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Both know your customer and anti-money laundering processes, which are meant to reduce risks in the Indian banking sector, are themselves fraught with the danger of being caught in the web of operational risks
The Basel guidelines (a set of banking regulations put forth by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision, which regulates finance and banking internationally) define operational risk as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events. The Basel guidelines on operational risks also prescribe that banks should keep capital to protect themselves against operational failures. While operational risks arise from various banking activities, one of the key susceptible areas of operational risks that pose challenge for the entire banking system is the facts that know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) processes are not immune from operational risks. Both KYC & AML processes, which are meant to reduce risks are themselves fraught with the danger of being caught in the web of operational risks.
The Cobrapost expose on money laundering revealed it all. Employees across banks were found wanting in the implementation of AML & KYC guidelines. The Reserve bank of India (RBI) ended up penalising 22 banks. The HSBC money laundering case, at the international level, also reflected the role of operational risks in proliferation of money laundering process. During the investigation it was found that HSBC had a vastly understaffed compliance department. At times, only one to four employees were responsible for reviewing alerts identifying suspicious wire transactions. When HSBC processed bulk cash, a business it calls banknotes, only one or two compliance officials oversaw transactions for 500 to 600 customers, which shows a clear cut case of under-staffing.
So how does the operational risk impact the AML and KYC processes in the banks and financial institutions?
This needs to be understood within the context of the famous saying: a chain is as strong as the weakest link in the chain. The weakest link in any chain in the operational process is the human resource. The weaknesses arising from human resource gets aggravated if they are not duly supported by strong processes and technology, two other critical pillar of operational risk management. The weakness in the entire operational procedure can derail the successful implementation of AML and KYC process. Here is an indicative list of risks associated with the people, process and technology.
People-related risks
Process-related risks
Technology-related risks
Untrained or ill-trained human resource
Dominance of check box approach in KYC & AML process
Single view of client missing which means that many banks cannot identify clients opening account based on different identification proofs as one single client. In absence of this multiple operations of clients from different locations cannot be tracked
Revenue generation pressure forcing sales resources to compromise on KYC/AML practices
Risk assessment not always part of the process and is mostly reactionary
Technology resources not good enough to manage complex issues related to of handling of accounts related to high risk clients such as politically exposed persons. Also PEP database is always difficult to manage
Lack of adequate staff and resources to oversee successful implementation of anti money laundering measures
Absence of a robust and ongoing due diligence process
Increasing cost of compliance which requires implementation of high end technology. Since it is not a revenue generating business for the bank, the banks and financial institutions may not be very keen on implementing it
Frontend staff not very strict with implementation of AML & KYC process even in cases when they are well trained
Lack of integration of AML processes in new products launched by banks and financial institutions
Poor data quality of transactions as well as account opening is a big hindrance for effective usage of technology. Banks and regulators need to standardise account opening documents to make technology more effective
Integrity of human resources cannot be gauged. This poses a serious threat to the spread of money laundering. A robust process with multi layer check needs to be implemented
Regulator's role is reactionary and not pro-active. RBI penalised banks when cobrapost.com identified AML fraud in multiple banks
Lack of databases such as worldcheck.com which can provide effective management of loopholes in AML process
It has been seen in many cases that banks and financial institutions have not been very particular about strict implementation of AML and KYC. The regulator has also shown some leniency in this regard. The RBI diluted the full KYC process for medium and low risk clients by issuing a circular, which stated that full KYC exercise will be required to be done at least every ten years for low risk and at least every eight years for medium risk individuals and entities. KYC process in the banks mostly ends with collection of relevant document by the staff at the bank counter and transaction monitoring is assumed to be completed if a customer furnishes his PAN card, which is more of a tax compliance document. The check box approach is dominating the bank system. This means mapping the documents and control points with what customer has declared at the time of account opening.
How the prevailing operational risks can be controlled remains a subject of debate. There is no need to say that the three-pronged approach of involving regulators, policy makers and banks is required. India has been granted. While the Financial Action Task Force (on Money Laundering) (FATF), has stated in its 8th follow up report of mutual evaluation that India has addressed the shortfall in fight against money laundering, much need to be done at the ground level to plug operational risks.
(Vivek Sharma has worked for 17 years in the stock market, debt market and banking. He is a post graduate in Economics and MBA in Finance. He writes on personal finance and economics and is invited as an expert on personal finance shows.)
A non-approved pipeline laid by Gujarat Gas Petroleum threatens to sideline gas supply. Is Gujarat Gas another victim of MoEF vague rules?
It is sad to note that the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation's $1.8 billion project, which has the potential to produce an estimated 5.7 million standard cubic metres per day (mscmd) to 8.6 mscmd, cannot commence work, simply because it has not got the "clearance" to lay about 10 to 12 kms pipeline, underground, onshore from the authorities!
It may be recalled, that the company struck gas in the off-shore block KG-OSN-2001/3, rechristened as 'Deen Dayal', way back in 2005. GSPC holds 80% operating interest, while 10% each are held by Jubilant Energy and GeoGlobal Resources.
This project was awaiting environmental coastal regulatory zone approvals for laying this underground pipeline on the peripheries of Covringa Sanctuary in Andhra and commissioning of the onshore terminal; original plans were to commence trial operations in June, and were postponed by three months to get the "clearances". With the assurances received from the authorities, they revised the target to commence the operations from October 2013.
As per plans, 16 wells are to be drilled; they have now readied four, with pre-commissioning of one platform and the other in advanced stage of completion. In the meantime, sub-sea pipeline has been completed. Though located in the shallow water, the actual reservoir is deep under the sea bed.
According to their engineers, the nature of the reservoir coupled with high pressure and temperature has made it a technically challenging operation. But to take care of their interest, and protect themselves, GSPC will supply imported regassified LNG (R-LNG) to Gujarat Gas from January 2014 till July 2015. This will be a major relief to Gujarat Gas as it will get assured gas supply for a long period. Their dependence on spot LNG will reduce as the supply pact is expected to help it meat nearly 50% of its total R-LNG requirement of 1.3 mmscmd.
The price of gas will be determined in the relevant gas station control systems and it is expected to be formula-based. The details are awaited, in due course.
After assuming charge of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Veerappa Moily, the minister, had stated that he would clear "all pending" matters within one month of his taking over. To his credit, in the first twenty days he has cleared 70 projects valued about Rs1.5 lakh crore (since 24 December 2013) and there is no doubt that he will not leave anything undone by the end of January 2014.
Besides, it is gratifying to note that the MoEF will comply with the recent Supreme Court order establishing an independent regulator to decide on environmental clearances for industrial and other projects. "The body will have a lot of independence and autonomy," Moily said, which is to be welcomed by all.
Unfortunately, for GSPC, they had overlooked to take necessary forest clearance for laying the key pipeline. They had started commissioning the same in non-forest areas. As per rules, commissioning of such infrastructure cannot be initiated unless forest authorities grant clearance for the relevant portion. It appears this omission and subsequent action by the forest authorities led to the cost escalation, on the part of the project contractor! Why should the clearance be needed for work outside the purview of the MoEF jurisdiction? This needs to be clarified.
It now appears that this matter has been taken up by Punj Lloyd, and both sides claim progress in the talks, indicating that they are in the final stages of processing the same, for which further details are expected shortly.
It was hoped that actual gas production would start three months hence, sometimes around October 2013. However, as the situation stands today, it is very unlikely that actual production from the first two wells, which are expected to produce about 100,000 mscmd is likely before May/June this year, which depends upon getting the "clearances".
It is hoped that when we do have a regulator in place to tackle these matters, as mentioned by Veerappa Moily, we do hope that serious actions are taken against those people who are responsible for wantonly delaying the issues on some flimsy ground. They must remember that they cannot delay the national growth in this manner and wrong doers be punished.
(AK Ramdas has worked with the Engineering Export Promotion Council of the ministry of commerce. He was also associated with various committees of the Council. His international career took him to places like Beirut, Kuwait and Dubai at a time when these were small trading outposts; and later to the US.)
Tata Motors MD Karl Slym is the second high profile official from the Tata group after Charu Deshpande, to have committed 'suicide'
Karl Slym, managing director of Tata Motors Ltd, died after falling from a hotel room in Bangkok in what police said on Monday could be a possible suicide, says a report from Reuters. This is the second high-profile 'suicide' of a top executive at Tata group company. Last year on 28th June, Charudatta Deshpande (Charu Deshpande), former chief of corporate communication at Tata Steel was found hanging at his home in Vasai near Mumbai.
Slym, 51, had attended a board meeting of Tata Motors' Thailand unit in the Thai capital and was staying with his wife in a room on the 22nd floor of the Shangri-La hotel. Hotel staff found his body on Sunday on the fourth floor, which juts out above lower floors.
"We didn't find any sign of a struggle," Police Lieutenant Somyot Boonyakaew, who is heading the investigation, told Reuters.
"We found a window open. The window was very small so it was not possible that he would have slipped. He would have had to climb through the window to fall out because he was a big man. From my initial investigation we believe he jumped," the report says.
According to Reuters, Thai police had found a three-page note, written in English, which they were translating into Thai.
Coming back to the Charu Deshpande case, in November Vasai police booked Prabhat Sharma, the head for corporate affairs at Tata Steel for allegedly abetting the suicide of Deshpande. This followed a complaint by Forbes India's former editor Indrajit Gupta against the Tata Steel official for allegedly abetting the suicide of Charu Deshpande.
According to Gupta's complaint, Charu, a senior official at Tata Steel, was constantly humiliated and harassed between May 2012 and May 2013 following which he took the drastic decision to end his life.
Two diaries of 2012 and 2013 were found in which Charudatta Deshpande had mentioned about the happenings in office. And in one of the pages, he had even written notes and named some Tata Steel officials.


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As India are all set to take on the defending champion of the ICC Trophy, South Africa, in the second semi-final on Friday, critics are tightlipped about the result of this match.
The contest, which has already promised to be a cliffhanger, is very likely to be decided on the basis of performances of lower order or tail-enders of both the teams.
In this aspect, South Africa are better equipped. India have performed exceedingly well in the two outings so far, but the problem with the Indian team is that they hardly have a convincing tail. India was indeed going great guns in their match against Australia when Yuvraj Singh and Robin Singh were at the crease.
But once Robin was dismissed, even Yuvraj, who was playing only his second One-day match and was at the crease for the first time, knew that he hardly could expect anything from Kumble, Prasad and Zaheer Khan.
He had to hurry and lost his cool and concentration and consequently lost his wicket at a time when nothing short of century could have stopped him.
Actually the lower order or the tail of the Indian line up begins from Vijay Dahiya himself who comes at the fall of fifth wicket. This means the last five batsmen are almost of no hope for India.
Dahiya has batted well in the domestic cricket, but it is too much to expect him to perform creditably in the demanding and critical situation and against tough opposition like South Africa when he is new to the international scenario.
Agarkar and Kumble can bat and both have a good record at the domestic level, but both lack consistency when it comes to international matches.
Prasad is a genuine tail-ender and rides his willow on the luck and sometimes makes good contact as he did in the last match when he had a six to his name. Zaheer Khan has the capacity to score a few useful runs, but he too is inexperienced to cope with the pressure.
This is a real advantage for South Africa. After six specialist batsmen, they still have quality players like Lance Klusener, Niky Boje, Shaun Pollock and Mark Boucher, the wicket-keeper.
This fearsome foursome are capable of changing the very complexion of the game in any given condition. Klusener needs no introduction. He is a real match-winner and the greatest hope for the team.
On a number of occasions, he has carried the battle alone with success. He is the most feared cricketer around and India know that fact well. Boje is a specialist spinner of the team but his efforts with the willow cannot be dismissed easily.
In fact, he has had showed tremendous grit and guts while batting under pressure both in Tests as well as in One-dayers. The South Africans are capable of good and quick partnership later in the innings when Boje is around.
Pollock too is a useful batsman. In the last few matches, he might not have clicked successfully as a batsman, but he has shown at times that when the top order failed, he was there to take charge.
His highest score of 75 in One-day Internationals shows his class and capacity. Finally, Mark Boucher. He has already done wonders for the team while standing behind the stumps and also displayed immense batting talent. In fact for a quite sometime, he was sent at No 3 in the role of a pinch hitter, the role that he played to a nicety.
Though South Africa have an upper hand in this aspect, their rivals India are no jugglers. No other team in the world has produced the kind of magic India reproduces in crucial matches. One can expect that in Friday's match too.
This is just an expectation and not the reality. But in the game of cricket, the line between expectation and reality is always very thin.

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Leicester fans should show some "loyalty" and remember just where manager Nigel Pearson has taken the club, according to West Ham boss Sam Allardyce.
Pearson, whose side are three points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League table ahead of a trip to the fourth-placed Irons on Saturday, has accepted a Football Association charge of using insulting words towards a fan.
The Foxes boss had refused to apologise to the supporter despite a video emerging of the incident during his side's 3-1 home defeat to Liverpool on December 2.
Allardyce - himself the subject of boos from some of the West Ham faithful last season - believes Pearson should be commended for taking the east Midlands club back up to the top flight following a decade in the wilderness, which also included a spell in League One.
"There is a turning point because what happens at football clubs, expectation grows, people think you are just going to be able to go in there and be successful from a period of great joy," said Allardyce, who took West Ham up via the play-offs in 2012 and successfully retained their Premier League status.
"It is the fact that instead of watching your team win every week, it is a big adjustment for the fans when they find out it is not that easy any more.
"I suppose the expectation was built even higher when they beat Manchester United 5-3 and of course the Leicester fans have not remembered where Nigel has taken the club from and to in a short period of time, so they should show him a bit more patience and a bit more loyalty."
West Ham, who have lost just once in 10 matches, will see their ambitions tested with Christmas fixtures against Chelsea and Arsenal, so Allardyce knows the importance of a positive result on Saturday.
"Leicester are a hard team to break down, they work very hard for each other, despite their run of games without a win, they haven't been turned over by anyone, it's only ever by the odd goal, so there are a lot of dangers in Nigel's teams that we need to be well aware of," he said.
Midfielder Mark Noble is sidelined by an Achilles problem, but could feature next week when Allardyce will make full use of his squad.
"If we come out of this period with a few more points, then we will reassess our aims for the rest of the season," he said.
Allardyce remains "comfortable" with the plans to talk about his contract later in the season.
He said: "I only spoke to [co-chairman] David Sullivan over some other matters in the last couple of days. Nothing to do with me or my contract.
"We will sit down when we're ready and comfortable and discuss the situation, it hasn't changed from the start of the season to now."
Reports have suggested Senegalese striker Diafra Sakho is set to have his four-year contract renegotiated, following an impressive start to life at Upton Park.
"I don't see why we should be discussing any contracts with anyone too much in this period when we are playing so many games in such a short period of time. But yet again players don't see it that way, do they?" Allardyce said.
"If they think it is time for them, they don't give a monkeys about anyone else, they just get on with their own thing.
"They won't worry about the fact that we have got so many games and we have got to organise this and that."
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PHILADELPHIA –The Phillies finished a six game homestand that left fans with one question Sunday afternoon.
With summer just three days old, what do Philadelphia fans have to look forward to the rest of the season?
New York Mets phenom Matt Harvey allowed two hits and no runs in six innings as New York beat the Phillies 8-0 before 44,951 fans at Citizens Bank Park.
The Phillies finished the homestand 3-3. Philadelphia (36-40) begins a 10-game road trip in Sand Diego against the Padres tonight.
The homestand was microcosm of the Phillies frustrating season.
The stand started with a pair of wins against the Washington Nationals last Monday and Tuesday. Fans hoped those wins were the start of a winning streak.
But just as the Phillies seemed poised to sweep the Nationals, Jonathan Papelbon blew a save and Philadelphia lost 6-2 in 11 innings to Washington last Wednesday.
Papelbon bemoaned the team's lack of fundamentals after the game.
The rest of the home stand included another poor start from Cole Hamels, some excitement in a game-winning home run by Kevin Frandsen and Sunday's defeat.
The Phillies did pick up a game. They began last Monday 8.5 games back of the first place Atlanta Braves. Philadelphia ended Sunday 7.5 back.
Harvey overmatched the Phillies hitters. He struck out Domonic Brown swinging in the second and fourth innings on 99 mph fastballs, according to the Citizens Bank scoreboard. Harvey left after the sixth inning because of a 20-minute rain delay in the top of the seventh inning.
Phillies starter John Lannan left in the sixth inning because the Mets pounded him for five doubles.
The Mets scored three runs into the top of the fifth after Phillies center fielder Ben Revere dropped a fly ball to allow leadoff hitter Juan Lagares to reach third base.
The Phillies played the final three innings like they were in a hurry to get to San Diego.
Mets relievers LaTroy Hawkins and Brandon Lyon and needed just 31 pitches to retire the Phillies in the final three innings.
The fans that stuck around Citizens Bank after the rain seemed indifferent to the contest. The crowd did cheer sarcastically when Revere caught a line drive in the top of the ninth inning.
The Phillies won't be back at Citizens Bank until July 5.
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Langer charges two ahead at Senior Players Championship
(Reuters) - Bernhard Langer, making the most of low-scoring conditions, eagled the par-four seventh on the way to a six-under-par 64 to take control of the Senior Players Championship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Friday.
The 56-year-old German, seeking his third major title on the over-50s Champions Tour, also recorded five birdies and a lone bogey in the second round at Fox Chapel Golf Club as he posted an 11-under total of 129.
That left Langer two ahead of Americans Bill Glasson (64) and Doug Garwood (67), with Ireland's Mark McNulty (66) and Americans Joe Durant (68), John Riegger (64) and Michael Allen (64) a further stroke back at eight under.
Langer, however, dominated a mainly sunny day at Fox Chapel where his only cause of concern was a broken driver after he had teed off at the par-five last.
"I hit a good tee shot and as I picked up my tee, I heard it rattle in my driver head," Langer, a twice former Masters champion, told reporters. "And I'm going, 'Wow, what's that rattling for?'
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Overall, though, Langer was delighted with his form on a day when his playing partner, reigning champion Kenny Perry, piled up seven birdies in a flawless 63 to surge into a tie for eighth at seven under.
"I saw Kenny Perry go low so I figured if him and I go low, there's going to be others that could go low too," smiled Langer, whose previous major wins on the Champions Tour came at the 2010 Senior Open Championship and the 2010 U.S. Senior Open.
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The Rays seem to be getting their starting pitching in order.
Ace RHP James Shields set the tone -- again -- on Saturday by taking a shutout into the ninth, improving to 3-0 as the Rays logged a 4-1 win over the Twins.
More important, RHP Jeff Niemann followed up with a strong outing in Sunday's 6-2 win. Although only working into the sixth, he allowed just two runs on three hits for his first win of the season.
"Everything felt pretty good," Niemann said. "We were throwing a lot of strikes with the fastball and we were using the off-speed stuff to keep them off balance. . . . It was basically mixing in off-speed stuff when we needed to mix in off-speed stuff and throwing first-pitch breaking balls when you need to and keep them off balance and let the defense work."
Manager Joe Maddon has been harping on a lack of aggressiveness by the starters, saying they have been "tap dancing" too often on the edges of the strike zone and paying too much respect to the hitters.
The solid back-to-back starts are a sign they have gotten the message.
--CF B.J. Upton came through Saturday night for a 16-year-old battling a life-threatening illness. He visited the boy at St. Petersburg's All Children's Hospital before the game and then drove in the go-ahead runs with a bases-loaded single. The boy, identified only as Dom, had asked Upton to hit a home run for him.
"It wasn't a home run, but it was just as good," Upton said. "I told him (via the post-game TV interview) that one was for him. Hopefully he saw it. Like I said, it made my day."
--OF Desmond Jennings homered Sunday for the second time in four games. "My swing isn't the best power swing, but I've got a little something, I think," he said. "I feel like my job is not to hit the ball far; it's to get on base, so that's what I try to do. Every once in a while, I will try to stretch out one."
--RHP James Shields continues to pitch like a true ace. He led the Rays to victory Saturday with another impressive outing, taking a shutout into the ninth, the 14th time in his last 24 starts he allowed one or no runs.
Manager Joe Maddon, who doesn't hand out the title easily, said Shields is getting there.
"He's morphing into that," Maddon said. "Part of it is that he doesn't shy away from it. He wants to be that guy. He believes he is. I wouldn't necessarily put him there, but he's pretty close."
--1B/OF Brandon Allen joined the Rays on Saturday, wearing No. 19 after a waiver claim from Oakland, with an unclear role. Manager Joe Maddon said he would figure out how best to use Allen's big bat, with pinch-hitting probably most likely at first, at least until the Rays get a better sense of how he can handle the outfield defensively.
Allen, 26, said he is open to whatever they have in mind. "I guess people know me for power, but I want to be more than that," he said. "And hopefully the guys here can turn me into a complete player."
--C/OF Stephen Vogt was honored Sunday as winner of the Al Lopez Award, given to the top Rays rookie in spring training. Vogt made the opening roster, but was optioned back to Triple-A on Friday so Al Lopez III and Al Lopez IV presented the award to Mitch Lukevics, the Rays' director of minor league operations. Vogt hit .323 (10-for-31) with three RBI, three doubles and a triple in 15 spring games, playing four positions.
BY THE NUMBERS: 106 -- Consecutive home games without scoring at least 10 runs (from Aug. 17, 2010, through Sunday). It's the longest such streak since the 1980-82 Blue Jays went 165.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "We just keep on coming. We are not going to give up. We are very persistent." -- 1B Carlos Pena, on back-to-back series wins.


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A very-first look at Russell Crowe as the titular prophet in Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" has made its round onto the web. Furrowing his brows, the Oscar-winning actor is pictured sporting unkempt hair and a gray beard and rocking a shabby robe complete with a fingerless glove.
"Noah" has been Aronofsky's passion project from a long time. The "Black Swan" helmer started penning the script in 2004. Shortly before filming the biblical epic in Iceland last month, he excitedly tweeted, "I dreamt about this since I was 13. And now it's a reality. Genesis 6:14 #noah."
However, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker once said his interpretation of the ark builder was quite different from the one pictured in the Old Testament. He told Los Angeles Times that Noah in his movie would be the "first environmentalist," a man who was tormented by survivor's guilt after living through the devastating flood.
Revealing that his version of Noah would not be the same as thought at Sunday school classes, Aronofsky described the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth as "the first person to plant vineyards, drink wine and get drunk."
He added, "I was stunned going back and realizing how dirty some of those stories are. They're not PG in any way. They're all about sleeping with your brother's sister who gives you a child who you don't know. That kind of stuff got censored out of our religious upbringing."
To open in the U.S. on March 28, 2014, "Noah" also stars Anthony Hopkins as Noah's Methuselah, Douglas Booth as Sem, Logan Lerman as Ham, Emma Watson as Ila, and Jennifer Connelly as Naameh.
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Suppose that I've got an instance of SQL server setup for testing, and I've programmatically created databases on this instance, but never cleaned them up.
This can leave you with hundreds of databases that you'll never use again, and there's no reason for them to continue taking up space and cluttering things which you do not wish to be cluttered.
Now, you could use a GUI tool like enterprise manager, and right click on every database and choose "Delete"
Obviously, that stinks.
Alternatively, you could use isqlw (SQL Query Analyzer) and enter the appropriate T-SQL statement to delete a database:
drop database Foo
This also stinks, because thats a lot of typing, once you do it for 100 databases
Fortuneately, you can do better. What you've got, fundamentally, is a problem that computers are good at. You've got a lot of somethings (databases) that you want to do something to. You know what you want to do – drop a database. Now you just need to leverage that across a big list of them.
If one wanted to get a list of data in SQL, one would write a a SELECT statement. It turns out that if we're willing to look at the system tables, sql server will tell us about the databases installed in this instance.
select name
from sysdatabases
where sid <> 0x01
and name like 'HW_%'
Now, this will give you the name of any databases from this instance which match "HW_%" and which have an sid other than 0x01. The sid <> 0x01 clause is interesting. On the SQL instances I'm looking at, the "system" databases always have sid=0x01. But on one other instance, Northwind also has sid=0x01. User databases always have a long gooofy, non-0x01 value for sid. So you can use this as a hack to do a "reasonable" job of excluding "system" databases from your select list. If you can make a determination based on the dbname, as I have above, you can do even better.
Great, we can get SQL server to tell us the list of user databases installed from this instance. What does that buy me? Well, suppose we change the select list:
select 'drop database ', name
from sysdatabases
where sid <> 0x01
and name like 'HW_%'
If you run this select statement (and you have databases that match the select list) you'll get the following output (at least on my machine – you probably won't get this output as your dbnames will be different
drop database HW_North
drop database HW_South
drop database HW_Enterprise
Congratulations, you've just told SQL server to generate SQL for you. Obviously, if you had 100 databases in your select list, you'd get 100 statements generated. Here's where the hack comes in, i don't know of a way to actually execute this in one step, but I bet it is possible. Instead, I copy and paste the results (results to grid works fine in ISQLW, results as text will give you a giant column width for the name column), back into a command window, and then execute the batch.
This technique is handy for dropping lots of databases, but its also good in other places. For instance, you can generate INSERT or UPDATE statements this way, which may be desirable if you've got just one or two peices that make doing the job with a single insert/update too difficult.
It is not elegant, not efficient, and probably upsets somebody somewhere, but for a quick and dirty management task, using select literals to generate statements for you is a great technique to keep in mind.


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Counting Pedestrians… For the love of the numbers? Or is there something more?
by Melissa Miklus, Senior Designer, Alta Planning + Design
There are many people out there who love numbers. In fact, it seems their love of percentages and statistics take over the true purpose of analysis to begin with. Some planning documents boast, "We surveyed 20 percent of the population, 50 percent of whom answered this question, 10 of which agree with the statement and half of those were women." So what did we ask in the first place? And what were we trying to find? That statement contains so many numbers (and don't get me wrong, statistics and numbers are great) but sometimes we lose focus on what we were searching for to begin with — how do these numbers reveal needs, desires, or potential changes?
That could be the response to the results of our bicycle and pedestrian count studies. Why are we counting these people and what does it really mean? In the simplest measure, we are counting use. This illustrates demand, and can be used to predict future demand. We count along trails, roadways, and sidewalks. Knowing demand is good, but understanding what it means can be awesome.
The National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project is a joint effort of Alta Planning + Design and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Pedestrian and Bicycle Council. This effort helps communities understand usage and demand of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. So why is this important? For years, traffic engineers have been justifying road widening and improving corridors for motor vehicles based on Average Daily Traffic (ADT) counts. Until recently, we didn't have this measure for bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Now, this data helps communities plan, understand, and support improving, adding, and maintaining facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians.
That use of bike and ped counts is super awesome. And very much needed in a world where our population is increasingly choosing to give up their cars for healthy transportation options and those without cars are being moved further and further away from potential employment cores. We can recognize the power of these numbers beyond demand and embrace the additional metrics of economic development, public health, and environmental impacts.
One example of stretching these numbers to their full potential is in our work with the Downtown Raleigh Alliance (DRA). Straight from their website (godowntownraleigh.com), the DRA is:
An award-winning nonprofit organization whose mission is to continue the revitalization of Raleigh's downtown by enhancing its quality of life and contributing to its economic success. On a day-to-day basis, DRA provides five core services designed to support its primary stakeholders (property owners, government officials, business owners):
1. Safety, Hospitality & Clean Ambassadors
2. Strategic Branding & Community Communications
3. Special Events Production & City Plaza Programming
4. Retail Attraction & Merchant Promotions
5. Strategic Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement
The DRA selected three districts within the city for Alta to count. We provided teams who used the methodology from the Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project to provide standardized data collection for the Warehouse District, Downtown Core, and Glenwood South. After conducting the counts, we crunched the numbers backward and forward, provided case studies of similar cities (pulling data from the Bicycle and Pedestrian Documents Project), and provided behavioral analysis such as the effects of weather, sun/shade, and existing occupancy. While the results of our study provided a thorough analysis and fueled the DRA's efforts to attract new businesses, we were happy to see how our study continues to live and work for the client.
After a couple years, we checked in with the client and the below is what they shared with us. We owe a big thank you to David Diaz, the President and CEO of DRA, for contributing.
Question 1: How does knowing pedestrian traffic help you make decisions for future projects, studies, actions, etc. organized by the DRA?
As the primary recruiter of new storefront businesses to Raleigh's downtown, the pedestrian counts from the study helped educate local brokers about the intersections where retail was the most attractive.
Questions 2: What case were you able to make to the public or political officials based on this study?
Our elected officials understood the importance of the study. Indeed, the city of Raleigh funded 50% of the study as a public private partnership with our downtown organization.
Question 3: Which future reports reference this study?
Our investor's guide to Raleigh's downtown, entitled State of Downtown, references the counts from the study in our shopping section. The report can be found online: http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/do-business
Question 4: What advice do you have for other cities and towns in terms of pedestrian behavior and economic development?
Pedestrian counts are an important measure for gauging the success of storefront businesses. The number of people walking a downtown is a direct reflection on its success and sense of vibrancy. Pedestrian counts help make the case to a retail tenant that they stand a good chance of succeeding because of the large pedestrian counts. On the other hand, if the pedestrian counts are low then you can develop a strategy that goes beyond retail recruitment in order to make that intersection or block more appealing to a prospective tenant.
So for all the statisticians who love numbers, we planners and designers who analyze data and make recommendations, and the communities who put the numbers to work improving the lives of their citizens and visitors….numbers truly do count.


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Hanukkah ben Obadiah
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Hanukkah or Chanukkah ben Obadiah was a Khazar ruler who probably reigned during the mid to late ninth century CE. Hanukkah was the son of Obadiah and succeeded his nephew Manasseh I to the throne. No contemporary records from his reign survive; however, he is known from the Khazar Correspondence between Hisdai ibn Shaprut and the Khazar king Joseph. As with the other Bulanids, it is unclear whether Hanukkah was a khagan or a khagan bek; however, most modern scholars lean towards the latter possibility.
Hanukkah was succeeded by his son Isaac.
- Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.update
- Douglas M. Dunlop, The History of the Jewish Khazars, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.
- Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.


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Oreo spider cupcakes recipe
Make your Halloween creepy with these Oreo spider cupcakes. Get the kids to help with the decorating and make a big batch of spider cupcakes for trick or treat this year.
Serving Size:
Makes 12
- 1/2 cup (125g) butter, room temp
- 3/4 cup (170g) caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup (125ml) milk
- 1 1/2 cups (225g) self-raising flour
To decorate:
- chocolate icing
- Oreos
- black writing icing
- white writing icing
- licorice straps (each 4cm of strap cut into eight spider legs)
Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced).
Using an electric mixer, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla essence. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each one. Add milk and self-raising flour. Mix until just combined.
Spoon into patty cases and bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden. Cool on wire racks.
Ice each cupcake with plenty of chocolate icing. Now get one Oreo cookie per cupcake and open it up. Use the white writing icing to 'glue' each spider leg to the bottom half of the Oreo (see video) then use another dab of white writing icing to 'glue' the Oreo lid back on.
Use black and white writing icing to make the spider's eyes.
- Thanks to our sister company Kidspot Australia for creating the instructional video.


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LONDON Feb 16 (Reuters) - European equity futures rose on Tuesday, tracking gains in Asian equities while telecoms stocks could again come into focus after a deal between British phone network operator Vodafone Plc and John Malone's cable company Liberty Global Plc.
Futures on the Euro STOXX 50, German DAX and French CAC were all up by 0.4 percent, while futures on Britain's FTSE rose by a more modest 0.2 percent.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index had climbed sharply for the second consecutive session on Monday, closing up 2.9 percent as banking and telecoms stocks rose.
Telecoms stocks could again come into focus after British phone network operator Vodafone Plc and John Malone's cable company Liberty Global Plc agreed late on Monday to combine their operations in the Netherlands for a better footing in the local market.
Traders said European equities had been further supported by European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi reiterating on Monday that the ECB was ready to act in March if inflation expectations remain weak.
According to data from Thomson Reuters StarMine, 52 percent of the companies on the European STOXX 600 index to have reported fourth-quarter results so far have met or beaten expectations, while
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The civil war in Syria has forced a record 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people fled in the past year alone and the increasingly complex and bloody conflict has shown no sign of letting up, the UN refugee agency said Friday.
The tragic milestone means that about one of every eight Syrians is now fleeing across the border, and 6.5 million others have been displaced within the country's borders, the Geneva-based agency said, which also noted that over half of all those uprooted are children.
"The Syria crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era, yet the world is failing to meet the needs of refugees and the countries hosting them," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.
Almost half of all Syrians have been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives since the conflict began in March 2011. Syria had a prewar population of 23 million.
The massive numbers of Syrians fleeing the civil war also has stretched the resources of neighboring countries and raised fears of violence spreading in the region.
The UN estimates there are nearly 35,000 more awaiting registration as refugees, and hundreds of thousands who are not registered.
In pictures: Syria's escalating refugee crisis
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A young Syrian refugee stands near jerry cans used to collect water at Al-Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. The United Nations hopes that political talks between the warring sides in Syria will clinch local ceasefires to allow vital food and medicines to reach millions of civilians
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Syrian refugees transport small stones for their tents at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria
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Representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a deeply divided opposition, world powers and regional bodies started a long-delayed peace conference aimed at bringing an end to a nearly three-year civil war
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A Syrian refugee family rests inside their shelter in Hatay, Turkey
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A Syrian refugee family from Aleppo crosses the Bosphorus from Uskudar to the European side of Istanbul
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Syria's air force struck rebel-held areas around Damascus and Aleppo as face-to-face peace talks tentatively began in Switzerland
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Syrian refugees look out from an evacuated house in the Kucukpazar district of Istanbul. Syrians fill houses which have been evacuated for urban development projects. Destitute Syrian refugees who have fled the war in Syria and camps in Turkey are fighting for their lives in different parts of Istanbul
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Refugees who moved into the houses in Kucukpazar neighbourhood near the historic Suleymaniye mosque, are struggling to live without water and heating
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Children cut wood pieces in the besieged area of Homs. Efforts to get food and medical aid into Homs have become a test case on whether peace talks in Switzerland can produce any practical results almost three years into the Syrian conflict
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A man holds the corpse of one-year old baby Adbul Jalil Mohamed Hamis wrapped in shrouds, who reportedly died of hunger in the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus during a funeral ceremony
The refugee agency and other aid groups say an increasing number of families are arriving in other countries in shockingly poor condition, exhausted and scared and with almost no financial savings left after having been on the run for a year or more. In eastern Jordan, for example, the agency says refugees crossing the desert are forced to pay smugglers $100 per person or more to be taken to safety.
Lebanon hosts 1.14 million Syrian refugees, the single highest concentration of them, but Turkey has 815,000 and Jordan has 608,000.
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New Delhi: The Delhi police was making efforts to send its teams to certain countries, including England and South Africa, in connection with the investigation into the match-fixing case it registered in April last year and the chargesheet against Hansie Cronje and others will take some time.Delhi Police Commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma told reporters that, ''We are trying to send teams to various countries in connection with the probe.''Asked about the reason for the delay he said the investigation was going through a tedious process as permission had to be granted for any inquiry abroad. The Indian part of the Crime Branch probe is completed and it is now awaiting response from the External Affairs ministry regarding the permission to visit the countries where investigation needs to be carried out.Delhi police had caused a sensation on April 7 last year when it unearthed the first match-fixing racket in India involving Hansie Cronje, his three team members and top bookies. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) K K Paul told UNI that the request for the permission is pending with the Foreign ministry for some time now and once permission was granted special teams would be sent to probe the matter abroad. About the chargesheet, he said, it could be filed only after the investigation was completed and the police was in possession of sufficient evidence to back their case. The Crime Branch is on the lookout for bookie and prime accused Sanjeev Chawla alias Sanjay who is hiding in England. Sanjay's passports have been impounded and the British government has been requested to deport the accused.The Delhi police had sent teams to Kochi, Mumbai, Vadodara and Nagpur to question a large number of people as part of the investigation. So far it has arrested three people - bookies Rajeev Kalara, Sunil Dara and ex-film actor and music baron Kishen Kumar.UNI
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April 29, 2007
Update: Should We Continue Posting on Sundays?
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It appears to be a toss up, with 50% indicating that we should continue to post Sunday and 50% not to post Sunday.
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This month, Somerset House once again plays host to Britain's most stylish consumer fashion and shopping event; Vodafone London Fashion Weekend.
Consider this your one-stop boutique for autumn/winter trends and beyond— and all at industry-insider prices.
Book to see a Trend Catwalk Show hosted by THE OUTNET.COM, where you will see the best of this season's trends, or select a designer catwalk show from Amanda Wakeley, Fyodor Golan, Marchesa Notte or Nicholas Oakwell Couture.
The ever popular schedule of talks and demonstrations offers the opportunity to hear from fashion industry experts and style leaders.
Finish your day with a glass of Prosecco and pamper yourself with hair and beauty treatments.
We've teamed up with the Vodafone London Fashion Weekend team to give readers the opportunity to win a pair of LUXE tickets for Friday 19 September. The winner and guest can expect the full VIP experience – front row Trend Catwalk show seats, access to the LUXE lounge, welcome drinks and canapes, personal styling advice, an exclusive limited edition luxury tote designed by Lulu Guinness and filled with goodies.
If you're not feeling lucky, and want to buy tickets, readers can also save 20% on tickets to Vodafone London Fashion Weekend. Quote ESREADER when booking via londonfashionweekend.co.uk.
Terms & Conditions: Promotion closes at 23:59 on 17 September. There is one pair of LUXE tickets to be won for the evening session (2.30-8pm) on 19 September only. The catwalk time for this session is 7pm. The winner will be the first entry selected at random after the closing date and will be contacted by midday 18 September. Given the proximity of the event to the close date/time, if we are unable to contact you successfully by 17.00 18 September, we will have no option but to award the prize to another entrant. The prize is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. When you respond, Evening Standard Ltd may use your information to contact you with offers/ services of interest. Multiple entry by SMS is permitted, only one online entry per person. Usual promotion rules apply, see www.standard.co.uk/rules. For further information, please write to Customer Care, Evening Standard Limited, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT or call the SMS helpline on 0800 839 173.Usual promotion rules apply, see www.standard.co.uk/rules. For further information, please write to Customer Care, Evening Standard Limited, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT. Promoter: Vodafone London Fashion Weekend.Reuse content


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The Marcan Resort is a brand new hotel close to the centre of Olu Deniz. Surrounded by sweet-smelling pine forests and located within attractive gardens, the hotel has 130 spacious rooms that can accommodate couples and families in single, triple and family rooms. The hotel is conveniently located within walking distance of shops, bars and restaurants as well as a beautiful beach only 500m away.
Within the hotel's gardens is a large swimming pool with a separate section just for children. The spacious sun terrace has numerous loungers for guests to relax on and shady areas beneath umbrellas. There's a pool bar where guests can get drinks and snacks throughout the day.
Guests can dine at the hotel's restaurant, which has tables inside and on the terrace outside. There's a choice of local Turkish cuisine and English dishes. In the evening the restaurant often has Turkish and Barbecue nights, plus there are entertainment shows three times a week. After dinner drinks can be enjoyed in the hotel's main bar.
Distance from Airport:
64.5 kilometres from Dalaman Airport.
There are a choice of 130 standard, triple and family rooms. All the rooms have a balcony, an en-suite bathroom, split air-conditioning, flat screen satellite TV, WiFi internet access, a mini-bar, direct dial telephone and a safe. Certain amenities may be payable locally.
Transfer time:
One hour and 15 minutes.
Location and Resort:
The Marcan Resort is just 150 metres from the centre of Olu Deniz yet it's in a peaceful location surrounded by pine forest and is walking distance from the beach. Olu Deniz is an attractive resort renowned for its white sand and shingle beach and beautiful turquoise lagoon. The area is also home to loggerhead turtles.
Eating and Drinking:
The hotel has a terrace restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating that serves both Turkish and English dishes. There's a pool bar and a main bar with satellite TV.
Breakfast: 08.00 - 10.00 Open buffet
Late breakfast: 10.00 - 10.30
Lunch: 12.30 - 14.00 Open buffet
Dinner: 19.00 - 21.30 Open buffet
Snacks: 14.00 - 17.00
Coffee break: 17.00 - 17.30 Tea,coffee and cake
Ice-cream: 15.00 - 16.00
Pool night bar: 10.00 - 00.00 Local soft and alcoholic drinks, with charge after midnight.
Late night snack: 23.30 - 00.00 Soup or sandwich
Swimming pools:
The hotel has a lovely large outdoor swimming pool with a feature bridge and a separate section for children. It's surrounded by a sun terrace with plenty of loungers and umbrellas.
Right choice:
Couples staying at the Marcan Resort will appreciate the secluded location of the hotel set within beautiful gardens. The hotel also boasts a restaurant, pool bar and a swimming pool with a separate children's section making it the perfect choice for families too.
Suitable for:
Families, couples and groups.


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If you are looking for a well thought out and sentimental gift for a loved one who is also a Marilyn Monroe fan then look no further. This Marilyn Monroe glass picture frame with a white dress blowing montage is just what you are looking for. Photographs capture unforgettable memories and placing one in this glass picture frame is a great gift idea. On the right side of the yellow frame is Marilyn in a white dress in her iconic scene from the film 'The Seven Year Itch' where her dress is blowing up. On the left is a montage of photographs from a film. The frame is made of glass and measures 8" x 6.5". It holds a 4" x 6" photograph.
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In fact, the 6-foot-4.5 athlete confirmed on Monday night that he would be graduating in December and head to Baylor as an early enrollee.
"I'm early enrolling, so I will be there in January and go through spring ball. They want me to learn the position and pick up where Jordan Najvar leaves off after he graduates.They want me to come in and try and contribute right away," he said.
While many athletes spend months preparing to graduate a semester early, it was almost a last minute decision for Feuerbacher.
"At first, it wasn't something I was going to do. Looking at the process, I know some players plan on doing it and take the classes so they can graduate early. I hadn't planned on it, but they brought it up. At first I wasn't sure, but the more I thought about it, the more beneficial it seemed. They wanted me to and if it got me on the field faster, I thought 'why not?', so that's how it came up," he said.
Feuerbacher, who has built a strong relationship with the Bears' staff, particularly with passing game coordinator and receivers coach Kendal Briles, credits the coaches as a large reason for choosing Baylor.
"I visited Baylor for the spring game and I loved the atmosphere and the coaching staff. I got an excellent vibe from them. They are very nice guys, very honest, and our personalities meshed very well. I like the location and the school itself. The location is perfect; it's about a three hour drive from my house, so not too close, not too far, and I really like the small town and private school education. I liked the whole feel of it," he said.
The tight end is also looking forward to bringing his skill set to Waco and is eager to prove himself at the next level.
"A lot of tight ends can either just block or just catch. I haven't seen many who can do both at a high level, and that's one of the things I think I bring to the table. I may not be the best receiving or blocking tight end out there, but I can do both well," he said.
With his commitment both secure and behind him, Feuerbacher spent the summer in preparation for his senior season.
"I got the recruiting process out of the way, so I'm just focusing on high school football and enjoying it. I think I improved on every aspect of my game this summer: speed, strength. I also worked out my route running, my catching, my blocking," he said.
As he begins his second week of practices, Feuerbacher says the team has one goal in mind.
"My team missed the playoffs by one spot last year, so that's been a really motivating factor for us. We're working hard and we look good. That's our goal, that's what I'm trying to get out of this high school season and then go from there," he said.
For the latest on Baylor football and recruiting information, keep it at Bears Illustrated and FOX Sports NEXT.


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Make-up and headgear specialist, Funmilola Olurinola (Abeke Makeovers) is changing the traditional gele tying as we have known it, with her elegant and chic gele styles designed to turn heads and set trends, read more…
In one of her Instagram posts, she explained the inspiration behind her work;
"So let me use this opportunity of it being my birthday to launch a project that is very close to my heart. I've been looking for a gele style for people who are show stoppers and trend setters, who are bored with our usual gele style because they've tied 1 too many of them. I have finally created it and I'll be showing you 3 of them. All were tied using the same method but with each bringing out unique shapes depending on the shape of the face and the person's personal style."
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It is 10:30 on Tuesday night as I write this post. I should be sleeping as I have been working 12-14 hours a day on the house while trying to recover from strep throat. I think the cleaning portion of the program will be finished tomorrow and I am feeling a wee bit better. Hurray for small victories!
If you are following our slow progress on Instagram you know I have been pondering just how I was going to paint our very tall stairwell. Mr. Decor and I finally threw in the DIY towel and I have been interviewing painting crews. (On a side note, Rudi the dachshund has already been trained not to climb the stairs but to wait for someone to carry him thus saving wear and tear on his delicate old back. :)
We have already washed all the ceilings, walls, and baseboards. Some of the walls felt like Swiss cheese once the million wall anchors were removed but they have now been spackled.
I spent a good portion of Tuesday removing the many layers of contact paper from cabinet shelves. It was coming up in tiny, thin strips. Grrrrrr! Afterwards everything received a good scrubbing with TCP.
Now for your viewing pleasure, may I present the Storybook Tour Part One.
Storybook Tour Part Two
Storybook Tour Part Three
I say "all right" entirely too much in the videos but I am just too tuckered out to go back and edit then reload. The WiFi in our hotel room is dial up SLOOOOWWWW. Perhaps it just gives you a good giggle.
Let me close by saying "thank you" for all your lovely comments, good thoughts and special prayers. Your sweet friendship is such a blessing to me.


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Strenghth in Palladium Continues in 2011
Platinum and palladium recorded the second consecutive year of positive returns, rising +20.5% and 97.2% respectively, in 2010. Recovery in the auto sector and robust investment demand for precious metals were key reasons for the impressive performance. PGMs remained firm in the first 2 weeks in 2011 with platinum rising to 1833, the highest level since July 2008, and palladium to 825.1, a level not seen since March 2011. PGM prices should continue to perform well this year as driven by strong African rand and supply shortage in the palladium market.
We are more bullish on palladium than platinum as the demand/supply outlook for the former is tighter. While there lacks information on Russia's palladium stock sales, the consensus view is that Russian stocks have almost depleted. Over the past few years, sales from Russian state stockpiles reached were 0.9-1M oz, the 3rd-largest contributor to world supply after mine output from South Africa and Russia. If Russia continues to draw a similar amount from stockpiles this year, the palladium market will be at small surplus. If Russia has indeed exhausted state inventories of the metal, the market will definitely be in deficit. In any case, strong production growth in gasoline-fuelled light vehicle will drive the metal to deficit in the medium-term.
According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China's vehicle sales may grow +10% to +15% this year after surging +32% to 18.06M units in 2010. Robust growth in Chinese auto demand will be driven higher per capita GDP and increase in passenger car density from the low base. In the US, recovery in the auto market as macroeconomic outlook improves will also benefit palladium.
Johnson Matthey said in an interim report that platinum will be in surplus by 290 000 oz in 2010 while the market had anticipated a deficit year due to EU incentive schemes and low mine supply. We expect platinum to remain in surplus in 2011 as increase in vehicle production will be offset by lower jewelry demand and greater level of recycling. That said, platinum price will be supported by higher import costs and appreciation in rand.
We currently retain our price forecasts for platinum and palladium but further upgrades cannot be ruled out should global economy recover faster than previously expected or sovereign crisis in the Eurozone worsen and spur investment demand for precious metals including PGMs.


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In my doco wandering, I tried to mount the cocoon DAV repository (found in the 'davmap' directory of the webdav block) under macosx as a disk, but fails. I tried with mod_dav on httpd 2.0.47 and it works. Further inspection (with the good old tcpflow) indicates that the cocoon OPTION handshake: 127.000.000.001.53028-127.000.000.001.08888: OPTIONS /samples/webdav/davmap/repo/ HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: WebDAVFS/1.2.3 (01238000) Darwin/6.8 (Power Macintosh) Accept: */* Host: localhost:8888 Content-Length: 0 127.000.000.001.08888-127.000.000.001.53028: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:49:51 GMT Server: Jetty/4.2.9 (Mac OS X/10.2.8 ppc java/1.4.1_01) X-Cocoon-Version: 2.1.3-dev Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, DELETE,TRACE, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, COPY, MOVE DAV: DAV:1 Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 46 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <page/> Is not that palatable by WebDAVFS (the mach-O DAV client) while 127.000.000.001.53029-127.000.000.001.00080: OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: WebDAVFS/1.2.3 (01238000) Darwin/6.8 (Power Macintosh) Accept: */* Host: localhost:80 Content-Length: 0 127.000.000.001.00080-127.000.000.001.53029: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:50:13 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.47 (Unix) DAV/2 DAV: 1,2 DAV: <http://apache.org/dav/propset/fs/1> MS-Author-Via: DAV Allow: OPTIONS,GET,HEAD,POST,DELETE,TRACE,PROPFIND,PROPPATCH,COPY,MOVE,LOCK,UNL OCK Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: httpd/unix-directory is much more digestible and results in the disk being mounted. Now, the first thing to ask is: 1) is DAV: DAV:1 correct? I would expect "DAV: 1" to be the correct header 2) is our response correct? I think that, from a DAV perspective, "/" is not a page but rather a folder.... even if, to be honest, httpd/unix-directory really sucks as a content type, but anyway. Expect more feedback on this since I'm going to investigate more and more webdav capabilities as I prepare to attack doco. -- Stefano.
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|200 m²
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|5 - 14 nachten
Met hoge plafonds, parketvloeren en een elegant interieur in, dit prachtige luxe drie slaapkamer appartement beschikt over een overvloed aan leefruimte en een geweldige locatie in de buurt van Oxford Street en Regents Park. Gelegen op de derde verdieping van een statig herenhuis blok de woning beschikt over een ruim bemeten ontvangstruimte met aangrenzende eetkamer, keuken, drie extra grote slaapkamers, 3 badkamers, een met jacuzzi. Gelegen in een populaire woonwijk, dicht bij Regent Street, Oxford Circus, Soho en prachtige Regents Park. Het metrostation Great Portland Street (Circle, Metropolitan en Hammersmith & City lijnen) en Oxford Circus (Midden- en Bakerloo lijnen) is dichtbij voor verbindingen naar de stad en het West End.
My family and I have stayed at many five star hotels and apartments in London and only one word comes to mind to describe this one.....WOW!!!!! This is an impeccable, sophisticated and chic 3 bedroom/3 bathroom apartment. All of the rooms are well appointed, large and comfortable. The bathrooms are new and very modern with heated floors and towel warmers.
The location is superb!!! It is in the heart of it all. Everything that you need or want is literally right there. You can walk to so many attractions, restaurants and shops. The infamous Regents and Oxford Street are both a 10 minute walk away. Regents Park is practically your backyard and it is fabulous!!! All of the major tube lines go to the Portland station which is a 5 minute walk from the apartment. Not to mention that it was never more than a three minute wait for a taxi or Uber.
The biggest WOW factor was dealing with Ian and Inge. From start to finish it was professionalism at its best!!!! It was an absolute pleasure and we can't wait to return.
We cannot express enough how much we enjoyed our stay at Ian's flat. First of all, Ian is a great host. He communicated with us countless times prior to our arrival and then was completely available to guide us during our stay. We are a family of five and stayed for 8 days at 2 Weymouth. We found the flat to be elegantly decorated, very comfortable, spacious and livable. It was extremely clean, just as described, provided all we needed for our stay including socket adapters. The flat has the finest appointments. In fact, the kitchen appliances are of such nice quality, we invested in a nice kettle when we came home. We really appreciated the fact that the flat ws all on one floor with lift access. The location is superb. Well within walking distance to all the top spots and as well as easy access to the underground. Plus, the cross streets were easily recognizable by the taxi drivers. There is a Starbucks next door and a grocery market across the street as well as restaurants. Just perfect! We cannot emphasize enough how much the quality of the flat and the location positively impacted our stay. We would definitely stay at Ian's flat if ever in London. And, it was such a pleasure working with Ian. He was so patient with our many concerns and questions even during the holidays. It was a five-star trip! We have and we will continue to recommend Ian's property to our friends. Thank you, Ian.
Our family spent Christmas week here and both the accommodation and location were ideal. Ian could not have been more welcoming and helpful - many thanks! Definitely our #1 choice when we visit London again!
We highly recommend the apartment and Ian. The apartment is large, extremely well furnished, and in a great neighborhood. Ian was terrific to work with and he really cared that we had a good time while in London. We hated to leave.
Our family had a terrific visit to London due in large part to this beautiful apartment. It was very spacious, extremely clean, well appointed and tastefully decorated. The owner's care and attention to detail were evident throughout; for example, the kitchen was fully equipped if one were inclined to stay in and cook. Moreover, the prime location made it an ideal base for sightseeing with many notable stops within a 5-15 minute walk or a short tube ride. Ian was a pleasure to deal with; he was precise and prompt in all booking related matters and he checked in with us several times during our stay to make sure everything was to our liking. If we visit London again we will certainly stay at Hampden House.
Stayed 2 weeks - two adults and three kids 9 8 and 5. Really a great place! Very spacious overall and prefect location - close to several difft tube lines, rest, pubs and short walk to regents park. Small kitchen but offset by large dining room and massive family room. 2 showers was nice also. Highly recommended for a stay w family!
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Activiteiten: wasserette - self service
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Zeer centraal gelegen in een rustige straat in het centrum van Londen's trendy en historische West End - op slechts 5 minuten lopen van Oxford Circus / Oxford Street en het West End theaters, 10 min lopen van Picadilly Circus, en 15 minuten lopen van Trafalgar Square en Buckingham Palace . De meeste musea en theaters bevinden zich allemaal op loopafstand. 5 restaurants, een Starbucks en een Sainsbury's supermarkt liggen op minder dan 2 minuten lopen. De prachtige Regents Park ligt op minder dan 5 minuten lopen. British Museum, National Art Gallery, Royal Institute of Art, en Madame Tussauds Wax Museum zijn allemaal binnen 15 minuten lopen. De meerderheid van de Londense ambassades zijn binnen een 10 minuten lopen.
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14 jul 2017 - 21 jul 2017
5 nacht minimum verblijf
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14 nacht minimum verblijf
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- Security deposit required.
- High-speed wireless internet included.
- Porter in building.
- Maid service is available.
- Check-in 3 PM / Check-out 11 AM.
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METLOX Miniature - Terrier Dog - Manhattan Beach, Calif
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- Item Category: Ceramics
- Source: eBay
- Sold Date: Jul 28, 2008
- Channel: Auction House
Up for bids is this little Miniature by METLOX in the form of a terrier dog. Measures approx. 4" long. Not sure if it is made of china, porcelain or pottery, but it is nicely glazed. Sticker is a little loose on right edge. Very nice condition with no chips. Great little collectible.


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Alessandra from Baobab TV mailed me if I was interested in linking to http://www.thetimetv.com. Ofcourse I am! It is a wonderful initiative and really gives the online watch community an 'originality' boost. thetimetv.com is broadband television about watchmaking, a very interesting 'tv channel' on your computer! Check it out!
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Robert-Jan Broer, born in 1977, watch collector and author on watches for over a decade. Founder of Fratello Watches in 2004.