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NEW YORK — SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. made a splash Friday in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
The owner of theme parks famous for water shows featuring killer whales and dolphins jumped $6.52, or 24 percent, to close at $33.52 after the company and its backers raised $702 million.
The initial public offering of 26 million shares was priced at $27 per share, which was at the high end of the expected range of $24 to $27 per share. The IPO's size also increased from the 20 million shares that SeaWorld and its owner, private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, had hoped to sell. The pricing of the offering and boost to its size suggests that there was solid demand for the shares.
The first SeaWorld opened in San Diego in 1964. It was bought by beer giant Anheuser-Busch in 1989 and combined with the brewer's Busch Gardens park in Florida.
The company has grown to span 11 theme parks housing 67,000 animals. Besides the three SeaWorld parks, the company owns two Busch Gardens parks, several water parks and Sesame Place, an amusement park based on the children's TV show Sesame Street. It had net income of $77.4 million on revenue of $1.42 billion in 2012.
Francis Gaskins, president and editor of IPODesktop.com, said SeaWorld is an "iconic brand" that is appealing in part because its properties are particularly kid-friendly, even more so than those of peers like Six Flags and Cedar Fair LP.
SeaWorld had warned in a December filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its business is dependent on customers' willingness to spend on leisure and entertainment. The company has managed to do well despite lingering concerns about the economy and high unemployment in the U.S. Its revenue has risen since it was bought by Blackstone in 2009.
About 24 million people attended its parks during the 12 months ended Sept. 30. The company did not disclose how that figure has grown or shrank in the past few years, but says it has a "stable attendance base."
Before buying SeaWorld, Anheuser-Busch started Busch Gardens in Tampa in 1959. More than half of SeaWorld's revenue today is generated in Florida. The company is now based in the theme park mecca of Orlando, also home to Walt Disney Co.'s Walt Disney World resort and Universal Studios.
Some of SeaWorld's competitors have had a difficult climb back from the recession. Amusement park operator Six Flags Entertainment Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, emerging in mid-2010. It has been growing revenue since then, although it posted a loss in 2011.
SeaWorld has looked for other ways to stay competitive, branching out with a Saturday morning television show, "Sea Rescue," on the ABC network to attract young viewers.
Blackstone, which had bought SeaWorld from Anheuser-Busch for $2.3 billion, will still have a majority stake in SeaWorld after the IPO.
SeaWorld offered 10 million shares in the deal, while Blackstone sold 16 million shares. SeaWorld will receive about $245.4 million in proceeds after expenses, with no proceeds from shares sold by Blackstone. It plans to use the money to repay debt and to pay a one-time fee to Blackstone.
The banks managing the deal could also buy another 3.9 million shares, which would raise total proceeds of the deal.
SeaWorld is not the only strong IPO debut this week. On Wednesday shares of the popular New York grocery store chain Fairway, which is trading on the Nasdaq under the "FWM" ticker symbol, gained 33 percent.
SeaWorld's stock trades under the "SEAS" ticker symbol. Its offering is expected to close next Wednesday.
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More than 1,000 artists and a half million art lovers are expected to converge on campus and downtown streets for the 54th annual Ann Arbor Art Fair.
The event, from 10 a.m.-9 p.m. July 17-19 and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. July 20, will take over Central Campus streets and Liberty and Main streets downtown. Children's activities and live music also are presented.

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I upgraded to a Lumia 920 (from Samsung Focus) last week and last night recalled that I needed to do this additional step on my WP7.x/iPhone such that Gmail will actually delete emails instead of archiving (why does Google think that I want to archive junk/spam by default is beyond me).
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Part 3 of our video blogs of the 2013 ISSCR annual meeting introduces the fascinating research in cell-based CNS repair done by Dr. Christopher Pröschel at the University of Rochester. You can also find Part 1 and Part 2 in the blog archives.
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Eleven years after the death of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, fans have a new way to pay tribute to her memory.
On Wednesday, Premier Postage announced the release of a commemorative sheet of postage stamps featuring the image of the Queen of Tejano. The stamps are not available at U.S. post offices.
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text: Wine, Oil and Family: the Three Stories of James Ontiveros W. Blake Gray December 17, 2013 Columns, Features, W. Blake Gray 3 Comments James Ontiveros met me at Pappy's for breakfast. It's a farm-country diner in Santa Maria Valley, California, where the omelets almost cover a whole plate. We spent a morning together, while his wife was overdue with twins, which would be their first children. They hadn't chosen names and were planning to wing it upon seeing their faces. James' ancestor Juan Pacifico Ontiveros once owned all the land around Pappy's, further than the eye can see, past the kale farms on the east side of US Highway 101 and the modern shopping center on the west side; past Bien Nacido Vineyards and Cambria Vineyards, where some of California's best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay come from. Juan Pacifico Ontiveros received it all in a Mexican land grant in 1837. But the enormous Rancho Tepesquet was partitioned with each generation, and James' family sold off the last bits during the Depression in the 1930s. James Ontiveros, now 39, worked on his family's former land as a sales and marketing guy for Bien Nacido Vineyards for a decade. But now he's out on his own, with a project that exists only by the goodwill of a major oil company, which can tear down his house any day it chooses. This is one of three good stories James Ontiveros told me on the morning before he became a father. I couldn't decide which one to tell you: each could be 1000-word columns on their own. So I'll tell you short versions in the order he told me. Story #1: The Chinese solution We didn't talk business over breakfast; we ate chile verde and eggs and talked about whether fraternal twins like Ontiveros' are as close as identical twins. Both of us had recently read a book ("Unnatural Selection") about the growing impact of sex selection in Asia in the 1980s and '90s. There's a whole generation of young men in China and Vietnam who have little chance of ever marrying, and the author pointed out that in history, eras with too many boys generally lead to wars and mayhem. Ontiveros thinks we should consider bringing over these men to do farm labor. The US is one of the few countries in the world with more women than men, because when we do sex selection, we prefer girls. I don't know if I could have gotten a whole story out of this idea, actually, but it did make for pleasant breakfast conjecture. Story #2: Rock farming is everywhere, and it changes terroir While we drove up to Ontiveros' ranch, we passed a rock farm, aka a quarry. Have you ever noticed these before? Giant machine shovels with caterpillar treads; dusty air; nothing in sight but rocks. So many things we look at but don't see. Rock quarries are everywhere, all over the world, because every region needs gravel for its roads and it's cheaper to mine it locally than to put rocks on a ship. In most cases the rocks under a plot of land are worth more than any crop that can be grown on it. This may not be true at Domaine Romanée-Conti. But Ontiveros knows of a Russian River Valley Pinot Noir vineyard that was uprooted to get at the rocks beneath it. The vineyard owners thought they owned the land but didn't own the mineral rights, which Ontiveros says is the case all over California, and will be the main plot point of Story #3. Rock farming doesn't destroy farmland. It takes it out of commission for a while. When the desirable rocks are removed — the big ones, most useful for construction — the remaining silty dirt is dumped back on the same plot of land, along with some topsoil. The land is farmed again. Some crops actually do better on former rock farms, thanks to the big top layer of loose soil, which is why you've never heard of this before; it's not environmental degradation, exactly. And we all need rocks. But the wine lover in me immediately thinks, the terroir will never be the same. It might not be worse, it might even be better, but it will never be the same. Think how many undiscovered vineyards we have already changed. Or don't, it'll make your head spin. Just be glad rock farming isn't prominent in Chablis. Or Rockpile. Story #3: The Sword of Damocles in the price of oil James Ontiveros' grandfather Alexander lived in a small country house next to a 320-acre ranch owned by a childless family, the Brickeys. James' father Mark, the oldest of seven kids, looked after the ranch for the Brickeys, and they gave him a 99-year lease. James has since bought an adjacent 80 acres. The Ontiveroses are landowners again. But it's not the fertile, misty, beautiful farmland around Pappy's. It's dry and dusty and studded with oil wells. Decades before, an owner of the land sold the mineral rights. Ontiveros says this is common in California and is touched on in the film "There Will Be Blood." He says California law is set up to protect mineral rights because the state's founders were thirsty for oil. It's the same reason a vineyard owner might not be able to stop a rock farmer from tearing up what he thinks is his land. "They can come in and produce oil at any time, and they only have to pay damages," Ontiveros says. "They can come right on top of my house" — built in the 1880s — "and drill." About now you think it's going to be a story about evil oil companies. And Ontiveros has nothing but bad words for Shell Oil, which sold the rights to another company some years ago. But it's more complicated than that. The land had 126 oil wells on it in the 1970s, when Mark Ontiveros got the lease. But the oil underneath the ground isn't very good quality: it's sticky oil called heavy crude, used for making roads. When prices dropped after the 1970s oil crisis, so did oil companies' interest in working the land. Mark Ontiveros bought a surface lease on a heavily worked oil field, not good for much else. Times change. The oil companies did their required cleanup, using specialized microbes to eat leftover chemicals. The Ontiveroses spread some compost to grow grasses. They let cattle graze on that. "That intermediate step, growing grass on it, gives us a quick look," Ontiveros says. "Is it supporting vegetative growth? You wouldn't want to spend money on a vineyard if it doesn't." See, that's the thing about crappy dusty, dry land, low on nutrients — often that's exactly where you want to grow wine grapes. "I want to take my property to its highest and best use," Ontiveros says. "That looks to be vineyards." Little by little he has planted, but he doesn't have a lot of money after buying the land. So he leased about 150 acres to the Wagner family of Caymus fame; they grow Chardonnay and Pinot Noir there, right next to an unused oil well. A well that could be reactivated at any time. Ontiveros is not specifically worried about the new technique of fracking; he says the oil on this land is below 4000 feet, while the groundwater is much higher, at 700 to 1000 feet. He's just worried about the price of oil, and the price of grapes. He knows the Wagners' wine can never be worth enough to prevent drilling if oil prices rise enough. "It would be very hypocritical to go buy an oil field and decide to stop their operation," he says. "We just want them to have second thoughts about the amount the damages would cost, as opposed to drilling on another piece of property." But, he says, "It's like knowing you have cancer and going on to live your life." That's a sad ending, and I don't want that, so here's how our conversation actually ended. We were tasting some of his wines under the Alta Maria label; I liked the Sauvignon Blanc ($18) and the Pinot Noir ($28). We were talking about destemming, which he's against; total wine geek conversation. His cell phone kept ringing, but we were talking. As you can tell, our talk was interesting. Suddenly James sat up straight and said, "I just realized that may be my wife, having a baby." We won't be meeting for breakfast at Pappy's again for a while, not without high chairs for Zane and Lauren Ontiveros. Pingback: Afternoon Brief, Dec. 17 : WIN Advisor() Pingback: Terroirist: A Daily Wine Blog » Daily Wine News: Wine Philosopher() James Ontiveros Hello Blake, my story seems more interesting in print than it does in person. Thank you for taking the time to come and visit, and I'm glad you enjoyed the Alta Maria and Native9 wines, hopefully your readers do as well. I have always believed wine is not only what is in the glass,but also about place, and story. The history of California, and it's land uses are fascinating to both of us, and I'm glad you chose to touch on some of that. The one thing I'd like to put into further context for your readers was our conversation around twins that led to our discussion of the challenge China is now facing with an overpopulation of men. From what we are led to believe, there are many people who are working in agriculture in China with little prospect for bettering themselves financially, and for young men who wish to meet young women. We then transitioned to a conversation on the difficulty we are having in California finding people with the skills and willingness to take on the strenuous task of work that is required in agriculture. Here in California there are many opportunities in agriculture, as well as a more balanced gender opportunity which would seem attractive. With this acute need in California for skilled labor in agriculture, the future could see a potential area of synergy with China if we can't fill these jobs at home. i wish everyone a great Holiday Season with more rest than we are getting in our home! 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LOS ANGELES (AP) - For $349, your dog can learn to fly.
Security checks and bumpy air are all in a day's training at a Hollywood film studio to prepare your dog for a safe and calm flight.
The Air Hollywood class is billed as the first in a real fuselage on a sound stage with a simulator that mimics takeoff, turbulence and landing. Hollywood extras create crowds and chaos that come with terminals, luggage carts and the blare announcing arrivals, delays and departures.
The idea was the brainchild of Talaat Captan, president and CEO of Air Hollywood, the world's largest aviation-themed film studio, who noticed a dog owner having a rough go getting a pooch through airport security.
"The owner was stressed out and the dog was freaking out," Captan said. "I figured, `Why don't I train those people?'"
He hired his friend Megan Blake to write a program and teach the class with three other instructors and her dog Super Smiley. An actress, animal trainer and lifestyle coach, Blake also has a psychology degree from Georgia Tech.
With more dogs racking up air miles these days, it makes sense to take obedience school to a new level, said Heidi Heubner, who directs volunteers, including airport therapy dogs, at Los Angeles World Airport.
There are no numbers on how many pets are taking to the skies, but they have become essential parts of a growing number of families and traveling with them for work and play is becoming more common, said Kim Cunningham, a spokesman for the International Pet and Animal Transportation Association in Texas.
It will vary by airline, but there's always a fee for cabin pets- those under 20 pounds that have to stay in carriers under the seat during a flight. Workings dogs or trained service animals (most airlines also allow psychiatric and emotional support animals, too) fly free, but owners must give the airline documentation and advance notice. The animals sit at their owner's feet during flights. The class doesn't address cargo pets.
The class is using the same studio where parts of "Bridesmaids," "Kill Bill" and 500 other movies were made. Television scenes from "NCIS," "Modern Family" and "The Newsroom" have also been filmed there.
Last year, Air Hollywood conducted a test class with 60 puppies from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
"Some of the handlers were more nervous than the dogs because they don't like to fly," said Rick Wilcox, who oversees puppy-training in Southern California. "It was amazing how realistic it was."
Two things are deliberately absent in the simulated airport: the smell of jet fuel and a change in cabin pressure that makes your ears pop.
Captan opened his studio about six months before Sept. 11. On Sept. 12, the phone started ringing because airports were locked down and movie and television studios couldn't shoot scenes they needed.
The studio has grown to include everything from a private jet to a 747, as well as props and supplies.
A guide dog takes longer and costs more than any other dog to train because they must be the eyes of their companion. So it wasn't surprising "that they all went through with flying colors," Blake said. Going through security, none of the dogs balked or barked at the security wands or pat-downs, even if the wands set off alarms because of their leashes.
The dogs sat at their handlers' feet in the cabin during the simulated flight, which came with engine sounds, the captain speaking, cabin lights being dimmed, overhead bins being shut and warm-up vibrations, Wilcox said. If there was any nervousness, it was during the simulated takeoff, landing or turbulence.
When a dog gets nervous, it might clamp its jaw, lick its lips or get wide-eyed, Blake said. With the dogs in the test class, petting was enough to reassure them, she said.
The staff was very knowledgeable about dog behavior and gave good advice, Wilcox said.
"`If a dog gets nervous, don't coddle them.' That's the same thing we use to raise confident, well-balanced dogs," Wilcox said.
The studio is taking reservations for its first paid daylong class on Oct. 19. Classes will be held every month or two and will be open to well-behaved dogs of any age.
Captan and Blake's collaboration isn't the first time they've worked together on a sound stage. He was the producer and she was an actress in the science-fiction thriller "Digital Man" 18 years ago.
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Cape Town, South Africa, 10 May 2013 — Calling for investment to consolidate and make more inclusive recent African growth, leaders from across the continent gathered to close the 2013 World Economic Forum on Africa.
"We've had a couple of days of very exciting conversations about what is happening on the continent," said Eric Kacou, Co-Founder, Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESPartners), USA, a Young Global Leader and Member of the Global Agenda Council on Fostering Entrepreneurship. "I think in Africa we are in the middle of a metamorphosis," he said. "People are just starting to recognize there is potential."
"I felt very encouraged, very energized" by the Young Global Shapers, said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance of Nigeria. "They are the people who will ultimately take this continent forward." Okonjo-Iweala announced that next year's World Economic Forum on Africa will take place in Abuja, Nigeria. "I can assure you of an exciting Forum next year," she said.
"The era of pessimism is over in Africa," said Børge Brende, Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum. "The African lions are growing even faster than the Asian tigers," he said.
"But if this growth is not invested in human capital and diversifying economies, we will lose out on the opportunity." Brende concluded: "There is a lot of optimism, but also a lot of realism."
Articulating that realism, Martyn Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Frontier Advisory, South Africa, a Young Global Leader and Member of the Global Agenda Council on China, laid out the challenges and opportunities ahead. "If we look back in 20 years, what will have become of this high growth we're enjoying?" asked Davies. He said he worries that growth is not being re-invested in development, and that Africa needs to offer "better enabling environments" for industrialization to capitalize on opportunities, like the fact that China's workforce will shed 85 million jobs in the near term. "Beyond the lip service, there needs to be a deeper realization," argued Davies, "that our most valuable asset is not what's under the ground, but it's what is potentially in our people."
"While there may not be an abundance of jobs, there is no shortage of work to be done," argued Rapelang Rabana, Founder, ReKindle Learning, South Africa, who called on leaders to take advantage of the continent's "youth bulge" by fostering educational systems that promote "job-ready" skills. Inclusion of women should also be a priority, added Anne Githuku-Shongwe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Afroes Transformational Games, South Africa, a Social Entrepreneur. "Women are the third emerging market," said Githuku-Shongwe.
"We need to have inclusive and high-value growth," argued Younes Slaoui, Consultant, Strategy and Development, Attijariwafa Bank, Morocco. "It's not only about GDP. We need to have competitiveness." Slaoui called for greater regional integration, as well as investments in social entrepreneurship and industry to promote inclusive growth and fight poverty. "Success is a journey," concluded Elsie S. Kanza, Director, Head of Africa, World Economic Forum, a Young Global Leader, "not a destination."
With the support of the Government of South Africa, the World Economic Forum on Africa was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 8 to 10 May.
Over 1,000 participants from more than 80 countries took part. Under the theme Delivering on Africa's Promise, the meeting's agenda integrated three pillars: Accelerating Economic Diversification; Boosting Strategic Infrastructure; and Unlocking Africa's Talent.
The Co-Chairs of the World Economic Forum on Africa were Frans van Houten, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Management and the Executive Committee, Royal Philips Electronics, Netherland; Mo Ibrahim, Chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, United Kingdom; Mustafa Vehbi Koç, Chairman of the Board, Koç Holding, Turkey; Frannie Léautier, Executive Secretary, The African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe; and Arif M. Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive, Abraaj Group, United Arab Emirates.


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Approximate Running Time: 4 hours and 20 minutes, with 2 intermissions
In German with English captions
Printable Version
By Speight Jenkins
Originally, I had planned to revive our 1989 production of Die Meistersinger
von Nürnberg in the summer of 2006. When the budget work was done, it was clear that this was simply
impossible. The forces involved and the huge overtime problems make Die Meistersinger a mini-Ring.
We will do the opera, but it will have to be done after a specific fundraising campaign such as we
mount for the Ring.
It then occurred to me that it has been nine years since our very successful production of Der Rosenkavalier.
I had originally thought of bringing it back in the regular season; that idea died on the altar of the budget
as well, because Der Rosenkavalier needs a lot more rehearsal and demands huge forces not practicable in the
regular season. I asked Asher Fisch, who was slated to conduct the Meistersinger, if he would switch to Der
Rosenkavalier. He was delighted to do so, both because he loves the work and because he would have conducted
it in Israel before our production. I had to make sure that our director, Dieter Kaegi, was available. When
he first directed the new production in 1997, it was a great success, and I wanted him to return. Fortunately,
he was free.
My first reason for wanting to revive Der Rosenkavalier—other than that it is one of the great operas and that
we have a great production of it—was for Carol Vaness. Though each of the five principals in Der Rosenkavalier are
vitally important and must be of a top caliber in order for the opera to make its effect, the Marschallin is primus
inter pares. It is not an easy role to sing, but that's the least of it. Because she is one of the greatest characters
in opera, probably the wisest woman, she demands a personal interpretation (I know that this is a role and might
therefore take another pronoun, but the Marschallin to me is not just a character; she exists). And in my experience,
no matter how great the artist's voice, interpreting the Marschallin takes some very special qualities. The first is
to have lived. That sounds simplistic, but I have seen more than a few young, beautiful sopranos make no impression
in the part as they simply have not the experience to convey the meaning and feeling of the Marschallin (Hofmannsthal,
unfortunately, said that her age was 32, fine for the eighteenth century, maybe fine for 1911, when the piece received
its premiere, but wrong for 2006).
I thought that Carol Vaness had the right characteristics and that the time is perfect for her. She is a beautiful
woman, her voice is in wonderful shape, and she has had enough experience to bring real meaning to the opera's words.
She has told me that three times before she agreed to do the part yet didn't sign the contract because it didn't feel
right. This time she has been working with joy on the part. She also confided that the Marschallin often brings her to
tears, tears that she is enjoying now so that she won't have to yield to them when she sings the role in August.
With Carol Vaness signed up, my next step was to see if Peter Rose was available for Baron Ochs. I can't bear the
coarse buffoon interpretation of many who perform it, and I have seen Rose's Baron. It's got plenty of rough edges,
but he's basically a country gentleman, not a peasant. He also has in spades the vital quality of charm. Rose, who
had been supposed to sing Pogner in the Meistersinger, was more than happy to switch to one of his favorite roles.
The title role has to look and sound just right. When the production was first given at Seattle Opera, Angelika
Kirchschlager made her U.S. debut here with a brilliant Octavian. For this production, I knew I had found the young
woman I wanted when Alice Coote sang in Handel's Alcina in San Francisco . A great voice, a vibrant personality, an
aristocratic carriage and great looks, all of these characteristics spell the Count Rofrano. She did her first Octavian
in Los Angeles last summer, and she was happy to do it again in Seattle.
The most surprising addition to the cast came from Die Meistersinger. I had invited the distinguished baritone
Wolfgang Holzmair, as well known for Lieder as for opera, to Seattle . When the opera was changed, his manager told
me that he would be very interested in the part of Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier. I was more than delighted. He should
bring us a new and important interpretation of Sophie's father.
Finally, the Italian Singer is always a problem. Strauss and Hofmannsthal created the role for a repertory company
and intended to have the tenor who was currently singing Cavaradossi, Rodolfo, or even Radames to have a short night
singing the important, one-shot role. For Seattle Opera, as for all companies not in a rep situation, bringing in the
kind of tenor who can sing the role properly is a challenge. Since Vinson Cole became internationally famous for singing
the Italian Singer in the recording conducted by Herbert von Karajan many years ago, I knew he knew the part. But would
he do it? When I asked him, he said he hadn't done the part in quite a while and wanted to sing it through again before
he agreed. I was delighted when he told me that it still felt good and he'd do it.
So with the addition of many important smaller and not-so-small parts, we were ready to go on our Straussian summer.
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Bardo — The possible scenarios for the upcoming elections after the failure of the National Dialogue were discussed at a meeting held on Thursday between President of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Mustapha Ben Jaafar and President of the Independent Higher Authority for the Elections (ISIE) Chafik Sarsar.
In a statement to TAP, Sarsar said he had reviewed with the President of the NCA, possible alternatives in light of the persistence of the disagreement over the organisation of presidential and legislative elections concurrently or separately.
Each delay further increases pressure and dangers which impact the electoral process, he added.
ISIE has no opinion on the separation or concurrency of the elections, he argued, stressing the commitment to strictly enforce the electoral law regarding the preparation for the elections.
Sarsar, who reminded that voter registration will begin June 23, noted that technical tests will be conducted this week to verify the capacity of the voter database.
He added that the ISIE has ended the recruitment of staff for its sectoral sections, the training of its trainees and the development of a guide for registration.
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The 52 youngsters from Stirling, aged between nine and 15, will attend a masterclass given by conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel and members of The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. They will also join children of their own age from the South American country to play a concert in one of Caracas's best-known music halls.
The trip is part of the El Sistema scheme, which has established youth orchestras in Stirling and Glasgow under the Sistema Scotland charity. There had been safety concerns about the trip and a Stirling Council official and four representatives of the Big Noise, a partnership between the local authority and Sistema Scotland, visited Venezuela before the excursion was given the go-ahead.
Stirling Council education convenor Alistair Berrill said: "Big Noise is about improving children's lives through a programme of music. It provides opportunities to benefit the children themselves, their families, and the whole community. This trip will be a truly once in a lifetime experience."
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Christian Spirituality > The Holy Spirit > the Work of the Spirit
When we speak of the gifts of God, we do so understanding that the first gift of God for us is God -- for the Trinity, this relationship stuff with us, each and all, is personal. It is through that relationship, however weak we may make it, which the Holy Spirit works.
Wherever the Holy Spirit is at work, so is self-surrender, and awareness of the mystery of just being. This tells us the Spirit's there. But there are other ways that the Spirit makes its presence known. Have you experienced them?
The Spirit :
If you can think of when such things happened in your life, think back on it. Maybe the Spirit was doing something then. Maybe now, too.
Jesus is the ultimate example of being 'Spirit-filled'. The Spirit shows up in force in every part of Jesus' mission as Messiah :
When Christ ascends, He sends the Holy Spirit in his place (John 16:7-8, 20:22; also Acts 1:5,8; Peter's own words in Acts 2:33; 1 Peter 1:12).
For some details on how the Spirit is sent by Christ to continue Christ's work, see John 14-16. Especially see John 3:34; 7:39; 14:26; 15:26; 16:7. The Spirit shows us what we can't otherwise know about Christ.
The Spirit is at work, showing us what Christ has done, and how that makes a difference in what's going on around us. The Spirit's witness to Christ doesn't function like a hypertext link. One doesn't click one's mouse or tap on the screen on the Spirit's doings and get taken to the front page of Jesus' Cyber-salvation Web Site. First of all, your mouse-clicking takes more initiative than you can take in restoring your relationship with God (or, in church-talk, it's God's grace in Christ's work on the cross that saves you, not anything you do). Second, the Spirit leads us into Christ's presence and Christ's character, two things that don't pop up on a screen and say 'I'm here'. Then, the Spirit works to get our own Web Site to take on the character that others would recognize as Christ's, for instance, by removing the annoying banner ads for the causes and ideas we're stuck on, or the irritating pop-up windows with our excuses, or the sneaky spy cookies that gather the information we might want to use against others. The Spirit is trying to push this Body of the Scared past their fears into full contact with the rest of reality, especially with other people who are not aware of Christ, or who hear the Name and yawn.
"The Holy
Spirit does his work by making Christ present among us,
and Christ can do his work on earth only by being present
in his Holy Spirit."
The Holy Spirit works in us to make clear to us what purpose God has in mind for us. The Spirit guides us:
The Spirit pours faith into us. The tactics will be different from one person to another. It may be through a sermon, a worship service, a youth event, a song, a
testimony, an act of kindness, a relationship of love, a struggle of conscience, a brush with disaster or insanity, a steady gradual series of changes, a blissful 'peak experience' moment, a shaken-up charismatic experience, or a whisper calling to you from inside. In that faith, we can be happy -- even daring -- in our relationships with other people, because the Spirit is working through us, and that will not come to naught.
The Spirit gives gifts which make the Body of Christ work effectively and powerfully. (For more on that, check out the page on
The Spirit is at work moving people to compassion for others. (For more on what that looks like, go to the pages on Reconciliation and Service.)
Change happens when God's purposes are revealed, and revealing is a work of the Spirit. The Spirit breaks down the old, brings in the new, and brings people together. But the key question is 'why?' Jesus didn't turn over every table He came across, just the money-changers' tables. There's much more to the Spirit's relationship to power and convention than shaking it up. Some people see change happening, and rush to say, 'It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit'. The Spirit brings in the new, yes, but does so for the Gospel and for the purpose of leading people to follow Christ. That is the purpose and the context for the Spirit's actions. Social barriers come down, but they come down as part of living a life rooted in God's Kingdom. True 'Justice' needs the Spirit's work in making inner change, creating a faith commitment to the God of Justice. Within this context, the Spirit breaks the old, builds the new, and smashes our walls. Outside of that context, what's happening is not Spirit but mere change: good, bad, indifferent, or complex.
The Spirit's like a special medical team for those who have especially deep wounds -- for example, those who have been raped, those who suffer from what's done by despotic governments, those who have to constantly face their society's racisms, those on the losing end of an economic system or a political power struggle, those who are enslaved by alcohol or drugs, or rendered slaves to fear. In Jesus' own ministry, inner healing was firmly connected to physical healing, both being a work of the Spirit. God is concerned about the whole of you, not just the inner self. We're all fractured beings that the Spirit is working to make complete.
The Spirit gives the gifts of wisdom, understanding, and insight, even that which can't be known in any other way. The Bible has even poetically described God as Wisdom, to highlight this gift. It is exactly that, though -- a poetic description, vastly powerful, faithful and truthful inside of its context. Outside of that narrow context, the use of the Greek word for wisdom ('Sophia') or its translations as a divine name becomes (ahem..) sophistry that puts forward a very flat image of God, far too easily shaped into the image of the foolishness that we humans have the unwarranted gall to call 'wisdom'. (Okay, okay. I'll come down off the apple crate....) Wisdom, as a gift, drives the process of discernment, by which we know what is and isn't of God.
The Spirit reveals, first and foremost through Scripture. Without the Spirit's work, the Bible is just dead ink and paper. Without the Spirit's wisdom and insight, science is mere trickery, psychology is just self-obsession, sociology is just the barkings of the rabble, math is a mere preoccupation done to avoid those living in the street, language becomes just a tool for manipulation, and religion actually becomes the opiate of the masses that Marx thought it was.
After all the talk about how boundless and all-covering God's forgiving grace is, the Bible throws us a curveball. Matthew 12:31,32 speaks of one sin that will not be forgiven, the sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Yet, the verse in Matthew does not say that God cannot forgive it; it says that God will not forgive it. One can sense that there's more to it than just the bare fact. Let's start by asking ourselves how it could possibly be that this sin and only this sin will not be forgiven. (The following is, of course, merely informed guesswork about a true mystery.) The Spirit brings us Christ and shapes our lives into His. If I were to choose to oppose the Holy Spirit in this work, or urge others to oppose the Spirit, I'd be working against God's work on earth, against the reign of God as it is unfolding right now, and against the Spirit's bringing Christ into me. That's worse than merely denying that God is at work among people (mere disbelief). Since the Spirit could only enter my life by way of force, and the Spirit doesn't work that way, that means the faith would not be created in me, and the saving grace that goes with it could not come in.
Acting and speaking against the Holy Spirit is like the lost son deciding that he loves being a swine, and thus he doesn't go home. If he does not go home, his father never rushes to greet him, he never gets to taste the fatted calf, and he never gets to have a restart in life with someone who loves him. Though it is entirely available, forgiveness would never come, because that which makes forgiveness come about does not take place. In that same way, the one sin of evil against the Holy Spirit remains unforgiven.
Where the Spirit is, there is freedom. We are all destined, designed, created to be free. But we forge chains for ourselves and each other, corrupting our freedom till it isn't freedom anymore. Only someone who isn't bound by the mess can free us from it. That's where Christ comes in. And, after Christ arose, it's where the Spirit comes in. The Spirit's sent from Christ to humanity, blown on us by Jesus. The Spirit makes us able to take part in God's work in the world. And makes it personal. The Gospel becomes mine to spread. The Kingdom becomes my vision for living. God's hope for all becomes my hope for all. God's sorrow over peoples' situations and deeds becomes mine, too. If the Spirit has me, God is not distant but up-close and real. This new freedom isn't something we 'have' or possess; it's something that has us just as the Spirit does. The human spirit soars because of the Spirit; otherwise it is still bound to the ground.
(If you want a good description of the Spirit's work by a classic mainline Protestant theologian, look up Paul Tillich's book *The Eternal Now* (Scribners), on pages 85-86.)
"Grace is power as well as pardon."
----- Gabriel Fackre
"Even while we wait for the full enjoyment of the good things in store for us, by the Holy Spirit we are able to rejoice through faith in the promise of the graces to come. If the promise itself is so glorious, what must its fulfillment be like?"
----- Basil, *On the Holy Spirit* (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press), p.39
"It is not the church that has a mission of salvation to fulfill in the world: it is the mission of the Son and the Spirit through the Father that includes the church."
----- Jürgen Moltmann
"The Holy Spirit establishes the righteousness of heaven in the midst of the unrighteousness of earth, and will not stop or stay until all that is dead has been brought back to life and a new world has come into being."
----- Karl Barth, *The Word of God and The Word of Man*, p. 50
Holy Spirit, wind and flame,
Move within my mortal frame.
Make our hearts an altar pyre;
Kindle them with your own fire.
Breathe and blow upon that blaze
till our lives, our deeds, and ways
speak that tongue which every land
by your grace shall understand.
"Wind Who Makes All Winds That Blow", v. 3, by Thomas Troeger.
O Holy Spirit, precious gift,
Thou Comforter unfailing,
Do thou our troubled souls uplift
against the foe prevailing.
Since Christ for us His blood hath shed
avert our woes and calm our dread;
Do thou in faith sustain us.
"All Glory Be To God On High" by Nicolaus Decius, 1526.
Spirit divine, attend our prayers.
And make this house thy home;
Descend with all thy gracious powers;
O come, great spirit, come!
Come as the light; to us reveal
Our emptiness and woe;
And lead us in the paths of life
Where all the righteous go.
Come as the wind: sweep clean away
What dead within us lies,
And search and freshen all our souls
With living energies.
Come as the fire: and purge our hearts
Like sacrificial flame;
Let our whole soul as offering be
To our redeemer's name.
Spirit divine, attend our prayers,
Make a lost world thy home;
Descend with all thy gracious powers:
O come, great Spirit, come!
"Spirit Divine", by Andrew Reed
Holy Spirit, ever working
through the church's ministry;
quick'ning, strength'ning, and absolving,
setting captive sinners free.
Holy Spirit, ever binding
Age to age and soul to soul,
in communion never-ending
you we worship and extol.
"Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling", by Timothy Rees
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|Focus on training in observation and assessment techniques in natural settings using a range of tools. Conducting formal observations and assessments that will guide development of curriculum. Child portfolio development and preparation for teacher-parent conferences. Recording strategies, rating systems,and multiple assessment methods are explored.
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Curtis, Deb and Carter, Margie. The Art of Awareness: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching. 2nd Ed. Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2012.
Harms, Thelma, Richard M. Clifford, Debby Cryer. Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale Revised Edition. Teachers College Press, 2005. Text remains relevant to course content.
Helm, Judy H., Beeneke, Salle, and Steinheimer, Kathy. Windows on Learning: Documenting Young Children's Work. 2nd Ed.Teachers College Press, 2007. Text remains relevant to course content.
Nilsen, Barbara. Week by Week: Plans for Observing and Recording Young Children.5th ed. Delmar Publishing, 2010.
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communities within their borders in a variety of ways, and most states, in turn, give local counties, cities, and municipalities limited authority through the so-called Dillon Rule (Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute, 2011), or broader authorities ("home rule") through their constitution or legislation.16 Explicit coordination of disaster resilience planning and actions at the state level is not common across the United States, although a few states have begun to adopt specific approaches and establish offices to address the issue (Box 6.5). Home rule gives local communities broad authority to enact their own laws within the bounds of state and federal constitutions. The extent of local authority and how it is exercised is the subject of much debate and legal process, but most cities and towns have at least some authority to formulate community development plans and land-use plans, to institute zoning laws, to adopt and enforce building codes, and to pursue other measures to suit the resilience needs of their own community. Community leaders and elected officials, with the help and support of the public, local businesses and utilities, nongovernmental organizations, and perhaps with state and federal government assistance, will largely determine whether their community resilience increases, stays the same, or decreases.
Coordination of Resilience at the State Level
Following the Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's service as chair of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council's Community Resilience Task Force and experiences gained during Hurricane Irene, which cut a swath across the state, he established the Office of Resilience within the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). The office was assigned the mission of bringing together the focused efforts of the state, the business sector, communities, nongovernmental agencies and other partners including faith-based groups and other volunteer organizations to deal with resilience development across the state.
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Web services examplesThe GRASS Development Team and members of the user community have collected numerous screenshots on these pages.
The GRASS HTMLMAP display driverGRASS maps can be rendered to a number of output display drivers. Typically this renders to a graphics window on your screen, but by using the HTMLMAP driver you can automatically create an image map suitable for inclusion on a web page. The HTMLMAP driver allows the generation of HTML image maps for area vector data. HTML image maps are used in conjunction with images to provide unique URL targets for different portions of an image. The HTMLMAP driver can create both client-side image maps embedded into HTML files, or server-side image maps used by web server software.
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Arris snaps up BigBand Networks for $172M
Arris is acquiring BigBand Networks for $172 million in cash. Arris, long tightly focused on the cable industry, bought itself an instant expansion into the telco market and positioned itself to take advantage of cable's evolution toward converged networks.
The purchase price is $2.24 per share in cash. The company explained it will end up laying out about $53 million net of estimated BigBand cash on hand.
BigBand is a key supplier of video processing systems and QAMs for Verizon FiOS and has deployed IP ad splicing equipment with AT&T.
The two companies have largely complementary product lines. Arris executives explained that as service providers converge their networks and gradually migrate to all-IP, Arris expects to be able to leverage the combination of its VIPr transcoder line with BigBand's video processing platforms. Arris executive commentary was from a recording of a conference call with financial analysts recorded earlier this morning.
Similarly, Arris' XMS video delivery system, largely used for ad delivery, should work well with BigBand's ad splicing systems.
The one major area of product overlap is that both companies sell QAMs. Arris actually expects this to be an opportunity to evolve QAM products, especially in light of cable's adoption of the CCAP (Converged Cable Access Platform) concept – the convergence of CMTS and QAM technology to improve network efficiency as traffic.
Bruce McClelland, president of Arris' Broadband Group, noted that evolution in cable network technology is only "just barely starting today." Very few operators are converging MPEG and IP on the same QAM channel today, he noted. That opportunity may kick in, maybe in 2012 or 2013, he said. "It'll happen over time; it won't be a flash cut."
That said, Arris believes it may have a bit of a jump on the market because the system it expects to exploit for that opportunity is BigBand's newer MSP platform, and that platform is already being deployed (at AT&T).
Arris execs also noted that BigBand had been working on interesting concepts in pushing network capabilities, such as caching and video processing, farther out along the edge of the network. To that end, there might be opportunities for evolving Arris' gateway product line. Not coincidentally, BigBand's position in the telco market might open a new market for Arris gateways.
"We'll see how that goes," McClelland said.
Arris executives expressed the opinion that BigBand might have been missing out on business because of its size. They said that simply being able to sell BigBand products through Arris' sales channels in Europe and Asia should be a significant opportunity.
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By Mike Glenn | December 3, 2012 | Updated: December 3, 2012 11:09pm
Kristen Kimmel, who allegedly tried to return stolen property to a Walmart while using someone else's ID, posted photos to a website that unmasks undercover officers, authorities said. (Montgomery County, Precinct 4)
A photo posted online shows Kimmel near a constable's car. (Montgomery County, Precinct 4)
A Porter woman accused of posting images to a website that identifies undercover police officers and informants has been arrested, officials said.
Kristen Lanette Kimmel, 30, is being held without bail at the Montgomery County Jail. She is charged with fraudulent use or possession of identifying information and bond forfeiture, officials said.
Kimmel was free on bail on an unrelated charge last month when she tried to return stolen items to a Montgomery County Walmart while using someone else's identification, officials said on Monday.
On Thanksgiving morning, a deputy constable spotted Kimmel and a friend, Lindsey Renee Lindquist, 25, along U.S. 59 and FM 1314 in Porter. Both had warrants and were taken into custody, officials said.
Lindquist was charged with felony theft. She was released after posting $5,000 bail.
The images posted on the website were taken around the Montgomery County Precinct 4 Constable's Office in New Caney, officials said. The images show Kimmel near the constable's vehicles and inside the annex.
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