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This weekend, New York City's streets are animated with urban lab experiments and psychogeographic mappings at the 2008 Conflux Festival. Amongst them are several projects that send tendrils out to explore the dynamics of fiber, vegetation, and information transference in the wilds of urban landscapes. From hand-spun urban flotsam to wild sound-capturing nets to audio tours of the city conducted by plants, these featured events cast a net out over the spirit of creative urban exploration while also sneaking in some real concerns about sustainability and our relationship to our immediate surroundings.
Wildernets, designed by artists Doris Cacoilo, Mouna Andraos and Sonali Sridhar, is intended to net visitors into the auditory wild. It features intricately crocheted nets rigged out with speakers to secretly emit the 'sounds of nature' to unsuspecting passer-byers. The essence of the project is the 'capture' of an outdoor experience, now tossed into an urban environment.
Inhabitat's own Abigail Doan is harvesting the tossed and forgotten flotsam of the city's streets and sidewalks and twining the recycled materials together in her piece, Urban Fiber Flotsam. In her quest, the artist has walked and gathered cast-off, fiber-based materials from the neighborhoods and shores of lower Manhattan. She has focused on neighborhoods with a long history of textile production, early farming practices, and unanchored vagrancy.
Urban Fiber Flotsam is an exploration of the way that 'free floating flotsam' drifts, and then attaches itself to the modern hunter-gatherer and eco-agent. Gathered materials include unanchored litter, random street debris, historical documents, loose vegetation, lost personal artifacts, textile relics, and culinary ingredients – all collected and 'twined' by the artist into a single fiber to unify the disparate threads of urban life.
Amongst any vegetal cast of characters in an urban environment are native and cultivated plants, with their own botanical dialogue – shoots of weeds growing in sidewalk cracks, potted plants dropping leaves on porches, trees grazing scalps with their branches. These occurrences within the local landscape are made audible in the project, Botanicalls. Visitors call the project's phone line to be directed to a plant, which then speaks to them in a voice based on their species' character and growing habits. The cast ranges from native plants to wild grasses to curbside trees, all giving their perspective on local natural history.
In another plant walk, artist Elizabeth Whalley is painting effigies of rare, native, and endangered plants on the rocks and rubble of an East River park. The Brooklyn Plant Walk includes downloadable field and audio guides that encourages visitors to view the city within the context of its ecological past. Whalley will also invite viewers to suggest plant paintings in the hope that they will re-perceive the presence or absence of plants in the city and use these new insights to imagine a more sustainable urban landscape.


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the Man Who Knows Too Much
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The darkest deeds are done in the dead of night. That's why it's often a good idea to check out the last item on the online video of the Berkeley City Council meetings. Yes, if you're a political junky you can watch the council in real time on your home computer (or godforbid even attend in person) but you have to be badly addicted to stay awake until the wee small hours when the powers-that-wanna-be take up their worst proposals.
Of course, for Berkeley's elderly councilmembers, the wee small hours are only between 10 and midnight, but by that time many watchers have tuned out, from sheer boredom if nothing else. I finally got around to checking out last week's council meeting over the weekend, but watching the last item left me nothing but confused.
I admit, I didn't go back and review previous iterations, but it appeared that Councilmembers Capitelli and Wengraf wanted to make sure that some appointees to city commissions don't outstay their welcome. Needless to say, however, who you welcome depends on who you are. Or who you work for.
Councilmember Max Anderson, the master of pungent prose, got it right: " Let's just snatch the veil off this stuff. This is pure political opportunism, that's what it is."
After exhaustive study of the online video to figure out what the city council seemed to be doing, I decided that what Councilmember Capitelli is really trying to do is eliminate The Man Who Knows Too Much, Gene Poschman, from the Planning Commission. Capitelli and Poschman locked horns many times when they served together on the Planning Commission and the Zoning Adjustment Board, a total of 8 years if not more.
It's no coincidence that the four targeted commissions, Planning, ZAB, Landmarks Preservation and the Housing Advisory Committee (HAC) are concerned with land use, the only area where local governments have retained real power. The land use speculators who have descended on Berkeley like a swarm of locusts in recent years are terrified of Poschman, with good reason, even though he's a genial fellow.
He's a political scientist, a retired professor who used to work as a staffer in the state legislature, who has an intimate understanding of the intricacies of planning and zoning laws. The myriad developer-funded schemes to wrest control of Berkeley land use from public oversight might have succeeded in many, many instances without Gene's eagle eye on what was going down. Measure T, the West Berkeley rezoning effort turned down by the voters in November, is the latest example, but there have been numerous similar land grabs attempted and thwarted during Poschman's public service era.
Capitelli used to be a developer, and he's still in the real estate business. A cursory review of his list of campaign contributors reveals many familiar names of his development industry colleagues. That's a crowd that likes to get their own way in the public process, and having a knowledgeable policy wonk like the good professor Poschman on Berkeley's land use decision bodies is bound to annoy them.
Those who pay the piper call the tune, and it's clear that Capitelli is playing the developers' song with this proposal.
What specifically does he propose? Well, here's how he described his amendment at the council meeting last week:
"Refer to the city manager an amendment to BMC 3.02.040 that imposes an eight-year cumulative -- eight cumulative years in any ten-year period--cumulative term limit for all commissioners serving on the LPC, the HAC, the ZAB, and the Planning Commission, currently subject to an eight-year consecutive term limit and whose service commenced on or before… September 1, 2006.' I also would insert "and all future commissioners."So, now that that's perfectly clear—not to me, but maybe to the councilmembers—let's see why Capitelli said he wanted these changes:
So we're not just talking about commissioners that are serving now but all future commissioners.
And the September 1, 2006 date would extend this, then, to September 1 of 2014, providing a transition period for those who are exceeding the limit."
"Number one, there are rarely vacancies on any of these four boards that I identified.
Number two, there are lots of people, including commissioners who I have appointed who will be moving on after eight years.
Number three, it's the intended policy of this council to have an eight-year limit, and there happens to be a big loophole in it, which I object to."No data to support the first two assertions was provided, and Councilmember Worthington said they were incorrect as far as his own appointees were concerned, , but policy wonk Poschman, in a two minute public comment slot, offered a reality check on Number Three. He actually did the numbers and tried to explain them to a confused and largely innumerate council.
The bottom line is that in the time period he studied, perhaps 1.6% of the commissioners, perhaps 8 individuals total, benefited from the so-called "big loophole". Or put another way 98 or 99% of the commissioners served 8 years or less according to the standard formula,.
Not only that, most of the small number of commissioners who arranged to get reappointed after serving close to 8 years did so because they were in the midst of working on specific projects like the Downtown Plan which they wanted to complete before stepping down. Councilmember Susan Wengraf, Capitelli's co-sponsor for this proposal, took advantage of the loophole herself to get reappointed to the Planning Commission at least once.
But it just so happens that all those complicated words have just one function: they exactly delineate the terms of just four sitting commissioners, Poschman the most prominent among them.
The irony underlying this whole chaotic discussion is that a sizable percentage of the sitting councilmembers have been in office much, much longer that the commissioners they propose to fire. A couple of them,Wengraf and Moore, had been aides to previous councilmembers before they were elected in their own right, giving them fingers in the pie for a very very long time indeed.
The usual argument against term limits of any kind is that the expertise officeholders develop is wasted if they are automatically dumped. Those who watch Sacramento politics often comment that the legislators there are increasingly dominated by lobbyists, since they've just learned the ropes before they're sent home.
And even the most avid proponents of term limits for legislators rarely support term limits for judges, since judges really need to understand what they're doing-their years on the bench educate them in the law and the subject matter.
That's why choosing to kick commissioners off Berkeley's four quasi-judicial bodies is particularly foolish. It takes a good while for many ZAB members to grasp what's meant by arcane acronyms like FAR and C2A.
If any kind of term limits is needed, it's term limits for councilmembers that should be under discussion. Incumbents are automatically re-elected time after time after time, which is why only one of nine is under 50 in a town full of students.
Mayor Bates should be well aware of the arguments pro and con, since after 24 years in the state legislature he sued to defeat the term limits imposed on those bodies, carrying his suit all the way to the Supreme Court before it lost. Under the circumstances, he should be embarrassed to try to get a Berkeley planning commissioner (and longtime supporter) with a great deal of accumulated knowledge and institutional memory knocked off after only eight years on the job.
Ultimately, last week the council abandoned the confused discussion so they could go home to bed, postponing it until next Tuesday's meeting. It will be interesting to see what happens.
If you're a policy wonk yourself, you could watch the excerpt below, decide whether you think Professor Poschman should be fired from the Planning Commission, and call or write your councilmember with your opinion before Tuesday. I can't promise, however, that they'll pay you any mind—it doesn't usually work that way in Berkeley any more.


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NASHUA, NH -- A New Hampshire club owner pleaded guilty to violations of the state's consumer protection act after cutting a deal with the state's attorney general. Sean Corriveau, former manager and president of Elite Fitness Inc., is required to pay $14,000 of restitution for fraudulent credit card use and must serve a 30-day jail sentence. He also has been prohibited to run any business for the next 10 years involving prepaid memberships.
Corriveau pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors in Hillsborough County (NH) Superior Court after an agreement with New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte.
Corriveau used an unauthorized credit card to charge $14,000 worth of carpeting through Carpet Creations Inc. to outfit Powerhouse Gym, a health club that opened in 2007 but was not registered with the attorney general's office. Corriveau failed to pay the necessary $50,000 bond with the state, which violated state law. He also accepted prepaid memberships, another violation.
This is not the first time Corriveau has encountered trouble with the law. Last year, Corriveau was evicted from the plaza where he leased space for the gym for not paying $14,000 in rent. He also was successfully sued by Michigan-based Powerhouse Gyms for illegally using the franchise name, the Nashua (NH) Telegraph reports. A federal court ruled that Corriveau had to pay Powerhouse Gyms $130,000, the newspaper reported.Gravity Fitness Club entered the space that Powerhouse Gym vacated, but that club also closed, according to the newspaper, and was replaced by a Gold's Gym.


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The Long-Eared Owl (Asio otus) is a Very Secretive Bird that is Often Overlooked
The long-eared owl is smaller and slimmer than the tawny owl, especially when roosting, and has longer narrower wings. It has long tufts on the top of its head that look like ears, but these not are visible in flight or when it is relaxed. It has a well defined rusty-buff facial disc and orange eyes.
The upper parts are streaked grey with brownish-buff, making the bird well camouflaged when roosting against the trunk of a tree. In flight this owl appears more uniform with more fine streaks and barring than the short-eared owl. In winter they gather in communal roosts.
Length: 33-37cm; wingspan: 90-100cm.
Status in UK
2,000 pairs, probably declining; GREEN listed; resident and passage/winter visitor from Scandinavia.
Population Trends
The long-eared owl was scarce, though probably under recorded, in southern England and Wales in the early part of the 19th century. Numbers increased in the second half of the century; this appears to coincide with the decline in tawny owls through persecution and the spread of conifer plantings. Always widespread in most of Scotland, apart from the extreme north and west, the species also benefited here from the spread of plantation forestry increasing in both their numbers and range in the late 1800s.
The population declined again in the 20th century in southern England and Wales. It remained more stable in Scotland, where the spread of tawny owls was slower, and in Ireland, where tawnies are absent, which suggests that competition with the larger owl may have been implicated. The decline has continued, though because of its shy nature it is under-recorded and has been the subject of a Hawk and Owl Trust survey in recent years.
Habitat and Distribution
Long-eared owls are mainly found in conifer woodland on the edge of lowland heaths. They also occur in copses and thick hedges and belts of trees in open farmland and around rural settlements.
This species is widespread all year round in suitable habitats in the north, east and midlands of England, north Wales and southern Scotland. It also breeds further north in Scotland as a summer visitor. It is scarce and localised in south-west Britain.
Long-eared owls breed mainly in abandoned crows' nests. They prefer those in pines but also use other conifers and deciduous trees. They will nest in baskets put up in suitable locations.
This owl feeds mainly on field voles, other small rodents and shrews. In Britain it takes more birds than elsewhere in its range – principally house sparrows caught at their communal roosts in winter.
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We wrote this guide to help you better understand what you need to consider when researching quality management software.
Here's what we'll cover:
What Is Quality Management Software?
Common Features of Quality Management Software
What Type of Buyer Are You?
Additional Capabilities to Consider
Quality management software (QMS) can help manufacturers measure (and therefore improve) the quality of their products and processes. This software category can refer to a broad range of applications that help manufacturers ensure quality across all supply chain activities—from design to production to distribution and eventually, service.
Some solutions on the market are created for general repetitive manufacturers, while others are designed for specialized manufacturing (e.g., pharmaceutical and biochemical manufacturers).
The applications that can make up a quality management system aim to help manufacturers better control the four key components of quality management:
Common functionality found in these systems includes:
|Corrective and preventive action (CAPA)
|Helps manage and track CAPAs by automatically routing corrective/preventive actions to the right quality manager so they can accept or reject the action. If accepted, the system will assign the action to a responsible party and start a workflow to investigate the root cause of the issue. Quality managers can attach documentation, assign priority to and monitor the status of each submitted action.
|Audit management
|Tracks all audit tasks and documents. Keeps a record of internal and third-party audits, tracks the scheduling and results of every audit and allows manufacturers to evaluate the effectiveness of auditors. An audit management application will usually be built to pass this information to the document control or CAPA modules so that audit information can be attached to the corresponding corrective/preventive action.
|Complaint management
|Helps manufacturers improve their quality of service by logging complaints from customers. Manufacturers can then investigate, respond to and resolve customer complaints. This application can provide manufacturers with useful feedback from end customers that might otherwise be difficult to obtain.
|Change control
|Identifies, defines and organizes the tasks required to implement a change in company processes or use of resources (e.g., packaging for a particular product). The system then analyzes how that change will impact the company.
|Document control
|Helps manufacturer's organize all documents related to production—from the design files for a product to standards compliance documentation—in a centralized and searchable database. Documents can be easily sent to team members for review/approval and linked customer records, bills of materials (BOMs) and inventory.
|Risk management
|Enables manufacturers to more easily evaluate risk by standardizing risk assessment documentation and analyzing recurring issues in a single location. All risk files are associated with the corresponding document, project or process to improve analysis.
|Statistical process control
|Collects, analyzes and visually displays data from shop floor machines to measure statistical variations in output. Based on this data, manufacturers can fine-tune their production processes to reduce scrap rates, improve yield and produce a higher quality product.
|Supplier quality management
|Helps manufacturers qualify, select and monitor supply chain partners. Includes features for supplier scorecards, supplier qualification workflows and tracking of supplier issues such as non-conformances.
|Employee training management
|Helps manage employee training by tracking training activities and ensuring that relevant course materials are completed. Ensures compliance with requirement for proof of quality management training.
Prior to evaluating a quality management program, you'll want to know what type of buyer category you belong to:
Enterprise quality management software (EQMS) buyer. Manufacturers that require data integration across all applications should evaluate an integrated suite. These systems are able to manage quality compliance, track the source of quality issues, monitor shop floor operations and evaluate supplier relationships within a single system. EQMS systems can be integrated with other enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) software to provide a more complete view of operational quality.
Single application buyer. Manufacturers that are not ready to purchase an enterprise system may consider a single solution to better manage one aspect of operations. Common applications that manufacturers can purchase on a stand alone basis include document control, change management and statistical process control (SPC) software.
Specialty buyer. Some manufacturers will have industry-specific requirements. For instance, pharmaceutical manufacturers require functionality to prove compliance with the Federal Drug Administration's guidelines in Title 21 CFR Part 11. This means they need a system that helps properly track plant audits, control for drug quality and track all electronic documents according to FDA standards. Other manufacturers that should evaluate a specialized system include medical device, consumer products and electronics manufacturers.
In addition to the key functionality we reviewed above, there are other capabilities that can be important to quality management, but aren't present in every system. Here are a couple more to consider before implementing a new system.
Data visualizations. A QMS system collects high volumes of useful quality data. To synthesize all of this information and make analysis easier, manufacturers should consider the visual reporting capabilities of their system as a well-designed reporting dashboard will make it easier for the average user to make more data-driven decisions.
Example of a quality management reporting dashboard from IQMS
Web-based supplier portals. Many systems provide a Web-based portal to manage supplier relationships. These portals give suppliers real-time access to your supply requirements such as purchase orders, payment and invoicing as well as advance shipping notice (ASN) information. This makes it easier to interface with your suppliers and also gather valuable information about suppliers' performance. Before implementing a supplier portal, it's important to coordinate with suppliers to ensure you provide them with information they need to meet your inventory needs. Some manufacturers also share their supplier scorecard in this portal so suppliers understand the exact metrics you'll use to evaluate their performance.
Our service is simple and 100% free to customers like you because software vendors pay us when we connect them with quality leads. You save time and get great advice. Vendors get great referrals. It's a win for everyone!


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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Immortal Rules Blog Tour stops
Did you know that at each stop of the Immortal Rules blog tour you can enter to win a signed hardcover? Today, the tour stops at I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read where you'll discover the Rules of The Fringe, Allison's home.
Here are the rest of the tour stops.
16-Apr Harlequin Blog The Immortal Rules Blog Tour Kick-Off!
17-Apr I Read Banned Books: The Fringe
18-Apr I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read: Rules of the Fringe
19-Apr Supernatural Snark: Meet Allison
20-Apr Mundie Moms: Life as a Registered Human in the Inner City
21-Apr Books Complete Me: Red Lung Disease
22-Apr I Am A Reader, Not A Writer : Rabids!
23-Apr ReadingTeen : Waking Up as a Vampire
24-Apr (Launch day!) PageTurners : Meet the Cover Designer of the Immortal Rules, Wastepaper Prose : Meet the Editor of The Immortal Rules, Electrifying Reviews : Just Julie, Bookalicio.us : A Guest Post from Allison
25-Apr Tynga's Reviews : Welcome to The Wilderness
26-Apr Once Upon a Twilight : The Immortal Rules
27-Apr All Things Urban Fantasy : Meet Kanin
28-Apr ConfessionsofaBookaholic :The Inner City
29-Apr A Good Addiction : Hierarchy of the Vampire Society
30-Apr Reading Angel : Meet Zeke
1-May Taming the Bookshelf : Tips for a Vampire: How to Safely Kiss a Human
2-May TeensReadandWrite : Sneak Peek at Book #2 of The Blood of Eden series
Remember, you can win cool stuff at each and every one of these, so be sure to check them all!
Oh, and tomorrow I get to reveal my BIG NEWS. Like, the mother of all NEWS, the thing I've been sitting on all week and I'm just about to explode with excitement. If you wanna know what it is, check back tomorrow! :D
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- AnonymousApril 18, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Can't wait for the mother of all news!!!ReplyDelete
Awesome blog tour. I'll at least get to some of your stops. And can't wait to read your new book. I'll be offering it as a giveaway choice when I participate in a Book Giveaway Hop set up by Kathy at I am Reader, Not a Writer on May 7th.ReplyDelete
Can I tell you how excited I am to be a part of your tour? Thanks for the mention! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM
I wan to know the big news!!!!...ReplyDelete
I have been following this tour and have really enjoyed the posts. Today for some odd reason I saw the trailer for the first time and I absolutely loved it. Thank you so much for the fun tour these awesome opportunities to win this awesome book.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 29, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Should i read the Iron fey series before reading the inmortal rules thanksReplyDelete
Congrats on the book option, all other authorly goodness! I've sent you a couple of interview requests for LouisvilleKY.com. Hope they're not hitting your spam folder. Would love to feature your work in front of the local community! Thanks.ReplyDelete


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Hibari No Hanaemaki #9 (Japanese Mystery Record) by nicholab
Download Link: Japanese Mystery Record- Hibari No Hanaemaki (Columbia AL-104, 1957-8)
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awesome! thanks a lot for your blog!
hello! I came across your blog and was very pleased to see such musical diversity. along with mutant sounds, big in japan and lucky, your blog is one of the most interesting I've had chance to check out.
flattering aside, I'm writing to give the actual name of this record. I'm a bit obsessed with tags -- as a lastfm user --, and after some research, found out that the artist is, in fact, hibari misora (美空ひばり), a famous enka singer. I've also managed to locate a link in amazon japan, in case someone else wants to tag the songs correctly.
thanks for sharing good music!
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Hamilton's Luxury Watches
In 1892, Hamilton Watch Company was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - with American manufacturing during its early production stages. They produced their first watch in the following year. Hamilton watches are based on delivering their core values of quality and accuracy in each and every one of their timepieces. After several acquisitions, the Hamilton Watch Company was sold to the Swiss watch company, the Swatch Group in 1974. The brand later moved their headquarters and manufacturing facilities from the U.S. to Biel, Switzerland in 2003. Now combining both the American Spirit and Swiss precision, Hamilton's brand continues to be a renowned brand, with recognition of its achievements and craftsmanship over the decades.
The company launched their first series of pocket watches in 1912, known as "The Watch of Railroad Accuracy". This innovation during its time solved a very problematic situation because there were often many accidents on the railroads with no specific process to determine the time. The accuracy on these pocket watches eliminated this issue.
In the next few decades to come, Hamilton expanded their luxury watch collections to cover demands for armed forces and pilots. In 1914, Hamilton became the official supplier to the U.S. Armed Forces which heightened their character for producing precision watches. This is also the time when Hamilton transitions their focus from making pocket watches to wrist watches.
Hamilton watches also contributed a crucial role in the history of aviation when Admiral Richard E. Byrd became the first aviator to reach North Pole in 1926, wearing a Hamilton watch during his nearly 16-hour flight. This was a monumental day. Fast forward to 2018, the brand launched its newly updated Hamilton automatic watch known as the Khaki Pilot Automatic Day Date watch, available in both stainless steel or brown PVD-coated case.
With other pioneering achievements locked under Hamilton's belt by 1930, the luxury watch brand was selected to be the official watch for four different major American airlines along with being chosen to time keep the first official flight from east to west coast, New York to San Francisco.
In 1942, as Hamilton continued to supply large shipments to the U.S. Armed Forces, which equaled to over one million wrist watches, they have decided to halt their production to consumers during this time.
In 1970, many prestigious Swiss brands were competing alongside Japanese manufacturers in the chronomatic movement to engineer a self-winding chronograph caliber – with many of these brands yielding different results in their development. When the innovation was developed and these brands needed an appealing name – Hamilton came up with the term "Chrono-Matic" while the Heuer brand coined "chronomatic". The 1970's Hamilton chrono matic offers an excellent panda dial and pays tribute in its contribution to the creation of the chronograph movement.
Hamilton went on to transform the watch industry by releasing their Ventura collection in 1957. The futuristic shield-shaped design became the world's first electrical battery-operated watch, designed by Richard Arbib. The watch reached new popularity in 1961 when the legendary King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, was seen to be wearing it. Hamilton celebrated the Ventura collection's 60th anniversary in 2017, with the launch of the Ventura Classic in three different styles: yellow gold with a white dial, stainless steel with blue denim dial, and a Ventura Skeletonized.
The collection to include Hamilton's innovative, sophisticated yet modern look is presented in the Hamilton jazzmasters collection. The series offer beautiful variations from timeless to intricate designs and may be found under Hamilton watches for men such as the Hamilton Jazzmaster Gent Quartz or a Hamilton womens watch similar to the Jazzmaster Open Heart Lady Auto.
Hamilton offers a large selection in their collections that is suitable for both genders along with many styles that can be unisex. When searching for Hamilton watches for sale or Hamilton watch dealers, browse through Watchshopping.com's extensive collection at your convenience. There are many Hamilton ladies watch as there are men's watch. Also, if you have any questions pertaining to any of our products, please feel free to contact us with the product number.


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The amount of secrecy surrounding Trois Mec, the new restaurant by Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook (Animal and Son of a Gun) and Ludo Lefebvre ("The Taste" and Ludo Bites) would rival a top-secret CIA mission. The restaurant is hidden away at the back of a shopping center off Highland in the old Raffallo's pizza joint. The three chefs have kept a tight lid on the partnership and the restaurant concept, until now.
On Wednesday afternoon, the core Trois Mec crew, Shook, Dotolo, Lefebvre, Lefebvre's wife Krissy, director of operations Helen Johannesen and chef de cuisine Doug Rankin, were seated around the restaurant's four tables. The restaurant is still at least four weeks from formal opening -- the sign for the former tenant still hangs atop the building and frosted windows hide any clue as to the space inside.
"We had the sign rewired so it lights up," said Shook. "It's not a priority," interjected Lefebvre. "It's more about what's inside."
What's inside is a complete 180 from the restaurant's shopping center neighbors: a Thai restaurant, dry cleaners and a donut shop. It's an intimate space with shiny marble floors. The wall opposite the kitchen is made of mirrors and more marble. Each table is set against the wall with dark wood benches. There is also seating at the kitchen counter and the restaurant can accommodate around 24 people at a time.


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Southfield's First Choice for Snow Removal Services
Parks Services provides comprehensive snow and ice management solutions for commercial and industrial properties in the Southfield area, as well as large private estates. When it comes to ice removal, you need a company that is committed to speed, efficiency, and reliability. Qualified employees and the proper equipment is critical in the snow-fighting business.
By maintaining a large fleet of our own equipment, as well as a team of reliable professionals, we are able to ensure that your customers, employees, or tenants remain safe throughout even the most treacherous Michigan winters. We understand that our clients count on us to act fast, and we're here so that they can rest assured knowing that we are monitoring the weather 24/7 and are prepared to mobilize at all times.
Our snow removal team is always ready to act during snow or ice events.
Our snow-fighting operation is rapidly deployed according to a well-rehearsed plan. Our personnel are trained for speed and precision and our field supervisors ensure that quality and performance standards are met. Our command center, located in Troy, Michigan, acts as a communications hub, informing units in the field of changes in weather conditions or strategy. The latest technology is utilized for the best results.
Southfield's Snow Plowing & De-Icing Services for Commercial, Industrial and Large Private Properties
We offer a complete package of commercial snow & ice management services to our clients, taking the burden off of their hands and providing peace of mind knowing that their property is in exceptional hands. Monitoring the weather is a serious commitment for us in the winter months. We study current conditions, forecasts, and high-tech models to assess the threat of adverse weather.
Our experienced team handles all aspect of snow and ice management:
- Snow Plowing -- Clearing snow on-site to appropriate and pre-determined locations.
- Snow Hauling -- Relocating snow piles on-site or removing snow completely from a property.
- Sidewalk Clearing -- Complete sidewalk services including clearing and ice management.
- De-Icing -- Applying ice control materials to melt snow or ice after accumulation.
Risk Management
There are over 2 million slip and fall accidents and over 17,000 deaths resulting from associated injuries each year in the U.S. Providing safe access to our clients' properties and facilities is our singular goal. The potential for lawsuits and insurance claims is very real during the winter months. However, the risk can be substantially reduced by hiring an experienced, qualified, and proactive snow and ice management company.
Our event management decision-making process centers on risk management. While many of our competitors focus on optimizing their profits during the winter, we focus on minimizing risks for our clients. We know that this will build trust and lead to long-term partnerships.
We provide value by delivering exceptional services that focus on reducing risk and overall costs associated with maintaining safe properties for our clients and their employees, customers, tenants, and visitors.
We maintain advanced snow plowing equipment.
Equipment is critical in the snow-fighting business. By maintaining a large fleet of our own equipment, we are able to assign the right equipment for each property. We maintain our own equipment with our own mechanics at our facility. We even sell and install equipment for other snow contractors. Please contact us for a complete list of equipment.
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Recent Trends in Bank Loan Syndications: Evidence for 1995 to 1999
by Jonathan Jones, William W. Lang, Peter Nigro
Bank loan syndications have become an increasingly popular and important way for commercial borrowers to satisfy their financing needs. The ability to overcome problems of adverse selection and moral hazard are critical to the development of this market. Using a panel data set constructed from the Shared National Credit Program over the period 1995 to 1999, this paper extends the work of Simons (1993) and Dennis and Mullineaux (2000) by estimating a multivariate cross-section/time-series regression model explaining an agent bank's retained share of a syndicated loan. The panel regression model focuses on the effect of information asymmetries, loan quality, and capital constraints on an agent bank's retained loan share. We also test for opportunistic behavior by agent banks. We find that bank capital, loan seasoning, and maturity have significant effects on the average loan share retained by an agent bank. More importantly, we find that, although agent banks retain larger portions of their lower-quality loans, certain agent banks specialize in the lower end of the credit spectrum, and these banks syndicate a larger share of their low-quality loans.
As with all OCC Working Papers, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Department of the Treasury.
Any whole or partial reproduction of material in this paper should include the following citation: Jonathan Jones, William W. Lang, Peter Nigro " Recent Trends in Bank Loan Syndications: Evidence for 1995 to 1999," Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, E&PA Working Paper 2000-10, December 2000
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This season JaVale McGee did crazy things, lazy things, stupid things, and even awesome things. Last night in the final moments of the Nuggets' Game Seven loss to the Lakers, he gave us all a nice parting gift when he tried to dunk his own missed free throw.
It was called off on account of him entering the lane before the ball hit the rim, and sadly TNT was too busy promoting itself to really show us what happened, but you can get the gist here—along with our last glimpse of the JaVale "Did I do that?" face. Fare thee well, JaVale, stay healthy, work hard, and we'll all be waiting to observe your wonderful self come next season. [TNT]


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Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, said Monday that the results of the Nov. 6 election do not reflect increased support for abortion rights in the United States, even though some of the candidates most staunchly opposed to abortion lost.
O'Malley, who will take over as chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Pro-Life Committee this week, said a few prominent abortion opponents may have caused a backlash in their own races by talking about the issue in a way that alienated voters, but the economy and immigration were the main issues driving the outcome.
He added that long-term polling data suggest that Americans are becoming less comfortable with unfettered access to abortion.
"I am very confident that the prolife position in the country is growing stronger, particularly among the younger demographic, and I think many people are out of touch with that," O'Malley said in a phone interview from Baltimore, where he was attending the fall gathering of the US bishops.
In remarks to the assembly earlier in the day, O'Malley thanked his fellow bishops and Catholic organizations for their help in defeating physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts, which he called a "terrible assault on human life."
The Catholic church teaches that all life is sacred, from conception to natural death, and that suicide is always objectively wrong, though whether a person bears responsibility for committing suicide depends on his or her psychological and physiological state.
In his remarks, O'Malley pointed to the Netherlands, where doctor-assisted suicide is legal and where a group is now creating mobile teams that will offer euthanasia to patients at home, making lethal drugs more widely available to patients. The United States, O'Malley said, is a long way from that scenario, but only because voters in all but two states have held the line.
"What has put the brakes on the growth of physician-assisted suicide in the US is that more than 20 states have rejected proposed legislation and ballot initiatives," he said.
The Archdiocese of Boston led the fight against Question 2, the ballot measure that would have allowed people with less than six months to live to obtain lethal prescriptions. The church helped build a diverse coalition of doctors, hospice workers, and interfaith leaders and helped raise more than $4 million, much of it from Catholic organizations and wealthy donors across the country.
Polls indicated that the measure had overwhelming support as recently as the beginning of October, but on Election Day it failed by 2 percentage points.
O'Malley, in the interview after his talk, pointed to the organizational strategy that helped defeat Question 2.
"I think we need to engage with the larger community," he said, discussing his plans for directing the US bishops' agenda on the topic. "That's what we did in Massachusetts on the question of physician-assisted suicide."
For example, he said, "I think there are probably a lot of prochoice people out there who are not happy with the fact that we allow gender-selection abortions to take place in our country."
The defeat of Question 2 was one of the few bright lights for Catholic leaders on an election day that saw victories for gay marriage and abortion rights.
With the help of a majority of Catholics, voters also reelected President Obama. The bishops are nonpartisan and do not endorse candidates, but they have vehemently opposed on religious freedom grounds a new federal health care provision requiring employers offering insurance to provide free access to birth control.
The exemption to the new rule that the administration carved out for religious employers only applies to organizations that primarily employ and serve their own people. Thus it would not apply to some church-affiliated groups, such as Catholic Charities.
"That's not for us what Catholic Charities or hospitals are about – we have to serve the entire community," O'Malley said. "We have to do it in a way that is commensurate with our ideals and the teachings of the gospel."
The bishops' attempts to negotiate a compromise with the administration and to get Congress to pass a broader conscience exemption failed earlier this year; a number of Catholic employers are now suing the Obama administration over the rule.
O'Malley said he hoped the bishops' conference would be able to reengage with the president and "hopefully come to a meeting of the minds" on the birth control provision.
The cardinal said he sees other issues where the bishops and the administration can work together. For one, he said, they are "very anxious" to help pass changes in immigration law.
The bishops, like many Democrats, have been pressing for immigration reform for years. Since Hispanic voters provided crucial support for the president's reelection, several prominent Republicans have expressed a willingness to rethink the issue.Lisa Wangsness can be reached at email@example.com.


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Apart from films and sound recordings made or commissioned by local authorities, WFSA holds a large amount of amateur material covering civic events and other organised local activities.
Most of the larger centres of population in the region are covered. Particular national events that were celebrated locally include the 1935 Silver Jubilee of King George V, the 1937 and 1953 Coronations, the 1977 Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, and the Festival of Britain 1950.
Local events include carnivals, fairs, outdoor shows, historic anniversaries, royal visits, official openings of buildings, etc., regattas, elections, fetes, and parades. In addition, a wide range of other activities are covered, embracing sport, culture, children's organisations like the Scouts and Guides, organised outings, and general social activities.


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Joseph signs with the Baltimore Orioles
June 6, 2008
Caleb Joseph, former catcher for the Lipscomb Bisons, signed a contract Friday afternoon with the Baltimore Orioles. He has been assigned to the Aberdeen Ironbirds, A Class A minor league affiliate for the Orioles located in Aberdeen, Md.
Joseph, who had planned to spend at least part of the summer as a bullpen catcher for the Nashville Sounds, picked up his equipment at Greer Stadium. He is expected to join Aberdeen Saturday for workouts.
Joseph, who had completed his junior year with the Bisons, was drafted Friday morning in the seventh round of the Major League First-Year Player Draft.


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Ex-voto, child's head in sterling silver or metal 12cm
Ex-voto, child's head in sterling silver or metal measuring 12cm.
This Ex-voto represents a child's head and is available in 2 different versions:
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- sterling silver (13.8gr).
You can choose in the menu under the picture the material you prefer.
This ex-voto can also be made in 800 silver, but with gold plating or with a golden metal.
If you need further information about this article do not hesitate to contact us: we will be happy to help you.
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Proofs of Payment
From MACS
Proofs of payment:
What it is:
A proof of payment is a copy of an order and the canceled check that paid for the order. It may be sent at our request to assist in locating a payment or correcting a record. Agencies may also automatically send them with a claim to prove that the customer is entitled to the journal.
How to process:
First determine what they are requesting.
A. Proof that an order is paid:
Search iMIS for the order either by organization name or do a check number search (click the link for instructions)
- If the order is in the system correctly: fulfill the customer request (enter the claim or provide the expiration date etc).
- If the order is in the system but the address is incorrect: fix the address and fulfill the customer request.
- If the order was entered on the wrong record or with the wrong product code: Detail the situation on the media and forward to Vicki Williams for adjustment.
B. Claims
- If received with a claim, locate the order and enter the claim as usual
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This appears to be the strategy of the genetically modified organism (GMO) crop industry. The mode of attack is the contamination of non-GMO crops through the spread of pollen and the inadvertent mixing of GMO and non-GMO seeds. Large agribusiness giants such as Monsanto claim to recognize "coexistence" with conventional and organic growers as a desirable state. But, the industry acknowledges that contamination is inevitable. In fact, the complete segregation of GMO and non-GMO crops was never on the table. Several high-profile cases of mixing have already demonstrated this. Starlink corn comes to mind as well as the virtual elimination of organic canola growing in Canada because of GMO contamination (with no effective redress in the courts available). And, what we now know about the spread of genes via pollen from GMO to non-GMO plants makes it all but certain no regulatory regime, no matter how comprehensive and severe, could prevent contamination.
This fact has not stopped aggressive enforcement of the GMO industry's intellectual property rights which involves threats and lawsuits designed to intimidate not just those supposedly in violation of crop patents, but the entire farming community even when the cases involve contamination by adjacent farms and passing vehicles containing GMO seeds. Here's the message: To avoid lawsuits that threaten to take away your farming livelihood, you might as well sign up to buy our seeds because contamination by us or our farmer customers will be no defense in court.
In fact, Canadian courts found that contamination is not a permissible legal defense! Lest you think that I am making this up, here is the relevant portion of a trial court finding which was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in Monsanto Canada Inc. and Monsanto Company vs Percy Schmeiser and Schmeiser Enterprises Ltd.:
Thus a farmer whose field contains seed or plants originating from seed spilled into them, or blown as seed, in swaths from a neighbour's land or even growing from germination by pollen carried into his field from elsewhere by insects, birds, or by the wind, may own the seed or plants on his land even if he did not set about to plant them. He does not, however, own the right to the use of the patented gene, or of the seed or plant containing the patented gene or cell.
This precedent and the aggressive enforcement behavior by the industry has led organic growers and seed distributors to file a pre-emptive lawsuit to protect themselves from the industry's legal tactics which are designed to force farmers to pay the company penalties even when the farmer is organic and must avoid all genetic contamination to market his or her crops. (Organic standards prohibit genetically engineered crops.)
I am reminded of King Henry's conversation with his counterpart King Philip of France in the play Lion in Winter. Philip is insisting that his sister, Alais, be wedded to Henry's son, as previously agreed by Henry and Philip's father, the now deceased King Louis. It's that or the return of the Vexin, a key county north of Paris given to England in exchange for the betrothal.
Philip: It's their wedding or the Vexin back. Those are the terms you made with Louis.
Henry: True, but academic, lad. The Vexin's mine.
Philip: By what authority?
Henry: It's got my troops all over it. That makes it mine.
Just substitute "crops" for "troops," and you'll see an age-old strategy at work. I am also reminded of Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland and the Anschluss, his occupation of Austria. Once his troops were on the ground, nobody wanted to challenge him.
The contamination strategy solves two perceived problems for the industry. First, the industry attempted to include GMO plants as acceptable in the original National Organic Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the outcry was so great from activists that GMOs were taken out of the standards. One way, however, to overcome this resistance is through contamination. By forcing food regulators to accept GMO contamination in organic food as inevitable, the GMO industry is paving the way for eventual capitulation by the organic community and conventional growers as well. The industry wants to propagate the attitude that nothing can be done to stop it.
Second, although Europe has long had labeling requirements for GMO foods, in the United States the industry has so far been able to prevent enactment of any such requirement. The response from food activists has been to launch a campaign for voluntary labeling of non-GMO foods and that now has the GMO industry on the defensive. But, what better way to undermine such an effort than to contaminate conventional and organic crops?
What would change the calculus of the GMO industry? Perhaps it would change if some of the contamination suits (mostly outside the United States) were to result in huge verdicts, ones large enough to be financially ruinous to the industry. Nothing like that, however, is on the horizon. In the meantime, we can all look forward to the involuntary consumption of genetically modified food ingredients against our will. The GMO industry tells us that they want consumers to have a choice, that GMO foods should "coexist" with conventional and organic foods. Yet, they oppose labeling.
Meanwhile, the equivalent of the GMO industry's panzer corps is moving into our farm fields and from there into our kitchens. We may soon regret this creeping annexation of our dinner tables. Once the invasion of GMO genes around the world is complete, we may find it harder to roll back than Hitler's armies.


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CNBC talk show host Jim Cramer is known for his loud and outrageous on-screen antics, and earlier this week the "Mad Money" host turned his attention to three real estate companies that recently completed IPOs: Zillow, Trulia and Realogy.
Cramer is pretty adamant that investors should avoid Zillow and Trulia, instead taking a closer look at brokerage house Realogy. But that's not the most interesting part of this story, since as you'll see below, Cramer appears to contradict himself in comments he made about Zillow just two months ago.
"Of the three recent housing related IPOs, you need to be careful with Zillow and Trulia," said Cramer, citing a slowing growth rate in the companies' revenues and their reliance on online advertising. Strangely, the CNBC news story cites Cramer as saying "stay the heck away" from Zillow and Trulia, while the video and transcript offers the more benign comment of being "careful" when considering the stocks.
Nonetheless, he's not the first to criticize Zillow. You may recall the highly critical report issued in October by Citron Research, which specializes in shorting stocks. It noted that there are an "array of red flags swarming around Zillow," pointing out that the company's "best days are behind it."
Interestingly, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff appeared on "Mad Money" with Jim Cramer back in September around the same time that the Citron report was issued. Cramer wasn't too critical at that time, simply asking whether Zillow's stock was "too hot to handle."
"I have little doubt that Zillow will wipe the floor of the competition. That's my take. These online businesses are all about mind share, and Zillow, which has the most users and fastest growth, is the mind share leader. The company has a smart mobile strategy, including a smart app, that's designed for renters, but man the stock is expensive," he said.
He concluded after his interview with Rascoff: "Clearly, you have the best story in the group."
Interestingly, at that time, Zillow's stock was trading at more than $40 per share. It is now at around $26 per share after getting hammered following its last earnings report.
This week, Cramer countered that the prospects are weakening for Zillow and Trulia, and that the companies don't have a deep "moat."
"There's nothing stopping anyone else from getting in on the action," he said. "And there are many companies that want in."
It's kind of like Cramer vs. Cramer.
Here's Cramer's take on Zillow this week, pointing out the weak growth rates from the company's last quarterly report:
And here's what he had to say about the company back in September when Rascoff appeared on the show:


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I made the most of a rare clear sky to take a shot of the futuristic Beijing Opera building, officially called the National Centre for the Performing Arts (or National Grand Theatre in Chinese).
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Photo Tip: HDR images don't always need to look strange, over-edited, or supernatural. Though you can create bizarre, stunningly colored scenes that look cool, implementing HDR in your photos is really about how well you control and manipulate light. Remember that rules of composition and photography basics still apply, and when well executed, some viewers will simply notice how detailed and amazing your photo looks.
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Are You Ready for the Post-College SAT?
A new test for college seniors that aims to be the SAT for prospective employers is the latest blow to the monopoly long-held by colleges and universities on what it means to be well-educated. Doug Belkin and Michael Poliakoff, American Council of Trustees and Alumni V.P. of Policy, discuss on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
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Normally Christmas is a time to rejoice and spend time with loved ones.......
What happens when your loved one has been taken away???
I knew this 1st Christmas was going to be difficult but I wasn't prepared for the ache I would have in my heart all day. We woke up Christmas morning to a very quiet house. Just David and me. We spent the morning sitting silently in the lounge feeling a sense of loss and loneliness. I looked at the floor by the tree with all the presents and tried to imagine Katelyn sitting there gurgling and dribbling, chewing on wrapping paper - but all there was was an empty space. My tears quitely fell. David held me but couldn't find the words to comfort me.
"She should be here", I said.
"I know", he said.
There we sat, together, alone in our thoughts.
We got dressed and I put Katelyn's Christmas present in my bag. It's something I had to buy her. A knife, fork and spoon set. She would be weening about now. I had wrapped it and put ribbon on it with a sparkly bow, put a label on it and signed it from Mummy and Daddy. We took it to her grave and placed it under her little Christmas tree which was in a lovely red pot and baubles twinkling in the sunlight. And there we left it...........
I can't begin to describe my feelings at this point. For those of you who have suffered the same loss may understand but it's a feeling that will haunt me. My throat ached and my heart broke all over again.
My angel, my very own Christmas angel I hope was watching over me the week before Christmas. On the 18th of December I did my 5th ICSI pregnancy test and there it was - pregnant!!
I am so elated and yet so petrified - what if.........
I mustn't let what happened to Katelyn make me scared but I am. I am so scared that I can't get too excited. Her brother or sister is growing in my tummy and until I have that baby in my arms, I won't relax. I have my first scan on January 5th. For now, I have hope, hope in my tummy and hope for the future but I know Katelyn will always be my first born, my angel, my daughter........I love her so much.
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One of three new additions to join the Golden Eagle roster in
January in time to play the 2011 spring dual match schedule...a
strong junior player in Russia...he will have the opportunity to
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Honeythorn Gump needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 12 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Create a look and feel for our website with logo to help people recover from mental illness.
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We are looking for a fun but mature and wimsical look and feel that take in to consideration recovery and taking flight. We would like an aviation theme because we help people recover from mental health issues and provide professional development in order for them to take flight. We help them take off or launch as it were into the community and business world.
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