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Compound interest is one of the several financial customs, that have until recently been used in Italy in banks' market. In the last years however, the bank system has evolved drastically. Hence, the Italian legislator, in the past, tended to leave too much freedom to contract to bank operators in setting up credit clauses and condition, allowing a general reference to custom – "rinvio ad usi su piazza" – in the definition of the terms of the agreements. In the absence of specific rules governing the matter, bank professionals were forced to operate in accordance with practices and … [Read more...] about Usury, Transparency of Bank Services and Compound Interest in Italy
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Every year, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) awards several scholarships to deserving Niger Deltans who hope to pursue postgraduate studies abroad. The aim of this scholarship is to equip Niger Deltans with much need training and skills for effective participation in the local content program of the Federal Government.
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Epicure Gourmet Market & Cafe will close its Sunny Isles Beach store at at 17190 Collins Ave. this month after nearly 10 years in business — leaving only the original Epicure Market in Miami Beach after an expansion effort in Miami-Dade failed to take hold.
The Sunny Isles Beach store opened in 2008, followed by a location in Coral Gables in 2013. The Coral Gables store closed in June 2015 after struggling to find its customer base. The original Epicure opened in 1945 at 1656 Alton Rd. in Miami Beach.
Epicure's Sunny Isles Beach market replaced the legendary Rascal House — considered among the last of Miami-Dade's old-school New York-style delis and built by the restaurateur Wolfie Cohen in 1954.
The Rascal House was a dining destination in the area for decades, serving oversized portions and staffed by no-nonsense waitresses who labored amid a decor seemingly frozen in time with black and white photos of Jackie Gleason and wooden counters and booths.
In 1996, Cohen sold the Rascal House to the Starkman family — father Isaac and brothers Guy and Jason — who kept the restaurant running until 2008, when they converted it into an Epicure market.


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Published: November 19th, 2012 at 4:29 pm ET
Who's to blame for the radioactive fish? TEPCO denies caesium contamination is from Fukushima – hear more on AM @7:10
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"Japan's fisheries agency insists the contamination is seeping into the seabed and is not entering the food chain. The nuclear plant operator Tepco denies any tainted water is leaking from the facility […] Tepco Spokesman: 'At the present time we're not in a position to clearly understand why there is still radiation being found in fish off of Fukushima.'"
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- Asahi: Radiation levels spike to record high in Fukushima groundwater well nearby ocean — Trench failures to blame, says Tepco — Million times more strontium/beta-ray source than cesium December 14, 2013
- Japan Times: "There could be hot spots under the sea" says Tokyo prof. — "No telling when contamination levels will peak" — 1/3 of fish caught in Gunma lake over max. cesium limit February 4, 2012
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Girl Scout mom Christina Pierce of Falls Creek, Punxsutawney is facing charges of theft by failure to deposit funds and for receiving stolen property on Monday, November 9. Christina stole 81 cases of Girl Scout cookies. Police say that on November 10, someone saw about all the cookies on Facebook. That person reported to the police that he knew where the cookies were and that he would bring them to the police. Christina Pierce had already tried stealing Girl Scout cookies in the past, which she sold for $4 a…Read More


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Mike Shea, guest writer here and head honcho of Sly Flourish, interviewed me about the recently completed paragon tier in my campaign. Mike has run a campaign all the way from level 1 to level 30 so he's experienced with finishing all 3 tiers, and was interested in comparing our two experiences. We talk about top tips for running paragon, issues of plot, world-hopping, combat speed, character effectiveness, the 5×5 method in actual play, and more.
This is an informal chat between two DMs, talking about our games. Hopefully you can take some of our lessons and apply them to your own campaign. For a similar look at heroic tier, be sure to take a look at my wrap-up of those levels. For the paragon finale itself, I discuss it in The 5×5 Dungeon: The Temple of Elemental Evil.
Lessons from the Paragon Tier (50 minutes, 46 MB)
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Kyocera International (KII) is a manufacturer of mobile telephones for CDMA networks and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera Corporation that was formed in February 2000 when Kyocera acquired QUALCOMM's San Diego, California-based terrestrial handset division. It produces mobile phones, cellular routers, and Mobile PC Cards for markets in North America, South America, Australia, and New Zealand.
In 2003, Kyocera Wireless India (KWI), based in Bangalore, was established as a fully owned subsidiary of Kyocera Wireless Corp, expanding Kyocera's reach into India's CDMA markets. However, in September 2009, Kyocera Wireless sold KWI to Mindtree Ltd of Bangalore, India.
In early 2008, they acquired Sanyo mobile phones for $375 Million. On April 1, 2008, they merged forming Kyocera-Sanyo making them the sixth-largest cell phone company. They also announced that they are entering the GSM handset market. Kyocera intends to sell Sanyo-branded phones till at least 2011. On January 30, 2009, Kyocera announced that they will consolidate both of their U.S. handset groups, Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Kyocera Sanyo Telecom into one. On April 1, 2009, a year after the merger, they officially changed Kyocera Sanyo Telecom to Kyocera Communications (KCI) and moved all operations to their San Diego U.S. headquarters.
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Have any of you been to a movie theater lately? It's ridiculous. It's out of control. And no, I'm not talking Michael Moore's (search) film. I'm not even talking about films, period.
I'm talking about the commercials!
They're everywhere and they're over the top: too long, too many, too much.
Movie theaters say they need them to defray the cost of tickets for the viewing public. That's a lie. That's a bold-faced lie. I don't know about you but my ticket prices aren't getting cheaper!
It's a lie as bad as the one that says a show is going to start at 8 p.m. No, what these sniveling, phony, ticket-pushing pimps don't tell you is that it's the "commercials" that start at 8 p.m. Once you get past them and the previews, you're looking at 8:15 p.m. — at the earliest!
Look, I have no problem with advertising. But in places and on shows where I expect it. Not theaters, where I do not and, I think, where I "should not."
Look, I know theater owners have to make money. But guys, you have to try something more novel: the truth!
I'll tell you what. If you argue these commercials are defraying your costs, give us a choice: Pay more for a movie with the commercials, or less for a movie without them.
I dare you. I dare you to be honest and not the sneaky worms so many of you theater chains have become.
Maybe some moviegoers will happily endure the ads for a better price on a flick. Maybe some will just tell you to flick off.
But it will be their choice, not yours.
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Customer Management
Customer management involves an intens focus on understanding customer's desires and requirements, and translating this understanding into specific operational capabilities processes. These efforts include the design of sales and order fulfillment processes. Hierarchy of Commitment to Customers
Customer Service
The foundation for customer management lies in providing excellent service to customers. Most operations managers agree that customer service is important., they sometimes find it extremely difficult to explain what it is. While common expressions of customer service include "easy to do business with" and "responsive to customers", it is more meaningful to think of customer service as providing six basic "rights" to customers: the right amount of the right product at the right place at the right time in the right condition with the right information. Traditionally, it has been common to think of a company's basic customer service program in terms of product availability, lead-time performance, and service realibility. 1. Product Availability
Product availability is the capacity to have inventory present when and where it is desired by customer. To make products consistently availbale managers have to make good decisions concerning safety stock levels and product availability service level policies. Product availability is usually measured in terms of stockouts and fill rates. Stockout refers to the situation when a firm has depleted inventory of an item that is supposed to be in stock. The most common way to report levels of product availability is in terms of fill rates. A fill rate measures te impact of stockouts over time or over multiple orders from customers. There are many ways that fill rates can be estimated; the most common measures being unit fill rate, line fill rate, and order fill rate. * Unit fill rate
The percentage of total quantity of units ordered by customers that actually delivered. Unit fill rate = Total units delivered/ Total units ordered
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It measures service performance as the percentage order lines that are filled in total. Line fill rate = Number of order lines delivered complete/ Total order lines * Order fill rate
It measures the percentage of orders that are shipped complete with all items ordered by a customer. Order fill rate = Total complete orders delivered/ Total orders
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Lead time used to describe the amount of time that passes between the beginning and ending of a set activities. Critical importance to customers is the order-to-delivery (OTD) lead time, which is the time that passes from the instant the customer placed an order until the instant that the customer receives the product. Many different time-consuming activities may constitute OTD lead time, including: 1. Product design lead time is the time interval needed to conceptualize, design, and test a new product. 2. Order lead time is the time required to place an order for a product plus the time to schedule the order so that operations can begin working on it. 3. Procurement lead time is the time associated with obtaining (through purchases) the inputs required for processing the order. 4. Production lead time begins at the moment the production or service system begins working on an order. It ends when the completed order is transferred to the distribution system for delivery. 5. Delivery lead time measures the time consumed by the distribution system, including warehousing and transportation. It ends moment that product reaches the customer. From the customer's point of view, the elements of the lead time that comprise the OTD lead time depend on the market orientation of the product.In chapter Product/...
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The future odds for a team can tell us a lot about what the books think about their overall value going into the 2013 season, and it can also give us an idea of which teams are under and overvalued.
San Francisco 49ers (+600 Super Bowl, +350 NFC)
The defending NFC champs come in as 6/1 favorites to win the Super Bowl this season courtesy of Bet365. If you're a conventional thinker, the 49ers at 6/1 present some really nice value this season. They have reached the NFC Title game in the last two seasons and on paper they are the best team in the NFL. However experience does go a long way, and despite the much needed humbling shot of 2012, the 49ers are still not the most experienced playoff team in the NFC. They lost and added some nice pieces this offseason, and I fully expect them to win the division, because the team behind is concerning as well.
Seattle Seahawks (+800 Super Bowl, +400 NFC)
After yet another blockbuster offseason for the Seahawks, Seattle has its best shot at a Super Bowl since the 2005 season, and the bookmakers are taking notice. The Hawks added Cliff Avril to an already awesome defense and Percy Harvin to a now extremely dynamic offense. However are they too hyped this offseason? The short answer is yes. I believe the Seahawks will not be as good as their future odds expect of them, which would be a NFC Championship season or bust in the eyes of the organization. 11-5 ATS last season was tied with the best in the NFL for Seattle. Do you think that combined with the odds you're looking at above here are going to make the Hawks have any value for your NFL picks? I don't think so. Sell.
St. Louis Rams (+6600 Super Bowl, +4000 NFC)
St. Louis was another team that was widely undervalued in the offseason future odds before the 2012 season, and it translated into an 11-5 ATS season for the Rams, tied for the best in the NFL last year. This time last season the Rams' NFL odds were 125/1 to win the Super Bowl, and as you can see those have been cut almost completely in half. Part of that is attributed to the Rams going 7-8-1 SU last season. Even though the Rams had a great ATS season last year, I don't think that will all of a sudden make them overvalued like their Seattle counterpart who also went 11-5 ATS last season. However I could easily see the Rams at 9-7 ATS this season no problem.
Arizona Cardinals (+10,000 Super Bowl, +5000 NFC)
The Cardinals come in as the bottom feeder in this conference. Arizona could do little to nothing last season going 5-11 SU and 7-8-1 ATS. They did finish strong, but now a new head coach and an older new quarterback take the reigns. I do expect them to be a little better than their future odds suggest, but not too much. Carson Palmer is a huge question mark heading into the season, and his play will be the reason they are under or overvalued. There is too much uncertainty for me to recommend anything with this team as they currently stand. Maybe some Larry Fitzgerald prop bets, but other than that there is nothing.


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One of the highschoolers in my youth group handed me this book last week, with a card that says:
"THIS BOOK BELONGS TO TIM LIM. Every delegate at Hillsong Conference received a free copy of this book to give to someone else and I chose you because I know you'll read it right? And you like books but you're also someone who can discern if this book's good. Tell me if this book's good. Hope it helps you :)" You can download the book "Live .Love.Lead" here.
I say this as a thank you and also as a disclaimer. I'm not writing this to stir up strife around Hillsong or Brian Houston. I'm writing this to provide wisdom and advice for people who 'have less time' to read books or think theologically, especially those who have recently attended Hillsong Conference 2015 in Sydney. I only want to review what he mentions in his book. You may notice that I mainly quote from the first half of the book, as it presents most of the stuff I think you need to hear.
Each chapter begins with a quote of lyrics from one Hillsong's songs, in contrast to the usual Christian book that begins with a quote of bible verses at the start of each chapter (not that this is necessarily a bad thing). It's nice how there are plenty of stories about the Australian lifestyle, ministry struggle and family relationships. I felt quite at home reading such an easy and conversational book – and I think this is one of Brian's strengths.
As I read along, however, I noticed a recurring theme. Throughout the book, there seems to be an underlying focus on the individual. Myself. Our dreams and visions can come true with a little faith in 'no other name' (see chapter 11). Brian encourages readers to live "a life you perhaps could only ever dream of… comfortable in your own skin… where God wants you to live your life." (pp. 32-33). According to this book, we're to "enjoy A Big Life" while apparently going "through A Narrow Gate" (p. 4).
I struggled to understand what the focus of the book was on, but I guess that's the nature of the book from its title – living, loving and leading. He touches on a few areas of faith but centres them around the reader's hopes and dreams. I wasn't surprised. After all, the subtitle of the book says "Your Best is Yet to Come!"1. There is no mention of the fact that sin affects everything, even our desires.
No personal offence to Brian's writing style (which is actually very engaging and entertaining), but the stories of his own life, his own family, his own church and influence can draw readers away from this 'no other name' and toward himself – the man on the front cover. For example, it left my feelings confused when he shared his story being "five years old when I made the decision to accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour… [now] I am living my dream" (pp. 38-39, emphasis added).
There are some really encouraging and heartfelt moments of 'transparency' that Brian displays in his stories. This is honestly awesome, yet the lack of reference to sin, suffering, and the will of God fails to provide a healthy doctrinal diet to the reader. Moralistic applications of characters in the bible with no biblical theology dominate (aka. canonical theology, where the biblical storyline revolves around the Christ), and Jesus just doesn't seem to be the focus of this book.
Another weakness (in my opinion) is his disoriented definition of faith. I presume this is from his (admittedly subtle) differing theology of God, Jesus, and the Spirit, along with his synergistic view of the Christian life (i.e. working together with God rather than God working in you). He defines faith as "holding on to your purpose and trusting in God's goodness in the midst of all the peaks, celebrations, and mountaintops, as well as the trials, temptations, and tragedies that life throws at you." (p. 40). This definition is nice in the sense that it encapsulates trusting God through the high as well as the low points of life. It just seems too self-centered.
A definition I prefer asserts that "biblical faith finds its expression in both the objective content of the Christian gospel and the subjective feelings that indicate true heart transformation."2 Since the doctrines of Brian, Hillsong and the wider Pentecostal denomination (objective) differ to the doctrines I hold to be true, it should be no surprise that the resulting Christian lifestyle depicted is quite different (subjective). Once again, I say this as a provision of clarity for readers and skeptics.
Brian talks about the great commission from Matthew 28, and while this is a nice pep-talk to evangelism, he solely applies it to his model of ministry for Hillsong. God's "unconditional love for all people" (p. 51) where his proclaimed fact that "God loves us without conditions" (p. 53) seems to be his doctrine of the church (cf. p. 46).
I find it helpful that Brian mentions the outworkings of theological disagreements in a specific section of his book. "It seems these days that any person in authority who is building something significant has a collection of naysayers and bloggers ready to cut down and criticise anything and everything that they disagree with. Yet I believe we have to find a way to love other people beyond our disagreements." (p. 49).
You're right, and sometimes criticism is based on wrong judgements and inappropriately voiced. It is the duty, however, of Christian leaders to protect and train God's flock in the truth (cf. Acts 20:28). And you know what? I learnt a lot from reading this book. I may disagree that this book should even exist or be distributed, but this book nonetheless encouraged me to live transparently, love authentically and lead courageously (p. 129).
In conclusion, get this book if you want the 'Hillsong feeling' running through your veins. If you prefer some more robust biblical teaching (in my opinion) and encouragement, there are plenty of other books that do a better job talking about Christian living, love and leadership3. This book's going to the unlisted library.
1 See also: "The Prosperity "Gospel" v. The Gospel of Jesus Christ" – http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/30917
2 Definition from: "Inclusivism: What is faith anyway?" – http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2007/11/23/inclusivism-what-is-faith-anyway/
3 Other books I recommend with the same themes include 'Ordinary' by Michael Horton and 'Just Do Something' by Kevin DeYoung.


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Budget $250-750 USD
this flash game will uploaded in my server
short description of this game :
Monkeys on both sides of the canyon are trying to escape by getting onto a rapidly rising hot air balloon. The balloon swerves from side to side and the player has to time his/her clicks to make the next monkey jump onto the balloon. If more than 3 monkeys miss and fall to bottom of canyon, the game is over. The winner is the one who saves the most number of monkeys.
I don't have the design, I just have a jpeg design from my client, I just uploaded here.
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Will the game be published to a mobile platform like iOS or Android? I need to know before I can make a fair bid. Thanks!
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Students near SM City Manila has an inexpensive way to kill time. Ava, a mass communications student from Pamantasan Ng Lungsod Ng Maynila, for example, was sitting through a five-hour vacant period when I asked her about SM City Manila's 50 pesos movie screenings called Film Fiesta.
"We usually kill time here," Ava says. "It's cheap and as scholars my friends will take cheap."
According to an SM Cinema employee, their Film Fiesta offering is practically free. For 50 pesos, you get a junior-size popcorn from SM's proprietary Snack Bar (valued at 45 pesos). That leaves the ticket priced at 5 pesos, which, wherever you look at it, is insanely cheap.
Film Fiesta has existed some years ago. I remember it was around 15 pesos at the time without the small bucket of popcorn. A major sample of their patronage are, understandably, students. SM City Manila is situated at the heart of U-belt. Letran, Mapua, Lyceum, UDM, and Pamantasan Ng Lungsod Ng Maynila are among the universities that are within walking distance from the mall.
"Aside from students, our patrons also consist of senior citizens, and people waiting for their documents to be processed sa taas," the SM Cinema employee says. "On average, I think, we're getting at least a hundred of patrons each screening."
It's also worth noting that the movies they are screening are old, but not that old. Film Fiesta screens movies from two to three years ago, mostly horror, and typically rated R-13. When I interviewed the people at the cinema, the screening was of an indie horror-thriller called Jinn.
You can watch Jinn on Netflix, which brings me to a hilarious conclusion: a Netflix subscription starts at 300+ pesos a month, and an admission to a bland Star Cinema rom-com/equally as bland Regal Films horror movie is priced at 200+. Do the math.


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Despite the lack of posts on the topic, we are still very busy working on the house.
In the last couple weekends we added all new windows (separate post to follow), finished tiling and sealing the grout for the basement bathroom, installed all of our closet doors and trimmed out the entire main level. Cole has also been busy trimming trees, moving rocks and generally clearing all the little areas of stuff around the yard.
In addition to the planned efforts, we had a few surprises. Our roof has a little leak, our furnace is original to the house-not three years old, and our mortgage was sold to another lender which delayed getting some of our cash to work on the bigger projects.
That being said, we are rolling right along. We love sitting back and looking at a part of a room that is almost there. In these tired moments we get a glimpse of how worthwhile all of this will be.
Since budgets (and FHA) dictate this handrail must stay, Cole gave it a good sanding, two coats of black spray paint and a beautiful matte finish.
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As previously mentioned, in 1961 there was no such thing as "standard pre hung doors." Rather, folks used their own handy skills at cutting door holes and filling them with semi-custom doors in sizes that don't exist any more. As years went by, people continued to paint and reuse the same doors until the poor doors looked something like this.
Luckily, my dad is a genius and was able to frame out all the doors to an almost standard size, we found a door place that didn't charge an arm and leg to help us mark and cut special doors, and this weekend we hung some doors.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Work Weekends 6, 7 & 8
Labels: closet doors, handrail, House repairs
5 comments:
- Amy S said...
Looks good guys! I'm impressed with all your work on the house.
- October 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
- Jar & Ash said...
Can't wait to see all the work in person! Looking good!
- October 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM
- Katie said...
Wow! I'm glad you were able to discover all those things before there was a major problem. I can't wait to see what it looks like now. It will be so cozy!
- October 5, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- Heather said...
It is looking good guys! Way to go!
- October 5, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- Nicole and Scott said...
looks even better in real life!
- October 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM
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Menshikov, Alexander Danilovich (c. 1660-1729), Russian field-marshal and statesman, prince (1707), born of poor parents in Moscow. Entering the army in 1693, he distinguished himself at the siege of Azov, and afterwards accompanied Peter I the Great in his travels to Holland and England. He played an important part during the war with Sweden (1702-13). At the capture of Marienburg the peasant girt Marta Skavronskaya fell into Menshikov's hands and became his mistress. He later introduced her to the tzar, who first made her his mistress and then married her. She was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church and renamed Catherine. When Peter I died, Menshikov secured the succession of Catherine I, and during her reign and that of her young successor, Peter II, he governed Russia with almost absolute authority. He was about to marry off his daughter, Maria, to the young tzar when a plot of the old nobility led to his banishment to the Siberian town of Berezovo and the confiscation of his estates


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This is a straightforward extension of other bindings we did recently. Click on the checkbox, if it becomes "ON" you get the chimp, if it's "OFF" you get President Bush.
The underlying data that supports the table view is an array of dictionaries (for KVC compliance), each with the key "isOn" and a boolean value. For convenience, the data is stored in a plist file and loaded into the project, as shown here.
There is a checkbox cell in the first table column's data cell, and an image cell in the second column's cell. Editing has been disabled for the second column. (We don't know how to turn an image into a boolean!)
The images are png files, added to the project as usual. They can be loaded in two different ways, as shown in the code. You could set it up variously, but I load the images in the App Delegate and then the value transformer asks for them, so getter methods are implemented in the App Delegate (not shown).
It all works great. There is only one problem: the images in the table view are washed out. Compare the originals:
I don't know why this is.
The bindings are straightforward. There is an array controller in the nib. It is connected like:
The first table column has this binding:
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- The proposed redevelopment will transform Bayswater and Queensway through a mixed-use revitalisation of the landmark building -
A joint venture between a Meyer Bergman-advised fund and Warrior Group has submitted a planning application to Westminster City Council seeking to deliver a £1 billion redevelopment of the former Whiteleys department store in Bayswater.
The JV has been working closely with Westminster City Council on the redevelopment for nearly two years. The proposal involves the demolition of the 1980's building behind the retained, historic Queensway façade to provide a residential-led, mixed-use development with a new retail and leisure offering. Detailed consideration has been made to the original design by John Belcher and John James Joass in 1911, to combine some of the impressive features with an exciting, contemporary design by Fosters & Partners, which will incorporate the iconic central dome. A careful refurbishment of the prominent façade will be undertaken to restore it to its former status as the window into an exciting new retail and leisure world.
The proposed plans include the construction of more than 100 homes, a mixture of apartments and townhouses. These will be arranged around an attractive inner courtyard with new retail units, a boutique hotel, gym and other enhanced leisure facilities, including a new cinema at basement level.
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Turley are planning consultants for the proposed development.
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A two-day public consultation to show the Bayswater community plans for the proposed regeneration of the Whiteleys building on Queensway begun today. The Foster + Partners scheme, designed on behalf of a Joint Venture between Meyer Bergman and Warren Todd's Warrior Group, is being showcased at:
Location: Porchester Small Hall, Porchester Road, W2 5HS
Dates: June 10th and June 11th
Time: 14:00 until 20:00
The proposal is based around delivering an enhanced retail experience, a residential development and new leisure facilities, including a hotel.Whilst protecting the heritage, the existing under used shopping mall will be transformed to allow new shops, cafes and restaurants to engage with Queensway by opening up onto the Road. A new courtyard, also linked to Queensway, will be created at the centre of the building.
For those who cannot attend the public exhibition, the plans will be available from June 10th at www.whiteleysdevelopment.co.uk Warren Todd, CEO of Warrior Capital said:
'The Foster + Partners designed regeneration of Whiteleys will restore the building to its rightful positon at the heart of the Bayswater community.
'This new exciting retail and leisure offer in conjunction with the proposed WCC public realm improvements will once again turn Queensway into a key London thoroughfare and provide local residents with a unique, high-quality retail experience.'


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MLB Trade Speculation: Milwaukee Brewers Likely to Be Traded This OffseasonOctober 19, 2011
MLB Trade Speculation: Milwaukee Brewers Likely to Be Traded This Offseason
Now that the season has ended for the Milwaukee Brewers and Prince Fielder has likely swung a bat for the final time as the team's first baseman, it's time to look to the 2012 and see how the Brewers can get better.
For much of the 2011 season, the team was paced by a very good starting rotation and great bullpen. All five starters and closer John Axford are under contract for next season, so they will be the team's foundation. Besides replacing Fielder's bat, GM Doug Melvin will have to look for late-inning arms to bridge the gap from the starters to Axford and improve the team's defense, something that became a glaring issue the final two games of the NLCS.
Melvin will have some money to spend this winter, but he has stripped the organization of all of its top prospects, making it nearly impossible to acquire talent the same way he did last offseason.
It is highly unlikely the Brewers will be able to duplicate their 2011 success. While most, if not all, of these players should be safe this winter, many of them may find themselves on the trading block next summer if the Brewers plummet back to Earth the way most feel they will. The Brewers may quickly turn from a division winner into a team building for the future.
With that being said, let's look at some of the players that may shortly find their way out of Milwaukee.
Ryan Braun and Yovani Gallardo
Just kidding. There is zero chance of either Braun or Gallardo changing uniforms this winter...or for the next few seasons, for that matter. They are now the cornerstones of the franchise and each will be depended on to become a leader both on and off the field for the Brewers next year.
Despite disappearing the final two games of the NLCS and leaving a sour taste in the mouth of Brewer fans, Braun still may very well be the MVP of the league. His numbers will no doubt take a dive next year without Fielder giving him protection in the lineup, but he should still post numbers that keep him among the game's elite. Braun is under team control through the 2021 season.
Like Braun, Gallardo struggled in his final appearance for the Brewers in the NLCS.
Fans should not let their final look at Gallardo for the year take away from anything he did the prior six months. He posted a career high in wins (17), pitched more than 200 innings for the first time in his career and posted his third consecutive 200-plus-strikeout season. He will enter next year firmly established as the team's best starter. He is under team control through the 2014 season.
Nyjer Morgan
Other than Prince Fielder, Nyjer Morgan was the emotional leader of the Brewers. He was also the team's biggest lightning rod, becoming a polarizing figure that Brewer fans loved and fans of other teams came to despise, most notably the St. Louis Cardinals.
If the reports are true, Morgan served as the motivating factor for the St. Louis Cardinals hot September streak and run through the playoffs to the World Series.
Morgan hit .304 for the Brewers, splitting time in center field with Carlos Gomez. He is versatile enough to play all three outfield positions and is entering his first year of arbitration, putting him under team control for the next three years.
Morgan is fun to watch when his team is playing well, but one need only look to his outlandish behavior with the Nationals to see what happens when he is on a losing team. Melvin may be best served by trading Morgan this season given the productive season he had, possibly netting some bullpen help in the process.
Casey McGehee
After a wonderful rookie campaign in 2009 which saw him finish fifth in the NL Rookie of the Year voting, Casey McGehee has seen his number regress drastically, culminating in an awful 2011.
Things got so bad for McGehee that manager Ron Roenicke removed him from his starting position, inserting Jerry Hairston as the team's third baseman for the playoffs. Not only did he struggle at the plate, he is a butcher in the field. It became quite obvious this year why the Chicago Cubs were so willing to part with him after the 2008 season.
McGehee, like Morgan, is entering his first season of arbitration the winter and should still be a fairly cheap option for any team that might trade for him. The Brewers have prospect Taylor Green that appears to be ready to take on a full-time role next season, or Melvin may decide to re-sign Hairston with the intention of him manning the hot corner next year.
Either way, it appears that McGehee may have played his last game for the Brewers.
Shaun Marcum
More than any player that will return to Milwaukee in 2012, Shaun Marcum may be public enemy No. 1.
After a good 2011 regular season that saw him post great numbers on the road, Marcum completely disappeared in the playoffs, going 0-3 in three starts with a 14.90 ERA in just 9.2 innings.
In Marcum's defense, 2011 was just his second full season back after missing the entire 2009 season. He pitched over 200 innings and was likely completely spent physically. He should be able to rebound in 2012 and again prove a good pitcher for the Brewers.
Marcum is entering his final year before free agency next winter. He could become the scapegoat for the Brewers and Melvin could send him away this winter, but more likely he could be dealt next summer if the Brewers are struggling to compete.
Randy Wolf
After the Diamondbacks lit Randy Wolf up in the NLDS, it looked as if he would be the player most fans would blame this winter for the Brewers' failures. As it turned out, Wolf pitched a gem against the Cardinals in Game 4 of the NLCS only to see his teammates fold under the pressure.
Wolf is terribly unspectacular but effective. He's won 26 games for the Brewers since joining them in 2010. Entering the final year of a three-year deal, he could also be dealt this winter but it is more likely that Melvin will take the same wait-and-see approach with Wolf as he will with Marcum and the next player.
Zack Greinke
Doug Melvin gave up four top-10 prospects for Zack Greinke last winter and Greinke was what he has been for most of his career—average.
He didn't lose a game at Miller Park and benefited, perhaps more than anyone, from a very good offense. In games in which the Brewers scored at least three runs, Greinke went 15-1 in 21 starts with an ERA of just 2.69. In the other seven of his starts when the Brewers could score more than two runs, he was 1-5 with an ERA of 5.45.
After trading so much to get Greinke less than a year ago, it is hard to imagine Melvin turning him around in a trade this winter. Like Marcum and Wolf, 2012 is the last year Greinke is under team control. If Fielder leaves, Melvin will look to do everything possible to lock up Greinke, Marcum or both for a few more seasons. If neither will re-sign, one or both could be traded to try and improve the infield defense or add prospects to the depleted system.
John Axford
John Axford has gone from learning under the tutelage of Trevor Hoffman to one of the best closers in the league.
While many thought Axford would regress in 2011, he elevated his game and saved 46 games for the Brewers with a 1.95 ERA in 74 appearances.
Unlike the starters, Axford is under team control through the 2016 and may be very attractive to a team looking for a closer. Melving will be hesitant to trade Axford this winter, even if he is offered a good deal.
Closers are practically useless to a losing team, making Axford expendable if the Brewers falter greatly to start the 2012 season.
Rickie Weeks
Rickie Weeks made the All-Star team for the first time in 2011. His bat and speed are quite valuable to the Brewers lineup but he is a sieve defensively at second base.
Weeks played sparingly in September after returning from a six-week DL stint due to an ankle injury suffered in July. For his career, he has just one season of playing more than 130 games. Even though most of his injuries have been freak accidents or bad luck, one cannot discount the fact that Weeks isn't the most reliable player when it comes to being in the lineup every day.
The Brewers could keep in the middle of their lineup going forward and move him to the outfield to mask some of his defensive issues. It worked a few years ago for Ryan Braun; why not Weeks? Since he just signed a long-term deal this past year, it's hard to envision Melvin moving him but an entire overhaul of the roster is possible if it meant significantly improving an awful team defense.
Corey Hart
Of all the players on the roster for the Brewers, Corey Hart may be most likely to get traded. It seems like that was the same thought in 2010 until he signed a three-year extension that keeps him under Brewer control through the 2013 season.
Hart hit in every spot of the lineup for the Brewers in 2011 except cleanup. He seems to be gaining steam as a possible replacement for Fielder at first next year (he played first base for the Brewers coming up through their farm system). Given the fact that replacing a right fielder is much easier than a power-hitting first baseman, most think Hart to first makes sense.
With a power-speed combination that few players in baseball possess, Hart could return some good pieces for the Brewers. His name will come up quite a bit this offseason.
Regardless of the moves Melvin makes this winter, it will be almost impossible to replace Fielder's offensive production and emotional leadership.
A variety of options exists to improve the club. If all arbitration-eligible players remain in Milwaukee, Melvin should have roughly $15-20 million to use in free agency. He could acquire a good mix of relievers and solid defenders, while keeping the core of his offensive team intact.
The best fans can hope for is to keep the starting rotation in place, find some good setup men in the bullpen and improve the defense. While that formula won't translate into another 96-win season, it should keep them competitive in the NL Central.


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Audio News for November 16th to November 22nd, 2008
Welcome to the Audio News from Archaeologica! I'm Laura Kelley and these are the headlines in archaeological and historical news November 16th to November 22nd, 2008.
Nuclear families date back at least 4600 years
Our first story is from Germany, where archaeologists have found evidence of the earliest known nuclear family. Archaeologists have long supposed that people lived in nuclear families at least as far back as the Stone Age. However, the evidence for Stone Age nuclear families has been thin, based mainly on projecting from how we live now, and speculations about relationships between adults and children found buried together. According to Wolfgang Haak, who formerly led the team at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, we have been assuming past relationships were like present ones. Now, we have tested the hypothesis and found that at least one Stone Age nuclear family existed.
The new evidence comes from an extensive analysis of the remains of 13 people who were buried in four German gravesites in Eulau that date back to the later Stone Age of 4600 years ago. Analysis of DNA in the bones and teeth in one grave found that an adult male and female, and two boys, were the classic nuclear family. The two children have her mitochondrial DNA, and his Y-chromosome.
It appears that all the people died violent deaths. One female had an arrowhead embedded in her spine, and the head and forearms of several other adults and children had stone-axe marks.
Examination of the skeletons indicate that the adults were aged between 25 and 60 years old and the children younger than 13 years old. Several of the adults had partially healed injuries. Haak, now at the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at Adelaide University, noted that these people were the old and the injured, children and women. Whatever violence happened that day, they were not able to defend themselves.
Evidence of our ancestors in the middle Stone Age is rare, and Haak points out that it is still unknown when nuclear families became widespread. Prehistorically, people would have died young in childbirth or from disease, potentially making nuclear families unsustainable. In fact, in a second grave, the one adult, a woman, was not related to two children, who were a brother and a sister. The team was not able to extract DNA from the remains of a third child, an infant facing the woman.
The new findings also suggest an explanation for the varying ways later Stone Age people in central Europe were buried. Characteristically, males rest on their right side, facing south, and women on their left side facing south, but sometimes there are exceptions to this rule. This was the case with the nuclear family, where each child faced north, towards one of the adults. They had their hands entwined. Haak hypothesizes the arrangement may represent blood ties.
Ancient Middle Eastern culture believed in separation of body of and soul
Our second story comes from southeastern Turkey, where archaeologists have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab providing the first written evidence that people in the region believed the soul was separate from the body.
The stela measures 3 feet tall by 2 feet wide, and is the first of its kind found intact and in its original location, which allows scholars to learn about funerary customs and life in the eighth century BC.
At that time, massive empires emerged in the ancient Middle East, along with influential cultures such as the Israelites and Phoenicians. The man featured on the stela was most likely cremated, a practice that Jewish and other cultures reject because of a belief in the unity of body and soul.
According to the inscription, the soul of the deceased resides in the stela. It was discovered last summer in a small room that had been converted into a mortuary shrine for the royal official Kuttamuwa, self-described as a "servant" of King Panamuwa of the eighth century BC.
Written in a script derived from the Phoenician alphabet and in a local West Semitic dialect similar to Aramaic and Hebrew, the inscription is of interest to linguists as well as biblical scholars and religious historians because it comes from a kingdom contemporary with ancient Israel that shared a similar language and cultural features.
The finding sheds a remarkable new light on Iron Age beliefs about the afterlife. In this case, it was the belief that the enduring identity or "soul" of the deceased inhabited the monument on which his image was carved and on which his final words were recorded.
According to David Schloen, Associate Professor at the Oriental Institute and Director of the University of Chicago's Neubauer Expedition, the stela is in almost pristine condition. It is unique in its combination of pictorial and textual features and thus provides an important addition to our knowledge of ancient language and culture. The Neubauer Expedition found the 800-pound basalt stela at Zincirli (Zin-CHEER-lee), the site of the ancient city of Sam'al. Founded by the Hittites and then under Assyrian control, Sam'al then became the capital of a prosperous independent kingdom and is now one of the most important Iron Age sites under excavation.
German archaeologists first excavated the 100-acre site in the 1890s and unearthed massive city walls, gates and palaces. A number of royal inscriptions and other finds are now on display in museums in Istanbul and Berlin. Schloen and his team have excavated Zincirli for two months annually since 2006.
Impressive Native North American village excavated in Ontario
In Canada, excavations on very big Native American village recently finished up in Tillsonburg, Ontario. Taking earlier findings from 2001 into consideration, the area once held 15 longhouse structures. It is the largest Iroquoian settlement so far recorded from the period and dates back to AD 1300 to 1400. According to Jim Wilson, president of Archaeologix Inc., the company that carried out the excavation, these people were ancestors of people the Jesuits encountered in the Hamilton and Niagara Peninsula area. The village would have once housed 600 to 700 people. Inhabitants would have been part-time farmers, growing corn beans, squash and sunflowers to augment their hunted meat diet. Wilson notes that by this point, people were living in a farming village, and probably 50 per cent of their annual food intake would have come from material grown as opposed to animals they hunted. The village was permanent and occupied year-round. After 15 to 20 years, the location of such villages would move as the supply of firewood diminished and soil nutrients depleted.
During the six-week excavation of the current site, excavators unearthed five new longhouses. Two of the structures were almost 90 yards in length and seven and half yards in width. A house of such length may have contained 50 to 60 people. Removal of the topsoil exposed circular stains in the subsoil where posts once stood. The latest excavation is presenting a much more complete picture of the village. With the soil was removed in a controlled fashion, 100 per cent of artifacts were recovered. Some include: arrowheads, carbonized corn, fragments of smoking pipes, pottery, and bone tools. Bones from animals, mostly deer, were also found on the site. However, the people were opportunistic and bones of everything from small animals such as turtles, fish, birds, and raccoons to groundhog and fox and bear were also discovered. Human remains occurred in the portion that was recently excavated. The remains were moved and interred in an unmarked grave earlier this week. Members of Six Nations of Grand River took part in the ceremony.
Now that the excavation is complete, Wilson said it would take six weeks to wash and catalogue the materials. The investigors then will prepare a final report for the Ministry of Culture, which will hold the artifacts in a London, Ontario, facility.
King Herod's grave located at Herodium
Our final story is from Israel, where analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of the mausoleum of King Herod the Great at Herodium have provided further reassurance that this was indeed the site of the Roman-appointed ruler's grave. Herod, King of Judea from 37 to 4 BC, was known for his numerous monumental building projects, including the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the palace at Masada, the harbor and city of Caesarea, as well as the palatial complex at Herodium.
Based on a study of the architectural components uncovered at the site, the researchers have determined that the mausoleum was a extravagant two-story structure with a concave roof. The remains of Herod's sarcophagus turned up in the ruins. The excavations also yielded several fragments of two additional sarcophagi that the researchers believe once contained members of Herod's family. Also found are the remains of a small theater, with seating for 650 to 750. Additionally, a VIP viewing room was located at the top of the theater seats and decorated with wall paintings and plaster moldings in a style that has not previously been seen in Israel. The style is known to exist in Rome and Campania in Italy and is dated to between 15 and 10 BC.
Prof. Netzer assumes, based on the dating of the wall paintings, that the construction of the theater might be linked to the visit of Roman general and politician Marcus Agrippa to Herodium in 15 BC. The extensive site, which probably will not be fully excavated for many years to come, includes a huge palatial complex, the theater, and a "country club" of sorts, including a large pool, baths and gardens, in addition to Herod's burial installations and mausoleum.
A description of Herodium, as well as of Herod's funeral procession there, can be found in the writings of the ancient Roman-era historian, Flavius Josephus.
According to Professor Ehud Netzer, director of the excavations, the mausoleum was intentionally destroyed by the Jewish rebels who occupied the site during the First Jewish Revolt against the Romans in about AD 66.
That wraps up the news for this week!
For more stories and daily news updates, visit Archaeologica on the World Wide Web at www.archaeologica.org , where all the news is history!
I'm Laura Kelley and I'll see you next week!


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Project timeliness issue. Are we on time...is the next deliverable that is due going to happen as expected? Your customer wants to know that. Sometimes – if it's a really big project – your C-level execs may want to know that, too. I worked the largest contract ever at one company I worked for and every month my CFO (Chief Financial Officer) wanted to know this every time he saw me in the hall.
We need to take measures during the course of the project so that we can have a much better chance to say "yes" to the CEO should we run into him in the hallway – or get called into his office. If you haven't had this happen to you, then maybe you haven't managed a large enough or visible enough project yet. Don't worry though, if you're a successful project manager, you'll get your chance eventually. Good times!
Extreme Attention to Detail
This is an easy one – at least it sounds easy. Put together a nice, tight project schedule that isn't unrealistically easy to meet and not unrealistically hard to meet. Start with the Statement of Work, the draft information you received from Sales when the project was originally 'sold' to the customer (if that's how your organization runs things), any assumptions made by Sales or the customer and include updates necessary from discussions that took place during the Kickoff sessions on the project. This is your opportunity to 'fine tune' the schedule and make it real, workable, and accurate.
Present the revised schedule to the customer and get their agreement or even signed approval, if necessary. This revised schedule will be what you manage go going forward. It will be the document that drives every weekly status meeting from here on out and what you check against when managing the resources, the tasks, the budget and when trying to incorporate any change requests by the customer or as necessitated by the ever-changing requirements for the project.
Above all else, keep it accurate and up-to-date. Critical milestones for the project are identified in the schedule and every milestone that slides or is missed is something that the customer will NEVER forget. Missed dates will work against you at every negotiating point in the project – especially when scope issues arise and you're trying to convince the customer that they need to pay for these 'out-of-scope' issues.
Manage Scope Carefully
That brings us to scope. I covered this already in Part 1 so I won't go too far here. Suffice it to say that you and your delivery team members must always be watching scope. Scope creep is the number 1 cause of projects falling out of budget and failing to deliver on time. If you don't note something is out of scope, then it's in scope to the customer, but it's still working against you because it's not in YOUR schedule and it's not in YOUR budget. You'll end up eating it and looking bad to either the customer, your executive management, or both. Either way, you lose.
Keep Resources Engaged and Aware
As the PM in charge, it goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that you must keep your skilled resources engaged and aware of where the project stands at any given time and what their current responsibilities are. If you assume they know just because they have a copy of your latest project schedule, then you'll be finding yourself escorted out the door of your company by HR.
Make sure they're attending the weekly status calls with the customer and that they are participating. Engage them in at least one weekly team call to check status. Make sure they're copied on the latest resource forecast info so they know what's expected of them now and two months from now.
Remember, these are busy, highly skilled resources who are already in demand on other projects. Yours is not likely their only assignment, so keep your tasks in their head so they know what they should be working on. We all trip up and call our very own kids by the wrong names at times, how can we expect that these pros always have their 20 different tasks they are currently juggling straight and in-line with your expectations. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and the most communicative PM gets his or her delivery teams' resources attention the most.
Summary / call for input
Many people – many stakeholders – care daily about whether or not your project is on time in terms of project schedule and the next key deliverables. And your project client certainly cares. Use these suggestions and steps to help keep that project on track and on time.
How about our readers – what are your strategies for staying on track? What I've mentioned here is just the tip of the iceberg. What would you change or add to this to help ensure project success in terms of timely delivery.
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Tilda Swinton does Electronic IntifadahNovember 3, 2011
Asma Assad, Dictator's Wife: "Rose in the Desert"? Not ExactlyNovember 2, 2011
The West apparently needed to see a revolution and young Syrian people savagely killed in streets by Syria's army to understand that Bashar Al-Assad is a cruel dictator and that Asma is no rose, but a heartless first lady. Vogue had to see cutting off food, water and electricity to the the Syrian population, to remove from its website the article where Asma describes how loving Bashar is, playing with their three children at home.
As long as the Syrian government was sponsoring the killing of Israelis it was fine. Asma, the Syrian "Marie Antoinette," was considered a "reformer," as some media in the West labeled her. All the anti-Israel commentators were so happy to honor the Syrian first lady, who showed her deep concern about Gaza and the Palestinians. So concerned was the ruling couple, that Bashar Al-Assad recently attacked a Palestinian refugee camp near the Syrian port city of Latakia, causing an undisclosed number of victims and obliging 10,000 refugees to flee.
Finally, when the Syrian population itself rose up, the international community reluctantly had to admit that Asma was no "element of light in a country full of shadow zones," as Paris Match wrote, but rather the condescending wife of a tyrant. For the last decade, she has just used her position to promote herself, while offering an alluring façade to her husband's regime. In the meantime, she enjoyed a stylish life, buying expensive, labeled dresses (she apparently loves French designed Christian Louboutin shoes and Chanel sunglasses), without wondering where her money came from.
The British newspaper, The Independent, recently revealed that last month, Asma invited a group of aid workers to discuss the security situation with her, but she "appeared utterly unmoved when she heard about the plight of protesters." "'We told her about the killing of protesters," said [one volunteer who was present], who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. "We told her about the security forces attacking demonstrators. About them taking wounded people from cars and preventing people from getting to hospital … There was no reaction. She didn't react at all. It was just like I was telling a normal story, something that happens every day,'" reported the Independent.
Asma, British Citizen
Few months ago, Yasmin Albhai-Brown, a columnist for the Independent, wrote that "behind every murderous man, there's a loyal wife." This is apparently true also of Asma. She was raised in Acton, west London, in an upper-middle-class family with no siblings. Asma holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Diploma in French Literature. The British Daily Mail wrote that those who knew her back in England say that, given that she spent the first 25 years of her life in London, Asma, who holds double Syrian and British nationalities, back in London used to be known as "Emma" and have liberal western values.
Asma's father, Fawaz Akhras, is a cardiologist and one of the founders of the British Syrian Society. Her mother, Sahar Otri, is a retired diplomat. Both of her parents are Sunni Muslim. Akhras, works at the Cromwell Hospital in London and is known for his polite manners, for being a discreet person and for promoting Syria's interests in Britain. The British paper The Guardian wrote that Akhras plays "a role as gatekeeper for Assad," picking British journalists who wished to interview the president and provide favorable publicity. He is apparently close to the Syrian ambassador to Britain, the economist Sami Khiyami; and together they serve on the advisory board of the Centre for Syrian Studies at St Andrews University. One hopes they will soon be removed from the Board.
The Guardian mentions that Akhras is familiar figure on the Arab diplomatic circuit in London, and that those who have had to chance to talk to him would notice that his personal views are pure Ba'athist propaganda straight from Damascus. According to the British paper, Akhras became close to Assad when the dictator went to Britain to study. "Akhras received a request from Bashar al-Assad asking for help in studying ophthalmology in the UK, which he did at the Western Eye Hospital, a unit attached to St Mary's hospital, Paddington," The Guardian reports.
In 2000, Asma and Bashar Al-Assad married. It was just the beginning of his presidency. As reported in the Saudi-owned TV channel Al-Arabiya's website, a marriage with a Sunni wife was perceived "an encouraging sign of reconciliation from a member of the ruling Alawite sect [which is closer to Shis Islam. Author's note] that his rule would not rely on sectarianism." At the time, Akhras told the editor-in-chief of Al-Arabiya that he was critical of the regime of Hafez Al Assad, but that he believed that with Bashar, Syria was on the verge of witnessing a new era.
Assad's Family Selling Property in London
A rumor is circulation in the British media that Asma, fearing that the regime might soon collapse, might be hiding in London with her three children. If that were true, it would be a bit embarrassing for the British authorities — the reason, according to the British paper The Telegraph, that her alleged presence in London has not been made public. The rumor, however, started to circulate in May, and since then Asma allegedly has come back to Syria.
The Telegraph, however, reports that the get cash, the Assads are selling flats and houses in London, and that these include a £10 million townhouse in Mayfair, "as they prepare for defeat." "The selling off of the property suggests the Assads are liquidating their assets in the chance the regime is forced from power in Syria," writes the Telegraph. The family would have also sold off properties in the United States, London, Spain and France, with the clan wanting to "liquidate their overseas homes as quickly as possible."
It seems that Asma may have to forget French-designed dresses and that for a while she will be hiding, rather than looking to be on the covers of fashion magazine. In the meantime, according to media, she stays in Damascus keeping silent, while looking with at her husband crack down on innocent civilians.
Israeli Designer Ahead of NYC's Fashion Night Out!September 7, 2011
Hating Israel isn't enoughMarch 26, 2011
|Syria's first couple, Asma and Bashar al-Assad, at their private office overlooking Damascus.
I can't see the 'international community' getting involved in Syria the way it has in Libya. First, they can't get involved with every country in the Arab world. And second, Assad is considered more 'one of the club' than Gadhafi (who is widely regarded as a lunatic) and even Ahmadinejad.
Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP via guardian.co.uk
Taryn Simon via nytimes.com
…which means the hypocrisy of the Clinton foreign police continues


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FRANKFORT — Coaches preach about the importance of getting an early goal, especially in a big game.
Franklin County practiced exactly what its coach preached and got that goal two minutes in to set up the upset over No. 20 Paul Laurence Dunbar 1-0 in sub-sectional soccer at the Sower Soccer Complex.
Last week, the Flyers made school history by winning the region tournament, and Monday night they became the first high school from Frankfort to ever advance out of the field of 16.
The Flyers' goal came off the foot of star Bryce Burton, who scored his team-leading 25th of the season.
"This feels awesome," the senior said. "I knew we had the players to do it. ... We wanted to come out strong and put them away quick."
It was a revenge win over the Bulldogs, who topped the Flyers 3-1 in the regular season. Franklin County advances to face Danville, a 4-0 winner over South Laurel, in the sectionals on Wednesday.
"On this big stage, they didn't let the nerves get to them," Franklin Coach Zac Donnelly said. "This is a special team."
Dunbar Coach Todd Bretz says his team is pretty special, too.
It still played hard despite being a man down all but 16 minutes of the game.
Sixteen minutes in, region tournament Most Valuable Player Bennett Norris questioned the center official on a no-call after a collision in the middle of the field.
The official gave Norris a red card and threw him out of the game, which meant the Bulldogs would be one man down the rest of the way.
"Some referees are very sensitive," Bretz said. "Usually, in a sub-sectional game like this, you'll give a (yellow) card unless the guy yells it across the field. ... I think it was a bit harsh."
Dunbar didn't look as if it was a man down, especially early in the second half when the team got two shots on goal that didn't go.
In the final six minutes, the Bulldogs had two throw-ins that made it into the box, but they couldn't convert those, either.
"They came out hard in the second half," Burton said of Dunbar. "We didn't come out as hard as we should have, but a win's a win, and we're going to take it."
The Flyers' defense and keeper Travis Petry held on to collect their eighth shutout of the season and give Franklin County its seventh straight victory.
"This is what you dream about," Burton said. "We don't want to stop here. We want to keep going."
But it was the end of the road for Dunbar.
"We've had a great year," Bretz said. "They learned to believe in themselves and believe in each other, and they did a fantastic job. I couldn't ask for anything more than a better score."
Franklin County 1, Paul Dunbar 0
Goal—Bryce Burton. Goalkeepers—PLD: Taylor Nossokoff; FC: Travis Petry.
Records—Paul Laurence Dunbar 10-5-4, Franklin County 15-6-2.


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