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The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Prose Edda, a collection of narrative literature, and its companion, the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and 13th centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius. The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative.
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When the Synthetic Intelligence Val Ky Ree wakes from her emergency shut-down after a climactic battle, she discovers thousands of years have passed, and her creator race, the Aesir, have all gone. The last of her kind, she finds a new purpose in protecting the remaining few thousand humans from the hostile alien races called The Compact. As humanity teeters on the edge of extinction, one human male helps her to realize her destiny.
For five years Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit since she first discovered she could do so five years ago. That time her father banished her. This time she brings even more trouble upon herself. People are now hunting Charlie all over London, but only one man succeeds in capturing her.
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At the request of Lady Harcourt, Charlie and Lincoln begin searching for her missing stepson. Still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of a diabolical villain, Charlie is supposed to be resting. But resting is dull, so she throws herself into the task at hand, much to Lincoln's frustration. The search leads them down a dark path littered with family secrets and titillating scandal. Using her necromancy to expose those secrets, Charlie unwittingly raises a spirit with the power to override her control.
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The one thing Mrs. Bennett most dearly wants is to see her five daughters settled. When wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley moves in to nearby Netherfield Hall and takes an interest in her eldest daughter, Jane, her dream is almost within her grasp. Yet, problems arise when Bingley's friend, the prideful Mr. Darcy, meddles in their relationship, earning him the disdain of Jane's sister, Elizabeth. However, Mr. Darcy can't help finding a match in the intelligent, free-spirited Lizzy Bennett, despite her country manners.
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Tara follows a trail that leads from a psychiatric ward to a Parisian market for religious relics. Former flame Cyril Woods accompanies her, but Tara's billionaire benefactor questions Woods' motives, and the detective assigned to the case suspects those closest to Tara.
Siriaa has been destroyed at the command of an enraged criminal. The poison infecting that planet has been flung into the universe, landing upon hapless worlds in its path. The Orb has dropped Quin onto another world five years in the future, where she is compelled to seek revenge against Vardil Cayetes, the one responsible for Siriaa's destruction.
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Quin is kept busy placing planet-saving spheres on poisoned worlds. A device has been created on an isolated world that can hide anyone or anything from even the most powerful, including the gods. Quin; the spheres; the device - Vardil Cayetes wants all of those things. Who can stop him, now that he is back and stronger than ever?
Siriaa, already in its death throes, is further damaged by a ruthless politician and a rogue wizard. Quin needs powerful help to save it.
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Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Earl of Enzie, has made a devil's bargain: he's going to sell Rowena, Isla's beautiful and innocent younger sister, to a known murderer in exchange for forgiveness of his debts. Tristan Mountbatten, the infamous Duke of Darkling Reach, has a habit of marrying such women and then disposing of them...horribly. For this and other reasons, there are rumors. That he practices the dark arts; that he's a necromancer; that he is, in fact a demon.
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Sanah would do anything to protect her little sister, even if it means taking refuge with ruthless pirates. But the psychically talented pirates terrorizing Commonwealth space are not quite the monsters she has been led to believe. When Sanah's empathic gift shows her the truth behind the stories, she is no longer certain who the villains are in her world.
Wylend Arden, Fifth-level warlock and King of Karathia for more than 20,000 years, had quite a story to tell. "It began like this," he said, his smile slightly crooked as he lifted his cup of wine to me. "I had an older brother, born to one of my father's legitimate mates. His name was Wellend and he was heir to the Karathian throne. On his 16th birthday, my father gifted him with the Heir's Ring, as was proper." After thousands of years, Wylend's niece and nephew are making a bid for the Karathian throne.
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TOKYO (AP) Hiroyuki Iwaki, the Japanese conductor who led the Melbourne Symphony for more than three decades and wielded the baton from a wheelchair as his health declined, died Tuesday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 73.
Iwaki, who also conducted the NHK Symphony and major orchestras in Europe and the United States, died of heart failure at the hospital where he had been treated for an unspecified illness since late May, said Yuko Isaka of Iwaki's office, May Corp.
Iwaki's passion for work never stopped until recently despite nearly 30 surgical operations he received over years on his illnesses, including lung cancer and pharynx cancer, the national Asahi newspaper said.
Just a month before his final hospitalization, he conducted a concert from a wheelchair.
Iwaki made his conducting debut in 1956 with the NHK Symphony after graduating in the instrumental department at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts.
After making a European debut with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in 1962, Iwaki conducted other major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Atlanta Symphony.
He also conducted the soundtracks for Akiro Kurosawa's 1985 movie Ran, and the 1993 movie Rising Sun, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes.
Iwaki, who was bestowed the title of permanent conductor for the NHK orchestra in 1969, made an overseas tour in China, South Asia, Russia, South American, the United States, Australia and Europe.
Iwaki became the conductor of the Melbourne Symphony in Australia in 1973, and led the ensemble for more than three decades. In 1987, he was named the orchestra's first conductor laureate.
"It seems to me that the orchestra's playing is always much tighter with Iwaki conducting," principal oboist Jeffrey Crellin said on the orchestra's website. "The orchestra and the audience respond to the extra electricity he generates. Other aspects that I have always appreciated in Iwaki are the beauty of his left-hand gestures and facial expressions that mirror the music so elegantly. His eyes have always spoken more than words ever could."
Iwaki founded Japan's only permanent professional chamber orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, in 1988.
On the New Year's eve in 2004, Iwaki conducted performances of all nine Beethoven symphonies — a nine-hour feat.
Iwaki, who was also known for his essays mainly on music, ran for the upper house of Japan's parliament in 1983 but lost.
In 1990, he was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government for his conducting.
Survivors include his wife, Kaori.
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Rep. Darrell Issa's acquisition reform bill puts a new twist in the debate between low price and value.
An updated draft Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act might open the door to a new way of choosing how to evaluate contractors' proposals, and because the source selection technique would be in a statute, agencies could slowly shift toward that approach.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, included the fixed-price technical competition or bid-to-price method in his FITARA proposal. The little-known selection process attempts to balance price and value while weeding out low-balling bidders.
Under this technique, the agency issuing a solicitation would set a predetermined award price and invite contractors to compete on other factors, such as quality, past performance or technical details. With the price set beforehand, evaluation of proposals would be simpler and based solely on technical factors.
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The buyer would need a good understanding of the acquisition's requirements and the technologies involved to use the technique appropriately. That knowledge is also important to determine whether agencies would be getting the best value from the solutions offered for the established award price.
Issa's committee wrote that if used properly, the approach could lower bid and proposal costs while simplifying the evaluation process, which can alleviate pressures on the acquisition workforce.
"This type of evaluation technique is not prohibited by the" Federal Acquisition Regulation, the committee wrote. But "the FAR lacks clear guidance on when a 'fixed-price technical competition' approach would be appropriate."
The provision in FITARA is a small part of the overall reform bill, which includes codifying the principles in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy's Myth-Busters memo and changing the CIO to a political appointee. But the committee pays plenty of attention to the overall concerns about lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) versus best value in a new discussion document released March 14. It outlines the reforms to the original draft bill, which was released in September. In discussions, Issa received blowback regarding the FITARA provision.
"A few commenters equated this provision with LPTA. That is a misunderstanding," the committee wrote, arguing the differences as well as the benefits of the provision.
Whichever way it is viewed, Issa is giving the approach credibility, and that might have an impact on agency officials, said Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of the global public sector at TechAmerica. History has shown that when Congress "blesses" an approach in acquisition, as it would fixed-price technical competition, agency officials tend to use it more frequently, he said. Yet the acquisition workforce is still averse to risk and avoids innovation at times, to the detriment of taxpayers.
Fixed-price technical competition is not widely known or widely used. "They had to explain it to us," Hodgkins said.
That leads to a larger question about how it would be used.
"How it is implemented will be where the rubber hits the road," said Roger Jordan, vice president of government relations at the Professional Services Council. Officials will need training and a deep understanding of how it is supposed to work.
However, Hodgkins said the new approach would not foil LPTA, which bases awards on the lowest price. In tight budget times, officials can more easily justify their award decisions when they choose the lowest price, although that can undermine quality.
"LPTA still will be -- if not officially, then unofficially - the overall preference," he said. And as for fixed-price technical competition, "it still gives overseers the ability to second-guess a decision."
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Let's hear it for resurrecting the old "Design To Cost" acquisition model! But we'd need to ratchet up the comp level for government acquisition personnel so better quality folks could be retained.
This is an imminently reasonable approach and one I've seen used successfully. Let's face it, the USG does a terrible job managing multiple variables and try to compare scope, price, and qualifications against a vague SOO and it has been a disaster recently under LPTA. The USG is being told after award what they bought by the low-ball bidder's lawyers (take a look at Vanguard 2.2.1 at STATE) – and no surprised they didn't buy what the HOPED they bought and talked themselves into believing there's a free lunch. Where's the pre-award due diligence – AWOL! Don't people read the FAR? This is naturally followed by massive mods for the smiling LPTA contractor. Anyone want to compare current value of the VG221 award vs. the losers' original pricing? It's much easier for the USG to say, "We've got this much, here's our mission and requirements, give us the most you can in solutioning for this because there is no more budget coming!" and judge the proposals accordingly. At least then they're less likely to chase a pipedream from a slick, low-balling, body-shopping, mod-hungry contractor. These agencies are like abused children now and don't even seem to notice they're being taken to the woodshed against their will…. But if LPTA is getting 'er done…..
How will this be possible? Most IGEs are way off. The Govt has essentially lost its in-house expertise to be able to define a requirement and then to develop a price estimate and often relies on contractors to define its needs. So contractors will essentially be establishing the pricing that they or other firms will then bid. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house.
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Yorkshire and Humberside Circles of Support and Accountability is a community response to sexual offending, working in partnership with criminal justice agencies. Our mission is to reduce the risk of future sexual offences by supporting individuals who have committed sexual offences previously, thus keeping the community safe and creating no more victims.
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The volunteers support the core member to resettle into the community and establish a safe, positive and purposeful life for themselves. At the same time, they hold the core member to account for any worrying behaviour or thoughts, thus acting as a safety net for the local community and identifying concerns early.
The Circle will work closely with the local Circle Coordinator who is responsible for their supervision and support and also for sharing information from the Circle meetings with the statutory Criminal Justice Agencies, particularly the police and probation.
The Circle model originates from Canada
in the mid-1990s, when members of a community there came together to support and hold to account a man who had committed sexual offences. Despite being considered very high risk, he was being released with no supervision from statutory services as he was at the end of his sentence, and so the community, lead by a Mennonite Pastor, realised they were going to have to take responsibility for managing their concerns themselves.
The research based on the development of Circles in Canada initially, and more recently in the UK, has found that Circles have a very positive effect on reducing reoffending in those who have previous convictions for sexual offending and agree to take part in a Circle.
Our overall aim is to support people who are committed to stop offending to lead responsible, productive and accountable lives and by doing this to reduce the likelihood of them offending again so avoiding further victims. Ultimately, our long term aim is to be able to provide a Circle of Support and Accountability to every eligible individual in the region, who wants one.
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However facile it may be to say so, already England v France at Twickenham on 4 February is shaping as the decisive match of this season's Five Nations. Begging Canada's pardon, only then will we know what either is really made of.
The urge, with the World Cup in mind, to draw a direct comparison between French and English fortunes against the Canadians is almost irresistible. Almost, but not quite.
You could draw a straight statistical line between 60-19 and 28-9 but the reality is that there is nothing much in it - as long as Pierre Berbizier does not wholly subordinate Le Frenchflair to the "realism" France's coach admires so much in the rugby ofthe Rosbifs.
As a quality realism may be admirable but it is not lovable. It is also central to the age-old debate about French rugby. Those of us who usually watch from afar want our romantic view vindicated. Those at the sharp end - Berbizier especially - want to win.
Still, it is pleasant to dream that the real France is represented by the try - the one "from the end of the world" - which beat New Zealand in the final minute in Auckland last June, and in any event it was asking too much that the Tricolours produce a performance as ruthless as England's against Canada at Twickenham.
For one thing, they did not have the benefit of a warm-up against Romania. And they had also been landed here, where they patently did not wish to be and still do not as their sub-zero training week drags on until tomorrow.
In fact it may not have been such a bad idea, because it showed that the very pragmatism that Berbizier demands does after all exist. Indeed it was essential in overcoming his players' reluctance to become missionaries to Franche-Comte.
The little discomforts tend to have exaggerated importance in the minds of Frenchmen but, as it happened, they were well-supported here and there was a palpable sense of pleasure among the 15,000 Franc-Comtois who filled the Stade Leo Lagrange that they should have had the honour.
Quite apart from which, as Bernard Lapasset, the French rugby federation president, indignantly pointed out, in the distant past when the Canadians' visit was arranged, nowhere else - and certainly nowhere in the traditional rugby areas a long, long way
away from Besancon - had been remotely interested.
It had not been until France lost to Canada in Ottawa en route to New Zealand in the summer that people all of a sudden became upset about having to go very nearly to Switzerland. So Lapasset felt more than justified. But then so did Berbizier that his team had had their revenge.
So, too, did Philippe Sella. If ever there has been a chivalrous figure in French rugby - in France itself, since he has just received the National Order of Merit - it is the nonpareil centre. But his escutcheon was blotted when he was sent off in Ottawafor a minor act of retaliation against a Canadian who had two fingers, fork-like, in his eyes. The scandal was in the dismissal and not in Sella's conduct.
He felt it so profoundly that, that night, he forgot for the first time to telephone home after an international and as it was his 99th, that is a lot of phone calls. On Saturday, against the same opponents and now in his 102nd international, he would h a ve more than made amends if amends had needed to have been made.
Sella, at very nearly 33, was an inspiration and the try with which he completed the scoring in injury time was both a triumphant reward and a form of rehabilitation. It made the try count 3-0. England's had been 6-3, and that - with February on their minds - is a sort of symmetry.
Indeed the matches, though they ended with such different scores, bore many similarities. Once again the rugged Canadian forwards struggled in the line-out but competed as fiercely as ever in the loose play, where they sent back a steady supply of possession.
It was used in a varied way which again gave freer expression to Canadian handling abilities than would have been the case a year or so ago when Canuck rugby formidably rested on forward confrontation and the big boot of Gareth Rees.
After the Twickenham game the touring party sat down together and debated whether to revert to former type or continue, at whatever risk, to expand. The decision was to keep trying. "If we were more conservative we would be more efficient, whereas this way we are exposing our weaknesses," Ian Birtwell, the coach, said. "Essentially, we had to decide to take these games as training sessions but when we go to Scotland next month we are viewing it as a great opportunity."
Whether treating Test matches as training runs is a good idea is debatable but Birtwell is taking the long view - the World Cup in May - in the knowledge that, having been placed in the "Group of Death" with Australia and South Africa, Canada would have no chance by simply trying to muscle their way through. Next Canada play at Murrayfield on 21 January and every Canadian in Besancon believes they have an outstanding chance.
But at Leo Lagrange, they were almost out on their feet when Sella materialised as the overlap man at a tap penalty with Scott Stewart, who might have been the one to get to him, arguing with the referee. "Our effort sort of petered out, perhaps through tired legs," Birtwell acknowledged.
France, by contrast, grew ever stronger. Philippe Benetton's first-half pushover try was sweet relief after - and before - considerable Canadian pressure and for an hour, with Thierry Lacroix's goal-kicking more than matched by Rees's, the tourists stayed in close contact.
But once Sella's slashing break had presented France's second try to Jean-Luc Sadourny, all that was left for Canada was grim defence and, stoutly though they conducted it, Sella's try faithfully reflected the disparity at the end - though scarcely throughout. As Berbizier kindly put it: "This Canadian team was worth better than that 60 points at Twickenham, and proved it." Such a nice man.
France: Tries Benetton, Sadourny, Sella; Conversions Lacroix 2; Penalties Lacroix 2; Drop goal Delaigue. Canada: Penalties Rees 3.
FRANCE: J-L Sadourny (Colomiers); E N'Tamack (Toulouse), P Sella (Agen), T Lacroix (Dax), P Saint-Andre (Montferrand, capt); Y Delaigue (Toulon), G Accoceberry (Begles); L Benezech (Racing Club), J-M Gonzales (Bayonne), C Califano (Toulouse), O Merle (M o ntferrand), O Roumat (Dax), A Benazzi, P Benetton (both Agen), A Costes (Montferrand).
CANADA: S Stewart; W Stanley (both University of British Columbia OB), C Stewart (Western Province), S Gray (Kats), D Lougheed (Toronto Welsh); G Rees (Newport, capt), J Graf (UBC OB); E Evans (IBM Tokyo), K Svoboda (Ajax Wanderers), D Jackart (UBC OB), M James (Burnaby Lake), N Hadley (Wasps), I Gordon (James Bay), C McKenzie (UBC OB), G MacKinnon (Ex-Britannia Lions). Replacement: M Cardinal (James Bay) for Svoboda, 78. Temporary substitute: P LeBlanc (Kats) for Jackart, 7-11.
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Cesare Pavese was born to parents Eugenio and Consolina Pavese in 1908, at their family vacation spot in the Piedmont region of Italy. The family, which included an older daughter, lived in Turin. His father worked as a bailiff in the court system. When Cesare was six years old, his father died. He started writing poetry while still in secondary school. In 1923, Pavese entered the Liceo Massimo d'Azeglio to complete his high school studies. Agusto Monti became his teacher and mentor. In 1926, Pavese entered the University of Turin. It was here that he began his lifelong interest in American literature. He did his thesis work on Walt Whitman, getting a degree from the university in 1930. His mother died the same year. He also...
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Cesare Pavese was born on September 9, 1908, in his family home in the village of Santo Stefano Belbo. He grew up there and in the industrial city of Turin, where his father, Eugenio, was a clerk in a law court. After his father died, his mother, Consolina, provided him with the best education available. In high school, he was enthralled by the ideas of Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci and by the aestheticism of Giacomo Leopardi. At the University of Turin, he became captivated by American literature and wrote his thesis on Walt Whitman.
After his graduation in 1930, Pavese began teaching, which required him to join the Fascist party. The Fascists, however, could no more control his mind than could the Communists when he joined that party in 1945. He was arrested for anti-Fascist activities and sentenced to internal exile in rural southern Italy. He was released in March, 1936. Pavese's conviction ended his teaching career. After he returned from exile, he scraped out a living by writing and by working part-time at the Einaudi Publishing House.
Depression and anguish were Pavese's constant companions. He was emotionally devastated in 1936 by the failure of his relationship with the antifascist activist Battistina Pizzardo. With astute self-knowledge, he wrote in his diary: "Now I see the reason why I isolated myself until '34. Subconsciously I knew that for me love would be a massacre." His earlier distrust and fear of women was...
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Donald Trump to Buy Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Donald Trump may no longer be flirting with becoming the leader of the free world, but he's extending his empire of golf resorts by agreeing to purchase the Doral Golf Resort & Spa for a cool $170 million. The property was put into bankruptcy earlier this year.
Originally founded in 1962 by Alfred Kaskel, the man who coined the name Doral for the area, the resort was taken under the control of hedge fund Paulson & Co and Winthrop Reality Trust earlier this year and then promptly filed for bankruptcy. It was put up for sale shortly after the filing.
Bloomberg confirms that the Trump Organization will now take control of the property for $170 million. The agreement will be filed next week in the the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, and the transaction will be completed by the next financial quarter.
However, there will still be an auction held to attract better bids before the transaction is final, but it doesn't appear that any other organizations will step forward.
The Trump Organization includes several luxury golf resorts in the United States, including Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, New York, Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, and Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles.
The Doral Golf Resort includes five championship golf courses and has been a yearly stop on the PGA tour.
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MUIP Investigators' Perspective
This short video provides a very clear window into the investigative world of the Major Unusual Incidents and Prevention Unit and our efforts to get individuals safe and keep them safe. Not all incidents are the result of crimes, abuse, or neglect, etc. However, MUIP conducts over 1200 formal, "Major" investigations a year and another 2000-3000 reviews into other serious concerns. By the time a Major Unusual Incident gets to the MUIP Unit, something highly adverse has already occurred. Thus, the aim of this video is to raise awareness and commitment well beyond our MUIP Unit so that individuals with disabilities have wide ranging, "vigilant", and active support from their entire communities. As we work in partnership, effective "prevention" will occur more and more often such that crimes and adverse events are greatly reduced and in many cases eliminated. Even one, will make a huge difference to any individual who faces incidents such as those depicted in the videos.
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Winner of the Poetry Kit Summer Competition 2016
Ion Corcos – Ithaca from a Ferry
Derek Sellen – From the Inventory of the Museum of Twentieth Century Things
Oz Hardwick – Rock-a-Bye
Bethany Climpson – solar systems
Angela Rigby – Lost
A.C. Clarke – Portrait of the Author at Ten
Stuart Nunn – Severn, night, tide rising
Roger Elkin – Rock End
Selecting a winner from this year's Summer Competition entries was very difficult task. There were so many excellent poems that even selecting a shortlist meant a lot of difficult decisions had to be made. All of the shortlisted poets reflected the theme and engaged the reader with a strong visual element, using images to illustrate fine detail in their poetry.
Many poems fell by the wayside in the selection process and perhaps it will be helpful if I say that most of the poems rejected at this stage, just failed to engage the judge sufficiently to be memorable and demand selection. If a poem attracted attention when read then it was put into a long list and read again. However at this stage some poems had already started to assert themselves and so, on rereading, were moved to the final shortlist.
The shortlisted poems were all fine pieces of work that had earned their place in the final selection. From the short list the winning poem and the three highly commended poems were chosen and it was very difficult to decide the overall winner, but in the end it was memorable imagery and a unique approach that had made the difference. After reading the poems the winner was the poem that stayed with me.
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Q Advisors Represents Magnetic North in its Acquisition by West Corporation
04 Nov, 2015, 12:08 ET from Q Advisors
DENVER, Nov. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- West Corporation announced the acquisition of Magnetic North, Ltd., a U.K.-based provider of proprietary hosted customer contact center and unified communications solutions to enterprises. The technology that Magnetic North has developed will be used across West to provide clients with the capability to deliver seamless and contextual multi-channel consumer experiences. The addition of Magnetic North provides West with a robust, scalable, end-to-end cloud-based contact center solution and expands its global enterprise customer base, particularly within Western Europe.
Q Advisors LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to Magnetic North. The transaction is representative of the firm's focus and deep expertise within the managed and cloud services space.
"When we decided to embark on a sale of the Company we were looking to find a strategic buyer who would provide the best outcome for our customers, partners and employees. Q Advisors has the deepest knowledge of the sector, understands our business and successfully completed a rigorous process," said Dominic Gray, Founder and Principal Shareholder of Magnetic North.
About Magnetic North, Ltd.
Magnetic North, Ltd. is leading the contact center in the cloud revolution by providing organizations of every size with a high-availability, secure, enterprise-class solution at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems, together with transparent pricing, out-of-the-box integration and continuous product innovation. www.magneticnorth.com
About West Corporation
West Corporation is a global provider of communication and network infrastructure solutions. West helps manage and support essential enterprise communications with services that include unified communication services, public safety services, interactive services such as automated notifications, telecom services and specialty agent services. www.west.com
About Q Advisors LLC
Q Advisors LLC is a world-class global boutique investment bank formed in 2001 serving public and private companies, PE firms, entrepreneurs and large multi-nationals in the telecom, media, and technology (TMT) sectors. The firm has extensive, global reach, while also providing the personalized service of a boutique advisory firm. Thanks to our partners and senior staff, who come from leading investment banks and operating companies, we leverage extensive industry knowledge and analytical insights to help our clients achieve successful M&A and capital markets transactions. www.qllc.com
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The entire South Warwickshire chapter of the Outlaws was sentenced at Birmingham crown court after being convicted of shooting Gerry Tobin, from Mottingham, as he rode along the M40 on 12 August last year.
Dozens of armed police were deployed as about 100 members of the Outlaws waited outside the court while the sentencing took place.
The court had heard how two shots were fired at the 35-year-old biker from two different handguns as he returned home from the Bulldog Bash festival in Warwickshire. One of the bullets skimmed the base of Mr Tobin's helmet, lodging in his skull and killing him instantly.
During the seven weeks of evidence, the jury was told that the mechanic was targeted by the rival gang simply because he was a "fully-patched" Hell's Angel.
Simon Turner, 41, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was given a minimum term of 30 years for murder and two firearms offences.
Coventry man Dane Garside, 42, received a minimum 27 years for the same charges.
Sean Creighton, 44, from Coventry, will spend a minimum of 28 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to murder and two firearms charges.
Malcolm Bull, 53, from Milton Keynes, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison for murder and possessing a shotgun.
Dean Taylor, 47, from Coventry, will spend at least 30 years in prison for the same charges. Karl Garside, 45, of Coventry, was given at least 26 years and Ian Cameron, 46, also from Coventry, received at least 25 years.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Treacy told the defendants: "Gerry Tobin was a decent man. The utter pointlessness of what you did makes his murder more shocking."
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MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Supporters of the mayor of the capital marched in silence on Sunday to protest a legal case against him.
The protesters, with mouths covered by white masks, walked nine km across the city to express their support to Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, also a candidate hopeful of winning next year's presidential race.
While addressing the gathering, Lopez Obrador said he will return to his office on Monday, while prosecutors said the congress' vote has disqualified him from staying in office.
About 600,000 people participated in the march, according to the government.
The congress voted in early April to deprive the mayor of immunity from prosecution to face charges in an obscure land expropriation case.
The prosecutors last Friday formally charged the mayor with ignoring a court order to stop the construction of a road. But thejudge sent the case back due to a technical mistake of the procedure. The attorney general's office said it will refile the charges.
Lopez Obrador, who denied the accusation, leads in polls with asupport rate of 70 percent for the presidential race scheduled fornext year. But by law, anyone facing criminal charges is not qualified to run for public office. Enditem


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The chairman of CaixaBank, Isidro Fainé, has declared that the "la Caixa" Group restructuring will mean the continuation of its current businesses, while allowing it to take advantage of any growth opportunities that may emerge and reinforce its welfare projects.
The vice-chairman and CEO of CaixaBank, Juan María Nin, affirms that the restructuring will not affect the Groups characteristic approach to banking, which has made it a leading operator in the Spanish financial sector.
CaixaBank will today be quoted on stock exchanges for the first time, following the successful restructuring of the "la Caixa" Group, which will now operate its financial businesses indirectly through the new bank. CaixaBank, the new name for Criteria CaixaCorp after it was transferred all la Caixa Group banking assets and converted into a bank, starts out life with assets worth 265,479 million euros, a core capital ratio of 11%1 and a leading position in most retail banking segments.
The Group restructuring sees Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona maintain its legal status as well as its founding values of leadership, trust and social commitment, and at the same time operate its financial activities via CaixaBank, in which it is the major shareholder. This reshaping will make for a stronger "la Caixa" Group, providing it with a more robust financial structure that will ensure future growth and long term value generation for all interest groups: primarily customers, employees and stakeholders.
The chairman of CaixaBank, Isidro Fainé, has declared that the new structure will allow the Group to adapt to changing circumstances more quickly, while maintaining its current businesses, taking advantage of any growth opportunities that may emerge, providing access to the markets and also reinforcing our welfare projects, which have been strengthened and ensured. From now on, "la Caixa" Groups welfare projects will be funded using dividends received by Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona from its interests in CaixaBank and CaixaHolding.
The backing of 630,000 shareholders
The founding of CaixaBank was approved by the governing bodies of Criteria CaixaCorp and Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, as well as sector regulators. The operation was preceded by a 1,500 million euros issue of subordinated bonds mandatorily convertible into CaixaBank shares. The issue will increase the number of CaixaBank shareholders from the current 365,000 to 630,000 once the bonds are converted.
The vice-chairman and CEO of CaixaBank, Juan María Nin, explains that the restructuring will not affect the Groups characteristic approach to banking, which has made it a leading operator in the Spanish financial sector. We will now enjoy all the benefits of remaining a savings bank as well as the instrumental advantages of holding bank status", adds Nin.
The branch and ATM networks, as well as our financial services, will continue to use the "la Caixa brand in all relations with customers, who will now be customers of CaixaBank. This change will have no impact on branch services, with all products and services operating under the same coding and numbering system (CaixaBank will retain the 2100 bank code) and the same terms and conditions. Customers will be able to use the Línea Abierta online banking service as normal, at www.lacaixa.es.
Restructuring of "la Caixa" group
The process of creating CaixaBank began on 27 January 2011, with the announcement that the la Caixa Group would undergo restructuring. It was also announced that the banking business run by Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, "la Caixa", would be transferred to Criteria CaixaCorp, now called CaixaBank, in exchange for its industrial holdings (Gas Natural Fenosa, Abertis, Aguas de Barcelona, Port Aventura and Mediterránea Beach & Golf), which are now held under CaixaHolding, a new company controlled by Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona.
Financial interests, the insurance business and other industrial holdings (Telefónica and Repsol) are held by the new CaixaBank, with book value of 20.7 billion euros. "la Caixa" is the majority shareholder of CaixaBank, controlling approximately 81.1% of its capital and leaving similar free float levels as prior to the operation.
CaixaBank starts life with 5,277 branches, the largest network in the Spanish banking sector, 10.5 million clients, an NPL ratio of 3.95% with coverage of 65% and total banking turnover of 429,947 million euros, according to data released on 31 March 2011. The bank starts out with a core capital ratio of 11%1 and liquidity of 19,572 million, representing 7.4% of assets.
(1) Core capital figure as at 31 March 2011, including 1.5 bn in bonds mandatorily convertible into shares and the sale of 50% of the non-life insurance business.


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"F: You mentioned on your website recently that in October you are hoping to have a conference for licensees. Could you tell us about that?
R: Yes, we will organize it as a course to exchange with them information, exchange information between them to uniform the commercial products. And to give all the technological informations that will be necessary.
F: Can you give an approximate number of licensees you have at the moment?
R: We have covered all of the main markets of the world. With some sections. At the moment we have about twenty licensees.
F: I see. There is one licensee per region?
R: Yes, there are licenses that have very large territories that are organized. And there are licenses for small territories. And so we have chosen them with many kinds of considerations. I think we have found very good people. They are keeping up with our pace.
F: In the future will these licensees have sub-licensees themselves?
R: Well, it depends. This is a fact that will be evaluated case by case depending on the situations of the organizations, the kind of proposals. It is impossible…. of course this will depend on them because they are sovereign in their territory, but also we have to be able to…. So when they will propose us sub-licensees, we will make together a consideration to see if it would be opportune or not. Of course, in the interest of our organization."
DSM As guessed at it seems there won't be an eCat at the distributor show in Oct.
But, do I smell an embryonic pyramid organization ? – YES – these existing agents have the right to on sell sub-agencies in their territories.
So can they wheedle what ever price they can smooth talk out of the public ? – already one agent is advertising.
Line up moms & pops, and do bring your money with you 🙂


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Fairytales of daddy loves mummy doesn't end with '... and they lived happily ever after.' Yet, it's the beginning of new lifes: Little prince, Little Princess and Little Baby Prince, from Kingdom of CD... The most wonderful and amazing babies in daddy and mummy's heart!~ Mummy blog: http://cre8tonecastle.blogspot.com/
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Celebrity Fitness Indoor Fitathlon 2.0
Is back..
And it's bigger and better than ever!~
Participating celebrities:
Peter Davis,
Tony Eusoff,
Mark O'Dea,
Gary Yap,
Jason Phang,
DJ Lin,
Steve Yap,
Ian Ong,
Brian Chen,
Cindy Chen,
Winson Voon,
Angeline Ooi,
Jess Cheng,
Hana Teo,
Terry Ong,
Azura Zainal,
Annie Wong,
John Oh...
On how to work out...
Is inspired by the Celebrity Fitness Signature Class,
Fast Fit,
Which is designed,
To increase strength,
In core muscles.
With celebrities,
In a relay workout session..
And battle it out,
To be the fitness champion..
The 1st runner up,
Of the Celebrity Fitness Indoor Fitathlon 2.0,
Shirley Chan,
And her celebrity partner,
John Oh..
Of the Celebrity Fitness Indoor Fitathlon 2.0,
Katherine Lloyd,
And her celebrity partner,
Ian Ong...
Congratulations to the winners!
11 comments:
- Sebrinah Yeo said...
Salute to the winners! It takes alot of effort to keep up and keep in shape hehe
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Diana Maridie said...
Now this reminds me to start working out back! The winners looks so fit too :D
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Isabel Lee said...
Omg side plank. I can't even do normal plank! LOL
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Miriam Goh said...
You went for the event? Cool event with so many celebrities. Keeping fit is important :)
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- alizasara said...
So many fitness celebrities in one location! haha. cool event!
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Leona Lim said...
Looks like fun...did you get to join the activities with the celebs
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Jacqueline Khoo said...
Cool! I should join you guys! Love fitness event so much but never get invited LOL
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Wai Yee aka Rane said...
Wow, the event was huge! Good to see more ppl are into exercise :)
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Sharon Lee said...
Awesome event! Did you join celebrity fitness also? Congrats for all the winners!
- Friday, 24 July, 2015
- Sin Yee said...
Seriously, workout isn't easy. Congrats to the winner
- Sunday, 26 July, 2015
- Betty Liew siaw fan said...
I was there and I impress with the instructor. The participant was so excited and they dance with the music.
- Monday, 27 July, 2015


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We encourage you to contact your members of Congress and ask them to maintain the adoption tax credit during any tax reform they undertake.


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a taste of the world's best short stories
Charles Dickens' "The Cricket on the Hearth"
Commentary by Karen Bernardo
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Charles Dickens' novella "The Cricket on the Hearth" is, like "A Christmas Carol," a somewhat moralistic little
tale -- but unlike "A Christmas Carol," it is a love story. Its moral is that true love requires no reasons or
justifications, and indeed, nothing can either explain or justify it; its strength lies in its very
The story concerns a middle-aged courier, or "carrier" as Dickens calls him, by the name of John Peerybingle.
Approximately a year before the story opens, John has taken a very young bride, whom he calls Dot. The
Peerybingles' love has borne fruit, and they are the parents of a healthy baby boy.
Dot is one of those Dickens characters who seems almost too good to be true. But in fact, the issue of Dot's
"authenticity" is central to the story. Dickens, and John himself, never fail to describe her in anything but the
most glowing terms. She seems devoted to her husband and child; she takes upon herself all sorts of little chores,
like packing the tobacco in her husband's pipe, to emphasize her love for him. Yet Dot's fidelity is first called
into question by the story's villain, Mr. Tackleton, who is himself about to marry a young bride. Mr. Tackleton's
bride, Dot's friend May Fielding, does not love him. She is marrying him because the man she really loves, the son
of Mr. Tackleton's employee Caleb Plummer, has been lost in South America and is presumed dead. Mr. Tackleton keeps
trying to convince John Peerybingle that just like his own future bride, John's young wife really feels no true
passion or depth of feeling for her older husband -- marriage between people of such disparate ages is essentially
a business contract. Later, when Dot is observed in animated conversation with a man her own age -- a man she seems
to know well -- John is convinced that Tackleton's suggestions must be true.
But of course they are not. Truth versus fiction, illusion versus reality, is a prominent theme in "The Cricket on
the Hearth," and it is illustrated in the very sincere love Dot feels for John. The theme is also echoed in the
story's subplot, which tells of poor Caleb Plummer, toymaker for Gruff and Tackleton's Toyshop, and Caleb's blind
daughter Bertha. Caleb cannot bear for Bertha to know that Tackleton is a mean, uncaring taskmaster who forces them
to live in poverty when he could give them much more, so he creates for her a myth about a wonderful, jovial
employer who has given them the means to live in a charming home with bright-colored walls. Because Bertha believes
this story, we are inclined to think that she doesn't really have much knowledge of the world around her; so when
she states her complete faith in Dot, her testimony doesn't seem that credible. But we later learn that although
Bertha lacks sight, she has insight in abundance. Her house, regardless of how it looks, is lovely because it is
filled with love; and she even perceives the generosity that lies dormant in Mr. Tackleton.
And of course, she's right about Dot. Dot loves John with every fiber of her being, and she is completely content
in their life together. The young man John suspects of being his rival turns out to be none other than Bertha's
brother, the missing young man from South America, and it isn't Dot he loves -- it's the potential Mrs. Tackleton,
May Fielding, who, with Dot's assistance, is reunited with her own true love. Dot wants May to have what she has:
the lifetime companionship of someone who really matters. For the first time, John realizes that even though he's
middle-aged, middle-class, and probably somewhat boring, his wife truly loves him, for no reason that needs to be
logically explained.
And the cricket? A cricket on the hearth is a symbol of good luck and happiness -- qualities this story has in
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text: International Journal of Design http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields. It aims to provide an international forum for exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures, by encouraging research on the impacts of cultural factors on design theory and practice. It also seeks to promote transfer of knowledge between professionals in academia and industry, by emphasizing research where results are of interest or applicable to design practices. Chinese Institute of Design International Journal of Design Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the International Journal of Design . All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDeriv 2.5 License . By virtue of their appearance in this open-access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. When 'Feeling Good' is not Good Enough: Seven Key Opportunities for Emotional Granularity in Product Development http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2338 This paper reports a study that explored the usefulness of positive emotional granularity (PEG) in the product development process. PEG reflects the ability to interpret and represent the experience of positive emotions with precision and specificity. Interviews were conducted with twenty-five design professionals to understand their needs and expectations with respect to the value of PEG in product development processes. Across all product development stages, sixteen PEG benefits were identified and grouped into seven key opportunities: getting in-depth understanding of user emotions, determining the emotional impact of a product, dealing with organizational support, keeping continuity of emotional intentions in communications, facilitating design creativity, strengthening emotional coherence and managing emotions within a product development team. The findings indicate that the benefits of PEG are mainly associated with activities in design conceptualization and evaluation, being less relevant in the embodiment phase. The article also reports on the different attitudes of professionals with different roles in product development towards the relevance of PEG for their practices. The implications for research into facilitating PEG and recommendations for developing design tools are discussed. JungKyoon Yoon Anna E. Pohlmeyer Pieter M.A. Desmet 2016-12-15 10 2016-12-15 Influence of Curvature and Expertise on Aesthetic Preferences for Mobile Device Designs http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2107 People generally evaluate products' physical characteristics according to initial visual impressions. Previous investigations have demonstrated that sharp or curved characteristics provide clues for people to rapidly determine their preferences in daily life. In addition, previous studies have investigated the curvilinear relationship of curvature and aesthetic preferences with deviations from prototype. However, to maximize the screen size of mobile devices, deviation from the prototypical shape is not possible. Accordingly, this study utilizes mobile devices with 10 curvature levels as stimuli to explore their effects on preference when there is no departure from the prototype. Analytical results indicate that preference for the stimuli shows a peak, revealing that preference does not always rise with an increase in curvature level. Additionally, a significant difference emerges after the peak of preference, where the preference of participants with a design background declines more sharply than that of participants without a design background. Participants' judgments as to degree of product curvature indicate that people perceive a lower curvature in larger products than in smaller products. More specifically, the curvature of the product form cannot be increased infinitely; rather, a direct correlation exists between corner radius perceptions and product size. This finding may be useful for designers, who may consider the application of curves in the future design of product shapes. Chun-Heng Ho Yen-Nien Lu Chun-Hsien Chen 2016-12-27 10 2016-12-27 The Barriers and Enablers of Co-design for Services http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2575 As interest towards co-design for services in the public sector and in companies is growing, the benefits and challenges of applying it in organisations have become a topical issue. This article opens up factors that influence the success of co-design activities in the development of services among cross-disciplinary networks. It presents the findings from follow-up interviews assessing the impacts of six service co-design projects realised by a university with partners from healthcare, education and technology. The focus is on the barriers and enablers of co-design that the participants had encountered. The central findings are that a university-led service co-design project remains a superimposed activity with low impact on actual design decisions or core activities in the client organisations and that the utilisation of co-design greatly relies on individual, committed participants. Based on the empirical material, 20 barrier-enabler couples related to collaboration, the organisation, processes, implementation and methods are identified and described, the consideration of which can lead to more impactful service co-design practice. Antti Pirinen 2016-12-21 10 2016-12-21 Towards A Framework for Holistic Contextual Design for Low-Resource Settings http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2596 Healthcare inequality is ubiquitous globally, but the effects are most striking in low-resource settings. In these settings, current methods for the design of medical devices are failing to address specific needs. The associated publications rarely describe how the context was studied at the front-end of design. There is a latent need for a holistic contextual framework for guiding the design decision-making process for devices in these complex contexts. We present results from a systematic literature review and expert interviews that informed the development of a framework for contextualized design for low-resource settings. The contextual factors identified are described and compared for different types of medical devices. This taxonomical framework aims to guide designers towards gaining a better understanding of the context of use when designing products for global challenges in low-resource settings. Clara Beatriz Aranda Jan Santosh Jagtap James Moultrie 2016-12-23 10 2016-12-23 Social Design as a Creative Device in Developing Countries: The Case of a Handcraft Pottery Community in Cambodia http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2444 This article presents social design as an alternative to designerly approaches in developing countries, based on a field study conducted to improve the ceramic production and trade of a handcraft community in Cambodia. The study points out that existing interventions tend to impose modernist approaches with technological fixes and have attitudes which reflect cultural imperialism, often resulting in weak continuity and the production of inequalities. Instead, the study demonstrates the ways in which social design practice can respond to the challenges of complex social problems, and to the discontinuity and cultural barriers that are often faced in the development context. Based on Latour's notion of the social (2005), social design and social designers might be used to reconfigure and create better social-cultural-technical relations, thereby constructing sustainable social infrastructures grounded in local participation and indigenous knowledge. The fieldwork reported in this paper illustrates the narrative process of a participatory action research based Social Design Workshop, which highlights the significance of the problematisation process that revealed kilns as troubling actors, and devised inventive approaches for capacity building. The research suggests that successful social design practices are based on the notion of situatedness and the agency of designers as catalysts, which results in the creation of mutual relationships between the people, the community, the sociocultural context, technology, and artefacts, which together encourage sustainable development. Lina Kang 2016-12-27 10 2016-12-27 Designing for Informal Contexts: A Case Study of Enkanini Sanitation Intervention http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2407 Increasing social agency in the design profession corresponds to the call for greater participation of science in solving complex social problems. We analyse the complex problem of informal urban sanitation in the Enkanini informal settlement in South Africa to articulate the facilitatory role of design in the collaborative effort to improve sanitation in the settlement. More specifically, an in-depth understanding of the multi-stakeholder collaboration in the case offers solutions for designing in complex social contexts. In the discussion, we expound on the methodological concerns of designing in an informal settlement context by analysing the role of the design ethnographer and articulating core design competencies. This leads to the conceptualisation of infrastructuring as an open-ended model for design facilitation in informal contexts, in which challenges and inconsistencies have to be dealt with. We also contrast the open-ended, multidisciplinary approach of infrastructuring with the more design-centred participatory approaches that are better suited to literate participants. In the Enkanini case, we had to adopt a narrative-style participatory approach to capture the rich tacit knowledge of participants. The paper thus answers to the need for both technological and social innovation while contributing to the methodological understanding of design as a collaborative, long-term process. Lorraine Amollo Ambole Mark Swilling Mugendi K M'Rithaa 2016-12-23 10 2016-12-23 Acknowledgement of Reviewers http://ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2874 Yaliang Chuang, Managing Editor 2017-01-10 10 2017-01-10


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LUCSUS researchers Mine Islar and Henner Busch will be presenting at the Copenhagen Energy Mondays seminar series organised by Energy crossroads Denmark.
November 2 2015, kl 19.00
The transition from a fossil fuel based energy system to a renewable one has emerged as a priority for many governments. This, in turn, has facilitated a rapid increase in renewable energy investments. However, this development raises important questions about the sustainability of energy governance when it comes to access and control of energy, public participation and transparency. Here, decentralized solutions of renewable energy production are seen as one of the pathways towards a more participatory sustainable energy development. Ecological citizenship provides a useful framework in order to understand the interactions between decentralized renewable energy transition and collective practices of citizenship. In this talk we will present the emergence of energy villages in Europe and their impact on local processes of decision-making and on the idea of citizenship.By giving examples from two cases, we explore the co-emergence of renewable energy initiatives and ecological citizenship and whether or not transitions to community based renewable energy make citizens active due to the participatory processes and collective ownership and responsibility. Based on empirical data collected in Feldheim (Germany) and Samsø (Denmark) we find out that citizen participation in renewable energy transition resonates with the elements of communitarian ecological citizenship.
The event is open for everybody thus, grab a drink and join our discussion afterwards.
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In a previous tip on Database Mirroring Automating Failover for Multiple SQL Server Databases, you've seen how you can failover all of the databases in a mirroring session if one database fails over. However, what happens if you don't have a witness server and your principal server goes, how do you make your mirror server the principal and bring all your databases online?
This solution extends the tip by reading the sys.databases and the sys.database_mirroring catalog views from the mirrored server and automatically (or manually, depending on your requirements) failover databases that are in a database mirroring pair. One case would be when you have a database mirroring pair in a high-protection operating mode without a witness requiring you to do a manual failover, whether planned or unplanned. You can use this script in the Failover Databases job as described in this tip or simply run it on the mirror database in case you decide to do a manual failover instead of an automated one.
This script uses the FORCE_SERVICE_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS option as in a real disaster, the primary database will be inaccessible. The process will recover the mirror database by finishing all completed transactions and rolling back unfinished ones. Since the old primary is inaccessible, some data may be lost because the synchronous data transfer may not have completed between the time the primary database went down and the transactions got committed on the mirror database.
--This script does a failover of all the databases in a database mirroring session
Once the databases are online, you can now redirect your applications to the new principal server.
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- Review your disaster recovery process and include this automation procedure as part of your plan
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Everyday items we are always in need of:
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Ray Charles and Count Basie: it would have been a killer combination, an obvious collaboration between two giants of music. They shared bills many times and Charles recorded his 1960 album Genius + Soul = Jazz with a horn section that included many Basie sidemen.
"When Ray explained how he wanted me to write an arrangement," said his orchestrator Sid Feller, "he'd point to Basie charts as templates. He wanted that thick harmony in the reeds. He wanted those clean horn punches. He wanted it simple like Basie, and he wanted it strong. Mostly, though, he wanted that Basie swing."
Yet it never quite happened - until now. A few months ago a recording from the mid-Seventies (no one's sure of the precise date) surfaced. Labelled "Ray Charles and Count Basie", it contained material from a European tour run by the great jazz impresario Norman Granz. The sound quality was atrocious - the tape was from the concert mixing desks, and had been recorded solely through Charles's vocal microphone.
He hadn't actually been performing with the Basie band, but it put a thought in the head of John Burk, the record company executive who'd unearthed them: could he clean up the vocals and mix them with the still-surviving Basie orchestra? The result is Ray Sings Basie Swings, a labour of love undertaken by the producer Gregg Field, who was ideally placed to head the project as he had spent years as a drummer first for Ray Charles and then Count Basie. Field painstakingly edited out as much as he could from the tape, apart from Charles's vocals. He then placed these on top of new recordings of the tunes played by the current Basie orchestra (it has continued since the Count's death in 1984).
"It was like painting the Sistine Chapel with a Q-tip," says Field. "We were having to move the vocal phrases by milliseconds to get them to fit just right with the band." The reason for this was that Field didn't want to record the Basie band to a click track. "You can't do that with the Basie band," he says. "You set a tempo, and let them take it from there." The piano-playing, too, had to be an exact replica, as Field had not been able to excise Charles's original performance from the tape completely.
The finished album ranges from shows tunes and jazz standards, including "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and "How Long Has This Been Going On?", to R&B numbers such as "Let the Good Times Roll", The Beatles' "The Long and Winding Road" and, naturally, "Georgia On My Mind", a tune that Charles had made his own.
In fact, the two did perform together on the session from which the new album derives. "Oscar Peterson was on the bill, along with Ray and Basie," explains Field. "After Ray's set, all three came on and jammed with Ray's rhythm section, but without the big band." Sadly, as this, like the rest, had been recorded only through Charles's vocal microphone, the music is unreleasable.
Putting two artists together posthumously has been done before - one thinks of Natalie Cole's duets with her father, Nat King Cole, or the soundtrack to Clint Eastwood's Bird, in which Charlie Parker's sax was superimposed on a modern rhythm section. The latter aroused controversy among those who felt it was inappropriate and inauthentic. "But these artists made sense recorded together," argues Field.
Ray Sings Basie Swings does indeed make perfect sense; if one didn't know better, one would think that singer and band had really made the recording together. There's now even a proposal for the Basie band to perform with Jamie Foxx, who won an Oscar for his role as Charles in the 2004 film Ray.
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This Tennessee trivia quiz has 12 multiple-choice questions. Answers to the Tennessee trivia questions can be found at the end of the quiz. Enjoy and feel free to share them with others.
1. The most popular nickname for Tennessee is ________.
a) Gold State b) Silver State c) Volunteer State d) None of these
2. What is the capital city of Tennessee?
a) Memphis b) Nashville c) Chattanooga d) Clarksville
3. True or False. Salaries and wages are taxable in Tennesee's state income tax system.
4. Which U.S. time zone(s) is Tennessee in?
a) Eastern b) Central c) Some areas in Eastern, others in Central
5. Legendary singer Elvis Presley was a resident of Memphis, Tennessee. How many of his singles reached no. 1 in the U.S. Music Chart?
a) 8 b) 18 c) 28 d) 38
6. Which of these states does NOT bordered Tennessee?
a) Mississippi b) Georgia c) Virginia d) Connecticut
7. The city of Nashville in Tennessee is considered by many as the capital of which genre of music?
a) Rock & Roll b) Blues c) Jazz d) Country music
8. During the Civil War, Tennessee was part of ________.
a) The Union b) The Confederacy c) Neither, stayed neutral
9. What is Tennessee's official state flower?
a) Iris b) Dogwood c) Magnolia d) Goldenrod e) Cherokee rose
10. Which of these corporations has its headquarters in Tennessee?
a) Pepsi b) UPS c) GM d) McDonald e) International Paper
11. The women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee has always been one of the NCAA's top teams. The Lady Vols won eight national titles under which legendary coach?
a) Sylvia Hatchell b) Patt Summitt c) Geno Auriemma d) C. Vivian Stringer
12. True or False. The official bird of Tennessee (state) is the mockingbird.
Answer key:
1)c 2)b 3)False 4)c 5)b 6)d 7)d 8)b 9)a 10)e 11)b 12)True
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Newer affiliated dentists get a head start at Heartland Dental's Dr. Leadership series.
One of the cornerstones of Heartland Dental's educational offerings, the annual Dr. Leadership series is offered to newly-affiliated dentists and new graduates with less than five years of experience. Broken into five parts, each series incorporates both clinical, leadership and business topics to benefit these young dentists. The courses feature top speakers within the dental industry, as well as Heartland Dental leaders and clinical directors. With the courses, the instructors seek to reduce the learning curve for new dentists from the industry standard of 10 years to less than two years, providing proven clinical techniques and business training often not taught in dental schools.
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"It was great to learn alongside other affiliated dentists in the same career stage with the same goals as I have," said Jade DeSmidt, DDS, practicing dentist at Valley Park Dental Care in Valley Park, Missouri. "We have access to high-level education that encompasses so many critical aspects of dentistry and leading your team. You won't find that anywhere but Heartland Dental."
In 2013, the five courses were offered from August through December, covering a wide variety of topics such as direct and indirect restorations, endodontics, orthodontics, doctor/hygiene partnership, oral surgery, the laws of leadership, failing forward, the business of dentistry, scheduling for efficiency and more. Featured speakers included Dr. Steven Poss, Dr. Jay Reznik and Heartland Dental clinical directors.
"In dental school, I learned how to be a great dentist clinically. But learning the best methods of communication and how to effectively lead my team wasn't really emphasized in the curriculum," explained Christopher Webb, DMD, practicing dentist at Family Dental Care of East Peoria in East Peoria, Illinois. "Dr. Leadership offers young dentists a chance to expand upon their skills in all of those areas in one valuable series. I built upon my clinical knowledge, and now have a better understanding of the business side of dentistry as well."
In December, the 2013 series came to a close with the Excellence in Leadership course. Taking place during the annual Doctor Holiday Party weekend, the course featured a number of prominent speakers, including Coach Lou Holtz, who shared his game plan for success to help affiliated dentists lead and propel their teams to mastery. In addition, Fred Joyal, one of the founders of 1-800-Dentist, spoke about the ever-increasing need for executing the right dental office marketing strategy, and ex-FBI agent, Joe Navarro, spoke on reading body language to help dentists recognize when patients are uncomfortable or unsure about treatment.
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Phillippi Farmhouse Market
The Phillippi Farmhouse Market is Sarasota's mid-week farmers market. The Farmhouse Market is open from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. every Wednesday, October through April, at Phillippi Estate Park, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail.
More than 50 vendors offer produce and plants from local growers and producers, as well as prepared foods, specialty and sustainable items, and Florida agriculturally related products. HSSC is honored to be one of the participants at the local market. Thank you Friends of Sarasota County Parks and Phillippi Farmhouse Market for not only including HSSC, but for regularly sponsoring adoption fees. This wonderful, local event will not disappoint.
HSSC will be on site from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. with adoptable pets for following dates:
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WASHINGTON TALK; Vermont ot Ban Autos' Use of Ozone-Depleting Chemical
Published: May 10, 1989
MONTPELIER, Vt., May 9— Vermont is poised to become the first state to ban automobile air-conditioners that use a chemical linked to destruction of the atmosphere's ozone layer, which protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
The air-conditioners are the single largest source of the American contribution to ozone depletion, testimony before legislative committees has indicated.
Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin has hailed the bill, passed May 2, as ''landmark legislation'' and is expected to sign it in the next two weeks.
''We are a role model, and we may be a role model for the U.S. Congress,'' she said. Starts With 1993 Models
Starting with the 1993 model year, the measure would ban the sale or registration of automobiles equipped with air-conditioners that use chlorofluorocarbons for coolant. Car air-conditioners were singled out partly because they use a form of the refrigerant considered by scientists to be the most damaging to the ozone layer.
Leaks of the coolant, during car servicing, in accidents or when a car is junked, send molecules into the atmosphere where they damage the ozone layer 15 to 20 miles up.
While ozone at ground level is considered a pollutant, scientists say it acts as a shield in the upper atmosphere to radiation that causes skin cancer and eye disease and damages plants and animals crucial to the food chain.
The connection between chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone layer ''is not being debated anymore,'' said state Representative Curt McCormack, the bill's major sponsor. ''The argument is when can you have air-conditioners'' without them. Once Considered Ideal
The auto industry is studying a substance without chlorofluorocarbons as a substitute. ''Work is continuing as if it is the substance of choice,'' said Douglas Mark, an emission engineer for the General Motors Corporation.
But Mr. Mark Mark said long-term health tests of the new chemical were expected to continue through 1992, when the 1993 model-year vehicles mentioned in the Vermont law will be in production.
Joan Mulhern, a lobbyist for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, which supported the bill, cited reports prepared from data of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency showing that auto air-conditioners contributed 26.6 percent of the 330,000 tons of chlorofluorcarbons released into the atmosphere in the United States in 1985. The second-highest source was solvents, which accounted for 22.8 percent, while home refrigerants contributed 1.5 percent, she said. Once Considered Ideal
An international agreement signed in 1987 called for halving chlorofluorocarbon emissions by 1999. But at a meeting in Finland last week, attended by delegates from 81 countries, scientists said ozone depletion was proceeding more rapidly than was previously believed.
The refrigerant, developed in 1930 by a General Motors chemist, were considered ideal chemicals because they are non-toxic and noncombustible.
The chemicals are widely used as coolants in refrigerators, freezers and other types of air-conditioners and as propellants in spray cans. The bill would also ban use of the chemicals next year for propellants in noisemakers and plastic party streamers and for cleaning private photographic or electronic equipment. Hawaii Also Passed Bill
Supporters of the measure say it is the most far-reaching of the two dozen ozone-protection bills introduced in state legislatures this year. Only the Hawaii legislature has passed such a measure. Gov. John Waihee of Hawaii is expected to sign the bill, which would ban the sale of cartridges for recharging car air-conditioners with chlorofluorocarbon coolants and would raise standards for repair of car air-conditioners.
Auto dealers in a state where July high temperatures average only 70 degrees did not oppose the bill. Charles Ffolliott, the Vermont representative of the National Automotive Dealers Association, estimated that more than half of the new cars sold in Vermont were equipped with air-conditioning. Nationally, about 90 percent of all new cars have air-conditioning.


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Preparing for pregnancy, being pregnant and having a baby are all exciting times in your life—and we're here to help. The labor and delivery staff at Dignity Health Sequoia Hospital provides personal, expert care for mothers and babies.
Services We Offer
- 24-hour anesthesia, pediatrician, and OB doctor coverage
- An onsite Level II neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) within our Birth Center. If your baby is premature or requires intensive care, your newborn will be cared for on site in the NICU by doctors and nurses from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford who specialize in neonatology care.
- Breastfeeding support during the hospital stay and through crucial early weeks in the life of a new baby. Consultants are registered nurses who are International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) certified.
- Vaccinations against whooping cough. We advise all baby caregivers, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, partners and nannies, be vaccinated against whooping cough.
- Obaby Designs offers newborn hospital photo sessions right in your room.
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View our Zika and Pregnancy Frequently Asked Questions sheet.
- Register for prenatal and postnatal classes, and orientation classes, at Classes and Events or call .
- Schedule varies. Please sign up by your 7th month of pregnancy.
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- Learn more about all of our maternity and family programs, offered by our Health & Wellness Center.
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Chances are your baby will be perfect in every way. But, if your baby is premature or requires intensive care, your newborn will receive expert care right here at Sequoia Hospital.
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Supporting families means being there every step of the way. Sequoia Hospital is here for you from the moment you know you are pregnant until long after you go home.
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