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This ring is sophisticated and fun! Filigree detail around the stone. Gold-tone brass and resin stone.
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Looking at buying duck starter crumbs, and found they mostly come in 5kg bags. This sounds like a lot for 3 weeks' worth of feed before they move onto grower pellets. How much weight wise do they eat, roughly?
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Hi Flic78. You don't say how many ducks. We have raised two, the feed wastage is high, they grow fast so I would estimate 1+ Kg each.
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I'm not sure yet Chris, as we've only just started incubating them, but 1kg each is a great starting place, thank you! I'll get a 5kg bag in to start, and see how it goes. Thanks again!
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NEW YORK -- Tesco Plc. will deploy a new point-of-sale (POS) platform throughout its global network of stores, following an initial pilot of the Retalix 10 Store Suite software, Retalix officials announced.
The U.K.-based retailer plans to install it in Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets, its U.S. small-format grocery subsidiary, within three years, Mike McNamara, Tesco's chief information officer, told Supermarket News in a separate report.
Tesco's initial priority will be stores in the U.K. and South Korea as part of a worldwide rollout, McNamara said at a session this week at the National Retail Federation's Big Show in New York. "We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace [our store systems] worldwide," he said.
Tesco, the third largest grocery retailer in the world, has been a Retalix business partner since 1995, and it is operating a range of Retalix store solutions across more than 4,000 stores in 11 countries.
"Retalix 10 will form the foundation of our store technology," said McNamara. "Its extensible, service-oriented architecture allows us to add new features and services for our customers."
He added, "Continuous innovation, operational efficiency and a relentless focus on the customer have helped Tesco become one of the world's largest and most successful retailers. Retalix is one of a very small number of technology companies who we regard as strategic partners in our efforts to improve the shopping trip for our customers."
Shuky Sheffer, CEO of Retalix, said, "This innovative suite will provide Tesco with the industry-leading solutions that are required to operate in today's competitive and fast-changing markets. I am positive that Retalix 10 will enable Tesco to deliver a superior and seamless shopper experience, as well as significant benefits of business agility and operational efficiencies, supporting Tesco's goals."
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The solution's architecture enables high-volume retailers to break away from systems requiring integration of disparate "silos" into a unified platform for flexibility, accelerated time-to-market and enhanced central management capabilities, the company said. This enables a variety of deployment options such as "thin store," "thin POS" or any combination, as well as "cloud" readiness.
Retalix is a global provider of software and services to high volume, highly complex retailers, including supermarkets, convenience stores, fuel stations, drugstores and department stores. The company's products and services help its customers to manage and optimize their retail operations, differentiate their brand and build consumer loyalty, while providing retailers with the flexibility and scalability to support ongoing business transformation and growth. Retalix offers solutions for point-of-sale (POS), sales channels and in-store management (including mobile and e-commerce), customer management and marketing, merchandising, and logistics. By leveraging a multitude of deployment options, including software-as-a-service (SaaS), Retalix serves a customer base of approximately 70,000 stores across more than 50 countries worldwide. The company's headquarters is in Ra'anana, Israel, and its North America headquarters is in Plano, Texas.
Tesco is the U.K.'s largest retailer and is a major international player, with sales of $97 billion in fiscal year 2010-2011. Tesco has around 5,000 stores worldwide, in Europe, Asia and the United States, and employs nearly 500,000 people in the 14 countries in which it operates, running multiple retail formats, including hypermarkets, supermarkets, metro (city center) and express (convenience) stores.
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Recently, I received an email from a friend who works for the evening news at one of the major networks. I had sent him an email about Epic. He found it interesting and send a great email back. I started writing my response, but as it tied in more and more of what has been going on for me over the past few weeks, it occurred to me that it might be a better blog post. So, please continue reading for a long entry about journalism, politics and technology.


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What's Ahead in the Global Economy
Mohamed El-Erian discusses our current economic path, underpinned by central bank policy experimentation. He points to ominous signposts all around us: rising inequality, sluggish growth, political tensions, and volatile financial markets. He dissects continued pressures that warrant radically different monetary policy including youth employment, global wealthy inequality, market illiquidity, and the unsustainable map between financial risk-taking (high) and economic risk- taking (low). And then, thankfully, he outlines his vision for a renewed global economy, prosperity and financial stability.
Mohamed El-Erian in the News
Internationally respected economist and financier with experience at the highest level of business and government, here is a sampling of MOHAMED EL-ERIAN's media appearances:
8.16.2018 Can Turkey Rewrite the Crisis-Management Rules? | Project Syndicate
8.16.2018 El-Erian Sees Further U.S. Growth in Global Divergence | Bloomberg Markets
8.14.2018 Emerging markets need Turkey to deliver a circuit breaker | Financial Times
8.13.2018 7 Things to Keep in Mind About Turkey | Bloomberg View
8.6.2018 Making Sense of Two Very Busy Weeks for Markets | Bloomberg View
Mohamed El-Erian appointed to Under Armour's Board of Directors
Internationally respected economist and financier MOHAMED EL-ERIAN recently made headlines due to his appointment as a new member of Under Armour's Board of Directors. An in-demand financial expert who is a fixture on major outlets including Bloomberg Markets, CNN, and CNBC thanks to his expertise and revelatory insights into the stock market and global economy, El-Erian's insights prove to be game-changers for businesses across industries. As Under Armour's Chairman and CEO said, "Mohamed's renowned international, macroeconomic and financial expertise are welcomed strengths as we lean even more deeply into our transformation, driving greater operational excellence, financial discipline and shareholder returns as we continue to drive our brand forward around the world." Appearing on TV on a near daily basis, El-Erian decodes everything from Fed rates to rising tariffs, and his most recent Bloomberg View column on stock market activity was quickly picked up by other outlets. He shares similarly engaging and illuminating insights with audiences at each of his engagements. He recently shed light on the changing global economic outlook for an audience of 1,000 asset managers and investors at the 2018 Context Summit and is set to speak at the upcoming Barclay's Asia Forum. He regularly receives rave reviews from audiences worldwide, such as: "Mohamed did an excellent job. He tailored his remarks to our audience really well. He was also very gracious when interacting with our guests and senior management at the cocktail reception...Here is a sampling of the open-ended feedback: 'perfect start'; 'he was excellent and very happy to see the high caliber of keynote speaker'; 'fantastic, very informative'; 'Excellent delivery taking complicated thoughts but delivering them in real life experiences.'" (Commonfund).
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MOHAMED EL-ERIAN's column covers a range of topics from the Federal Reserve System to investment on BloombergView.
His latest opinion: 8.13.2018 7 Things to Keep in Mind About Turkey | Bloomberg ViewRead more...
Mohamed El-Erian delivers sharp insights on global markets at Barclays Asia Forum
Addressing an audience of nearly 700 at the Asia Pacific's premier macro-financial conference, the Barclays Asia Forum, MOHAMED EL-ERIAN shared sharp insights on the global economic landscape in a keynote entitled "Markets: Making Sense of It All." Providing an investor's view on populism, de-globalization, geopolitical tensions, and other global phenomena, El-Erian illuminated how we can navigate towards a more positive, inclusive and stable economic future. El-Erian was also sought-out for an interview by CNBC while at the conference, during which he discussed the Fed's "beautiful normalization," bitcoin, and more.
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"In my thirteen years as an event producer, I have never received such positive feedback from a keynote speaker before. I was stopped in the hallways and networking events numerous times by attendees who had glowing remarks about Dr. El Erian's presentation. One attendee stated that 'it is rare that a speaker not only presents well, but presents quality content'. I can say with 100% confidence that this was a wise investment in our business, as he helped to build our reputation as a program with great content." - Major international bank
" I've worked with a lot of guest speakers. Mohamed was by far one of the easiest to work with, the most prepared and the most succinct in his delivery. He was incredibly well prepared and incredibly giving with his time, spending almost the entire event with us and our guests. A really great guy. It was an absolute pleasure to have him with us." - Major international bank
"He has an incredible ability to convey what are quite complex matters in a relatively simple way that everyone in the audience can understand, and furthermore he connects with people in a remarkable way." - National Bank Of Abu DhabiRead financial insights from Mohammed El-Erian >>
Mohamed El-Erian accepts financial advisory position at Investcorp
Financial industry powerhouse MOHAMED EL-ERIAN has been appointed to an advisory role at Investcorp, the Bahrain-listed alternatives firm, as part of its ambitious international expansion plan. Mohammed Alardhi, executive chairman of Investcorp said, "As one of the most respected voices on the international financial and economic stage, Mohamed brings with him unique insights that will benefit Investcorp..." News of El-Erian's appointment made headlines in major outlets from Reuters to Financial News.
Mohamed El-Erian's sharp insights at Milken Institute Global Conference make headlines
Allianz's Chief Economic Advisor MOHAMED EL-ERIAN made headlines following his insightful remarks at the Milken Institute Global Conference. A globally renowned, mega-event that aims to find creative solutions to the world's most complex problems, the Milken Institute Global Conference attracts 4,000 attendees from over 50 countries and features over 200 sessions led by top-flight speakers. Sharing analysis on the the key forces affecting global capital markets, El-Erian hit on a "major contradiction": "The optimism is off the charts according to the stock market but the geopolitics are a real concern." Celebrated for having the world's ear when it comes to market analysis, El-Erian's shrewd insights instantly made headlines on Business Insider, which also highlighted his commentary on the Fed, dollar valuation, and more. In conjunction with his conference participation, El-Erian also appeared on Fox Business —shedding light on investment opportunities—and participated in a unique and engaging FacebookLive, sharing remarkable personal advice that touched on the conference theme, "Building Meaningful Lives."Watch El-Erian's FacebookLive from the Milken Institute Global Conference >>
Mohammed El-Erian interprets the global economy after Brexit
Economist and former CEO of PIMCO MOHAMED EL-ERIAN gives insight on what Brexit means for the global economy, multi-national corporations, trade and the future of the EU.
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Mohamed El-Erian's "Great Content" Inspires Rave Reviews
Internationally recognized expert on the world economy and finance, MOHAMED EL-ERIAN recently spoke to an audience of 700+ investment professionals that inspired the following high praise: "In my thirteen years as an event producer, I have never received such positive feedback from a keynote speaker before. I was stopped in the hallways and networking events numerous times by attendees who had glowing remarks about Dr. El Erian's presentation. One attendee stated that 'it is rare that a speaker not only presents well, but presents quality content'. I can say with 100% confidence that this was a wise investment in our business, as he helped to build our reputation as a program with great content."
The One Economic Book You Must Read Now
Why are wages flat and corporations flush? Why do interest rates remain at unprecedented lows, yet investment lags? These highly engaging issues and more are addressed in internationally recognized expert on the world economy MOHAMED EL-ERIAN'S new book, The Only Game in Town. Read more in this Time feature story.Read More...
Mohamed A. El-Erian is Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO where he formerly served as chief executive and co-chief investment officer. He chaired President Obama's Global Development Council from 2007 to 2014, is a columnist for Bloomberg View and a contributing editor at the Financial Times.
Dr. El-Erian first joined PIMCO in 1999 and was a senior member of PIMCO's portfolio management and investment strategy group. He rejoined the company at the end of 2007 after serving for two years as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard's endowment and related accounts. Before coming to PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London and before that, he spent 15 years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.
Dr. El-Erian has published widely on international economic and finance topics. His 2008 book, When Markets Collide, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year and was named a book of the year by The Economist and one of the best business books of all time by the Independent (UK). He was named to Foreign Policy's list of "Top 100 Global Thinkers" for four years in a row. He served on the 2014 and the 2015 juries for the Financial Times/McKenzie Book of the Year award. His new book The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability and Avoiding the Next Collapse is scheduled to be published Jan. 26 2016.
Dr. El-Erian has served on several boards and committees, including the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, the International Center for Research on Women, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the IMF's Committee of Eminent Persons and the New York Fed' Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. He is currently a board member of the NBER, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New America, and Cambridge in America. Since 2007, he has been chair of Microsoft's Investment Advisory Board. He holds a master's degree and doctorate in economics from Oxford University and received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University. He is an Honorary Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge University.


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Talking Policy
Many people join the Greens because they hear about our policies and they chime with their values. But how much do you know about Greens policies? The Talking Policy series provides training in Greens policies, how we develop them, and how to speak about them, as well as in-depth policy forums, where members have the chance to discuss particular topical policy issues with MPs and other guest speakers.
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Canadian National Railway police Monday night shot and killed a man authorities believe had jumped parole in Michigan.
The shooting occurred near the CN tracks in south suburban Homewood, said CN spokesman Patrick Waldron. Michigan authorities believe the man killed -- identified as Robert Craig Sherrill, 48 -- was the same man who jumped parole on March 15, but they are waiting for a fingerprint match for confirmation.
Shortly after 9 p.m. Monday, two CN officers responded to a call of a suspicious person hiding in bushes on Elm Road at Harwood Avenue -- along the east side of the CN tracks near the commuter rail station -- said Waldron.


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Reef alliances: goatfish hunt in packs, while groupers team up with moray eels
In the Red Sea, a tiny fish has been cornered by a group of hunters working as a team. One of them chased it into a coral crevice, while the others circled around to block off any exists. With no escape, the predators – a group of yellow saddle goatfish – close in on their prey.
The goatfish are one of the few examples of fish that hunt in groups, and their strategy has just been described by Carine Strubin, Marc Steinegger and Redouan Bshary from the University of Neuchatel. Bshary has spent over a decade in the Red Sea, studying the local fish. "I spent a long time working on cleaner wrasses," he says. "During that time, one happens to see a lot of things."
The cooperative hunts of the goatfish were one of these incidental observations. After repeatedly snorkelling after the fish, Strubin gradually learned that they have distinctive spots on their bodies and blue lines around their eyes. Eventually, she could tell 17 different individuals from one another, and she learned that they form surprisingly stable social networks. Each fish would regularly keep in touch with the same companions, usually ones of similar size. They could belong to several different groups, but those groups would keep the same members over time.
The goatfish normally forage alone, using their whisker-like barbels to feel around for prey buried in sand. They only team up when they hunt among corals. The moment one fish shoots off towards a target, the others join in the hunt. Once the chaser drives its prey into coral crevices, the others act as blockers, swimming around to cut it off. Steinegger has started to test captive goatfish and he has duplicated the same coordinated hunts in the controlled conditions of a lab.
Many species of fish will attack the same prey, but very few truly work together during a hunt by coordinating their attacks. Until now, the most sophisticated example was an African elephantfish that flushes out its prey in tight formations, and communicates with one another using electric pulses. But the goatfish are more sophisticated still. They're the only known species of fish where different individuals assume specific roles, not unlike hunting wolves, lions or chimps.
This is the second time that Bshary has observed Red Sea fish hunting in teams. In 2006, he described an equally remarkable alliance between two formidable predators: the giant moray eel and the roving coral grouper. Again, this discovery was the result of his work with the cleaner wrasse. "I followed groupers to see how they interact with several cleaners in a row, and I observed them signalling towards the morays," he says.
Bshary saw that the groupers would visit the morays in their resting places and vigorously shake their heads. The signal is a call to arms, rousing the lazing morays to leave their crevices and swim off with the groupers. The groupers trigger the alliance if they're hungry or frustrated. Bshary found that they were less likely to recruit morays if they'd just been fed, but more likely if they had just chased a prey fish into an inaccessible crevice.
The groupers lead the eels to a place where prey are hidden, and signal the right spot with more head-shaking; the morays investigate. The two species have complementary hunting skills. The groupers are open-water specialists, but the morays can probe in cracks and crevices. When both species hunt together, nowhere is safe. When the moray dives in, the fish has two options: stay and be eaten by the eel, or flee and be picked off by the grouper. Only one of the two predators will grab any individual prey, but both have a greater chance of eating if they work together. Certainly, the groupers are five times more successful at catching prey if their partners are around.
It's not clear what either example says about how intelligent the fish are. "That's the big question," says Bshary. "One could turn it round and ask what the results tell us about the mental abilities of other collaboratively hunting species." He notes that people have assumed that hunting in packs demands a higher intelligence, without actually working out why.
For example, the goatfishes' tactics could emerge from just one simple rule: stay around the prey but keep as much distance from the other group members as possible. Strubin also points out that the chaser is the one that starts the pursuit, so it's more likely to catch the prey in a straight chase. The blockers may be more likely to catch the fish if they circle around – a selfish strategy that looks a lot like cooperation.
The alliance between the groupers and morays is even less intellectually demanding. Both are simply acting in the way they normally would and by virtue of that, they end up playing different roles. Again, by behaving entirely selfishly, they both get more food. And again, a simple rule works: hunt next to the other species if they're around and you're hungry. The grouper's signals might hint at something more complex, but Bshary points out that groupers hunt in the day and morays at night. The grouper would need to do something to rouse the eel's attention.
With two examples in five years, it's likely that there are more examples of reef team-ups left to discover, and that Bshary is the man to discover them. "Fish seem to be much cooler than people thought," he says. "It's a pleasure to describe collaborative hunting within and between fish species, because that is natural history with a strong element of surprise."
Reference: Strübin, C., Steinegger, M., & Bshary, R. (2011). On Group Living and Collaborative Hunting in the Yellow Saddle Goatfish (Parupeneus cyclostomus)1 Ethology, 117 (11), 961-969 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01966.x
Bshary, R., Hohner, A., Ait-el-Djoudi, K., & Fricke, H. (2006). Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea PLoS Biology, 4 (12) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040431
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Similar happens between sea snakes and fish- can't remember if it's groupers or jacks. It can involve many sea snakes and fish at once, with the snakes following the fish around. Quite amazing to see, the 'cooperation' is very clear on order of many members of both species at once.
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It is jacks that the sea snakes follow. Cooperative hunting is pretty well known in jacks in general. I recall seeing a BBC program on the Great Barrier Reef that showed a group of jacks chasing reef fish and the fish hid in the coral. The jacks hovered over the coral and one jack went below the coral and inserted its snout into the coral crevices. This frightened the fish hiding within and the jacks above caught their prey.
That clip illustrated to me that cooperative hunting may be more widespread in fishes than we realised and that they are certainly more intelligent than we gave them credit for. I'm surprised Bshary is downplaying the complexity of the behaviour of both goatfishes and moray/groupers seeing as it was his research on cleaner wrasses show that fish can be animals with complex behaviours and intelligence to match the "higher" vertebrates such as mammals. The cleaner wrasse is an extraordinarily fascinating animal that is capable of Machiavellian behaviour and I completely recommend people to read Bshary's research. It is eye opening stuff.
Here in Hawaii the Peacock Groupers and White Mouth Morays exhibit similar behavior. We don't have any other common shallow water groupers and the Peacock Grouper was deliberately introduced from Tahiti about 50 years ago. The eels don't seem to engage in cooperative hunting with other fish. So it appears the eels learned the trick (were taught by the Groupers?) in a short period of time.
An extra detail: as the eel enters the indicated coral head the grouper moves to the far side of the coral head because the prey will exit as far away as possible from the eel's entry point.
At night off Cocos island in Costa Rica you can watch packs of white tip reef sharks hunting in coordination with jacks. It works much the same way as the grouper. Fish that hide in the rocks are rooted out by the sharks that wriggle into the reef. When the prey fish break and run the jacks get them. It's one of the most amazing night dives you can make. Dozens of reef sharks swarming the reef with big black jacks following the pack. The dive is off a rock called Manuelita.


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The Seward City Council unanimously approved a resolution at Monday night's May 12th meeting authorizing the assignment of the city lease for two city lots at Seward Marine Industrial Center, currently leased to Seward Ship's Drydock, Inc. through June 2040, to the large and multifaceted shipbuilder Vigor Alaska-Seward LLC. That, provided that Seward is indemnified of environmental liability for pollution discovered on the site over the next four years, after which the liability would be considered Vigor's. The agreement is contingent on the new company showing proof of environmental liability insurance for the property; Lots 1-A and 3, Block 7, Fourth of July Creek Subdivision. To sweeten the pot, and because certain polluted spots have been found to already exist, and still more may yet be uncovered if further investigation is required by Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the City, Seward Ships, and Vigor have all agreed to split the cost of the insurance for the next four years.
The resolution will take effect 30 days. Meanwhile, the three entities negotiating the lease arrangement prior to eventual sale of the property, will bring a new management and operating agreement to the council for approval mirroring the existing one.
Adam Beck, the vice president of Vigor Shipyards and president of the Alaska-based operation, which includes the Ketchikan shipyard, assured the council his company is strategically growing, and that Seward was included in its plans to be ready to address emerging markets, including the needs of the Bering Sea Fishing fleet, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in Alaska and waters of the outer-continental shelf.
Beck assured the council the company is committed to being commercial and environmental stewards of all of the shipyards it operates, and the pristine coastlines in which each facility is based, and that it places a high value on environmental protections. Vigor's three basic principles include keeping all facilities clean and well organized; recycling and reusing scrap materials and removing unused or underutilized equipment, paving former dirt and gravel areas to reduce contaminants, and training workers in proper yard-cleaning techniques; everything from sweeping floors to proper waste disposal practices. Vigor also employs a variety of procedures to protect the air and water including pollution control technology, and integrating operational procedures, he said. Its environmental/operational teams provide specific training for all personnel to assure that each worker is prepared to meet the required standards for environmental protection.
In the two years since Vigor acquired the Alaska Shipping dry-dock in Ketchikan, the workforce increased by more than 17 percent, and 97 percent of the workers are Ketchikan residents, Beck said. The gross annual revenue of the shipyard increased by 26 percent in 2012, and 22 percent in 2013; annual wages and benefits for its employees increased by 30 percent and the average shipyard wage is now 60 percent higher than the average product sector wage in the Ketchikan community.
In other matters, the council also unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance revising the city code to provide for the interconnection of small renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, biomass or water power to the city electrical grid. This does not include fossil fuel generation. These alternative energy sources must produce less than 25 KW, and may not be more than 1.5 % of the demand of each circuit. The city also reserves the right to refuse interconnection with alternative power sources, or to limit their number if it deems it harmful or hazardous to its system, employees or other customers. The formerly-proposed code dealing with the topic was lengthy, repetitive, and confusing, and the revisions have been long-awaited.
Council postponed a vote on a resolution aimed at reducing the City Parks and Recreation's Teen and Youth Center Day Camp fees to pre-2011 levels in order to encourage greater participation. In 2012 fees were increased, but a tiered system of discounts also created for those who could not afford the higher fees, but attendance at the camps declined by more than half that summer, and last, and only one family received the reduced fee, said Parks and Rec Director Karin Sturdy.
Sturdy proposed regular early-bird day camp rates of $50 per week, (half the cost of the current year and last two years) with an added $10 for late payment, and $90 per week (earlybird fee) for the more-selective and costly Adventure Camps Although school lets out in only three weeks, Christy Terry and Rissie Casagranda, the two council members who are both mothers with several young children, opposed voting on the reduced fees until the busy city department could provide more information about the economics of city-subsidized programs for youth, and about what other communities' programs charge. Both expressed reservations about whether the proposal would work, and with the city-subsidized program competing with private daycares and other summer programs, such as the Seward Boys & Girls Club.
Meanwhile parents still trying to decide where to send their children may have a hard time budgeting ahead for summer, and may miss out on the early-bird rates that are due three weeks prior to each camp week.
In other action council:
-approved a $2,000 donation to Resurrection Bay Historical Society to host the Museums Alaska/Alaska Historical Society Joint Annual Conference in Seward Oct 1-4.
-approved the first reading of an ordinance dealing with requested code changes to allow mobile vendors to operate on seven city parcels and within public rights of way. These vendors are allowed to get permits for a location off Washington Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues; two Waterfront Park sites along Ballaine Boulevard above Jefferson Street; two sites in the South Harbor Uplands, near the boat harbor; two sites at SMIC, one off Morris Avenue, the other off Nash Road near Jellison. "Roving Vendors" are not allowed on Fourth and Fifth Avenues between Railway and Jefferson, nor on Fourth Avenue (i.e. Small Boat Harbor) between Van Buren and Port Avenue. The license fee is still under discussion, but it appears that council would like to see it total around $250 for the summer in order to cover city costs, and assure a higher-quality product. Many conditions will be tweaked as council sees how the system works out.
-awarded proclamations to retired longtime AVTEC Director Fred Esposito and to BP Teacher of Excellence Terri McKnight, and also proclaimed Harbor Opening Weekend, and Blessing of the Fleet May 17th.


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Sanofi named Connect & Coach the winner of its 2013 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge. Connect & Coach entered its hybrid clinical and consumer application for use in retail supermarket or pharmacy settings by registered dietitians and certified diabetes educators to help educate the diabetes community. The firm will take home a grand prize of $100,000 to help develop its idea. Finalists included AllazoEngine, meant to anticipate which patients will be non-adherent and what interventions might keep them on medication; GoCap, a replacement pen cap for prefilled insulin pens that reads dose amounts and times and communicates that info wirelessly, via Bluetooth; MediSapien, which translates raw health data into useful healthcare analytics; and Nuduro, which provides home and on-the-go meal recommendations matched to patient taste and lifestyle as well as nutritional needs.
Doximity is collaborating with US News & World Report on a free online directory of more than 700,000 practicing US physicians. The deal adds to the publisher's stable of healthcare directories, which include Best Hospitals, Best Medical Schools and Best Health Insurance Plans guides, and gives Doximity, which counts 170,000 physicians as members, a means of enticing doctors to sign up and fill out profiles.
The New York Biotechnology Association has rebranded as NewYorkBIO. The new identity reflects the trade group's maturation from a small, biotech-specific association to one representing over 250 member orgs ranging from therapeutics to devices and diagnostics to genetically modified crop developers. "The evolution of the Association's identity is representative of our expanded mission and responsibility to the New York life sciences community," said chairman Robert Easton. "Over the past two decades, our membership's demographics and needs have changed and matured. Our new identity as NewYorkBIO not only responds directly to this maturation but also more clearly and fully aligns us with BIO, the national Biotechnology Industry Organization."


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My Surface Pro 4 tablet run into app problem after installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. The Calendar, Weather, Outlook Mail live tiles are not updating and appear only blank content with a generic blue color. I pin a websites to the start menu and it is also not working and that happen with those like MSN News, Facebook and Twitter. I use the built-in Windows Store Apps troubleshooter to identify that and it reports"Windows Store cache may be damaged" and I could not find a way to resolve the problem. Continue reading
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Fix plugged in not charging battery after Windows 10 upgraded
After I upgraded my Surface Pro 3 to Windows 10 build 1607 from Windows 8.1, the charger was not working anymore and the screen displayed "plugged in, not charging" error. I replaced my power supply multiple times and that didn't take any effect. So it was no way to full charge the tablet and I could not figure out how to fix the issue. Continue reading
How to enable Pause/Resume Windows Update Download in Windows 10 Creators Update
In Windows 10, you are able to make the updates installation outside of the active hours, but don't have the choice to control when system download the updates. That keep all up to data but you might face the problem when in a poor or limited Internet connection. Now it is possible to pause the Windows Update download. According to a leaked build of Windows 10 14997, Creators Update allow users to defer updates by about months. Here is the how-to tutorial for that. Continue reading
Fix Outlook 2016 hang/stuck on Loading Profile screen and not opening
I have created and setup my IMAP email account in Outlook 2013 version on Windows 10 Pro and it worked well. I upgrade it to Office 2016 successfully and then open a PDF file and get IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Stop Error screen, and that cause the system restart on my Surface Pro 4 tablet. When I try to launch Microsoft Outlook 2016 again, the desktop client is stuck at the Loading Profile stage in blue splash screen and doesn't open itself. If I configure mail in Control Panel, it shows Windows Shell Common DLL is not responding error message. How can I resolve the problem? Continue reading
Fix Surface Book screen detach not working/recognized
As the ultimate laptop, Surface Book tablet has a removable screen which allows users to safely detach from the keyboard and configure it as a portable clipboard or a creative canvas, and optionally reattach it to the base backwards. The first time I got my Surface book and disconnect the screen to switch it to tablet mode for hours. When battery is totally drained, I pit it in its reverse position to keep the battery life. However, it won't unlock because the system won't recognize that the display is attached. Running the Windows 10 doesn't take any effects. How can I resolve the problem? Continue reading
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If you have a normal old TV in your house, Google's Chromecast device offers a simple way to stream media from your Windows 10 PC and turn it into an internet connected smart TV. With the latest update in Windows 10, Microsoft finally supports Chromecast and users are able to cast YouTube videos, Facebook photo albums or Pandora playlists from Microsoft Edge or other browser on your tablet, laptop, or desktop to any HD television with a Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV Stick or Roku. But there is a catch because your new favourite Netflix show is not supported. Continue reading
Fix Game DVR record not working in Windows 10 Xbox app
A built-in Xbox app is equipped in Windows 10 and its Game DVR is a considerate feature for recording gameplay video and others without addition software. However, when I tried this function with any game that uses Steam, it worked for about 11 seconds and then poped up error "There is nothing to record. Play some more and try again" message. How can I resolve the problem? Continue reading
How to Migrate/convert VirtualBox VM Machine to Hyper-V in Windows 10
The Windows 10 Pro edition has better performance than Home edition, and supports Hyper-V, Nested VMs and Bash Unix shell. If you have created and setup an Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine and would like to migrate existing one to Hyper-V, the problem is that Open Virtual Format is not supported by Hyper-V natively. To resolve it, you could convert them by the method and it work fine on my Surface Pro 4 tablet. Continue reading
Fix Windows 10 not saving WiFi password after reboot
I had setup the WiFi network to connect automatically in Windows 8.1 at home. After my Surface Pro 3 is upgraded to Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and I restart the tablet, I need to enter the password every time. It seems that the system doesn't save and remember wifi network key while all others function properly. Continue reading
Fix Pdf Office documents Preview Pane not working in Windows 10
When I clicked on any pdf, or Office doc or docx in File Explorer, the preview pane preview the file well without needing to open it in Windows 8. After my Surface Pro 3 installed Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Preview Pane is not working at all and show "this file can't be previewed." How can I resolve the problem? Continue reading


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Lockerbie's David Murdoch has a chance of Olympic glory today.
The 35-year-old curler fired his four-man team into the Sochi final with his second last-shot victory in as many days, beating world champs Sweden 6-5 on Wednesday.
Murdoch and his colleagues will be on a high after watching the British women clinch a bronze yesterday with a narrow but comfortable win over Switzerland by the same margin.
The male skip, whose mum Marion works at Lockerbie Ice Rink, wants nothing but victory against Canada – and he believes the momentum is with them. He said: "I want the gold. You get this opportunity once in a lifetime and it's up to us to seize the day and make some incredible history.
"I hope it's our time. The curling gods have been looking down on me this week and it makes a change. We have to go out there with confidence and no fear, go for it and believe it. If we play well, we've got every chance."
The final result, be it gold or silver, will be Britain's fourth medal of the games – one better than in Germany in 1936.
Murdoch has suffered the pain of Olympic defeat twice.
He added: "Having the experience of the near-misses in Turin and Vancouver has helped me keep my head and settle my play this week.
"This team believes in itself. I can't believe the confidence we have and now we're in the Olympic final."
Opponents Canada have won the last two Olympic golds with Great Britain's men not having clinched the top gong since 1924.
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The No. 20/24 University of Hawai`i softball team (43-11, 20-4 Big West) is heading to the Seattle Regional in the 2013 NCAA Softball Tournament. The regional No. 2 seed Rainbow Wahine will open the tourney against No. 3-seeded Minnesota (35-16) of the Big Ten conference on Friday at 3:30 p.m. (PT). Washington will host the No. 4 seed in the region, Portland State at 6 p.m.
This is the 11th time that head coach Bob Coolen has led the Rainbow Wahine to the NCAA tournament-fifth time in the last seven seasons. He is the only coach in Hawai`i softball history to lead teams into post-season play. Hawai`i was one of thirty-one conferences that awarded automatic qualification after winning the Big West Conference title. The remaining 33 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the bracket. The top-16 teams were seeded nationally and will play at campus sites this weekend. Team pairings were determined by geographical proximity, with the exception that teams from the same conference were not paired during regional competition.
Hawai`i has face two of their regional opponents earlier this season-Portland State and host Washington. The 'Bows defeated Portland State twice, 7-0 and 8-3 in the Pepsi Malihini Kipa Aloha Tournament and split with Washington-who was ranked No. 16 at the time-with UH winning 5-2 and falling 1-3 in the Oceanic Time Warner Cable Paradise Classic title game. Hawai`i hasn't played Minnesota since 1990 and the two schools are 1-1 in their series history.
The 'Bows, who were the pre-season pick to win the conference, won the Big West conference title with a 20-4 record. It's the second BWC title for Hawai`i. The 'Bows were co-champions in 1994 with UNLV. This was the first season back in the Big West after spending the last 16 seasons as a member of the Western Athletic Conference. It marked the first time in program history that UH has won conference titles in back-to-back seasons.
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Recently, I eluded to my plan to write more and instruct more about depression and overcoming it. As I have written in my book, A Glimpse of Heaven, depression is a heinous monster. However, just because it is a monster, does not mean that it cannot be overcome.
We have, in our arsenal, many weapons that we can use against depression. We can identify those weapons and we can learn to use those weapons.
In my experience, just waiting for depression to go away is the most inadequate approach possible. Being proactive and being willing to work hard is the best solution!
I can hear some of you say, "But I don't feel like doing anything, I don't even want to drag myself out of bed." I know how you feel and I was there once myself but I can promise you that taking the "I'm sick attitude and therefore I can't do anything" is just going to result in your being miserable and "sick" much much longer….much much longer.
One of the difficulties that depressed individuals often encounter is that they have a misguided notion that they should always be happy.
I have found that no one – not even our most giddy and exuberant friends, are happy all of the time. It's a great idea to get rid of that misconception right now!
However, once we get rid of that misconception, we need to understand just what happiness is, what it is all about, and how we find it.
Over this next week, I am going to be sharing excerpts from an article in the Ensign magazine written by Jeffrey R. Holland entitled The Gospel Path to Happiness. I hope you will stay tuned throughout the entire week. Jeffrey R. Holland is one of my favorite instructors of the gospel of Jesus Christ. He is personally acquainted with how difficult it can be to go through depression. His article is wonderful and encompasses everything I think you need to know about Happiness. So, for this week, we will be focusing on Happiness and how we obtain it.
Consider today's excerpt, only an introduction to Happiness. Remember, there will be more helpful information throughout the week. As you read today's excerpt, keep a prayer in your heart. Be open to your heart and listen as it tries to speak to you. Most of all, be sure to keep an open attitude. If you are battling depression and are looking for answers, I can promise you that you will need to make some changes. (I did too) However, it is my intent to help you understand some of the underlying issues that may be plaguing you and then to supply you with the tools that I believe will be most helpful!
Oh, and before I forget, be sure to seek the Lord in prayer – both as you read today's excerpt and as you seek to resolve your depression. Be specific. Don't just ask for general help. Instead, fine tune your request. For example, ask that today you will find one piece of information that will help you on your path to full recovery or that you will have an open heart and that you will know when you have found information that will be a true source of help for you, etc. Let your heart guide your prayer. You might be surprised what it has to say!
Being specific with prayer is one of best kept secrets to meaningful prayers that I know of! I hope you will cultivate that strength (being specific when you pray) and that you will find meaningful instruction with today's piece of instruction from Jeffrey R. Holland!
The Gospel Path to Happiness
So how do we "pursue" happiness, especially when we are young and inexperienced, maybe a little fearful, and life lies ahead of us as a challenging mountain to climb? Well, we know one thing for sure: happiness is not easy to find running straight for it. It is usually too elusive, too ephemeral, too subtle. If you haven't learned it already, you will learn in the years ahead that most times happiness comes to us when we least expect it, when we are busy doing something else. Happiness is almost always a by-product of some other endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau, one of my favorite writers from my university days, said, "Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."3 This is one of those great gospel ironies that often don't seem obvious, like "the last shall be first" (Matthew 19:30; D&C 29:30) and "lose your life to find it" (see Matthew 16:25). The gospel is filled with such ironies and indirections, and I think the pursuit of happiness is one of them. So how do we optimize our chance for happiness without pursuing it so directly that we miss it? Let me go to a most remarkable book for some answers.
I do not think God in His glory or the angels of heaven or the prophets on earth intend to make us happy all the time, every day in every way, given the testing and trials this earthly realm is intended to provide. As President James E. Faust (1920–2007), Second Counselor in the First Presidency, once phrased it: "Happiness is not given to us in a package that we can just open up and consume. Nobody is ever happy 24 hours a day, seven days a week."4
But my reassurance to you is that in God's plan we can do much to find the happiness we desire. We can take certain steps, we can form certain habits, we can do certain things that God and history tell us lead to happiness with the confidence that if we live in such a manner, that butterfly is much more likely to land upon our shoulder.
In short, your best chance for being happy is to do the things that happy people do, live the way happy people live, and walk the path that happy people walk. As you do so, your chances to find joy in unexpected moments, to find peace in unexpected places, and to find the help of angels when you didn't even know they knew you existed improve exponentially.
Today's excerpt is shared from the following website: https://www.lds.org/ensign/2017/09/the-gospel-path-to-happiness?lang=eng
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Less than 24 hours ago, Kanye West debuted his sophomore Dw collection, named after his late mother Donda West, during Paris Fashion Week. Much like his first collection, the rapper-turned-designer's collection featured gladiator boots and futuristic threads dominated by leather, velvet, fur, and astrakhan in muted tones of white, creme, black and a splash of pale pink.
British model Jourdan Dunn strutted her stuff down the runway in West's now infamous $6,000 Guiseppe Zanotti sandals, and caused some negative buzz in the hours leading up to runway show when she Tweeted: "The shoes are crazy high! So my legs look crazy right now! Don't get me wrong the shoes are sexy as fuck but you can't walk in them!"
Despite their fierce albeit uncomfortable footwear, the models at West's show didn't miss a beat, sashaying down the catwalk in front of a star-studded crowd that included Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Rosario Dawson, Kim Kardashian, Common, Diddy, Cassie, Waka Flocka Flame, Teyana Taylor, and top fashion magazine editors like Joe Zee, Tim Blanks, and André Leon Talley.


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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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I see where A.O. Scott of The New York Times has listed Murray Lerner's documentary of Bob Dylan's performances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 & '65, The Other Side of the Mirror, as one of his critic's picks for the week, and given it a brief review here. I've had the DVD sitting atop my TV set since summer, when I bought it the instant it became available at the ever entrepreneurial bobdylan.com website. I've been planning to see I'm Not There, but the only location in
The funny thing is, he's as changeable here as I suspect he is with six different folks portraying him in the Todd Haynes film. That may be overstating it, but only a little. What it's really like is that feeling you have when you see some friends maybe once a year and their kids are teenagers – one year they're kids, the next long and gawky and infinitely awkward & the year after that they seem to be complete adults who tower over their parents. Dylan in The Other Side of the Mirror is only a little older, really, going from the age of 22 in 1963 to 24 in 1965. In the process, he's not only transformed, but the whole of American pop and folk have as well, dragged along in the wake of his effortless density as a songwriter.
In 1963, Dylan is nervous, humble, earnest, seemingly hyperconscious of the experience & expertise, not to mention talent, surrounding him as he sings "North Country Blues" while Judy Collins, Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley listen intently, merely the most famous of the large crowd attending an afternoon workshop on which they too were probably on the bill. Dylan at this point has already written "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," "Girl from the
By 1964, Dylan is complete a star & conscious of it. The opening scene for that year is of Dylan at the topical song workshop singing – for the first time before a large audience – "Mr. Tambourine Man," newly penned. You can see Pete Seeger sitting silently, looking down, frowning, trying somehow to fathom what is "topical" about the "jingle-jangle morning" in which "I'll come following you." According to Lerner in his interview,
Lerner is incredibly fortunate in that Dylan sang two songs at more than one festival, first "With God on Our Side" in 1963 and 64 – twice in 1963, both times with Joan Baez, the first at the workshop – a version that is widely known and deservedly famous for its appearance on one of the Newport anthology albums that appeared in the 1960s – then in her performance on one of the evening shows. The second is "Tambourine Man," which Dylan sings only at the workshop in 1964, but reprises in the 1965 concert after he was persuaded to return to the stage and do a couple of acoustic numbers (the other is "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," Dylan's farewell to Newport) after the raucous crowd reaction to the intense & brilliant – but decidedly paradigm shattering – performance of "Maggie's Farm" and "Like a Rolling Stone" (another song completely unfamiliar to the crowd, tho it had just been released as a single) with electric versions accompanied by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Considering its content, it may seem curious that the key element differentiating the performances of "With God on Our Side" is Dylan's relationship to Baez. At the workshop in 1963, they're giggly young lovers, she's the superstar and he's very much her project – as he was Pete Seeger's, the two determined to let the world know how good Dylan is and make him famous (be careful what you wish for). At the 1963 evening concert, tho, Dylan & Baez are all business and it's very straightforward – and it's not as good a performance, frankly, because of this. In 1964, Dylan & Baez have evolved into good friends – you can see his affection in his grin as he looks at her while they sing, really an extraordinary moment given Dylan's "head down, focus on the song" performance mode that he's made the hallmark now of a long career.
With "Tambourine Man" in 1964, it's very much the serious get-through-the-song Dylan onstage at the workshop. (He was, in fact, still carrying the lyrics around in his pocket, as I learned when he sat next to me at a party during that festival and I asked what he was writing – he pulled a thermal photocopy of "Tambourine Man" out of his coat pocket to show me.) In 1965, after very distinct choruses of booing to his electric set, he was coaxed back onstage by Peter Yarrow and had to ask the audience for somebody to throw him an E harmonica – there's a clatter as dozens hit the stage – and Dylan then gives what I can only describe as the most intimate performance of that song I've ever heard.
The politics of the
By 1965, nobody makes any attempt to thwart the gods of audience adulation. Dylan's workshop appearance has a vast audience and his evening concert closes the festival (as it had in 1963). The '65 concert is legendary as the moment that folk let rock & roll through the door. In addition to the evening concert, two songs electric, then after he's talked back onstage, two acoustic, the film also shows Dylan's afternoon sound check with the Butterfield Blues Band (sans Paul Butterfield, who is visible in a single shot, watching from a distance). Dylan of course used Mike Bloomfield, the best rock guitarist ever not named Hendrix, on the recordings of Highway 61 Revisited, as well as Al Kooper who replaces
Given its controversy at the time, it's ironic that this live version of "Maggie's Farm" is the best arrangement & recording that song has ever had. For one thing, the Butterfield Band had a cohesiveness as a unit that The Band (nee The Hawks) never valued. Whereas Dylan's own arrangements during the entire period up to the enforced hiatus due to the motorcycle accident the following July are effective, if sometimes ethereal, the hard-driving blues sound of the Butterfield Band has often struck me as an opportunity not taken by Dylan, and "Maggie's Farm" is my evidence for that. It is the
The final element that holds all of this together, curiously, is Peter Yarrow, he of Paul & Mary, who serves as the emcee for all but one of the events Lerner has captured of Dylan. It is Yarrow who says, of the 22-year-old Dylan in 1963, that he has "his pulse on his generation." It is Yarrow who has to cope with tens of thousands unhappy customers as Dylan completes his 1964 evening concert so that Odetta & Dave Van Ronk don't get left out. It is Yarrow who beseeches Dylan to come back and do a couple of acoustic numbers in 1965, telling the audience to be patient, "Bobby has to find an acoustic guitar." It is Yarrow who scolds Dylan & the Butterfield Band that they have to have their settings "down cold" because they won't have a chance to fix it during the concert. He's a funny presence, very much the figure of Before as Dylan passes through folk music – more so in this documentary than Pete Seeger, who's only visible for the finale of "Blowin' in the Wind" in 1963 and the topical song workshop in '64. Yarrow's binding presence is, like Dylan's repetition of "With God on Our Side" & "Mr. Tambourine Man," another instance of Murray Lerner's incredible luck putting together this almost perfect presentation of Dylan's career as a folk musician. This is one of those works where everything turned out just right.


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Sernova Corp. ("Sernova" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:SVA) has arranged a non-brokered private placement in the amount of CDN$2.0M (the "Offering"). The Offering will consist of 10.0M units (the "Units") each sold at price of $0.20 per Unit.
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#VANvDAL: A Tale of Two Whitecaps
This week there is finally a victory to talk about because the Vancouver Whitecaps knocked off MLS frontrunners FC Dallas 3-0 last Saturday night.
In Part 1 (1'-24') Mark & Jorge go back and discuss the win over the Toros and what it means to the Caps' season. In Part...
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This week the guys are joined by the podcast DP Rituro to examine what's going on with the Vancouver Whitecaps. In Part 1 (1'-29) we discuss the Caps' 1-0 loss at Real Salt Lake last weekend and discuss whether or not the big name players are playing up to their potential.
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We start off the show strong discussing whether or not Oreos are better than old fashioned chocolate chip cookies, but it's just our way to avoid talking about the Whitecaps' nightmarish 4-0 loss at DC United last weekend.
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|Pokemon Reborn
|Cloud Comet Inc.
|Release Date(s)
|March 10th,2015
In Reborn City, Pokemon are scarce, the lake has more poison than water , plant life consumes whole wards quickly and without warning, and the population rarely ventures outside of the city. What's more, the villainous team already have the region in their clutches. Enter our protagonist, a new trainer hoping to take on the Region League who finds his/herself caught up in much, much more..
Tropes used in Pokemon Reborn
- Author Avatar / Creator Cameo: Ame, who serves as the administrator for the Reborn region. The actual Amethyst (a.k.a the game's creator) has stated that she will have no major role in the game beyond that.
- Final Boss Preview: Not the final boss, but at one point at the game you team up with Amaria, a late-game gym leader. The enemy levels at this point in the game are in there mid-30's. Her pokemon are in the mid-70's
- Gaia's Lament: The titular city of reborn.
- Gaia's Vengeance: Attacks by plant have been destroyed several wards.
Chapter I: Prologue
It all started when there was a peaceful era in the Reborn Region. Everything was filled with life, untill one day... Pokemons where missing, one by one. The Pokemon were fleeing for the destruction of the environment. A massive city spans across the greater part of the Region, once magnificent, now magnificent. Earthquakes ravage the town center; without warning the forest grows and overtakes an entire community; and the once crystal-clear lake now flows with more posion than water. To make matters worse, a mysterious force seems to be operating behind the scenes... A force who- although nobody seems to know it- may already have the whole of Reborn in their clutches...
All that remains... is Mankind
Or so they say...
My story begins with amethyst, sending me off to my journey to save Reborn. They have recently begun to repopulate the Reborn Region since the Armageddon years ago. Ame wonders who I am. I am a boy named trevo. She says that the train will be pulling in the Peridot station shortly.
Then... My adveture begins...
A girl named Ame tells me to go to the Grand Hall, to find someone that Ame sends me to find.
After Ame leaves, Julia then introduces herself to me, And i introduce myself. Julia is the captain of cheer and pep, and all things bubby and bright. Talk about pep... She asks if i'm going to take on the Reborn League, which i replay yes. She reveals that she is aslo the Electric Gym Leader.
I then try to find the Grand Hall, and meet Victoria, who helps he get signed up in the Reborn System. I follow her inside, only to find Ame at the reception counter! They managed to catch the cluprit of the train blowout crime, and he's being interrogated downstairs. Apparertly, he isn't working alone. There's other criminals. Possibly a criminal syndicate? Anyways, Victoria is also signing up for the Reborn League. However, Ame lets me choose my Pokemon first. Bad idea, Ame. She's just going to use the stronger type against me.
I follow ame upstaires , and she tells me to choose one Pokemon to start with. why can't i choose three? There's ffifteen Pokemon sitting there for a reason... oh well it gets extremely hard to choose, because i like most of them I end up choosing Charmander, because I hope to get a Black Charizard. I name the Charizard Charles, because i named Oshawott Sammy back in Black 2.
By the way, Charizard, is actually my Favorite. Pokemon. Along with Pikachu.
I get done with the whole thing, and head downstaires. Victoria wonderes what i started out with, but she says she's not going to start out with a Pokemon just so she can beat me, but she knows what she's going to start out with. I know what she's going to start out with. Ame and Victoria head upstaires, While i encounter a creep. He says he was looking for Ame, and reveals to me that Ame is a guy. But I know that Ame is a transgendered, so who cares what people think? Chain says it is a great time to begin my journey. Chain then challenges me to a battle. Time to battle Chain, the old leader of Posion-types.
After my battle, Chain shows up and tellls us to head over the League Registration area, and then he leaves. Me and Victoria go over there, only to find that Ame already did the registrations for us. She then hands he 2 things. 1 A Pokedox. What's better than starting off with a Pokedox? 2. A Pokegear. This allows me to listen to the music. 3. Running shoes. I don't know why Ame's giving me these, but it helps. Ame goes downstaires to deal with the terrirost from before, and Victoria gives me five Pokeballs as a personal gift. She wishes me good luck in the League, so with everything in hand, I set off on a brand new adventure!
Chapter XY:The Magma/ Aqua Gang Heist
When I get to the Lapis Ward, I find a young lady that battles me. After i defeat her, she says she ran from the falling man, and ran straight from a bomb. Lucky for her, she wasn't hurt.
I head down to see if there's anything for me to find, but I stumble upon Reborn City's Bicycle Shop. Finally, just when I was walking around all the time! I walk up to the cashier and request to buy a bike.
I find an old lady's house,but she kicks me out as soon as i enter it! I guess i'll go somewhere else. I find two guys chatting.
I head inside this dark alley near the orphanage. It is the territory of the Aqua Gang .
The two guys seemed amazed with my work, and say that the Aqua Gang will thrive with me around. They tell me to meet the boss, but I will after I heal my team.
I heal my team,then i introduce myself to the boss of the Aqua Gang,Arc. Arc is thrilled to have me in the Aqua Gang, and introduces me to the crew.
I find a few level 25 Pokemon in the Aqua Hideout, and catch them. I then head for the old shack, because it is nightfall. I find a house, and it turns out that Arc and the others are there. Arc welcomes me, and DeFacto tells me that Maddie and Randy have been apprioated to guardianship of the headquartersthis evening,meaning it's just the four of us.
Meanwhile, after the meeting, I find a few level 25 Pokemon in the Aqua Hideout, and catch them. I then head for the old shack,because it is night fall. I head over to the guy what had a Zigzagon, but when i battled him, he didn't have a Zigzago. Anyways, i go past him, and try to find the shack.
I find a house, and it turns out that arc and the other are there. Arc welcomes me, and DeFacto tells me that Mannie and Razzy have been appropriated to guardianship if the headquarters this evening,
Situation Briefing: Magma Gang's got there eyes on a certian rare Pokemon owned by one of Lapi's' wealthiest. Knowning them, they'll probably try to frame us when they still, so we'll have to blast in there, and stop that from happening. If it comes down to it, we'll take the Pokemon for ourselfs. The upper class can easily just import a new one from Kanto and or Sinnoth. The aforementional target is identified as Ms.Elena Craudburry, otherwise known as "Spinster and "Hag. To DeFacto, she's known as 'putrid witch who called the city police on me just because I looked at her for more than a milesecond while passing by on the street'.Let's move out,and but an end Magma's schemes! Meet us there, Trevo. We'll be watching.
I drop off a Pokemon in the PC, and head back to the Aqua Hideout. Everyone congratulates me on the succesful heist,and Arc syas mission debriefing.
After a long wait for the next mission from Arc, I come up with a scheme of my own. I'm going to go infilture after the Magma Hideout, and take down every last member of the Magma Gang, and that includes there boss, Maxwell.
Current Pokemon States:
Charles and Hydra learned quite a few moves.
Name: Charles
Moves: Scary Face, Dragon Rage, Flame Burst, SmokeScreen
Name: Persian
Level: 28
Moves: Taunt, Cut, Bite, Fake Out
Name: Gyarados
Moves: Magical Furg, Tackle, Bite, Dragon Rage
Name: Gardevior
Level: 33
Moves: Magical Leaf, Confusion, Calm Mind, Teleport
Name: Henry
Level: 31
Moves: Teleport, Disable, Psybeam, Charge Beam
Name: Porygon
Level: 22
Moves: Conversion 2, Tacle, Conversion, Sharpen
Chapter XXVIII: Pyrous Mountain
I head into Kiki's Room, and find Kiki, Victoria, and Cain waiting for me. Kiki says that they already have already seen Team Meteor pass through,and they've begun climbing the mountain . Cain tells Kiki and Victoria that they're going to use a machine to make Camprupt react with the volcano, and erupt. Victoria says that the two places may be separated by the toxic lake, but if Apophyll is destroyed, Reborn City will bu hurt as well. Kiki says that Apophyll and Reborn are two sides of the same coin, Reborn outside the city, and within,in one whole. If one part is lost, the balance will be broken . The power will shift to their favor. However, Kiki's health is deteriorating gradually, and victoria tells her to take it easy. Victoria tells me and Chain that she's going to stay with Kicki. She tells us to go stop Team Meteor.
I head up to the enterence of Pyrous Montain, but a meteor grunt is blocking the way, and he's not even going to battle Cain! All the grunt is doing is standing in the way. Cain enters the mountain, and I follow. When I get in the mountain, Victoria shows up. she tells me that Kiki told her to leave, beacause there was nothing she could do for her. She tells me to lead the way and I will do that.
Team Meteor cleared the way for me. Either that, or it stayed opened. However, I am greeted with a few battles. I even run into a few Meteor Dames i remember. I beat them, and climb up to the summit.
We head to the summit, and find Cal, Cain, Taka Solaris himself. Victoria finds Cal defeated already, and so it's up to me and Victoria now. She then threatens Taka and Solaris and tells them not to lay a finger.
Solaris sends out Garchomp, while I send out Couttonee, Though i have a plan... I tell Cottonee to use Leech Seed on Garchomp, which hits. Garchomp wipes out Cottonee from a Fire Tornado attack, and I send out Hydra to lower Garchomp's attack power. I then send out a Pineco, Cottonee fainted, he managed to land a Sun Spore. I keep switching from Hydra to Pineco while Garchomp wastes away. Solaris decides to use one of him Full Restores,thanks to the Leech Seed from before! It turns an endless pattern, and Garchomp is slowly wasting away. Eventually, Solaris gets annoyed by this and tries to use another Full Restore when Garchomp which heals Garchomp's pharalysis. Garchomp tries to knock out Pineco, but failes thanks to Sturdy.
Solaris syas there's no point in continuing, even if i win. Cain gets mad, and Kiki sneaks up behind him. Solaries says that it's inconsequential. Kiki tells Cain to stand aside, and Victoria notices her. She tells her that she should be be resting. Kiki tells me to stand back, because she will take care of this. She sends out Medicam. Victoria asks if he's betraying them, and Solaris tells Cal to dispose the Medicham Magmortar disposes the Medicam for him by throwing Medicam into the volcano. Solaris tells his Garchomp (Who's strangley still alive), to use Dragon Rush.
Current Pokemon States:
Name: Charles
Level: 45
Moves: Wing Attack, Dragon Rage , Flame Burst Slash
Name: Persian
Level: 45
Moves: Taunt, Cut, Bite Fake out
Name: Hydra
Level: 46
Moves: Ice Fung, Aqua Tail, Bite, Dragon Dance
Name: Gardevior
Level: 45
Moves: Magical Leaf, Psychic, Calm Mind, Teleport
Name: Arc
Level: 44
Moves: Dark Shadow, Crunch, Slash
Name: Corey
Level: 45
Moves: Rock Smash, Faint Attack, Revenge, Sucker Punch
Name: Henry
Level: 31
Moves: Teleport, Disable, Psybeam, Charge Beam
Name: Porygon
Level: 22
Moves: Conversion 2, Tackle, Conversion, Sharpen


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Chris Colfer Was On a Plane When His Twitter Was Hacked!
Chris Colfer has finally took to his Twitter page to comment on the moment when his account was hacked earlier today and someone tried to make us think he had been let go from Glee!
"Apparently I missed quite the INTERESTING day while aboard my flight. I'm just glad I wasn't 'killed by a fruit truck' again," the 24-year-old actor tweeted.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Chris Colfer
Looks like Chris didn't even know about what happened until hours after the news broke. Glad his reps were able to clear it up for him pretty quickly though!
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DanBIF is the Danish participant node of GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
DanBIF is also a GBIF node for the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility was established by governments in 2001 to encourage free and open access to biodiversity data, via the Internet. Through a global network of countries and organisations, GBIF promotes and facilitates the mobilisation, access, discovery and use of information about the occurrence of organisms over time and across the planet. The members of GBIF are required to establish and run a participant node, with the purpose of making their resources of biodiversity data available for search through the GBIF portal.
DanBIF carries out the work on making accessible the Danish, Faroese and Greenlandic resources of biodiversity data. DanBIF maintains the consensus checklist of all species known to occur in Denmark.
DanBIF has a board, a Node Manager and a network of members from Danish research institutions, organisations etc. DanBIF is hosted by the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.