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The villa is located in a private, well established development with car parking just a short stroll from the villa.
Modern Kitchen
You enter the modern villa directly into the open plan kitchen, dining and living area. The fully equipped western style kitchen has modern white glossy cupboards with on trend black granite tops. There is a white fridge freezer, hob and built-in microwave.
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The dining area has a table seating 4 and opens up into the lounge which is furnished with a modern settee. For your entertainment, there is a flat screen 50" TV, DVD and surround sound. There is an integrated air conditioner unit centred between the lounge and kitchen.
Master bedroom
The master bedroom opens up onto the pool terrace and has a 6ft bed centred bed with bedside tables. The two sets of fitted wardrobes are located behind the bed as you walk through to the en-suite bathroom. The bathroom has a separate shower, sunken bath single basin and includes a dressing table. The guest bedroom benefits from a 6ft bed, bedside tables and fitted wardrobes. The bedroom also has a flat screen TV and DVD player. The en-suite bathroom has a walk-in shower, single basin and wc and can also be accessed directly from the lounge. Both rooms have ceiling fans and air con.
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Jeff Turner wrote: > I think you mean the Cocoon command-line static rendering. Forrestbot is > a dodgy cron+shell+XSLT+Ant affair running on forrestbot.cocoondev.org. Yes, I meant the command-line rendering. Ahem... I thought they were the same thing: thanks for enlightening me. > > The only way I know of passing command-line parameters to Cocoon is by > replacing @tokens@ in cocoon.xconf. This is how the skin is chosen > (a @skin@ token). So yes, we could have an <online>@online@</online> tag > in cocoon.xconf, where @online@ gets replaced with 'yes' or 'no' > depending on whether we're in webapp or command-line mode. Then in the > sitemap, {forrest:online} would be 'yes' or 'no', and that could be > passed to the XSLT. > Thanks, I'll try it. BTW, could someone insert such a switch in the next Forrest release ? I presume it could be useful to many. > Paul Prescod wrote: > > "Any business problem can be thought of as a data resource manipulation > problem" [1] > > The Cocoon approach is "get the problem into 'data resource > manipulation' mode ASAP". Like Chaperon; forget trying to define an > API for an abstract syntax tree, just output XML. When tempted to write > a Java API, instead write a schema. They're both contracts, but XML's > looser coupling combined with powerful Cocoon manipulation tends to make > for a simpler and more flexible system" Right on target ! I'll shamelessy borrow this quote for a Cocoon course I'm going to teach :) Regards, ------------------------------------------ Luca Morandini GIS Consultant email@example.com http://space.virgilio.it/kumora/index.html ------------------------------------------
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thanks fleas, I just emailed MCA so hopefully I hear back soon.
On a side note, where amp/dacs are you guys using for your Magnums? I'm looking for the best choice as a portable amp/dac solution.
thanks fleas, I just emailed MCA so hopefully I hear back soon.
On a side note, where amp/dacs are you guys using for your Magnums? I'm looking for the best choice as a portable amp/dac solution.
Thank you for the info ... I will end up saving some money but no more than £100 if that .. :-)
I use the Hisound Studio 3rd AE as my main DAP, and Ray Samuel's The Predator Amp/Dac with my laptop at work (till I get my CEntrance Hifi M8, currently on pre-order).
Hey everyone where is a good place that I can buy some different earpads? I saw some on ebay but I am not sure if there are better options so I wanted to ask before I got something.
That is what I found. Do any of the forum members sell pads?
You might get fakes if you buy them on eBay.
I always use TTVJ personally, he ships them to Canada rapidly and relatively cheaply. I do buy official Sennheiser PX100 and HD414 pads on eBay though (they sound plain and airy but offer the most comfort out of the flats and the bowls).
I don't think any forum member sell or make Grado pads, but an used pair (bowls/flats/bagels) does come up from time to time on the ForSale forum here, you can definitely try making a "Wanted" post there and save a bit of money.
While bowl seems to be the most popular pad, personally I prefer the flat (even if they provide the worst comfort to my ears) because it gives me a better balance –less treble and more bass–; others prefer having the soundstage of the bowl. Personally I don't care about soundstage (I'm not sure if I can even hear it, or if I ever tried to), that's one of the reason why I chose Grado headphones in the first place, to get the driver as close as possible to my ears. I also put 3M Scotch tape around my pads.
I really need to try some flats, but they are almost as expensive as Jumbos
How close do reverse quarter modded comfies come to the sound of flats?
Taped bowls are my preferred pad at the moment with my Magnums, but only a thin tape around the middle of the pad. Wider tape that covers the entire side of the pad bloats the sound too much for me.
My Magnum build is nearing completion. Got a saddle headband coming from turbulentlabs that's the missing piece. Recabled with 26awg OCC copper few days ago also. Pics coming soon.
When you guy say flats are you referring to the L Cush? And when you say jumbos you're obviously referring to the G Cush right?
Nope, the Flats were the pads originally supplied with Joseph Grado headphones. They're sold only on the TTVJ website.
All the pads are shown here: http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/evaluation-grado-stock-and-modified-ear-pads
Flats are in the middle, with the radiating slits
Speaking of pads, I just did the tape mod experimentally after someone linked to the Innerfidelity article about the different Grado pads and mods. Seems to have brought back some of the space and air that I missed from my V2s, though I think the result has me turning up the volume, making the sound a little uncomfortable after a while.
A quick question: when soldering the cable to the drivers, should the whole pad be covered with solder or does that not matter?


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The deal, which will undergo stringent scrutiny by monopoly regulators in the United States, would create a giant spanning the spheres of civilian jetliners, military aircraft and space exploration. It would operate under the Boeing name with its principal headquarters in Seattle.
The proposed share swap put a value of about $13.3bn on McDonnell Douglas. Projected sales for the combined companies in 1997 would add up meanwhile to about $47.7bn, of which roughly $28bn would come from Boeing and $20bn from McDonnell Douglas.
The two companies, which until now have been horns-locked competitors, currently have backlog orders worth about $100bn between them. Together they have a workforce of 200,000, most of them in the US.
Announcing the agreement, Philip Condit, president and chief executive of Boeing, termed it "an historic moment in aviation and aerospace". The new company, he went on, would be the "largest, strongest, broadest, most admired aerospace corporation in the world and by far the largest US exporter".
Officials said that because of the heavy workload of both companies, the merger would not imply any large loss of jobs. "The greatest strength of this combination is our people," Mr Condit told reporters.
The future of McDonnell Douglas, based in St Louis, Missouri, has been the subject of wide speculation for several weeks. Its commercial jetliner division, in particular, has recently suffered numerous setbacks and last month the company announced that it was shelving plans to develop the MD-XX, a new version of the wide-body MD-11.
While the company's military business has been much stronger, that also suffered a blow recently when the Pentagon limited the bidding for a new jet fighter - the Joint Strike Fighter - to Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Only 10 days ago, McDonnell Douglas announced that it was entering into a limited agreement with Boeing to lend the company some of its workforce to help with new commercial jetliner projects. Few analysts predicted that that deal would be followed so swiftly by an agreement for an outright merger of the two companies, however.
Mr Condit said that he would serve as the chairman and chief executive of the new company, while Harry Stonecipher, chief executive at McDonnell Douglas, had agreed to become the new company's president and chief operating officer. McDonnell Douglas will remain largely at its bases in St Louis and Long Beach, California, operating as a new division of the expanded Boeing.
It is unclear how regulators in Washington will view so enormous a merger. In recent years, the US government has encouraged consolidation in the aerospace industry, giving the green light for instance to the mergers between Lockheed and Martin Marietta and Northrop and Grumman. The Pentagon has also actively encouraged consolidation in the belief that the mergers would lead to savings.
This deal, however, may give regulators pause. The procurement division of the Pentagon still wants to see at least a minimum of choice and competition in the aerospace field. It is equally certain that foreign governments, especially those in Europe with interests in Airbus, will make their concerns about such a merger known to the Clinton administration.
Airbus declined to discuss the merger yesterday. "It is something happening between two American companies, and at this stage we are not making any comment," said Airbus spokeswoman Barbara Kracht in Paris.
Anxiety has been building in Europe over the growing power of Boeing and the speed at which it is gathering in new commercial orders and expanding its activities. It is already the world's leading commercial aircraft supplier. Only this autumn, it paid $3bn for the aerospace and defence businesses of the Rockwell Corporation.
Bill Boeing built his first plane in 1916 with Navy officer Conrad Westervelt. His Seattle factory was first called Pacific Aero Products but changed its name to Boeing Airplane Company the following year. It was to become the world's leading commercial aircraft company, which has dominated the market for the last 30 years with a share of more than 60 per cent.
During the First World War Boeing built training planes for the US navy. When military sales declined it began the first international airmail service between Seattle and Victoria, British Columbia, using a newly designed flying boat.
A series of innovative planes followed including the 307 Stratoliner, the first aircraft to feature a pressurised cabin. In the 1960s Boeing built the first stage of rockets used in the Apollo space programme. The end of that decade also saw Boeing's best-known jet go into production - the 747.
Donald Douglas started the Davis-Douglas company in the back of a Los Angeles barber's shop in 1920. The idea was to build a bi-plane for David Davis, who planned to fly it in the first non-stop transcontinental flight the following year. But when the attempt failed, Mr Davis left and the firm was re-named the Douglas Company.
The launch of the twin-engined DC-3 provided the platform for early success. It dominated the airliner market until Boeing developed the 707 in the late 1950s. Douglas struggled to compete and heavy development costs caused losses in 1966. The result was a $68m merger with McDonnell Aircraft, a supplier of fighter jets, missiles and spacecraft. Following the merger, McDonnell Douglas built the DC-10 in 1970.
Recently its commercial division has struggled against competition. The company recorded a loss last year caused by the costs of developing the MD-11.
Factfile: how the two giants compare
Boeing McDonnell Douglas
Headquarters Seattle St Louis
Employees 115,000. 63,612
Sales ('95) $19.5bn $14.3bn
Net income ('95) $393m $416m loss
Market value $33.8bn $11.0bn.
Sales breakdown: Commercial Military aircraft 57%,
aircraft 71%, commercial 27%,
defence & missiles & space 13%
space 29% other 3%
Key products 737, 747,777 MD-11, MD-80
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In a perverse sort of way, it is comforting to learn that the intense political polarization that has complicated the already daunting task of recovery from the Great Recession is not unique to the United States. In fact, a productive political economy is not the norm in the vast majority of countries whenever debtors and creditors fight for advantage in the wake of a major financial bust.
Of course, anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the 1920s and '30s would understand how severe economic hardship opens the door to ideological extremism. Presently, those forces are exerting themselves both in America and in several European countries struggling to implement German-mandated austerity programs amid a deepening recession and smoldering popular unrest.
A Socialist candidate vowing to reopen the eurozone's fiscal compact was elected to the presidency in France, even as an ultra far-right group gained a political foothold in that country. Meanwhile, a leftist movement intent on implementing a debt moratorium in Greece gained significant public support, increasing the likelihood that the eurozone will lose one member by the end of the year.
The battle between debtors and creditors in the developed world is now moving from the merely fractious to the truly dangerous. Yet the political battles fought overseas could be just the preliminaries to the main event: the attempt by Congress - with its political center shrinking (see: Lugar, Richard) - to cobble together wise and courageous policies to prevent the U.S. economy from falling off a cliff because of a massive fiscal tightening next year.
A working paper by professors Atif Mian, Amir Sufi and Francesco Trebbi, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February, sheds light on how and why political economies become gridlocked after a financial crisis, even as the need for implementing sound and often painful solutions to complex problems gains urgency.
Mian, Sufi and Trebbi referenced 45 academic papers and studied debt and banking crises in 70 countries since 1975 to form their conclusions.
The authors assert that in the tug of war between debtors and creditors that generally follows a financial crisis, the more politically muscular creditors usually win by gaining bailouts and avoiding debt reductions or moratoriums. Theirs is a Pyrrhic victory, however, since it leaves debtors embittered and nearly everyone poorer, thus deepening the angst that feeds political polarization. That polarization, in turn, makes implementing economic fixes more difficult, compounding and extending the misery.
For investors, the failure of Europe's political economy has reintroduced the tail risk element that was presumed to have been eliminated by two European Central Bank liquidity injections since December. Though U.S. stocks have held up reasonably well amid the latest eurozone turmoil and remain in a strong three-year bull market, volatility and caution are likely to prevail as long as monetary union is threatened.
To the likely surprise of most Americans, U.S. fiscal and monetary policy during the financial crisis actually is being held up globally as a model for how a nation's political economy should operate in times of great stress.
Stabilization was achieved first, then pro-growth policies implemented, and later, austerity measures contemplated. (Don't hold your breath on that last one.) "It could have been worse" is not a winning political slogan, even if it's true. But as the economic recovery has remained slow and uneven, political polarization and gridlock has set in, just as world history would have predicted.
Research indicates that human beings everywhere react in more or less the same manner to financial duress; similarly, most capitalist systems in the throes of a banking crisis develop fault lines along the debtor-creditor divide. Those fissures occasionally shift and jolt the economic terrain, causing an unstable recovery and pushing the political economy toward dysfunction.
Seen from that broader perspective, Americans and America may not be much above it all, but at least we're not beneath it, either.
Tom Saler is an author and freelance financial journalist in Madison. He can be reached at www.tomsaler.com.


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I recently bought a pair German Blue Rams for my 29 gallon aquarium (that is fully cycled with no traces of amonia or nitrites)and within a few days they were already laying eggs in a planted corner of the tank. It was really unexpected, and i was pretty supprised to find eggs allready. In the tank there are also 7 zebra danios (that are in there from cycling the tank), 3 juli corydoras, and a clown pleco.I was thinking of maybe taking out the zebra danios and putting in a school of neon tetras and a few Gouramis.
My question is Will the zebra danios eat the eggs and/or fry when they hatch?
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If I take out the Danios- and get a school of neon tetras and a few Gouramis, will the tetras and gouramis eat the fry or eggs?
I would leave everyting as is. None of the fish in your tank pose a definite problem to your GBR's. These cichlids are awesome parents ansd will keep any intruder away from the fry.
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I will peel away your bloody flesh.
The crimson is new and fresh.
All your blood will be on the floor.
There will be lots of gore.
I will rip out your evil eyes.
I dont wanna hear your wimpy cries.
Blood will gush from your head.
Then ill be happy because your dead.
I will happily hide all the gore.
I am proud because you live no more.
All the blood is washed away.
I told you I would make you pay.
I hide your body deep under the ground.
Never will your body be found.
All you can do is hate and hate.
For you villain it is too late.
I will put your remains in a tomb.
You will experience a perilous doom.
You have always made me hurt.
Now you wear a crimson shirt.
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I have a client whose business offers certain services to clients. I am looking for some one to design and build a website. The client offers certain services and under each service offers sub services to customers. What I need from you is a good SEO accounted website containing :
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Why does Hillary Clinton use the word "slum" in the following exchange from Monday night's CNN debate?
Smearing through association, and usually done on the sly through surrogates, has been Hillary's tactic to tamp down Obama's momentum during this primary season. But as Barack clearly explains.....American voters are sick of this kind of nonsense.....and American voters want someone to lead the country who they can actually trust will speak the truth, minus the triangulating and the smear games.
Obama explains that telling the truth and avoiding the political tricks Hillary has been pulling.....is important. It's important because the progress Americans want,....health care, ending Iraq, economic equality, education, global warming.....cannot be accomplished by a divided government, half of whom don't trust or believe in what the other half is saying or doing.
Progress can only be made with a new American coalition of voters. Barack Obama is the only candidate on either side who can pull that off.
If Hillary is elected president, isn't it true that the nation will still be divided along the same red/blue lines we've had since the 90's? Isn't it true, if Hillary is elected, that the media's fixation and loathing of the Clinton's will immediately return to 90's levels?
If Hillary is elected does anyone expect she'll have long coattails helping add to Democratic Congressional majorities? If Hillary is the candidate, won't the general election be razor thin....again?
Yes, Hillary might be able to win the presidency, she may be able to return corporate Democrats to their 1990's positions.....but the changes our country desperately needs will not have enough grassroots political support because of the Clinton polarization factor.
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This project will develop a shared computational model to identify unified mechanisms for interactions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and medial temporal lobe cortex (MTL) in the performance of a behavioral task requiring cued responses based on context.
The specific aims focus on modeling the properties of timing of neural spiking activity in PFC and MTL during performance of related behavioral tasks in rodents in Project 4-5, and on the properties of neural spiking in monkeys in Project 3 and the magnitude of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity in humans in Projects 1-2. In addition, the specific aims will address the effect of the damage to different cortical regions on behavioral performance and measures of neural activity. Based on previous models from this lab, network models of integrate-and-fire neurons or biophysical compartmental simulations representing subregions of the PFC and MTL will be used to generate predictions about experimental data that will guide data analysis, and comparison with the data will determine whether features of the shared model are retained or restructured to account for the data. Modeling predictions will address relative timing of unit activity between regions and timing relative to network oscillations in Projects 4-5, and experimental outcomes will guide selection of neural mechanisms for representation of context, such as oscillatory interference or the temporal context model. Models will generate predictions about the relative timing of unit activity in monkeys in Project 3, and the magnitude of fMRI activity and patterns of preferential viewing in humans in Projects 1 and 2 before and after the transition to context-based responding, and during inferences to cues presented in novel quadrants. The outcomes of these comparisons to data will guide extension of the model to address human and monkey PFC-MTL interactions in relation to rodents.
Impairments of PFC function are implicated in mental disorders, including schizophrenia and depression, and these disorders are also associated with pathological changes in the MTL. Modeling PFC-MTL interactions between provides a theoretical framework for addressing pathological changes in these interactions that contribute to the progression of degenerative mental disorders.
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The Detroit Tigers will spend the final week of the regular season doing some fine-tuning ahead of their first playoff appearance since 2006.
The Baltimore Orioles hope to use a recent surge against some of the AL's top teams as a springboard to a possible playoff run next season.
Detroit begins its final regular-season homestand Thursday night with the first of four games against Baltimore.
The Tigers (90-65) return to Comerica Park following Wednesday's 6-3 win over Kansas City to close their road schedule at 45-36. The AL Central champions have alternated wins and losses in their last six contests following a 12-game win streak.
"It's going to be nice going home and getting ready for the playoffs," said slugger Miguel Cabrera, who needs two RBIs to reach 100 for the eighth straight season. Cabrera has gone 7 for 20 with two homers and six RBIs as Detroit and Baltimore split six games this season at Camden Yards.
While the Tigers are preparing for the playoffs, they will send out Jacob Turner (0-1, 7.45 ERA) on Thursday in what amounts to a tryout to become part of the 2012 rotation.
An All-Star this season with Double-A Erie, Turner hasn't pitched on the big-league level since Sept. 1. He surrendered six runs and seven hits in 4 1-3 innings, but didn't factor in Detroit's 11-8 loss to the Royals.
"Being here for the month of September, it makes you more comfortable with everything that goes on with being in the big leagues," Turner told the Tigers' official website. "...Hopefully next year, I can go into spring training and perform well and make them make the tough decision."
Turner lost to the Los Angeles Angels in his major league debut on July 30.
Baltimore (65-90) played the role of spoiler successfully by taking three of four from playoff-hopeful Boston after Wednesday's 6-4 win. That came after the Orioles took two of three from both Tampa Bay and the Angels to alter the AL wild-card landscape.
"This is a good baseball team. The guys are playing hard everyday," said starting pitcher Tommy Hunter. "We're playing good baseball. It's going to be fun, especially if we finish the year like this. It's going to be fun next year."
Though they took two of three last season in Detroit, the Orioles have dropped 13 of their last 19 visits there.
Designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero is hitting .366 (15 for 41) with a homer and six RBIs during a 10-game hitting streak. He's gone 9 for 25 with two homers and eight RBIs against the Tigers this year, and is batting .353 with five homers and 15 RBIs in 28 career games in Comerica Park.
Zach Britton (10-10, 4.28) will try to become the first Baltimore rookie to win 11 games since Daniel Cabrera went 12-8 in 2004.
Britton is 4-1 with a 3.09 ERA in six starts since coming off the disabled list Aug. 22. The left-hander missed nearly three weeks with a strained shoulder.
Britton limited the Angels to a run and three hits with a career-best seven strikeouts in seven innings of a 6-2 win on Sunday.
He has never faced the Tigers.


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My Enemy; Doubt
There's one state of mind that's the worst of the worst
Its name is doubt, and it hangs in the air
Right beside me every step of the way
Lurking in shadows, hiding in plain sight
My constant companion; my sworn enemy
Robbing me of hope; bringing dark days
When I tell myself that there's improvement, no matter how small,
I hear doubt talking, saying no, there's not
And I can't afford to think that way
Hope is my life preserver; hope gives me a goal
Without hope, my future looks very bleak indeed
© Copyright 2017 Mike Stevens. All rights reserved.
Status: Finished
Genre: Poetry
No Houses
Beautiful and well said
Yes, indeed it does look bleak. Nice poem. I like its connection to hope you made. But I feel like, around the end, you jumped in to talk about hope too fast. Still nice poem :)
Add an extra helping of hope to push the doubt away. Well done. :) Sherry
An enemy from within is alway more difficult to combat, but they can be defeated. You have to stand up to them like any external foe and BELIEVE in yourself. I can assure you others believe in you.
Heart felt poem Mike
Just remember that we are here and when doubts arise; we take over and believe in you Mike and for you!
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Defining Standards for
People-Centred Reconstruction
On January 12th 2010, an earthquake measuring
7.0 on the Richter scale struck Haïti, killing
222,570 people. Less than two months later,
on February 28th, a quake measuring a massive
8.8 hit the Concepción region of Chile but killed
562 people. Both earthquakes affected heavily
populated areas so how was it possible that an
earthquake nearly a hundred times stronger led
to 400 times less casualties. A major factor in
this was Chile's adoption of high quality building
standards that incorporate requirements for
disaster-resistance. These are both applied properly,
and affordable for the Chilean people to comply
Haïti also has standards, but they are more
lenient than those in Chile. Furthermore,
these standards are often poorly implemented,
(with inspection turning a blind eye) and most
importantly unaffordable for the large proportion
of the population to comply with. The lesson from
these two disastrous events is that good building
standards can save lives, but they need to be
properly implemented and inspected, and above all,
Poverty is still widespread in the developing
world and there is ample evidence that with
disasters of a similar size, poor countries suffer
more than rich countries. Similarly, the poor in any
country tend to suffer more than the rich (see PCR
Tool 10: Quality Control). Poverty is a key factor in
determining what level of building quality people
can afford. Countries define that level of quality
through a regulatory framework that includes acts,
regulations, standards etc. (see the section on
Definitions for details on the various components).
Within those frameworks, standards are the most
important component to define disaster resistance.
Unfortunately, many of the regulatory frameworks in
place in the developing world borrow heavily from
the developed world, making them inappropriate
and unaffordable for the poor. Furthermore, disaster
resistance can be inadequately covered by the
frameworks, but including additional requirements
would reduce affordability further.
Unaffordable standards are a likely factor to add
to the loss of life from disasters. In many countries,
sub-standard housing is considered illegal and can
be demolished by the authorities. Therefore, home
owners who know they will never be able to meet
the standards are often inclined to under-invest
in housing, as they risk losing such investments.
They may not even make the small improvements or
carry out the proper maintenance that could help to
reduce their risks.
Donations of aid for reconstruction are high
following large-scale disasters. This influx of money
can help to overcome affordability problems and
enable the reconstruction of housing that meets
disaster-resistant building standards. Out of
hundreds of people interviewed after the tsunami
in Sri Lanka, 41% answered that housing built
afterwards had much better walls and 58% said it
had a much better roof than the house they owned
before the disaster; it often was larger too. The
question, however, is whether people can maintain
the standard of building if they expand their house
in the future, or build a house for their children.
How sustainable are standards that need to be
heavily subsidised?
After observing the impact of disasters
on buildings (see PCR Tool 3: Learning from
Disasters), we know that some of the traditional
ways of building in many countries do stand up
relatively well to disasters. Also, with limited
improvements such vernacular technologies
can become even more disaster-resistant. Thus,
the timber frame (dhajji dewari) houses of rural
Pakistan, which were on the decline before a
photo © Practical Action Latin America
Improved quincha, used here in reconstruction after an
earthquake in Chincha, Peru, is proven to have good earthquake
What makes construction vulnerable to
disasters in developing countries?
From assessments of disaster damage in many
countries, we know that the absence of a proper
regulatory framework, its improper implementation
or incomplete use (as highlighted above), is only
one of the factors having an impact on the scale of
damage. Others include:
• Poorly defined knowledge and mapping of
disaster hazards and risks;
• Insufficient awareness of disaster hazards and
• Lack of preparedness planning or early warning
of impending events;
• Lack of protective infrastructure such as flood
barriers or slope stabilisation;
• Poor quality and unreliability of infrastructure
• Poor quality materials and insufficient quality
control of building techniques;
• Low priority for emergency evacuation and safe
public shelters.
These and other deficiencies in mitigating the
impact of disasters have a number of underlying
photo © Practical Action / Colin Palmer
recent earthquake, became a popular option for
reconstruction. The advantage of using vernacular
technologies is that they use local knowledge, skills
and materials, and tend to be affordable. But in
many countries no standards exist for them which
limits their acceptability, (for example because the
regulatory framework does not accommodate them,
or because building professionals, whose studies
focused on modern materials and technologies are
reluctant to venture into unknown territory).
Disaster-resistant building standards can
certainly help reduce the loss of life and property
when natural hazards strike. However, the standards
currently in place in many countries do not reduce
risk for their poor. To achieve this, they need to be
changed, primarily to be made more affordable. If
they are not, they could do more harm than good.
There is a lot of variety in how people in
different countries build, and what disasters they
are vulnerable to. Describing in detail the technical
standards that provide disaster-resistance in all
those different contexts would require a book, not
a simple tool. Besides, there is a growing amount
of literature, (some of which is included in the
Resources section), that describes how particular
ways of building can be made more resistant to a
range of disasters. This tool therefore focuses on
the possible approaches to setting and achieving
an adequate standard of disaster-resistant
The rapid urbanisation of Lima forced some people to build their
houses on very unstable slopes.
• Widespread poverty;
• Lack of education;
• The need for many poor people to prioritise
immediate needs (ie day to day survival) over
disaster risk
• Rapid urbanisation - including a tendency to
concentrate large populations in vulnerable
locations such as steep slopes or flood plains;
• Lack of secure tenure;
• Landlords placing profit before the safety of
• Lack of capacity and resources of local and
central authorities;
• Poor governance, including complex
bureaucracies, a lack of popular voice and
Getting the standards right is therefore
not necessarily enough to guarantee reduced
disaster impact. Furthermore, the above factors
may actually hinder both the development and
implementation of appropriate standards.
PCR Tool 3: Learning from Disasters provides
the most common structural factors that lead to
disaster damage to buildings for example a lack
of disaster-resistant features, poor quality work or
materials, or a lack of maintenance. These are the
issues that standards and regulations can improve.
PCR Tool 8: Participatory Design gives some of the
design principles for withstanding major disasters,
which should be considered too.
What difference can standards make?
After almost every major disaster in a developing
country, people have called for building standards
to be tightened and enforced more strictly. After
all, this has worked to reduce the impact of
natural disasters in more developed countries. But
can the same approach work in the developing
world? The above section has already argued that
Building in developing countries
Building in developed countries
Between 40 and 90% of housing and private commercial
buildings are constructed without former title of land or
property, i.e. considered informal.
The vast majority of buildings are formally registered.
A lot of building work is carried out by owners with the
help of family or friends and sometimes building artisans
Most building work is executed by contractors.
A lot of housing is incremental, starting small, but
expanding and/or improving in quality over time, as
resources allow.
Most housing is a one-off final product that meets quality
standards from the onset.
Vernacular construction is still significant, based on
traditions that can date back a long time. It is important
in rural locations, but diminishing where urbanisation
Vernacular buildings are mainly of historical interest.
Nearly all current construction uses standardised socalled modern materials and products.
Many countries are still predominantly rural, though
urbanising rapidly, with a high concentration of people in
and around one large city. In most rural areas, building
standards and regulations do not apply; quality is defined
by tradition.
Nearly all countries are highly urbanised, with a good
balance between large and middle size cities.
In urban areas, a significant proportion of housing is
in slums, usually far below prevailing standards. Close
to 1 billion people live in slums; they tend to be very
Very little of the housing stock can be considered slums
in most countries.
For many people, their home is also their workplace.
Strict zoning regulations mean that few commercial
activities can be undertaken from home.
Few building artisans have had formal education or
training in building skills. Most learnt their craft from
other builders. Many countries do not have a formal
register of builders.
Builders need formal education and a qualification in
building to be considered skilled. Trade associations for
builders and contractors usually exist as well.
There is unlikely to be a formal certification process for
new materials, products and techniques.
There usually is a formal approval and certification
process for new materials, products and techniques that
also provides quality and performance specifications.
Many buildings are not built to conform to standards,
either because they are in locations where standards do
not apply, or because they are in informal settlements
where standards get ignored. For buildings that do
comply, inspection may be lax or corrupt; thus bad
practice is overlooked.
The systems for checking, approval and issue of building
permits and completion are usually thorough. Almost
all construction requires approval, except for small
temporary buildings. Compliance with building standards
and regulations is therefore high.
Many countries do not have their own systems of building
regulations and standards. They often use the standards
of their former colonial power or other developed country
without significant revision to reflect their own context.
Consideration of country-specific disaster risks might also
be absent.
Building regulations and standards are often countryspecific, but some are internationally or regionally
agreed (e.g. by ISO). They are regularly updated to
reflect new knowledge and legislation or to overcome
specific problems that have emerged with aspects. They
incorporate measures to mitigate disaster risks of the
As many buildings are owner-built, the owner is often
present for much of the construction and so ensures that
the work is completed to his or her requirements. Where
no formal building codes or standards are followed,
diligent supervision by an owner can still help to
ensure that the outcome is a good and disaster resilient
Ensuring quality of construction is usually the
responsibility of the architect (if one is employed),
building contractor and building inspector. Users or
owners are far less involved in day to day construction.
There is then some risk that the final building is not
entirely to their satisfaction.
developed countries are often inappropriate for
developing countries (see e.g. Yahya et al., 2001).
Reform of regulations can take several decades
because of the need to pay attention also to the
processes of applying, decision making, appealing,
communicating with applicants, record keeping and
dealing with non-compliance. If those processes
are too complex and costly, few property owners will
bother to comply (see e.g. de Soto, 1989: chapter
2). It is important for reform to have a group of
champions who manage to overcome the obstacles
thrown in their way by stakeholders who have
something to gain from maintaining the status quo.
In People-Centred Reconstruction, people are
what matters most. In other Tools and a Position
Paper on PCR, we have argued that the ultimate
aim of PCR is more than just achieving safer
housing; it is to make the people themselves more
resilient. In the reconstruction process itself, this
means empowering them by involving them much
more in decision making. The process should not
just aim to rebuild houses, but also livelihoods,
local markets and social networks, as these all are
crucial in generating resilience.
If people are what matters most, then standards
should protect people first and foremost, and aim to
substantially reduce the number of casualties that
natural disasters cause. Lives cannot be replaced,
but buildings and other assets can, and often
are with the aid that is given following disasters.
Applying this principle to building practice, means
that a certain amount of damage to buildings could
be acceptable, but their collapse on people inside
should be prevented.
This thought can be translated into regulations
and standards to define the weight and integrity
of roofs and intermediate floors, the strength and
technologies for supporting structures, and their
connections. However, if for example walls have
no structural contribution, they could be allowed
to be relatively flimsy. For certain types of high-
photo © Practical Action / Theo Schilderman
improving standards alone does not guarantee
safer construction. There are some important
differences between building housing in developed
and developing countries which would have to
be considered when deciding how to make postdisaster reconstruction safer. These differences are
summarised on page 3.
When there is a lack of capacity in a developing
country to devise standards in specialist areas,
such as disaster resistant structures, it becomes
tempting to adopt the standards of developed
countries that have proven to withstand disasters.
Thus, several Latin American countries have
adopted standards for earthquake resistance
from the USA, and Asian countries have derived
standards from Japan or New Zealand. This often
only had a limited positive impact, because:
• The standards are set at a very high level which
makes them unaffordable to a majority in
developing countries.
• The standards over-emphasize engineering
solutions, encouraging the use of modern
materials and techniques by building
contractors, rather than allowing for informal
construction. They overlook vernacular
construction and its own disaster-resistant
• The capacity for adequate implementation and
inspection is often lacking.
The adoption of such 'ideal' standards may
have worked for some buildings, but generally has
helped make low-income housing less vulnerable to
disasters. That is not to say that having standards
is wrong, just that they need to be fit for purpose.
Having the best standards may only protect a small
proportion of the population. Instead, moderate
standards with simple processes of compliance
might be able to protect a majority from all but the
highest magnitude disasters.
Finally, some consideration needs to be given to
retro-fitting as an option for strengthening existing
dwellings, some of which may have suffered
repairable damage. Rather than replacing such
dwellings with entirely new ones of a high standard,
retro-fitting is a much more cost-efficient solution
for providing disaster resistance. Standards for
reconstruction should therefore not just cover new
buildings, but also the retro-fitting of existing ones.
A People-Centred view of standards
Historically, building regulations, codes and
standards were developed to ensure protection of
people from illness, injury and accidental death
when they live, work-in or visit a building. However,
this system of building control developed largely
for the public good has often failed to deliver
an adequate level of protection against natural
disasters in developing countries. Past experience
shows that regulatory frameworks derived from
The inhabitants of this house in Moquegua, Peru had a narrow
escape, because the failing roof slid sideways rather than falling
in on them.
magnitude hazards, such as tropical storms or
floods and tsunamis people can be warned of
their approach. In these cases, lives could be
saved through evacuation into disaster-resistant
shelters or to safe locations such as high ground
at community level. These shelters could have
alternative uses when there are no imminent
hazards, which would help to avoid the high cost
involved in increasing the resistance level of a lot of
housing from medium to high.
In PCR, it is important to involve the end users
in thinking about the types and levels of standards,
regulations and compliance processes required for
disaster-resistant reconstruction. In considering
how regulatory frameworks could be made to work
better for housing the urban poor Payne and Majale
(2004) outlined a series of guiding principles on
which the conceptualisation of such frameworks
would need to be based. These guiding principles,
summarised in the table below, can also be useful
for deciding on standards and regulations for postdisaster reconstruction.
Similarly, it is worth considering the newly
revised minimum Sphere standards for Shelter and
Settlement (The Sphere Project, 2011). Whilst
Guiding principles for getting standards right
• Recognise and accept the realities on the ground
• Focus on key aspects of public concern
• Understand and acknowledge knowledge and
information systems of people living in poverty
• Adopt an enabling role
• Invest in precedents drawn from targeted
research and pilot projects
• Strengthen inclusiveness
• Promote partnerships between key stakeholders
• Facilitate local ownership of processes
• Identify champions of change and create a
critical mass
• Apply rules consistently
• Integrate planning and development strategies
• Accept regulations as a process rather than a
• Acknowledge the principles of incremental
• Guarantee access to information
• Take advantage of windows of opportunity
• Build institutional capacity
• Cultivate political and professional will
• Consider enforcement still as important,
although enforcement mechanisms may have to
be modified from those conventionally used for
the regulation of construction.
Minimum Sphere standards for shelter and
1. Strategic planning: Shelter and settlement
strategies contribute to the security, safety,
health and well-being of both displaced and
non-displaced affected populations and promote
recovery and reconstruction where possible.
2. Settlement planning: The planning of return,
host or temporary communal settlements enables
the safe and secure use of accommodation and
essential services by the affected population.
3. Covered living space: People have sufficient
covered living space providing thermal comfort,
fresh air and protection from the climate
ensuring their privacy, safety and health and
enabling essential household and livelihood
activities to be undertaken.
4. Construction: Local safe building practices,
materials, expertise and capacities are used
where appropriate, maximising the involvement
of the affected population and local livelihood
5. Environmental impact: Shelter and settlement
solutions and the material sourcing and
construction techniques used minimise adverse
impact on the local natural environment.
these standards are focused on emergency and
transitional shelter, the underlying principles are
often also valid for permanent reconstruction.
Approaches to determining the quality
of reconstruction
When deciding how to set the level of construction
quality in reconstruction after disasters (or for the
mitigation of them), authorities and agencies have
a number of options that include:
• adopting international standards
• adhering to a national framework
• setting regulations in the context of a specific
reconstruction strategy
• Allowing users to decide on quality.
In People-Centred Reconstruction, it is
important for the people affected by disasters to
have a say not just in how houses are designed or
constructed, but also in what level of quality should
be adopted. If other stakeholders set quality at
levels that appear unachievable or unreasonable
to those people, it can subsequently become quite
difficult to obtain their interest and participation in
projects. What approach is most appropriate is very
much dependent on the local context and needs to
be decided on a case-by-case basis.


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Inuyasha (2nd Ed) (GN 5 of 56)
Title: Inuyasha (2nd Ed)
Volume: GN 5 / 56
Pages: 192
Distributor: Viz Media
Release date: 2003-10-01
Suggested retail price: $8.95
Age rating: 13+
Continuing on their quest to track down more shards of the shattered jewel, Inu-Yasha, Kagome, and Shippo meet a young girl named Nazuna fleeing from a horde of terrifying Spider-Head demons. As her father was killed by such demons, Nazuna is loath to accept Inu-Yasha's help. She insists on being returned to the temple where a kindly monk had taken her in after her father's death.
But unknown to Nazuna, something awful awaits them there... and Inu-Yasha's true nature is finally revealed. Then, a hideous ogress steals the bones of Kikyo, the priestess who "killed" Inu-Yasha all those years ago with the intention of bringing the dead priestess back to life!
Story and art by Rumiko Takahashi.
(added on 2008-01-04, modified on 2008-01-04)
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We have over 20 years of experience in the repair and servicing of vacuum cleaners. We Independently specialise in Dyson, SEBO, Kirby & Oreck models. We are an independent specialist delivering exceptional customer service to you at home. We offer our services to prevent the expensive purchase of new vacuums.
Address : 158 Moulsham St, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0LD
Phone : 01245 806129
Website : http://vacsave.co.uk
Ad ID: 16903