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The prospect of record low savings rates continuing is forcing many savers to review how they allocate their capital in an attempt to achieve the level of returns they have previously enjoyed. Investing in the stock market inevitably involves putting your capital at risk however there is a middle ground which continues to attract increasing interest – the structured deposit. With this in mind, we take a deeper look at this savings alternative to help understand why more and more savers are starting to see their appeal. more
With the current economic environment asking savers far more questions than it gives answers, it is good to know that there are alternatives available. We take a look at one such alternative that is proving particularly popular as savers face the harsh reality that the more traditional fixed rate savings products are failing to meet their needs. more
Millions of savers are facing the harsh realisty that there is little hope of change to interest and savings rates in the coming years. However, those with Cash ISAs do have one further option to consider – the ISA transfer. We take a closer look at why this is becoming a rising trend as well as what this could mean for those looking for the potential to improve the returns from their capital. more
With so many savers joining income investors in the hunt for high yields, being able to quickly understand and compare the numerous options available has become even more important. We therefore compare two of our most popular income investments to help understand what is driving their popularity and why they might meet your income needs. more
They do say that history repeats itself, and the challenging world of savings is certainly no exception. We compare what was going on last September in order to see whether the landscape has changed and how this may impact on your savings options.
As any of you who have taken a holiday this summer will know, time really does fly, as has the last 12 months in the world of savings. But the prolonged uncertainty around interest rates and inflation continues to create an extremely difficult environment for savers.
Unfortunately when reviewing these important factors, one can start to feel a sense of déjà vu since it appears to have been the same old story of economic uncertainty for longer than any of us would have liked. Perhaps more worrying, and certainly more important in understanding the impact on our savings, is that these tumultuous economic conditions look set to stay for quite some time to come.
Around 12 months ago I was bemoaning yet another interest rate freeze (at the time this was the 30th month in succession). A year later we are still at the record low interest rate of 0.5% which has now been held since March 2009.
No one has felt the impact of this more than the fixed rate saver, with yields available also seeing record lows, especially on the longer terms. Peace of mind along with a competitive deal would appear to have gone off the radar.
As to the timing of a likely increase, I was also concerned this time last year since although the previous month a potential increase had been on the cards for 2012, economic consensus was now suggesting that this would be highly unlikely until 2013.
In short, no. The ongoing eurozone crisis has really started to have a pronounced impact on global economic affairs and in the last few weeks, dates as far away as 2020 have been suggested as the earliest we might see a potential increase. You can start to see why longer terms fixed rates are not looking very appealing.
Certainly 2015 would find a chorus of agreement from economic commentators as a conservative estimate for the earliest date for the Bank to take action, but even more worrying for our short term money is that an interest rate decrease has not only been discussed as a real possibility, but rather the preferred option to further quatitative easing, based on Monitary Policy Committee member Martin Weale's comments last week. This clearly has implications for every saver.
This time last year, inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index had risen to 4.5% whilst the Retail Price Index stood at a worryingly high 5.2%. At the time, the Bank of England assured us that it expected inflation to return to its target of 2% in the next 2 years – so, 12 months to go….
Fortunately these headline rates have improved, with the latest data from the Office of National Statistics revealing the current Indexes are 2.6% and 3.2% respectively, a healthy reduction when compared to the highs of just a year ago. Although both of these rates are an increase on the previous month, which was unexpected by the Bank of England, this trend is not expected to continue in the short term.
The important points to remember here are that the headline rates are based on the last 12 months, so they don't help us to know what will happen in the next 12 months, and the Bank of England has a disastrous track record of helping us with their predictions. We therefore must understand that making a decision on what might happen in the future based on what has happened in the past must always come with a word of warning.
Fixing for 12 months or less is of course the least risky option, but for those considering longer terms, the possibility that inflation could rise, and the impact this will have on every hard earned penny of interest, needs to be understood now more than ever before.
As one moves into other areas which play a part in the overall savings conundrum, things are not much better. Not only is the UK experiencing its longest double dip recession for 50 years, the UK growth forecast was recently reduced again with little sign of exactly where growth is going to come from.
Although the subject of further quantitative easing will continue to be discussed, there are no signs that this has promoted growth in the real economy and, as I have written previously, could well be storing up problems for the future by creating economic inefficiencies and one of the major impacts this has is the risk of inflation.
Another important consideration is tax. Since the headline rate advertised is often the gross return, all but non-taxpayers have to deduct a minimum of 20% to find out how much they will receive in their pocket.
The impact of tax highlights the importance of using our ISA allowance in order to provide tax-free returns, regardless of our marginal rate of tax. The cumulative effect over time therefore allows us to protect a significant sum against the effects of taxation.
The only difference from 12 months ago is that we all have another ISA allowance available, and the value of maximising this becomes more and more important over time.
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On the fixed rate side there are a number of accounts offering between 3% and 3.5%, all of which tie you in for 1 year or less. However, the range of leading rates in the medium to longer term offers very little more, with anything close to 4% having become extremely rare.
Remember, if you do tie yourself in now and inflation goes up by only a small amount during your fixed term, your real return (i.e. the return after inflation and tax) could quickly evaporate – you must therefore take a view of what could happen before acting.
Finally, 12 months ago I also mentioned the rise of fixed rate bond alternatives which is an area that has continued to grow at a rapid pace and with current fixed rates offering nothing in the way of any upside for committing, you can see why these continue to be a viable option.
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Aliens and humans, masters and slaves / More of Kage Baker's cyborgs and a wise fantasy of demons and conjurers in Elizabethan times
In her new novel, The Mount (Small Beer; 250 pages; $16), Carol Emshwiller, author of "Carmen Dog" and "Leaping Man Hill," presents an unusual tale of alien invasion, one that explores the relationship between master and slave.
For 11-year-old Charley, also known as "Smiley" by his extraterrestrial captors, being treated as a beast of burden is something to be proud of. Humans are routinely ridden by the conquering Hoots, squat creatures with nearly useless legs and incredibly powerful arms and hands. Charley is strong enough and sufficiently well trained to be the official mount of Little Master,
the eventual heir of the Hoots' supreme leader.
When Charley and Little Master are liberated from their village by revolutionaries from the mountains, the balance of power between them is irrevocably altered. Charley's father, Heron, leads the insurrectionists, and Charley can't understand why his dad speaks so haltingly, why he chooses as his companion a woman not from one of the most prized human bloodlines or why Heron isn't more ashamed of the many scars on his face. Through their encounters with Heron and his followers, Charley and Little Master are forced to examine the exact nature of their own relationship and decide how to coexist for the rest of their lives.
Emshwiller doesn't explain how the Hoots have managed to subjugate humankind so thoroughly. They have some high-tech weapons, produce a noise that can drive a person mad and seem to have brought some kind of plague along with them, but none of these explanations proves especially convincing. That lack of detail isn't particularly troubling, though, because "The Mount" works more as an allegory than as a piece of rigorously extrapolated hard science fiction.
Emshwiller uses a deceptively simple narrative voice that gives "The Mount" the style of a young-adult novel. But there's much going on beneath the surface of this narrative, including oblique flashes of humor and artfully articulated moments of psychological insight. "The Mount" emerges as one of the season's unexpected small pleasures.
In four novels, beginning with "In the Garden of Iden," Kage Baker has chronicled the oftentimes nefarious exploits of the Company, a shadowy cabal of scientists and businessmen who have amassed an unimaginable fortune in the 24th century through the use of time travel. Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (Golden Gryphon; 290 pages; $24.95) collects 15 short works dealing with the Company's immortal cyborg operatives, offering background on favorite recurring characters and providing tantalizing hints of plot twists yet to come.
The stories cover a vast range of time, from prehistory to the present day, and many are set along the coast of California. The Russian station at Fort Ross is the scene for "Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kalugin," in which a sympathetic physician must deal with a cyborg courier whose insanity threatens the doctor's mission. "Lemuria Will Rise" takes place at Pismo Beach,
where the immortal botanist Mendoza encounters a hermit whose psychic powers give him access to more information than he's supposed to know. "Studio Dick Drowns Near Malibu" concerns a Hollywood operative who saves a suicidal woman while attempting to fake his own death.
The Company stories artfully pose questions of what history really means and what it is that makes us human. Baker's cyborgs develop strategies for dealing with vast lifetimes and shifting identities, but they're never sure that they're not missing something by never growing old or having families.
"Black Projects, White Knights" also collects Baker's stories about Alec Checkerfield, a little boy developing strange mental powers. Set in a future when political correctness has forced the population to liberate all animals, abandon all "unhealthy" practices and always err on the side of never offending anyone, these stories are clever and often affecting, but they lack the thematic heft and "gee-whiz" plotting of the tales of the Company.
Baker's previous novel, "The Graveyard Game," marked a major turning point in the saga of the Company. There's no new full-length adventure scheduled for this year, but this collection will go a long way toward tiding over Baker's loyal readership until the next installment.
Oakland writer Lisa Goldstein, author of "Dark Stations Underground" and "Walking the Labyrinth," returns with another fantasy set in the Elizabethan age, The Alchemist's Door (Tor; 256 pages; $23.95). This time, she chooses as her protagonist renowned astrologer John Dee, who flees England in an attempt to outrun a demon he has unwittingly conjured up.
With a large family to feed, and always on the lookout for a royal patron, Dee finds himself in Prague, where he crosses paths with Rabbi Judah Lowe. Lowe, a denizen of the Jewish ghetto, is the creator of the Golem, the unstoppable man fashioned from clay. Together, Dee and Lowe must work together to ensure the safety of one of the fabled 36 Righteous Men, upon whom the fate of the entire world rests.
Goldstein delivers a story of two very intelligent men who discover that they still have much to learn. Dee and Lowe don't understand each other's cultures, nor do they understand their own hearts as well as they think they do. As they attempt to define what makes a man righteous, they encounter an engaging cast of supporting characters who help them defeat their demons, literal and otherwise.
Goldstein is exceedingly adept at this kind of fantasy. "The Alchemist's Door" gives her the opportunity to play with both history and myth, and the result is an exciting and wise novel.

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It is a truism: To grow in the global economy, a country must trade. The Obama Administration and Congress clearly understand this. It's why the President has set a goal of doubling US exports in five years — and why lawmakers are pressing hard to ensure that happens.
Congress recently has been scrutinizing US trade policy to identify pressure points, obstacles and opportunities to open international markets for US goods and services. I testified before the House Ways and Means Committee last summer at a hearing on the far-reaching impact of China's trade and industrial policies. And I testified today at another such hearing, this time before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.), which is examining how increased trade can boost job creation.
Leading US software companies count on international sales for roughly 60 percent of their revenues. That is how the industry contributes a surplus of $36 billion to the US balance of trade. And it is how the software and related services sector employs nearly 2 million Americans in jobs that pay twice the national average.
But one thing, above all others, stands in the way of further increasing US software exports, the Mount Everest of trade barriers: rampant software theft. It occurs most often when otherwise legitimate businesses make illegal copies of software for their own use. It also occurs online, as Michael Fulkerson, chief technology officer of BSA member company Rosetta Stone, explained at a recent hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet. In all its forms, this software piracy claimed more than $51 billion worth of PC applications globally in 2009.
Reducing software piracy — particularly in the high-octane economies of the developing world, where PC sales are growing fastest — would send ripples of stimulus through the broader IT economy, thereby creating jobs, spawning new enterprises and driving growth. In fact, the BSA-IDC Piracy Impact Study shows how reducing the global piracy rate by 10 percentage points from its current level of 43 percent would spur $142 billion in new economic activity and create nearly 500,000 new jobs for the United States and its many trading partners.
The US government has a variety of tools at its disposal to persuade its trading partners to improve intellectual property protection and enforcement. These include the annual Special 301 review, negotiation of free trade agreements, and remedies under bilateral and multilateral accords, including the WTO TRIPS Agreement. We should consider all of these options. In particularly intractable situations, we may also need to consider bringing so-called "nullification or impairment" claims under Article XXIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
In the meantime, the US government should set the highest-possible standard here at home. For example, federal agencies are already required by executive order to use only legal software; the next logical step would be to promote the same practice among federal contractors. The administration is actively exploring that option and a series of additional actions under its Joint Strategic Plan on IP Enforcement. We should give responsible agencies the resources to continue executing this plan.
There is a great deal to do. But at the end of the day, we must be able to see the results of our efforts in increased software sales and exports to key markets that are now effectively closed off to us by piracy. That should be the simple measure of success.


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Kent FA runs course to encourage gay referees
Gay people in Kent with an interest in football have been urged to consider becoming referees.
A series of refereeing courses aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are being organised by the Kent Football Association.
The courses in November are part of a pilot project from the FA.
Inclusion officer Stephanie Gadd said some people were "anxious" about getting involved due to a fear of prejudice.
She said: "I think there is a degree of anxiety, perhaps a fear of reception in terms of how their team-mates and the spectators deal with that.
"I think that's largely due to the culture that surrounds football."
In Sussex, homophobic abuse is frequently aimed at Brighton and Hove Albion due to the city's connection with the gay community.
And Dave Raval, who is taking part in the forthcoming Kent FA courses and has been an openly gay football referee for more than 20 years, said people were scared to talk about homosexuality in football.
He said he wanted to encourage people to be their "very best in football".


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A scene in North Carolina, sometime in the near future.
Looking furtively from side to side, the climatology graduate student spotted a phone booth outside a convenience store, one of the few remaining pay phones in the county. Dashing inside, she inserted a few quarters and dialed the number at the secret lab.
The phone rang several times, then a man on the other end picked up. He recited an old song lyric: "Let's go surfing now, everybody's learning how, come on and safari with me."
Recognizing the pass phrase, the graduate student replied by reciting the countersign, another old song lyric: "It's getting bigger every day. From Hawaii to the shores of Peru."
Confident she was talking on a secure line, the student shot another quick glance outside the phone booth, then spoke quickly to the man: "OK, professor, I ran the numbers again on your climatology model. The sea level rise projected for 2100 is looking really serious."
"All right, let's have them. Talk fast," the professor nervously responded.
The student reached into her bag. Suddenly, police cars blasting sirens and flashing harsh lights swarmed the convenience store. Panicked, the student hung up the phone, eyes wide in terror.
Cops burst out of the squad cars. "Drop the climate model spreadsheet!" a burly policeman barked at her. "Now!"
The student glumly dropped the paper, threw up her arms, and surrendered to the Climate Science Police. Another illegal attempt to model sea level rise in North Carolina had been foiled.
You probably heard about the bill circulating in North Carolina's state legislature that in essence would decree the Atlantic Ocean shall not rise to levels projected in climate change models. Specifically, the legislation would specify that in projecting sea level rise, the Coastal Resources Commission, a state science board, may only base its computations on historic trends, not projections from climate change models.
The legislation was prompted by complaints from coastal economic development officials about a projected 1-meter rise in sea level by 2100. The local officials argue that regardless of what climate scientists say, sea levels follow natural cycles. Acknowledging risks and taking sensible measures to deal with them is bad for business, you see.
"You can't legislate the ocean and you can't legislate storms," a frustrated Stan Riggs, an East Carolina University geologist, told the Charlotte Observer.
Sorry, professor, that might be the case in the world of hard science, where facts matter and the laws of physics can be neither amended nor repealed. In the world of political science, where facts are required to fit the political agenda, any flight of fancy could be written into law.
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Photography in the Languedoc
There's barely a day goes by that I don't wax lyrical about the stunning photographic opportunities that present themselves down here in the Languedoc. Why just from my window alone throughout the changing seasons I'm always rushing to capture the moments as they present themselves. Landscapes ranging from fields of sunflowers and poppies, vineyards that have their own individual character through the seasons. In the winter they present themselves as wizened black Lowry type figures going on to become full and lush with grapes and then turning into a magnificent display of vibrant deep hues of reds and yellows. There are lakes, valleys, sites of historical interest, bustling colourful markets, all quintessential images of rural France. Is it any wonder I never get bored ?
On Sunday we pootled along the lanes to the onion fields. In front of us along the road stretched a line of nuns from the local Monastère de Prouille, which incidentally has been struck twice by lightening and survived. Their habits stretched out behind them as they strode out purposely along the road. It was a marvellous photographic shot with the undulating countryside dipping gently in the distance. A professional photographer would have captured the moment. I didn't.
We pulled up at the field. Exciting stuff. Rows and rows of glistening red onions that had already been harvested, these were the one's that were simply going to be ploughed back into the ground. My feet sunk into the fine warm soil, I'm still in flip flops you see, I suppose I could have equally been on a soft sandy Mediterranean beach. My fingers dug deep, easing out beauties and filling my finger nails with rich soil. In the distance a line of children ran alongside the vines, their laughter filling the air.
When we got home as well as laying out our onions in wooden trays we sat and looked at our days shots. There was one of me bending down deep in concentration at my task. 'Old peasant woman collecting onions' His Lordship said. The next frame came up on the screen. 'An even older peasant man collecting onions' I retorted.
Pays to be quick don't you think ?
Much later on I chased the sunset.
18 comments:
- Cait O'Connor said...
Gorgeous Sally,just what I need on a grey and rainy morning. Thank you.
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Un Peu Loufoque said...
Oh what splendid photo opportunities your wonderful area offer. How I wish I was down there to capture it on film and had the skill of course to do so..I do asore the Languedoc, it is like a coffe table photo montage of France waiting to be captured on film!
Lucky old you Sally, its raining here of course so wellintton weather rather than flipflops! I do wish you had posted the old man and woman collecitng onions !!
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- bodran... said...
And were are the pictures of the old onion pickers may i ask??...and still in flip flops i don't think i've had mine on this year xxx
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- muddyboots said...
just the photos to cheer up a grey day in the north of England
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Pipany said...
Onion fields? I love onions! It does all sound rather wonderful Sally x
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Frances said...
Thank you for my quick holiday, Sally. You write that "it pays to be quick," but it is some other lovely pace that I always find so welcoming in your posts!
The radiators are whistling in this apartment for the first time this fall, but as of this morning, I still have my pink flips on, too. Just not ready to give in to the coming chill.
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Pondside said...
It may 'pay to be quick' but it seems to me that there is a view around every bend ready to snatch one's breath away. The combination of Le Chateau's luxury and the region's photographic opportunities is unbeatable.
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Fire Byrd said...
such evocative words,as ever. takes me straight there for a small time out in from listening to the pouring rain outside at the moment.
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- ChrisH said...
Have just read this and the previous post and concluded that you are a genious for being in a staggeringly beautiful WARM place whilst the rest of us are still staring at wall-to-wall rain. Stomps off feeling sorry for herself.
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- anyscribbles said...
You certainly are lucky. Our weather, ' a band of rain heading towards us this evening' according to the forecaster on the news!! Always sounds so lovely at the Chateau!
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Crystal Jigsaw said...
It sounds beautiful, Sally. I'm with Bodran - no flipflops!!
CJ xx
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Exmoorjane said...
Hah, have to echo Chris! Sorry havent been by for a while (life sort of took over, in a not so wonderful way)....but just lovely to see your pics....and take a deep out-breath and imagine I'm there (and, now at last we have heating, I can almost do it!). Jxx
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Grouse said...
Perfect photographic opportunities without a doubt: I know from my flying days its not just the scenery but the air quality and pressure that give that special essence to a picture and yours always have it in bucketloads - so I do hopeyou are available for tuition Sally- because you do seem to be able to capture a mood!
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Withy Brook said...
What a simply lovely pen picture. Really took me there, with the aid of the beautiful pictures. Yes where are the old onion pickers?
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008
- Mrs ElderBerry said...
l do so love your site, tell me, are you near mirepoix?
- Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Time to get picklin' my dear; or are you already? Mind not to eat too many. I love an onion tart, meself!
- Thursday, October 09, 2008
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Whitney Sherman '71 was accepted into the Society of Illustrator's 53rd annual exhibition
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Whitney Sherman '71, director of MICA's new MFA in Illustration Practice program and the co-director of the Dolphin Press & Print, was accepted into the Society of Illustrator's 53rd Annual. Her winning piece, Prometheus and Copernicus, was commissioned by the John Templeton Foundation.
Winning in the institutional category, Sherman's work will be displayed in the third of the three-part Annual Exhibition: Illustrators 53 show at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, Wednesday, Feb. 23-Saturday, March 19, 2011. An opening reception will be held Friday, March 4.
The institutional category consists of work appearing on merchandise, announcements, annual reports, calendars, corporate projects, government services projects, greeting cards, newsletters, in-house publications, philatelic work and collectibles. From the 341 entries in this category, 74 were chosen this year.
"Now in its 53rd year, the Annual Exhibition is the premier international showcase for illustrators," said Anelle Miller, director of the Society of Illustrators. "We're honored to host this remarkable event, which celebrates the most outstanding illustrative works created by our colleagues in the past year."


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This bag truly fits the bill for what I was looking for - the capacity is greater than the Army standard green duffel, and the padded sides are sturdy enough to provide an excellent amount of support, protection, and structure. The shoulder straps are comfortable and allow you to easily carry that heavy A- or B-Bag load with ease as opposed to dragging a wheeled bag across rocks, dirt, stairs, etc.
If you are a service member that deploys frequently and "lives out of a duffel" more often than not, this is a great bag for you.
- Amazing bag Review by Larry on 11/6/2014
This bag is huge I mean huge. If you load it completely up I doubt most people could lift it. It has padded shoulder straps so you can carry it, inner pockets that are separated from the main compartment, zipper outside pockets, the list go on and on, and its padded throughout the entire bag. Wonderful product extremely well made.
- Cavernous Review by Scott on 10/30/2014
What a great bag! I ordered and received mine about a year ago. While I am not a "warfighter" anymore I am very hard on my bags. I use this bag for two things. Carrying weapons and carrying camping gear. I can put several rifles and ammo bags inside this and it doesn't budge. We're talking a "two man lift" weight of weapons.
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This bag is tough, big and just awesome in every respect. I may have to get another one.
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Great bag that can fit a ton of gear or enough room for a long weekend camping or at the lake. Like everything else LBT makes the quality is outstanding and the attention to detail is superb. Another great bag from LBT


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Warm Clothes
Winter themed camouflage that can be found in Namalsk that negates the temperature loss in higher altitudes. There is also a glitch that causes Warm Clothes to be changed to Civilian Clothing if the player logs out while wearing Warm Clothes. This can be avoided if the player changes to a different set of clothing, such as Civilian Clothing.
No longer bugs out when logging out
found two of these and a pkm at the c130 plane crash near Norinsk and soon found a buddy to share the spare warm clothes with. The white one seems to make you look like a clone trooper from star wars, thus being obvious unless in the small snowy parts of the map and the brownish-green one seems to be much more valuable to me because its much more camouflaged in the bush and ground. also there is a pouch and two canteens on your back when you equip this, it would be useful if you could use it as a storage area.
found in military values and heli crash sites that are fixed up on mountains/hills.
Since the map is cold, this piece of clothing allows you to keep warm, so you can avoid making fires and using up heatpacks. Once you log out, then log in, you will lose the warm clothes and it will be replaced with normal Civilian clothing. Be sure to switch them out before logging off.
It is extremely rare. At least from my experience. Try looking in the least looted places in the map like object A1 not A2..
@xplosivcat they only spawn in namalsk because you dont need them to live in chernarus
Are these available in Chernanus or only in Namalsk?
It is very helpful but its very hard to get, they should increase the rate of getting it.


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Court could punt "Pay for Delay" back to Congress
Eight members of the Supreme Court—less Justice Samuel Alito, who recused himself for reasons unknown—heard testimony in the case of FTC v. Actavis this morning, and the fate of so-called "Pay for Delay" settlements hangs in the balance. Witnesses said there were no slam-dunks on either side of the case, a decision on which isn't expected before July. The stakes for both generic companies and pharmas, odd bedfellows on the issue, couldn't be higher.
"Without the ability to settle litigation," said Actavis CEO Paul Bisaro in a conference call following the hearings, "generics companies would need to seriously reconsider patent challenges, and this outcome would have a detrimental impact on consumers and impede patient access to generic drugs and the billions in annual savings that result."
Ralph Neas, CEO of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, said the case places the business model of the generics industry in jeopardy.
"We have been enormously successful because of Hatch-Waxman," said Neas, referring to the 1984 Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, better known by the names of its authors Orrin Hatch and Henry Waxman. "It's a quintessential American success story," said Neas. "We now have 80% of prescription drugs nationwide at only 27% of the cost. For the last decade, we have saved the health system $1.1 trillion dollars, according to IMS Health—$193 billion in 2012 alone. Of the 37 settlements in the last two years, 24 have been patent settlements and 70% of those have been patent settlements with some kind of monetary consideration."
The FTC, which won a similar case before a Federal appeals court last summer, alleges that those monetary settlements—in exchange for delaying the entry of a generic alternative to a prescription drug—amount to the preservation of a monopoly, a win-win scenario for both branded and generic drug makers but an expensive loss for consumers. The generics industry counters that the risks of litigating generic challenges without settlements are greater than the FTC supposes, and that they're playing by the rules Congress established nearly 30 years ago.
One possibility is that the court will punt on the question and decide that it's really best decided by Congress. Justice Kennedy opened his remarks by suggesting just that, said the Coalition for Healthcare Communication's John Kamp, who attended the hearings.
"The Supreme Court is not the final judge of whether these cases should be settled," said Kamp, noting that there are several pieces of legislation in the works that would address the issue. "Even if pharma wins, they're likely to have to fight the fight in Congress."
There, the industry would be advantaged by the focus of Congressional energies elsewhere, particularly on deficit reduction, the sequester, the debt ceiling and the debate over the appropriate size and shape of government. But "Pay for Delay" deals would also present a tempting target the next time Congress comes looking for cost-savings.


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Despite a well-choreographed, two-day marketing blitz for his turnpike plan, we still don't have any details on how or when Kasich's plan will be implemented. We only have some nice soundbytes from his press conference and a couple high-level presentations that cover the focus-group tested talking points Kasich claims he would "like" to see in the turnpike plan.
According to the slick website OhioTurnpikeAnalysis.com, produced by marketing and PR firm Fahlgren Mortine with your tax dollars, Kasich says he won't lease the turnpike or layoff any turnpike workers, instead he will begin raising tolls every year on people who don't use electronic tolling and drivers who travel more than 30 miles. He will also require the turnpike to take on $1.5 Billion in new debt to be used for non-Turnpike projects but paid off, over time, with the new turnpike toll increases.
In the software industry we call this "slideware" : a fancy PowerPoint presentation about "software that is only on the drawing board and not anywhere near completion."
Slideware can easily turn into vaporware, when the magic of the sales team's imagination fails to meet up with the reality of development costs, time lines or developer abilities, and the actual application fails to materialize. Sometimes it's all very well intentioned. Sometimes not.
But until an agreement is locked down in writing, everything is open to change and no one has any legal recourse if the promised functionality fails to materialize.
The same is true with Kasich's promises this week. We all have the right to be skeptical until we see a signed, final version of the bill, possibly months from now, on the Governor's desk.
And a lot can happen between now and then.
State legislators have just started looking at Kasich's analysis and proposal, and ultimately they are the ones who will have to pass legislation to enact the change.
As far as we know, legislative leaders weren't involved in Kasich's decision making process, and they haven't made any of the same promises or commitments.
For example, Kasich said he wouldn't lay off any turnpike employees, but Batchelder didn't. Neither did incoming State Senate President Faber. These guys, just like us, are reading through the turnpike study for the first time, and what they're going to see may certainly impact what goes into the actual bill. For example, the analysis of toll operations in other states indicates Ohio could cut its toll transaction costs by over half if they hired a management company to run the toll booths. This could be very appealing to Ohio's Tea Party legislators.
Right now we have nothing but Kasich's word that Republicans won't pursue this, or other less popular options. And even if the Governor is sincere, he will still need the support of legislators in his own party who might very well prefer to follow a different path and who may believe raising fees on truck drivers is effectively a tax on small businesses and taking on billions in new debt while increasing spending is exactly what they went into politics to stop.
All we have now are a couple of fancy PowerPoint slides and a website that highlights the focus group-tested talking points approved by Kasich's marketing company Fahlgren. We don't have any language that might be introduced as a bill and, as far as we can tell, in typical Kasich fashion, legislators in his own party didn't even find out what Kasich had decided until a few days prior to the big announcement.
It could be months before we see a draft of the legislation. And given Kasich's history on labor, privatization and honesty, I think I'm going to stay skeptical until I see something in writing.
Thomas Grover
This sure sound like vulture capitalism to me, load it up with debt… How can we obtain a copy of the KPMG study we paid for.
A copy of the study is available on the website.
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It sounds good to say tolls will be increased and paid for by the truckers who use the turnpike but lets be honest, those costs won't be paid by the truckers, they will be passed on to the consumer. Meanwhile, increased turnpike revenues that the governor proposes will be used to fund road construction projects in Northern part of the state will allow the governor to to use previously allocated Northern ODOT funds to be used in the southern part of the state. It's all a political shell game. Northern Ohio will still have the same revenue for infrastructure due to a toll increase on the turnpike while the rest of the state will see an increase in revenue because the governor and legislature can use the newly created surplus to fund Infrastructure in central and southern Ohio.
I don't see a single good thing about this plan, especially for northern Ohio. Truckers using the northern route, servicing businesses in that sector of the state will have to take on a whole new expense, as will the businesses they serve. Meanwhile, the money will go to subsidize projects in other parts of the state that aren't taking this economic hit. It is, as Paul says, a political shell game, and one in which northern Ohio loses anyway you look at it. Except, Paul, I think you're wrong that Northern Ohio would have the same revenue for infrastructure. I think they'll find a way to steal as much as they can and leave northern Ohio to rot. The only fair thing is to either untoll the turnpike completely and subsidize everybody from the general fund, or else toll I-70 to level the playing field.
By the way, how much of the new debt the turnpike is saddled with is going into escrow to repair the increasing damage to routes 2, 20 and 6, as more and more heavy truck traffic diverts to those roads to save money? I diverted to them several years ago when the toll for the regular trips i make between Cleveland and Chicago doubled (so it's people like ME, not just truckers, who are being hit) and I've seen more and more semi traffic there.
"…when the magic of the sales team's imagination fails to meet up with the reality of development." Hmmm. This sounds very much like the tax break frenzy Johnny the carnival barker presided over involving American Greetings, Diebold, Bob Evans et al, with very poor results. (Oh, and lets's not forget the insane amount of money he offered to get Sears to come to Ohio) The kind of policy that he now rejects with great righteousness. This guy cannot be trusted.


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Gulfstream Aerospace President, MARK BURNS talks about development of its new G500 and G600 business jets, the pre-owned market and the outlook for business jet manufacturing.
Gulfstream President Mark Burns (Gulfstream)
AEROSPACE: You have been in post now since February 2015. What have been your highlights so far?
MB: I have experienced many great moments over those nearly two years. Many of them have to do with our two in-development aircraft, the Gulfstream G500 and G600. I have watched four new flight-test aircraft join the G500 test program, putting that aircraft well on its way to earning type certification from the Federal Aviation Administration later this year.
Along those same lines, we closed 2016 with the first flight of the Gulfstream G600 on 17 December. Seeing that aircraft take off from Savannah was breath-taking, especially since the chase plane was the Gulfstream G500. It was a truly incredible experience to stand side-by-side with our employees and see their excitement. Even though it was a Saturday, we had quite a crowd assembled to watch these two aircraft. It demonstrated the dedication and commitment of our employees that they would come out on a Saturday to watch an aircraft take off.
That brings me to my next highlight: getting to lead such an incredible team of people, many of whom I've known for years. Every day, I meet and interact with the brightest minds in business aviation, and it's just an honor to know I'm part of their team. They have a commitment to Gulfstream and to excellence that is second to none. I feel very fortunate.
Gulfstream G500s and G600s under construction. (Gulfstream)
AEROSPACE: The business aviation industry is still reeling somewhat from the 2008 financial shock. How has Gulfstream weathered the storm?
MB: We haven't been without challenges, but ultimately, I think we have continued to be a leader in the business aviation industry. There are a number of reasons for that. First and foremost, we have a tremendous partner in our parent company, General Dynamics. They have a long-range plan and stick to it. So, while other companies were pulling back, we were going forward, carrying out two aircraft development and flight-test programs: the Gulfstream G650 and the Gulfstream G280. We were also in the midst of developing the G500 and G600, although those programs were not public at the time. Thanks to General Dynamics, we invest for the long-term, dedicating a consistent flow of resources to researching and developing new aircraft, new technologies and new services that provide value to our customers.
Beyond that, I think we are most disciplined in our production and business practices, especially when it comes to establishing manufacturing rates and aircraft pricing, retaining our customers' residual value and setting a prudent trade-in policy. And, finally, we're committed to delivering on our promises, and even exceeding them. The investments we've made in our ground-based labs, our employees' development and our flight-test programme for the G500 and G600 reflect that commitment and have allowed us to move customer deliveries up to 2017 and 2018, respectively.
AEROSPACE: With the industry still sluggish, has the pre-owed segment impacted on sales on new aircraft?
MB: The used aircraft market is very active. We see transactions related to pre-owned aircraft come through our service centres on a daily basis. The value in the pre-owned market is something our customers always consider in today's market. The products we have, such as the G650, G500 and G600, enable us to compete with new technologies and innovations that aren't seen in the larger portion of the pre-owned market.
AEROSPACE: A couple of companies are now aiming to bring supersonic flight back and NASA is working on a quiet supersonic X-plane. Are you tempted to revisit Gulfstream's supersonic research in the area?
MB: Ever since Gulfstream developed the Quiet Spike sonic-boom mitigator in 2006, it has had a small team dedicated to researching sonic-boom mitigation and working with the authorities to remove the ban on flying supersonically over land.
Gulfstream G550. (Gulfstream)
AEROSPACE: As well as VIP and corporate customers, Gulfstream also supplies military and government customers with special mission aircraft. What is the current split between your civil and military sales? Do you see that balance changing as some customers mull replacing larger aircraft (eg JSTARS) with bizjets?
MB: Government and special mission aircraft represent a small, but important, portion of our worldwide fleet. Our Gulfstream G550 is the ideal platform for special missions thanks to its ability to fly at higher altitudes, achieve higher speeds and fly longer ranges. Combine that performance with an unrivalled cabin environment – low cabin altitudes and 100% fresh air – and you have the perfect platform to support a wide range of special mission applications, including medevac; conformal airborne early warning (CAEW); atmospheric research; maritime patrol and surveillance; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (IS&R). In the US alone, Gulfstream aircraft serve the military as well as several government agencies.
AEROSPACE: How do you think new President Trump will affect business aviation? On the one hand he seems to be an enthusiastic user of business aviation – but on the other are you worried that US protectionism could end up damaging key markets – for example China?
MB: We have seen positive economic signs following the US Presidential election, but it is too soon to tell how this will impact our business and the industry over the long-term. We'll continue to work with advocacy groups, such as GAMA and NBAA, to create awareness around the needs of the business aviation community and to represent the industry on policies that could impact our business. Business aviation needs to be recognised for the high-tech jobs we have and continue to create, which helps our economy.
AEROSPACE: China and the Asia-Pacific are big markets for Gulfstream. What is the reason for your success there – given that it seems that many buyers went direct to large-cabin aircraft, rather than 'trade-up' in size?
MB: We made a decision to invest in the China market many years before the China business-aviation market developed. We delivered our first aircraft there in 2003 and we've been there ever since, building our presence and investing for the long-term. We were the first original equipment manufacturer to open a service centre in China, Gulfstream Beijing, and it's doing well. Since it opened in 2012, we've serviced more than 600 aircraft there. We have more than 75 people based in Greater China with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong, as well as an Asia Customer Contact Centre with nearly ten people. Ultimately, the investments we've made have earned us solid standing with our customers and a 70% share of the large-cabin market. Of course, it goes without saying that the performance, reliability, safety, quality and craftsmanship of our aircraft are at the centre of our success. Our long-range aircraft are ideally suited for customers in China due to their tremendous range and speed, which allow customers to fly from there to Europe, Africa or North America nonstop.
Gulfstream G500. (Gulfstream)
AEROSPACE: Business jets often pioneer some of the latest aviation technology first. What can we see from Gulfstream's latest aircraft that will end up going mainstream? What percentage of your profits do you invest in R&D?
MB: Over the past decade, thanks to our parent company General Dynamics, Gulfstream has invested significantly in its research efforts, with more than 1,500 engineers and designers working at our Research and Development Centre campus. The campus was established in March 2006 with a single office building and over time has grown to include three office buildings, a dedicated lab facility and the G500 and G600 building, which combines the two and puts our engineers and pilots in the same facility as our ground-based labs. I think some of the innovative technologies we've developed in those labs and introduced on the G500 and G600 will work their way into the mainstream. The G500 and G600 will have the first active control sidesticks in business aviation, and it would be wonderful to see that technology, which enhances safety, find its way into the broader aviation community. I believe the continued and consistent investment in our engineering workforce has created an environment of learning. This makes our products better and our company stronger.
AEROSPACE: Can you give us an update on the new G500 and G600 models as they progress through flight test? Are there any special challenges in conducting two near-simultaneous flight test campaigns?
MB: The G500 and G600 are doing extremely well. So well, in fact, that we were able to move up their entry-into-service dates to customers. There are five aircraft flying in the G500 programme, including one with a fully outfitted interior. As of late March, those aircraft had accumulated more than 2,600 hours of flight time. The G600 programme is doing equally well, with two aircraft flying and a third about to be. Since we launched the flight-test programme for the G600 in late December, the aircraft have achieved more than 200 hours of flight time.
Mock-up of interior of G600. (Gulfstream)
AEROSPACE: Gulfstream has made a name for itself in long-range, large-cabin aircraft. How do you see this market evolving in the future? What will customers ask for – even more range, faster onboard connectivity, more safety features?
MB: It's difficult to know just what customers will ask for next. That's why we make them part of our design process through our Customer Advisory Board and our Advanced Technology Customer Advisory Team. It was the feedback from those teams that helped us design the Gulfstream G650. Customers told us they wanted to go farther faster, and the G650 was born. We continue to work closely with them to ensure we're incorporating their feedback into future designs.
AEROSPACE: What do you think makes Gulfstream stand-out from its other business aviation competitors?
MB: I think what differentiates Gulfstream is the commitment of our employees to delivering on our promises. All of our in-production aircraft entered service on time with capabilities that met or exceeded what we promised. The G650, for example, had 1,000nm more range than we promised (6,000nm vs 5,000). With the Gulfstream G550, we delivered the PlaneView flight deck with enhanced vision, an industry first. With the G280, we delivered 200nm more range. It's important for us to create value for our customers by listening to what they want and ensuring we deliver it. Our people make this happen.
Interior of G550. (Gulfstream)
AEROSPACE: What would you say to those critical of business aviation as 'rich boys toys'? Should the industry be doing more to change its image and explain its social and economic benefits to media and politicians?
MB: Those critical of business aviation do not understand the benefits of our products and services. It's proven that companies using business aircraft grow faster and create more jobs. Safety, flexibility, reliability and performance are important whether you're traveling for business or pleasure. I think we've worked hard with industry organisations to inform media and politicians about the strategic benefits of business aviation as well as its important role in the world economy. Gulfstream alone employs some 15,000 people around the world. General aviation as a whole employs more than 1.1 million and makes a total economic contribution of more than $219bn. Business aviation is a cornerstone of our worldwide economy.
AEROSPACE: Following on from that, aviation as a whole is facing a skills crisis and a shortage of young people entering this industry. What is Gulfstream doing to attract the next generation into aerospace and specifically business aviation?
MB: We have a number of programmes in place that we hope will get the next generation of bright young minds interested in aerospace and business aviation. We have a Youth Apprentice program that allows local high-school students to split their time between school and working at Gulfstream to gain real-world experience and hands-on mentoring. Right now, we have apprentices working in 37 different job functions, including quality control, accounting, aircraft maintenance operations and engineering.
We offer dual high school and technical college enrollment, which allows high school students with an interest in technical jobs to take courses at one of Georgia's technical colleges to earn credits toward both a high-school diploma and a technical college degree.
We also collaborated with local business to launch a program of our own called the Student Leadership Program. In that program, we mentor high-school students, helping them develop life skills, explore available career paths and develop a post-graduation career plan. We started the program in Savannah, Georgia, which is home to our headquarters, and then expanded it to Brunswick, Georgia, and Appleton, Wisconsin.
We also have Job Shadow Programs at our facilities in Westfield, Massachusetts, and Dallas, Texas. Preparing the next-generation workforce is a priority for Gulfstream.
Gulfstream G280. (Gulfstream)
AEROSPACE: We are heading into EBACE in May. What aircraft will Gulfstream be taking there and what will the big message be?
MB: We will have the four-living-area Gulfstream G650ER, the Gulfstream G550 and the Gulfstream G280 on static display. If the testing schedule allows, we may bring a Gulfstream G500. Our focus will be on our flight-test programs, as we systematically march through key test points en route to customer deliveries at the end of 2017 for the G500 and 2018 for the G600.
AEROSPACE: Finally, what do you perceive as the biggest challenge facing business aviation today?
MB: The biggest challenge any business aviation company faces is to develop new products and services that customers need. In my almost 35 years in this industry, I have seen markets move up and down. To ensure success in any market conditions, you must have products and services that are high quality, reliable and innovative. I am confident the G650, G500 and G600 will be successful in today's market.


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Art, religion, and politics in medieval China : the Dunhuang cave of the Zhai Family
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|Buddhist art -- China -- Dunhuang Caves
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Buddhist mural painting and decoration -- China -- Dunhuang Caves
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Table of Content -- Acknowledgement -- List of Color Plates -- List of Black and White Figures -- Chronological Table of the History of Dunhuang -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Iconography of the Original Early Tang Paintings: A Re-examination -- I-1. West Wall: Sculptures and Paintings of the Deities and Patrons -- I-2. North Wall: The Healing Ritual and Its Visual Representations -- I-3. South Wall: Pictoralization of the Western Paradise -- I-4. East Wall: New Motifs in the Illustration of the Vimalakrti-nirdea Stra -- Reconstruction: Historical Layers of the Zhai Family Cave -- II-1. Political Motifs Made during the Tibetan Occupation -- II-2. Maintenance of the Family Cave: The Second and Third Reconstructions -- II-3. Local Icons and Local Histories -- Historical and Cultural Values of the Zhai Family Cave -- III-1. The "Family Caves" at Dunhuang -- III-2. Artists, Patrons and Monks/Nuns -- III-3. Pictorial History of Medieval China -- Endnotes -- Appendices -- A. Table of the Illustrations of the Bhaiajya-guru Stra in the Mogao Caves -- B. Table of the Illustrations of the Western Paradise in the Mogao Caves -- Table of the Illustrations of the Vimalakrti-nirdea Stra in the Mogao Caves -- List of Chinese Characters -- Works Cited
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Rowing coach retires
Standing atop a floating dock stretching 30 feet out into the dark water of Lake Howell, Dan Bertossa casts a long shadow from the last rays of the falling sun as a spear-shaped boat rises out of the water behind him.
It's all he can do to not give the small clutch of freshman oarsmen a bit of advice on how to keep the bow from dipping back into the water, but that's not his job anymore.
These days, the obsessive Winter Park crew coach has to deal with the strain of dissociating himself from a program in which he'd sculpted every detail. After 21 years as head of one of the most successful sports programs in state history, Bertossa is hanging up his bullhorn.
That decision came as a shock to devoted followers of what has become the unquestionably dominant crew program in Florida. The state's crew record book is so tattooed with the Winter Park name, it doubles as a yearbook for the program's own accomplishments.
It's difficult to avoid superlatives in describing the team's history; the record itself speaks in dumb awe that one team alone could accomplish so much in so little time. In any given high school sport, a strong program may win a state championship every half dozen years. In 21 years, a great program may take home a handful of state championships. In that same time span, Bertossa's crew teams have won 33.
Most of those years, Winter Park's boys and girls teams won side by side, sweeping the varsity races. Bad years for the team have been enough to make other teams green with envy. Asking for a low point requires a keen memory.
"There was a five-year span in the mid to late '90s," Bertossa said, explaining that during two of those years, the boys and girls varsity failed to capture the championship. "We still won most of the team state championships though."
But inside the austere boathouse, there's almost no evidence of victory, no pretense — just a knowledge of the past, and focus toward the future.
Bertossa's history on the water started on a whim at what was then the Florida Institute of Technology. En route to a degree in engineering, he picked up an oar for the team, and rowed for four years along the waters of the Indian River.
"I wasn't really big or strong, but I felt like I listened a lot," Bertossa said. "I knew the only way I could get better was focusing on the details."
That eye for detail would pay off later. Three years after he graduated college, the wife of Winter Park crew coach Steve Coutant approached Bertossa with a job offer. He'd never coached any sports before.
The team was successful immediately. Bertossa calls it the luckiest first year he could have had.
"I was fortunate enough to have a tremendous crew team — all 6'2" to 6'4", 185 pounds, very strong," Bertossa said. "I thought I'd have it like that every year after that. I never had a team like that again."
He persevered anyway, taking whatever recruits he could and leveraging a keen interest in physics to tweak details with relentless precision. Technique, he said, would have to be everything.
Three eight-man boats glided across the water of Lake Howell on a cool fall afternoon in 2009, as Bertossa, wearing that familiar red cap and black Winter Park windbreaker, stood at the helm of a small motorboat, flanking their port side. Watching 24 rowers at once, he called out the one whose lower back was moving too much on the drive stroke. The boat accelerated a few inches ahead.
But those tiny pushes toward victory don't paint the whole picture of a man who invested deeply in his young athletes' lives. Some rowers' parents said Bertossa changed their childrens' lives forever.
"I've seen him change young men who came from very difficult environments — even those who had a police record — and turned them around into students who get college scholarships," said Jonathan Rich, a parent of a former rower.
"It wasn't just about winning," said Winter Park graduate and international-level coxswain Katelin Snyder. "You could tell that's not what he really cared about. He took a real interest in helping us grow as students and as people."
In a sport where inches can be the margin of victory, everything counts. But while sweating the details of the sport brought him victory, it also brought pain. Though he watched his son Alec and daughter Ellie grow and succeed as rowers in his program, he openly laments missing important moments.
In 2009, on Alec's 17th birthday, he watched as his son and daughter won state championships on the same day. If he could pick a high point in his career, that would be it.
But then there are the times he wasn't there — the moments he can't get back.
"There have been dozens of times where I was on the same lake as them, and didn't get to see them compete," Bertossa said. "I'd try to get a boat and go over, and [Ellie] is already across the finish line."
The waning twilight softens to blue as two small ducks wing their way overhead and disappear beyond a stand of trees. As Bertossa's children grow up and fly away, it's those missed moments that have made him rethink coaching. Alec is now rowing at his dad's alma mater, renamed Florida Tech. Ellie will be at Tulsa next fall. His youngest, Cameron, is in the seventh grade.
"I knew if I kept coaching, I wouldn't be able to see my son race once," he said. "Now I'm still part of the team, but I have that freedom to be with my family again. I'm happy with that."
Row for dough
The Winter Park Women's Club, 419 S. Interlachen Ave., is hosting Winter Park Crew Boosters Annual Silent Auction "An Evening on Boathouse Row" from 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13. Visit winterparkcrew.com to buy tickets or call Meggen Wilson at 407-414-2947.


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It was just a few hours into 2013 - just after 3:00 a.m. - when flames engulfed the home in the unit block of Lincoln Avenue.
By daybreak, a couple who escaped the blaze got their first good look at what little is left behind.
"Definitely lucky we got out," said survivor Jeff Wall.
"Thank God I'm alive," said survivor Paula Davis.
Wall and Davis live at 47 Lincoln Avenue. The New Year's Day blaze began in the twin next door to them and quickly spread.
The fire was so intense at some points crews couldn't move in.
"We're in external operations only," said Yeadon Fire Chief Michael Diienno. "We've had numerous building collapses, so there's no guys inside, just on the outside."
The man who lives in the home where the fire began had to be rescued from a porch roof and transported to the hospital.
Hours after crews cleared the scene you could still hear the smoke detector going off. The couple credits those alarms with saving their lives.
"The detectors woke up Paula," said Jeff Wall. "We saw a lot of smoke. The hallways started filling up and we decided to get out."
By 10:00 a.m. the Red Cross had already reached out to the couple and so did neighbors and a local pastor.
"We appreciate them," said Wall. "Everybody's putting a hand out."
The New Year is forcing this couple to find a new home. But they are optimistic about what the rest of 20-13 will bring.
"Happy New Year," said Wall. "We'll be fine."


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The preliminaries of the Miss USA contest were run off this evening. We did not get an exact count of all the entries but there must have been at least 50. This first night they were cut down to 35 of the best. Many of these girls used weights regularly to develop themselves and the girl who eventually won third place in a close three way contest is a hard worker with the weights at Vince Gironda's gym.
The "Miss USA" finals presented the best of the contestants in a beautiful setting. The judges had a very difficult decision to make, as all the girls were outstandingly beautiful and well built. The final winner was a beautiful blonde, Evelyn Lovequist, and second place went to Hazel Shaw, third to blonde Lynn Roebuck, a pupil of Vince Gironda.


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The mother had come to the hospital twice the day before her baby was born. Both times she was sent home because no one believed it was time for her to deliver.
She returned the following day and within minutes experienced complications. Her doctors failed to respond to reports from nurses that there were clear signs the unborn baby was in distress. The hours passed.
Finally the doctors began an emergency Caesarean section. By then the baby was severely brain damaged. The mother later sued and settled out of court for $750,000.
When medicine goes bad, it most often victimizes newborns and their mothers, people under anesthesia and those receiving heavy medication.
Babies die, or are maimed or crippled. Anesthesia accidents leave patients comatose, hopelessly brain damaged or dead. Too many drugs or the wrong kind lead to allergic reactions, diseases or death.
``I`m afraid the public today has an expectancy of perfection in everything. They expect every doctor to heal every ill. That`s not the real world,`` said Charlie Abbott, last year`s president of the Florida Defense Lawyers Association and an Orlando attorney who specializes in defending doctors.
Whatever the cause, accidents associated with childbirth represent one of the biggest single sources of malpractice claims.
The Florida Physicians Insurance Co., which insures about 2,000 of the state`s 22,000 practicing doctors, did a study that showed injuries to children during birth was the fifth leading reason its physicians were sued in 1984. Injuries to the mother was the 10th most common reason.
In another study, five obstetricians at the University of Minnesota analyzed 220 malpractice claims nationwide involving childbirth and found that the doctors in those cases had mishandled 68 percent of the risks associated with delivery. The claims had been paid by the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. between 1980 and 1982.


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Lindsay Drive, Abingdon, OX14 2RT. Charity number: 278083
has been at the heart of Peachcroft for 30 years and is the umbrella organisation for the North East Abingdon Community Centre. Pre-school and a number of other activities take place in the Community Centre. The Community Hall is available for hire evenings and weekends with or without use of the Croft Bar.
The aims of the Association
are to:
a) "Promote the benefits of the inhabitants of North-East Abingdon and the neighbourhood, together defined by Oxford Road, Twelve Acre Drive, Radley Road and Norman Avenue without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants;
b) Establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and maintain and manage the same (whether alone or in co-operation with any local authority or other body) to further these objectives;
c) Promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined".


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Delegates are provided with the ability to connect the dots between data warehousing, Business Intelligence and analytics, to demonstrate how a solid data architecture builds a robust BI framework that enables both basic and advanced analytics.
(PRWEB) July 17, 2014
TDWI's Boston World Conference will be held across 20 – 25 July 2014, providing a dedicated learning forum for BI, Data Warehousing (DW) and analytics professionals.
TDWI Boston also provides an opportunity for leading BI, DW and analytics solutions to showcase their capabilities. As an event sponsor, Yellowfin will be demonstrating its BI solution, exhibiting at booth number 203.
For more information, and to register for TDWI's Boston World Conference, go here: http://events.tdwi.org/events/boston-world-conference-2014/home.aspx.
Yellowfin Chief Operations Officer, Justin Hewitt, said that the holistic approach taken by the instructor-led courses at TDWI's Boston event was important.
"Delegates are provided with the ability to connect the dots between data warehousing, Business Intelligence and analytics, to demonstrate how a solid data architecture builds a robust BI framework that enables both basic and advanced analytics," said Hewitt.
The agenda for TDWI's Boston conference comprises over 70 presentations – including keynote sessions delivered by industry thought-leaders Timothy G. Buchman and Tony Rathburn – encompassing six streams focusing on "Evolving Your Analytics Infrastructure", "BI Essentials", "Business Analytics", "Data Analysis and Design", "Data Asset Management" and "Leadership and Management".
View the full agenda for TDWI Boston HERE: http://events.tdwi.org/Events/Boston-World-Conference-2014/Tracks/Track-List.aspx.
TDWI's World Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, is the third of its 'World Conference' events for 2014. There are five TDWI World Conferences throughout 2014, which provide a forum for business and technology professionals looking to gain in-depth education on BI, DW and analytics.
Yellowfin will exhibit at all five TDWI World Conference events throughout 2014.
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Three years ago this month, I published a post on this blog (one of my first) comparing my impressions of visiting Temple Square in Salt Lake City with my first visit to the Vatican in Rome. A year later, in the October 2008 General Conference, President Monson announced that the LDS Church would be building a temple in Rome, Italy. At that time, I updated my original post with some thoughts about my aspirations (and fears) about this project. Curiously, I still receive a new comment on that post about every six months. As I checked my Google Analytics stats a couple of weeks ago, that post is by several orders of magnitude my most viewed. Needless to say, I find this puzzling (if not a little disappointing). The only explanation that I can find is that one of the pictures I used comes up early in a Google Images search for the Vatican, and that my post is one of the first links in a search for "LDS Rome temple" or some variation thereof. I never imagined that the post would get the kind of readership it did; if I had, I might have done a more thoughtful and nuanced job of it.
The main thrust of the original post was my own preference for the human warmth of Temple Square vs. the stony opulence of the Vatican. Some might say that I am biased, since I am Mormon and not Catholic, to which I would reply, "Well, duh." I think that some took the post to be too combative and too critical of the Vatican, especially given a history of anti-Catholic sentiment among Mormons. Maybe the "vs." in the post's title set it up to be too much of a competition. Such was not my intention. The point was never to put the two tourist attractions up against one another as proof of either institution's value or truth claims. That would have been silly. But, as I stated towards the beginning of my original post, no Mormon who visits the Vatican can escape the comparison, even if only in his own head. In all frankness, while I retain my own preference (for reasons that are personal and biased), I am not entirely convinced that, for a more objective observer, Temple Square comes off favorably at all in the comparison. More on that below. At the very least, I was allowed to tour the Vatican and enjoy all of the sights without being molested by missionaries asking for people who might want to talk to them about becoming Catholic.
Many of the comments to the updated post fell into two categories: an overenthusiastic defense of Catholicism or an overenthusiastic defense of Mormonism. (Note: While the post currently shows only seven comments, several others were deleted for content and tone). One (Catholic) commenter accused me of having a "holy envy" towards the Roman Catholic Church, and chiding me for comparing the two where the LDS Church's contributions to Western civilization are so much slighter than those of the Roman Catholic Church's. The two points are linked. I will concede the holy envy point. To equate what Mormons have historically created in the world of art, architecture, music, and thought on par with what Catholics (or those influenced by the Catholic tradition) have created would be a fool's errand. That is not to say that all of those contributions have been unequivocally positive (ditto Mormonism). But it remains an apples-to-oranges comparison. The LDS Church is currently less than 200 years old, when compared with a history of nearly 2000 years for the Catholic Church. The LDS Church has never had the level of political power or patronage that the Catholic Church has wielded over the centuries. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church at only 200 years old had not produced any of its most enduring and beautiful patrimony. One could argue that most, if not all, of what is most awe-inspiring about the Vatican (and by extension, the Catholic Church) mostly originates in its second millennium of existence. I hope that Mormonism has a brighter future as it ages and matures. Anyone who knows me would never mistake me for a proponent for the shallow kitsch that passes as Mormon culture in the late 20th and early 21st century.
The other set of commenters (primarily writing in response to the comment I referenced above) fall into the predictable pattern of far too many Mormons, that of a nearly congenital inability to see anything good outside of their own faith tradition. Several LDS commenters wanted to compare the Vatican to the temple itself, and not to Temple Square. While some of the fault lies with the comparison that I first proposed, there is a fundamental way in which the Vatican and the temple differ so as to render any such comparison of little utility. St. Peter's Basilica (and the attached buildings) is a house of worship, but for nearly all 365 days each year, it is open to the public as a tourist attraction. While Temple Square is a tourist attraction, the Temple itself (or at least its interior) is off limits to the public– it is used purely for worship. This is not meant as a value judgment on either, but merely to point out their differences. Some of these commenters were too harsh in their critique of the value that the Catholic Church places on the ornamentation of the Vatican buildings. That critique is off base first because it ignores that these buildings simply serve a different purpose from LDS temples, but also because it ignores that others' definition of what constitutes "worship" may be significantly broader than our own.
So now the LDS Church has finally broken ground on the Rome temple. An architectural rendering is found at the top of this post. I am pleased that the temple is not one of the cookie-cutter mini-temples. As far as I can tell, the design of this temple is original, as I have not see any other temple with these particular features. One cannot know what the interior may look like without attending the temple once completed (or at least the open house), but I am hopefully that there will be some originality there as well. Despite what many of co-religionists will be tempted to argue ("The ordinances are what matter, no what the building looks like"), the image that the temple presents does matter. If not, we could just do the ordinances in a barn. To the contrary, the LDS Church spends millions of dollars on each of its temples (far more than the Catholic Church spends on its buildings abroad, I might add), precisely because we do care what kind of image these edifices project. I am also heartened by the fact that the temple grounds appear to indicate plans for a visitor's center and an arts/cultural center (those would be the buildings to the left and top of the temple itself. The building to the right is likely an ordinary meetinghouse). I am hopeful that the Church will avail itself of the opportunity to feature art and LDS history that is local to Europe, and not put up the same ten or twelve paintings that we have in every building and temple elsewhere in the Church.
Overall, I am encouraged by the plans that have been put forth. It remains to be seen how they will be implemented, but what I have seen leaves me more sanguine about what the Rome Temple could become.


text: Ultimate Keto Chocolate Ice-CreamUltimate Keto Chocolate Ice-Cream4.2 stars, average of 57 ratingsMartina SlajerovaNov 12, 201743 Pin recipeFollow us 71.3k This chocolate ice-cream is pure indulgence. Just like the many other of my keto chocolate treats, this recipe is for all of us - chocoholics! As always, it's sugar-free, dairy-free and paleo-friendly. To make my ice-cream super rich and creamy, I used MCT oil and gelatine. Both MCT oil and gelatine will keep any ice-cream from getting too hard when frozen. If you don't have MCT oil, you can use a 2-4 tablespoons of vodka which will prevent ice crystals from forming. 2 hours, 30 minutesHands-on 30 minutes Overall 2-3 hours Nutritional values (per serving, 2 scoops) 6.9 grams 2.6 grams 5.8 grams 32.6 grams 27.1 grams 324 calories Total Carbs9.6grams Fiber2.6grams Net Carbs6.9grams Protein5.8grams Fat32.6grams of which Saturated27.1grams Calories324kcal Magnesium92mg (23% RDA) Potassium357mg (18% EMR) Macronutrient ratio: Calories from carbs (8%), protein (7%), fat (85%) Ingredients (makes 8 servings) 3 cups coconut milk or heavy whipping cream (720 ml / 24 fl oz) - I like Aroy-D coconut milk 3/4 cup Erythritol or Swerve or other healthy low-carb sweetener from this list (120 g / 4.2 oz) 1/2 cup cacao powder (45 g/ 1.5 oz) 3 large egg yolks 1/4 cup water (60 ml/ 2 fl oz) 1 tbsp gelatine - see note in step 8 1/4 cup MCT oil (60 ml/ 2 fl oz) or 2-4 tbsp vodka pinch salt (I like pink Himalayan) 1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate or dark chocolate chips (90 g/ 3.2 oz) - I used 85% chocolate Optional: 15-20 drops Stevia extract (Clear stevia or Chocolate stevia) More tips for soft ice-cream: This recipe produces soft and creamy ice-cream. Both MCT oil and gelatine keep the ice-cream from getting hard when frozen for several hours. Here are even more tips in case you don't have these ingredients: Vegetable glycerin - 1-2 tablespoons. This ingredient will prevent crystallisation. It has a minimum effect on blood sugar but I personally count all the carbs in it because it has more calories than sugar. Also, put the ice-cream in single-serving containers so you don't have to wait for too long until it softens when taken out of the freezer. Free online tools, easy-to-follow keto guides and more! Find out more Print RecipeDownload RecipeInstructions Pour the coconut milk in a large sauce pan. Reserve 1/2 cup of coconut milk for later. Add the Erythritol, salt and stevia (if used) and stir well. Start heating the mixture over a medium heat. Add the cacao powder (unsweetened raw cacao) and mix until dissolved. Heat until the mixture starts boiling and then reduce the heat to low. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix the egg yolks with the remaining coconut milk. Slowly pour about a cup of the hot mixture into the cold egg yolk mixture while whisking. Then, slowly pour the egg mixture back in the sauce pan and keep stirring. Mix the gelatine with the water. Cook the chocolate mixture while stirring until the it starts to thicken and it lightly covers the spatula. Then, take off the heat and set aside. Pour the gelatine into the cream mixture. Set the sauce pan over an ice bath (a bowl filled with iced water) and let it cool down, stirring occasionally. Add the MCT oil (or vodka) and mix in well. Let it cool down to room temperature (do not refrigerate ir it may get too thick). You can place a plastic wrap over the top to prevent it from drying. Once it cools down, pour into the ice-cream maker (I use a Cuisinart) and process according to the manufacturer's instructions. Feedback tips: If the consistency is too thick, gently heat up the chocolate mixture until it's liquid again (do not boil, only warm it up) - or reduce the amount of gelatine powder to just 1 teaspoon. Churning may take anything between 30-60 minutes depending on your ice-cream maker. When done, scoop in a freezer-friendly container and add roughly chopped dark chocolate or chocolate chips. Place in the freezer for 30-60 minutes. I like using small single-serving containers like these. Enjoy! :-) BlogRecipesDessertsUltimate Keto Chocolate Ice-CreamBlogRecipesUltimate Keto Chocolate Ice-CreamBlogMartina SlajerovaUltimate Keto Chocolate Ice-CreamDo you like this recipe? Share it with your friends! FacebookTwitterPinterestRedditLet us know what you think, rate this recipe!