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According to a letter from the Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka, the technology provided by Terracotta "only gets better from here" for their community, customers, and the overall Java community. For their community members, Zilka is promising to continue strategic investments in open source technology used to improve performance and scale for its users' applications. He promises that Terracotta will continue to host the same content that its community expects, and specifically plans to continue expanding on the "open source front".
As for the Java community, Zilka promises that their products will integrate easily with Software AGs existing products. He insists that Software AG and Terracotta are working together to bring a new level of cost-effective and massive scale to the existing Terracotta products by combining their resources.
While all of this news sounds great for Terracotta and its users, it still brings up the question of the software's open source nature. Now that Terracotta is owned by a large enterprise software company, will its products still stay open source? The FAQ on the press release answers this question directly by confirming that "the open source versions of each project will continue to be maintained and advanced". The creator of Ehcache, Greg Luck, confirms this: "Ehcache will remain available in its current two editions: open source under the Apache 2 license and commercial with value-add features. And of course it will get even more investment as part of the larger organization".
Zilka's letter wants to convince developers that the Software AG acquisition will have a positive effect on the Terracotta community, their current customers, and the Java community at-large. Luck explains that the acquisition will not prevent him and Terracotta from "focusing on standardizing Java caching by leading the specification of JSR107" and implementing that directly into Ehcache.
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GC161 - Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management
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The Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management provides you with the knowledge and skills required by today's human resource (HR) professionals to effectively contribute in small and medium enterprises and multinational corporations.It also provide you with the capacity to address the human resource issues and critically evaluate the impacts of decisions and practice through case studies and interactive and experiential learning activities.
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Students who successfully complete the RMIT Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management will articulate into the Master of Human Resource Management and will be exempted from completing the four (4) Business Enabling courses and the four (4) discipline courses completed in the Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management, and will be required to complete eight (8) courses (96 credit points) in order to qualify for the degree.
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Photo: Eminem x Royce Da 5'9″ & Bruno Mars – Lighters (On The Set)
July 20, 2011 · Posted in news, pictures · 2 Comments
Flick of Bad Meets Evil and Bruno Mars on the video set for their track "Lighters".
"This ones for you and me, living out our dreams"
Video is directed by Rich Lee, who also directed Eminem's "Not Afraid" video.
Read the full Bad Meets Evil Lighters Lyrics here.
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Every market, regardless of the country, faces obstacles, dependent on financial stability, infrastructure development, taxation and economic strength. Western cities, such as New York and London, dominate as international financial centers. However, emerging hotspots in the developing world are catching the attention of investors.
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Dubai is an emerging financial hub in the Middle East. Home to international powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, the city is an increasingly influential player in global finance. Dubai is putting itself on the map due to its enticing tax laws, stable banking system, and favorable business environment.
Neighboring Doha is also steadily growing its reputation as a financial hub. As oil prices fluctuate, both UAE and Qatari leaders are focusing on diversifying local economies in a move away from dependence on the oil and gas sector. As a result, the financial sector is moving into the spotlight, to attract international investment into the Middle East.
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Everybody Hurts: "Nobody Knows"
by Michael Koresky, with responses from Neal Block and Jeff Reichert
EDITORS NOTE: Because of indieWIRE's extensive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival, we are publishing this week's review later than usual.
[indieWIRE's weekly reviews are written by critics from Reverse Shot.]
Hirokazu Kore-eda's splendid, crushing new film "Nobody Knows" floats like a feather yet finally plunges like a dagger. It's clear from its visuals and textures, as well as its heart-stopping freeze-frame closing shot, that Kore-eda saw more than a little bit of Truffaut when his idea for this film, gleaned from an infamous true story about a houseful of abandoned kids in Tokyo in the late Eighties, began to gestate some 15 years ago. Yet unlike other "400 Blows" homages, like Tsai Ming-liang's "What Time Is It There," "Nobody Knows" isn't infused with mere movie recall. Here, a seemingly minor anecdote blossoms into something more lovely and grand, yet also withers into something horribly real: as the film continues, the four little kids, left by their selfish mother to fend for themselves with dwindling cash funds, begin to stand in for a larger spiritual dispassion. Not since Shunji Iwai's wickedly underseen and neglected masterpiece "All About Lily Chou-Chou" has the soul of a lost generation been so agonizingly on display; yet here, the angst isn't quite so gutturally expressed by its characters. These pre-adolescents, crawling their way through the subterranean depths of childhood, seem headed for an encroaching irreducible malaise. Kore-eda is simply planting the seeds of disillusionment.
That the director mostly manages to avoid flagrant sentiment at every turn (except for one pop song towards the end, a strikingly atonal choice) is somewhat of a miracle, especially considering the irresistible cherubs onscreen for the film's entirety. Delicate, unshowy, tangible — the approach that Kore-eda uses to elicit such naturalistic, non-cloying performances from the youngsters seems all but an impossibility for an American filmmaker. The manner in which the kids are allowed to interact, the relationships they foster with one another, with their toys, their food, their apartment which will become their cell, is breathtakingly intimate and almost claustrophobically intense. 10 year-old Kyoko (Kitaura Ayu), 7 year-old Shigeru (Kimura Hiei), and 5 year-old Yuki (Shimizu Momoko) share the connection one would expect to see between siblings, yet as each child is born of a different father, the tight bond they form is also out of necessity and desperation. Presiding over them all is the striking, soulful 12 year-old Akira (deserved best actor winner at Cannes 2004, Yagira Yuya), who in the course of the leisurely film, shot over 10 months, is allowed to age from grinning moppet to bitter youth‹his voice deepens, his black hair grows out to an unkempt tangle, his sense of responsibility intensifying with the changing of the seasons.
Kore-eda's staggering artistic generosity manifests in every gesture: even before the mother has abandoned her children (before the Christmas holidays, no less), he depicts the woman as herself a lost child rather than a senseless monster. His choice of casting You, a well-known TV personality, musician, and magazine writer in Japan, in the part of the negligent parent, pays off magnificently — the youngest children are understandably seduced by the playful woman's cooing, flattering, childlike demeanor. Kore-eda allows their spiritual drift to go mostly unspoken, letting a handful of unforgettably tactile moments speak for the whole: Kyoko fingering a dried-over puddle of her mother's spilled red nail polish; Shigeru unfairly shoved aside by Akira's new batch of videogame-hound pals; little Yuki, in long shot, holding Akira's hand, walking the dotted line in the middle of a quiet Tokyo side street, her tiny shoes, fixed with rubber horns, squeaking and echoing in the empty, dark night.
It's this overwhelming loneliness that might truly define this master filmmaker's output, albeit a solitude that is felt not in Antonioni-derived framing or Bergmanesque confessionals but in naturalized settings and behavior. Both his "Maborosi" and, especially, "After Life," exist within sequestered areas in which its characters can stave off unhappiness and detachment only for so long. Especially the latter, which finds a group of deceased individuals in a way station between life and death, instructed to recreate their happiest earthbound moments on film before passing on. Though some do indeed accomplish this, others are left with an eternal ache. In "Nobody Knows," the kids are often buoyant, and rarely does Kore-eda fixate upon the great burden of their lives, letting it simply play out in a series of small, mundane moments that add up to an inexorable tragedy. The children the film is loosely based upon, coming as they did from different fathers, may as well have never existed in the eyes of the government: their births were never declared. Kore-eda's mission then, unassuming yet vast in its implications, seems to be to use his camera to locate these children, discover their passions, their resilience, their faces, before they join the multitudes and again fade into obscurity.
[Michael Koresky is co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot, as well as the assistant editor and frequent contributor of Film Comment.]
Take 2
by Neal Block
Like many disaster movies, Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Nobody Knows" uses its characters to symbolize both destructive ignorance and the hopeful potential for survival. And yet like very few of these movies, "Nobody Knows" takes as its central disaster a familial abandonment rather than an asteroid or a tidal wave. The events are no less cataclysmic because of this smaller scale. A mother abandons her four children for a lover, leaving the eldest boy, Akira, to feed, clothe, protect, and sustain his siblings. The disaster expands slowly over the film's nearly two and a half hours, like a slow-motion mushroom cloud, as money runs out, food becomes scarce, clothing ripped and ragged, and the promise of their mother's return a memory. Families are born amidst ash and rubble in these films — disparate, desperate people entrusting one another, like the black cop and the hillbilly mall security guard working together to fight zombies, or the two cute teenagers on opposing debate squads who finally put aside their differences for the good of humanity. The same maturity is born in "Nobody Knows," as the kids meet disappointment and trouble with saddening frequency and confront it not with go-get-'em exuberance, but with a learned resilience that must be employed in order for them to soldier on and stay together. They were simply family before; they're a family now.
At the end, there's no Bruce Willis to save them, no Dennis Quaid to snowshoe towards them through the arctic storm of their collective experience — just a hard world to continuously face, and only the new strength of their familial bond to help them face it.
[Neal Block is a co-founder of Reverse Shot, and a contributing editor of neumu.com. He currently works as Director of Distribution at Palm Pictures.]
Take 3
by Jeff Reichert
Finding a film as simple, honest, and emotionally overwhelming as Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Nobody Knows" is such a rarity that the occasion truly warrants the kind of critical overload showered on 2004 favorites "Sideways" and "Million Dollar Baby." (Hopefully it'll receive half the accolades and half the audience of either.) The problem in writing about it lies in figuring out what's left to say about a work so seamless that it almost short-circuits discussion. The kind of movie that leaves a viewer feeling, if not consciously thinking, "It should always be this easy, shouldn't it?," "Nobody Knows" is as complete a cinematic experience as you're likely to find in the first quarter of any year, not that it'd never make that claim for itself. Completely self-effacing, like his main character, solely concerned with ensuring that every element is truly in its right place, Kore-eda, in a leisurely, but never lazy 144 minutes, has provided in "Nobody Knows" a sketchbook of a complete moral landscape that exists in a universe writ small, folded unnoticed into a corner of the one we adults inhabit and experience on a daily basis. Laden with the kind of core-deep weariness punctuated by whimsy that permeated "After-Life," "Nobody Knows" is so subtle and casually elliptical that when tragedy finally strikes its makeshift community of abandoned children, you're left unsure of exactly what's transpired until the film becomes an elegy for the lost. Even then, Kore-eda ably balances his debts to his characters as a filmmaker with his debts to his audience as an artist; form follows function, and in "Nobody Knows"'s many silences, viewers are given the freedom to realize how easily this story could have been completely, mawkishly mis-told, and wasn't.
[Jeff Reichert is co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot. He is currently employed as Director of Marketing and Publicity for Magnolia Pictures and co-director of the Providence French Film Festival.]
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Dialogue, as we are choosing to use the word, is a way of exploring the roots of the many crises that face humanity today. It enables inquiry into, and understanding of, the sorts of processes that fragment and interfere with real communication between individuals, nations and even different parts of the same organization. In our modern culture men and women are able to interact with one another in many ways: they can sing dance or play together with little difficulty but their ability to talk together about subjects that matter deeply to them seems invariable to lead to dispute, division and often to violence. In our view this condition points to a deep and pervasive defect in the process of human thought. (Bohm, Factor and Garrett 1991)
"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed"
— Paulo Freire
People are hell bent on shutting down dialogue. Certain words have become so politicised that you are no longer able to say them. As a concession, you are only able to say them if you belong to the particluar sub-culture to which they refer. For example, there used to be a blog called "Suspect Paki". It was run by a Muslim. There is also a blog called "Trauma Queen" that is run by a gay para-medic.
These people have been party to a language hi-jack. They tell us that they can use a certain word, but I cannot. Thus, the basis of dialogue is slewed in favour of those who have more words at their disposal than me. There is somthing hostile about the way in which communities insist on having a language of their own. The two examples above are actually not very good, but they point to the primary problem, which is one of etymological hegemony.
Abortion has recently gotten the same treatment. A Californian Congresswoman, writing in the Huffington Post, has declared that
Abortion is is a word employed by intolerant people to cast shame on women who choose it.
This statement fields no alternatives, or even a rationale, it is merely accompanied by a sob story. This is not surprising because all arguments emanating from the Politically Correct are cleverly designed to bypass rationality and go straight to emotion. The liberal elite have no real philosophy to deliver, merely rant and rhetoric and because their arguments are so weak they rely on shutting down debate.
The aim of the Newspeak Dictionary in Orwell's book is clear, as told by Orwell himself:
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of IngSoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever.
So what I am saying is that whilst this hi-jacking of language may be justifiable on certain limited grounds, it does nothing to further dialogue.
We must be careful; people use terms that are dangerous and so cliched that they will only be taken in subliminally. I notice that Brian, in his post below, slips in one or two. His use of the term "religious nutter societies" offends not only me, but they will be something of a blow to the many religiously based organisations who have fought to make our society a better one.
Not all religious people are nutters. The "nutters" pushed for the abolition of slavery. The "nutters" have huge medical missions overseas who deal with anything from cataract operations to HIV/AIDS. The "nutters" refused to fight and instead volunteered for dangerous non-combatant duties during WW1 and WW2. The "nutters" are behind organisations like the Salvation Army, who provide, among other things, help to street prostitutes.
So, please don't tolerate etymological terrorism. Please do not slip in cliches that are not only offensive but actually highly inflammatory and hate-inspiring. If you tolerate this, one day, you will not only not notice what's going on, you will no longer have the words to express it.


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Damianos is the nickname given to Detective Andre Russell of the San Diego Police. His aunt, Rose Russell is coming back from a bird-watching weekend with friends when she notices a scarecrow in a precarious situation in the middle of a wheat field. He's been eaten by crows. She phones her nephew, Andre and explains what she's seen. Two other boys have to die in the same fashion – attached to a comb gibbet and their chests transpierced with a pitchfork – before Damianos can make heads or tails of this horrific series of crimes. Involving the FBI is his only solution. Who are these insane criminals and why are they killing mere boys in such an awful manner?


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Update 4.0 opens the gates to the brand new playfield "Dragon's Spine" and is the first part of "The Secrets of Dragon's Spine" update series which provides players with all new Hyborian experiences as they venture to the desert region located south and west of the ancient city of Pteion. Rippling desert dunes stretches for miles in every direction from the spine, lifeless, except for a small oasis in the mountain's shadow, and treacherous caves and tunnels weave in and out of the mountain rock. But men are not the only beings to have forged a thriving civilization in the desolate desert, many secrets lay buried beneath the sands.
Also available now is the group instance "Sepulcher of the Wyrm".
The new content is available to Premium players exclusively.
Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the door to Tian-Bai's Sanctuary not to open.
Vanir Avengers spawned from the "A Bloody Solstice" seasonal event will no longer attack random players if they lose hate to the player they spawned on.
As long as the confirmation box for mail deletion is active, other mails can no longer be selected.
Fixed an issue with the GUI showing incorrect values of combos improved by Upgrade Combo feats.
Teleport: Cradle of Decay should now have the correct level requirement.
"The Awakening III" - Fixed an issue where players who are disconnected could sometimes get stuck in Strom's Treasury Room.
Paikang Districts: "Cleansing the District" (repeatable version) is now obtainable.
Fixed an issue where some players were not able to torch the handmaiden in the quest "A Lesson In Cruelty".
The hitching posts destroyed in the quest "Hunting the Wastes" in Kheshatta should no longer be invisible after respawning.
Fixed an issue where some players were not able to to obtain "The Fall of Thoth-Amon".
ID § 11 Jan 2013, 08:54 [ Alintila ] [ Özel Mesaj ] [ Albüm ]
Kısacası Stygia'ya end game yeni bir harita, "Secrets of Dragon's Spine" geldi. 85 lvl moblar, bir sürü görev, yeni 6-man dungeon.
ileride eklenecekler;
- yeni mini game
- raid
- crafting revamp
ilk zamanlar khesatta bir yandan görev yapmaya çalışırken, diğer yandan diğer oyuncularla savaştığım günleri hatırlattı. harita hem geniş, hem de dolu. fakat sadece premium oyuncular girebiliyor. sizi temin ederim open-world pvp'ye doyacaksınız.
ID § 18 Feb 2013, 08:40 [ Alintila ] [ Özel Mesaj ] [ Albüm ]
Bu hafta kertenkeleden bozma yeni binek de geliyor.
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Pope Francis wants women to have breast cancer??
But if the rumor is true, and the Pope is really going to liberalize the Church's teaching on the sin of contraception, then aside from the fact that he is opening the doors of Hell even wider to receive more inhabitants he will also be encouraging a practice that can lead to a terrible cancer among women. Competent, believable studies show a link between use of The Pill and breast cancer, studies which we might expect a Pope to be aware of.
So if this Argentinian Bull is going to go charging into the china shop on this issue we can expect more chaos, chaos which will exacerbate that already caused by his malignant Amoris Dementia.
Is Francis still riding his "breeding like rabbits" hobby horse ?
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I hope he ponders his planned "re-thinking" Humanae Vitae as some women die in agony from their Pill popping or lose body parts in an effort to stop the cancer. To our "woman-empowering" Pope: are you OK with that ? Or is your pomposity so great that it doesn't protrude itself upon your intelligence ?
My money is on his General Custer-like war plan: he will charge ahead come what may.
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- M. Prodigal said...
Not just cancer either. But birth control pills also may have an early abortifacient property as well. The promotion of contraception leads to promiscuity and abortion as well as fornication and adultery. No doubt about that. It is all demonic. The masons once said that the evil one would one day rule in the Vatican; it could be that this day has come.
- July 24, 2017 at 2:08 PM
- Aged parent said...
Thanks, M. Prodigal, for the comment. You are right to point out the abortifacient issue here. I cannot even begin to imagine the chaos that will come down on the Church if this "revision" actually happens. It could be the last straw, the nadir, the final collapse. If the Pope tells Catholics they can officially contracept I cannot see how that new "freedom" could ever be undone without a major schism, one even worse than the one with the Orthodox.
- July 24, 2017 at 9:36 PM


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The Miller Center is doing a blog that relates the 2012 election to historical pieces:
Riding the Tiger looks at contemporary events through the lens of history. It frames the 2012 race by providing scholarly insight into policy and politics and featuring historical resources from the Miller Center's digital archive.
For instance, this entry relates the TN primary back to Johnson's 1968 election and some of his audio recordings:
Listen to this telephone conversation (embedded above) from 1964 as President Lyndon Johnson declares that he "can't afford to lose Tennessee."
On October 9, 1964, President Johnson calls Frank Ahlgren, the editor of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee, and stresses the importance of winning the state. He asks Ahlgren for his ideas on how to carry Tennessee and talks about coming down for rally. Tennessee was more politically moderate than the rest of the Deep South and tended to vote Republican in presidential contests. It supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 and Richard Nixon in 1960.
Johnson refers to U.S. Representative Joseph Elvins who is with him in Nashville and suggested getting Ahlgren's ideas. Ahlgren states that he is worried about Senator Albert Gore, Sr., and Ross Bass, who is running for the U.S. Senate, and says that he thinks they are in trouble and need a visit from President Johnson to win their elections. At the end of the call, Johnson pulls out some football metaphors to let Ahlgren know how important it is to win Tennessee.
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Thanks to @Mr_Darling for finding out:
"Just got got confirmation [fountains at Meridian Hill Park to be turned off for the season] it's the week of September 16th."
This year the fountains got filled slightly later than in previous years due to budget constraints. And in previous years the fountains have remained filled until November. So unfortunately this is the last weekend to enjoy the great view until next year!


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Humidifier wool for cats.
Humidifiers are available not only for men. When in apartments hard at work heating, cats also experience discomfort. They electrified and dry hair, itchy nose, watery eyes. These problems will help to eliminate the humidifier, made in the form of a ball. The cat will happily play with it, thus helping to recharge the integrated battery. Continue reading
The maintenance and care of Pets
About when a man appeared first Pets authentically nobody knows, but it is scientifically proven that they were even man of the stone period. Currently there are animals in every third family – some keep for the sake of obtaining wealth, others as companions, brightens your leisure of the owner.
If you are going to buy some cute and funny pet, be it cat, dog, rat, parrot or ferret, you should be prepared for possible difficulties and inconveniences, to think well of their management and care, which directly depends on the future health and mood of your pet. One has only to string up a little the first months, and then the kids will grow, and you care for them will become a habit.
There are three unspoken rules in the care of Pets: a full and varied food, cleanliness of the premises where the animal is found and regular monitoring of the health of the pet. Most owners, adhering to these simple rules, much less running around to veterinary clinics, almost not being spent on pills and relaxed for their animals.
Thinking about buying an animal, first of all, find out what it eats and in what quantity. Food should be of the highest quality and from naturallyderived, it consists of balanced fats, proteins and Continue reading
Exotic Pets
Usually, thinking about a pet, pop up images of cats, dogs, parrots and less fish. But there are people who prefer exotic animals. Will try to tell about the main representatives of the exotic in our apartments. Snail is the most harmless, undemanding and does not require a lot of effort and time in care. These animals live well in our homes and can become the first pet our kids. To maintain the natural living conditions of the cochlea need a terrarium with a small pond. For a comfortable life, she does not need additional sources of light and sleep, she feels fine at room temperature and sunlight. As a popular exotic pet is the Madagascar cockroach. He also unpretentious and safe. In addition to interest, this inhabitant can bring a very significant advantage – saves you from the cockroaches home. Funny, the hiss produced by the cockroach doesn't leave indifferent people.
Survives well in apartment conditions chinchilla. These little creatures love to make surprises to its hosts. They are obedient and more prone to training. Their content is straightforward. These little rodents with big eyes become the favorites of many. Also popular other rodents: rabbits, rats, mice and ferrets. The next group of animals, which some people refer to domestic species, reptiles. Razlichnyie snakes, lizards, turtles and even crocodiles appeared in the apartments of our fellow citizens. Continue reading


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Buying a home in SpainBuying a home in SpainPosted by Alan Cuthbertson Tue, September 13, 2016 20:38:27
Okay, so you have decided where in Spain you want to live. The only thing you have to do now is find a house. Of course living in East Leeds we all know how the system works in our area. You either look on the internet or take a walk down to the high street and checkout the local estate agents. If we are selling a house we can expect to be charged a couple of thousand pounds, if we are buying we pay nothing. Is it the same in Spain….definitely not!!!!
For a start if you look on the internet you may find the same details on 100s of different sites, all offering the same property at a different price. This is because most are linked by a system that allows them to share the details, and the commission. Speaking of commission, if selling you will be charged anything up to 8 percent of the advertised value. That means if your house is £200,00 then the agents want about £16,000. Don't worry over here in Spain you just add that to the price and the buyer pays it. Oh, yes. You will need another 10 percent to cover taxes etc.
What do they do for this commission….very little as I can see. The internet companies just show the details on their web sites. The local estate agents do likewise (that's if they have a website). In Leeds when we sold our house the estate agent came around taking professional pictures, moving furniture and personal belongings to get the most out of the property.
When we started looking in the windows of the estate agents in Spain we couldn't get over the quality of the pictures. Many were faded and details very vague. When we looked closer we were astonished to see that pictures of kitchens showed sinks pilled with pots and half eaten food on the sides. One picture showed a living room. In the centre was a man laid on a sofa reading a newspaper, with one hand down his trousers!!!
We contacted an estate agent who advertised a couple of properties that looked interesting, and arranged to meet somebody called 'Mike'. We waited at the agreed service station, and right on time the four wheel drive Toyota pulled in. Stepping out 'Mike' looked like he had stepped straight off the cover of Vogue magazine. "Stacey and Ashlie (our daughters) would like him." said Heather, my wife, as she stared and looked him up and down a little too long. Until this point I hadn't realised you could dislike someone just because they're better looking than you.
It turned out Mike was not just an ex-marine, he was a very good estate agent. He spent the next couple of weeks showing us every kind of accommodation. Eventually we found the house of our dreams in a small village in the Andalucian mountains. It just goes to prove, not all estate agents deserve the bad reputations thrust upon them.


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So you want a mommy to take care of you? Well come to mommy, What is it that you like and want from mommy Trisha ? I can give you some of my sweet mommy milk while I am in my panties. I know you like to be cuddled and pampered. Do you need your diaper changed? You know mommy has tons of diapers for you diaper boys! So don't be afraid to cum and tell mommy all your fears and dreams and hopes and wants while you suck on my nipple and drink my sweet mommy milk.
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Our courses at Bucks are designed to help you hit the ground running in your chosen career. So, as well as a strong academic foundation in your specific subject, you'll have opportunities to add to your knowledge with work-related learning.
On several courses, you'll go on a placement related to your subject (and in some cases, more than one). It's a chance to put the theory into practice, gain first-hand experience of working in your chosen field, and hone valuable skills that will help you stand out in the jobs market.
Thanks to our close links with employers like Thames Valley Police, Wycombe Wanderers and the NHS, we can offer our students some great quality internships and placements – both formal ones and others arranged on a more ad-hoc basis through our established contacts in each industry.
Once you're on placement, we'll stay in touch with you, and visit you regularly, to check you are getting on well, and getting the most value from the experience.
If you study nursing with us, thanks to our close links with the NHS, we can offer you a wide choice of clinical experiences in different health settings, depending on the course you are on and where your interests lie.
We offer placements over a large geographical area in north west and central London (adult, children's and mental health), Buckinghamshire and Berkshire (children's).
You will be allocated a 'home base', which will be at one of the major hospitals in the region. This is where you'll complete most of your clinical experience (although if you're studying children's or mental health nursing, you'll work throughout the whole NHS region to gain a broad range of experiences).
While you are on placement, a member of our teaching staff will be assigned to your clinical area, and will visit you to see how you are doing, and offer you any support you might need.
As a nursing student, you will spend 50% of your course at the University and the other 50% out on clinical experience at one of our local NHS trusts or independent care partners.
If you study social work at Bucks, you will go on out on assessed placements throughout your course.
You will work within different kinds of organisations related to social work, and gain experience of relevant statutory tasks and duties. You will also develop the skills and competencies you'll need to be able to practise as a social worker when you graduate.
We work with a broad range of organisations to offer interesting social work placements, including the local authority, NHS, voluntary and independent sectors. Our students have worked with organisations such as Barnados, Sure Start Children's Centres, Mind and The Prince's Trust, as well as local county councils and schools.
As clinical practice is a large part of our operating department practice courses, we work closely with several NHS trusts to provide clinical placements for all our students.
Going out on placement will give you the chance to experience working in a
fully functional operating theatre. You'll work with anaesthetics, surgery and recovery teams, and get first-hand insight into the skills needed to provide effective patient care.
Developing your knowledge in these areas, across a variety of clinical settings, will help you to meet the competencies required to be able to register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) when you graduate.
During your placement, a clinical member of staff will provide mentorship, supervise your experience, and make sure you are meeting the requirements of the course. Teaching staff at Bucks will also be there to support you.
You will spend around 35% of your course time at university, and the rest on placement.


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Jesus Krishna,
I am sorry I thought malaria was only for hypochondriacs and Republicans. I believe you now. When I woke up this morning (at 3 a.m., mind you, after working until 1:15), with that HUGE mosquito buzzing around my head in joyful mockery, I realized I could be wrong. You know how much it takes for me to admit that, JesusKrishna, which is why, in the absence of a vaccination, I'm asking for mercy. If your provenance is not enough to spare me, then let me get away with stealing Karen's malaria pills when she's not looking.
I suppose this is also a good time to confess that I really like it here in India. Not enough to say, marry it, but definitely enough to sleep with it. A few times. In fact, there's lots of stuff on my list of Indian-things-that-make-me-smile. Here's said list (in no particular order):
1. I like how Hyderabad looks all Land of the Lost with Microsoft campuses. I half expect to catch a ride on a pterodactyl between office buildings.
2. I like the salutation of "namaskar" or "namaste" by everyone from our drivers to the security guards who check my handbag for bombs.
3. I like the humility, the openness, and the kindness of the people here. I could learn to be as laid back.
4. I like how when your flight attendant makes another passenger switch seats so you can sit by yourself and then tells you "Yes ma'am, it is no problem," he really means it.
5. I like the colors of the saris, the occasional dhoti, the deep soulful eyes. I like how happiness comes in a few rupees.
6. I like my new friend, Rajiv, who took Christine and me on a detour in Chennai today instead of driving us back to the office. I especially like that he prepared an alibi for us, which only required me to play dumb. I like how easy it is for me to actually play dumb.
7. I like how every meal is Indian food.
8. I like Drunk (or at least Drinking) Frank.
That's all. I just overslept and missed a bunch of meetings. As tired as I am, I'm still a lucky girl. I'll be even luckier, JesusKrishna, if you'll make sure I don't get malaria on my face.


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Thursday, September 15, 2016
The Celebrity Death Match of the Millennium!
The Saudis -- ***NOT IRAN*** -- are the world's leading state sponsors of terrorism and facilitated the 911 attacks. The Saudi oligarchs fund the Wahhabi clerics who run the madrasas across the Muslim world that train the extremist jihadi fighters that spread radical Islamic terror worldwide. The 911 attack was an act of war -- the "Pearl Harbor" -- used cynically by the Neocons as an excuse to destroy Iraq, while the real culprits, the Saudis, were given a pass, the "28 pages", "the smoking gun", held back. And let's not forget the near certainty that the Israelis had foreknowledge of the coming attack and held back that vital information from their American "ally". The Zionist subversion of the US Govt by the Neocons and AIPAC -- Israeli agents -- places beyond the realm of imagining even the mere suggestion of a casus belli case against Israel, no matter the facts: "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason." John Harington The Saudis, by virtue of big oil money and billions in MIC purchases, have also enjoyed a protected status, (though not nearly the total immunity enjoyed by Israel -- the "special relationship"). That said, in light of Saudi complicity in 911 revealed the 28 pages, and their central role in spreading Wahhabi terrorism, the American people would have no problem whatsoever supporting a war to terminate the degenerate Saudi regime and the cancer they spread worldwide. The Trump movement has broken the "rationality logjam" created by the PC/Zionist "narrative", and the emerging truth is making reality-based policy -- ie ***rational policy***, which is to say ***effective*** policy -- accessible. "Take the oil" says Trump, and the PC police scream "Outrageous!" Really now? Deprive radical Islamic terrorism, the enemy of modern civilization, the resources, the economic fuel for their savage worldwide onslaught? This is "outrageous"? No, this is the emergence, finally, of rational thought from the delusional fog of Kool-Aid saturation. Disorienting and refreshing is the light of truth,... at last. And all that formerly-Saudi oil wealth confiscate it. Confiscate as well, from their accounts, all the preciously accumulated Saudi wealth: as penalty for terror sponsorship. Cancel/retire that 750 billion in Saudi-held US treasuries. Just cancel it! Then, take all those trillions and create a new home for the Palestinians, modernize the Arab world, and bring prosperity to Arab "Main Street". Maybe, just maybe, that might bring peace to the Mideast, ya think? Thank you, presumptive President-elect Donald Trump, for all this. For innovation in the political system. For the inspiration, the optimism, and the return to rational self-interest. For restoring representation to the American people, for putting Americans first, and for restoring America to reality-based thinking and the rational policies it enables. Thank you for putting our neoliberal-and-Neocon beleaguered country back on the path to greatness. (Please God, let Hillary live long enough to participate in the debates. It would be deplorable if the reality tv celebrity-death-match-of-the-millennium -- The Trumpinator vs Godzillary the Destroyer -- were cancelled due to Hag-O-War enfeeblement.)
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Aishwarya Rai was born in India into a devout Hindu family. As she was growing up, Rai dreamed of a career in medicine, zoology and/or architecture. In the ninth grade, she began modeling, and at 17,...
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A 35 year old female presented to a doctor with fatigue, tiredness for few days.She gives h/o that she had used steroid ointment for skin problem for few months. Initial reports showing Cortisol-Morning-125 nmol/L (171-536) and Cortisol -evening-82 nmol/L (64-327). Repeated reports showing Cortisol-Morning-107.9nmol/L (171-536),Cortisol -evening-74.5 nmol/L (64-327) and ACTH-4.8pmol/L (0-10pmol/L),Na+-138meq, K-3.7meq, Cl-105meq, Bicorbonate-26meq,T3,T4 and TSH -Normal. After all these reports, the doctor started her on Prednisolone medications. Later after 10 days, the patient had gone to Endocrinologist, who stopped all tablets and given her dexamethasone for 1 week and done Synathen test-Cortisol; total 5.25 ug/dl (4 to 27) 1hour after synacthen test. Currently she is on Hisone (Hydrocortisone) 10mg 1---1/2 which was reduced to 10mg morning ----2.5 mg evening. I have some doubts about this case:1) Is this a case of secondary adrenal failure? 2) Chance of recovery in these patients? 3) How long patient need to continue this Hisone?4) Is it necessary to repeat Synacthen test after 3 months? 5) Is it necessy to reduce dose gradually over what period? 6) Currently she has hair fall, gaining weight and visceral obesity.with regards.Dr Sreenivas
This patient has adrenal insufficiency probably secondary to adrenal suppression from her medication. She should be taking hudrocortisone replacement until her ACTH stim test normalizes. Try in 3 months . No need for weaning. No need for dex before the test. Just do the test before the morning dose of hydrocortisone. George Chrousos, MD


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Clandestine Collective
Eleanor Beth Haswell
You may already have the anatomical swimsuit, but what about a pair of knickers to match?
Well, these "see-thru" briefs are not for sale in any department store as they are part of an amazing art work produced by artist Eleanor Beth Haswell called "Why are you so afraid of your own anatomy?"
Eighteen-year-old Eleanor is currently an art student based in the north-east of England, producing her own art work and collaborating with a group of artists called the Clandestine Collective.
In an interview with Marie Claire, she explained the ideas behind "Why are you so afraid of your own anatomy?":
Throughout history we, as women, have fought to break loose from the preconceived image of how we should act in society in order to be our own person, with notions and beliefs that we've formulated ourselves…
As I was focusing on an art project based on body shaming at the time, I began to notice a lot more shaming online, especially in the UK. It's the nipple that's deemed to be the issue, the fact that both men and women have them yet a woman's must be censored. I just don't understand how people claim that we don't need feminism, but are offended by something as innocent as the nipple, and are happy to create a divide to suggest that a woman who does what she wants with her body is unacceptable. Why is there this divide between genders?
You can read the full interview with here and see more of Eleanor Beth Haswell incredible work here.
Updated August 2014.
H/T Doctor Matt Lodder, via Slow.


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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Presentation 2 Autumn 2013 Week 2: Introduction to English Central
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Presentation II Autumn 2013 Thursday 1st
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The Colby College Chorale completed its eighth spring-break international tour in March performing across southern Spain. Among venues where they presented concerts were the Mosque Cathedral in Cordoba and the small church outside Granada where Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella signed documents that led to his voyage of discovery.
Geraldine Morris '11 said performing in the Mosque Cathedral, where she sang a solo, was the first concert and the highlight of her trip. The acoustics, unlike anything she's experienced, "Made it almost effortless," she said.
"One of the things we can't do in this country," said Chorale Director Professor Paul Machlin after returning from the trip, "is perform in spaces designed for choral music, and by that I mean old stone churches." The Mosque Cathedral is a great example—a World Heritage Site that has a Renaissance Christian cathedral built in the middle of a mosque that dates from the Moors in Spain, Machlin said.
Later on the trip, in Santa Fe just outside Grenada, "We were actually warming up in the very room where the documents were signed," by Columbus and Queen Isabella, he said.
For a third concert, in Grenada, the Colby College Chorale was part of a concert series and sang for "an extremely full house in a very large church downtown." After a standing ovation and one encore the 65-member ensemble (60 students and five alumni) had to repeat a number for its second encore, Machlin said.
All the preparation and performance paid off on campus April 2 when he group performed a concert titled "Old Chestnuts, New Fire" in Lorimer Chapel for the Music at Colby series. "With each performance we solidified our sound, and we became a well-oiled machine," said Morris. She praised Machlin as "an amazing conductor" who also managed the roles of tour manager and artistic director with aplomb.
Recent trips have taken the Chorale to Argenine in 2009, Rome and Florence in 2007, and Vienna and Prague in 2005, said Machlin, Colby's Arnold Bernhard Professor of Arts and Humanities.


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|The Cardwell Collaborative building will be 83,000 square feet in size. (Renderings courtesy of MCA Foundation.)
In a recent press release, MCA Foundation President Emma Schwartz stated, "This project belongs to the whole community, so it is wonderful to see the community supporting it is such significant ways. We are tremendously grateful to Jack Cardwell for his leadership and endorsement of this project."
Construction on the Cardwell Collaborative building is expected to start next year with completion set for 2015.


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Miyuki Miyabe 宮部みゆき
Miyuki Miyabe (1960–) is a prolific author working across a broad spectrum of genres, including mysteries, crime novels, period fiction, sci-fi, and fantasies for children. Born and raised in the shitamachi section of Tokyo, with its vestiges of the old Edo-period plebeian culture, she continues to live in the area and frequently sets her stories there. She began writing fiction in her early twenties, and made her literary debut in 1987 when her short story Warera ga rinjin no hanzai (Our Neighbor's Crime) won the All Yomimono Mystery Prize for New Writers. She received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1991 for her novel The Sleeping Dragon (tr. 2009), the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize in 1992 for her novel All She Was Worth (tr. 1996), and the Naoki Prize in 1998 for Riyū (The Reason). Her monumental 2001 novel Puppet Master?(tr. 2014) won the Shiba Ryōtarō Prize as well as the MEXT Award for the Arts and vaulted her to a new level of bestsellerdom. More recently, her Na mo naki doku (Nameless Poison) won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature in 2007, and the English edition of her fantasy novel Brave Story received the Mildred L. Batchelder Award in 2008. Her recent bestsellers include the novels Soromon no gishō (Solomon's Perjury) and Petero no sōretsu (St. Peter's Funeral Procession). She is also well known as a video-game enthusiast. Miyabe is one of the three members of Osawa Office, along with the writers Arimasa Osawa and Natsuhiko Kyōgoku.


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Leases Likely to Fall, China Sluggish
By Jotham Sederstrom July 13, 2012 11:02 amreprints
Leasing likely to fall 30% below last year's level-Crain's New York
China Slows Despite Aggressive Stimulus-Businessweek
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FORUM: Christie vs. Malloy: Round 2 on taxes
Govs. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut and Chris Christie of New Jersey have renewed their verbal sparring match, roughly a year after the two made national headlines exchanging insults over contrasting approaches to state fiscal policy.
In a July 23 interview with NPR, Malloy referred to Christie's policies as "horrendous," as he continued to bristle at Christie's taunt from last year that Malloy needed to "read the manual" on being a governor.
Malloy was responding to Tom Moran's recent column in the Newark Star Ledger praising his policies as working better than Christie's.
The amusement of the governors' rift notwithstanding, the core of their dispute is a question of national importance: Should states address their deficit and debt problems through higher taxes or reduced spending?
Moran suggests that Connecticut's policy of higher taxes is the way to go. Christie and his supporters disagree. So who is right?
First, as anyone who has ever received or paid a paycheck knows, higher taxes mean employees have less money to spend, and employers face higher costs when hiring workers. So higher taxes mean less private sector spending and fewer jobs.
Defenders of higher taxes counter that the private sector job losses are offset when government spending is focused on investing in infrastructure and work force training that create jobs and future value in the economy. This is arguably true.
The problem is that Connecticut, like many states that have increased taxes, is not putting its new tax revenues toward investment spending. Rather, it is funding an ever increasing budget for public employee compensation and wealth transfers such as Medicaid.
Even programs that Malloy calls investment spending aren't necessarily so. And in Connecticut's case, those programs are being funded entirely by new borrowing, not new tax revenues.
Take Malloy's $300 million investment in a building and other incentives to bring Jackson Laboratories to Connecticut. Malloy claims this deal marks the beginning of a bioscience renaissance in Connecticut.
But, Jackson Labs is committing to bring only 300 jobs to the state at a cost to Connecticut taxpayers of $1 million per job, an absurd amount by any standard. Connecticut has been promoting a Connecticut biosciences cluster for more than a decade, with limited progress, and there is no reason to believe Jackson Labs can do any more to bring a bioscience renaissance to Connecticut than the state's existing biotech companies that did not receive government subsidies.
The Jackson Labs deal is not an investment of taxpayers' income. It is a corporate welfare program and political stunt, plain and simple.
Moran claims that Connecticut is doing better than New Jersey because Connecticut's unemployment rate is lower. But, the unemployment rate isn't what everyone thinks it is.
A lower unemployment rate doesn't necessarily mean a better economy, and that is the case when we compare Connecticut with New Jersey. A lower unemployment rate can result from people getting jobs or from people leaving the work force. It also uses a questionable definition of whether a person is employed. If Moran were to look at the non-farm employment rate, a better measure of economic health, a different picture emerges.
Since the November 2010 election, Connecticut has regained only 13 percent of the roughly 115,000 jobs it lost since the economy turned down in 2008. New Jersey, in contrast, has regained 27 percent of the jobs it lost, far more in line with the national recovery rate of about 30 percent.
So if job creation is the measure, New Jersey is doing better than Connecticut, and, using Moran's logic, it appears reducing spending is working better than increasing taxes.
It remains to be seen who will win the battle of political barbs between Malloy and Christie. But in the battle of good policy, Connecticut's approach of not reducing spending and paying the bill by increasing taxes on middle income workers is not the way to go.
States that are trying to hold the line on taxes and focus on reducing spending have taken a better approach. Some combination of the two -- with a much heavier emphasis on reducing spending than we've seen in Connecticut -- is probably the right answer.
Ben Zimmer is the executive director of the Connecticut Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research organization founded in February 2011 by Tom Foley, the 2010 Republican candidate for governor of Connecticut. Readers may write him at Connecticut Policy Institute, 129 Church St., Suite 521, New Haven 06510. Email: email@example.com.