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An earthquake shook the studios at 106.7 The Fan in Fairfax, Virginia just outside Washington, DC as well as neighborhoods, cities and towns throughout the DC metro. According to various reports, the quake could also be felt up & down the East coast.
Mike Wise, of the Mike Wise Show with Holden Kushner, was in the final half hour of his radio show on The Fan when the quake struck. He debated whether to leave the studio. Wise said he didn't want to leave the listeners, but after he saw Holden and producer Chris run out, he thought that it was best to go.
During the broadcast, you hear Mike say: "Whoa, we're undergoing an earthquake I think right now. Hold on. [Runs out, returns after a moment] Holy Toledo, there was just an earthquake in the studio!"
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Factory Workers
THEIR LIFE AND THEIR WORLD, Allied Publishers Private Limited, New Delhi, 1978, pp 158, Rs 25.
ONE distinctive characteristic of many of the sociological studies in the last few decades is that they tend to treat problems in isolation, as if different phenomena—student unrest, status of womem slums, unemployment and so on—are not inter-connected. Mark Holmstrom's book South Indian Factory Workers also belongs to the genre.
The book is a study of workers in four factories in Banga-lore. This case study of 104 workers has been supplemented with material from files kept by the managements as well as interviews with managers and union officials.
The author essentially tries to answer three questions: who the workers are, how they understand their own situation, and what their idea of a "job" and ofj a "career" is. With regard to the first question, the author seems to have understood little of the Indian economy when he concludes that very few of the workers are from the poorest groups. He is also blind to the fact that the workers are becoming increasingly conscious of their position in the productive process and are struggling against their dehuma-nization, when he tries to paint the picture of a passsive and submissive work force. He asserts that the emergent attitude among them is one that is "idealistic, reforming, moderately equalitarian, . . . putting a high value on hard work, consistency, and sincerity and purity of intention" (p 121). The answer to the second question is that the workers see their work as a citadel of security and relative prosperity, offering regular work and predictable rewards. Here again, all the contradictions in a capitalistic labour market


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Wireless Student Network
Connecting to WiFi at WVC
The Wenatchee Valley College Wireless Student Guest Network provides free wireless Internet access to any member of the college community with a student logon account and a Web enabled device.
Quick Connect
If you're familiar with accessing wifi, go to your network wifi settings and select the WVC_Stu_Guest network. To login, use your WVC username and password. For more information on how to connect, continue reading the instructions below.
Wireless access points have been installed in the following areas:
Wenatchee Campus
- Brown Library, 2nd and 3rd floors
- Van Tassell, Student Lounge and Cafeteria
- Wells Hall, Wings 2, 3 and Campus Theater
- Wenatchi Hall
- Music and Arts Center
- Gym
- Batjer, northeast wing
- Eller Fox
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- Library Building
- Student Lounge
- Friendship Hall
- Omak Nursing
Note: The information resources available in classrooms that utilize college owned and managed equipment are the same as the resources you have in wired classrooms. These resources include your H: drive, and some specialized library data bases. For security reasons, when you use your own laptop, you only have access to the Internet.
- An active WVC network account
- A computer with Windows XP or Windows 2000
- A properly installed and configured 802.11b or g (preferred) wireless network card
- A 128-bit encryption capable Web browser
- A current version of antivirus software on your personal system
- Administrative rights to the computer you are using
Please check the documentation that came with your PDA, cell phone or other device for information on what you need to connect to a wireless network.
Note: The following instructions are for Windows XP only. Older Windows operating systems will work but are not documented here. Also, the instructions assume that you are using a name brand NIC card, and in the installation of XP, you have allowed XP to maintain the configuration of your network card. If you need help with other devices, contact your computer vendor or wireless network card vendor.
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- From the Desktop, right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties."
- Click on the "Hardware" tab.
- Click on the "Device Manager" button. Your wireless NIC should be listed under "Network Adapters."
As mentioned above, your wireless device will detect the "hot spots," and may automatically connect or prompt you to connect. Once you are connected, open your Web browser and follow these steps:
- In the lower right hand corner of your Task Bar, browse for your visible wireless network icon.
- Select the "WVC_Stu_Guest" network name.
- Select "No Encryption" and the lowest level of security (no security).
- Check the box "Allow me to connect to the selected wireless network even though it is not secure."
You should only have to perform these steps the first time you log on.
After you launch your Web browser, you will be taken to the Wireless Guest logon page. Enter your WVC username and password, and browse away!
Consider the following issues when using the wireless network:
- Security: Although you are protected from the Internet by the WVC firewall, your computer is still vulnerable to other WVC wireless users. Use this network at your own risk. Protect yourself by loading current antivirus software on your computer.
- Appropriate Use Policies: Users of the WVC Wireless Student Guest Network are held to the WVC Computer Lab Policy, WVC Acceptable Use Policy, and all state and federal laws regarding acceptable use and copyright. The Code of Student Conduct applies.
- Time Limit: There is a 3-hour time limit on your wireless networking session. After 3 hours, you will return back to the network authentication logon page. In addition, your computer will be logged off the network after 20 minutes of inactivity.
- Printing is not supported.
- Batteries: A wireless card requires power. A laptop's batteries will deplete much faster while using wireless.
- Under no circumstances is it ever acceptable to physically plug your personal equipment into the WVC Network.
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Originally posted by skalla
reply to post by Harte
sometimes, Harte, i feel it would be easier just to post a reading list and then stay clear of some threads.
Originally posted by ABeing
Nothing worth looking into at Puma Punku?
Originally posted by ABeing
Last post in this thread for me. Watch the video I posted earlier.
Originally posted by Harte
...There's nothing at Puma Punku that can't be explained, just like Macchu Picchu. In fact, Macchu Piccu would have been more difficult, IMO.
Originally posted by NarcolepticBuddha
Originally posted by kix
Originally posted by NarcolepticBuddha
I think the more important question to ask is.."If someone found evidence of ancient advanced civilizations, will it be handled properly and made public knowledge, or will it be discarded and suppressed?"
That is excatly what happens the evidence is everywhere, but its has been suppressed , for what agenda or purpose I dont Know, but after visiting and studing countless archeaological sites I am SURE a lot of stuff have been hidden from us.
Oh definitely. It is a serious question to ask. Archaeology isn't always as professional as it's made out to be; nothing ever is. There are still a lot of "treasure hunters" out there who are violating the ethics of the field. Even worse, all it takes is an unethical person to fund that kind of dig. You'd be a fool to think that the public is made aware of every single artifactual and contexual find at a site. It is up to the archaeologist to catalog and interpret the findings. In many cases, we just have to take the archaeologist's interpretive opinion as fact.
In other words, I'm saying there's a lot of room for error, inaccuracy, and deception. Archaeology is neat and I almost got into this field, but it is a somewhat subjective discipline. Most people think archaeology is a science. It's not. It just borrows from some scientific methods and principles, but at the end of the day, it's still just the interpretation of the archaeologist we have to accept.
But for some reason the OP and some other posters seem to think I'm just a kooky conspiracy theorist ...Yeah, just implicitly trust people 100% when they find a cache of ancient treasure and wisdom and expect them to share it all with the public righhhht!
Fact is: corruptible people exist. And they can pervade any academic, scientific field. One might say that there is some "dirty" archaeology being practiced out there.
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Originally posted by Arnie123
Originally posted by GargIndia
The fact is that a civilization can be very advanced technologically but still very under-developed spiritually. It is not easy to understand the nature of God and soul.
Interesting, through all my own observations, I too have concluded this, I thought I was alone in this manner, a civilization thats technologically advance can only get so far unless they advance spiritually, but here is my thing, WHEN said advance spiritually, is it always positive? Or can it be negative, like demonic worshipping? Negatively spiritually, regardless its still spiritual, so could a race not only be technologically advanced but negatively spiritually advanced too? My god what would that spawn? I think reptilians come to mind.
It also brings to mind the scenario of an ALL mechanical sentient race, though very advanced, could machines be very spiritual? Thats an open hole for me, sorry if I went a little off topic, I could'nt but remember old shows on how an ancient race died out but there devices continued to prosper, advancing themselves, like some old atlantean city...
Originally posted by smyleegrl
Originally posted by skalla
reply to post by Harte
sometimes, Harte, i feel it would be easier just to post a reading list and then stay clear of some threads.
Could you post a reading list? I understand if you're being sarcastic, but if you could point me in the direction of some books/articles/whatever I would greatly appreciate it!
I realize that for a lot of you, my questions are rather.....juvenile. Hence why I want to further educate myself before I try making another thread on this topic.
The current history text books are written under the British rule.
The contribution of "independent" governments after the British is insignificant. If you have any doubts, you can compare 1950 history textbooks to modern ones.
The British Government is in possession of many ancient original manuscripts obtained from India. I cannot offer you any proof at this time.
Originally posted by ABeing
reply to post by Harte
Allow me to rephrase my "nothing worth looking into at Puma Punku" according to your post to which I was replying:
Originally posted by Harte
...There's nothing at Puma Punku that can't be explained, just like Macchu Picchu. In fact, Macchu Piccu would have been more difficult, IMO.
As it is archeologically established that Puma Punku predates the Inca empire, which is said to have built Maccu Picchu; what needs to be explained is how Puma Punku then was constructed as it is a site in which symmetry, contrary to Maccu Picchu, and metall, in between the stone blocks, in the form of clamps, presumed to have been used as reinforcement of the foundation of the construction have been discovered.
In many respect's the Indian Culture was altered to an unrecognisable degree by Our (The British presence) but to a much lesser degree than the previous and much more militant control by the Muslims.
India is one of the greatest nation's of the world and has the future in it's hand only held back by the cast system
The Indian Einstein would never make it unless he was born on there elite cast
It is correct that the British library has a vast collection of Antique and often un-translated manuscripts from around the former British empire.
There are also in both the British Museum and the Paris Museum many cuneiform tablets that have also never been decoded from the ancient fertile crescent of Mesopotamia so don't think they don't exist.


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A stout sauropod with a shovel-shaped muzzle mowed Earth's greenery about 110 million years ago like a cow with hundreds of tiny teeth, a paleontologist said Thursday.
The first bones from this dinosaur were picked up in the Sahara Desert in what is now Niger by French paleontologists in the 1950s.
Then in the late 1990s, Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues discovered the bulk of the dino's bones, including its skull.
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Recent analyses, including X-ray scans of the fossil bones, revealed it to be an odd-looking behemoth dubbed Nigersaurus taqueti, capable of growing new needle-shaped teeth over and over when old ones fell out.
"Among dinosaurs," Sereno said, "Nigersaurus sets the Guinness record for tooth replacement."
A study of the dinosaur is detailed in the Nov. 21 online issue of the journal PLoS ONE.
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To do the grassy vacuuming, Nigersaurus sported more than 50 rows of teeth lined up tightly along the front edge of its squared-off jaw.
Nestled behind each cutting tooth, the scientists found nine replacement teeth, ready to step up to bat when its forerunner wore out.
In total, there were more than 500 teeth.
Sereno and his colleagues also found that the dinosaur's spine was more air than bone.
"The vertebrae are so paper-thin that it is difficult to imagine them coping with the stresses of everyday use — but we know they did it, and they did it well," said study co-author Jeffrey Wilson, of the University of Michigan.
With such a "wimpy" backbone, Nigersaurus would've barely been able to lift its head above its back, maneuvering about like a Mesozoic cow mowing down mouthfuls of ferns and horsetails.
"Some of these unusual sauropods thrived to become the pre-eminent ground-level feeders of the Mesozoic," Wilson said.
Measuring 30 feet (nine meters) from nose to tail-tip, Nigersaurus is considered small among its sauropod relatives, a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that includes the classic Diplodocus, for many years the longest dinosaur known.
The dinosaur is named after Niger and Philippe Taquet, a French paleontologist of the period when its bones were found in the Sahara.
Sereno and his colleagues used CT scans to peer inside the new specimen's braincase where small canals formed the brain's balancing organ, giving clues to Nigersaurus' habitual posture.
The CT scans, along with markings on the animal's needle-shaped teeth, suggested an elephant-sized sauropod that kept its featherweight skull close to the ground.
"What we have here is the first good look at a sauropod brain, and it has important things to say about this animal's posture and behavior," said study co-author Lawrence Witmer, of Ohio University, who imaged the brain and equilibrium organ.
Sereno's research was partly funded by the National Geographic Society.
An exhibit on Nigersaurus, including the original fossils and a reconstructed skeleton and skull of the dinosaur, will open Thursday at the National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall in Washington, D.C.
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Sabrina Bryan and Louis Van Amstel earned three 10s (a perfect score) during their Monday night dance routine but were sent home on Oct. 30, 2012 from the All-Star season. Why was the charitable dance pro's partner really kicked off the popular reality television show? Likely due to a voting scandal. She scored three 10s again — just like she was when she was sent home during her original season. What is really going on with Dancing With The Stars voting system? Keep reading…
There are rumors and allegations that voting is rigged since Bristol Palin was able to go so far in the competition with no real talent or personality. "The Cheetah Girls" Sabrina Bryan is the opposite of her but can't stay on the show long enough to win it. Show producers — what gives?
Sabrina Bryan and charitable celeb Louis Van Amstel danced an emotionally charged Rumba on October 29th for Country Music Night on Dancing With The Stars. She hoped to show real emotion about a bad relationship drama she had endured. An ex-boyfriend of hers was, "… very addicted to drugs" and, "… could not help himself". Using the experience as a springboard for the choreography, the Disney princess did what most fans thought was her best dance yet.
Bruno said the shapes she made were beautiful and her dance timing seamless. Breaking into tears she hugged Carrie Ann. The female judge praised her vulnerability and said she had goosebumps throughout the dance. Len lavished the dancers with praise and gave extra kudos to Louis for the choreography.
The Cheetah Girl was the first of the star celebs to earn perfect 10s.
But couples who were declared safe by show host Tom Bergeron on Oct. 30, 2012 were:
Emmitt and Cheryl
Kelly and Val
Shawn and Derek
Peta and Gilles
Kirstie and Maksim
Melissa and Tony
In Jeopardy:
Apolo and Karina
Sabrina and Louis
Voted off?
Sabrina Bryan from The Cheetah Girls.
After hearing the discouraging news that the talented but petite dancer was sent home from the show while Kirstie Alley (who can barely keep up with her partner Maksim at this point) was kept on, the results gave loyal viewers pause.
Since the celebrity judges scores are worth half, that means the more popular and well-known celebs have a better chance of winning the competition even if they can't dance.
Should the show producers consider making a change that makes the judges votes worth more than the phone in calls or internet clicks on favorites? It depends on what they think is more important — the show's integrity as a dance competition or what it has become… nothing more than an extreme spectator sport whose winner is the ballroom equivalent of Prom King or Prom Queen.
If DWTS becomes nothing more than a popularity contest they are likely to lose their core viewing audience. Sabrina was a great dancer who really tried her best.
But don't think she's a charity case like Kelly Osbourne was for her pro this season. Read more about Louis Van Amstel's favorite charities here. She was no where near the "I feel sorry for you" list like the rocker reality star was — mainly because the little girl can dance.
In the end, it was evident she simply lost DWTS the popularity contest because she's not as rich, famous. or pretty as the rest.


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King, on the eve of the March on Washington, was unsatisfied with the speech's conclusion. The Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, a Chester resident who was part of King's speech-writing team, was shuttling him suggested passages... Richmond lawyer Tommy P. Baer was 25 at the time of the speech and a recent Georgetown law school graduate when he found himself standing in front of the reflecting pool, about 200 feet from King.
"I knew it was a historic event and I believed then that attention needed to be drawn to the issues on which King was to speak and what the march was about," he said. Also, the Kennedy administration was lukewarm on civil rights, "and this march certainly drew its attention."
"I saw injustices being perpetrated against black communities, and the time was clearly ripe for change," said Baer, a refugee from the Nazi Holocaust in Germany and the former international president of B'nai B'rith.
"I knew at the time that the speech was one for the ages," Baer said, adding that "the dream" portion "really gave me the goose bumps, because that's what this nation should be striving for...more.


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ALCAB has formed three subject advisory panels in 2013/14: Maths, Modern Foreign and Classical Languages and Geography. The reports of the three panels will be published in July 2014.
The role of the subject panels
The subject panels were responsible for reviewing the content of A levels in the subjects remitted to them and recommend changes where required. They had a particular emphasis on the content required by the leading universities for preparation for university study, whether of the cognate subject or of related subjects, but they cosulted widely in coming to their conclusions.
The Mathematics Panel is chaired by Professor Richard Craster. Professor Craster is Head of the Department of Mathematics and a Professor of Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London.
Mathematics panel members are:
Dr Clare Dunning, University of Kent
Professor Peter Giblin, University of Liverpool
Professor Paul Glaister, University of Reading
Mr Mark Heslop, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
Dr Steve Humble, University of Newcastle
Dr Sue Pope, University of Manchester
Mr Roger Porkess, independent
Professor Alice Rogers, King's College London
Dr Louise Walker, University of Manchester
Dr Helen Wilson, University College London
Modern Foreign and Classical Languages
The Modern Foreign and Classical Languages Panel is chaired by Professor Stephen Parker. Professor Parker is Henry Simon Professor of German at Manchester University.
Members of the Modern Foreign and Classical Languages Panel are:
Dr Sean Allan, University of Warwick
Professor Nicholas Harrison, King's College London
Professor Katrin Kohl, University of Oxford
Dr Shirley Lawes, Institute of Education
Dr Irene Macías, University of Bath
Professor Ian MacKenzie, University of Newcastle
Professor Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge
Professor Chris Pountain, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds
Current Classical Languages panel members are:
Professor Bruce Gibson, University of Liverpool
Dr Genevieve Lively, University of Bristol
Professor Judith Mossman, University of Nottingham
The Geography Panel is chaired by Professor Martin Evans who is a Professor of Geomorphology at University of Manchester and Head of Geography in the School of Environment, Education and Development.
Geography Panel members are:
Dr Pippa Chapman, University of Leeds
Professor Klaus Dodds, University of London
Professor Richard Harris, School of Geographical Sciences
Professor Anthony Long, University of Durham
Dr Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge
Professor Richard Phillips, University of Sheffield
Ms Bridget Oeppen, Hills Road 6th Form College, Cambridge
Dr Alistair Owens, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Ruth Weaver, Plymouth University
Dr Rita Gardner, Royal Geographical Society
Mr Alan Kinder, Geographical Association


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A young man fleeing an ID check by French police has drowned in the Seine.
Such checks are a hot topic in France, where some say their frequent use in poor neighborhoods amounts to police harassment. The government is drafting legislation that would require officers to provide those whose IDs are checked with a receipt, hoping to reduce the number of checks.
Police union representative Eric Guyon said Tuesday that three young men began to run when officers tried to check their IDs Monday night in Melun, 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Paris. Two were caught; the third jumped into the river.
An officer tried to help the 20-something man, but Guyon said the current was too strong. When his body was pulled out, he could not be revived.


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Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on March 11.th 1921 to immigrant Italian parents Vicente Piazzolla and Asunta Manetti, Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla – "El Gran Ástor" (The Great Astor) – spent most of his childhood with his family in New York City, where he was exposed to both jazz and the music of J.S. Bach at an early age. While there, he acquired fluency in four languages – Spanish, English, French, and Italian – and began to play the bandoneón after his father, nostalgic for his homeland, spotted one in a New York pawn shop.
At the age of 13, he met Carlos Gardel – another paramount, legendary figure of Argentine tango – who invited the young prodigy to join him on his current tour. Much to his dismay, Piazzolla's father deemed that he was too young to go along. This early disappointment proved a blessing in disguise, as it was on this tour that Gardel and his entire band perished in a plane crash.
He returned to Argentina in 1937, and the pianist Arthur Rubinstein (then living in Buenos Aires) advised him to study with the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. Delving into scores of Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, and others, he rose early each morning to hear the Teatro Colón orchestra rehearse while continuing a gruelling performing schedule in the tango clubs at night.
Upon introducing his new approach to the tango (nuevo tango), he became a controversial figure among Argentines both musically and politically. The Argentine saying "in Argentina everything may change – except the tango" suggests some of the resistance he found in his native land. However, his music gained acceptance in Europe and North America, and his reworking of the tango was embraced by some liberal segments of Argentine society, who were pushing for political changes in parallel to his musical revolution.
During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina. In 1990 he suffered thrombosis in Paris, and died two years later in Buenos Aires on July 4.th 1992.
The use of the passacaglia technique of a circulating bass line and harmonic sequence, invented and much used in 17.th and 18.th century baroque music but also central to the idea of jazz "changes", predominates in most of Piazzolla's mature compositions. Another clear reference to the baroque is the often complex and virtuosic counterpoint that sometimes follows strict fugal behaviour but more often simply allows each performer in the group to assert his voice.
With the composition of "Adiós Nonino" in 1959, Piazzolla established a standard structural pattern for his compositions. In 1965 an album was released containing collaborations between Piazzolla and Jorge Luis Borges where Borges's poetry was narrated over very avant-garde music by Piazzolla including the use of dodecaphonic rows, free non-melodic improvisation on all instruments, and modal harmonies and scales. In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an operita-tango, "María de Buenos Aires" that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano/narrator bar-room scene straight out of Casablanca.
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In his musical professionalism and open-minded attitude to existing styles he held the mindset of an 18.th century composing performer such as Handel or Mozart, who were anxious to assimilate all national "flavours" of their day into their own compositions, and who always wrote with both first-hand performing experience and a sense of direct social relationship with their audiences. This may have resulted in a backlash amongst conservative tango aficionados in Argentina, but in the rest of the West it was the key to his extremely sympathetic reception among both classical and jazz musicians, both seeing some of the best aspects of their musical practices reflected in his work.
His numerous compositions include orchestral work such as the "Concierto para Bandoneón, Orquesta, Cuerdas y Percusión", "Doble-Concierto para Bandoneón y Guitarra", "Tres Tangos Sinfónicos" and "Concierto de Nácar para Nueve Tanguistas y Orquesta", pieces for the solo classical guitar – the "Cinco Piezas", as well as song-form compositions that still today are well-known by the general public in his country, like "Balada para un loco" (Ballad for a madman) and "Adiós Nonino" dedicated to his father, which he recorded many times with different musicians and ensembles. Biographers estimate that Ástor Piazzolla wrote around 3,000 pieces and recorded around 500.
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Minecraft Now Selling Over 17,000 Copies A Day On Xbox Live
Mojang's Carl Manneh has revealed that Minecraft is selling an astounding 17,000 copies per day on Xbox 360. According to it24, Mojang claims that as a result of steady sales across all platforms that they are on track to more than double its profits from last year. In 2011 the developer reported profits of more than £5.6m, with revenues totalling £52m. Markus Persson's own company Notch Development took £40m of last year's revenues, though it appears that Mojang will receive a higher percentage this time around after the Minecraft creator stepped away from leading development on the indie hit.
"Our profits will more than double. Markus' company will also make more money, though perhaps not as high a percentage as Mojang."
On Xbox 360, Minecraft has already surpassed the 3 million download mark pulling in over $60 million for the Swedish developer from XBLA sales alone. Not sure if Minecraft will ever make it to PS3 but if it does, then prepare for an even bigger sales bump. I'm not sure how long the Minecraft craze will last or how big it will get, but for now it seems to be working out well for all parties involved.


text: Edward Lee, 15, 2553 Florida Blvd., South Daytona, died Wednesday. Born in Taiwan, he moved to South Daytona from there in 1977. He was a student. Survivors: parents, Tien-Huh and Mei Lee; sisters, Diana, Patty Lee, both of South Daytona; maternal grandmother, Mong Kuo, Atlanta. Baldwin-Hughey Funeral Home, New Smyrna Beach.


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"The modernization of the IT environment of the federal government has to be one of our highest priorities," Federal CIO Tony Scott said this summer at the Brocade Federal Forum. "We're going to have to replace large parts of what we have because [existing network architecture] just was never designed for the mission and for the challenges that we face today."
With this in mind, it is surprising that many agencies have yet to modernize their networks and transition to the New IP, an innovative approach to networking that is built on open standards, Ethernet fabrics, and a software-centric foundation. Why the delay? In many cases, network modernization myths are holding agencies back. Brocade Vice President of Federal, Anthony Robbins, and I recently joined Federal News Radio's Executive Editor, Jason Miller, to discuss and debunk the most common network modernization myths preventing agencies from taking action. Here are the top three:
Myth 1: Network Modernization is Costly
Some leaders hesitate to invest in new infrastructure, afraid that network modernization will cost the government too much money. In reality, maintenance spending on obsolete IT infrastructure is the real drain on federal IT resources. A recent survey by the Professional Services Council found that 75 percent of federal IT spending is dedicated to maintaining legacy infrastructure, leaving little budget for system upgrades and advances in innovation. This is making a real impact on agencies - for example, the Department of Labor was recently forced to purchase replacement parts for its 30-year-old IT system on eBay, an unsustainable solution.
Modernization can actually save agencies up to $7 billion over a five-year period. For example, adopting open standards, integral to the New IP, increases competition among vendors and allows agencies to use multivendor networks, which have been proven to generate substantial cost savings by Gartner.
Myth 2: Network Modernization isn't Secure
Another misconception held by numerous IT leaders is that open standards, essential in modernized networks, are insecure. In fact, a recent Market Connections research study found that 61 percent of federal IT professionals believe this myth. This misconception comes from the idea that open standards mean open access, which is inaccurate. In reality, open standards allow agencies access to the best security options to support their needs through the ability to utilize multivendor networks. Additionally, open standards encourage the involvement of various experts in the development of new solutions, resulting in stronger and more quickly available cybersecurity options.
Myth 3: Network Modernization Poses Too Much Risk
Federal IT leaders are understandably concerned about potential risks involved in network modernization. However, what they don't take into account is that the risks of not modernizing and not taking action today are far greater. Failure to modernize is preventing agencies from utilizing innovative third platform technologies such as mobility, big data, cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). It is also exposing agencies to more security vulnerabilities, as legacy networks, which were designed long before today's security threats, require "bolted-on" security solutions as opposed to the "baked-in" approach of modern architecture. These technologies introduce new possibilities within the federal government and can lead to significant cost savings, if supported by a modernized network.
Further, elements of the New IP, including open standards and network subscription service, make it easy to transition. As-a-service models provide the flexibility to upgrade, scale up or down as network needs arise and reduce the risk of a large upfront investment.
Open standards also alleviate any fears about interoperability. They also ensure agencies that their investments work smoothly both with the infrastructure they already have in place and with the technology they will depend on in the future.
Transition to the New IP
A recent study found that barely 10 percent of federal IT leaders believe they can rely on their networks to use modern solutions to move and manage their data. A number that low suggests that agencies have far more to lose by holding onto their legacy IT systems than they do by modernizing.
Network modernization offers agencies the opportunity to unleash innovative solutions to meet missions of today and tomorrow. For further help debunking the myths of network modernization and transitioning to the New IP, please visit http://www.brocade.com/newip.


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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Not surprisingly, Bowser's film can't quite match Peter Biskind's controversial book in terms of interview support - Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg weren't returning phone calls this time - but still, it's surprising how many moviemakers stood up to shoot the shit about the great films made in the 1970s, and what went wrong (they include Schrader, Kidder and Dreyfuss, none of whom came out of Biskind smelling sweet). The first half of the documentary is the strongest, sketching in the powerful socio-political currents which allowed the Movie Brats in, when 'hip young audiences were either at art cinemas or drive-ins,' as the narration has it. Of course the drive-in mentality was to win out. Like the book, the film goes astray to take in as much gossip as possible. Do we really need to quite so much about the Bogdanovich-Shepherd affair? The thesis is veneered with a hypocritical, moralistic tone: these film-makers burnt themselves out on drink and drugs. The reality, of course, was more complicated. The moneymen were quick to reassert their authority, and neither Biskind nor Bowser stops to ponder the links between a liberated lifestyle and creative expression. It's only in the copious DVD extras - in effect, 90 minutes of additional interview footage - that Tewkesbury hints at the natural euphoria of a time when the industry welcomed film-makers' energy, instead of crushing it. This additional material (arranged on auteurist lines) is in many ways more interesting than the documentary, and makes the DVD a useful addendum to the book. And it even allows Schrader and Hopper a much-merited right of reply.
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|Kenneth Bowser
|Kenneth Bowser, Peter Biskind
|Dede Allen
Peter Bart
Tony Bill
Karen Black
Peter Bogdanovich
Ellen Burstyn
Andrew Cohen
Roger Corman
Micky Dolenz
Richard Dreyfuss
Peter Fonda
Carl Gottlieb
Jerome Hellman
Monte Hellman
Dennis Hopper
Willard Huyck
Stanley R Jaffe
Henry Jaglom
Gloria Katz
Margot Kidder
László Kovács
Kris Kristofferson
William H Macy
Mardik Martin
Mike Medavoy
Sylvia Miles
John Milius
Charles Mulvehill
David Newman
Arthur Penn
Michael Phillips
David V Picker
Polly Platt
Albert S Ruddy
Jennifer Salt
Andrew Sarris
Paul Schrader
Cybill Shepherd
Jonathan Tapin
Joan Tewkesbury
Fred Weintraub
Gordon Willis
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Slice Of Life Story Challenge Day 30 - Teacher Workload
This slice is dedicated to all my hard working colleagues in classrooms. It's the end of Term 1 in Victorian schools today, and a break is richly deserved. They continue to work tirelessly despite the fact that the state government has removed $346 million from the education budget. So, here's to teachers!
When children make a demonstrable breakthrough in their learning or understanding after weeks of careful modelling by the teacher, it makes teaching so worthwhile. When they read with confidence or gain power over an aspect of their writing, special moments occur. When a student takes responsibility for an aspect of their learning, the teacher rejoices in this significant event. It is time to celebrate. Feedback to the student is usually immediate and sincere.
A typical day can serve up an early start following a night of work preparation. An unscheduled before school meeting with fellow staff might find the time for class preparation instantly vanishing. You The teacher arrives at the classroom to organise for the day ahead, only to find several parents need to talk about student issues that have come to light. These informal meetings, important or otherwise, take up precious time. Teachers don't have the luxury of deciding what is important. Each person is given time. The bell rings and the children line up and already the teacher is feeling a little unsettled because planning has not been implemented as intended. A child enters the classroom crying and needs immediate re-assurance before the class can be attended to and guided through the morning lessons.
For the next two hours the teacher is moving about the class, assisting, supporting, correcting, observing how children interact and a myriad other things and the entire time the mind of said teacher is in overdrive, thinking ahead to the next minute, the next session. They may be thinking about how much easier it would be if they had a larger classroom and fewer students. All through the session the teacher scans the classroom to ensure that every child's needs are being met,- who needs assistance, support?
It is said that on an average day a teacher may be involved in approximately 3000 social interactions of varying length and intensity. It is hardly surprising that they value the recess break when it comes. The teacher's day is ruled by the ringing of bells. They even have to time their toilet breaks to fit in with these times.
The teacher might suddenly realize that they have school yard duty during the lunch break. Unfortunately, the playground is alive with the usual tensions. An endless stream of students, implore the haunted educator to mediate in their problems. "Someone is following me and keeps staring at me' might represent the popular statement of the day. With all this relationship counselling, the teacher concerned may not have time to enjoy the fact that the sun is actually shining. The teacher considers this particular stint of playground duty reasonable because no child swore at them or ignored a reasonable request for co-operation. This is a plus!
After dismissing the class, the teacher speaks to a number of parents who have concerns about the upcoming excursion, a possible bullying incident, and a student who has lost a book. All these matters will require a follow up tomorrow, so they are noted the diary. A final tidying up of the classroom takes place, before this tired teacher rushes off to the staffroom to attend a welfare meeting at which the most suitable course of action to assist two students with special needs is discussed in detail. The meeting concludes at 5.30 p.m. Where upon, the teacher races back to the classroom, and hurriedly does some organising for the next day. Walking out the door he or she collects some children's work to take home and assess for mid year reporting which needs to be collected as an ongoing task. The teacher drives home thinking, -today was a typical day, really.
To survive as a teacher requires the skills of a juggler because one is constantly keeping numerous things moving simultaneously throughout the course of the school day. Teachers rarely get the luxury of focusing on one thing at a time. Maybe that's why they look forward to the term breaks so much. They're mentally and emotionally spent.
To my hard working colleagues, I say –enjoy the next two weeks. It's been a fast and furious first term. Recharge, relax and reload. See you in term 2 with fresh enthusiasm for the next charge!


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We have a year old inground pool that has a Whisper Flo 1 1/2 Hp pump. Last summer I called the pool builder and told him the pump was making a lot more noise than normal. He told me to backwash it more often as that was probably the cause. Well, yesterday they were here to open and low and behold the pump is froze up. They told me it was probably the bearings and would need to be replaced. I called the contractor and he is going to replace the pump.
My question is: Why would a brand new pump fail so quickly? Is it a manufacture defect or is it something that we may have caused? I don't want to run into the same problem in another year when the pool is out of warranty?
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Current Challenge
The 2017-2018 Game: FIRST RELIC RECOVERY℠ Presented by Qualcomm® Incorporated is played on a 12 ft. × 12 ft. (3.7m × 3.7m) square field with approximately 1 ft. (0.3m) high walls and a soft foam mat floor. The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing alliance by (1) scoring Glyphs into the Cryptoboxes and completing rows, column, and ciphers; (2) transferring Relics to the Recovery Zone; (3) retrieving Jewels; (4) parking on the Balancing Stones; and (5) navigating to specific parts of the Playing Field.
The field is divided in the middle into a "red" and a "blue" side corresponding to the two alliances. In the center of the field is a taped off area that hold the Glyphs. The scoring elements for FIRST RELIC RECOVERY℠ are 48 alliance-neutral Glyphs (24 gray and 24 brown), eight alliance-specific Jewels (four per alliance) and four alliance-specific Relics (two per alliance). There are four alliance-specific Cryptoboxes (two per Alliance) with taped off safe zones in front of each. There are four alliance-specific Balancing Stones (two per Alliance) on which Robots begin and end the game. There are also two off-field alliance-specific Recovery Zones where robots place recovered Relics at the end of the match.
Matches have two distinct periods of play: a 30-second Autonomous period followed by a two-minute DriverControlled period. The last 30 seconds of the DriverControlled period is called the End Game which adds new scoring opportunities for robots to achieve.
Autonomous Period: During the Autonomous period, Robots operate using only pre-programmed instructions. Alliances earn points by: (1) selecting and removing opponent colored Jewels from platforms, (2) scoring Glyphs into the Cryptoboxes, and (3) parking their Robot in a Safe Zone in front of their Cryptobox.
Driver-Controlled Period: During the Driver-Controlled period, alliances earn points by: (1) Scoring Glyphs into their Alliance's Cryptoboxes and (2) Creating Cipher patterns with their Glyphs in the Cryptoboxes. End Game: The final 30 seconds of the Driver-Controlled Period is called the End Game.
In addition to the previously listed Driver-Controlled Period scoring activities, alliances earn points by (1) moving their Relics to safety in their Recovery Zone and (2) balancing Robots on the Balancing Stones.


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Director Andrew Stanton Talks Wall-E's Oscar Chances
Stanton dispels the old myth about actors hating animation.
Yesterday, the world reacted with shock and disappointment when it learned that Andrew Stanton, helmer of Pixar masterpiece Wall-E, could not win an award from the Directors Guild simply because, as a director of animated films, he's not a member of that union, and the DGA's draconian 70-year-old rules prohibit giving its highest prize to non-members. Even so, Stanton is taking it in all stride: "I'm not part of the Directors Guild, because in animation you're not part of that union," he told us at last night's New York Film Critics Circle Awards (where his movie was honored as 2008's Best Animated Feature). But he was slightly more bullish on Wall-E's shot at Best Picture!
Some have speculated that, due to animated films' traditional lack of acting by real-life human beings, Wall-E may have difficulty making inroads with carbon-based thespians, the Academy's largest voting bloc. But Stanton hopes not: "I've got to say that actors were very involved with the movie, even though you didn't see their face. Nobody's job was being replaced by a computer — there's a human artist behind every single step of the process that's done in our movie, so it's pretty much a big myth. Two hundred and fifty artists worked on this film, you know? Including actors."
But does Stanton — whose films are all universally loved by critics and well rewarded at the box-office, and who famously told the Times last summer, "I never think about the audience … If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away" — even care about winning an Oscar? Apparently he does! "Certainly as a filmmaker, it's the sort of biggest award there is in that sense," he told us. "And there's something special about it because you're voted on by your peers, the people that you respect, that made you want to go into the movies, and that's a huge pat on the back. So yeah, it means a lot."


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Use a piece of chalk to mark a cut line along the pipe. If you make a mistake, the chalk line can be easily removed and placed in a new location.
Wrap the steel chain attached to the ratchet at the end of the snap cutter around the diameter of the pipe along the cut line. Then thread the chain through the open side of the jaw of the ratchet. Open and close the handles of the ratchet, tightening the chain around the pipe until the pipe snaps at the cut line. Grab any uneven portions of the cut with a wrench and hit the wrench head with a hammer to snap them off to provide a smoother cut.


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From 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday, attendees will learn about the department, what it purchases and where and how to sell to it.
The free event will be at the Bechtel board room at the Tri-Cities Business and Visitor Center, 7130 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick.
Reservations are required and can be made by calling 736-0510.


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Thomas Grennes
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
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Department and Affiliations
Department of Economics
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International and Monetary Economics
Research Publications
- Grennes, Thomas. 2012. "Diminishing Quality of Fiscal Institutions: the United States and the European Union". Cato Journal. Winter 2013, forthcoming.
- "The Determinants of Service Offshoring: Does Distance Matter" (with Ivan Kandilov), Japan and the World Economy, 24(2012) 36-43.
- Caner, Mehmet, Turanay Caner, and Thomas Grennes. "Determinants of Investment by the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund: GDP vs. Institutions". (2011) Global Economy Journal, Vol 11, Iss.1, article 2.
- Grennes, Thomas, P. Guerron, and A. Leblebicioglu. "Economic Development and Heterogeneity in the Great Moderation among the States". B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, (Contributions Tier) 2011.
- Grennes, Thomas. 2010. "A Thousand Years of Trade History: What's Left Out?" Historical Methods, 43(4): 159-163.
- Kandilov, Ivan T. and Thomas Grennes. Determinants of Service Exports from Central and Eastern Europe". Economics of Transition (2010) 18(4): 763-794.
- Grennes, Thomas, Pablo Guerron-Quintana and Asli Leblebicioglu. (2010) "Economic Development and Volatility among the States". Economics Bulletin. Vol 30 (3): pp1963-1976.
- Caner, Mehmet, Thomas Grennes, and Fritzi Koehler-Geib. "Finding the Tipping Point: When Sovereign Debt Turns Bad". ch. 3 of Sovereign Debt and the Financial Crisis, edited by Carlos Prima Braga and Gallina A. Vincelette. Washington: World Bank, Oct 2010, pp51-64.
- Sovereign Wealth Funds: the Norwegian Experience". 2010. ( with Mehmet Caner) World Economy. April, pp597-614.
- "Volatility of Sovereign Wealth Funds". 2009. Global Economy Journal. 5(3):1-5.
- "Performance and Transparency of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund", Revue D'Economie Financiere, Special Issue on Sovereign Wealth Funds 2009. (with Mehmet Caner, in English and French).
- Grennes, T. J. The Columbian Exchange and the Reversal of Fortune. Cato Journal, 27(Winter 2007), 91-107.
- "The Effect of Mechanical Refrigeration on Nutrition in the United States". Social Science History 28(No.2, May 2004): (with Lee Craig and Barry Goodwin)
- "Non-Linear Aspects of Capital Market Integration and Real Interest Rate Equalization". International Review of Economics and Finance 12(No. 3, 2003): 283-303. (with Anthony Mancuso and Barry Goodwin)
- "Creative Destruction and Globalization". Cato Journal 22(No.3, Winter 2003): 543-58.
- "Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets". Explorations in Economic History 39(April 2002): 154-182. (with Barry Goodwin and Lee Craig)
- "Real Interest Parity and Transactions Costs for the Group of Ten Countries". International Review of Economics and Finance 11(No.4 2002): 363-372. (with Mouawiya Al-Awad)
- "Tsarist Russia and the World Wheat Market". Explorations in Economic History 35(October 1998): 405-30. (with Barry Goodwin)


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HERE ARE A FEW first thoughts on Labour's upcoming defence review – or rather the Trident bit of it. I don't expect anyone to take much notice – most of the people involved seem to have held entrenched views for at least thirty-five years. You might want to put on some 80s music while reading this. If you're old enough, it might make you feel young again.
Trident (and I mean here Trident with nuclear warheads, not the "I can't believe it's not Trident" version without them) is not essentially useless. It could be used, perhaps in some circumstances it would be used. So, it has uses. But Trident as a defence mechanism is, literally, useless. It's value as a defence lies purely in it not being used.
There are no conceivable circumstances in which we could use Trident and remain "defended". I find it impossible to imagine a British prime minister firing a Trident missile at a non-nuclear target. I tried hard to conjure up the image of some deranged figure in Downing Street, presumably drunk and egged on by a latter-day Dr Strangelove, moving his or her quivering finger towards the "button" (yes, I know there isn't really a button) to fire a 4.8 megaton nuclear bomb at some god-forsaken desert town. But I just can't see it. Can you?
If Trident is ever going to be used it would be either in retaliation for a nuclear attack on Britain which has already taken place or as a pre-emptive first strike against someone who might attack us with nuclear weapons. In both cases, we would have lost. In the first case, there should be no need to explain why. In the second, we have assume that anyone with nuclear weapons who is nasty enough to be worth nuking would retaliate with a nuclear strike against us. We end up with the same result. In either scenario, Trident would have failed to defend us.
Trident has no military use — it cannot be used in any military situation to further any military objective. Defence chiefs like the prestige Trident brings but I wonder how many would resist a credible promise to spend the entire cost (now estimated at £167bn) – or even half of it – on their conventional forces. Trident's main value is diplomatic and "pre-military": that it could defend us, not by being used, but by deterring someone from attacking us, whether or not they had nuclear weapons.
The deterrent argument has changed since I used to have these arguments in pubs in the 1980s (when I shifted from being a unilateralist to being a warmongering US lackey, apparently), when it was all about a complex game of bluff and counter bluff with the Soviet Union – a game which, like death itself, could drive you mad if you thought about it too much. Now, the question we have to ask ourselves is this: is there anyone out there who is likely to behave differently towards us because we have Trident from how they would behave if we didn't?
Trident did not deter al-Qaeda from attacking us. It's hard to believe that the reason Islamic State/Daesh have not yet attacked Britain is because we have Trident submarines lurking in the ocean somewhere (France is also a nuclear power after all). Kim Jong- un? Really? Does he even know where Britain is? The theory of deterrence rests on a degree of rational self-interest on the part of your opponent – it doesn't apply to madmen.
There is also the argument that Trident is needed to protect us against future threats we don't yet know about – Donald Rumsfeld's famous "unknown unknowns". The problem with this is that, if these threats are genuinely "unknown", how do we know that Trident is the best or even a good way of protecting ourselves against them? We might just as well double the size of the army, build a fifty-foot wall around Britain or fill the channel tunnel with cement on the grounds that it might protect us against something.
Perhaps we think we can discern the faint outlines of these potential threats (the shadows of Rumsfeld's "known unknowns"). What if China or Russia turn nasty? What if a relatively sophisticated state with a slightly unhinged leadership (Iran?) decides to have a pop at us, or tries to hold us to ransom? The problem here is that what evidence we have already points to Trident being useless in these situations. You might well think China and Russia are already quite nasty: Trident (or the French nuclear deterrent) didn't stop Putin from annexing Crimea, destabilising our "ally" Ukraine or unleashing radioactive weapons on the streets of London in 2006. And the Iranian leadership has been slightly unhinged for most of my lifetime. Where is the evidence that Iran has ever posed a significant threat to Britain, or that the behaviour of the Iranian leadership has been changed one iota by the existence of Britain's four Trident submarines? In these circumstances, Trident is, at best, a very over-priced insurance policy against a very remote risk – like paying thousands of pounds a year to insure yourself against a meteor strike. (Yes, it could happen, the results would be catastrophic, but, really, are you going to bother?)
The best argument for Trident is one its supporters are obviously reluctant to put forward. It's that Trident is simply about showing off, in a world where showing off is, like it or lump it, important. Possession of a big fat nuclear weapons system is like a ticket to the VIP enclosure – it gets you noticed, it impresses people, it makes them think you must be a very important country indeed. It's no coincidence that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are the world's five oldest nuclear powers. No country that has acquired nuclear weapons has ever been willing to give them up. Viewed this way, Trident is a big fat fee we pay (much of it to the Americans) for a seat at the top table. It's about diplomacy, not military defence.
I think it's this loss of diplomatic face that Trident supporters really fear. And they may be right – diplomacy is an important component of defence, perhaps the most important part. But the question is whether this diplomatic golden ticket is really worth it, or whether we can do something better with a quarter of a trillion dollars.
My final thought is that if we do need a nuclear deterrent, why does it have to be Trident? Could we not develop our own fully independent system, as the French have managed to do? That would create even more jobs in the UK and give a welcome boost to our science and engineering sector. It might be on a smaller scale than Trident, but I reckon no one likes being nuked, by a Trident submarine or anything else.
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The Lake District – A destination for weekend breaks in UK
The Lake District also known as The Lakes, is a glorious mountainous region in North West England. It is a well popular holiday destination; its popularity is not only for its fascinating lakes, forests and mountains but also for its connection with the early 19th century poetry. During 19th century, the renowned poets like William Wordsworth and Gray described beauty of Lake District in their poems. One fact cannot be denied that a visitor who is prepared to walk around here finds this unsuspected paradise the most beautiful and peaceful place.
The youngest Lake District rock is almost 440 million years old and it forms a gentler landscape that surrounds Windermere. The Lake is basically the product of Ice Age that gave rise to U-shaped valleys when countless glaciers advanced and retreated. Thus it further formed the deep incised lake beds.
Ambleside, The Lake District
Ambleside is a small beautiful town and it is located at the northern end of Lake Windermere. It is very popular among tourists and hikers. There are many shops in this town and from these shops you can buy all sort of stuff like boots, emergency raingear and sleeping bags etc. In addition, hotels and cottages in Windermere are comfy and available on reasonable rates.
Angle Tarn, The Lake District
Description about Lake District is incomplete without mentioning Angle Tarn that is considered to be the loveliest of all Lakeland tarns because it has something more than its wilderness, isolation and scenic magnificence common to most lakes. Its shoreline is deeply indented which gives it a very individual beauty and two small islands standing far out water that is filled with trout and make the scenery around it perfectly.
From the upper side the peaks are called Angletarn Pikes and the nearby view from here is very splendid. This area is basically the part of the Martindale deer forest and herds of red deer sometimes can be seen watering at the tarn. For accommodation you can easily find holiday cottages in the Lake District.
There are many routs to the lake and one the prettiest is from dale Head Farm in Bannerdale.
How do you get to Angle Tarn, The Lake District
Patterdale is on A592 that is ½ mile from the southern end of Ullswater. Bannerdale can be accessed by following the minor road from Pooley Bridge (on the B5320 at the northern end of Ullswater) to Howtown. Beyond the top of the col, or house the road drops steeply to House Farm. From here the left turn leads to Dale Head Farm besides Bannerdale Beck.
Aira Force, The Lake District
The waterfall is one of the Lake District most romantic places where a shining silver stream of water stumbling some 70ft between luminous, precipitous wall of rock. Aira Beck that raises high in the wilderness of Matterdale Common, marks its last sensational gesture before falling into Ullswater.
A gate from car park and the foot of Aira Beck leads into a field, and from the right of the field a stile leads into the woods and over a foot-bridge across the beck. The path trails the beck up through the woods that are a charming a mixture of oak, alder, willow and beech.
Aira Force and A Love Story
Aira Force is said to be the scene of a tragedy of love. Emma, its heroine would live in the nearby Lyulph Toer, and love a knight called Sir Eglamore. One day he left her for some reason and in despair she took to sleep-walking alongside Aira Force. It was the place where they had first encounter. One night Sir Eglamore came back and found Emma at the waterfall; but when he called her name she got up suddenly and fell to her death in the bubbling waters. The grieving knight became a recluse, and spent rest of his life at the same spot where she had died.
The Aira Force car park is just near shore of Ullswater that is a few yards north of the A592 and A5091 junction.
Borrowdale & Buttermere Valleys, The Lake District
Edged in by wooded fells, flat fields and sharp granite peaks, and scattered with the kind of far-flung farmhouses and solid cottages that beautify many a Lakeland postcard, the valleys of Borrowdale and Buttermere are several peopl idea of the typical Lake District countryside. These twin valleys are immensely popular among walkers and hikers, with a lot of walking tracks and easy access to some of the district highest peaks.
Borrowdale is spread over 6 miles from the western brink of Derwent Water to Honister Pass. Buttermere is spread to northwest from Honister Pass along the coasts of Buttermere Lake and Crummock Water to Cockermouth.
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[MEXICO CITY] Mexico's government cut its 2015 budget by nearly 3 per cent on Friday after a drop in global oil prices hurt public finances, and it is shelving a tainted US$3.75 billion high-speed train tender as part of its austerity measures.
Finance Minister Luis Videgaray said the cuts were intended to reassure global investors that Mexico will keep its finances in order and he promised they would not derail an economic recovery this year.
Latin America's No. 2 economy, a major crude exporter, has posted weak growth in recent years and the drop in oil prices has dampened confidence in the impact of a landmark opening of the state-run energy sector this year to private companies.
The slump has also battered Mexico's peso currency, which blew past the 15-per dollar level on Friday for the first time since 2009 before it recovered slightly.
Mexico's central bank warned on Thursday the peso could see steeper losses and its governor, Agustin Carstens, advised the government to act to prevent a further run on the currency. On Friday, the central bank said that given the sharp decline in oil prices, and the likelihood they would stay low for a while, the depreciation of the peso was probably not transitory. "We have to take decisions because our budgetary reality has changed," Videgaray told a news conference.
He said the government was shelving, for now, a project to build the rail link between Mexico City and the central city of Queretaro.
The tender sparked accusations of shady dealings favoring a contractor close to President Enrique Pena Nieto.
China Railway Construction Corp (CRCC) had looked poised to clinch the contract even after its original winning bid was revoked when it became engulfed in the scandal.
Pena Nieto's family and Videgaray bought homes from a government contractor that was part of the consortium that won the original train tender, raising concerns about corruption and conflicts of interest.
Videgaray declined to comment on Friday when asked what interest rate he had paid on a loan from the government contractor who sold him his house.
The scandal has compounded the president's woes. He was already grappling with the fallout of the abduction and massacre of 43 trainee teachers in restive southwest Mexico last year as drug gang violence goes unchecked.
Analysts worry that Mexico's political crisis could further undermine implementation of a raft of major economic reforms seen as key to helping stem a slide in domestic oil output and bolster growth.
The finance ministry still expects the economy to grow between 3.2 per cent and 4.2 per cent this year, Videgaray said. But in a client note, Barclays said it sees the cuts leading to a 40 basis point reduction in growth.
Videgaray said Mexico would cut spending by 124.3 billion pesos (US$8.29 billion) this year, equal to 2.6 per cent of the 2015 spending plan. The government uses oil revenues to fund about a third of its budget.
Earlier this month, Videgaray said that budget cuts this year would not be needed after the government bought derivatives to hedge its oil revenues.
Strategists said Mexico's cuts were a bid to insulate its financial markets from the current bout of global volatility. Foreign investors now hold more than 2 trillion pesos (US$133 billion) of debt, nearly 40 percent of the stock. "They are thinking about the huge amount of money that has entered Mexico and they well know that if they don't manage public finances properly, foreigners could get worried," said Salvador Orozco, a strategist at Santander in Mexico City.
A hike in US interest rates, seen later this year, could spur a reversal in a tide of investment that has flooded into emerging markets in recent years.
Videgaray said the government would rely on austerity measures, but not tax hikes or more debt. A brand new multi-billion dollar airport project for Mexico city will not be affected, he said. "For a government that has emphasized the need for greater public investment, this is a step backward. There is a lot of wastage on the current spending side and it would have been ideal to see the bulk of the cuts fall there," said Rodrigo Aguilera, Mexico analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit.


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There was a total of 45 participants during the training. Twenty-nine of them came from the local government units (LGUs) of Ilocos Norte namely: City of Batac (3), Dingras (2), Laoag City (2), San Nicolas (2), Bacarra (2), Badoc (2), Carasi (2), Dumalneg (2), Marcos (2), Paoay (2) and Vintar (4). There were also participants from MMSU (10), Mapua Institute of Technology (4) and Laoac, Pangasinan (1). The participants were provided with REDAS version 2.9a. A total of 42 REDAS software license keys was issued during the said event.
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