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Saturday, 10 September 2011
Black Hole Marsh
3+ Ruff, 35+ Dunlin, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, a Kestrel (male) and finally a Swift that was harrasing a Herring Gull [from Tim Stripp]
And some totals this afternoon...
6 Ruff, 53 Dunlin, 38 Ringed Plover [from Phil Abbott]
Start Point
5 Storm Petrels, 4 Balearic Shearwaters, 10+ Manx Shearwaters, 1 Great Skua, 1 light ad. and 1 dark ad. Arctic Skua, 8 Razorbill as well as plenty of Gannets all SW. 2 Turnstone and 2 Wheatear on rocks. Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff and 2 Willow Warbler in lighthouse tamarisks, 1 Yellow Wagtail over. Not a single Kittiwake.
Budleigh Seafront
This morning the visibility was not so great but there were still at least 10+ Balearic Shearwaters visible moving W, up to 5 Arctic Skua, 1 Great Skua and a prob Pom Skua. Also a continual stream of 20+ Commic Tern and 20+ Sandwich Tern with the odd Arctic Tern. A juv Long-tailed Skua was seen between my two morning visits by Doug C and Ray H.
However, as per Matt's post, the movement this evening was pretty intense with at least 70+ Balearic Shearwater, less Manx Shearwaters, though shearwaters were visible very distantly out to the S&W (presumably Matt's Manx mentioned below). Also a very large movement of Kittiwake again heading W with large groups sat on the sea . There were at least 300+ birds sitting on the water last thing this evening, but alas no Sabine's Gull. Also 1 Arctic Skua, and a brief Grey Phalarope heading W.
By far the best I've seen it off Orcombe Point and to be honest I was a bit overwhelmed by the large numbers of birds in front of me. My estimates of both manx and balearic shearwater are very rough and if anything quite conservative. Counting was very difficult as hundreds of birds were rafting quite close in, between Orcombe point and Sandy Bay and birds were also continually moving west. For example between 1735 and 1900 53+ balearics went west. Tern estimates are also rough. The phalarope took its time going through at 1735, frequently sitting for short periods on the water, and the sabs (presumed first summer) joined a small kittiwake flock off Sandy Bay at about 1810, and was still present at 1845 at least.
Exmouth - mid channel
Berry Hd
Yelland Roost and Isley Marshes
1 Spoonbill amongst 10 Little Egrets at Isley Marshes. Peregrine twice sending up 100+ curlews on marshes
Plymouth area
Wembury Bay
Seaton - afternoon update
Another seawatch this afternoon (14:20-17:20) added another 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 4 Balearic, 18 Manx, 1 Bonxie, 5 Sandwich Terns, 1 Arctic Tern, 5 Commic Terns, 1 Guillemot, 6 auk sp, 2 Kittiwakes, 4 Fulmars and 113 Gannets.
Exmouth - mid channel & Mudbank
40+Wigeon, 250+ Mallard and 10 Mute Swans now feeding on the eel grass beds of the Exmouth LNR - autumn's here!
Hopes Nose
Friday, 9 September 2011
bradiford reserve
Seaton Area
4 Arctic Terns and a Common Tern feeding in the bay (all adults)
Black Hole Marsh + Colyford Common
c60 Dunlin, c30 Ringed Plovers, 7 Bar-tailed Godwits, 4+ Ruff, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, c10 Black-tailed Godwits, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, handful of Yellow Wagtails, plus 9 Sandwich Terns amongst the Black-headed Gulls on BHM
[with thanks to Phil Abbot for some of those totals]
A day around the exe
By life boat station on the rocks and on the seaweed 5 mediterranean gulls ( 3 adults, 1 2nd winter and a juv/1st winter) plus 50+ knot
Dawlish warren 12:50 till 13:40
Thanks to Doug for the lift from exmouth it was much appreciated we both had fantastic views of the BUFF BREASTED SANDPIPER showing well in the bight near the hide along with 3 wheatear and plenty of ringed plover and dunlin
Bowling green marsh 14:30 till 17:15
The juv Osprey still showing well on the 'derrick' enjoying a fish it caught earlier the high tide roost was a lot busier today with 480+ curlew, 2+ bar tailed godwit, 4 whimbrel, 2 green sandpiper, 1 common sandpiper, 1 juv ringed plover, 6+ dunlin, 4+ greenshank, 1 sparrowhak, 18+ little egrets, 4+ wigeon, 25+ lapwing , 30+ redshank,125+ black tailed godwit
Another good days birding around the exe and a new devon tick with the Buff-breasted sandpiper
Dawlish Warren
Thurlestone Bay
Waders on the beach - 32 Ringed Plover, 2 Sanderling , 1 Redshank ( over ). 1 Guillemot on the sea .
T Marsh - 4 Black T Godwit , 3 Yellow Wagtail.
Best bird of the day a juv f Merlin - first found on the Golf Course later v g views in the field behind the cafe
North of Ashburton
R.Taw off Pottington Ind Est.
63 Bar-tailed Godwit; 3 Black-tailed Godwit; 5 Knot; 1 Curlew Sandpiper ( well marked juvenile);
19 Dunlin;
8 Ringed Plover; 5 Mediterranean Gulls; 7 Little Egret and 1 Peregrine.
Upper Tamar Lake
[from Harvey Kendall]
Berry Head
Pottington, Taw Estuary
1 Spotted Redshank
45 Bar-Tailed Godwit
1 Black-Tailed Godwit
Berry Head
Around the cattle meadow 2 Willow Warbler, 12 Chiffchaff, 1 Whitethroat & a Treecreeper.
Thursday, 8 September 2011
R.Taw off Pottington Ind Est and Bradiford Reserve
c120 Dunlin; 29 Bar-tailed Godwit; 1 Black-tailed Godwit; 1 Wheatear and 2 Little Egret. Just 1 Redshank.
Off Ashford Sewage Works:-
8 Little Egret and 3 Bar-tailed Godwit.
Turf, Exe Estuary
Upottery Airfield, Smeatharpe
Powderham to Turf, Exe Estuary
Isley Marsh
Bowling Green Marsh
Loch Garten Osprey visits Plymouth
From: Whitehead, Tony
Sent: Thu 08/09/2011 10:31 AM
To: _South West RO; _South West Reserves
Subject: Garten osprey in the region
One of the Loch Garten ospreys seems to like Plymouth. And why not - its a fine city
Follow this link
Click on the bird named Tore (mustard yellow box just above the map on the left) then zoom in to Plymouth.
Barnstaple - yesterday 7/9
Bowling green marsh
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Seaton Area
Still 1 Little Stint and 1 Curlew Sandpiper on Black Hole Marsh, along with at least 1 Ruff, 3 Ringed Plovers, 4+ Greenshank and a few Dunlin. Also here were 6+ Yellow Wagtails and a White Wagtail.
The sea was pretty lifeless, though perhaps 15 minutes didn't really give it time to excel!
Wembury Point
[from Andy Trout]
Upottery Airfield, Smeatharpe
18 present tonight along with 7 Whinchat.
Also 2 ravens, kestrel and a hare.
Kingsbridge Estuary
Budleigh Seafront / Otter Estuary
A watch from 07.15 - 08.30 produced 9 Balearic Shearwaters, including 4 birds feeding just off-shore by Otter Head with 60+ Gannet for the entire duration. Then a superb adult Pom Skua came in very close to investigate the feeding activity. Also 2 Sandwich Tern, 1 Common Tern, 1 Arctic Tern and a 1st w Med. Gull.
On the estuary there were 5 Black-tailed Godwit and 1 Bar-tailed Godwit.
A brief look on the sea this evening produced 2 more Balearic Shearwaters and 2 Common Tern heading W.
Exminster Marshes
Off Teignmouth
Hartland point
173 Manx Shearwaters
2 Ballearic Shearwaters
1 Sooty Shearwater
100+ Gannet (inc lots of juv)
5 juv Great Skua
1 Arctic Skua (pale phase)
5 Kittiwakes
6 Commic Tern
Upper Tamar Lake at 12.30
2 Black Terns (feeding amongst 100`s hirundines)
Lower Tamar Lake
several pairs of Great Crested Grebes feeding young
Bowling green marsh
Froward Point
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Balearic record counts
Colyford Common - Little Gull
Note for Mark Darlaston: Be the envy of your seawatching chums with one of these. Can be had in black...and a bit cheaper ;o)
With thanks to all for the enjoyable company I'll close with a couple of naff shots of our record-breakers:
Berry head
Thanks to all the guys there today
Prawle seawatch
Start Point
Seawatch 07:00-19:00, wind SW8 with heavy rain, backing SSW7 before veering W7: 3 Great Shearwaters (first, v.close 09:26, 2nd distant 15:10, 3rd mid-range 15:26), 18 Sooty Shearwaters, 238 Balearic Shearwaters (most in the last 4 hours), 930 Manx Shearwaters, 105 European Storm-petrels, Puffin, 2 Guillemot, 11 Razorbills, 4 Common Scoter, 3 Arctic Skuas, 1 Bonxie, Sandwich Tern, 4 Common Tern.
Whoooops must be Start Point!!
PS This was a bit further out a few days ago.
Seawatch at Budleigh Salterton
13 Balearic shearwaters, 15 Common Scoter (12 lingering offshore), 15 Storm Petrels, 1 Arctic Skua and 1 Pomarine skua.
Berry Head cont.
Sea Watching - Berry Head, Brixham
Exmouth late pm
Orcombe Point - wind much more westerly this pm but c20+ kittiwake, 17 storm petrel, 17 balearic shearwater west (+ many more lingering in Dawlish Bay), 2 bonxie, 2 common scoter, 2 turnstone and a black-throated diver (possibly this morning's bird) on the sea off the lifeboat station. Also a superb first-winter yellow-legged gull by the lifeboat station (above photos). Additionally several arctic skuas lingering in the bay - impossible to know exactly how many!
Off Teignmouth
Thurlestone Bay
Waders on the beaches - 10 Ringed Plover, 4 Sanderling, 2 Turnstone, also 1 Wheatear
Berry Head
Hopes Nose
Just 3 Balearic Shearwater, 1 Manx Shearwater and a Black-throated Diver.
Stupid Berry Head...
Axe Estuary and Seaton Bay
All I noted in three hours this morning and early afternoon were: 4 Balearic Shearwater, 35+ Manxies (Ian M had a Sooty too), 2 Arctic Terns and 4 'commic' Terns.
Up the valley a juv Little Gull on Colyford Scrape at 14:30 was the best. On Black Hole Marsh early afternoon there was a 'new' Curlew Sand (pic below), with singles of Little Stint and Knot, 3 Ruff, 4 Greenshank, 12 Ringed Plover and 19 Dunlin.
Berry Head
Monday, 5 September 2011
Exe Ospreys
Sth Down Farm- Soar
Budleigh Seafront
Plym Estuary
Prawle roundup
Saturday 3/9; Best bird of the day was a juvenile Marsh Harrier that flew west at 19.00; Otherwise fairly quiet on the land with totals of 3 Wheatears, Whinchat, 43 Stonechats, Grey Wagtail, 4 White Wagtails, 4 Spotted Flycatchers, Garden Warbler, 28 Blackcaps, 25 Whitethroats, 44 Chiffchaffs and a Willow Warbler. Waders were restricted to 4 Ringed Plovers and a Common Sandpiper.
Sunday 4/9; What a difference a day makes! Overnight rain dropped many common migrants in, as well as the 3 previously mentioned Wrynecks. Wheatears were the most abundant, with at least 200 in the area, including 90+ in one stubble field. The other two species to feature most prominently were Willow Wablers with c50, and Spotted Flycatcher with 18. A count of 5 Grasshopper Warblers was notable, and other warbler totals were 2 Sedge, 26 Blackcaps, 42 Whitethroats and 23 Chiffchaffs. 18 Sand Martins passed through, and other notable birds were Hobby, 2 Whinchats, 11 Yellow and 2 Grey Wagtails.
Finished the day with a little seawatch which produced a Sooty Shearwater, 5 Balearics and 19 Manx.
Southdown Farm, Malborough
[from Colin Mills]
Berry Head
Thurlestone Bay
140 Gannet, 10 Manx S'water, 1 Balearic S'water., 5 Fulmar , 1 Guillemot., 1 Sandwich Tern.
Waders on the beaches were 24 Ringed Plover, 7 Sanderling, 1 Dunlin . 4 Black T Godwit still on the Marsh.
Best bird of the day seen by Bob B -a F Merlin flew over the car park at 08.30
Blackhole Marsh - Seaton
What a great site this is for getting close shots of birds. The hide is well designed and the habitat is drawing in a good variety of birds.
[Clockwise from top left: Ruff, Grey Heron, Knot and Greenshank - GH]
Bowling green marsh
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Braunton Marshes
(Rob Jutsum)
Sea Watching - Berry Head, Brixham
Prawle Wrynecks
Otherwise, a good fall of commoner migrants, Wheatears leading the way with 200+
Full details and photos tomorrow - (off to work now!).
East Soar
Thurlestone Bay
3 Wigeon on Thurlestone marsh this pm (first returning birds ).
Bob B ringed 6 Sedge this morning also saw a Whinchat and a Groppa
Ditsworthy Warren, Dartmoor
Also: 40 swallows, 81 meadow pipits; 46 carrion crows, 4 ravens.
Bowling green marsh
3 juv curlew sandpipers showed well in with 25+ Dunlin and 5+ ringed plover, 1 juv spotted redshank, 15+ knot, 3 avocet, 7+ shoveler, 3+ wigeon, 2 greenshank, 1 green sandpiper,2 raven, 3 whimbrel, 4 bar tailed godwit, 15+ little egrets, 20+ lapwing, 1 wheatear, 1 adult Mediterranean gull good numbers of curlew but most of the black tailed godwits at least 300+ flew straight over towards the estuary.
Start Point
Nice fall of migrants today, bit of overnight rain must have done the trick.
Ringed Plover, 100 Swallow, 100 House Martin, 2 Sand Martin, 33 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 125 Wheatear, Reed Warbler, 10 Blackcap, 18 Whitethroat, 138 Willow Warbler, 32 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest and 21 Spotted Flycatcher
A fair arrival of migrants this morning, well for the Otter at least! The best of which was a nice Wryneck that was sunning itself in the early morning on top of an elderberry tree.
Other migrants included:
40+ Chiffchaff
10+ Willow Warbler
10+ Whitethroat
7+ Wheatear
3 Spotted Flycatcher
2 Reed Warbler
2 Whinchat
Also on the Otter, 2 Med Gull (ad and 1st yr), 1 barwit and 2 Common Scoter offshore.
Yesterday, the Glaucous Gull was present on the beach briefly in the evening.


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|Female Pass Percentage
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Tim McDonnell
Tim McDonnell is a senior fellow on the Climate Desk, where he covers national energy policy.
One group that's been keeping a close eye on climate change is wine growers. Since a 2006 study predicted global warming could fry over 80 percent of the US's wine grapes, vintners have been planning new heat-resistant varietals, adopting big-data-driven water saving techniques, and mapping out what could become the new Napa Valleys of a warming world.
That last trend is the focus of a new study out today that examines how shifting wine cultivation geography could have implications for endangered species. Lee Hannah, an ecologist at Conservational International, used a suite of global climate models to plot where ideal wine conditions will migrate to as temperatures warm and precipitation patterns fluctuate.
"In a lot of these places, what's there now is good wildlife habitat," Hannah said.
Up to 73 percent of the area currently suitable for wine cultivation could be lost by 2050, according to the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While temperate places like inland California and Mediterranean Europe lose good wine country, other, cooler or higher elevation areas, like the Northwest US and mountainous parts of China, are likely to open up for cultivation.
Unfortunately, Hannah and his colleagues found, some of those areas are already home to animals like grizzly bears and pandas, respectively, that already have enough conservation issues on hand without having to negotiate a sprawling new vineyard in the middle of their migration path. The problem goes the other direction, too: Stick a winery in the middle of a moose's stomping grounds, Hannah said, and he'd "love to go in and eat wine grapes."
By 2015, global wine consumption is expected to rise by nearly two billion bottles, an increase of 4.5 percent since 2006, with China's growing middle class boosting the country into the top five world wine markets. And while China now imports most of its wine from France, Australia, and the US, Hannah predicts the Chinese could be sipping more home-grown wine within a few decades.
But, he said, "turns out the best place to produce wine in China is exactly the mountains that harbor pandas."
Hannah's study also examined the impact of decreasing rainfall on an industry that, in many places, already exacerbates water shortages. In California, for example, total wine-suitable area could decrease by as much as 70 percent in the next four decades—but declining precipitation could still leave more than 30 percent of that smaller area under water stress.
Conflict between wine and wildlife is already being addressed by groups like the World Wildlife Fund's Biodiversity and Wine Initiative, which pairs conservationists with wine growers in South Africa's ecologically rich Cape Floral Region. But Hannah said the wine industry globally will need to pay more attention to the issue in the future, and work together to ensure the world's appetite for reds and whites doesn't drive any critters to extinction.
"This is not under the control of any one vineyard," Hannah said. "This is the next natural step for the industry, and it takes collaboration to consider how they might protect wildlife."
In an era of austere federal funding for urban public transportation, light rail seemed to make sense. Did the little trains of the 1980s pull their own weight?
Livability indexes can obscure the experiences of non-white people. CityLab analyzed the outcomes just for black women, for a different kind of ranking.
The pioneering festival marketplace was among the most trendsetting urban attractions of the last 40 years. Now it's looking for a new place in a changed city.
The nation's famed mastery of rail travel has been aided by some subtle behavioral tricks.
Tiny upper-floor "maids' rooms" have helped drive down local assumptions about exactly how small a livable home can be.


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Total income of the company, however, increased by 9% to Rs 2,211.24 crore in the April to June quarter this year, compared with Rs 2,025.58 crore in the same period last year.
The company achieved gross sales of Rs 110 crore during the June quarter, while it leased 0.20 million sq ft of office space during the quarter, according to a BSE filing today.
The demand for residential real estate continues to be soft for the company despite growth in the economy and the implementation of the real estate regulatory Act (RERA) and goods and services tax (GST) has continued to elongate the sales cycle.
The company expects that sector would achieve normalcy over next 2-3 quarters.
"With reduction in benchmark interest rate by RBI this month and markets guiding towards further softness in interest rate, the sector should witness a recovery soon. The Company shall have a healthy pipeline of finished inventory for sale in foreseeable future when the demand returns," it said.
The demand for office leasing space continues to be good for the company. According to the company, development of two new towers in Chennai SEZ is expected to be completed in FY18 while development of Cyber Park, Gurgaon is expected to be completed in FY19.
DLF also informed that the transaction for sale of compulsorily convertible preference shares (CCPS) in its rental arm DLF Cyber City Developers (DCCDL) is in advanced stages of discussion. DLF is in the process to sell a 40% stake of promoters in DCCL to Singapore sovereign wealth firm GIC.
The company has 19 million sq ft of projects under construction at the end of the April to June quarter.


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The Doors "Morrison Hotel" Jim Morrison Band Women's T-Shirt
If anyone had the Roadhouse Blues, it was crazy Jim... The Lizard King... a man that insisted on a good time... he enjoyed himself at any, and all, cost!
While The Doors as a band weren't the most musically talented; relative to some of their peers at the time... they certainly knew how to throw down a big groovy tune... and with time, they progressively matured (pun intended).
Of course, Mr. Mojo Risin' could write some wicked spaced out poetry; creating an undeniably spooky, tripped-out atmosphere... quite an unusual mix for a band who generally played smoothed-out psychedelic blues rock standards... kind of a ying/yang thing.
But as we all know, the bands music is only half the story of this legendary sordid tale... the other half revolves around Morrison's indelible personality, the wild man... the meteoric rise, and cataclysmic fall of a classic rock-and-roll star.
Having been arrested multiple times over the years for charges ranging; Petty Larceny, Disturbing the Peace, Resisting Arrest, Public Drunkenness, Vagrancy, Indecency, Public Obscenity, Lewd Lascivious Behavior, Public Profanity and Public Exposure... the man enjoyed himself!
Mr. Mojo was once even beat-up by bouncers at the Las Vegas nightclub "Pussycat a' Go-Go"... for smoking a cigarette like it was a joint... they whacked him over the head with a billy club, making him bleed. Man, tough joint.
Jim Morrison was the fourth member of the "Forever 27 Club"... along with Robert Johnson (blues legend), Brian Jones (Rolling Stones), Jimi Hendrix (Experience), Janis Joplin (Big Brother and The Holding Company), Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), and the most recent (at the time of writing); Amy Winehouse... all exceptional musicians with the entire world at their fingertips... all suspiciously dead at 27 years old.
James Douglas Morrison bellowed some of the greatest nihilist quotes ever to influence the young minds of generations to come... here's a couple that immediately come to mind:
"I'll tell you this, I don't know what's gonna happen man...
but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames!!!"
"I don't think there should be a president man...
I think it should be a TOTAL Democracy!!!"
Many people wrongly assume that the bands name was inspired by Aldous Huxley's book of Mescaline / LSD experiments "The Doors of Perception"... but the truth of the matter is slightly more intellectual than a simple drug reference, the inspiration was gleaned from the original quote written by poet William Blake (Book: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) ):
"If the doors of perception were cleansed...
everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite"
Which is really quite suiting in retrospect...
since that's exactly how Jim Morrison lived his life: Infinitely.
We want the world, and we want it... NOW!!!


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San Antonio police seek suspects in Auto Zone robbery on Marbach Road
Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information that leads to arrest
San Antonio police have requested help from the public, as they try to track down two suspects wanted in connection with the robbery of an Auto Zone.
According to police, the robbery took place at 9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, at the Auto Zone located at 7547 Marbach Road.
An employee at the store told police he noticed a car parked in position for a quick getaway, when two men in their late 20s walked into the store.
The employee said he became suspicious when one of the men began asking about a battery that didn't exist. He said the man grabbed some batteries from a shelf and ran out of the store.
At that point, he said the other man picked up some batteries and when the employee tried to stop him, the man threatened him with a screwdriver.
The employee said he feared for his life and stepped out of the way. The man with the screwdriver walked out of the store with the batteries, got into the car parked outside, and drove away.
Police said the car, a white 1990 Lexus LS400, was registered to an address in Austin.
Crime stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. The number to call is 210-224-STOP (7867). Callers may remain anonymous.
Copyright 2014 by KSAT - All rights reserved.


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Keep up with essential planning news and commentary, delivered to your inbox every Monday and Thursday.
How Streets and Social Justice Intersect
Streets aren't just thoroughfares to get people from one place to another.
They also serve as a way to connect residents of a community and promote health and economic activity, writes Marissa Reilly, a Berkeley-based urban planner and Lillian Jacobson, a master's degree candidate at MIT.
"Streets often change how people perceive their environment: they can make people feel safe or deter them from walking in a certain area; they can encourage social interaction or create deserted sidewalks; they can spur economic activity or stall neighborhood growth. Street design is not merely about aesthetics and modes of mobility—streets have the potential to affect the health and life outcomes of everyone who uses them."
The authors describe the ways in which streets impact economic development, health, and social interaction.


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What a hoot! The holiday cottage where the owls are the entertainment
Picture credit: Robin Arundale
Visitors to High Barn Cottages in Bempton, East Yorkshire, will find they are sharing their accommodation with another family - of the feathered variety.
A pair of breeding barn owls are raising three chicks (one is being ringed by a local barn owl group above) in a nesting box situated at one end of the newly restored holiday cottage buildings.
And that's not all - visitors can watch their progress via a webcam which beams footage to each of the five cottages.
The property (below), close to the the seaside resort of Bridlington, enjoys a variety of wildlife from deer and hare to pheasant, with a wild-flower meadow sown to attract bees and butterflies. There are also various bird and bat boxes.
'We constructed a "bespoke" cavity within the east gable of one of the cottages for the owls,' says owner John Foster.
'It looks out over a copse of mature trees and is close to a dew pond with plenty of long grass nearby, so it's good hunting ground for the owls. We're delighted that they appear to be thriving.'
The nesting site became active around spring with eggs appearing from Easter and the owlets are likely to be ready to fledge in a month's time.
'Some visitors find the barn owls so enthralling, they watch them until the early hours of the morning,' added wife Angela.
'They are most active at night, but they preen, stretch their growing wings and move around quite a lot in the daytime.'
The five-star cottages are eco-friendly, too, powered by an on-site wind turbine and ground source heat pumps, while rain water is used for the toilet facilities.
A week's stay for four costs from £700 to £1120. To book, visit www.premiercottages.co.uk or call 07714 726675/01262 674932.


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Frankie Rose & Dive Poster by Aaron Eiland
Dallas' own Aaron Eiland keeps cranking out rad posters for us! Here is his poster for the Frankie Rose & Dive show at Club Dada on April 13th, with Lonesome Ghost & The Vliets.
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Linux mainframe faces off against the server farm
It's a faceoff: Linux on z vs. other server distributions. See what the pros say about Linux mainframe and decide if it's right for your IT shop.
Should you deploy Linux on the mainframe?
There are plenty of positives and negatives that make it clear that a Linux mainframe isn't right for all IT shops. Two experts go head to head on how to decide what's right for your data center: Linux workloads on a mainframe or running them in a distributed server environment.
Pro: Linux on a mainframe
Get reliability, availability, security and performance by putting workloads on the mainframe.
"Simply put, if you are looking to run a large number of virtual machines in an environment with tons of memory, in an environment that is extremely energy efficient and in an environment that is highly manageable -- [IBM] System z should be evaluated," said Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics.
Mainframes guarantee safety; with an Evaluation Assurance Level of 5+, mainframes have the highest security rating. The newest version of the Linux kernel can run mission-critical applications without the risk of breach or disruption. Securing centralized mainframes is easier than securing hundreds of distributed Linux servers; administrators have to attend to each network interface individually on each box and lock down all access points.
The mainframe has higher resource use rates than distributed server environments. Linux processors on the mainframe handle workloads instantly and efficiently. Running Linux workloads on a System z mainframe is cheaper than on a distributed server because software license fees are coupled with processor cores.
Virtualization and provisioning techniques also increase mainframe use rates. Keep the mainframe busy and it will provide the highest return on investment.
Against: Linux mainframe might not be for you
If you don't want a Linux mainframe, don't worry. You aren't alone, according to Robert Crawford, a systems programmer and SearchDataCenter contributor. A Linux mainframe isn't right for everyone.
"We couldn't make the economics work due to sweetheart hardware and Linux vendor agreements, along with our distributed environment already being aggressively virtualized. Finally, we couldn't make large pieces of our infrastructure tooling work on zLinux," said Crawford, which is why he didn't deploy Linux on z.
IBM offers the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines, making the Linux mainframe a reality. But how valuable is this processor?
Consolidating many workloads from underused servers onto fewer mainframe IFLs makes for a successful migration to z/Linux. But hypervisors are increasingly consolidating server workloads -- even mission-critical ones. This makes migrating to IFLs less attractive because the economics of the Linux mainframe conversion change significantly.
Then there are concerns with performance and price. Not all Linux operating systems work similarly on mainframe processors, and enterprise editions differ in price as well: Linux distribution providers price the mainframe software uniquely.
The hardware for the mainframe and other server infrastructures also require different skill sets and expertise. Commodity hardware is less expensive than mainframe processors.
Eliminating the mainframe could help eradicate office politics. Talk about moving workloads between platforms and an IT war will break out. An impartial study on a workload that includes all parties is the best approach. How do you decide which platform is right for the task? Put the workload on z/Linux and on a Linux server cluster, and see how it runs.
Disclaimer: Every workload is different, as is every business. Use these counter arguments as a starting point to make best decision for your IT organization.
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text: denitia and sene. premiere a visual for their latest single, 'Powder' Stephanie Moore April 7, 2017 Music, Visual 679 Tweet Share Share Email WhatsAppShares 0Individually, Denitia and Sene have been busy since their last release, his and hers., which hit Top 10 on the iTunes R&B chart. Denitia released the sprawling Air Light EP for her solo project ADESUWA earlier this year. Sene is in the cast of the Netflix television series Luke Cage and stars alongside Emma Roberts in Nervein addition to a lead role in festival favorite White Girl. The band also recently launched the "love and noir. Remix Series", a weekly series inviting fans to remix tracks from their new album, love and noir. Every Wednesday morning the band drops an original remix of one of the songs from their new album, along with a link for fans to download the stems from the original album track. Fans are invited to download the stems, remix the track, and post the remix to their Soundcloud page with the tag #DenitiaAndSeneRemix. denitia and sene. have mastered the fine art of soulful sensuality with their irresistible, smooth-as-silk sound, effortlessly melding elements of electronic, hip hop, funk and minimalist underground pop in equal doses—a reflection of their respectively diverse musical backgrounds which joined forces in 2011. At a time when the idea of "alternative R&B" has become the genre-defying norm, and hip-hop, EDM, house music and indie-rock run the risk of blending into each other, the chilled-out, futuristic experimental pop vibes of Brooklyn act denitia and sene. make a perfect kind of sense. Watch "Powder" visual, below: Catch denitia and sene. on tour! West Coast Tour Dates in April April 18 / Seattle, WA / Barboza April 19 / Portland, OR / Soul'd Out Fest @ Holocene April 21 / Oakland, CA / The New Parish April 22 / Fresno, CA / Fulton 55 April 23 / Santa Cruz, CA / The Catalyst April 25 / Anaheim, CA / The Parish @ House of Blues


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I've had some questions lately from both new and veteran teachers alike about year-long pacing of curriculum. How can you make sure that you fit it all in? How do you pace the topics that you are teaching? What exactly should our students be able to do by the end of the year?
I created this Year-Long Kindergarten Curriculum Map to help give you a general overview of *one* possible sequence of teaching. I've included a blank/editable version and one that you can take and use. I've also included some recommended resources that I think you will find helpful so that you can get right to what you are meant to do... TEACH! :)


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It's not enough to think about the experience you're creating for customers online. It's equally important to manage the online world's impact on you. As much as you produce and contribute, you should likewise filter and prune what passes before your eyes.
The latest buzzword in business is curation. Creating a highly-tuned experience for your customers whether they come to your website, open your email or interact with you on social media. It's not entirely new, of course. Curation is just the next iteration of personalization that started with the My-phase a few years back. The big difference is that whereas we each used to customize our own experiences on search engines or online bookstores, today we're encouraged to select, highlight and distribute customized content for our friends and clients.
It's good advice, actually, as becoming a good curator is an excellent way to contribute to people we value.
But while we're being encouraged to curate experiences for everyone else, it's important to keep curating our own online experiences. The My-phase of the web was a necessary stage of our engagement with websites because the exponentially increasing amount of content they generated was overwhelming us. If you didn't create a My Yahoo or My Google News, you ran the risk of inundation, which meant good information fell to the level of noise. And that was back when the major contributors of content were few: a couple of major websites and a few Nigerian spammers.
Today, billions of people contribute content that ceaselessly passes before our eyes.
As Twitter has made publishing your every thought frictionless, we've naturally become exposed to more and more thoughts: many we'd have happily lived our entire lives without. After Facebook absorbed what we once needed to visit many sites to see – photos, links to web pages, jokes, polls and videos – we are increasingly exposed to more of these media in a single channel. As organic groups spring up in discussion areas and hashtag chats, we find ourselves thrust into 100-plus comment threads reminiscent of Internet 1.0 discussion boards, but more insistent on keeping us in the banter with real-time notifications.
It's as simple, wonderful, but potentially overwhelming as getting 429 birthday wishes, where once we'd have received a few cards or emails. Because our sense of propriety hasn't changed as fast as the web, our wish to thank everyone takes us down the strange path of social inundation.
Which leads us back to the need to curate our inputs more than ever. It's not quite a pull-back, but it's definitely a hold-on moment for social media, and perhaps the web as a whole. It's yet to be seen whether the human nervous system can actually handle the vast number of inputs – blips, beeps, vibrations – as we're able to create. We simply don't know if this direction in communication – language, actually – is sustainable, or even valuable. It all might end up a grand experimental cul-de-sac, like cuneiform or Esperanto or 45-records. Clearly, much of what is being generated is valuable; equally clear is the amount that is not.
The challenge is knowing with whom and what to allocate your time, focus, energy, since the minutes in a day have remained the same.
It's all quite natural, when you think about it. Selection has always been a critical skill for navigating the world. Knowing which comments to let pass without retort from a friend at a cocktail party isn't much different than knowing with postings to overlook from that friend online. The cues are different, since we lose the physical and non-verbal parts of social interactions when we boil our conversations down to texts, tweets and tags. So it's a little harder, perhaps, but a learnable skill, nonetheless. Deciding which discussions to skip, which discussion groups to join (or leave) or even when it might be time to deactivate that extra account (must we appear in every social network?).
So it's not so surprising, even perhaps overdue, to see people talking about cutting their number of Facebook friends in half, just as they once unsubscribed from the torrent of email newsletters they once received. Even the social networks understand the need to maintain some control – sanity? – on their platforms. The latest features let us manage the amount and type of updates we see from people, and to hide some people's content entirely, even if we don't wish to completely break off our connection. Curation of our own experience seems far more important than the number of friends and followers, because the conversation goes both ways. Our desire to influence everyone might need to give way to influence our important someones, and to equally limit who influences us.
Some people are taking it even farther. We've limited how frequently our apps check for updates on our smartphones – even email can wait a whole fifteen minutes – so that we're simply able to walk two feet without a blinking or beeping demand for our attention. It doesn't make us Luddites. It does make us slightly more focused. It simply reduces the chances we'll get run over by a bus, because we're looking up while we're crossing the street. Curation is good, but it's also hard. Deciding how to spend your time online, and with whom to spend it, means making choices. And social media isn't geared towards choices: it's a fire hose, not a straw, by nature. It's up to us to restrict, control, curate the flow. To make something good out of it. To protect ourselves from noise.
It's will require we master a new skill: Choice. Which is increasingly hard to do, especially when the blinking and beeping keeps insisting that someone, somewhere, wants our attention right now. And now. And now, now, now, now…….


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In a 2004 article, the constitutional law scholar Mark Tushnet described the rise of what he called "constitutional hardball." The article draws attention to a phenomenon that has become even more prominent in the United States over the ensuing thirteen years: the use of "political claims and practices … that are … within the bounds of existing constitutional doctrine" but that nevertheless conflict with prior assumptions about how things are supposed to work–the assumptions that "go without saying" in a working system of constitutional government.
A historical example would be Roosevelt's court-packing plan. Already in 2004, Tushnet described a number of more recent examples of constitutional hardball by both Democrats and Republicans, but primarily by the latter–the Democratic filibuster against Bush's judicial nominees in 2002-2003 and the Republican response, moves in Colorado and Texas to revisit districting decisions after the 2000 census, and the impeachment of President Clinton.
Many Republicans would argue that President Obama engaged in constitutional hardball by circumventing Congress through executive actions. Even if this is granted for the sake of argument, it would be hard to deny that the radicalized Republican Party of recent years has engaged in an escalation of constitutional hardball with no modern precedent. These hardball tactics include the transformation of the Senate filibuster into a hurdle for routine legislation, the Republican decision to hold hostage the nation's credit by threatening to default on the debt, the unprecedented refusal to hold a vote on Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court, and the North Carolina legislature's recent attempt to rewrite the powers of their Governor after a Democrat won the office. The list could go on.
The most important example, I would argue, was the general Republican refusal to engage in ordinary legislative negotiation with Obama throughout the course of his presidency. As Mitch McConnell famously stated in 2010: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." Republicans carried out this strategy for the next six years by vocally opposing virtually every initiative supported by the President, even those policies that Republicans had supported before Obama and now support again under President Trump, such as infrastructure investments.
McConnell understood a central fact of contemporary American politics, one backed by social science studies and now confirmed by the success of McConnell's strategy. This fact is arguably the central fact of contemporary American politics, along with the phenomenon of partisan polarization grounded in antipathy for the opponent's party. As Jonathan Chait has repeatedly, persuasively reminded us:
The truth is that voters pay little attention to legislative details, or even to Congress at all. They make decisions on the basis of how they feel about the president, not how they feel about Congress. And a major factor in their evaluation of the president is the presence or absence of partisan conflict. If a president has support from the opposition party, it tells voters he's doing well, and they then choose to reward the president's party down-ballot.
In fact, voters "are so single-minded in their focus on the president that voters actually base their vote for state legislature on their assessment of the president."
Welcome or not, this is a fact of contemporary American political life. Voters will reward Democrats in 2018 and 2020 for opposing everything that Trump and the Republican Party attempt to do between now and then–and punish Democrats for any perceived Republican legislative or executive victories. Despite what voters sometimes say in surveys, they will not reward Democrats for cooperating to get things done. No one is actually paying attention to that.
In addition, there are only so many seats in the Senate and the House: a win for Republicans is a loss for Democrats and vice versa. Partisan representation is a zero-sum game, with no possibilities for mutual advantage through negotiation.
As a result, Democrats have an obvious self-interest in opposing congressional Republicans and Trump on every possible front, including the forms of constitutional hardball that Republicans used throughout the Obama presidency. The most obvious and important example is Democratic refusal to vote for Republican legislation, including legislation that Democrats might support based on its substance alone.
Another example would be Trump's nominee to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Democrats have an interest in obstructing the nominating process through every means possible, using whatever flimsy justification comes to mind. The justification would certainly be no less flimsy than the one used by Republicans to obstruct Garland's nomination.
But sensitive, fair-minded, principled Democrats may hesitate to embrace such a flatly oppositional approach–as Senator Schumer and no doubt many other moderate Democrats appear, very much, to be hesitating. If Democrats begin to play routine constitutional hardball just like the radicalized contemporary GOP, descending to their low game rather than rising above the fray, what will become of our constitutional system?
Once the unwritten norms of fair play and settled tradition are routinely, unapologetically violated, will the Constitution not cease to "make politics possible," leading to a serious constitutional crisis?


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Self-assembly phenomena in block copolymer systems are attracting considerable interest from the scientific community and industry alike. Particularly interesting is the behavior of amphiphilic copolymers, which can self-organize into nanoscale-sized objects such as micelles, vesicles, or tubes in solution, and which form well-defined assemblies at interfaces such as air-liquid, air-solid, or liquid-solid. Depending on the polymer chemistry and architecture, various types of organization at interfaces can be expected, and further exploited for applications in nanotechnology, electronics, and biomedical sciences. In this article, we discuss the formation and characterization of Langmuir monolayers from various amphiphilic block copolymers, including chargeable and thus pH-responsivematerials. Solid-supported polymer films are reviewed in the context of alteration of surface properties by ultrathin polymer layers and the possibilities for application in tissue engineering, sensors and biomaterials. Finally, we focus on how organic and polymer monolayers influence the growth of inorganic materials. This is a truly biomimetic approach since Nature uses soft interfaces to control the nucleation, growth, and morphology of biominerals such as calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, and silica.


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Falcon Malls
Falcon Malls is part of the Fawaz Al Hokair Group. It is the Retail Real Estate development arm of its' European investments and aims to deliver geographic diversification in it Malls Portfolio.
Vertically integrated, the company strategy is to source, develop and operate a quality portfolio of shopping centres in European Growth Markets to reflect the strength and innovation delivered in their home markets.
Falcon Malls is strongly placed and versatile enough to engage in diverse opportunities with the flexibility of business model to work with a range of partners, from Local and Central Governments to regional and local entrepreneurs.
Our long term approach focuses on the development or regeneration of unrivaled shopping and leisure destination for our visitors and retailers alike. All our projects aim to deliver better social and economic benefits to the communities.
Innovation, reach and expansion are at the core of our proposition and we are constantly evolving our business in step with changing consumer demands and the latest technology advances. In any country we operate, we point to be the centre of retailing.
- Focus on architecture to deliver a spectacular experience.
- Optimisation of flow management.
- Complete retail mix with all major national and international brands.
- Food and beverage destination.
- New generation children's play area.
- Commercial and geographical synergies between the group's business units.


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Guidelines for Post-Treatment Care
It is normal to feel some tenderness in the area for a few days after your root canal treatment as your body undergoes the natural healing process. You may also feel some tenderness in your jaw from keeping it open for an extended period of time. These symptoms are temporary and usually respond very well to over-the-counter pain medications. It is important for you to follow the instructions on how to take these medications.
- Do not eat anything until the numbness in your mouth wears off. This will prevent you from biting your cheek or tongue.
- Do not chew or bite on the treated tooth until you have had it restored by your dentist.
- Be sure to brush and floss your teeth as you normally would.
- If the opening in your tooth was restored with a temporary filling material, it is not unusual for a thin layer to wear off in-between appointments. However, if you think the entire filling has come out, contact your endodontist.
Your tooth may continue to feel slightly different from your other teeth for some time after your root canal treatment has been completed.
- Contact your endodontist right away if you develop any of the following:
- a visible swelling inside or outside of your mouth;
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When working in the world of motion, time acts as a continual constraint against our approach and workflow. It acts as the major limitation to our practices within the commercial realm. Deadlines exist, corners need to be cut, chopped and even recycled when necessary. Time is a necessary measure and with adequate time-saving measures in place it allows us to explore the fun side of our work – being creative and creating chaos, as the (compositional) controllers of time.
After Effects is a rich application with numerous ways to do the same thing
Despite still feeling like a rookie only having worked in post production for a couple of years, sites like Motionworks have proven a real benefit in developing my skills and improving my understanding of motion graphics and After Effects. In fact I have found that watching how professionals work and the workflow they engage in to be on an equal par to the things covered in the tutorials themselves. These have expanded my knowledge of After Effects and its capabilities a great deal, and also helped me laugh at some of my previous approaches to doing things.
So in the spirit of collaboration and helping one another, here are some of the major time-savers that, with with the benefit of hindsight, have helped me out a great deal as a professional.
I hope this post can also prove as a suitable reference and contribution point, so that we can all build upon our time saving practices and have a laugh at the things we did the "long way".
Tidy workflow and precomposing
Whilst still falling victim to messiness in extreme situations, I can't stress the importance of how much easier collapsing your layers into pre-comps is, it saves a lot of time. This is particularly useful in longer projects where breaking your animation down into sections is essential in successful project management, rather than the alternative of fighting through dozens of layers.
Using Proxies and Pre-rendering
A great benefit of being able to section off your work into appropriate pre-comps, is that it allows for the creation of more flexible and easily managed proxies. This greatly speeds up pre-rendering, previews and creating test movie files. If changes are made to a proxy, simply re-render and re-link the proxy, this way you can lock off sections for quick previewing as they are finished and faster final renders.
Understanding plug-in and preset capabilities and discovering best practice
The web is a great resource, and in this field of work it really pays to keep informed both with the potential of the plugins and how others use them. Visit plug-in manufacturer's websites and explore the details, sample projects, plug-ins and presets. This can save a lot of time lost shooting in the dark when the pressure is on during a job.
Knowing when to use Mattes and Masks
For quite some time, because I didn't know any better, I always used masks by default. I had little understanding of Track Mattes and when they would have been more appropriate. Now I'm embarrassed to admit that in quite a few instances a lot of time was wasted using a mask instead of a matte.
Scripting and Expressions instead of keyframing
In my days of studying, this was my worst nightmare. The blame lays squarely with Flash and I'm sure a lot of people can relate to this fear. Again fortunately there are a lot of great resources out there, to make this language of expressions easier for motion graphics designers to utilise, implement and deconstruct.
Most useful day-to-day expressions include wiggle, time-based and linkage expressions, value expressions and pick whip expressions. All relatively simple, straightforward time-savers when compared to the traditional keyframe approach.
The Expressions examples section in the After Effects Help helped me build upon the things I picked up in the MILG series. Many useful resources also exist on the web to help take your expression writing skills further. If like me you find this a little daunting, my advice would be to start using short expressions such as the wiggle expression them move to more complicated expressions as you feel more comfortable. Dip your foot in the water and you will be paddling around in no time.
20:20 hindsight
We all fall victim to hindsight, and how to do things better. After all, After Effects is a rich application with numerous ways to do the same thing. What has been a big help to you along the way? With reflection can you look back at any key moments that helped make your life as a motionographer easier? Are their any things that you now look back on and think, if only I'd known that then, life would have been so much easier? If there is, share them, we would love to know.


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On ESPN 103.3 in Dallas Tuesday, via Pro Football Talk, Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett went on to advocate a quarterback competition for the starters position.
Considering the circumstances, that will happen when hell freezes over.
Bennett on the Ben and Skin show went on to profess how much he loved playing with backup Jon Kitna.
"I loved playing with Kitna," Bennett said "Kitna is one of my favorite people to play with. Just being out there on the field with that guy just makes you play even harder. He made some things happen in limited time, so I think if he got a longer chance, he'd be able to do more."
Well there is one little problem Romo is scheduled to be paid nine million base salary in 2011 and 2012. There is now way Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will allow someone he paid a ton of money to bench warmer.
The real reason why Bennett is professing his love for Kitna is that he had his best season last year with Kitna at the helm as he caught 33 passes for 260 yards. Of the passes that he caught 20 of them came from Kitna after week 6 when Romo went down for the year.
In the end, the real reason that Bennett raving for Kitna is because he knows he will get a bigger pay day with him at the helm.


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Halloween isn't just a night to play dress-up—it's a chance to get creative. That's even more true for the art lovers among us. After all, what better way to stand out on the spookiest night of the year than to take a cue from your favorite artists? With that in mind, we have scoured the Internet to bring you the best costumes inspired by the art world. Happy Art Hallows Eve!
I love it when the sometimes perceived snobbery of the art world dissipates in a passionate embrace of the masses. We've spoken about classical art works moving into popular culture before, but this one particularly enthuses me because it requires some serious study of the unique characteristics of each artists, and … a sense of humour!
Take a look at some of these incredibly imaginative and innovative Halloween costume ideas caught around the web recently, and revel in the pseudo-cultural vibe!
The pop-art one has been done before, but some of these, like the Picasso, and Van Gogh, are really creative. René Magritte's Son of Man particularly floats my boat – oh the joy of walking around with an apple hanging in front of my face!
I am excited about the day when all fancy dress parties contain a percentage of 'high art' costumes as tributes to the great masters – but it will probably not be so enthralling when my future teenage kids excuse their extended nocturnal sojourns with stories about how they were hearing all about the hidden angst in Dali's earlier works….


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Last week I had the honor of being featured at Leigh Kramer's blog, Hopeful Leigh. She published Josh's and my love story in her This Is How We Met series.
I wanted to share it with you too. It's a great story, one about how love sneaks up on us when we're minding our own business. Or trying to.
I never thought this would be my story before it was. I wonder if you can relate. So without further ado, here's our tale. From my perspective, of course. 🙂
It was October 2006, the year I walked everywhere. The year I didn't have a car.
I left my downtown office late that night, and by then it was dark. I had to pass a dark corner or two as I wound my way through the autumn streets, passed the low–income high-rise building, on my way to the coffeeshop in the bar district.
I was alone, and I felt it. I walked briskly as the darkness and the nighttime chill called for it. And then I heard footsteps behind me. I couldn't tell how close, but they were close enough. I turned around to see a man, but I couldn't make out his face. It was too dark. He was maybe 20 steps behind me.
I walked faster. And it felt like he did too. I felt more alone, but I wasn't.
Then I looked up. In the light of the post office building sat something familiar. My friend's car. And my friend was inside. My friend was a guy, which made me feel a little safer. I nearly ran to the door of his car and jumped in, maybe without asking.
It felt like a portal, whisking me suddenly from danger. He drove me the almost-mile to the coffeeshop where I planned to meet my friend, who would drive me the rest of the way across town to my apartment.
As I burst into the warmth and light of the coffeeshop, I felt like I'd narrowly escaped a disaster. My friend, Michelle, sat at a round table with another friend, Josh, and I gushed the harrowing tale to her, hoping she could absorb all my fear and relief. Josh didn't say anything.
A few minutes later, we left.
I guess that was the first time I met him, but I hardly remember it. But anyway, Josh says we first met that night. He tells me I launched right into my story of near-death, and didn't pay any attention to him.
I'm not surprised. It sounds shallow, and it was: I knew he wasn't my type.
Two months later, Josh hosted an event of 24-hour prayer and worship at a local church. My church's worship team took a two-hour set. I met him again there. He was intense, quiet, squinted eyes that seemed to take everything seriously. So not my type.
I ran into him again in January at the same coffee shop. He sat at the same round table, this time with several young gentlemen. Josh with his narrowed eyes, books stacked up, talked theology with whoever would listen.
They asked me if I'd heard of an author they were discussing. I hadn't. I escaped to another table.
In February 2007, Michelle invited me to a prayer and worship night. Josh was there again.
I sang my heart out that first night, and it felt so natural to be there with these people. I felt like I found home. And there was this weird thing, this chemistry with Josh that I couldn't explain. Because he was so silent and contemplative. I knew he was not my type at all.
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Do top executives and board members understand the role of internal audit and the capabilities it offers?
This question was prompted by a post that a valued member of my network, Alfred Rodas, brought to my attention, "Internal Audit and it's enhanced role in the future"(sic). The author, Drew Stein, wrote, "I have been both privileged and fortunate to have lived and worked as Chairman, Managing Director and CEO for a number of diverse organisations in various countries around the world."
The Full Picture
Reading the views of an experienced board member and former CEO offers an interesting perspective.
As such, Stein professes to understand the role of internal audit.
But a distinction should be made between understanding how internal audit functions in practice, and understanding how they should operate. Does Stein understand the desired role — as expressed by guidance such as the new Mission and Core Principles from The IIA — or only what far too many internal auditors are limited to performing (whether because their resources , the vision of the CAE, or due to the limited vision of the board and top management)?
It's notable that Stein values internal audit — but if he understood its full capabilities, wouldn't he be even more passionate and change his views on its reporting line and mission?
Point, Counter-Point
Stein limits the scope of IA's function with the following statement:
"It's generally accepted, that the base function of IA is one of reviewing, monitoring and ensuring that company financial, regulatory and operating systems are adhered to while also providing guidance for improvement in company monitoring and reporting functions."
The new IIA Mission statement defines it as, "To enhance and protect organizational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight." Stein's approach reflects a common perception I've seen, that internal audit is a compliance monitoring activity, rather than one that provides assurance and insight on the management of risks to the achievement of corporate objectives.
His acknowledgement of the role IA should take is commendable, "There is no argument that corporate entities must have a strong IA function which in some jurisdictions is mandatory by regulation." Yet he follows up with statements like, "Almost all of IA findings are mundane operational compliance issues which management can rectify immediately."
If this is his perception (and I take him at his word), then either the internal auditors have failed to audit areas of risk that matter, have found nothing worth mentioning, or they have been unable to explain and communicate how the issues they raise might affect the achievement of corporate objectives — and matter to the board.
Another example of seeing IA through a limited view can be found in, "Major financial or compliance issues are reasonably rare but require a separate and confidential IA reporting line through the audit committee chairman." Internal audit should not be limited to financial and compliance issues. They should be looking at controls over all significant risks to the achievement of corporate objectives.
Stein and I differ on who IA should report to. Whereas Stein writes, "… a reporting line function which I've successfully worked with is that organizationally IA report to the CFO and sit on the board audit committee with the absolute right to report confidently to the Chairman of the committee on any issues which in warrant special attention," I feel internal audit should report functionally to the board or a committee of the board, and administratively to a senior officer of the company, preferably the CEO or a business-oriented CFO (in other words, someone who will not constrain internal audit to financial and compliance issues).
"In my opinion IA functions can't survive in their currently accepted structure. They will need to raise their corporate involvement and expanded their functionality to cover a far greater business horizon and as a result will be required to work closely and cooperatively with other organizational groups within the business. This will force a significant change in attitude and understanding of their place and function within the organization."
On the main point we agree, but not necessarily in the vision Stein shares. Internal audit should provide insight, assurance and advice to the board and top management on the management of significant risks to the enterprise. They will need to cooperate with management, while retaining their objectivity and independence (please note the order of these words). The change in attitude should include all stakeholders as well as internal auditors.
To return to the question of reporting, Stein reiterates, "The key point to this enlarged IA responsibility is that they must be seen to be part of the organization and report to the CFO but still retain the absolute right to communicate directly with the committee chairman should the need arise." On this I strongly disagree. IA reports to the CFO (CEO or other executive) for administrative purposes only. As expressed in the IIA's core principles, internal audit should be able to provide the services the audit committee and the board need, free from undue influence from management.
Stein wraps up with a prediction: "I know there will be many who disagree with my next comment but gazing into my crystal ball I predict that within 20 years you won't be able to recognize today's so called IA function. The word 'audit' with all its negative connotations will be dropped and the function and responsibilities will be morphed into a far more inclusive group involving a greater intensity around analytical in-depth reviews of key operational drivers and strategic risk elements with more focus on compliance but still responsible for identifying major financial misdemeanors."
Internal audit is already in the midst of a transformation to enterprise risk-based auditing. The idea that it should be compliance oriented and act as the corporate police needs to be dampened down. While that remains a part of its role, it misses the essence of what the mission of the internal audit function should be today and in the future.
What do you think? What needs to be done to change the perception by board members and top executives so that internal audit can deliver the services it can and should?


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One died and three others injured when a three- wheeler collided with a bowser in Ramboda in Kandy- Nuwara Elliya road.
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We're all Indians Now
Some of you will recall that I had a family legend that circulated my entire life, suggesting that I had relatives who were part Creek. In fact, if you believed the legend, I was 1/8 Creek. I swallowed the lie because it was convincingly delivered.
I found genetic comfort in the fact that I like both knives AND tomahawks.
With modern family search/ancestry/DNA resources available, I found that the story was a complete fabrication. Those ancestors who were said to be Indian were white as were their ancestors and there were documents (original images on-line) to prove it, going back to the 1600's. In those days, a declaration of race accompanied birth and christening documents because right-to-inherit, own land, vote, etc. was tied to that issue in whole or in part.
My mother had framed photos of my Indian ancestors on her walls. Total bilge water. Her brother, my uncle, had his whole self image wrapped around his ancestry, and now, into his early 80's, it's been stripped away by modern technology.
BUT WAIT, there's hope. Senator Elizabeth Warren is claiming that .9% Native American DNA makes her an Indian. It could have been Aztec or some sort of South American rather than Cherokee, but she proclaimed herself a squaw. Maybe my mother and uncle are Indians when you apply that standard!
The next question is where I need to go to get a piece of the profit from the casinos and oil wells. And don't I qualify for some sort of allotment due to my minority status? The government owes me hundreds of pounds of free cheese that I never claimed.
Hungary Takes a Stand
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, signed a decree, which went into effect last Saturday, removing gender studies from a list of approved master's programs.
"The Hungarian government is of the clear view that people are born either men or women," Orban's chief of staff said in August. "They lead their lives the way they think best, but beyond this, the Hungarian state does not wish to spend public funds on education in this area."Apparently he did not take into account that there are 32 possible gender identification options (the rules for determining what "you" are remain fungible on a daily basis), many of which are recognized through Europe and the US. Imagine the thought that people are born as men or women?


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The TRN Cat Class is an upgraded class from Novice and allows you to participate in CFA-licensed shows and compete for a Grand, Regional or National title.
You can purchase a TRN number in one of the following ways:
Your $15 non-refundable TRN processing fee is applied towards the standard registration via pedigree fee and your TRN is valid for sixty (60) days. You must begin the registration via pedigree process during that time frame in order to continue showing with CFA.
A 4 generation pedigree is approved by CFA for TRN. Via pedigree registration is done based on the registration rules for each breed and requirements vary based on the breed from a no pedigree requirement to an 8 generation pedigree requirement. If additional generations are not fulfilling the breed requirements, the registration via pedigree is not possible.
If the cat's registration is approved at that time registration via pedigree, Central Office will assign a permanent CFA registration number to the cat and transfer all banked points received with the TRN to the cat's permanent record.
The transfer of points will include qualifying rings towards Champion and Premier title and earned grand points towards Grand Champion/Grand Premier title if processed within the three (3) year time period that the TRN was purchased. You will need to submit a Championship/Premiership claim form and $15 fee to have the CH/PR title awarded.
Points towards National/Regional/Division winner titles are valid only within a 60 day time period from when the TRN was purchased.
If the four (4) generation pedigree is unacceptable based on registration rules, CFA Central Office will rescind the cat's TRN and notify you that the cat cannot compete in CFA. No points will be banked for your cat.
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The strong connection between our school and parish is very important to us. At St Joseph's School we are supported by our Parish Priest, Fr Joel Nyongesa. Fr Joel is from Kenya and has been in Kununurra since 2011.
Each term we gather at St Vincent Pallotti Church for a whole school mass (click HERE for the parish website). Each class will also celebrate either a Liturgy of the Word or Eucharistic celebration with the priests at school each term. Parents and friends are always welcome to join us for these special services.
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First Date
First Date oil on canvas 8 x 10
Here's another painting I was having trouble naming so again I put it out there, title-less on Facebook to see if anyone had a spark of creative word play. And sure enough my friend Karen came back with something so clever and new to me. She called it Margherita which means daisy in italian ( I didn't know that) and lots of pizza places serve Margherita pizza which is also a type of tomato... wha-la what a great name! So how did I arrive at First Date you say?
My next post in response to Karen's clever name was...
Linda Santelle Marino The two young tomatoes met at their favorite pizza place, ordered a margherita pie for two. He surprised her with a handful of freshly picked daisies... She smiled and sweetly kisses him on the cheek.
February 29 at 8:37am · Like · 1
and Karen's response:
Karen Aldo Brown "First Date"
February 29 at 8:42am ·
So there you have it.... " First Date"
He Loves Me
The flowers were part of my Valentine's day present from my adorable husband. I have no doubt that he loves me. I was having
trouble coming up with a title so I posted this painting on my
facebook page and ask my friends for some assistance in a title.
The ideas just poured in! I loved so many of them, I have very creative friends and that just makes me smile! Big thanks to all my friends who joined in on the title search. Settling on "He Loves Me...." is also a reflection of how grateful I am to have such a loving husband.... Dean you're the BEST!
Opposites Attract
Peppers and Posies, oil on canvas, 6 x 6
When it comes to setting up still life objects to paint in my studio I look for ways to find harmony and contrast together. It helps to create a dynamic composition. The three elements I carefully chose were the solid for of the red peppers, the transparency of the glass jar and the delicate white petals of the daisies. So they may start off as objects but something magical happens as I'm concentrating so intently on painting. The objects begin to take on a life, a character. You know kind of like, well... Pinnocchio.
Even though the peppers stole the show in this composition, the sweet delicate little daisy lower her head and reached out her hand to greet her fellow actor in the play called... "Peppers and Posies".
Big thanks to my friend Joy for helping me title this one!
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I Heart Coffee
I Heart Coffee, oil on canvas 6 x6
I think my kids think I'm playing a mean joke on them. Why? The donuts I have been painting look great and I'm sure they tasted great the day I bought them but each one has turned rock hard by the time I get around to painting it and when my kids see the still life set up in my studio they just can't resist picking it and attempting to bite into it!...Ouch... "that's hard as a rock!" they say... I just giggle and pray... please don't let them lose a tooth over this joke... how will I ever explain it to the dentist.
Last night my daughter wanted to paint the donut and coffee cup... with very little instruction from me....I think she did an awesome job! It inspired me to paint with the same color palette but just a little different perspective... and while I was contemplating a title... I looked at it with a fresh perspective this morning .... and that's when it hit me... if you read it counter clockwise and use your imagination a little the spoon looks like an i ... then heart and coffee... all thought it was empty by the time I finished the painting... just image...
The Fruit of the Spirit is....
The Fruit of the Spirit Oil on canvas 8 x 10
As I was cleaning out the hall closet this morning I came across this red Harry and David holiday box that my mom sent us for Christmas. I knew I was saving the box for something...
I was inspired to create this piece based on a bible verse that goes..
"but the fruit of the spirit is love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." (Gal. 5:22-23)
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The Laurentian Students' Union (LSU) executive would like to take this opportunity to welcome new students to Laurentian University, as well as to welcome back those continuing their studies. 2013-2014 is shaping up to be another exciting year with many social and educational events on the calendar.
The LSU is the official body representing all full and part-time Laurentian students studying at the Georgian College Barrie Campus. As a student run organization existing independently from both Laurentian University and the Georgian College administrations, it is the LSU's role to act as the voice of the Laurentian student body, representing the interests of its members to all levels of government and university and college administration. As a member local of the Canadian Federation of Students, the LSU is committed to fighting for necessary academic, administrative, and legislative changes to improve the quality of education provided to its members.
The LSU is firmly devoted to enhancing your university experience by fostering an active student culture on the Barrie campus. Throughout the year the Union coordinates and hosts regular events and activities which are open to all students. Popular examples include the annual trip to Ottawa for Model Parliament, TurkeyBowl, the Laurentian free-skate and hockey game, social justice seminars and campaigns, coffee houses, pub nights, and many more.
The LSU advocates for a variety of political causes, such as promoting an inclusive campus culture and organizing students in the struggle against rising tuition fees. As students our political strength is in our numbers. We are always looking for new voices to help the LSU continue the struggle for social justice!
Involvement in student politics and your students' union is a great way to make the most of your university experience. If you have any questions, concerns, or just want to get involved, drop by the students' union office in room E112A. Or, you can email the LSU at email@example.com, or reach us by phone at (705) 728-1968, ext. 1981.
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Our experience with the WeLoveLofts.com web site showed us that buyers and sellers typically want to research and understand a niche market in the privacy of their own home prior to engaging a realtor. After hearing, "I want to buy a loft or a house on the East Side of Providence" enough times, we knew what our second niche focused site should be.
LoveTheEastSide.com will focus on the niche markets of The East Side of Providence and The Oak Hill Neighborhood of Pawtucket. These areas are geographically defined by The Seekonk River to the east and North Main Street and Pawtucket Ave to the west. Although some might say that this definitions stretches the traditional boundaries of The East Side, we understand that not everyone can afford to live on Blackstone or Angell or Hope.
Traditional realtor's websites are more concerned with selling their own listings than helping buyers understand the niche markets in which thy want to live, and helping them find a house that is just right for their needs. LoveTheEastSide.com will provide open access to almost every East Side listing and the ability to research this market at your own pace. We never force you to sign up or provide us with any of your personal information. When you are ready to talk, we provide you with a variety of options to contact us and start the process.
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LoveTheEastSide.com has been created to allow individuals the luxury of seeing everything that is on the market in one place, regardless of the listing brokerage. In addition, our site allows you to sort by newest listing, highest price first or lowest price first. These options become very important when you have been back to the site a couple of times and really want to focus on a particular segment of the market.
When you are ready to buy or sell, please just click on one of the easy to use contact links or send us an email at email@example.com. We promise to focus on selling you a property that you love coming home to!!


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Corsham Court is an English country house in a park designed by Capability Brown. It is in the town of Corsham, and is notable for its fine art collection, based on the nucleus of paintings inherited in 1757 by Paul Methuen from his uncle, Sir Paul Methuen, the diplomat. It is currently the home of James Methuen-Campbell, the eighth generation of the Methuens to live there, and the Heir Presumptive to the title Baron Methuen.Homes - Historic
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