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Underperforming REOs to face loss of gratuities – PAC hears
A new policy being implemented by the Local Government Ministry may see Regional Executive Officers (REOs) losing percentages of their gratuity benefits where their performances are not up to scratch.
This disclosure was made yesterday during a sitting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) during which its members heard unending reports of cases were contractors were being paid by the Region One (Barima/ Waini) Administration for works not completed.
According to the Auditor General's report, the region is guilty of consistently overpaying contractors for insufficiently completed projects, then failing to make serious efforts to recoup overpaid amounts.
Eight persons, including Deputy Local Government Ministry Permanent Secre-tary Abeena Moore and Regional Executive Offi-cer (REO) Nigel Fisher, turned up to answer questions relating to discrepancies cited in the Auditor General's 2012 Report on the region's finances. It was Moore, who when asked what actions are being taken to mitigate overpayments, shared that REOs stand to either gain or lose some of their gratuity based on their performances.
Of the six instances of overpayments perpetrated by the region, the most contentious involved an occasion where "Overpay-ments totalling $1.079 million were made to the contractor in respect of the rehabilitation of the Regional Administration Office, Mabaruma."
This particular discrepancy did not constitute the largest sum overpaid, yet it stood out because of the neglect with which the issue has been treated. According to the 2012 report, in 2011 the region's engineer signed records indicating that works were done were they were not, thereby prompting eventual payment to the contractor for work which he had not done.
Furthermore, since the region uncovered that the overpayment had been made, very little has been done to recoup the sums. Fisher told members of the PAC that his region tried to track the contractor in question, identified as B Bhoodoo General Construction Services, but found that he no longer operates out of the building where he was known to have operated. As a result, the region has been able to track the contractor, the PAC heard.
Fisher also revealed that the region has checked with the Tender Board to see where, if at all, the contracting firm is currently operating so as to track the firm down and try to set out a repayment plan. This exercise, however, has produced no positive results.
"There seems to be no alacrity to deal with this," said Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Chief Whip and PAC member Gail Teixeira after listening to how little has been done to recoup the overpaid amounts. Teixeira was particularly interested in the officer who verified that work had been completed where it had not been, since this person would have initiated the process which produced the overpayment.
Teixeira's position found agreement with fellow PPP/C MP and committee member MP Bibi Shadick, who told the committee that defaulting regional officers, and not overpaid contractors, are the ones who should be held culpable in such situations.
Teixeira said that Fisher, as the Region One REO, must take on the responsibility of going after his erring officers, including in this case the engineer who made the mistake, since he (Fisher) is the one who will be required to answer for their mistakes.
"Unless, REO, you are prepared to take responsibility for the engineer (wrongfully) signing off on work you will have to face the music," she warned Fisher. She also ventured to point out that Region One, like many of its sister regional administrations, has been delinquent in pursuing overpaid contractors to have them repay the extra money they have been paid.
The engineer in question no longer works for the region, although the individual remains in the system.
Meanwhile, the building has been completed using funds from sums allocated in 2013 for projects for that period. Fisher said that the region had managed some savings and decided to use the amounts to complete the work.
Shadick blasted the fact that money from somewhere had to be taken to complete a project that was already provided for in a previous disbursement and questioned the legality of Fisher's decision to use money from 2013 to complete the 2011 project.
Nevertheless, efforts to recoup the money must continue and the committee advised the region to make checks with the agency with which the contracting firm is likely registered and attempt to solicit an address. Ultimately, it was clear that the committee was unsatisfied with the region's performance on this matter, and as much was conveyed by PAC chairman Carl Greenidge.
It was Greenidge who decided that the region be given three months to have the matter dealt with to the satisfaction of the PAC. But the scrutiny did not end there.
The 2012 Audit report also noted that "overpayments totalling $4.797 million were made to the contractor in respect of the construction of Students Dormitory at Port Kaitu-ma. In addition, other discrepancies were observed in respect of this contract."
In its written response to the report, the region said that "the contract (for the project) was terminated and the contractor written to with the view of recovering the overpayment." The letter, it was explained, was written about a year ago, and there has since been no other attempt to recoup the overpaid amounts.
The regional administration was asked to explain why such overpayments continued to occur, but Shadick noted that "we are getting answers here that are making absolutely no sense." Seemingly fed up with the inadequate responses being offered by Fisher and company, the committee inquired what measures are being looked at to mitigate overpayments.
Moore responded this time, explaining to the committee that the ministry has started to implement a programme which will see REO's losing a percentage of their gratuity if their performance is not up to scratch.
Of the eight other issues examined, four concerned sums overpaid to contractors, and regional officials have been unable to recoup these sums as well. Together, these four instances of overpayments totalled $1.307 million.
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Tony Blair gets paid for his role in the Zionist conspiracy
Posted on March 20th, 2010
Ajit Randeniya
Any Sri Lankan preoccupied with implementing Zionist agendas such as instituting 'accountability mechanisms' to work out 'who shot whom' at Nandikathal lagoon, and restoring the special 'Human Rights' of Sarath Fonseka to air conditioned accommodation and mobile phones need to stop for a moment, please.
 It came to light last week that since leaving Downing Street back in 2007, the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been paid more than £20million by the London and Wall Street Zionist money bags, under various bogus service contracts involving after-dinner speaking, consultancies with merchant banks, hedge funds and foreign governments.
 Blair's paymasters constitute 'who's who' of the global Zionist movement; it is arrogant actions such as these, committed with utter contempt to the entire world, that provide the strongest evidence for the existence of a global Zionist conspiracy to further their objectives through devious plots that corrupt, control and undermine the so-called 'Western Democracies'.
 But don't expect to read about it in Blair's impending memoirs, for which £4.6million has been advanced; the full extent of his income is cloaked in secrecy through the construction of a complex web of shadowy companies and partnerships. Also, for nearly two years, Blair had objected to the public release of the information by the Westminster 'Advisory Committee on Business Appointments' that investigates former public servants using their contacts for private gain; Blair claimed that the information was 'commercially sensitive'. The committee finally lost patience and decided to ignore his objections and publish the details. Blair is yet to explain to Whitehall's business appointments committee as to exactly what services he is providing in return.
 Before we go in to the origins of Blair's 'ill-gotten' fortune, we need to briefly look at his 'contribution' to Britain and the world during his tenure as British prime minister from 1997-2007.
 The 'main event' for which history will hold Blair accountable would, of course, be the disgraceful role he played in committing British troops, against the will of more than 90% of the British population, to the Iraqi invasion 'project' of 'Bush the Idiot'. Blair claimed, using a fabricated 'dossier', that Saddam Hussein possessed an arsenal of 'weapons of mass destruction' (WMD). He also claimed sensationally, that Saddam Hussein was capable of launching WMDs within 45 minutes; his lies to the nation, and to the wider world, tainted his image for ever, and later events made him a war criminal by any one's definition.
In addition to the murder and disfigurement of countless (millions) of Iraqi civilians, he is directly responsible for sending 179 British troops to their deaths in the dessert. Britain's collusion in these war crimes further undermined an already tattered international reputation. Thanks to his actions Britain is also associated with abuse and torture of prisoners.
 Now it appears, Blair is profiting greatly from taking Britain into an illegal war on the false premise that the country was under threat from Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
 These are the staggering figures: Blair is being paid by the Wall Street merchant bank JP Morgan (speak of conspiracy!) £2million a year; the London-based hedge fund Lansdowne Partners (managed by the former Goldman Sachs banker Paul Ruddock) will pay Blair the 'bargain' price of £1million to give some private speeches to its staff ; Zurich financial services consultancy will earn him £500000 a year; he is also listed in the books of Washington Speakers Bureau, with an asking fee of £180,000 for a 90 minute speech – about £2,000 a minute- on geopolitical matters; as consultant to the Kuwaiti Royal family he earns a cool £1 m a year.
 It was revealed last week that in August 2008 Blair took up another job, as advisor to the Korean oil company UI Energy, one of the biggest investors in Iraq's oil-rich Kurdistan region made semi-autonomous following the invasion. UI Energy also hires the former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and several prominent American politicians as 'political advisers'. Reliable estimates of Blair's undisclosed fee is in the region of millions of pounds. These figures make Blair's annual government pension of £63468, together with the £840000 additional Office allowance, pale in to insignificance.
 This kind of obviously immoral and unethical behaviour is to be expected from Tony Blair in view of his history and background: he appeared 'out of the blue' in British Labor Party politics in 983, clearly through the sponsorship of leading Zionist figures of the Labor and Tory parties.
 As is usual, any one aspiring to progress in politics in the two-party democracies of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada has to demonstrate strong loyalty to Israel, usually through activism in a bipartisan lobby group known as 'Friends of Israel'. This would have been 'natural' for Blair because, according to the author of the Blair biography, 'Blair', Anthony Seldon, he had a deep feeling for Israel, "born in part from his faithâ€ÂÂÂ!
 Blair had been a long time 'Labour Friend of Israel', when in 1983, the new 'safe' constituency of Sedgefield was created, miraculously, near where he had grown up in Durham. Blair was elected as MP for Sedgefield despite the party's landslide defeat in the general election! The next logical step, of course, was promoting him to the position of Opposition Leader so that he became the 'natural choice' as next prime minister, and this they did.
Blair is believed to have been groomed 'directly' by the global Zionist leader Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the corporate media giant News Corporation. The Commons register of interests shows that in 1995, while Leader of the Opposition, Blair was 'a guest' of Murdoch, in Hayman Island, Australia.
Michael 'Levy', the pop music mogul raised £12m for the financing of Blair's 1997 election campaign. Levy was rewarded by Blair with a peerage, and in 2002, just prior to the Iraq War, Blair appointed Levy as his personal envoy to the Middle East. Levy praised Blair for his 'solid and committed support of the State of Israel'.
 At the 1996 Labour Party conference, Blair stated that his three top priorities on coming to office were "education, education, and education". Following the 1997 elections victory however, he introduced university tuition fees, and more importantly, gave control of interest rates to the Bank of England. In his first six years, Blair had British troops ordered into battle five times  more than any other prime minister in British history.
 Labor Party elder statesman Tam Dalyell suggested in 2003 that Blair's foreign policy decisions were unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers, including Levy and Peter Mandelson.
 With such deep and long-running connections to all levels of the global Zionist hierarchy, Blair's enthusiasm for the Iraq invasion was to be expected: Cabinet Office documents obtained by Liberal Democrats' Lord Avebury the day after Blair left office, after a three and a half year 'freedom of information' battle, reveal that Blair had frequent telephone conversations with Rupert Murdoch, including in the eve of the 20 March US and UK invasion. Lord Avebury said at the time: "The public can now scrutinise the timing of his (Murdoch's) contacts with the former Prime Minister, to see whether they can be linked to events in the outside world."
 In 2006, Blair refused to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, despite persistent calls of his cabinet who openly criticised Israel for murdering the civilians, especially the elderly .
 During his late-January appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry in to the Iraqi invasion, Blair arrived by the back entrance to the centre to avoid a protesters outside. During evidence, he demonstrated a disgusting lack of remorse for the mass killings he had caused, attracting uproar and shouts of 'liar' and ' murderer' by the relatives of dead British troops in the public gallery.
 All decent sections of British politics have condemned Blair gaining personally through the sacrifice of nation's reputation and lives of troops. Liberal Democrat Lord Oakeshott said: "Tony Blair is utterly shameless. He seems to be happy to take money from anybody. This man appears to have a total mental block where ethics are concerned – if they pay enough money he will not ask any questions."
Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: 'This doesn't just look bad, it stinks. This is revolving door politics at its worst. It's not as if Mr Blair has even stepped back from politics, because he is still politically active in the Middle Eastâ€ÂÂÂ.
 Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said: 'These revelations show that our former Prime Minister is for sale – he is driven by making as much money as possible. 'I think many people will find it deeply insensitive that he is apparently cashing in on his contacts from the Iraq war to make money for himself.'
 Will Blair be a happy man? Probably not. He already shows, despite 'converting' to Catholicism, he is carrying a dead soul.
 Money can't give life!


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Once it was regarded as one of the country's premier rugby league schools. But now AFL is making its mark at Erindale College.
The college held its annual Talented Sports Program awards ceremony on Friday, with AFL winning the school's team award for the first time since 1994.
Australian junior water polo captain Justin Trabinger and world-ranked tennis player Ashley Keir won the main individual awards.
Erindale established itself as a dominant rugby league school in the late '90s, winning two national schoolboy titles in 1997-98 and producing prominent players such as Todd Payten, Brent Kite, Brett Finch Joel Monaghan and Michael Weyman.
But Erindale's TSP co-ordinator Mark Armstrong, also a regional head coach for the GWS Giants, acknowledged AFL's increasing presence at the school.
''We've seen a major growth in our AFL program over the last 18 months with the injection of the Giants into this region. We've traditionally had 14 or 15 boys involved in our sports program for the last half a dozen years and this year we've had 30,'' Armstrong said. ''We've had boys relocated from Wagga, Dubbo and the South Coast to come here.''
The AFL team dominated the local region in the Giants Cup with no team coming within 10 goals of them.
Meanwhile, Trabinger captained the ACT Schoolboys team that won a bronze medal at the Australian water polo championships and was a valuable member of the ACT Senior Men's team that won gold at the Australian Country Championships. He is now in Perth preparing to represent Australia at next month's FINA World Water Polo Youth tournament.


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Red contacts make my eyes look huge.
I just used mineral foundation and eyeliner for the face, to pale up. Have a silver eyeliner to silghtly make my eyebrows little less dark.
red contacts were brought for Murdoc, but found a new use!
Your Gin is looking awesome, i really sucked as him lol
nono you pulled off the character a lot more I think xDD, and you looked fine!!
I wouldnt even be able to smile properly!
i tried copying the gin from rock musical bleach more then the anime and i found it was a lot easier
Ah! Maybe I will have to try that myself then :3
awesome nice Gin where did u get the Wig, i need one For Oct Expo
Thanks. It was a one off wig in Birmingham, that my mom cut to shape >.<
that is so very cool, don't forget that Gin always keeps his eyes closed lol
lol, Id end up falling down a ravine or something
gin looks kwlio xD but the smile need to be BIG
xD that the one thing I cant do im ANGST Gin I cant smile well xD
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5 bedroom detached house for saleChurch Drive, Orton Waterville, PETERBOROUGH
Sold STC £399,995
Property Description
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Superbly extended and remodelled five bedroom property situated on a corner plot in the popular Orton Waterville area.
The property is very well decorated and benefits from gas fired radiator central heating, double glazing, large kitchen/breakfast room with under floor heating, utility room, lounge, separate dining room, study, cloakroom , master bedroom with six piece suite and underfloor heating, Bedroom 2 with ensuite, three further bedrooms, family bathroom, front and rear gardens and garage.
Must be viewed internally to be fully appreciated.
Ground Floor
19' 2" x 12' 2" (5.84m x 3.71m) UPVC double glazed window to rear, UPVC double glazed french doors to garden, fitted display cabinet and cupboards, living flame gas fire set in feature surround with stone hearth and back, two double radiators, coved to ceiling.
Dining Room/Sitting Room
17' 1" x 11' 4" into bay (5.21m x 3.45m) UPVC double glazed bay window to front, double radiator, coved to ceiling, laminate flooring.
10' 3" x 10' 8" (3.12m x 3.25m) UPVC double glazed window to front, double radiator, laminate flooring, coved to ceiling.
Utility Room
8' 8" x 7' 2" (2.64m x 2.18m) Fitted range of base and eye level units, ceramic Belfast sink with mixer tap, tiled splashback, plumbing and space for automatic washing machine and tumble drier, tiled floor, concealed gas boiler, UPVC double glazed door and window to rear, double radiator, door to garage, coved to ceiling with halogen spot lights, extractor.
Two piece suite comprising of low level wc, wash hand basin, tiled surround, heated towel rail, tiled floor, UPVC double glazed window to front, coved to ceiling.
24' 3" x 15' max (7.39m x 4.57m) Range of base and eye level units with worksurfaces over, ceramic sink with drainer, mixer tap, tiled splashback, integrated dishwasher, fridge/freezer, space for range oven with extractor over, two UPVC double glazed windows to rear, UPVC double glazed french doors to garden, Karndene flooring, coved to ceiling, halogen spotlights, double radiator.
Entrance Hall
Entrance door with UPVC double glazed windows to either side, laminate flooring, coved to ceiling, two double radiators, stairs to first floor landing, large storage cupboard.
First Floor
Fitted contemporary six piece suite comprising of jacuzzi bath, tiled double shower cubicle, his and hers wash hand basins, low level wc, bidet, tiled surround, heated towel rail, tiled floor, halogen spot lights, UPVC double glazed frosted window to rear, shaver point, extractor.
Ensuite 2
Three piece suite comprising of tiled double shower cubicle, vanity wash hand basin, low level wc, fully tiled walls, heated towel rail, tiled floor, coved to ceiling, extractor, shaver point.
Family Bathroom
Fitted with contemporary four piece suite comprising of panel bath, tiled double shower cubicle, pedestal wash hand basin, low level wc, fully tiled walls, heated towel rail, tiled floor, UPVC frosted double glazed window to rear, coved to ceiling, halogen spot lights, extractor, shaver point.
Bedroom 1
20' 4" x 15' max inc wardrobes (6.20m x 4.57m) Two UPVC double glazed windows to front, two built-in double wardrobes and single wardrobe, two radiators, coved to ceiling.
Bedroom 2
11' 11" x 8' 9" (3.63m x 2.67m) UPVC double glazed window to front, radiator, coved to ceiling, large built-in storage cupboard.
Bedroom 3
14' 5" x 9' 1" max including wardrobes (4.39m x 2.77m) UPVC double glazed window to rear, built-in double wardrobe, radiator, coved to ceiling.
Bedroom 4
11' 3" x 12' 2" inc wardrobes (3.43m x 3.71m) UPVC double glazed window to rear, radiator, built-in double and single wardrobes, coved to ceiling.
Bedroom 5
8' 9" x 7' 10" (2.67m x 2.39m) UPVC double glazed window to side, radiator, coved to ceiling.
UPVC double glazed window to side, coved to ceiling, loft hatch, radiator.
From the city centre proceed over the Crescent Bridge and onto Longthorpe Parkway. Turn left onto Nene Parkway and then at the next junction turn right onto Oundle Road. Take the fourth turning on the left into Cherry Orton Road where Church Drive will be found on the left hand side.
With up and over door, power and light, loft storage.
Front Garden
Lawned with stone chipped area and stone chipped driveway providing off road parking for at least four cars and leading to garage.
Rear Garden
A landscaped rear garden with a wide variety of plants and shrubs, laid to lawn and gravel with paved sun patio, external lighting, vegetable plot and timber shed.
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Extremely DARK works that have a GOOD end
I was wondering what anime/manga was out there that was truly dark and depressing, but somehow managed to pull off a good ending that spoke of hope. Naturally, the series has to pull it off, make it work so that it feels like a proper part of the story. The story doesn't have to start dark, but the majority of the story should seem to be a constantly growing despair from which there seems no escape.
One great example has appeared this last season:
This might not be the best example, but it's the first that comes to mind and the one that made me think of making this thread.
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Well, compared to the rest of the series, it was relatively happy.
The two series I can think are both horror anime:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni- the first season ends on an open-ended note, but the 2nd season resolves the mystery, and has what you're looking for.
Perfect Blue
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Hmmm... Dark with a good ending... Well I don't know if it's dark enough for you (i haven't seen the example you gave, though I have seen Higurashi and I think Higurashi was darker) but maybe Shangri-La? I'm pretty sure it had a happy enough ending, and I do rremember some dark themes/moments. Nothing to the extent of Higurashi (like brutal murders) iirc though.
I'm hesitant to suggest this one (for multiple reasons, including that I haven't seen the end of the third season) but maybe Jigoku Shoujo? I don't know how the 3rd season ends, but depending on how you define a "good" ending, I think the first had an ok one in terms of over-arching story. However the way the series is setup, each episode is sort of it's own contained story and the darkness in each is generally resolved sort of happily.
Again, for the good ending it's debatable from what I remember and have seen... But there is definitely a pretty dark side to this one, probably about on par with Higurashi from what I remember.
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Scrapped Princess anime was kinda dark, but not too dark. The novels, on the other hand, are just about as dark and gruesome as possible. At least the few early novels that I've managed to get my hands on. The description of a strategic-level spell that instantly lowers the atmospheric pressure in a large area around a town to near-vacuum points is particularly extreme.
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Mai HiME, and with the example you gave I only have to second Mai HiME again.
Then there always is Clannad, After story will work better though.
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin not purely good but still positive, especially for the 1st major arc.
Shiki, whole village starts to die and there doesn't seem to be any hope for survival
I would say Wolf's Rain pull off that trick, but you have to watch all OVAs too.
The last part in Claymore also will work.
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On this page we'll take the a quick look at the different painting techniques. Each of these techniques is challenging in its own ways. Which one is for you?
Oil PaintingOil painting is one of the most popular styles of painting. In western world, it's the best known technique. It became widely popular during the Renaissance when the old masters such as Da Vinci, Botticelli, Raphael, and others used it to create timeless works of art.
Oil paints are very versatile. You can do almost anything with them and they last practically forever. One of the main characteristics of oil paints is that they take much longer to dry than acrylics or watercolor paints. This gives you more time. You can remove what you don't like while it is still wet, re-work existing paint, add more paint, or just paint over it when it's dry. Oil painting is much more forgiving than other techniques and a good choice for beginners.
Acrylic PaintingAcrylics came on the scene relatively late (in the 1950s), but quickly became popular. They are very adaptable and versatile, and are capable of producing effects similar to oil paints or watercolors. They are water-based and water soluble.
Because they dry very fast, you need to work fast, especially if you wish to blend colors. Fast drying time can be an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on how you look at it. Another great thing about acrylics is that you don't have to worry about odors or allergies, which are common in oil painting.
WatercolorsWatercolors can be quite tricky to master. They dry very quickly and mistakes are difficult to correct. They can be used in a variety of ways to get a variety of effects. They are not so forgiving as oil paints.
Watercolors are one of the cheapest and cleanest mediums that you can use in art. They are water-based and water-soluble, and easy to clean up with just water.
PastelsPastels are a unique painting medium and a big change from oils, acrylics, or watercolors. They are round or rectangular sticks made from pure powdered pigment and a binder. There are different types of pastels, from hard, semi-soft, to soft, and each gives a slightly different result. When painting with pastels, colors are mixed on the paper by overlaying or blending and not on a palette. Pastels are a wonderful medium and can be applied in a number of ways.
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A half moon hangs in the sky, blurred and yellow from the heat. Cicadas creak. The disfiguring level of bass doesn't seem to affect them. Nor do the purple and green flashing disco lights that, from a distance, easily identify this tiny island off the south of France as an Isle Of MTV - for one night only, a beach party soundtracked by a dozen bands and DJs. There's been a string of them across Europe this summer, although you do wonder whether Isle Of MTV-Warsaw had quite the same appeal as this one.
Provence is not the first setting you'd think of for an Atlanta hip-hop duo to stage a return after a two-year absence. But as Outkast proved on the questing party monster of 2000's Stankonia, they are far too eccentric - outrageous, even - to be considered a typical hip-hop duo. Within seconds, it's hard to imagine a better place, when you consider the prospect of freaky dancing into the wee hours on a carpet of soft, dusty sand and pine needles, with scant need for clothing. The Ile du Gaou, then, is shaping up to be Stankonia-on-Sea, a hot trading floor for Outkast's fruity hip-funk.
It doesn't quite work out like that, though. Outkast are brilliant enough; they race through old hits and brand new songs with customary zeal. Their dancers, in particular, remain one of the most amazing sights in hip hop, bettered only by Outkast's own Big Boi, a tracksuited pinball of a man who spends the set spraying spittle on the front row, yanking at his baggy trouser-crotch and aping the dancers' jiggiest moves.
What's missing? Andre 3000, the other half of Outkast. He appears only at the very start, on his own, singing an intriguing new song, 'Hey Ya', that sounds like Sixties guitar pop fed through a Prince filter very quickly. For the rest of the gig, Outkast associate - and hitmaker in his own right - Killer Mike is there to balance out Big Boi. And as a special treat we get his 'A.D.I.D.A.S.' single - silly and juvenile but impossible not to like. It just underlines how much of Outkast's set is missing, too. They play for 40 paltry minutes. Big Boi and crew rollick through 'The Whole World', the new track (featuring Killer Mike) from last year's hits album. Equally familiar, 'So Fresh, So Clean' is a blaze of onstage raunch. But their biggest hit, 'Ms Jackson', is swiftly dispensed with - thrown away, almost. Perhaps it's because Dre isn't around to own it (it was, after all, the song he penned to Erykah Badu's mother when his relationship with the singer broke down).
Outkast invest a lot more into their astounding new single, 'Ghettomusick'. A breakneck acid/rap hybrid with sleepy soul intermissions, it's a galaxy away from the pop of 'Ms Jackson'; it's also one of the highlights of Outkast's forthcoming double CD, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, on which Big Boi and Dre each get an album to express themselves. 'Ghettomusick' is from Speakerboxxx, Big Boi's side of the creative divide.
It's tempting to feel a bit uneasy about tonight's show, when placed against the backdrop of an album which is ostensibly two solo projects. A chat afterwards with an Outkast aide-de-camp, however, reveals that Dre is feeling poorly, his songs on the album aren't quite finished, and Outkast were considering pulling out of the gig. But even a curtailed, one-sided Outkast can rival most bands on a good night. We get a couple of new Big Boi songs: 'Unhappy', which starts off gospel-tinged but soon unfurls into a fierce hip-hop shakedown; and 'The Way You Move', with its big soul influence and catchy chorus. They promise much, even if Outkast's performance falls rather short of the night's heady, humid potential.


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Canada's Stratford festival faces slings, arrows
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival begins its new season this week with themes to do with money, power and jealousy being played out behind the scenes as well as onstage.
The festival, based in the bucolic southwestern Ontario town of Stratford, the namesake of William Shakespeare's birthplace in England, is the largest classical repertory theater in North America based on both budget and attendance.
And while Hamlet, played by Ben Carlson, confronts the ghost of his father in a preview performance of the great Shakespearean tragedy on Wednesday, the festival's general director, Antoni Cimolino, will be confronting a specter of a different sort.
He will be tackling the financial fallout from recession fears, high gas prices, and a weaker U.S. dollar.
Beyond economic anxieties, the theater company is also trying to bounce back from backstage warfare, which provoked the resignation of two of its three artistic directors in March after a power struggle, leaving director Des McAnuff at the creative helm.
Neither McAnuff nor Cimolino would comment on the disarray generated by the backstage dramatics -- apparently over division of work -- that led to the resignations of Marti Maraden and Don Shipley.
"It's now weeks and weeks ago," McAnuff said. "It's time to really focus on the future."
Although Canadian ticket sales for 17 plays to be produced this season are only modestly down from last year, the festival is facing some real challenges in maintaining the previous high level of attendance from U.S. theater-goers, Cimolino said in an interview. About 35 percent of the festival's audience in previous years has come from the United States. Continued...


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I've had mine for 15,000 miles and two years... form 64k to 80k which should be bad from maintenance required perspectives.
Transmission reprogram ($300) Not really maintenance Not covered in CPO
Convertible top sensors ($1100) Not covered in CPO
DCS failure ($600) COVERED in CPO!!!!!!!
Brakes (DIY for $160) Not covered in CPO
Trans filter & fluid (DIY 220) Not covered in CPO
($ Long story, but essentially free as they came on my M6 wheels almost new) & not CPO
CCV valves (DIY for $60) Not covered in CPO
Thermostat (DIY for $90) Not covered in CPO
Coolant hose (DIY for $49) Not covered in CPO
Filters and Oil (DIY for $???) Not covered in CPO
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My point... My car came with a CPO and I found that BMW found a way to wiggle out of every single opportunity to pay on it. There was always a technicality. The big ticket item: The roof was non CPO because it is in their eyes "an accessory!" As I've said before, I wonder how many Cabrios they have sold without this accessory. Another illustration..... defective transmission programming... and it is not considered part of the "drivetrain" and hence not covered. Really? The software is integral to the transmission. It can't work without it. It is defective by their admission, and unchanged since delivery, and not subject to wear AND Not covered?
I wouldn't waste my money on their CPO. Understand your car, maintain it well, and don't flog it, and it will last you a good long time. I may be more lucky than most, but despite my relatively high mileage, no majors expenses. Just meticulous maintenance of the fluids and systems AND careful use. Drive hard, but without potholes, low fluids, dirty fluids, right pressures etc.
But it does disgust me to have had to pay some significant coin to repair two engineering defects that BMW refused to cover under CPO. Simply stupid image management to not take responsibility for their engineering. Especially on what is one of their flagship products with what would presumably be the sweet spot of their target customer base.
Maintain well and use the money from the CPO for beer. It will make you feel better than BMW will when they refuse to pay on a technicality.
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Truism of fantasy football:
every year there are players that will not be drafted in a fantasy football
draft but will emerge off the fantasy football waiver wire to be solid additions for a fantasy football team,
sometimes exploding to stud status. Good work
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team, so some discretion can go a long way. The list posted below is
to bring some players to your attention and give you a comment or two regarding
their possibilities.
2. Generally speaking, it is not a good idea to drop any player you drafted
in the first ten rounds of your draft in the first few weeks.
Be patient, particularly with wide receivers as they are very inconsistent
in most scoring systems, posting a horrible week one week and then backing
it up with a good performance in the following week.
3. Be quick to grab running backs, especially as new starters are
announced or as players emerge with huge games. This does not mean
dropping a traditionally good player in order to pick up one of these running
backs, but if you have an extra D, K, TE, or even a lower tier WR, it is
probably in your best interest to drop one of them and take a chance.
RBs are in high demand and almost always carry value provided they are a
primary back for a NFL team.
As always, thank you for visiting and welcome to FootballDocs Fantasy Football - "Where the geeks meet the gridiron."
Note: This advice is intended for redraft leagues only.
Note: This advice is intended for redraft leagues only.
We are firm believers that QBs, WRs, and RBs with whom you thought had enough
value to draft should not be cut from your fantasy team in the first few weeks
of the season unless they get significantly injured or lose their starting
job. Give it some time before deciding that they are not fit for your team to see
if they can prove you right. Naturally you have to cut someone to make
room for any new additions to your team, and as a guideline, extra Ds, Ks,
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Learn the nuts and bolts of cloud computing with Windows Azure, Microsoft's new Internet services platform. Written by a key member of the product development team, this book shows you how to build, deploy, host, and manage applications using Windows Azure's programming model and essential storage services.
Chapters in Programming Windows Azure are organized to reflect the platform's buffet of services. The book's first half focuses on how to write and host application code on Windows Azure, while the second half explains all of the options you have for storing and accessing data on the platform with high scalability and reliability. Lots of code samples and screenshots are available to help you along the way.
Sriram Krishnan works on the Windows Azure program management team. He has been involved with the product since before its public launch andhas worked on several of the features covered in this book. Previously,Sriram has worked on several Microsoft products, ranging from Web 2.0sites to developer tools. Sriram is a frequent speaker at Microsoftevents and blogs at http://www.sriramkrishnan.com.
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The animal on the cover of Programming Windows Azure is a dhole (Cuon alpinus). Nicknamed "red dog" by Rudyard Kipling in The Second Jungle Book, this canine species is also known as an Asiatic wild dog or Indian wild dog. Dholes are found in forests in India, southern Asia, Sumatra, and parts of Russia, but are classified as endangered animals. Disease, habitat loss, and the subsequent depletion of prey have all caused the population to decline. Humans also commonly hunt them, as dholes will attack livestock if they cannot find another food source. Presently, it is estimated that only 2,500 adult dholes remain in the wild, primarily in wildlife sanctuaries. The dhole is a medium-size canine with rusty red fur (though regional variations of yellow and gray exist), a white chest and belly, and a bushy black tail. They are known for their extensive range of vocal calls-hisses, high-pitched screams, mews, squeaks, barks, clucks, yelps-and a strange whistle that is distinctive enough to identify the individual dhole making the sound. Like wolves and other canids, dholes are a very social animal, living in packs with a strict hierarchy. There are more males than females within a pack, and usually only one dominant breeding pair. Dhole packs engage in activities like playing, grooming, mock-fighting, and of course, hunting. As a group, dholes can successfully attack and subdue much larger prey. They primarily feed on deer, but will also hunt hare, wild boar, or water buffalo. There is little aggression between adult dholes-they do not fight over a kill, but rather will compete by eating as quickly (and as much) as they can.
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At the design stage of a new application, we wanted to keep the cloud hosting option open. This book gave us a good overview on what Azure offers, and what design choices we need to make to keep our options open. If some day we do make the leap of faith into Azure, we probably need more information, but this book was a good start.
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An excellent place to start if you know your way around C# but have not used cloud services before. Useful C# code snippets.Somewhat dated (no AppFabric, no Azure Connect, screenshots from old admin interface), and little information on Azure diagnostics.
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This book provides a nice concise introduction to Windows Azure development. The author touches on all the major topics in the platform with enough detail to get you started producing some effective applications.The book provides a good base of understanding of the platform with a look at the motivation behind the Azure platform.The author manages to maintain a readable style while delivering the technical details.I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to get a good understanding of the Windows Azure Platform.
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i have knocked all the old plaster off my landin wall because it was ready for fallin off, a mate told me to dot and dab it with plaster board, the wall that needs to be done is a brick wall it has a window frame and a round electric metal cable pipe running up it, there is no room for batons or i wont be able to get the board behind the window frame or behind the door frames, as anyone got any advice on how to dot and dab? what tools are needed? what adhesive i should use?can i screw the plasterboard to the wall? do i go around the pipe or over it? thanks
Dot n dab is purchased in sacks (i.e. 25 kg), you mix it like plaster and apply large dabs of it to your pre-cut plaster board. You then stick it to your wall, ensuring it is level. The size of the dabs depends on how far you want to bring the board away from the wall. The gap between the wall and the board should be enough to clear the metal pipe.
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This is the perfect TV stand for someone who has a small living room like myself. It fits perfect with my 50inch TV but any bigger it would probably look a little odd. The four corners are not that sharp for those who have little ones. The only problem I had was it wasn't easy for me to put together by myself, but luckily a have a good handyman. The TV stand came in great condition and I see myself with this for a long time.
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Great piece of furniture.. not veneer..solid wood..great price..free shipping.. easy to assemble...looks great...holds 47inch flat tv perfect addition to our living room.
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The instructions recommend a two person assembly, but with a little bit of patience and some logic, even a skinny housewife can put it together by herself in no time at all.Very solid constructed components come together squarely and easily with a minimum amount of hardware. (I kept looking in the discarded cartons for more screws because I couldn't believe it only took 11 bolts to assemble.)The parts list is very descriptive although a bit confusing because it depicts every little screw, even the ones prepacked with the door handles and door stops, as separate pieces. If you ignore that and just follow the step by step instructions, you'll have a very handsome, solid stand for your TV. Or if the TV is hanging from the wall, like mine, this makes a very good "tablao" for two people to dance the Flamenco on. (I know, I tried).
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan field hockey program and head coach Marcia Pankratz have announced that senior-to-be Jess Allen (Gibbsboro, N.J./Eastern Regional) and redshirt senior-to-be Eileen Brandes (Falmouth, Maine/Falmouth) will serve as captains for the 2011 season.
Allen, a three-year midfielder/back, started in all 22 games for the Wolverines in the backfield this past season. She had the assist on the game-winning goal in Michigan's 4-3 overtime win over Miami. Allen also helped a defense that had six shutouts and a 1.71 goals-against average. In her U-M career, Allen has played in 57 games, scoring four goals and totaling nine points in 39 starts.
Brandes, a three-year back, also started in all 22 games for U-M in the backfield in 2011. She had three assists this past season, including a pair of helpers in the 4-3 overtime win over James Madison. Brandes also had an assist in the 2-0 win at Iowa. In her U-M career, Brandes has played in 48 games with 25 starts and has six career assists. She also is a three-time member of the NFHCA National Academic Squad, a two-time Big Ten All-Academic Team honoree and a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner in 2010.
Both Allen and Brandes helped U-M to a Big Ten regular-season co-championship, a Big Ten Tournament title and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 2010.
Michigan will open the 2011 season by hosting the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Aug. 27 and Aug. 28. The Wolverines will face North Carolina (Saturday) and Wake Forest (Sunday) with both games starting at noon at Ocker Field.
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I wish Billy Reid was my roommate. Then whenever I needed to look especially cool and dapper and Gatsby-gone-South, I'd just raid his closet. Last month, the New York Times ran a killer piece giving the Alabama fashion designer major kudos. He deserves it. Now only if I can convince Billy to move from Florence to Birmingham.


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MEPs block budget approval for three EU agencies, EU Council
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The votes come one day after Diana Banaty, a top official, resigned from the EU food safety authority (Efsa) in Italy to go and work for the same food lobby outfit she was criticised for having been a member of two years ago.
The European Commission said that while the move was "not illegal," it was "against the spirit of independence of Efsa" and pledged to work with member states and the European Parliament on new "cooling-off periods" for agency staff.
The Socialists and the majority centre-right EPP group advised its members to vote against the Efsa budget block, but a total of 321 MEPs voted in favour anyway, while 306 opposed and 14 abstained.
Similarly close votes were registered in the case of the European Enviroment Agency, whose director was also a member of an NGO which was paid EU money to organise "training sessions" for EEA staff in the Caribbean.
The EEA 2010 budget block was approved with 329 votes in favour, while 291 were against and 20 abstained.
The London-based European Medicines Agency - where one director defected to industry, while another one resigned over a drugs scandal in France - was shamed by 340 votes in favour, 268 against and 14 abstentions.
"I know specialists are hard to find outside industry, this is a reality. But we need to have a proper management of the situation, including cooling periods and ensuring decisions taken by these people truly represent the public interest, not some other interests," Romanian centre-right MEP Monica Macovei, who drafted the parliament's position paper, told press after the vote.
She said agencies would have a few months time to implement new rules on recruitment and to publish the CVs of all their staff, directors and scientific experts.
Meanwhile, the Council of ministers - the body which prepares the meetings of EU diplomats, ministers and leaders - continued to say it has no obligation to open its books to MEPs, prompting a near-unanimous backlash:
614 voted in favour of postponing the budget discharge.
"The council still does not answer our questions, this is unacceptable," said German Liberal MEP Michael Theurer, who chairs the budgetary control committee.
The council says that back in the 1970s there was a gentleman's agreement that the two institutions would not peer into each others' books.
Theurer argues that the deal is out of date in the new-model assembly, where members are directly elected and have sweeping budgetary control powers over almost every other aspect of EU spending.
In 2009, the Spanish EU presidency for the first time admitted the gentlemen's agreement is obsolete. The Swedish EU presidency later found an "informal" way to answer the MEP's questions by publishing replies on its presidency website.
This year, the Danish EU presidency gave the same standard reply as scores of presidencies before them, however: the matter is out of its hands.
MEPs are especially keen to find out if the council has overspent on its €240-million glass-egg-type new headquarters, currently under cosntruction in Brussels.
They also want to know how money was being used in the newly-born European External Action Service, which in 2010 eluded normal scrutiny because it was just being set up as a hybrid commission-council entity.


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The fabulous team at iFabbo have just published an interview they did with Kimberly Nissen about her eBook, The Essential Beginner's Guide to Working With Bloggers. iFabbo are the leading international organisation for fashion, style and beauty bloggers, with a membership of thousands of bloggers across the globe, they work exclusively with some of the biggest fashion, beauty and lifestyle businesses to connect them with the hottest bloggers.
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Clinton Says Democrats Must Stop 'Mealy Mouthing' in Campaign
(Bloomberg) — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said his fellow Democrats should stop "mealy mouthing around" and start taking the fight to Republicans in the final weeks before this year's congressional elections.
"The Democrats ought to stand up and fight," Clinton said in an interview for Bloomberg Television's "Political Capital with Al Hunt," airing this weekend. "The Democrats have 30 days to sort of stand up, embrace the challenge, and offer a worthy alternative," he said. "If they lay down and let it be a referendum, our side is going to get whacked."
The former president, speaking at the Clinton GlobalInitiative meeting in New York, criticized the House Republicans' governing agenda, the "Pledge to America" unveiled yesterday, which would cut federal spending, extend expiring tax cuts and repeal the Democrats' health-care law.
"They don't know that the model for success in the 21st century is a vigorous private sector, an effective government, a partnership, not these hysterical tirades against government," he said.
Clinton, 64, called the Republican plan an "ideological document" and warned that it would be implemented at the expense of America's middle class. The plan is patterned after the "Contract with America," which House Republicans unveiled in 1994, during Clinton's first term. Six weeks after that platform was presented, Republicans won enough seats in midterm elections to gain a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
'People's Fears'
Clinton accused Republicans of "trying to play on people's fears" so they can retake the Senate and the House in the Nov. 2 elections.
"I don't care if one of them did witchcraft or not; I want to talk about how the American people are going to be affected," Clinton said, referring to Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell, who told television host Bill Maher in 1999 that she had once "dabbled into witchcraft" when she was younger.
Clinton said the primary motivation behind some of the attacks on President Barack Obama, the country's first black president, isn't racial; it is that opponents want to make him "the other." "Are they racist? No," Clinton said. "They want to turn him into a space alien. It helps that his skin color is different. But their motivation is what it always is: power and money."
Obama "has got to develop a tough hide," Clinton said.On the Middle East, Clinton said that there is a "fair chance" that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians succeed this year. He praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and alestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who resumed direct negotiations earlier this month.
'Blew' an Opportunity
Clinton said the two sides "blew a big opportunity" in 2000 when they rejected his proposal for a peace agreement.
"You've got two leaders in Netanyahu and Abbas who can do this deal," Clinton said. "They get that they need to do this, and they see now, from not doing it 10 years ago, how much harder it gets, in some ways, if you wait another 10 years; that it's madness."
Obama brought Abbas and Netanyahu together for discussions in Washington on Sept. 2 and the two met again last week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and Jerusalem.
On the midterm election campaign, Clinton said the Republican agenda would cut aid to middle-class and lower-income Americans by 25 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars and damage education initiatives. He said the Republican proposals would hurt the U.S.'s global economic competitiveness.
'Dismantle' Government
"Their objective for 30 years has been to dismantle the federal government," he said. "They have a model for the future that none of our competitors have embraced."
Clinton said Republicans also want to "repeal the financial oversight bill" that Obama signed into law July 21 in response to the financial crisis that began in 2008. Rolling back the new protections would "let banks go back to gambling," he said. "And that's a mistake."
"They want everybody else to pay more for less government," Clinton said. "And none of it has anything to do with our competitive position."
The Republican plan calls for extending all the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003 and which expire at the end of this year. Obama has proposed keeping the lower tax rates for most taxpayers, while letting the cuts expire for individuals who earn more than $200,000 or couples earning more than $250,000.
"They want to give 117 percent of all the tax benefits to the top 5 percent," Clinton said.
'Our Intent'
The Republican plan would repeal the health-care law passed this year and replace it with longstanding Republican riorities such as controlling medical-malpractice costs, expanding health-savings accounts and allowing people to buy insurance policies across state lines. It would provide health coverage to those Americans who are most costly to insure by expanding high-risk pools and reinsurance programs.
The agenda outlines "our intent and how we will stand together and move this country forward," Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, told reporters yesterday.
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio was an architect of the 1994 plan as well as the new version. Democrats regained the House majority in 2006.
Clinton said Democrats need to articulate what their party favors so there can be a "real debate." "If they can make this election a choice, they've got a fair chance to do better than everybody thinks," he said.


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The Christmas Wonderland by the Sea in the centre of festively decorated Bremerhaven offers a nautical slant on the delights of the season. Having received Angel Gabriel's message – every Sat and Sun, 5pm – set off on a tour of the festively lit Christmas market up to the lighthouse in the Winter Village. Other must-sees are the skating angels and Father Christmases in the Bürger quarter, and the curling at the ice rink. From the Ferris wheel in front of the large church enjoy all of the Christmas ceremony with one glance.
Christmas market - opening times:
21 Nov - 22 Dec 2016
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Manitoba gardeners might be surprised to learn that it is possible to successfully grow azaleas outdoors in our Province. Hardiness is a concern, but it is not the primary reason that many gardeners fail with this showy staple of southern landscapes. These are fussy plants, and it requires a great deal of preparation to get them to even stand a chance of growing long enough for hardiness to become an issue.
Azaleas and rhododendrons belong to the family Ericaceae, which includes blueberries, bog rosemary and bearberry. This is important to know because all plants in this family share one distinctive trait: they have an affinity for acidic soil. In fact, with only a few exceptions, all members of this family will languish and eventually die in alkaline or even neutral garden soil. Stick an azalea in clay soil and you have effectively committed "herbicide!"
But the soil story doesn't end there. All members of this family also require highly organic soil -- a trait they carry over from their native preference for growing in the decaying organic material of the forest floor -- and the soil must be extremely well-drained. You are guaranteed to kill any member of this family by forcing it to survive even a day or two in standing water. And that includes spring melt or flash floods.
Ironically, azaleas also despise excessive dryness and are prone to wilting if their roots aren't kept constantly moist. The key is to really understand the difference between moist soil and standing water. To achieve this important balance you must provide them with optimal drainage and then water them regularly to keep the soil constantly moist.
Azaleas are purported to do well in anything from full sun to full shade but in my experience these plants will perform best in part sun. Too much sun and they will dry out, while they simply won't flower as much in deep shade.
With this in mind, here are six critical tips for planting azaleas in Manitoba:
1. Carefully evaluate your planting location beforehand. If it collects water at any time of the year, find another spot. Find as wind-sheltered a location as possible, for example on the north or east side of a house, fence, evergreen planting or dense garden. Select a location that gets half to three-quarters sunlight each day, keeping in mind that the hot afternoon Prairie sun will desiccate these plants in just a few hours during the growing season. With azaleas, location is everything!
2. Excavate a special bed for your azaleas. It doesn't matter whether it's in native soil or in high quality imported garden soil; get out your shovel and dig. Make a hole at least 18" deep and 3' in diameter for every plant, removing the soil. If you're planting a few together, dig the entire area 18" deep and at least 18" away from every plant. If you're digging into dense clay, I would go even wider, gradually sloping the walls of the hole.
3. Get out your wheelbarrow and prepare a special soil mixture for planting:
2 parts peat moss
2 parts fallen pine needles (decayed or fresh)
1 part non-limestone sand
1 part top quality black garden soil
Pine needles are far and away the best organic material for these special plants; they are highly acidic and well aerated. You might also try a fine bark mulch or leaf compost, but don't use sawdust or wood chips as these will deplete the nitrogen in the soil.
Mix well and dump into the hole a little at a time. Tamp well with your hands to pack it in, and water well. Keep adding and tamping until you form a gradual mound that rises about 2-3" above grade level in the center, gradually sloping to grade level at the edges.
4. Form a hole in the center of each mound with your hands (this mixture is very easy to work with) the diameter and depth of the root ball. Remove the plant from its pot, and if it is root-bound, make a few vertical slits in the roots with a sharp knife. Place the plant in the hole, making sure that the top of the root ball (the crown of the plant) is 2-3" above grade (i.e. level with the center of the raised mound). It is critical that the crown sits substantially above grade to ensure optimal drainage.
5. Use your hands to fill the soil back against the root ball and to smooth out the transition with the mound. The top of the root ball should be level with the mound.
6. Liberally apply 2-4" of mulch to the top of the planting mound and around the plant. Pine needles or bark mulch are best because they add organic matter as they decay without suffocating the fine roots. Water thoroughly but not excessively.
After planting, water regularly, being careful not to overwater at any time. The key is to give them frequent light waterings as opposed to infrequently drenching them.
Azaleas will tolerate pruning, but I strongly recommend against it. They are naturally neat shrubs, and the flower buds for next season's spring bloom are produced in the previous summer. Unless the pruning is timed exactly, you're likely to eliminate a season's worth of flowering. Never prune in fall or winter.
There are thousands of cultivars offered around the world, but the vast majority are not hardy in Manitoba. The hardiest azaleas, and in fact the hardiest commercial varieties of this entire genus, are the "Northern Lights" series from the University of Minnesota. There are a number of selections which feature a range of sizes and colors, but they differ in individual hardiness, because while they have been marketed as a single series, they are actually different hybrids with different parents. About the only thing they share in common is that they are reliably hardy in zone 4; in colder zones, the differences are significant.
The hardiest variety of all is 'Orchid Lights' which is hardy in zone 3b, and is a reliable performer in zone 3a with proper care and siting. I have never had a year when mine didn't bloom at least some, and I provide them with no additional winter protection. The next hardiest are 'Rosy Lights' and 'Northern Lights', which are significantly taller. These two are slightly less reliable in zone 3, but still worth a shot in sheltered locations. All the other "Lights" series (e.g. 'Lemon Lights', 'Mandarin Lights', 'Spicy Lights', 'White Lights', etc.) are hardy to zone 4a, and should only be tried by the truly adventurous in our zone.
It is entirely possible to extend the range of almost every azalea by at least one full zone if you are prepared to provide added winter protection. As with your tender roses, wrap the plants in late fall with a thick cover of straw or peat mulch to act as insulation. While this method is tried and true, I would caution you to not count on this unless you are prepared to religiously repeat this process year after year. Frankly, I feel that Manitoba gardeners are better off sticking to the hardiest cultivars and enjoying them without this added hassle.


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Wiesel at Wagner
Apr 13
by Aimee Gonzalez
(cross-posted at Wagner Today)
Elie Wiesel, whom many consider to be the most articulate witness of the Holocaust and whose work, Night, has become a classic account of that time, visited New York University's Puck Building on April 12th with the Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship and the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. In light of his most recent publication, An Ethical Compass, and the general theme of social entrepreneurship Wiesel discussed ethos, and why we need it to advance society.
Speaking to a room filled with students, community members and faculty, Wiesel asked, "Where are we? With so many changes, convulsions, what is happening to the world? We need a historic compass," to situate and orient ourselves. That compass is ethos.
For Wiesel, ethos "is a choice between good and evil. How can we make such a distinction? First decide what is not good—anything involving humiliation of the other." He discussed Hitler and Stalin's use of their leadership position to preach an ethos that was not truly there—and was instead a way to justify millions of deaths. Wiesel reminded his audience that "the choice is always in our hands." He gives the example of the SS (Hitler's protection force that grew into a paramilitary organization), emphasizing that they had a choice. In fact, it was a voluntary position; no one should ever believe that they were coerced.
Given Wiesel's life story, references to Hitler and Nazi Germany are inevitable. However, he also defines ethos as generally "respect[ing] the other for whatever the other is." His childhood love for the others in his community, beggars and madmen, grew into the social activism he is well known for today. To illustrate this respect for the other, he gave the example of his visit to German President Johannes Rau, in which he pointed out that the one thing Germany had never done was to ask the Jewish people for forgiveness. In 2000, Rau flew to Israel and went before the Knesset, and wrote letters to survivors, asking for forgiveness.
Wiesel gave another example of his social activism, the mediation between the Minister of Apartheid in South Africa and Nelson Mandela. After many days of frustration, he "took them into a room and said, 'talk to each other.' That was the beginning of the end of apartheid."
His policy of respecting the "other" in others has earned Elie Wiesel recognition and reputation beyond his story of survival. Although he has written extensively about his experience, and especially the challenge of writing about the Holocaust, he has also been an activist on behalf of other humanitarian causes. (See, for example, this 2000 open letter of advice to then-President Clinton regarding the situation in Sudan.) Wiesel has also established a foundation to combat injustice and indifference worldwide.
Browse the BJPA for more resources on the Holocaust, Holocaust Education, Genocide, Human Rights, Global Responsibility, and Ethics.


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Delaware law allows estate executors to access digital assets
A new law in Delaware could provide answers to the tough questions that families face when a loved one passes away in the digital age.
The law allows executors of an estate to access the digital assets of the person who passed away. This includes email accounts, social media accounts, health records and cloud storage.
Some companies, such as Google, already offer users the option of assigning a beneficiary.
If an account is inactive for a certain amount of time, the beneficiary is contacted by Google and given the ability to log in to the Gmail account of the deceased so they can access important emails, shut down the account or even set an auto-reply message to friends.
Twitter also allows users to assign a beneficiary, but a death certificate must be presented before the account can be shut down.
Without a designated beneficiary, heirs can be in for a long and often unsuccessful battle to gain account access.
Supporters of Delaware's law hope other states will follow its lead so that family members will no longer have to deal with the corporate red tape following the death of a loved one.


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Lorena Ochoa won yesterday. If I wrote a lot about the LPGA (which I don't), that would be the fourth straight week I typed that on a Monday.
Ochoa made three bogeys all week to go with her
Here is my question - could Ochoa make the cut on the PGA Tour in a wimpy, weak field?
Her driving average is 277.5 (which, in comparison, would be two yards longer than the field average at the Verizon Heritage this week), and would have her ahead of people like Chris Dimarco, Steve Flesch and Jim Furyk on the driving distance leaderboard for the year.
So, she hits the ball as far, has a scoring average this year that is a shade under 68 (67.87) and is winning at a phenomenal rate right now, notching four of the first five LPGA tournaments of the season.
I know it is stupid to compare boys and girls, but as far as she hits it and as good as she hits it, the argument could be made that she might have a chance to "compete" on the PGA Tour.
It all boils down to her comfortableness with the situation, but if she could approach a PGA Tour tournament the same way she does playing with the skirts, I think making the cut would be well within grasp.


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When you read this, I'll be on the road again headed toward Florida for the start of the Elite season. I can't wait. I don't remember ever being more positive about fishing and the sport of professional bass fishing than I am now. It's about as good as things can get.
I spent some time at the Cincinnati Bass Pro Shops this weekend. I have to say that the crowds were fantastic. I know things could look better for our country's economy. Gas prices are rising, unemployment is still stubbornly high and our public officials seem to be clueless about what to do to fix things. Still, the fishing world looks really good to me today.
The crowds at the seminars — mine as well as several other guys — were as big as I've ever seen them. The weather is warm so everyone is chomping at the bit to get out and catch some fish. The participants were asking questions, taking notes and generally getting ready for their first trip of the year. You could tell they'd had enough of winter.
Even better for our industry, they were spending money. I was told we (Cincinnati) had the second highest dollar intake on Saturday of all the Bass Pro Shops. If that's accurate, it says something positive. Ohio has been hit pretty hard by the recession. If we can put things back together, the rest of the country should be able to do so as well.
That's not the only thing that has me in a good mood, though. Another factor is the quality of the fishing around the country.
Look at what's been happening on Lake Erie. Think back 15 years: Would you have ever imagined weights like we've been pulling out of it? I doubt it. More likely you would have asked about pollution and filth. What a turnaround for one of America's great fishing venues.
The Louisiana Delta gave a pretty good accounting of itself, too. The Classic weights were solid considering the weather changes, fog delays and other problems they've had down there since 2005. If I had the time and space, I could give you an example from every state in our country.
Along with all that, we have the best lures, rods, reels and line that we've ever had. They work, which is more than you could say about a lot of the stuff made decades ago. Add to that better boats, motors and electronics and you can see why I'm so upbeat.
I've fished for bass for more than 30 years, and I've never seen it this good. It's wonderful to be alive and well and headed toward the first Elite Series tournament of the year!


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We've got the national initiative and creativity to look under the hood of IT systems, but the country's missing an opportunity to collectively sell its IT security expertise to the world.
"If we took a pan New Zealand concept of IT security, we could export it and charge accordingly," says Lateral Security sales director, Ratu Mason.
The kiwi attitude to delve into software and its security's depths, as well as legislation that while not exactly encouraging such behaviour, also doesn't forbid it, is an advantage for this country Mason says.
"It is intellectual property that we have, and Google's willing to pay for it because they realise that we're good," he says. Three of Google's top IT security specialists are New Zealanders.
"We're creative, and we need to foster and use that to our country's benefit."
Mason envisages that New Zealand IT security companies could virtually come together, and target a country by setting up a small branch office of five or six people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia or even China.
"This would be a commercial set up, with service offerings that are different from someone else," he says.
Such an overseas front office would use a New Zealand back-office to test and monitor for IT system vulnerabilities.
Mason says he's had difficulty convincing government departments of the opportunities for a collective NZ approach to such IT security challenges, but he points out that such opportunities are only going to grow larger.
With more online transactions, there's more privacy and monitoring of privacy requirements, as well as increased opportunity for fraud to be carried out.
The huge rise in mobile applications will only see these risks grow for companies, and banks in the first instance he says.
"New Zealand's recognised as world leaders in IT security," says Mason. "We could be the next Nokia in this field, and we wouldn't even have to carry out manufacturing. That's because it is all in your head knowledge."
He says the opportunity exists for a collective New Zealand approach to offering and serving the IT security field, but that a shared and planned approach to providing such a service could create a vibrant industry and new wealth for the country.


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