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The Woodland Holiday Park is just outside of the village of Trimingham. Trimingham is a small coastal village that is located in the English county of Norfolk. The park is situated in the stunning Norfolk countryside and close to the lovely beaches. The Woodlands Holiday Park is a family owned plot that is almost 50 acres in size.
One of the parks key attractions is its well stocked fishing lake. In addition to fishing, the park provides visitors with a game room with a large HD TV, tennis courts, a play area and a heated indoor swimming pool with sauna. The park rents luxurious 1, 2 and 3 bedroom timber built lodges that are truly luxurious as well as well kept caravan units.
Those who want to take a holiday at the park will be happy to know that the park rents a variety of lodges and caravans. One example is their Woodland Woodpecker Lodge. This lodge sleeps four and features a verandah, an outdoor hot tub, a kitchen with a microwave dishwasher and washer/dryer and a TV with Freeview/CD. The parks facilities include Wi-Fi internet access and a heated indoor swimming pool and sauna. Prices start from £505 per week.
There are a number of other recreation parks in the Trimingham area that are also appealing. The two lodges that are discussed below are representative of the accommodations and price ranges of most of the lodges in the area.
The Castaways Holiday Park offers lodges and caravans for rent. Their Castaways Gold 6 caravan sleeps six and features a kitchen with microwave and a flat screen TV. The parks facilities include Wi-Fi internet access and a children's playground. Prices start from £259 per week.
The Rainbows End Park offers bungalows for rent. Their Holkham bungalow sleeps six and features Wi-Fi internet access, a TV and a kitchen with microwave. Prices start from £239 per week.
The Woodland Holiday Park offers luxurious lodges for reasonable prices.

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Louisiana Amends Lobbying, Ethics and Campaign Finance Rules
After a decisive victory last October 20 without the need for a runoff election, the new governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, called a special session on ethics reform immediately after his inauguration on January 14, 2008. That special session produced some results at the end of February when the legislature passed several bills promoted by the Governor. Governor Jindal signed the bills into law in early March.
The immediate impact of the new legislation on lobbyists and lobbyist employers is the elimination of the ability to provide elected officials with free tickets to sporting events, hunting and fishing trips, and golf outings. As of March 30, 2008, the state eliminates the wholesale gift rule exception for food, drink, and refreshments consumed by a public servant while the personal guest of the donor. Instead, the new law imposes a $50 per-event limit on food, drink, and refreshments provided by lobbyists, lobbyist employers and other interested or regulated entities. (This figure will be adjusted for inflation annually, starting in 2009.)
On January 1, 2009, lobbyists and lobbyist employers will need to comply with a series of changes to the lobbying reporting system, including monthly reports. Lobbyists also will be subject to mandatory training.
In the campaign finance area, another new law immediately begins regulating political organizations exempt from taxation under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, although the exact impact of this legislation is hard to discern. Finally, the state will begin regulating electioneering communications, or certain communications made near elections, on January 1, 2010.


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Each season of the year offers something wonderful for us all to enjoy. Summer conjures up images of a trip to the beach or the cool mountains and backyard barbeques. Autumn means a riot of color in the woods and migrating birds to observe. As winter approaches, those blessed with mounds of snow to play in look forward to the cleansing effect the white stuff seems to have and marvel at all the tracks left by unseen creatures in a favorite tract. Springtime. Ahh, that most special time of the year we each await with utmost anticipation. Dew time. Specifically, Honeydew time. "Honey, dew the yard!" "Honey, dew the windows!" "Honey, dew the gutter cleaning!" "Honey, dew the taxes!"
Huh? Wait a minute. That's not where I meant to go with this……..
Springtime. Ahh, there are birds out there flying north and others are building nests and some are already having babies for goodness' sake! We must act now! Lists must be made! Pictures must be taken! Data must be compiled! Reports must be sent! More importantly, we need more time together.
(Pretty hard to argue with that last one, right?)
As our Spring has sprung in earnest around here, we've really been getting out a lot. The last blog was a compilation of several spots visited and this one will be the same. The time period covered is about ten days. Places visited are all in central west Florida and include: Lake Bonny Park (Lakeland), Paynes Creek Historic State Park (Bowling Green), Peace River Hammock (Fort Meade), Sumter County (several back roads, no specific place), West Lake Wales Road (near Lake Wales airport) and Hardee Lakes Park (Bowling Green). Some of the above were new to us and others were return visits to old friends.
Come on! Put a Spring in your step! Let's go!
A pair of Turkey Vultures found a bench they like. Sort of reminds me of a couple of birders I know……
Loggerhead Shrikes may already have a nest nearby, but they weren't telling.
It's easy to overlook the beauty of a Boat-tailed Grackle as they are usually numerous, loud and behave like bullies.
Our Florida state bird, the Northern Mockingbird, is very adaptable and will make a home near human habitation or in the remotest part of the state. And sing happily about it non-stop!
Gini insisted we take what looked like a maintenance road around a cypress hammock and (as usual) she was absolutely right. A Barred Owl looked up at our approach, decided we weren't a threat and continued his deep sleep with a big sigh.
Not far from the above owl was a Great Horned Owl on a nest. We didn't want to get too close and disturb the egg sitting duties so we snapped a few distant photos and quietly retreated.
Yellow Jessamine blooms were in profusion. Taking pictures is preferred but if you decide to pick a flower or grab a branch be certain to wash your hands well as the sap is poisonous.
All decked out in breeding plumage, a Tricolored Heron expressed his displeasure at my presence on his stretch of shoreline.
This Little Blue Heron didn't care who was nearby as he was too busy concentrating on a potential meal to be disturbed.
Florida Tickseed is a variety of Coreopsis, which includes the Florida state wildflower.
The Common Mullein is an introduced species and can grow over six feet tall. Parts of the plant have been used as herbal remedies (but don't take my word for it – research first!). I thought the colors and patterns of the small flowers were special.
Northern Shovelers will soon be "shoveling" off for their breeding homes further north. The male is striking in coloration and the oversized bill is unique.
Although many Northern Parulas migrate through our area, we also have a resident population which remains year-around and breeds. This one thought he was hidden in the shade.
Another winter visitor is the Vesper Sparrow. He will often fly up to an exposed perch, unlike most of his little brown brethren who dive into the grass and run away.
Pretty soon, our area will be devoid of tail-wagging Palm Warblers, which is hard to believe, since they just about form a carpet around here during the winter. They will exchange their relatively drab plumage for much brighter yellow underparts and vibrant chestnut streaks and caps.
This Downy Woodpecker probed around and around this small pine tree so fast I got dizzy just watching it.
Such a flimsy-looking nest for the large White-winged Dove! I couldn't believe she intended to actually lay eggs in it!
Even in the dense fog, there is no mistaking the profile and colors of a Wood Duck.
A tremendous splashing near the shore of a lake followed by several alarm calls of herons and egrets led me to investigate. I was surprised to encounter a Coyote! They usually skulk about at night and keep their distance from us two-legged critters. Fortunately, he took one look at me and almost turned himself inside out running away. (I have that effect on a lot of people, too.)
Ospreys are large birds and require large nests in which to raise their families. This fellow seems intent on having the biggest and strongest place in the neighborhood!
Any dental hygienist would praise the fine condition of these teeth. This proud Mama 'gator was surrounded by her family (I counted a total of 14 "children"). For a little perspective, the "baby" alligators in the second image ranged from about 12 inches to about 3 feet long. I estimate Mama at over ten feet (>3 meters). (Did I mention being grateful for telephoto lenses?)
Since alligator eggs typically hatch in late summer and fall, the smallest of this group is probably about 5-6 months old and the largest (about a 3-footer in the right of the photo) is likely around three years old.
Green Herons are expert hunters and exhibit incredible patience. It seems their beak moves towards its target so slowly at first and then the strike happens so fast we can't see it.
These Florida Peninsula Cooters have found a nice dry log on which to catch a little sunshine. Their maximum length is about 15 inches and I think these were close to that.
From my resting place along the grassy bank, it was easy to see how the Peace River got its name.
I'm afraid Gini almost went through the windshield when I "vigorously" applied the brakes after spotting this year's first Burrowing Owl. The image is poor due to the distance involved and because it was my first attempt at taking a photograph through my new spotting scope. We didn't see a mate and couldn't quite tell if it was adjacent to a burrow. We'll keep checking on it as the season progresses.
As I was scanning the pasture where we found the owl above, I found a new "life bird"! Two Whooping Cranes were feeding among the cattle. These are an endangered species and these two individuals are part of an experimental group breeding in central Florida. All of these birds have large yellow leg markers and each is equipped with a radio transmitter so biologists can track their movements.
There was no doubt this Paper Wasp was watching my every move as it attended a new larva. I respected its desire for privacy and backed away – quickly.
Red-winged Blackbirds are pairing up, males are singing, nest sites are being scouted and the marsh is a noisy place!
Butcher Bird! That's the alias of the Loggerhead Shrike (as well as other shrikes around the world). These birds will often impale their prey (insects/lizards) on a small branch, thorn or barb of a fence and eat it piecemeal. Sometimes, you're just hungry and don't feel like a formal dining experience. That was the case with this guy as he swallowed the Mole Cricket (Scapteriscus sp.) so fast I missed the picture!
It's an exciting time outdoors! So, "dew" yourself a favor and "Spring" into action! Don't forget to have fun!
Enjoy your search for a natural place and come back for a visit!
Additional Resources
Paynes Creek Historic State Park
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DMK's 7 ministers to quit today over Lankan Tamils issue
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This is a major political challenge to the prime minister and is bound to embroil the United Progressive Alliance government in a serious crisis.
That the DMK has chosen Friday 8 pm in Chennai to flex its muscles means that its 16 Lok Sabha and three Rajya Sabha MPs will not be attending to either their ministerial office or Parliament from Monday.
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Light Scalloped Potatoes
"Even with lighter ingredients like chicken bouillon and Parmesan cheese, this is a comforting potato dish," shares Tamie Foley of Thousand Oaks, California.
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Bake: 1-1/4 hours + standing
Makes6 servings
- 6 medium potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
- 3 cups water
- 4 reduced-sodium chicken bouillon cubes
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Minced fresh parsley, optional
- Place potatoes in a greased 2-qt. baking dish that has been coated with cooking spray. In a small saucepan, heat the water, bouillon and garlic until bouillon is dissolved; pour over potatoes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours or until tender. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with parsley if desired. Serve with a slotted spoon.
Nutrition Facts1/2 cup: 175 calories, 3g fat (0 saturated fat), 7mg cholesterol, 168mg sodium, 32g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 3g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 1/2 fat.
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I cut the recipe in half and it still turned out really well. Nice crisp crust on the top layer of potatoes from the parm. I added some pepper and a no salt seasoning blend because it seemed a little bland.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity: so advised Thoreau more than a century ago. It's the kind of advice rarely heeded, then or now. For some perverse reason, most of us prefer to labor ceaselessly to make our lives more complex, to clutter our minds and fritter away our days in the trivial pursuit of superfluous things or meaningless experiences. Essential questions, not to say living, get lost beneath the clutter.
"But men labor under a mistake," Thoreau writes in Walden. "The better part of a man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it if not before."
Perhaps that realization will dawn on them in the summer, when, if they are lucky enough, they are on vacation from the toils and troubles of their normal lives. For as the word attests, a vacation can, if properly spent, grant one the freedom or creative emptiness necessary to think clearly and well.
Memorial Day weekend, considered the unofficial beginning of summer, is a good time to consider whether or not one will do that, and how one will occupy one's mind.
It's very common, of course, for people, in the name of relaxation, to use their summer vacations not to simplify but to complicate their lives, to head to the mountains or seashore armed with trashy "beach books" that they assume will allow them to "get away from it all." It seems to me these books do the opposite: they guarantee that their readers stay stuck in the muck of moronic nonsense, the very stuff of life in a frenetic society.
There are some books, however, that make excellent vacation reading. Thoreau's Walden is surely one of them. It is in so many vital ways more contemporary today than when it was written. I can think of no book more pertinent to our present era of greed and consumer mania. One does not have to want to be a hermit to profit from its sage advice.
Is it still not true that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" and "what is called resignation is confirmed desperation"? Do not people still go "from the desperate city. . . . into the desperate country" in pursuit of games and amusements that conceal "a stereotyped but unconscious despair"?
Why is this? Thoreau has many profound things to say on the subject, and they are best heard—and perhaps heeded—in the quiet of a country cottage, by the lapping of a lake, or the ebb and flow of the seashore—in that empty contemplative space a vacation can provide. Walden is a book to be read deliberately and in one place, best in the early morning and outdoors. It's the kind of writing that can change one's life, just as Thoreau said of himself: "I went to the woods to see if I could live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
If one wishes to leave New England and travel a bit, then I can think of no better book that Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi, the story of his journey to Greece and his discovery of himself. Miller is in many ways a descendent of Thoreau; he too writes to discover and uncover essentials, not trifles. One journey for him becomes the essence of all journeys: the voyage into the heart of things. "Voyages are accomplished inwardly, and the most hazardous ones, needless to say, are made without moving from the spot." Going to Greece, going to Walden Pond, or for that matter going to any vacation spot, can all be opportunities or pretexts for that venture into the interior that can yield true treasure.
Miller's long vacation becomes for the reader a glimpse into a way of life. "It is not until I look about me," he writes, "and realize that the vast majority of my fellow men are desperately trying to hold on to what they possess or to increase their possessions that I begin to understand the wisdom of giving is not so simple as it seems. Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or one lives closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean."
Or what more appropriate way to spend hot summer days than to read a refulgent novel that opens with a blizzard—Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Forget the movie; this is a book of untold depths and symbolic resonances. It is a true work of art that leads one to ask questions usually relegated to the back burner. What is love? What is the relationship between life and art? What is the good life, not just personally but socially—of what does it consist? How does one cope, when by force of circumstances, not choice, one is compelled to simplify one's life? Why are we anxious about death? Pasternak writes, "You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you rose from the dead when you were born and you didn't notice it." Now that's a startling summer thought.
So whether you call it a vacation or a holiday, it might be wise to abandon those beach books, vacate your preoccupations, and feel the holy emptiness of writing that will clarify the mind and rekindle the heart. You may return a different person.
Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is edwardcurtin.com.


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The Vision for the Brandywine Trail is a permanently-protected natural surface public hiking trail that connects the Brandywine Creek State Park in Delaware with the Horse Shoe Trail in Pennsylvania. The current focus is on sections of the trail in Chadds Ford, Pennsbury, Pocopson, and East Bradford Townships. Key elements of this project:
- Protect the trail as a cultural/historic resource
- Re-align the trail along the banks of the Brandywine to the greatest extent feasible
- Retain the character as a natural surface trail for hikers
- Provide for public access
Brandywine Trail Feasibility Study
Start Date
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- Brandywine Conservancy
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Steps towards interoperability
Yeah, I know long time no B(log). I was real busy those days, but don't worry I will tell you what was happening all these days and also about some geeky issues that came in between; maybe in next few posts but below is a piece of information that I couldn't wait to share
Your gut feeling that interoperability is *really* required is right ! and we at MS are taking one a few more steps in this direction.
MS is funding and providing architectural guidance to three partners to build the Open XML Translator, a set of tools being developed as open source, on Source Forge, under a BSD license, to enable translation of Office Open XML and ODF documents.
- This will provide read and "save as" functionality of ODF in Office.
- Down-level Office capability is offered through the Office Compatibility Packs which give older versions of Office the ability to use Open XML.
MS is also announcing the creation of an Interoperability Center for Office 2007 – an add-in that adds itself to the file menu in Office 2007 where users can get .PDF, .XLS, and .ODF interoperability.
We are doing the Open XML to ODF translator to be responsive to our government customers – especially those where they need to communicate with constituents who are using ODF. It is important to note that we are not seeing any strong demand for ODF from corporate or consumer segments.
Need more information on this …?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ODF-converter - SourceForge project site. This will be updated in the next few days
http://blogs.msdn.com/brianjones - Brian runs an excellent blog on Open XML issues
http://www.microsoft.com/interop - We will be hosting an open letter from Chris Capossela with good information on the differences between Open XML and ODF.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow - my blog is only somewhat about ODF - my posts are on interop, standards, open source
http://ntouk.com/?view=archives&month=5&year=2006 – Jerry Fishenden, MS NTO for the UK. Good posting on doc format issues. He also comments on the issue elsewhere in his blog.
http://notes2self.net/archive/2006/06/26/415.aspx - Stephen McGibbon, MS RTO for Western Europe. Also a link to a single blog, but there are other postings on the topic.
http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2006/06/23/getstartedwithOpenXMLFileFormats.aspx - more technical blog from Erika Ehrli – From the IW team.


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mikey101 posted a topic in Skins and VisualizationsI lost my Poweramp widget, just seem to disappear. How do I get back the pro unlocker widget or a new v3? Any ideas?
Add/remove buttons in widgets
sarneets posted a topic in Feature RequestsIt would be great to see the option to customize what buttons to have in the widget. For example: if someone doesnt want playlist skip button in the widget, then they can remove them from the widget.
THIS HAS BEEN FIXED, SEE MY LAST POST I was first excited to hear that Poweramp finally got updated to v3 after such a long wait. However, I discovered that I still needed to use Notification Helper to display the notification controls bar. But I also discovered that I had another set of widgets alongside the ones from the Widget Pack (or so I thought). I uninstalled Notification Helper and the Widget Pack and then uninstalled and reinstalled Poweramp. The reinstall brought back the regular notification controller, negating the need for Notification Helper. However, I don't have my Poweramp widgets anymore. Do I seriously still need the Widget Pack for v3 on Oreo 8.1 (LineageOS)? Will updating LineageOS solve this issue, potentially? It's been almost a month since I last updated it. Thanks.
Widgets not updating
Rui Fung Yip posted a topic in Bug ReportsThe widgets don't seem to update when track changes or their buttons are pressed. Device: Nokia 6.1 Plus Android 9 Pie Poweramp build 810 play Edit: seems to be a launcher issue...
Poweramp Widget bugs an notification bar and lock sreen
neothoms posted a topic in Bug ReportsHi, I am using Poweramp for a very long time now. I recently got a new Nokia 8 phone, and of course I have installed Poweramp. My problem is that the widget wich display a mini picture and the previous / play / next buttons is not working. Either in the notification bar and on the default android lock screen. I can see the picture but everything on the right is almost completely white. And most of all the buttons they are not working. I can click on the widget and It brings the Poweramp main app but the previous /play / next buttons does nothing at all. I tried to change the theme and to change every options but nothing worked Can you please fix it ?
Widgets x5
KoF posted a topic in Feature RequestsI got a new One plus 5t Yesterday and i tried to put the Widgets in place like i was used to. But i discovered that there is no 5x1,5x2or 5x3 widget. On top of that the old 4x3 widget is not working correctly if there is an album cover displayed. Best Regards Andi
Galaxy EDGE Widgets
swillbur posted a topic in Feature RequestsBAck, Play/pause, Forward.......and lyrics showing when phone is turned off with either a galaxy s6 edge or a note edge.
Improvements in widgets
Veronica Roses posted a topic in Feature RequestsDear developer, I would suggest a small increase in customization of Poweramp widget that despite the variety, can improve (specifically the widget Poweramp 2x2). One of the most interesting features of the widget customization is the "translucent" where you can make visible or invisible some interface elements, although the tool work well when you want to hide, for example, the background or the album art widget, unfortunately the same does not apply to "text". It would be interesting to also control the translucent of the text and leave visible only other elements such as, for example, the album art if the user so desires. Thus, different combinations of two or more widgets could be created in home screen leaving more customizable and personal music player. I leave attached an illustration. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ypiqliqAfCRlZoZUlBZHRQZFE/view?usp=sharing
Albums / playlists widget?
Duckofdeath posted a topic in Feature RequestsIt would be great to have a widget with a scrollable list of albums and/or playlists. It sort of would make more sense to select that in a widget instead of having another duplicate of the player controls which are already on the lockscreen and the notifications curtain, I think. An example of a clean layout type, used by Uwe Trottmann's SeriesGuide: http://goo.gl/gntulr
Compiling widgets
Da Iceman posted a topic in External APIHi, I downloaded the widget pack and tried to compile the provided example just like the skins with ant dist. But i ended up getting an error about classname="com.android.ant.SetupTask" not being found, so I opened up build.xml and switched the code out and replaced it with: <taskdef resource="anttasks.properties" classpathref="android.antlibs" /> It seemed to start working until it says this: stylesheet Poweramp Skin/Widgets/version.xsl doesn't exist. I tried looking around for version.xsl in the widget pack for it but didn't find it anywhere. Anyways I aw wondering if I am just doing it completely wrong or what I should be actually doing to be able to compile the widget example. The normal skin example compiled pretty easily, seen as nothing was actually missing. Anyways hope someone knows what to do. Thanks.
Hi. First of all, great player. Nothing compares to it. Can you please add 3x2 and 4x3 sized widgets for my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0? I don't know about other 7" tabs but the widget dimensions currently available do not fit the homescreens very well and they get messed up when rotating the screen. Also, a neat jellybean theme would be awesome. There are currently several skins available but none of them are as perfect as your default skins. For instance, the stars are out of place in Poweramp ICS Skin, etc. The default skins looks awesome on phones but when it comes to the 7 inch screens of a tab, it leaves a lot to be desired. Whatever you guys decide, I'm still very happy for your player. Thank you Poweramp.


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The new Trademarx team Celebrates One Year!
09 January 2017
The new Trademarx team celebrated their 1st anniversary at the end of 2016. Pretoria's Biggest Sports Bar & Restaurant, situated at Loftus, home of the Blue Bulls is a favourite for Rugby Fans, Sports lovers, Students and Families alike. With specials, every day of the week, live entertainment and super function facilities, Trademarx is set for many more years of success. Keep an eye out for upcoming events and news!
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MADRID — Spain, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases far beyond its borders, finds itself on the receiving end of such an inquest, as an Argentine judge seeks to extradite and try Spanish police officials accused of torturing opponents of the regime under Francisco Franco, the dictator who died in 1975.
Spaniards claiming to be victims of the abuses filed a lawsuit in Buenos Aires in 2010, after getting nowhere in Spain because of a 1977 amnesty law meant to smooth Spain's return to democracy.
When the Argentine judge in the case, María Romilda Servini de Cubría, issued arrest warrants recently for four former Spanish officials, she relied on the same principle of universal jurisdiction for human rights issues that the crusading Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón invoked in the 1990s when he tried to prosecute Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator.
Two of the four are dead, but the other two — Jesús Muñecas and Antonio González Pacheco — are expected to be summoned soon by a Spanish judge.
Even if Spain refuses to extradite the men, the request alone is "a very important moral sanction on the Franco regime, which also shows Franco's victims that they can count on international support," said Victoria Sanford, professor of anthropology at City University of New York.
The Spanish government has refrained from commenting on the extradition request while it awaits a decision from Spain's national court. As it happens, that decision is now in the hands of Judge Pablo Ruz, who took the place of Mr. Garzón three years ago after Mr. Garzón was suspended and eventually removed from the court for using illegal eavesdropping methods. Mr. Garzón had also tried to investigate crimes committed during the Spanish civil war and the ensuing Franco dictatorship, among other politically delicate cases.
Judge Ruz is also in charge of Spain's most important political corruption case, centering on whether a former treasurer of the governing Popular Party, Luis Bárcenas, used a slush fund to make illegal payments to senior party officials, including Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. On Monday, Judge Ruz widened that case by indicting an architect who remodeled the party's headquarters, amid suspicions that he was paid under the table for his work.
Whatever the political sensitivities in Spain, Ana Messuti, an Argentine international criminal lawyer who has been leading the Buenos Aires case against the Franco officials, said the recent arrest warrants should be viewed as a first step. "We're trying to build up a mega-case that should reach a mega-result, and demonstrate that Spain had a regime that carried out something akin to genocide against a whole segment of its own population," Ms. Messuti said.
The case is ruffling feathers in Spain, where it is seen as Argentine meddling in Spanish affairs. The two governments were at odds last year after Argentina nationalized YPF, an oil company mainly owned by the Spanish energy giant Repsol, and Repsol claimed at least $10.5 billion in compensation.
Spanish courts have pursued several former Argentine military officers for abuses committed during Argentina's "dirty war," under a legal concept called universal jurisdiction, allowing the prosecution in Spain of anyone from any country who commits crimes like genocide or terrorism anywhere in the world. One such case involved Adolfo Scilingo, accused of throwing prisoners to their deaths from planes and other abuses as an Argentine Navy captain. He was convicted of crimes against humanity in 2005 and was sentenced to 640 years in prison.
José Galán, a Spanish lawyer who represented victims of Argentina's military dictatorship in that case, said that Argentina's extradition request meant that "we're now getting back the favor that we did to Argentina by putting an end to this notion of complete impunity."
Mr. Galán said Argentina's extradition request was "a real headache" for the prime minister's conservative People's Party, many of whose members Mr. Galán said were "the real heirs of Francoism." But he also noted that Spain did little to confront its darker past even under Socialist administrations, and that it resisted calls by human rights groups and Mr. Gárzon to set up an independent truth commission to investigate crimes committed under Franco.
Spanish law does not provide for extradition of Spanish citizens to other countries unless their citizenship was obtained fraudulently, according to Javier Cremades, chairman of Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, a Spanish law firm. And the Argentine case seemed unlikely to progress anyway, Mr. Cremades said, because "Spain's amnesty law has already resolved the legal and political issues linked to the Franco period."
But Unión Progresista de Fiscales, a left-leaning association of Spanish prosecutors, issued a statement welcoming Argentina's attempt to make amends for "the lamentable performance of our judicial system" concerning the crimes of the Franco era. "We hope the Spanish government will live up to the circumstances," it added.
A group of victims of the Franco dictatorship held a news conference in Madrid last week to detail some of the abuses they said they suffered at the hands of the officials Argentina sought to prosecute, in particular Mr. González Pacheco. Jesús Rodríguez Barrio, an economics professor, said that Mr. González Pacheco held a gun to his head to force him to sign a statement saying he was a Trotskyist activist.
"What is happening in Argentina is one of the last opportunities" to bring the Franco regime to justice, Mr. Rodríguez Barrio said at the news conference. "We still have a generation of victims who can talk, but most of our torturers were older than us, so time is running out."


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B. 1985, Shusha, Azerbaijan.
Live and works in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A doctor by training, Farid Rasulov suddenly became involved in the visual arts after his graduation from university, to the great surprise of his friends and family and made great strides in a relatively short period of time. He originally trained to be a doctor at the Azerbaijan State Medical University (2006), but since becoming an artist and working intensively he has represented Azerbaijan at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Rasulov is active across a wide range of artistic media – large scale paintings, installations, 3D graphics, animation and sculpture. His works are usually intellectually provocative. Not accidentally, this conceptual artist stubbornly denies charges of his art being multi-layered and profound. He insists that he has meant absolutely nothing, that he simply replicated the commonplace things that he saw around him. "My work is based on the fact that I do not take it seriously – and neither do I take seriously the things I portray," says Rasulov. "I often observe how the viewers carefully scrutinize my works, searching for the hidden meaning therein. This is fascinating to watch, because what they're looking for does not exist." Though he works in a variety of media, he is perhaps most widely known for his large-scale, hyper-realistic still life paintings. These works depict objects against vividly-colored backgrounds and seem to be layered with hidden meaning. However, Rasulov adamantly denies that his work contains any symbolism or metaphor, finding it amusing to see viewers seeking hidden messages. Instead, the artist wishes to simply convey that our everyday existence is deceptively simple, particularly when viewed through the objects we surround ourselves with.
Solo Exhibitions:
#ONLYONECHANCE, Museum of Modern Art, Baku
Dogs in the Living Room, Rabouan Moussion Gallery, Paris, France
Actual Tradition, Solo exhibition, Sharja Islamic Art Festival, Sharjah, UAE
Seefood. Personal exhibition, Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Subjects, Solo Exhibition, Kichik Qalart Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
Selected group exhibitions
Arte Laguna Art Prize winner, Sculpture nomination. Nappe Arselane, Venice, Italy
18th Islamic Arts Festival, Islamic Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Candy Mountains and Oil Coasts, group exhibition of Azerbaijani artists, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
Vienna Contemporary Fair, Marx Halle, Wien, Austria
Meeting Point, group exhibition of Azerbaijani artists, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Making Histories, YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
Here…Today, Old Sorting Office, London, UK
New Territories, Expo Chicago, Chicago, USA
Fly To Baku. Contemporary art from Azerbaijan, Kunsthistorisches museum - Neue Burg, Vienna, Austria; Spazio D - Maxxi building National Museum of XXI Century arts, Rome, Italy; Spazio D MAXXI building, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy; Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia; me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany; Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris, France; Phillips de Pury& Company, London, UK
Ornamentation, 55th Venice Biennale, Azerbaijan Pavillion, Venice, Italy
Love Me Love Me Not, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours, Collateral Event for the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Merging Bridges, Modern Art Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan
012 Baku Public Art Festival, organized by YARAT Contemporary Art Space Baku, Azerbaijan
Commonist, Contemporary art exhibition, organized by YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
Next Level, Contemporary art group exhibition, YAY gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
Merging Bridges, Contemporary art exhibition, Museum of Modern Art Baku, Azerbaijan
Forword, Alternative Art Place, Baku
Fired Up, Gazelli Art House, Show one of five. London, UK
Fabulous Four, Kichik QalArt, Baku
Big Caucasus, PERMM Gallery, Perm, Russia
Boundaries C99 Art Project, 99 Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, London, UK
Azerbaijan Contemporary Art, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
Under The Scalding Sun, painting project, Deutch Kyrkha, Baku, Azerbaijan
Bakunlimited, 'Cultural Days of Azerbaijan', Voltahalle, Basel, Switzerland
M'artian Fields-Collaboration. Exhibition ot young artists, M'ARS Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Cogito Ergo Sum. 53rd International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale Azerbaijan Pavillion. Giudecca 95, Venice, Italy
Art Is Not Only Ugly. Exhibition at the Atrium of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Berlin, Germany
Steps Of Time: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan, Residenzschloss, Dresden, Germany
Minimum Wage project, group-exhibition Center of Contemporary Arts Baku, Azerbaijan
Imagine Art After E:vent Gallery, Tate Britain. London, UK
Realities Of Dreams. Aluminum 3, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baku Azerbaijan


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Latitude: 53.1912 / 53°11'28"N
Longitude: -2.8919 / 2°53'30"W
OS Eastings: 340504
OS Northings: 366385
OS Grid: SJ405663
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2S2C
Mapcode Global: WH88F.K13W
Entry Name: Numbers 27, 29 and 31 Street the Dublin Packet Public House
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376348
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470343
Location: Cheshire West and Chester, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester, St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
595-1/4/284 (West side)
10/01/72 Nos.27, 29 & 31 Street (The Dublin
Packet Public House)
(Formerly Listed as:
(West side)
No 31 Row)
Undercrofts, offices, shop and public house. Some medieval
stonework in undercrofts; the Dublin Packet facing Town Hall
Square is probably early C19, altered; the frontages to
Northgate Street were rebuilt 1902 by John Douglas, then
senior partner of Douglas and Minshull. Sandstone, timber
frame with plaster panels, stucco and brick with roofs of clay
tiles and slate.
EXTERIOR: cellar undercrofts, 3 storeys and a small attic. The
east front to Northgate Street has a timber arcade of 3 bays
with posts on sandstone plinths to the Row storey, 2 steps
above pavement level; the square posts have moulded corners
and a shaft with carved bell-shaped capital in C13 manner on
every side; each arch has 3 crockets; niches above the
capitals contain carved figures, 3 in Elizabethan costume
playing instruments, one with hands removed and the 2 above
the corner post holding scrolls inscribed, with reference to
the effigy of Edward VII above, THE KING HIMSELF IS SERVED BY
THE FIELD and THE PROFIT OF THE EARTH IS FOR ALL. Shaped
brackets support the carved jetty-beam of the second storey
which has 2 rails, shaped lower and upper panels, a 2-light
mullioned and transomed leaded casement to No.29, a 4-light
leaded oriel with moulded mullions and transom to No.31 and an
ornate canopied niche at the corner with Town Hall Square
holding a half-size effigy of Edward VII, robed and crowned
and bearing the orb. The third storey, jettied on shaped
brackets, has herringbone and quadrant-braced panels, two
2-light casements, one having an ornate mullion and blank
tracery in a bay carried upwards to the attic storey which has
a 5-light casement and a jettied gable with shaped brackets,
shaped bargeboards and a carved finial; No.31 has a 4-light
leaded casement to the third storey with a colonnette at
centre and at each side, the outer ones carrying a jettied
gable with quatrefoil panels, shaped bargeboards, a lead
finial and, behind, a fleche with a lead-clad finial bearing a
gilt weathervane.
The north front of No.31 to Town Hall Square carries through
the motifs of the east front, with a sandstone pier at rear of
the Row arcade, a 3-light canted mullioned and transomed oriel
with leaded glazing and flanked by sidelights, and a square
3-light oriel, both ornate, to the second storey. The third
storey jetty-beam on shaped brackets, bearing the Chester City
motto ANTIQUI COLANT ANTIQUUM DIERUM (The elders worship the
Ancient of Days) supports two gabled bays, that towards the
corner, east, having a 5-light leaded casement, a tie-beam
dated 1902, quatrefoil panels and colonnettes carrying shaped
bargeboard brackets and that to the west smaller and simpler
with a 3-light leaded casement and a king-post truss.
West of No.31 the main front of the Dublin Packet is of 3
storeys. The first storey is faced in banded stucco with a
narrow boarded door having iron hinges and furniture, windows
with round-arched main panes of 1-, 2-, 1- and 4-lights and a
replaced door in a recessed porch. The rear wing has an early
C20 brick first storey. The upper storeys are timber-framed,
with plain St Andrew's Cross bracing on the main front. The
second storey has 3 near-flush 4-pane sashes to the main front
and a canted oriel to the rear wing. The third storey has 3
half-dormer 2-pane casements to the main front, a jetty in the
rear wing with a canted oriel and a jettied end gable. The
Dublin Packet Public House forms a pleasant, modest foil to
the lavishly detailed adjoining work by John Douglas.
INTERIORS: the 2 deep undercrofts are square; the sandstone
north-south wall at the rear of the west undercroft is
medieval; the south wall has the springing for a barrel vault.
The stair and some doors to upper storey rooms facing
Northgate Street are by Douglas; the upper storeys could not
fully be inspected.
Nos 5-31 (odd) are collectively known as `Saddler's Row' and
were previously listed as Row numbers.
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council:
1900-1903; Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Northgate
Street: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SJ4050466385
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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Back in May and June of 2015, I wrote a two-part series on ADA activist attorneys and their methods in bringing ADA-lawsuits against small, medium and large businesses. That was almost two years ago! Guess what? It hasn't got any better, in
Guess what? It hasn't got any better; in fact, it has gotten worse.
In 2016, the number of ADA lawsuits rose by 52% nationally and 73% in California over the year before. Here we are in February of 2017, and the steady stream of ADA-lawsuits shows no sign of slowing down.
Two weeks ago, I received a phone call from one of my clients who owns a chain of family- owned diners located throughout California. He was very upset as he explained that he had just received a "summons in a civil action" on two of his restaurants. He emailed copies of the lawsuits to me, and I got to work dissecting the list of "alleged violations".
Both restaurants were sued by different plaintiffs with different attorneys representing them. While this is odd, it's not unheard of. It does make we wonder, however, if these same plaintiffs are already out looking at his other restaurants as we speak.
Here is what the first plaintiff states in their claim:
"This is a legal claim for monetary compensation under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Civil Code 52 and remedial corrective actions. I am disabled and entered your property at 123 Main Street, Anytown, California on 9/14/16. I encountered architectural and accessibility barriers under the ADA 42 USC 12183 (a); 28 CFR 36, appendix A (2007). Anyone who owns, operates, leases or leases to a place of public accommodation are responsible."
The plaintiff then states that they were "frustrated, annoyed, humiliated and embarrassed." A violation of ADA law is an automatic violation of California state civil rights laws. A violation of California state law is an automatic violation of federal ADA law. There are over 8 violations that total of $32,000 under the federal and state law.
The 8 violations are all located on the interior of the restaurant and are listed below:
- Failure to provide a window decal sticker with the wheelchair symbol at the entry door.
- Failure to provide compliant Men's and Women's accessible restroom signage.
- Failure to provide accessible urinal flush handle that does not require tight grasping/twisting of the wrist and push/pull pounds of pressure to activate the flush handle.
- Failure to provide an accessible lavatory sink at the proper height and water supply line pipes unwrapped.
- Failure to provide a restroom entry door with proper kick plate, door hardware and pounds of push/pull pressure at 5 pounds or less. The ending statement in this suit,
"The Department of Justice fines include $55,000 per violation up to $110,000. Plaintiff may also file for an injunction which means your business doors may be closed" Please respond within 3 days.
Look at this list of alleged violations! All of them are considered "readily achievable" and would cost next to nothing to fix.
The second restaurant received a summons in a civil action by a much more sophisticated attorney who has been bringing these types of suits against businesses for many years.
Here is what the second plaintiff claims in her list of alleged violations:
"Plaintiff lives near the facility and visited the facility on or about August 21st, 2016 and again on September 4th, 2016 to dine at the restaurant. During her visits to the restaurant, plaintiff encountered the following barriers (both physical and intangible) that interfered with, if not outright denied, plaintiffs ability to use and enjoy the goods, services, privileges and accommodations offered at the facility.
- The ramp from the designated accessible parking at the entry walkway has an uneven transition at the bottom of the ramp, which created a gap that the plaintiff's wheelchair got stuck in. The concrete was broken and patched, but the patch was not wide enough for both of her wheels. It was hard for her to wheel over the transition to go up and down the ramp.
- The entry door had a high threshold, which was hard for the plaintiff to wheel over, and the entry door was heavy and difficult for the plaintiff to open. It was hard for the plaintiff to hold the door open while she maneuvered her wheelchair over the high threshold.
- The door to the women's restroom was also heavy and difficult for plaintiff to open.
- The coat hook inside the women's restroom was positioned high at the top of the stall door, and plaintiff could not reach it to hang her purse.
- The toilet within the women's restroom was too low, and the grab bars too high, making it hard for plaintiff to transfer to and from the toilet.
- The plumbing beneath the lavatory in the women's restroom was not insulated, and plaintiff had to get close to it to reach the soap dispenser and trash receptacle. She was afraid that she would burn her legs on the hot water pipe while washing her hands.
- The trash-can within the toilet stall obstructed the space around the toilet, making it difficult for plaintiff to position her wheelchair to transfer to the toilet.
- There was an open floor drain inside the designated accessible toilet stall in the women's restroom which created a gap and uneven surface that made it difficult for plaintiff to maneuver her wheelchair within the stall."
They go on to say:
"The barriers identified above are only those that plaintiff personally encountered. Plaintiff is presently unaware of other barriers which may in fact exist at the facility and relate to her disabilities. Plaintiff will seek to amend this complaint once such additional barriers are identified as it is plaintiff's intention to have all barriers which exist that relate to her disabilities removed to afford her full and equal access."
So what are we really talking about here? Basic accessibility requirements that have been on the books for over twenty years.
Installing an ISA wheelchair sticker in your window! Wrapping the pipes under the sink and installing a coat hook at 48" on the back of the accessible stall door. Touching up the transition at the curb ramp, fixing a door threshold and adjusting the pounds of pressure on the doors.
My client is about to hand over a year's worth of profits in attorney's fees, monetary damages and repairing his facilities because he didn't pay attention to the low-hanging fruit.
How ironic that as I am sitting here writing this article, I received an email from another client that was just served in a lawsuit at his Italian restaurant. This plaintiff is "sight impaired" or "fully blind" and uses a cane when out in public. I just took a quick glance at the list of alleged violations and this one involves "protruding objects, lack of braille signage and congested interior aisles throughout".
The fun (if you can call it that) never ends!
If you have any questions regarding your facility and level of compliant access, please contact me directly.


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Who is BluegrassNet?
BluegrassNet was founded in 1994 with the focus of being an ISP that delivered quality-oriented Internet services to business customers. Originally that entailed offering T-1 and ISDN Internet connections, but over the years that has morphed into plethora of what we call: ISP Business Services.
What Services Does BluegrassNet Offer?
- Internet Service Provider Services(Wireless/Wimax, Metro Ethernet, DS-3, T-1, DSL Broadband, Modem)
- Webpage & Database Hosting Services
- DNS Services Domain Names & SSL Certs
- Data Center / Server Collocation
- Corporate and Personal E-mail Services
- VOIP Services / VOIP PBX Sales and Maintenance
- Custom Software Development
BluegrassNet History
In 1997, BluegrassNet spun off our increasingly popular consulting services into an affiliate called BluegrassNet Development, LLC. (BGND). We found that our engineering skill sets such as Internet Security, Web Programming, Server System Maintenance, and Network Management were better suited in their own business entity.
In 2005, we started a new entity called BluegrassNet Voice (BGNV). The focus of this company is to work on VOIP telecom technology and apply its experience to offering VOIP services such as call paths, phone lines, hosted PBX, and build Enterprise-Grade PBX systems for businesses.
BluegrassNet a privately held Kentucky corporation, and is a member of the Better Business Bureau, and Greater Louisville, Inc (GLI).


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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I'm currently on vacation enjoying the holiday season with my family. For me, my vacation time means I can get a few things done that I don't normally have time to do, such as work on my websites a little more than usual and fix things around the house. One thing that I'm currently working on is a product that will help those interested in the appliance repair field. The product will consist of videos and pages of info on how I make money on broken washers and dryers. The product will show you the three ways I make money on these broken appliances. It will also include my collection of 800+ service manuals. I'm considering making it a membership type product since I would like to add valuable information to it as time allows. At some point I will include information on how to build your own stylish website for under $100 and how to get traffic to it. I will be unveiling this product some time in 2013. I'm hoping to have it done some time in January, but it may be later.
Also in 2013, on top of continuing to produce posts and videos on how to do repairs, I want to start occasionally making posts geared towards those interested in the appliance repair field. I will attempt to interview some techs that have established appliance repair businesses that can share with us some of their tips that have helped them to become successful. If you have any questions or suggestions about my upcoming product or future posts, feel free to let me know. Enjoy the rest of your holidays!
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Originally published December 7, 2013.
Fort McMurray — On an early summer day, a Suncor van heads up the hill to an open meadow surrounded by trees. Just seven years earlier, Wapisiw Lookout had been covered with a massive tailings pond, the messy, toxic remnants of 30 years of mining.
Today, that 220 hectares marks the only site in the oilsands of northeast Alberta where a tailings pond has been drained, refilled with 65,000 truckloads of soil, then replanted with more than 600,000 trees and shrubs.
As the van pulls ahead, a small black bear dashes out of the bush onto the road, then quickly heads back to the safety of the trees. If all goes according to plan, the wildlife will return along with forest, says Suncor tour co-ordinator Kailyn Park. -
The oldest mining operation in the northeast, circa 1967, Suncor is proud of this reclamation project — though it will take 20 years to find out if the effort will successfully qualify for official certification from the province.
Tailings ponds are one of the most contentious and stubborn environmental impacts of oilsands mining and they're set to get much bigger as mining expands.
The vast artificial holding ponds are filled with a mix of water, sand, clay, residual bitumen, heavy metals and chemicals from solvents used in separating the oil from the sand. The mixture has a yogurt-like consistency.
The residual bitumen leaves an oily surface on the ponds that is lethal to birds. In 2008, 1,600 ducks died on a nearby Syncrude tailings pond, pushing the ponds issue into international headlines. The polluted pools occupy 30 to 50 per cent of a mine footprint and have more than tripled in size from 50 square kilometres in 2005 to 176 square kilometres in 2010. They are expected to grow by another 40 per cent by some estimates.
It's not an easy problem to solve. Companies have spent millions on handling mine waste, but it takes years for the fine tailings to settle to the bottom of the holding ponds to clear the water. The ponds could stay on the landscape for decades after the mines close — unless new technology is found.
In 2009, faced with growing public concern, the provincial regulator decided to step in.
The Energy Resources Conservation Board came up with ambitious new rules requiring companies to find ways to shrink the ponds. Companies had two years to reduce pond size by about 50 per cent, mostly by drying the tailings and spreading them on the land.
This Directive 74 was a major shift — for the previous 40 years, managing and cleaning up the ponds had been left to companies' voluntary efforts outlined in project proposals.
But new technology remains elusive. Companies could not meet the ERCB targets even when the requirements were softened in some cases. So in June 2013, the ERCB suddenly backed off Directive 74 after no company managed to meet the new standards. No one would be penalized for missing the targets, it decided.
The 2009 targets were "too optimistic," says the regulator. "It will take longer than expected" to meet them.
The ERCB decision to back away was awkward for the provincial government.
In the previous 12 months, Premier Alison Redford had been assuring U.S. audiences that tailing ponds will soon be gone. In an April 2013 speech to the Brookings Institute in New York, Redford told the crowd: "Tailings ponds will disappear from Alberta's landscape in the very near future and reclamation of existing tailings ponds has begun."
As it turns out, that prediction was premature.
The Pembina Institute, an environmental think-tank, says the province needs to revive the directive.
Tailings ponds are a threat to groundwater and air quality as well as wildlife, which is especially attracted to polluted water in the winter.
About 11 million litres a day of toxic waste water seeps from the ponds into adjacent water and into the Athabasca River, says Pembina's Simon Dyer. In addition to chemicals such as naphthenic acids are heavy metals including arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead and zinc, some of which come from solvents added to the bitumen.
Also, the ponds are responsible for fugitive emissions of volatile organic compounds and other air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and hydrogen sulphide, says Dyer.
The oil industry says companies make a good effort to prevent water from escaping the ponds. For instance, ditches around tailings ponds contain the seepage, says the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
And, in the wake of Directive 74, the industry took action. In 2011, seven mining companies — Syncrude, Canadian Natural Resources, Suncor, Imperial Oil, Shell, Teck Resources and Total E&P — collaborated to create the Oilsands Tailings Consortium. They agreed to share their research and put $90 million into a renewed joint effort to solve the tailings problem.
Out of this came several joint projects.
Syncrude, the second oldest miner, has plans to build a huge, $3-billion centrifuge to spin tailings sludge and remove the water. The remaining dry tailings can be spread on the land. CNRL is testing the use of carbon dioxide injected into tailings ponds to help the particles settle faster. That would leave cleaner water on top ready to be recycled.
Shell is using a process called "atmospheric fines drying," which involves using a large barge to collect mature fine tailings (MFT) from the tailings pond and transferring them to a drying area. "The mature fine tailings are then mixed with flocculants — chemical agents which help bring the fine clay particles in the MFT together — and placed on a sloped surface to help speed up the release of water from the clay," Shell said in a 2010 news release. "The released water runs down the sloped surface to a collection area and is returned to the external tailings facility for reuse in the extraction process. What remains are deposits that are further dried to meet strength and reclamation requirements."
Suncor is trying a new approach — mixing polymer flocculants with tailings to make the clay particles stick together — while Syncrude is trying one of the more controversial solutions, an end-pit lake.
In November 2012, Syncrude got approval from the province to pump millions of litres of fresh water into a 20-year-old tailings pond to form a five-metre cap of clean water on Base Mine Lake. In mining parlance, it's called an end-pit lake, though in most mining, end-pit lakes (in the last pit mined) do not contain toxic tailings.
The theory is that heavier tailings and toxic material will stay at the bottom while a freshwater cap will support the growth of bugs and bacteria to create an ecosystem that will eventually support fish life. Over time, bacteria at the bottom of the lake will eat the toxic substances.
The company is confident the demonstration project will be successful because they've proven the method on smaller test ponds, Glen Rovang, Syncrude's manager of research, told the Journal in December 2012.
"It's very exciting," Rovang said. "We'll get aquatic reclamation and very efficient, low-energy tailings management."
Brett Purdy, tailings expert in Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources, says the key question is: Will it take years or decades for tailings ponds covered with a fresh water cap to support a natural ecosystem?
"What is the acceptable timeline that meets the needs of stakeholders and the government of Alberta, which is responsible for protecting the public interest?" said Purdy, declining to specify what that timeline ought to be.
If Syncrude is successful, that would be good news for other mining companies. They have already submitted plans to build about 30 such artificial end-pit lakes over the next 50 years and more than half will be used to store tailings permanently.
Critics aren't so sure.
The Pembina Institute warns: "If after decades this process is found not to work, then Alberta will be left with dozens of toxic lakes and a costly liability."
A technical report on end-pit lakes done for the province also called for caution. "When scientific uncertainty is high and the potential for substantial negative and environmental impact exists — a likely scenario with end-pit lakes — decision-makers and designers should err on the side of caution," writes the Cumulative Environmental Management Association.
Alberta Environment was expected to release its own management framework to deal with tailings ponds from old mines. Those older ponds, containing 40-year-old waste, were exempted from Directive 74.
The new Alberta Energy Regulator, which replaced the ERCB in June 2013, will issue its next report on tailings in 2015 — though industry is already warning that may be too soon.
Meanwhile, in March 2012, the seven companies in the tailings consortium morphed into Canadian Oilsands Innovation Alliance. They also set up a collaboration with a provincial government research agency, called Alberta Innovates — Energy and Environment Solutions, to track the best technology for cleaning up and reducing tailings ponds.
"We laud the commitment of industry who shared propriety data around their tailings technology development … for the advancement of science and the industry as a whole," said Eddy Isaacs, CEO of Alberta Innovates.
Other stories in The Oilsands, Part 4: Environment
Smoke stacks, mine dust and truck exhaust add to pollution load
Alberta banks on new carbon capture technology
The alphabet soup of oilsands groups
By the Numbers: Emissions and targets
Key moments in the pollution discussion
Photo gallery: What they say about the oilsands and the environment


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Here's a new behind the scenes pic of Caitriona Balfe as Claire Beauchamp on the set of Outlander
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Source: Outlander Starz
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Thema ist: Die Zeit vor der Erstausstrahlung!
Great job, Outlander fans! Outlander IS nominated for Favorite Cable Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Series in the People's Choice Awards! Let's take a minute for that to sink in and then get to work…
Here's how to maximize your efficiency in voting.
Open 2 tabs and go to: http://vote.peopleschoice.com/#!/home/all/77/2 on both of them.
You'll get this screen:
Click on Outlander to vote.
Switch to the second tab as soon as this screen appears:
Vote Outlander on the second tab, then return to the first tab, scroll down to the < arrow and click to return to Outlander's category.
Vote Outlander, return to the second tab and repeat. Some people find it easier to have a row of tabs to click in succession. My friend Roc uses about 10. Experiment and find what works for you.
Using multiple tabs, we can vote 10-12 per minute.
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Who is Andi Simon?
Andi Simon is a Corporate Anthropologist who helps executives see their companies with more observant eyes, achieve "aha!" moments, and discover new and profitable opportunities. By applying the concepts, methods, and tools of anthropology to business environments, she turns observation into innovation and revitalizes businesses seeking growth.
- Founder and CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants
- Author of On The Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Business to New Heights
- 20 years as senior executive in healthcare and financial institutions
- Trained practitioner of Blue Ocean Strategy® and Innovation Games®
- Sought-after professional speaker and workshop facilitator
- PhD in Anthropology, tenured Professor in American Studies and Anthropology
- Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis
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DAVID PRICE hopes some sessions with a shrink will get his career back on track.
The former British and Commonwealth heavyweight, 30, returns to action in Stuttgart on Saturday night in a non-title eight rounder against Kazakh Konstantin Airich, a fight being screened live on BoxNation.
Price's first contest since shattering back-to-back losses against Tony Thompson in his hometown, Liverpool last year should be the ideal chance to return to winning ways.
Price has been working with mind coach Terry McElhinney and insists he will be mentally tougher in the future having fell apart after flooring Thompson in their second clash.
He said: "Even though I can hold my head high anywhere because of what I have achieved I felt I couldn't walk around Liverpool because I was a bit embarrassed from what had happened.
"Terry built my esteem at first, then it was about taking it into the gym and then on to Saturday.
"He helped pick me up off the floor and dust myself down. We have been doing a lot of other stuff that I wish I had even used in my amateur days.
"Everything was blown out of proportion in my own head during the build-up to the second Thompson fight. I burned a lot of nervous energy and still come close to winning."
Since losing in five rounds to Thompson last July, Price has changed his team completely.
Promoter Frank Maloney has retired, long time trainer Franny Smith has also departed and Lennox Lewis is no longer on board as a consultant.
Germany's leading promoters Sauerland Events have replaced Maloney and experienced American Tommy Brooks is now his trainer.
Brooks is best known for training Evander Holyfield, but has also worked with men like Mike Tyson, Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko and Meldrick Taylor during a long career.
Brooks worked with Price for a week before Christmas and they've spent the last three weeks together in Liverpool.
"Frank Maloney always wanted me to go and do some work with Tommy and always talked him up," added Price who hopes to box five times this year.
"We have gelled really well, he is easy to get on with and his record speaks for himself.
"We are both aware it is early days and we need to give it time to blossom.
"I still think you will see an improvement on Saturday although some of the stuff will take a little bit longer.
"He hasn't tried to change me as a fighter. He has added things and picked up on mistakes."


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Congratulations to David Brodin from Ishpeming on Winning the $16,000 Storage Building of Your Dreams Giveaway from Premium Pole Buildings & Storage Sheds and Griffin Construction
Marquette, MI – June 30, 2016 – The Great Lakes Radio crew had a fun time this evening at Red Rock Lanes & Banquet Center for our Storage Building of Your Dreams Giveaway! We met a bunch of new fans and gave away our highest value grand prize yet! Teaming up with Premium Pole Buildings & Storage Sheds and Griffin Construction we gave away a 24′ x 24′ x 9′ Pole Building worth $16,000! Congratulations to lucky winner, David Brodin!
As the evening set in, the parking lot filled up fast and there was a line leading out of the building! The lovely DeeDee was at the registration table to greet everyone on their way in. The ladies at the front table kept the line moving and got all the guest inside in no time! All guests received a meal ticket for catering from Mama Russo's and the invite holders got a door prize & finalist ticket too.
Once everyone was settled in, Adam from the Outdoor Show took over as Emcee for the night. Adam started by welcoming everyone to the giveaway and bumped out the crowd for the beginning of a great night. After introducing our giveaway supporters, it was time for door prizes. We had prizes going all over the room while drawing random numbers out of a bucket! Door prizes is one of my favorite times at our giveaways because everyone is always excited to get free things, and we always have so many prizes to give! Door prizes this time included Car Car Club memberships from Southside Automotive, a jacket from Embroidery House, and more.
After giving out some of the prizes, it was time for one of the highlights of the night, food! DeeDee did the
honors and released tables for dinner. Mama Russo's catered another one of our events, serving Yooper Beer Brats and their famous homemade salads! Everyone had food piled onto their plates and smiles on their faces as they moved back to their tables to chow down. After giving out the last of the door prizes Honor Credit Union followed with their giveaway of the night with Suzette winning a gift basket.
After dinner, it was time for a classic game of cornhole! Each guest who received an invite got a chance to toss a bean bag for a chance to win a free game of bowling from Red Rock Lanes. If they made the first toss, they got a second chance to also win a free pizza! People had a blast trying to get the bag in the hole and we saw some pretty impressive throws.
With our game finished it was time for what everyone had been waiting for, the drawing of our finalists. James picked six tickets out of the bucket for Todd to call to the front. Each finalist walked up to the front to gingerly pick their station envelope. Each envelope had a sheet with some major prize, but only one had the grand prize inside! At the same everyone opened their envelopes and the entire room was quite for the first time all night!
David Brodin opened the envelope to find out he was the winner of the $16,000 Storage Building of Your Dreams! David's excitement filled the entire room as he held up his sheet of paper to show the room. The other finalist received their prizes with a Blower from Four Seasons going to Mike Jarvis. A Stihl String Trimmer from Ward's was won by Keith LeFebvre. Kay Ryan received a gift basket from Super One Foods with Ashley Perry winning the second basket from Super One. Cody Isabel went home with a Clean Car Package from LaFayette Collision Center.
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Gaelic Literature, literature, both oral and written, in the Gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland. Before the development of a distinct Scottish Gaelic language in the 15th century, the literature of both countries may be considered as one.
The earliest pre-Christian writings in Ireland are tombstone inscriptions in the ogham alphabet, which date from the 5th to the 8th century.
The earliest Christian writings survive in a few manuscripts of the 7th through the 10th century-for example, some material on the life of Saint Patrick included in the 9th-century illuminated gospels The Book of Armagh. The scarcity of literary works until the 11th century is the result of the Norse invasions of Ireland in the 8th century and the sacking of the monasteries, the centers of learning. While some manuscripts were preserved on the European continent by scholars fleeing the invaders, most of the literary works composed in this period survive, in fragments, in much later manuscripts.
A characteristic form was the praise poetry composed by a professional class of bards, the filidh, in honor of their kings and chieftains. Freer, more personal poetry was written by anonymous poets, such as the one who addressed his white cat, or the writer who composed The Old Woman of Beare (9th century), an expression of longing for the pagan past. In the form of a dramatic monologue, it is one of the earliest examples of a genre popular in Gaelic poetry. The hermit monks of the early Irish church, living on intimate terms with their environment, established the tradition of nature poetry that is one of the glories of Irish and, later, Scottish Gaelic verse. Some fine examples of this genre are from the 8th century.
The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh prose tales, composed between the second half of the 11th century and the end of the 13th century, but based on older oral tradition.
Most of the 11 anonymous tales incorporate Welsh mythology and folklore and deal with the Arthurian legend. These stories are preserved in two manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch (circa 1300-25), and the Red Book of Hergest (circa 1375-1425); the first English translation was made from the latter in 1838-39 by Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest.
The meaning of the name Mabinogion, which she adopted as the title, is the subject of debate. It is derived from the group of four related stories that begins the collection, "The Four Branches of the Mabinogi"; of 11th-century composition, they concern the life of Prince Gwri, or Pryderi. This cycle is followed by four independent tales also based on native Welsh lore. The collection concludes with a group of three Arthurian romances, showing Norman-French influence and bearing some relation to the work of the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, although originally of Welsh origin.
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The last ten years has brought us some amazing developments in automotive technology. Bugatti brought us the Veyron, one of the fastest and most advanced cars of it's kind. Subaru and Mitsubishi brought cheap speed to the masses. And Tata made the Nano, the most affordable car in the world.
Looking forward to the next decade, we are going to have affordable cars that have standard features like lane-assist, wireless internet and voice recognition. The possibilities are endless, but before we look to the future, lets take a quick look at the past.
Here are the Top 10 Fastest Police Car's of the decade.
- Britain's Caparo T1 RRV Police Pursuit Car – Powered by a 3.5-liter V8, the T1 does 0-62 MPH in under 3.0 seconds and 0-100 MPH in under 5. This is hands down the fastest accelerating cop car ever made. Top speed: 200 MPH.
- Italian Polizia's Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 – This was a gift to the Italian Polizia, but unfortunately it was to fast and was wrecked in 2009. But when it was on the beat, the all-wheel-drive system in this Gallardo could propel it to 62 MPH in just 3.7 seconds, and it's range-topping V8 sings all the way up to an astonishing 202 MPH.
- Italian Polizia's Brabus-Powered Mercedes CLS – By far the most powerful engine under the hood of any police car, 730 German-engineered ponies are pushed by almost 1,000 ft-lbs of torque. This gets the CLS up and running to 60 MPH in 3.8 seconds. Top Speed: 224 MPH.
- Broomfield Hills Corvette C5 Z06 – Nothing inspires fear in the eyes of a running bandit like a Corvette C5. The all-American V8 under the hood of this Chevy can get it up to 60 MPH in 4 seconds flat… that is, if you don't end up laying rubber on the pavement. Top Speed: 186 MPH.
- Frevoland Spyker C8 Politie Car – With a European pedigree, the C8 looks and sounds gorgeous… except when you see this one in your rear view mirror. 0-60 happens in 4.5 seconds and it tops out at 185 MPH.
- Hoover County Porsche 911 Cop Car – The Hoover County police department siezed this 2001 Porsche 911 in a drug raid and found 10 kilos of cocaine on board. Rather than put it up for auction, they gave it a second chance and converted it from a drug-running sprinter to a bad-guy chasing cop car. The 3.4-liter flat six propels this 911 to 60 MPH in 4.6 seconds, plenty fast to catch most criminals. Top Speed: 174 MPH.
- Broomfield Hills Cadillac XLR-V Cop Car – Is there even enough crime in Broomfield Hills, MI to justify having two high-end pursuit vehicles? But I digress… the brute strength of this 443 horsepower Caddy get's it up and running to 60 MPH in just 4.6 seconds. Top Speed: Actual is Unknown, Limited to 155 MPH.
- Colorado State Patrol's Subaru 2004 WRX STi – Although this car was never actually used as an officers patrol car, it was recruited into the ranks of the CSP for the "Take it to the Track" program, which was a push to discourage street racing. Either way, this 4-seat 4-banger rips your face off as it's all-wheel-drive hits 60 MPH in 4.7 seconds, while the 6-speed transmission takes your abuse all the way up to 167 MPH.
- South Yorkshire's Mitsubishi Evo VIII, IX & X – I fought the law and the, law won… this is the story of South Yorkshire's police department. Let's face it, this trio of Evo beats the three Musketeers any day. Assuming these are the FQ-300 models, 0-60 happens, on average, at about 5 seconds flat. Top Speed: 164 MPH for the Evo VIII and IX. Evo X is limited to 155 MPH.
- Broward County's Dodge Challeger R/T – This blast from the past will rush you to 60 MPH in 5.5 seconds and if they removed the governor, will eventually tops out at 150 MPH.
Do you think we missed one? Let us know by emailing us at email@example.com. If we can verify your entry, we'll update the list.