.tv. "Semtex TV interview with Verbal and Wyse". Retrieved 2011-11-07. ^ Musicman-NET. "m-floとの出会い~been so longの奇跡". Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-04-22. ^ a b c "M-Floのリリース一覧" [A Look at M-Flo's Releases]. Oricon. Retrieved March 10, 2013. ^ 大橋美貴子・BARKS (2009-10-05). "m-flo、膨大な作品群を徹底解明する「活動10周年記念」大特集 (2) - BARKS 特集". Retrieved 2009-10-19. ^ ja:MIC BANDITZ ^ レコード協会調べ 7月度有料音楽配信認定 <略称:7月度認定>. RIAJ (in Japanese). 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-15. ^ レコード協会調べ 8月度有料音楽配信認定 <略称:8月度認定>. RIAJ (in Japanese). 2009-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-15. ^ HotExpress (2010-08-10). "MINMI×VERBAL×大沢伸一 新ダンスチューンを発表". Retrieved 2010-08-15. ^ Hypebeast.TV. "Verbal and Yoon:Where it all happens". Retrieved 2011-11-07. ^ Too Much Information. "Verbal and Yoon". Retrieved 2011-11-07. ^ HotExpress (2010-10-14). "◆VERBAL(m-flo) ハモネプ優勝メンバーとドラマOP曲を担当!". Retrieved 2010-10-15. ^ Natalie (2010-11-17). "VERBALソロ本格始動のドラマOPテーマ、着うた配信開始". Retrieved 2010-11-17. External links Official Blog (in Japanese) Artimage management label site (in Japanese) Kozm Agency (in Japanese) Espionage Records (in Japanese) vteM-Flo Taku Takahashi Verbal LISA Studio albums Planet Shining Expo Expo Astromantic Beat Space Nine Cosmicolor Square One Neven Future Is Wow Compilation albums The Intergalactic Collection Award Supernova MF10 Remix albums The Replacement Percussionists Expo Bōei Robot Gran Sonik Astromantic Charm School Dope Space Nine ElectriColor Outside works albums Soto Shigoto M-Flo Inside M-Flo Inside: Works Best II M-Flo Inside: Works Best III M-Flo Inside: Works Best IV M-Flo Inside: Works Best V Other albums M-Flo Tour 2001 Expo Expo Maison de M-Flo Stitch the Future and Past Bon! Enkai Singles "Miss You" "The Love Bug" "Summer Time Love" "Love Song" Other songs "Big Bang Romance" Related articles Discography Teriyaki Boyz Visionair Category


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Hamilton & District Extend-A-Family
Safety and Concussion Prevention Policy
Safety and overall welfare of all children, volunteers and
staff are a priority for all activities at Extend-A-Family.
Policies such as the sign in/out protocol have been
developed for the safety of all involved.
All activities and events at Extend-A-Family are organized to
provide recreational experiences that are not only
enjoyable but also safe. With all recreational activities, the
chance of an accident occurring can be reduced by
abiding by organization/facility rules and regulations, by
carefully following instructions at all times while engaging in
the activity and by maintaining a level of fitness suitable for
safe participation in this activity. Children and youth who
are unable or unwilling to follow safety rules and regulations
may be asked to refrain from attending certain events.
The following safety protocols will followed by all staff/volunteers and children:
a) Community based events may request the use of safety equipment during the scheduled activity. At all times staff/volunteers and children will use/wear properly fitting safety equipment. This can include but is not limited to PFDs, helmets, safety glasses, and gloves
b) If any individual refuses to wear the required equipment, they will not be permitted in such activity
c) Volunteers and staff must also be sure to set a positive example by also wearing this equipment.
2. FIRST AID. All Extend-A-Family staff members hold current first aid and CPR qualifications.
a) Any first aid treatment required by a child/volunteer or staff member should be provided by the most senior qualified staff member attending.
b) All injuries occurring during Extend-A-Family events will be reported verbally to the parent/guardian picking the child up as well as in writing to the family coordinator who has that child on their caseload. These reports must contain information about how the injury was treated on site.
c) In the unforeseen situation of a serious injury, refer to the policy on reporting serious occurrences.
Traumatic brain injury or concussion occurs in many recreational activities, and can range from mild (a brief change in mental state or consciousness) to severe (an extended period of unconsciousness or amnesia after injury). Traumatic brain injury can cause a wide range of long and short term changes that can affect brain functioning on many levels. Repeated traumatic brain injuries occurring over time, can lead to cumulative neurological and emotional deficits. Repeated traumatic brain injuries that occur in a short period of time, can be catastrophic or fatal
In the event of a head injury or significant physical contact, the Extend-A-Family staff member will:
1. Remove the child from the activity.
2. Ensure that the child is assessed and first aid applied if needed
3. Inform the caregiver about the possible concussion and encourage the caregiver to seek an assessment from a health care professional.
4. Allow the child to return to activities only with permission from an appropriate health care professional.
Staff members are also required to take the "Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports" online training on concussion prevention prior to employment in our recreational department. http://www.cdc.gov/concussion/HeadsUp/online_training.html
4. RETURN TO PLAY. • All children who suffer from a serious injury or concussion must have their doctor's approval prior to returning to Extend-A-Family activities. This includes serious injuries and concussions that occurred outside the Extend-A-Family program.
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Parsnips are the perfect winter veg to accompany your roast dinner. They're at their best during the coldest months of the year and as well as being delicious, they're packed full of nutrients.
Our nutritionists have explained the health benefits of eating parsnips and will show you why they should be your new favourite vegetable.
Support heart health
Parsnips contain a high level of potassium. This mineral is known as a vasodilator, which means it widens the blood vessels. This lowers your blood pressure, which in turns reduces stress on your heart.
This effect is complemented by the high levels of folic acid you'll get from parsnips, which reduces the level of homocysteine in your blood. This amino acid has been linked to a higher risk of heart disease.
Helps your digestive system
Parsnips contain four times as much fibre as potatoes, so they're more likely to fill you up than a second helping of roasties. Fibre helps prevent the release of ghrelin, the 'hunger hormone' that causes you to snack between meals.
You're probably also familiar with the effect that fibre has on your digestive system. This will come in handy after a long day of delicious Christmas food!
Good for your immune system
The idea that parsnips can stop you from feeling ill has been around for ages. In the olden days, they were even used as medicine for problems such as toothache and tired feet.
While it won't surprise you to know that neither of these treatments worked, parsnips can boost your immune system and help you fend off the occasional winter bug.
You can get over a quarter of your recommended daily Vitamin C from 100g of parsnips, while they're also packed with Vitamin E. These two nutrients can protect your body against infection, while both also contribute to healthy skin.
Got a Christmas cold? Here's how to deal with your symptoms.
Satisfy your sweet tooth
It's not quite a mince pie or slice of Christmas cake, but if you're looking for ways to indulge your sweet tooth, parsnips are a much healthier option.
Although parsnips are technically in season from August to March, the sweetest varieties are harvested during the coldest months of the year, when the frost turns the starch into natural sugars.
The result is so satisfying that they've even been used in cake-making!
Preparing and cooking parsnips
When you're buying parsnips, bigger isn't always better. In fact, large parsnips tend to develop a slightly woody texture in the centre, which isn't nice to eat. Choose nice medium-sized ones with no damage to the skin.
It's also worth pointing out that much of the flavour and nutrients of parsnips are found just under the skin. While some people prefer to peel them, if you want the full health benefit and taste sensation, a good scrub in cold water will be fine.
The most traditional way to prepare parsnips is to slice them in half lengthways, drizzle over some clear honey and season with salt and pepper, before baking them in the oven at 200C for around 20 minutes.
Make sure you turn them over halfway through cooking to get them nice and crispy all over.
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|Characterization of PM, PM10 and PM2.5 mass concentrations at a tropical semi-arid station in Anantapur, India
|Balakrishnaiah, G
Kumar, K Raghavendra
Reddy, B Suresh Kumar
Gopal, K Rama
Reddy, R R
Reddy, L S S
Narasimhulu, K
Ahammed, Y Nazeer
Balanarayana, C
Moorthy, K Krishna
Babu, S Suresh
|Particulate matter (PM);Fine particles;Coarse particles;Meteorological parameters;Aerosol optical depth (AOD)
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|NISCAIR-CSIR, India
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|The particulate matter (PM), PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations are estimated from regular measurements of size segregated as well as total mass concentration of near surface composite aerosols, using a ten-channel Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) Cascade Impactor in a tropical semi-arid station, Anantapur, India for the period May 2006 – April 2007. The monthly variations of PM, PM10 and PM2.5 and season-wise shares of PM10 and PM2.5 to PM have been computed. The highest contribution of PM10 to PM has been noticed during local summer season, while the maximum share of PM2.5 to PM has been noticed during the winter season. The average values of PM, PM10 and PM2.5 mass concentrations have been found to be 21.21±1.21, 18.7±1.06 and 17.02±1.28 g m-3, respectively. Seasonally, the concentration has been highest in winter (24.62±3.53, 22.07±2.56, 21.29±2.31) and lowest in monsoon (18.12±1.62, 16.46±1.82, 14.47±1.57) for PM, PM10 and PM2.5, respectively. The back trajectory cluster analysis revealed that the aerosol loading has been significantly higher in fine mode during periods of continental air mass (winter) but when the winds shift to marine (monsoon), the loading became higher due to major contribution of sea salt aerosols, particularly in the coarse mode. PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations has been highly correlated with PM and inversely correlated with local wind speed. The results of this analysis underlined the importance of local emission sources, mostly from anthropogenic, which are responsible for the high PM10 and PM2.5 concentration levels observed during this one year - sampling period.
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Continuing with their episodic trailers for Theatrythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, this latest episode puts the spotlight on two games which took place in the Ivalice continuity: Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII.
Besides sharing the same setting, both games were a departure form the series' norm. Final Fantasy Tactics was a tactical turn-based RPG, if not one of the best and true benchmarks for the genre even to this day. Final Fantasy XII too was a departure from the norm, offering a seamless 3D world with real time 3D battles akin to MMOs and Western RPGs. Both games tried to achieve new things and succeeded remarkably, Final Fantasy XII in particular was the most technically ambitious RPG of its time and is still worth playing (how about a HD port? Square-Enix?).
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The U.S. military's strategy for winning the second Persian Gulf war boils down to this:
More, better, faster.
Theater commanders are hurling 10 times more bombs and missiles at Iraqi targets in the first couple of days of this war than were used in a comparable period in the 1991 war.
Far greater numbers of those weapons will be precision-guided munitions, defense analysts say. In the first Gulf War, only 7 percent of the aerial assault involved so-called "smart bombs." During the NATO conflict in Kosovo in 1999, the percentage of precision ordnance was up to 30 percent; in the 2001-02 campaign to dislodge the Taliban from Afghanistan, that figure had risen to 60 percent.
This time, it could reach 80 percent to 90 percent or even higher, said Michael Vickers, strategic studies director at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based think tank.
About 150 bombs and missiles were used in the first night of the 1991 war. This time, Vickers said, as many as 3,000 could fall in the first two days of fighting.
"What I would expect to happen is everything is unleashed in one fierce storm," echoed Steven Metz, director of research at the Strategic Studies Institute, which is part of the U.S. Army War College. "Bomb strategic targets; insert ground forces."
The lag time between commencement of the air war and the start of a ground assault could shrink from five weeks in 1991 to only a few days -- if even that much, he said.
"The biggest distinguishing feature [in this war] is that everything is going to happen at once," Metz said. "If you have superior ability to strike and organize what you're doing, you can overwhelm [the enemy] in fairly short order."
The military calls this new strategy "rapid decisive operations." Before now, military campaigns were "phased and linear," Metz said. Distinct events followed each other in succession.
"You built up a mountain of iron, then came the air campaign, followed by the ground campaign," he said. "But with RDO, it's nonlinear and simultaneous."
Technological improvements making their debut in this war are not restricted to smart bombs. They also include electromagnetic-burst weapons that can fry the circuitry of radios and computers, an Air Force munition that spews tank-hunting bomblets, a "loitering" missile that can slink into enemy territory and "sleep" until a target presents itself, and something called an "agent defeat weapon" that uses an incendiary explosive to burn harmful chemicals and biological toxins, then further inactivates them with chlorine and acid cleansers.
All these advances have enabled the military to make a quantum leap forward in its battlefield capability that could be compared to the introduction of thejet-airplane engine, or replacement of muzzle-loading muskets with the breech-loading rifle.
"New technologies will come out as this [war] progresses," Metz said. "This will be the chance to test some of them."
The point of all this is to enable U.S. and British forces to accomplish several goals in very short order, said Francois Boo, associate analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, a defense-policy research organization. For example:
Destroy Iraq's air-defense network and gain mastery of the air.
Take out command-and-control centers, along with possible sites for chemical- and biological-warfare programs.
Eliminate anything that could launch weapons of mass destruction toward coalition forces or U.S. allies in the region.
Take out key installations of the Iraqi elite, including ministry buildings and presdiential palaces.
Strike units that are expected to put up resistance.
Pave the way for the ground offensive.
"The U.S. is saying that anyone who puts up resistance is subject to destruction," Boo said.
British forces have been commissioned with the task of occupying the city of Basra and securing the nearby oil fields. Technological advances also include what the military calls "battlefield awareness" -- the use of satellite-signal technology to pinpoint enemy and friendly forces on the ground, said retired Rear Adm. Stephen Baker, a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information in Washington.
That both enhances opportunities for quick kills of enemy targets, such as Scud missile launchers that suddenly go active, and reduces the risk of "friendly fire" accidents.
"It doesn't obliterate the 'fog of war,' but it certainly diminishes it," Baker said.
This all comes in an era of a drastically downsized U.S. military. Compared with the start of the first Persian Gulf War, the Air Force has 44 percent fewer jet fighters and attack aircraft, the Navy has 42 percent fewer similar planes, and the Army is down from 18 divisions of troops to 10.
This war also will see a broader role for special-operations forces than in the first Gulf War, Vickers said. It won't be the same as Afghanistan, where Special Forces performed the bulk of the duty, he said. But they have been inside Iraq for at least two months, searching for sites of weapons of mass destruction, and now are scouting ahead of regular troops and trying to pinpoint members of the Iraqi leadership.
Pentagon planners expect to overwhelm Iraq's regular army with little trouble.
Of more concern are the 80,000-member Republican Guard, which is thought to be guarding the approaches to Baghdad, and the Special Republican Guard, an elite force of 15,000 troops that guards President Saddam Hussein. How much resistance they put up is one of the key questions as the war unfolds.
"I think the Iraqi people are going to welcome U.S. forces as liberators," Vickers said. "Not that many Republican Guard forces are inside the city; most are on the perimeter."
Analysts say Saddam has few options: He could hole up in a bunker somewhere in Baghdad or at one of his palaces and hope to ride out the firestorm; head north to his hometown of Tikrit, where he has many defenders; or try to escape along a refugee or smuggling route, perhaps into Syria.
Three keys will determine how quickly the war ends, Metz said. One is the success of the rapid decisive operations doctrine. "Right now, it really is a theory," he said. Second is a worry that Pentagon planners may have misunderstood the psychology of Saddam: "Will he hunker down?" Third is the fighting spirit of the Special Republican Guard.
"Will they collapse right away, or will we have to duke it out in the streets of Baghdad?" Boo said. "There are a lot of unknowables."


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So you don't blog for 2 weeks and then 2 posts in one night.
I had a card that fitted last weeks challenge on the Allsorts blog but never got a roundtuit in so far as posting it was concerned. I have one that fits the Pretty in Pink brief this week and so I am posting it no while I am in the zone.
My great niece loves all things pink so after a recent visit to the Lili of the Valley shop I was flicking through the new James and Jenny Bear art pad I had bought, saw this pretty pink image and decided I would make her card then even though her birthday isn't until April.
So you already know where the image is from and the papers are Lili of the Valley too from the Perfect Pair pad. Kraft card, base card and sentiment are all Craftwork Cards and the ribbon came from Stampin' Up.
I punched the flowers out with my EK Success paper shapers punches and popped Hobby House pearls in the centres.
Thank you for visiting and for any comments you are kind enough to leave
Monday, 17 March 2014
5 comments:
- brenda said...
I am glad you managed to join in this week Anne as your card is so pretty and perfect for our theme.
Thanks so much for sharing with us at Allsorts.
B x
- 18 March 2014 at 07:39
- McCrafty's Cards said...
This is gorgeous Anne I like the sweet image, the colours and embellishments.
Kevin xx
- 18 March 2014 at 08:38
- Sarah said...
Gorgeous card Anne, fab design and such a cute image. Thank you for joining us at Allsorts this week x
- 18 March 2014 at 18:43
- Kathleen said...
Gorgeous sweet card, love the image and the lovely papers.
Kath x
- 18 March 2014 at 21:25
- Tracy said...
Thanks for joining Allsorts challenge with this great entry, good luck.
Happy crafting
Tracy x
- 20 March 2014 at 22:22
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The latest version of GNOME includes improvements to its hardware integration capabilities, improving the user friendliness of the Linux desktop environment.
GNOME 2.12, which was released on Wednesday, includes better integration between the programming layer that interacts with hardware devices and the layer that handles filesystem access, according to GNOME developer Davyd Madeley in an article on the GNOME Web site. This change means that applications can display more information about media devices to users.
More applications in GNOME 2.12 take advantage of the hardware abstraction layer (HAL), allowing them to offer seamless hardware support, said Madeley. "HAL-aware applications can display more information to the user, as well as benefit from 'it just works' plug and play style hardware support," he said.
A number of GNOME users praised the addition of more user-friendly hardware integration, in response to a recent Slashdot article about GNOME 2.12. "I am looking forward to this feature, especially — just another step towards making Linux more user-friendly," said one reader.
Another reader said this feature is one of the few missing pieces in GNOME, but is likely to need more work until it is complete. "GNOME is almost complete now, most of the interface work is done, and now all that's left are those little details that make all the difference," said the Slashdot reader. "The rough edges lie on things like better hardware discovery, and better integration with the underlying OS. But these will go away as the HAL matures, and more and more scripts are added to its library."
GNOME 2.12 also includes extra productivity features in its email client Evolution, improvements to its file manager Nautilus and a new clipboard feature that allows objects to persist in the clipboard longer than the lifetime of an application.
The next version of GNOME, GNOME 2.14, will be released in six months time and is expected to include a number of features such as a reduced memory footprint and various Evolution improvements, according to the GNOME roadmap.
GNOME 2.12 will be available in updates of popular Linux distributions, for example, it is likely to be included in SuSE Linux 10, which will be released next month. The desktop environment can also be tried out by running the GNOME 2.12 LiveCD.


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How Much Power Does the Past Have Over Your Future?
By Roger Reid
I haven't been back to my old hometown in years. The last few times I was there, I felt like I was visiting a graveyard—lots of buried memories and too many headstones. So it wasn't long before I began to feel uncomfortable and knew it was time to leave.
A lot of it has to do with the recollection of things left unfinished—incomplete plans, broken dreams, and lost relationships.
Looking back, I know most of it was by choice. Like most young people, I lost interest, grew older, and simply moved on.
I'll admit there was a lot more I could have done with my youth, more productive things, activities that would have allowed me to build on experience—small accomplishments that could have been used as stepping stones to an ultimate destination.
But at the time, I had no idea where I really wanted to go.
Like most of my generation, I followed the path of those who came before me. You know the drill . . . Get an education. Get a job. Buy a car. Buy a house. Find a wife.
Kids were optional but expected.
It worked for a while, until I realized every new day of my life was frighteningly similar to the one that preceded it. With each passing year, I noticed very little had changed in my life. And the things that used to peak my interest with curiosity had become vague, hazy reminders that life had not turned out the way I'd hoped.
I began to question the choices I'd made and what I was doing with my life. I kept asking myself three questions:
Where was my life headed? Who would I eventually become? Is that how I want to be remembered?
I was well into my forties before I realized the answers were in the past.
That's where I'd often traveled, searching for those times when I was still excited about life and the possibilities it held.
I decided if I was going to break the "Groundhog Day" cycle my life had become, I would start by mining my memories for clues to creating a new life plan. I started with some of my earliest core interests, looking for new career possibilities and work alternatives. I finished by reminding myself of how I'd spent the last 15 years, letting those memories serve as a warning not to revisit meaningless and unrewarding activities.
Twenty-five years ago, I asked myself, "How can I use the past to make a better future?"
The answer eventually evolved into five guidelines, which ultimately became the design criteria for my future. Since then I've refined and tweaked them a little, but the same powerful core concepts remain unchanged, and when used with commitment, they can be the starting point to reshaping your life with choice, transition, and change.
- Count the cost. How much of your past was the result of living to please someone else? Admittedly, we often follow the suggestions and recommendations of others because our own plan is hazy, lacks detail, or seems risky. It's difficult to say "no" to a well-meaning parent, family member, or friend who offers a plan that is organized, sensible, and represents a proven path to success. But if it's a strategy that is missing your input, your intention, your values and needs, it's a useless, time-wasting detour. Living someone else's life plan is the fastest way to create a hollow, empty life that leaves you comfortably miserable. If the past was spent satisfying the needs of others, this is a good time to change.
- Use the past to motivate you to take action—now! Time never stops. And soon, each of us will arrive in a place called Old. It's our common destination. No matter how we choose to live or what we decide to do with our lives, we will grow old. All routes end up there, it's not optional, and the only by-pass is early death. How does that fact affect your goals and objectives? Does it make them more or less important? If what you want to do is physically demanding, and you don't do it NOW, will it be possible to do later? Based on your current age, you have a quickly closing window of time to accomplish something requiring great physical exertion, rigorous training, or stamina. If you put it off another year, how will that affect the likelihood of accomplishment? More important, how will you feel if you arrive at a point and time in life when your goal is no longer possible? Approach this realistically, rather than with platitudes that promise, "It's never too late to do what you want to do." There are very few seventy-year-old ballet dancers, and even fewer 80-year-olds who have climbed Mount Everest (in fact, there's only one.)
- There is no such thing as a completely wasted past. Many of our misdirected efforts were necessary to bring us to where we are now. Some were learning experiences, making us better prepared to take the next step into the future. Others were necessary to give us clarity about what we don't want in our lives, making sure we can recognize the same red flags and steer clear of situations that are ultimately unrewarding or unproductive. Acknowledging your past accomplishments—even though they occurred in an environment or field in which you were not personally invested—is just as important as setting new goals. Most who commit to making a life transition rarely acknowledge their past milestones—especially the hidden ones. Take the time to appreciate what it means to have completed something important—so important that you dedicated time and resources to the exclusion of other pursuits. Look back and remember your circumstances when you first began your journey. Acknowledge what you've learned, and how much better prepared you are to move forward in life. As you begin to count your past achievements, you may find it's not the completion of the goal that counts, but what you had to become to accomplish it.
- Goals change because life changes. Just because you change your priority or life's direction along the way doesn't mean you failed at becoming whatever it was you initially wanted to be. Our plans bend and reshape themselves. And yet, here's what's surprising . . . while new goals often look completely different than our original objectives, the outcome, the effect on our lives, whether measured in money, a great relationship, or a healthy mind and body, are often very similar to what we were trying to achieve initially—just dressed in a different outfit. Maybe we didn't set out to be a corporate vice-president or the owner of an online business, because at the time we originally designed our goals, they weren't considerations or may not have existed as possibilities. But in the end, we were still able to create the kind of life that allowed us to feel the way we wanted to feel and to have the experiences we wanted to have because we found an alternative route to get what we wanted.
- Some of the messages sent from our past have to be ignored. Especially those encouraging us to return to our old comfort zones. When the challenges come, it's tempting to return to our former lives, when things were less stressful, more comfortable. But that's only because we've forgotten how frustrating and empty we felt. We left our old life because we knew there had to be more, and remaining where we were—working at a dissatisfying job, living in a toxic or shadow relationship—was no longer acceptable. So we took action. We made changes. We ignored the pleas from friends and family who tried to coax us to stay the course because it was "good enough," and if we just accepted our situation, we'd eventually get used to it. Leaving the comfort zone takes sacrifice, focus, and dedication. But the rewards can make the difference between a life of mediocrity and one filled with purpose and satisfaction.
Looking back, your past may reflect satisfying reminders of time well spent, or it may reveal years of virtual captivity, imprisoned in limbo, working at a job you didn't like, living with a spouse or partner who left you drained and angry, or being manipulated into serving others whose values and beliefs were completely different than your own.
But good or bad, the past can be more than a collection of memories.
Let the past serve you. Especially as you begin to reshape your life and bring it into alignment with your true priorities and values.
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I have been reading Joan Smith's excellent book, The Public Woman . I'll be reviewing the book in more depth soon plus interviewing the author herself (details of that will be in the newsletter if you don't want to miss it) but I wanted to share a small yet immensely important, part of it with you immediately.
It is a very good book, albeit in a slightly depressing way: depressing because I cannot believe that feminism has come so far yet in reality moved so little distance. That said, it is a book I wholeheartedly recommend to you, and I think it should be required reading for every politician.
The conclusion of the book is that when human rights are referred to we may as well be talking about 'men's rights'. Human rights have failed to address the issues of women:
From it's 18th-century beginnings, human rights theory has concentrated on the fairer redistribution of economic and political rights among a category of people – namely men- which already enjoys them. It has not been imaginative enough to challenge the specific oppression of women and girls, who are still second class citizens in many countries…
Joan introduces her own bill of rights for women and I have reproduced it here because I think it's brilliant and I wanted to share it with you. Even if you never read the book (and I hope you do) please do read and savour the following:
Women are born free and equal to men. All human beings have the same rights; they have a responsibility to ensure that those rights are enjoyed by everyone, regardless of gender.
Women and girls have the same right to bodily integrity as men and boys. No one should be expected to tolerate physical or sexual abuse, sexual harassment or any form of genital mutilation.
Women have the right to safe contraception and abortion. They should be able to live with any children they bear until the child reaches the age of 16, except in cases of abuse.
Girls are entitled to the same level of education as boys. Literacy is essential to enable women to participate in civil and political society.
No one, whether male or female, should be married under the age of 16; in some circumstances, 18 may be preferable. Adults have an absolute right to choose partners of either sex or live alone.
Women and girls have an unconditional right to use and enjoy public space, for both social and political purposes. They have the right to exercise, take part in sport and observe it on the same terms as men.
The law should not dictate how women dress, except in circumstances where safety or identification requires it. Children cannot give informed consent and should not be required to adopt religious forms of dress.
Women have a right to equal working conditions and pay, and to transparency in pay structures so that it can be enforced.
Women should enjoy the same property and inheritance rights as men.
Abuse on grounds of gender is as abhorrent as racism.
Law should be secular and apply equally to men, women and children. Separation of church and state is essential to protect human beings from discrimination on grounds of belief or absence of it.
The state has a moral obligation to ensure that women and girls are free to enjoy these rights, and to guarantee them when they are denied.
If you can think of anything you'd add, do share.
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Dear All,
Let me start this letter by talking about health and safety. In 2017, thanks to the endeavours and commitment of each and every one of those who make up Abengoa, we posted a record figure in terms of health and safety. The fact is, in addition to having completed last year without any fatal or accidents with special severity (affecting neither our own personnel nor staff of our subcontractors), we have improved three points in the Frequency Rate with Sick Leave (FRSL)1, down from 7.6 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2017.
Despite the achievements made in this area, during 2018 we will continue working in this direction, since it is one of our priority areas, an intrinsic part of the company's business culture, and also a priority for every person that works here.
And now let's take a look at the business. Although 2017 has also been a complex year for Abengoa on many fronts, during this period we have been able to confirm that the company's capability of winning EPC contracts in the energy, water, transmission and infrastructure sectors remains intact.
Evidence of this is that, in 2017, the company was awarded major projects in reference countries such as Argentina, Chile, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Oman and Tunisia, among others.
Thus, we have been selected by the Sociedad Nacional de Explotación y Distribución de Agua de Túnez (SONEDE), under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries of this country, for the execution of a desalination project. A consortium spearheaded by ACWA Power has awarded us the construction of a new desalination plant in Oman. In Saudi Arabia, we are set to build our largest desalination plant to date (250,000 m3/day), also awarded by ACWA Power and the end customer of which is the Saline Water Conversion Corporation). And with the ONEE (Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Waters and Forests of Morocco, we have signed two contracts for the development in the region of Agadir of the largest desalination project for combined use of drinking and irrigation water in the world. In turn, this project offers the possibility of electricity supply from renewable energies.
To these we can add the electrical interconnection of a wind farm and a new electric substation in Argentina; two new projects in the space sector for the European Launch Vehicle SpA (ELV) and for Airbus Defence and Space; the expansion of a combined water treatment plant in Mexico for Gas Natural Fenosa; and new electricity transmission projects in Uruguay and Chile (contract award from Transelec for a high- voltage line and operations at the substations of Kimal and Los Changos), among others recently awarded.
However, the awarding of new contracts is as important as the culmination of the projects we have in our portfolio, which are also the leading guarantee of success for our clients and other stakeholders. In 2017, the company obtained the definitive acceptance of Xina Solar One, its third thermosolar plant in South Africa. Thanks to the construction of these three plants (KaXu, Khi and XiNa), Abengoa's technology supplies clean energy to more than 220,000 South African homes and prevents the atmospheric emission of 831,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year.
In addition, the company has also received Notice To Proceed (or NTP) with the first plant that will produce aviation fuels from Solid Urban Waste (SUW) with gasification technology in the United States. Moreover, we have made the connection to the grid of the first 62 MW –all of the plant's 100 MW were completed at the start of 2018– of the photovoltaic plant of the Cerro Dominador solar complex in Chile, as well as final acceptance of a desalination plant in Algeria, the third that we have constructed in this country, as well as other projects in Mexico, Peru, India and Oman.
Likewise, throughout 2017 we have continued working on the construction of emblematic projects such as, in Saudi Arabia, Waad Al-Shamal, the largest hybrid solar-gas plant in the world; or the Agua Prieta solar field, our first solar thermal plant in Mexico, which will be integrated with a combined cycle to form the country's first hybrid solar- gas plant.
Currently, with a headcount of 12,468 employees2, we boast a presence in 29 countries and generate recurring earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of 127 million euros at the end of the year.
In 2017, significant progress was also made in the asset divestment programme introduced through Abengoa's financial feasibility plan. The agreement for the sale of 25% of Atlantica Yield to the company Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. was one of the great milestones of last year. Abengoa- Algonquin Global Energy Solutions (AAGES), a joint venture that will bring new business opportunities for Abengoa, came about as a result of signing this contract.
We have also reached agreements with companies such as Trilantic Europe, for the sale of the four bioethanol plants that Abengoa owned in Spain and France. We agreed the sale of the Norte III combined cycle power station in Mexico with the consortium formed by Macquarie Capital and Techint Ingeniería y Construcción. In addition, within the framework of restructuring the debt held by the company in Brazil, there has been the sale of the transmission lines in operation (brownfield lines) of Abengoa to the American investment fund Texas Pacific Group (TPG).
Along with the sale of assets, we continue to make progress in our plan to reduce overheads to optimise all the company's resources. In 2017, we have managed to reduce our overheads by more than 40% year-on-year. We are therefore convinced that, if we follow the path established in our feasibility plan, Abengoa will once again be a benchmark in its sector. In the same way as we are adapting the business to the company's new reality, we are also introducing the adaptation to the new organisational structure. This initiative is being carried out on the basis of seeking consensus among all those involved, as well as management efficiency.
During 2017 Abengoa reached a restructuring agreement with its creditors in Brazil, which is judicially approved. From this milestone the process of implementing the new business plan has also begun in that country. Coupled with this is the approval of our agreement with creditors at Abengoa Mexico in the first weeks of 2018.
Therefore, once we have taken stock of our 2017 performance, one of the core objectives for next year will be to ensure impeccable, innovative and efficient execution in each of our projects, as well as to achieve the highest standards of satisfaction in our actions. I particularly wish to point out that in 2018 we hope to conclude the construction of the A3T cogeneration plant in Mexico, another key element of our restructuring programme approved in 2016.
We will simultaneously be focused on complying with the remainder of our divestment programme and persevering in the reduction of our overheads in order to return to a path of sustainable and growing cash generation. To this end, one of our core objectives is to maintain a firm move towards higher contracting levels, as we close the projects and activities we are currently developing, in line with our feasibility plan.
Our focus on those key markets in countries where we operate is proving successful and in the short term there is a positive trend in terms of new business. Our presence in Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa and certain European countries is generating plenty of activity for us. We also harbour great hopes for the reactivation of other markets where we are achieving a major presence and reputation, the South African market being a case in point.
As regards our activity in the traditional fields, energy, water, transmission and infrastructures, as well as the associated O&M services, we have made great progress in regaining visibility, presence and repositioning ourselves with clients with whom, in many cases, there had already been a close working relationship in the past. We appreciate your renewed confidence in the performance of new projects and actions that reinforce our road map.
I would not want to end this message without first expressing my sincere gratitude to our stakeholders: clients, employees, shareholders, financial creditors and suppliers, among a great many more, for the trust, patience and commitment placed in our company.
I assure you that it will not be in vain and I encourage you to continue sharing with us all the successes reaped. All in all, Abengoa will continue to work with the conviction that it is progressing in the right direction and with our greatest encouragement.
1 FRSL = (Number of Accidents with Sick Leave/Number of Hours).
2 Figures at the close of 2017.
Gonzalo Urquijo Fernández de Araoz
Chairman of Abengoa


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Here at Fish Creek Bottle Depot, we've been known as the fastest and best bottle depot in the Calgary area, and clients often choose us because of our many years of experience. Our large bottle depot has been in operation since 1992. We support no-cost bottle and container recycling for hotels and restaurants, bars and pubs, schools, hospitals and many kinds of businesses. Learn more about our free commercial pick-up throughout the Calgary area.
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We offer a full refund on all bottles, cans and milk containers at Fish Creek Bottle Depot, where we'll accurately sort and count for you. We're also known as the bottle drive experts, offering 5% extra for on-site bottle drives and welcoming off-site bottle drives, as well. Need truck services to our bottle depot for your bottle drive? We'll handle it!
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Every student at SPSV is invited and encouraged to participate in student activities. Clubs and interest groups provide students with a supportive environment of peers with similar interests, and a sense of responsibility to fellow club members.
If you would like to propose a new club for SPSV please print out the form below, fill it out, and give it to the Director of Student Activities, Ms. Balingit.
The following clubs will be offered during the 2014-2015 academic year:
Anime Club
This club is a space for students to gather and share their love of anime, manga and the culture associated with them. Opportunities for viewing anime at lunch will be provided bi-monthly with the possibility of a field trip.
Badminton Club
This club is for any student who enjoys playing badminton from a recreational level to a competitive level.
Black Student Union
California Scholarship Federation
Students qualify for CSF membership based on the total points awarded for semester grades they earn.
Chess Club
Open to students who to play or learn to play chess. Strategies are taught and discussed at weekly meetings.
Foodie Club
Our club provides students opportunities to grow their own ingredients, share recipes, cook favorite dishes, dine at local restaurants, cater school events and host club potluck parties.
Filipino Club
This club showcases the Filipino culture and its history through teachings, activities, and of course, Filipino food!
Flight Club
This club will meet and discuss many forms of flight such as hang-gliding, paragliding, wingsuits, etc. This club will also study flight by flying model aircrafts.
Future Nurses Club
This club partners with North Bay Medical to provide our students with the opportunity to explore careers in the medical field. Students have the opportunity to shadow a nurse, assist staff and patients and attend a week long summer camp, gaining 4 days of intense hands on training.
Junior Statesmen of America (JSA)
A student-run organization focused on discussion and debate of current events, politics, government, legal issues, educational issues, and world affairs. Activities center around student debates, thought- talks, problem solving, and statewide conferences.
Latino Club
This club serves to raise cultural awareness and competency to the students at SPSV. Through various events and activities, the Latino Club invites all students to learn more about Latin American culture through food, music, dance, and celebrations.
Music Club
This club is an informal forum where students get together to jam on their instruments, share ideas, and enjoy making music with friends and other students.
National Honor Society
The SPSV Chapter of the National Honor Society is a service organization. Members are chosen by a faculty committee from a list of qualified students with a minimum GPA of 3.5. Members are selected with input from the faculty at large on the basis of leadership, service, and character in addition to the initial scholarship requirement.
National Art Honor Society
This is an honor society that promotes art out in the community and on campus. We seek out places that need upgrading "visually" and volunteer our time and talent.
Pro-Life Club
This club seeks to promote life at all stages: from womb to tomb. The club participates in pro-life activities both inside the school and out in the greater community.
Robotics Club
This club will guide students through the exciting world of robots. This club is for anyone interested in robotics, engineering, and technology.
Sports Medicine
This group of students is interested in the medical field. They work directly with the athletes learning how to evaluate, treat and rehabilitate injuries. They will also learn first aid and emergency care. Members will be taking trips to different colleges to tour through the athletic facilities and speak to the sports medicine teams.
A student action group who focuses their energies in taking action against issues of social injustice to improve the lives of others.
Urban Farmers Club
This club works on projects in the school garden. Students learn about organic farming methods and focus on the quality of environmental stewardship. The future goal of the club is to grow organic produce to feed the SPSV community.
Offered as a zero period class. They meet to put together the school's annual yearbook.


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More Money for Parents: Enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit
Making the most of the Enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit
You know that feeling when you find a $20 stuffed in your pocket that you didn't know you had, or when you think you don't have any cash on hand, and realize the bottom of your purse is lined with stray loonies?
If you've found a small amount, you can probably get away with blowing it on lunch or a new sweater, but what if this 'found money' is more significant- and could be part of a longer term strategy?
If you are a parent of a child under the age of 18, you can expect to be receiving a bit of a windfall of sorts this month. The Enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit will take effect on July 20 with retroactive payments back to January 2015.
You may already be receiving the $100 a month Universal Child Care Benefit for each child under the age of six. This is going to increase to $160 a month under the Enhanced Child Care Benefit. So those of you with children under six are going to receive this new payment in a lump sum retroactive to January on July 20.
Parents of children aged 6-17 have not been receiving anything under the Universal Child Care Benefit, but will now receive $60 per child per month. And this payment will also be made in a lump sum on July 20, retroactive to January.
"As part of managing your household finances, you should always make sure that you are taking advantage of all of the assistance available to you- from government assistance to tax credits to special family discounts. Raising a family is expensive and every little bit counts," says Jeff Schwartz, executive director of Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada.
"Parents should plan ahead on how to spend both these lump sum payments as well as the extra amounts going forward," adds Schwartz.
Get enrolled
If you're not already receiving the UCC or have not in the past, make sure that you get enrolled ASAP. You are literally leaving money that you are eligible for on the table. Visit the Canada Revenue Agency's website to apply today.
List your priorities
Given that these payments are meant to help defray the costs of raising a child, take a look at some of your child-related expenses. Look at where this extra cash would be of most benefit going forward. Could it help with child care? It might help cover the grocery bill (which seems to be constantly going up).
Deciding ahead of time how to incorporate this money into your monthly budget means you will get the most value out of it every month instead of wasting it on impulse purchases.
The lump sum
While your kids may be eyeballing that swing set at your local department store, or bugging you to hit the amusement park, there are better areas to direct the lump sum that you're expecting.
You can either use it to pay down existing debt or put it aside in anticipation of child-related expenses.
Even though summer has barely begun, don't forget that school will be back in session before you know it, along with all of the expenses like school supplies, after school activities and back to school clothing.
Are you making the most of your income by setting a budget and sticking to it? Not only will a good budget help you manage your family finances better, it will permit you to pay down your debt more quickly. Call one of our trained credit counsellors at 1-888-294-3130 or check out our free online debt analysis tool to get started.


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Connecticut is considered part of the New York metro area, and therefore is extremely accessible due to the large number of roads and railways through the state. Although Connecticut has some agricultural and industrial output, many residents of the state commute to New York for work. As there are far more goods moving into the state than going out, Connecticut freight shipping out of the state can almost always be found for low prices. The climate is mild and the roads are well maintained, although traffic can slow Connecticut shipping down somewhat. LTL shipping is usually affordable due to the volume of goods that move in, out, and through Connecticut.
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Hurricane Irma began to wane Monday, moving north as a tropical storm after tearing through the Caribbean and South Florida, leaving homes and businesses in disarray.
Tyson Foods closed four chicken and beef processing plants in Florida and Georgia on Monday in anticipation of the winds and rain, said Derek Burleson, a spokesman for the company. Target shut down 127 stores and four distribution facilities across Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina and planned to reopen them on a case-by-case basis.
Industries including air travel, freight and amusement parks were engaged in herculean efforts to brace for the storm. But many companies could not avoid Irma's destruction as it battered nearly every part of the region's tightly intertwined economy.
Florida's amusement parks and attractions emerged relatively unscathed from the storm — physically, at least.
The real pain will come in the next few months, as Irma causes a psychological ripple effect through the state that may discourage families from planning trips, said Dennis Speigel, president of International Theme Park Services, a consulting firm in Cincinnati.
"Orlando lives, breathes, thrives on tourists, and the theme parks are the drivers of that," he said. "This is a really hard loss — hundreds of millions of dollars in aggregate for the industry down there."
Last year, 68 million tourists visited Orlando, and more than 70 million were expected this year, Mr. Speigel said. But much of the supporting infrastructure of hotels and restaurants has lost power, access to transit and regular deliveries of supplies.
"These trips are planned six to eight months in advance, with the average family of four spending somewhere in the $7,000 to $8,000 range," he said. "If you've lost a day, you've lost that day and you can't get it back."
Roughly 100 sites shut down across the state in advance of the storm, including the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, according to the Florida Attractions Association.
Universal Orlando, which includes the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, closed Saturday evening but kept its hotels operational and at capacity.
SeaWorld Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa Bay shut even earlier on Saturday, and offered to reschedule or refund vacation packages and individual tickets without cancellation or change fees. Both of those parks were planning to stay closed Tuesday.
Disney Springs and Walt Disney World Resort, which includes the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom parks, projected a Tuesday reopening.
The Magic Kingdom has shut down only four other times in its nearly 46-year history — each time for an incoming hurricane. Tickets start at $99 for a single day.
Disney's dozens of resort hotels in the state remained open during the storm. The company canceled several events and offered guests several refund or ticket exchange options.
— Tiffany Hsu
Air traffic in Florida ground to a halt over the weekend, with more than 9,000 flights canceled at airports in Irma's path by Monday afternoon.
Major air carriers hustled to clear their equipment and employees out of affected areas before the storm hit. Delta Air Lines might have benefited from the timing of the hurricane: The airline has been operating a scaled-back schedule since Labor Day, an adjustment it makes at the end of each summer in response to declining demand — giving it more flexibility.
"We were able to put larger aircraft or add additional flights into the market to allow people to travel out ahead of the storm," said Anthony Black, a spokesman for Delta.
Airlines were gradually returning to their normal flight schedules, though many planes remained grounded as the storm churned north.
Although industry analysts said it was too soon to pin down Irma's cost, airlines factor extreme weather into their planning.
"It's the cost of doing business as a global airline and working in these kinds of environments," said Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for American Airlines. "We know there can be hurricanes in Florida."
Operations were returning to normal as weather conditions improved and airports confirmed that equipment was functioning and that Transport Security Administration and passport control checkpoints were accessible.
— Zach Wichter
Shares of insurers with exposure in Florida bounced back Monday after Miami avoided taking a direct hit from the hurricane, which inflicted less damage than expected on the state's Atlantic coast.
Universal Insurance Holdings, the parent of Universal Property & Casualty Insurance, the state's second-biggest carrier, was up more than 13 percent for the day. Its stock had dropped 15 percent on Thursday, then regained some of that ground Friday.
The big national carriers like State Farm and Allstate cut back on writing homeowners' insurance in Florida years ago, citing catastrophic risks and unhelpful state regulators. Those reductions left a vacuum filled by one state-owned insurer and dozens of relatively little-known companies, like Universal, that do all or most of their business in the state.
Insurer strength could be more of an issue in Florida than it was with Hurricane Harvey in Texas, where most of the damage was from flooding, a peril covered by the federal government. Wind damage, a much bigger factor in Florida, is covered by standard homeowners' policies.
AIR Worldwide, a catastrophe modeling firm in Boston, predicted on Monday that Irma's insured damage in the United States would cost the industry $20 billion to $40 billion.
— Mary Williams Walsh
Rental Cars
Before the storm arrived, rental car companies transported their vehicles elsewhere or to higher ground when possible. But once firms assess the condition of their fleets, many are expected to work with federal and state agencies and insurance adjusters to make vehicles available for rent to assist in recovery efforts.
"We're trying to get these folks into vehicles as soon as possible so they can come in for the recovery process," said Lisa Martini, a spokeswoman for Enterprise Holdings, which owns Enterprise, Alamo and National.
Those companies and others, including Hertz and Avis Budget Group, are waiving certain fees, such as charges for late returns, one-way drop-offs and cancellations, to ease travel in affected areas.
Christopher Agnew, a senior research analyst at MKM Partners, said he expected the rental car industry to lose profits early on, but to rebound eventually.
— Zach Wichter
Cruise Lines
Several cruise companies canceled or cut short trips in the Caribbean and redeployed some of the hulking ocean liners to aid in hurricane relief efforts as ports in Miami, the Everglades, Canaveral and Tampa remained closed Monday.
Carnival Cruise Line rescheduled at least six cruises and canceled six more.
Royal Caribbean canceled two cruises to Cuba and the Bahamas, rerouting the ships to help areas ravaged by the storm, and rescheduled four other trips. Before transporting stranded travelers to Puerto Rico, the company's Majesty of the Seas ship delivered ice, water, garbage bags, medical supplies and other provisions to St. Thomas and St. John.
Royal Caribbean said it would refund all fares and fees for the two canceled cruises and offer a 25 percent credit for new cruises booked in the near future.
Norwegian Cruise Lines sent two ships, the Norwegian Sky and the Norwegian Escape, to Miami on Thursday to allow more than 6,000 passengers to disembark ahead of the storm. The company chartered flights to Atlanta for some passengers and booked hotel rooms for others.
The Sky then traveled to St. Thomas to pick up 2,000 stranded tourists, said Vanessa Picariello, a spokeswoman for the company.
— Vivian Wang


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