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Posted by GuruDan on October 5, 2011
Ontarians pay highest auto insurance premiums in Canada, Quebec drivers pay the least: study
By Jordan Chittley | Daily Brew – Mon, 3 Oct, 2011
Canadians looking to save money on auto insurance should head to Quebec.
A new study finds that residents of la Belle Province pay the lowest premiums in the country, at an average of only $642 a year. While Ontarians, right on the other side of the Ottawa River, pay the highest premiums at $1,282 a year.
Co-author and Fraser Institute director Neil Mohindra says this is because of rampant fraud in Ontario.
"(It) comes as a result of higher claims costs per vehicle stemming from high levels of insurance fraud, and relatively severe regulations in rate-setting as well as mandatory minimum liability and accident benefit laws," he says in a statement.
The study conducted by the Fraser Institute, a right-leaning think tank, goes on to say that fraud investigators consider Toronto to be the centre of organized crime rings. Ontario announced reforms in November of 2009, but the study uses the most recent price information, also from 2009. The province's reforms are expected to lower premiums.
The study explains that Quebec consistently has the lowest premiums because it has a government-run provider that has a monopoly over selling basic coverage. They also have a no-fault system that prevents injured people from suing drivers at fault for pain and suffering.
However, the public provider in Quebec ran a deficit in 2009 of $2.6 billion and in some provinces taxpayers, including those who don't drive, subsidize government auto insurers to keep premiums lower.
Government intervention is not always the answer, however, as seen by high premiums in B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba, according to the report. These three provinces rank second through fourth on the list.
"These results are consistent with previous reports that suggest government-run auto insurance monopolies are less efficient than auto insurance provided by a regulated, competitive market," says Mohindra in a statement. "Drivers in B.C., Saskatchewan, and Manitoba should be asking why their governments have eliminated consumer choice and are forcing them to purchase auto insurance at rates higher than necessary."
Average auto insurance premiums by province
Ontario $1,281
British Columbia $1,113
Saskatchewan $1,049
Manitoba $1,027
Alberta $1,004
Newfoundland and Labrador $749
Nova Scotia $736
New Brunswick $728
Prince Edward Island $695
Quebec $642
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FORT LAUDERDALE — The city's struggling Civil Rights Office was delivered another blow this week, when the employees' union advised members the office cannot be trusted and should not be used.
In an advisory memo from the Fraternal Order of Police-Associates union to the 1,200 general employees it represents, members were told to "stop filing any complaints with that office until further notice."
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The memo is the latest problem facing the office: It lost its director, Yolanda Cowart, Thursday when she agreed to drop her discrimination and retaliation complaint and resign in return for $191,000 and a $30,000 annuity. The office's ability to function properly also is being investigated by former Circuit Court Judge Henry Latimer.
Latimer's report is due out soon, but union leaders said they are tired of promises and have no confidence in the office, whose last two directors and one assistant -- all black women -- filed civil rights complaints against the city.
Crown, hired 10 months ago by Cowart, said he was shocked. Though he has 29 years of experience investigating civil rights cases, Crown is not seeking Cowart's job.
"I'd just like to say that whoever has a complaint, by all means, come in, because I will give them expert, professional advice," said Crown. "...I'm an objective fact-finder, by training and definition. I am not on anybody's side. A fact is a fact. I cannot change that, and will not.''
The union urged members to go straight to the next level -- the Broward County Human Rights Division, which also is in the midst of controversy. It is undergoing an internal investigation of how it handles investigations, and its advisory board has issued a vote of no confidence in the division's attorney.

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"EVA Seven, Four, down," the controller responded.
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His helmet speaker crackled again. "EVA Seven, Mim Four," the controller said, "Can you give us a visual from your location?"
"That's affirm. I see fog filling up the dome."
"Say again, Seven."
"I say, I see fog filling up the dome," Jed repeated. "Thin green fog, it's running across the ground inside the dome and starting to fill it from top to bottom. What the hell is going on?"
He could hear the controller's voice muttering, muffled, to someone–he immediately knew that the controller had cupped his hand over the microphone at the end of his headset boom. The incomprehensible muttering he heard was only one side of the conversation, that was apparent from the long pauses, but he waited patiently. Then he heard the voice clearly again. "Seven, say your distance from the dome."
"Ah, I'd say about fifty yards."
Again, a conference intervened, of which Jed could hear only one side, muffled and muttered.
Then the controller came back on. "Okay, Seven, approach the dome and report your perimeter location."
"Mim Four, EVA Seven, confirm permission to approach dome." Jed wanted a double-check on this. Approaching the dome on foot was strictly prohibited and there were a variety of defensive measures in place to prevent someone–or something–from approaching it.
"EVA Seven, Mim Four," the controller coughed, once lightly, then more heavily. Jed heard that muffled too, as if the controller had had the presence of mind to cup his headset microphone before he coughed to avoid an explosion of sound from emanating on the other end. "Your approach to the dome is confirmed, countermeasures and protective devices are off, repeat off, you are cleared to approach." The end of the controller's sentence trailed off into a coughing fit, which itself was truncated by the end of the controller's transmission.
What the hell is going on in there, Jed thought. "Roger that, I am approaching the dome." He took a few steps in preparation for the large step that would launch him above Mimas' surface before he activated his jetpack, but then thought better of it. It was only 50 yards, not even that far; he'd just hoof it.
He had walked about 10 yards when another voice came on the comm link, a feminine one. "EVA Seven, Mim Four," she said. "Report position."
"I'm twenty yards from the dome," he said. "I'm walking."
"Roger," her response was immediate. "Continue, approach, and report perimeter station ASAP."
"Approach and report," he repeated. He closed the distance and stopped at the point where another step would bump him into the glassy, clear-plastic surface of the dome itself. The dome was made of a plastic ceramic impregnated with radiation-filtering particles and some other high-tech devices–its purpose was to protect the habitat from cosmic radiation, errant magnetic pulses from Saturn, and particle stream spikes. Jed looked down and just to the left of the ends of his suitboots a metallic spike projected from the bottom of the dome parallel to the ground. On the spike, the number K343 was embossed.
"Mim Four, Seven," he said into his microphone. "I'm at K343."
"Mim Four, Seven," he said, trying again. "K343."
He looked up to see that the entire dome, as far as he could see, was entirely filled with thick green foam.


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It's Finals Week for all University of Wyoming students. It's that time of year when the days (and nights) of studying are long, the tests are hard and the nerves of students are about on their last legs.
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SHOPKEEPER Chris Varnava is taking on the grocery business big guns in his battle to save his livelihood.
Chris, who runs a supermarket, off-licence and frozen food store on the doomed Beswick precinct, fears his business will be wiped out when bulldozers flatten the area for redevelopment.
This week Chris hired a suite at the City of Manchester Stadium to unveil his plans for a smart new store to rival Asda which he hopes will secure his place in the revamped Beswick.
The 46-year-old retailer is ploughing his savings into a franchise deal with Premier stores to develop a 1500 sq ft supermarket with low priced products tailored to Beswick's existing and future population and employing at least eight local people.
Businesses on Beswick precinct have been issued with compulsory purchase order notices which will be put into force when work starts on clearing the site to build the new Beswick high school, new homes and replacement retail units.
Earlier this year Chris presented Tom Russell, chief executive of the New East Manchester Ltd regeneration agency, with a 600-name petition from his customers demanding that the convenience store stays when the precinct is rebuilt.
He now hopes his latest pitch will convince the regeneration agency to choose him to take over one of the proposed new retail units being planned as part of the Beswick neighbourhood renewal plan.
Chris said: "I want to be part of the regenerated Beswick but I know image is important to the regeneration agencies and businesses here will have to prove they fit in with that image. I don't want to be judged on the premises I have now. Nobody's going to invest in properties that are going to be demolished soon.
"I know I've got to raise my game if I'm going to attract people living in the £180,000 houses that are going to be built here but I've got to keep the customers living here now who will still be here when the regeneration is finished. What I'm planning will meet local need and give people a convenient alternative so they don't have to shop at Asda."


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Review In Progress: Guild Wars 2
Disclaimer: So, an infamous MMO review. We've all seen them, those "written in parts" reviews that everyone seems to do and readers seem to hate. Yeah, we're going with that format too… Why, you ask? Well, have you played an MMO? They're massive, massive games, and Guild Wars 2 alone should have an additional "massive" added on for good measure. For that reason we've decided to review it in two parts, which hopefully should form one complete review with everything you need to know in it. So sit back, relax and enjoy. No wait, sorry, you need to actually read this review. What, you thought someone was going to narrate it for you?
Guild Wars 2 ladies and gentlemen, the MMO out to prove a point it seems. Developers NCsoft and ArenaNet have been extremely vocal about how Guild Wars 2 is "an MMO for people who hate MMO's, and for people who love them." Thing is, what in the hell does that actually mean? Does it mean that Guild Wars 2 is an MMO without grinding? An MMO where every quest isn't a "kill ten of these" type chore? An MMO with a world that actually feels alive? An MMO with entertaining and dynamic combat? An MMO to beat them all? How about we just say "Hell yeah" to the above and start from there shall we.
I'm not a fan of MMO's or, at least, I wasn't until Guild Wars 2. I never played the first one, but judging from what I've heard that's not entirely a bad thing. I've tried my hand at some World of Warcraft, only to find it slow, boring and ultimately one massive grind that required payment every 30 days. I gave The Secret World a shot, but ran into some of the same problems. Even The Old Republic, with all of its Star Wars glory, couldn't sway me to invest hours of my life into it. In short, the MMO scene in general didn't do it for me, and I felt that it was something wrong with me rather than the games themselves. That all changed within the first few minutes of Guild Wars 2. Not only is it extremely different to other MMO's, it shows that an MMO doesn't have to be a game where all combat is shallow, all quests are fetch and back track and where grinding is a requirement.
But like all MMO's it has to start at the same place: Character Creation. For some reason I usually don't spend a lot of time creating my character, instead focusing on whether or not he / she is going to fling fireballs from his hands or use stealth to dispatch foes. This time around though, things were different. I began by choosing which race I'd be representing in Tyria. There were the overly big and brutish Norn, the war crazed Charr, the miniature yet creepy looking Asura, the woodland Sylvari and of course, Humans. Needless to say I went for the more "vanilla" option out there, with a human thief already being my preferred character choice before I even booted the game up. Each of the five races has a different starting world and unique attributes, as well as highly different stories and history. Considering the first Guild Wars only allowed players to be humans, ArenaNet had a lot to do in order to integrate these new races into the world they had created, which they began doing in some of the first game's final expansion packages (yes, they thought about this a long time ago). Once I had chosen my race it was time to choose my class, or profession as the game would like you to call it. These professions encompass eight very different play styles, from a tanky Guardian to an effective long range specialist such as the Ranger, all the way to my preferred pick, the Thief. One thing that is sure to surprise you is the omission of a dedicated healing class. Usually this is an oddity for MMO's, but the omission has been a big part of Guild Wars 2's foray into a new era of MMO's, with ArenaNet stating that it restricted play.
So with my Human Thief now looking like a character I was ready to play with, after customizing features and clothing, it was time to select some backstory and goals for me to achieve during my adventures. This basically boiled down to one of three choices which I had to make twice, establishing my backstory and what my lifelong goal was. This basically sets the tone for the narrative part of Guild Wars 2, which is focused on heavily throughout. Usually MMO's present you with a basic premise and the illusion of a story, which often gets pushed down the more you play. From my early experience with Guild Wars 2, this doesn't seem to be the case at all. Narrative segments of the game are fully voiced (Nolan North voicing my Thief was extra special) and the stories unravel in an engrossing way. Not only do they edge you closer and closer to your overall goal, they encompass what is happening in the world around you, and introduce you to many characters that you'll immediately bond with. There are also segments of the narrative where you'll have to make choices, which is customary in an RPG such as this. However, rather than increasing stats for good or bad karma, these choices impact how your quest will unfold, with you as the player usually determining combat strategies, quest partners and sometimes the fates of entire armed forces. The line between good and bad choices starts to become a little blurred the deeper you go, which keeps the story captivating and entertaining.
Story quests are not the only things that are going to keep you busy while travelling Tyria. On the contrary, despite being heavily story-based, Guild Wars 2 actually encourages you to stay off the marked out path for hours on end. What would typically be called side-quests have been labeled as Renown Hearts, which are static quests that take place in a designated area, but with a twist. You see, there is no quest log in Guild Wars 2. You never have to talk to characters in order to initiate quests nearby, and you'll never have to open up a journal and select active quests. Instead, quests are marked on your map and initiate as soon as you're nearby, offering you multiple objectives that fill up a completion bar when done. These objectives fit perfectly in context with your surroundings and the person offering the quest, with some memorable ones allowing me to drink my way to success, forcing me to put out hay fires with random buckets of water and sometimes merely harvesting certain resources. Sure, every quest also has the "kill designated creature" objective, but it's not quantified. Instead, every action is weighed equally, meaning you could finish a quest by hacking away at attacking centaurs or picking flowers while earning the exact same amount of experience. It's a clever system that allows for freedom when completing objectives, and is certainly more thrilling than the stale "kill ten of these creatures" theme. These objectives get more and more interesting as you go, although sometimes they do boil down to hacking and slashing your way to success.
Thankfully these moments are far and few between, and are overshadowed by additional dynamic events that happen all across the realm. Dynamic Events occur throughout every area you explore in Tyria, with the exception of starting world's and Lion's Arch, the game's "Portal Hub". You could be happily running along to your next objective without a care in the world, when all of a sudden you see a massive wave of enemies approaching an area, followed by a swift ping and notification that a nearby event has begun. These events are open to everyone on the server and occur sporadically in time, allowing you to revisit some of them if you feel like it. However, it's the rush of that first time encounter that makes them special. The urge to help a town besieged by waves and waves of bandits, or the sudden appearance of a Champion Troll in a cave that seemed safe for the past half an hour. It's the surprise that makes these events fun, as well as completing them with other players around you. Since everyone is notified, everyone jumps in for the ride most of the time, so what was once a quiet field can be transformed into a massive battleground in mere seconds. At the end of each event you are scored according to your contribution, but don't worry about not getting those last hits on creatures. Yes, finally, an MMO has got it right. Instead of the kill and most of the experience only going to the player who scores the killing blow, Guild Wars 2 rewards each player involved in the kill the same amount of XP, as well as splitting the loot automatically. The same goes for resources, meaning that if a player has mined an ore right in front of you it won't disappear, allowing you to mine straight after, It helps the notion of competitive play, and fits in with the "no dedicated classes" mechanic ArenaNet have going, since now the emphasis is on the team playing as a single unit in order to reap the same rewards. It's a step in the right direction as far as I'm concerned.
Then there are Skill Point objectives, which appear as small blue triangles on the map. These bite size challenges reward you with much needed skill points that will go towards unlocking new class specific abilities that you'll be able to equip as you level up. Earning these skill points can vary in challenge from task to task. Some simply require you to commune with a place of power, which has your character interacting with an object for a few seconds in order to earn the point. Others are a lot more interesting, sometimes tying in with dynamic events that occur around them. A strong creature might have the same blue triangle over his head, signaling that you need to kill him in order to earn the skill point. Like above, these small quests can be undertaken with complete strangers, even if you aren't paired in a party. But if killing and looting isn't your thing all the time there is plenty to do in Tyria that will reward you and keep you entertained at the same time. I found myself losing hours of my life in pursuit of locating Lookout Vista's, which are high points on the map that trigger panoramic views, and points of interest that all go towards gaining 100% completion for an area. Locating these points of interest and Vista's rewards you with generous amounts of XP as well, so you won't feel as though you're falling behind while exploring Tyria. ArenaNet have also implemented some daily and monthly challenges in order to keep you coming back again and again, which shouldn't be a problem once you've spent a few minutes with Guild Wars 2's combat system.
Why? Well, plainly put, it's fucking awesome. In MMO standards combat usually stumbles, resulting in slow pace battles that turn into slogs as you slowly chip away at a creature's health. Not the same here folks. Firstly, let's talk about the importance of weapons, and how equipping weapons in certain hands makes a massive difference. Guild Wars 2's combat is built around weapons, with offensive skills matching the weapons you equip. For example, my human thief was capable of equipping daggers, pistols, swords and a few other weapons. Having a dagger in my main and offhand presented me with five dagger offensive skills, with one of them incorporating both weapons in the attack. Switch to a pistol in the off hand and the skill set changes. My first two attacks remain the same, since I did not change the dagger in my main hand, but the last three had changed. Instead I now had two attacks that incorporate range and stun elements, as well as an attack that allowed me to shoot my target, shadow step forward and then stab them. Changing weapons completely changes how you fight in encounters, and adds a whole new layer of depth when it comes to team fights. What's more, you have to unlock these abilities by using a new weapon for a small period of time, so rather experiment with them first before heading into all-out war. The game also allows you to have two weapon sets ready in case you decide you need a bit more range in a particular fight and don't have the time to open up your inventory. Each class also has class specific abilities, with stealing from an enemy during combat being my only one. Aside from these abilities each class comes with a slot designated to healing abilities, mapped to the number 6 on the keyboard, while the remaining 7-10 are filled with abilities unlocked via skill points. Some of these slots are locked until later in the game, but even a 10 button skill bar sounds a bit short for an MMO, especially when you consider World of Warcraft. There is a reason for this too though.
Combat in Guild Wars 2 is extremely dynamic. By that I mean the combat is more like an action title than traditional RPG and MMO combat systems. In early levels you'll do fine hacking away at enemies and soaking up all the damage, but you'll soon realize that tougher enemies require a completely different approach. Soon you'll be able to pick out patterns in enemy attacks, hitting the dodge keys in order to perform timely dives to avoid massive stuns or highly damaging attacks, and for the most part the camera seems to know what it's doing. You'll also have to learn how to chain certain attacks together in order to reap greater damage bonuses. Rather than spamming attacks constantly, more timely presses are needed in order to initiate high tiered attacks that can only be achieved when pulling off combos. In terms of my thief this could mean turning my simple swipe attack into a deadlier stab when used repeatedly after other attacks. In some cases all your abilities compliment each other in graceful ways, allowing my thief to dart in, pull off a few stabs in between stuns and then shadow step out of harm's way in time. Mastering this combat system is no small feat, especially when you consider all the ability combinations on offer, but it sure as hell is rewarding. Oh, did I mention underwater combat as well? With unique underwater acrobatics and weaponry? Additionally, Guild Wars 2 is a bit soft on those of you who chose to run into a pack of enemies alone and expect to come out alive. Much like Borderlands, Guild Wars 2 offers a "Fight for your Life" system, which allows you to try and kill enemies while downed. While you're in this state you have four abilities open to you in order to try and kill your attacker and stand back up, or at least wait for the rest of your party to catch up and heal you. It's a neat system that works in context with the game, but that doesn't make it easier. Enemies are ruthless to downed players, and every time you go down and rally back up you'll start with less health the next time you go down. If you die your equipment takes some condition hits and you're forced to teleport to a nearby waypoint, which costs gold as well. The combat alone is one of the sole reasons Guild Wars 2 is a different kind of MMO and it has to be sampled in order to fully understand.
Another aspect that sets Guild Wars 2 apart from most other MMO's is the sheer beauty of the world you are in. Tyria is absolutely stunning, and the artists responsible deserve a lengthy round of applause. The range of different areas is truly astounding, and it's only when you zoom completely out of your map that you realize just how monumentally large this world really is. The visual diversity is also a marvel to behold, with massive scaling stone cities such as Divinity's Reach contrasting nicely with the steampunk styled home world of the Charr. There's snowy mountains, lava pits, grassy fields and just about anything you could think of in a fantasy RPG world, with the hub world of Lion's Arch acting as an amalgamation of everything awesome in this world put into one area. Tyria is a world begging to be explored and, aside from all the quests, there are several interesting things to be found. I stumbled upon a deep cavern that seemingly had no exit at one point and just as I was about to fast travel to a nearby waypoint (you can fast travel from anywhere) I noticed something peculiar. A fellow player ran straight through what I thought was a solid wall. Following in his step I discovered that I had trapped myself in a stone maze, with certain walls allowing me to pass through. This then led to a jumping puzzle in complete darkness, ultimately ending at the exit of the massive cavern. It was a really interesting puzzle, and is only one of many scattered throughout Tyria, just waiting to be stumbled upon. Tyria feels like a living, breathing world, and it's easy to get lost in it.
As for problems, no MMO is without them at launch. Login issues on the first few days followed by the player trading system being down for most of the first week annoyed a lot of players, and these feelings weren't helped by a buggy party system that wouldn't display party members on the map. My visuals would sometimes disappear, leaving my character hovering over nothing, and I often experienced some strange frames per second losses, which was fixed by turning Vertical Sync on and off. This could be due to the fact that ArenaNet advised Nvidia users to upgrade to beta drivers, but thankfully they are small and rare occurrences. What is surprising is the amount of support ArenaNet has been giving players during these difficult times. I think it should be commended when a developer updates players frequently about the current status of servers, updates and more, and pushes out fixes every single day for known problems. I distinctly remember seeing many posts on the official Facebook page by ArenaNet, advising players on what to do if they were experiencing difficulties and updating them on their progress every few minutes. It's a refreshing sight, and the fan base certainly appreciated it.
Other than that, what can I say? I'm just over level 20 with my Thief (yes, I haven't had as much time to play as I'd have hoped) so I haven't yet taken on my first dungeon or entered the realm of PvP or World vs. World encounters. I'm not ready to give my final verdict just yet, as soon as I feel I have played enough to judge Guild Wars 2 fully I will finish off my review of this so far fantastic MMO, describing crafting, trading, PvP and more. So far I have not found a reason why someone shouldn't give this MMO a go. There's no subscription fee, it's utterly stunning, the combat is engaging and the story will keep you hooked. Plus, there's just a wealth of content to keep you going and going for months, without the need to grind at all. Guild Wars 2 has really changed my perspective on the MMO scene, and it sure as hell is on track to changing the way the world perceives MMO's. It truly is an MMO for people who hate MMO's, but it retains enough to keep MMO veterans more than happy. Stay tuned for more on Guild Wars 2 soon.
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Digital Fineprint, an insurtech start-up building the industry standard for using social media to help consumers optimise their insurance and insurers to provide a more targeted and customer focused approach has just signed up EOS Venture Partners as lead investor for a pre-Series A round. The start-up, which is being accelerated by Allianz, will use the proceeds from the fundraising to develop phase 2 of its product roadmap for using social media to analyze insurance needs.
Digital Fineprint is the first insurtech start-up coming out of Oxford University to raise pre-series A investment. After previously winning the prize for "Best General Start-up in the UK" at the Grad Factor Awards, the company is now rapidly expanding its team and international footprint building key partnerships across the sector. With so many start-ups looking to innovate the traditional insurance market, securing strong partnerships becomes a key strategic advantage.
"We are extremely happy and excited to partner with EOS Venture Partners to accelerate our development. Sam Evans has an outstanding track record in funding and growing successful companies.
EOS Venture Partners, through its partnership with RAW Capital Partners seeks to invest in innovative insurtech start-ups, across the whole value chain of insurance distribution and underwriting.
"After securing the support of Allianz and EOS Venture Partners, we are now looking for two more strategic investors to join the round before closing in September. We invite experienced fintech and insurance innovators to help us build a new kind of insurance industry together", said Erik Abrahamsson.


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Report on FAO Warmwater Pond Fish Symposium
Swingle, Homer
Date: 1966
Funding Agency: Auburn University
Keywords: FAO, aquaculture, pond, symposium
Category: Domestic Funded Research Report
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The Symposium held in Rome by FAO
May 16 – May 25, 1966, was the
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A brutal beating on the University of Central Florida campus leaves a student disfigured and two men behind bars.
UCF police arrested 19-year-olds Matthew Shehorn and Ryan Deprisco.
Officers said they stomped on Dylan Lawson's head on the steps outside Millican Hall last Thursday.
Witnesses said it started because the victim accidentally stepped on one of the suspect's hands.
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Once upon a time there was a witch in the village …
Or so the children thought as they walked past her house and hid their crossed fingers in their pockets or in their sleeves … I will tell your mothers she would scream at them, knowing what they hid.
Tonight, when we leave our hosts and step outside there will be a cold moon alone in the sky … a cold so cold it will have scared the stars away …
Inside though the lounge is warm and cosy.
Their kids are trying to get their gaming computer going, whilst we chat.
The stove fires itself on its pellets, once such material would have been discarded as unusable waste, now it is compressed and pelletised at a few euro a bag and its flames are lowered or raised via a remote hand held.
Installation ensures the warranty, Michele explains.
They install the conduits that blow the air through the house and we only use the methane for an hour or so in the morning whilst we clean out the ash and restart the recycling of pelletised saw dust and off cuts, he explained …
I am not sure what the Italian word is for Sustainability so I say it in English.
Ah, eco-sostenibile! they explain.
So I ask about the old places that were …
Once upon a time there were all these roggie and sorgenti … streams and springs.
That was not such a long ago once upon a time though because Michele would either walk or cycle with his fishing rod and tackle on his back, and immerse himself in the magic of the running waters that seemed to boil up and run off from everywhere.
By the schools the water ran, past the old age home and the old church of the monks … from the one campo a hundred paces away and behind their home too.
The spring close by in the campo was the one pole of the old lover's lane … joined to the other pole, an old church; the spring and the church then an axis of hot summer trees that would shade the innocent dreams of hands walking in hand.
Maria Teresa says she used to float paper boats in the stream, before the bridge, then rush around to catch them on the other side.
How did all this disappear I asked?
They do not know, just more and more would fade away slowly day by day until looking back the empty dry earth only stared back at itself …
It is a 'combobulation' actually, of a myriad dishonesties, hidden in suave professional voices and the political elites with their hollow promises, interfering with the Tao of the market … artificial incentives, policies and regulations that skewed and distorted the invisible hands of the small artisans and businesses that once prevailed in these lands.
It is the hands of the one in a thousand, the 1% of the 1%, as they manipulate and sheepdog the proverbial lemmings over the abyss …
Actually, akin to the sacrilege of waters disappearing is the disappearance of the vines, nurtured by generations of families as they 'permacultured' their existence (excepting of course they did not call it permaculture, they just did what they had to do in the obvious eco-sostenibile formula of Green … ).
Vines of a thousand score variances, tastes that will be forever secret as the grafts through the ages lie asleep with the skeletons and their bones surrounded by cipressi and cemetery walls.
Now, only the tractor ploughed clods stare up blindly at the sky …
Sure, there will be crops, the sugar beet and the maize but these are not vines listening to the symphony of the waters swirling by …
There is a Green activist here, they tell me – you should meet with him.
He can be extreme – but as convinced as he is that is only to be expected.
With the Magic dissipated by engineering solutions of straight pipes replacing curvy wandering waterways one can only be predisposed to being extreme.
Mechanical and hierarchical, obedience to authority, put on your conscript uniform, leave your home and be forced to go off to fight for the military-industrial rich and their financial/banking cohorts, into some steamy jungle war halfway across the world … then the names of the fallen, the sons of the migrants from everywhere inscribe themselves in a V shaped black wall of death that realises itself, that emerges out of the damp earth as tears fall upon hands that come to feel the dead of their names …
That is what Woodstock was all about, the bombers turning into butterflies, but the rot was deep in the grids and squares, rectangles and short term gains of the political elites and university professors believing only in the dull ding ding of their sparse formulae rather than the Poetry of the Universe, the Music of the Heavens.
The Seer had just told me about the Beautiful Question, Frank Wilczek's love of the Cosmos, the art that is in every photon of this mysterious Being.
How the professors and their short-term formulae, sparse and primitive, for the villas and trophies of the Alpha DNA that still amoebas (used as a verb) the Earth, sought to emulate the grandeur of the Universe, cold pipes and concrete instead of the fractals that swirl, flow and fly!
Academic serfs who sold their souls for less than an atom of their corporeal bodies.
I turned away disenchanted from my academics of engineering and town planning and the sterile waste lands that the world of the Seventies and the Eighties and almost the mid Nineties was caged in.
Now here I have wandered onto private once communal land, looking for a hint of the Magic that my ears had absorbed from the old tales around the kitchen table, as my mother baked her bread and cooked her home-made pasta.
We agreed that Michele would introduce me to the Green activist, and also take me to the spots he used to fish, even if dry earth or steel pipes are the last of their remains.
Perhaps I can write an article and give this death a decent burial?
It is indeed a cold night tonight …
Yet Maria Teresa tells me that it is early for the cold, the real cold is still to come, le giornate del merlo, the 'days of the crow' are still to come.
The days of the crow, I ask?
Si! when the crow was white!
She explains that once upon a time, a long time ago, it was so cold that a crow trying to warm its young went and sheltered her family in a chimney.
There they remained warm and survived.
But of course, when they left the chimney they had turned black!
Such an obvious logic, why crows are now black!
Stay warm, stay warm, they said, as they bade us farewell.
Up in the sky the moon was alone without a blanket … the stars had indeed disappeared it was so cold.
As we drove past the old witch's house I crossed my fingers … I hope she did not see and that she will not tell my mother …
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Welcome to the Turtles class page. We are a mixed class of Year 5 pupils and our classroom is a place where we love to learn together! Every morning we have guided reading, literacy and maths and then in the afternoons we enjoy learning about the world through our International Primary Curriculum (IPC) lessons.
Adults working in Turtles class – Mr Tristram, Ms Fontenelle and Ms Blake
Homework – Given out on Wednesday, due the following Monday.
PE: Outdoor PE on Tuesday afternoons. Swimming is on Wednesday afternoons – Spring 2 & Summer 1, we arrive back at school at 3.40pm. Dance Tuesday morning – Spring term, your child can come to school in their PE kit and bring their uniform to school in a bag.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Wedding Dress Design
Found this bautiful dress while skimming the net. I can't afford this one, and there are one or two things I'd change, so I've emailed it to my step-mum so she can show her dress-making friend!
I'm thinking, use the green velvet that Yorkie wants, and add some staps ( so my boobs don't come flying out when we dance)
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Tham Luang cave rescue involved four more survivors, diver reveals
Four Thai workers were secretly rescued during the Tham Luang cave rescue, more than a week before the soccer team was saved by an international dive team.
- by James Massola
Prayuth's comments raise alarm for Thailand's pro-democracy supporters
Prayut Chan-ocha has dropped a big hint he plans to contest the next election. It's not clear if military junta leader will allow free and fair elections.
- by James Massola
The giant war monument no one is responsible for
Bangkok's Victory Monument is hard to miss, but the government doesn't know who is looking after it.
- by Michael Ruffles
Gender equality
Women's rights group slam Thai ban on female police cadets
The Royal Police Cadet Academy announced this week that it would not admit female candidates from the next academic year. No reason was given.
- by Rina Chandran
More paedophilia tweets from Elon Musk - a libel suit is on the way
Tesla CEO Elon Musk returned to making implications about the Thai rescue diver who once criticised him.
Suspected CIA black site in Thailand to become tourist destination
Whether it housed a secret CIA "black site" or was a home to bats, or both, the curious Vietnam war-era base is reopening as a museum.
- by Michael Ruffles
Thailand to ban e-waste, plastic imports
Most of the new e-waste was imported illegally, as Thai factories saw a new way of making profits after China, the world's biggest importer of waste, stopped accepting 24 types of foreign waste last year, including from Australia.
Boys rescued from cave, once stateless, get Thai citizenship
Most of the team's players are stateless, and their lack of citizenship deprives them of some basic benefits and rights.
Thailand's cave boys leave Buddhist temple, but stay out of spotlight
It is likely the boys, now novice monks, will retain some quiet of temple life because the government has discouraged any interviews with them for the time being.
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Shocked, embarrassed and diving straight back into the caves: Australian rescuers honoured
Richard Harris and Craig Challen were honoured alongside six police officers and a naval officer involved in the rescue at Tham Luang.
- by Michael Koziol
Candles and chanting: Thai cave boys on the way to Buddhist novices
The boys will live for nine days in a Buddhist temple - a promise made by their families in thanks for their safe return and in memory of one rescuer who died.
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text: Affordable Housing Ribbon Cut for West Lexington Affordable Housing Complex By Stu Johnson • Jun 18, 2018 Stu Johnson City officials cut the ribbon Monday on the final phase of an affordable housing complex in west Lexington. It raises the total units available at the Parkside Apartments to 108. The property, originally home of the Gardenside Cabana Club, then the YWCA, for years suffered from neglect and vandalism. AU Associates purchased the property almost a decade ago for redevelopment upon receiving affordable housing tax credits. Focus On Business: Vice Mayor Steve Kay on Lexington's 5-Year Comprehensive Plan By Bryan Bartlett • Jul 31, 2017 Today, Tom Martin continues his series of conversations about the 2018 update of Lexington's 5-year Comprehensive Plan. Today's guest: Lexington Vice Mayor, Steve Kay. Lexington Council Hears Affordable Housing Update By Stu Johnson • Jun 7, 2017 kentucky.com Over the past three years, Lexington's affordable housing program has preserved and created well over 700 units for low income eligible people. Council members got an update at Tuesday's work session. Listen Listening... / 1:04 Focus On Business: Jim Duncan on Lexington's 5-year Comprehensive Plan By Bryan Bartlett • May 22, 2017 Lexington's 5-year Comprehensive Plan is due for updating in 2018. Today, Tom Martin talks with Jim Duncan, director of Lexington's Division of Planning and in charge of leading an update process that has included a series of public meetings - among them the Blue Grass Community Foundation's "On the Table" event that gathered more than 11,000 citizens at locations around the city for a day of discussions. City Council Acts to Secure Future Funding for Affordable Housing By Stu Johnson WEKU News • Aug 20, 2014 ncsha.org Lexington city leaders are moving forward with efforts to fund affordable housing. The city is spending $3 million this fiscal year toward developing affordable units. The council Tuesday gave first approval for setting aside $2 million in the next budget. Affordable Housing on Eastern Standard By John Hingsbergen • Apr 23, 2014 Charles Bertram / Lexington Herald-Leader Listen Listening... / 53:03 Listen to this week's show online. On April 11th, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray named the city's first director of the Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention, a newly created office. This comes after the announcement earlier this year that $3 million of the city's $13 million surplus would be allotted for affordable housing and 500,000 for homeless initiatives.


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Apr 25, 2011
Inbox Inspections Now Free
We first launched our Inbox Inspector tool in May 2007. It was pretty revolutionary at the time (ahem, imho) to be offering a "one-click" testing service like this to the masses. Unfortunately, it also seemed fairly expensive to most people. $39 for three tests seemed high (still, much cheaper than an embarrassing email design mistake). Over the years, we kept reducing its price, eventually whittling it down to under $5 per test.
But we're pretty excited to announce that we're now making Inbox Inspections totally free…
In order to make this happen, we had to make some big changes. So if you're a heavy user of this feature, you'll want to read all the details below. Also, there's a slight catch to all this, but dont' worry: it's only temporary (more on that below too).
10 Most Used Email Programs
In general, running an Inbox Inspection works the same as always. You build your campaign, then hit the "run inspection" button:
You'll notice there's no more "you have x number of inspections remaining" and there's no upsell option to "buy more inspections." That's because they're free now (duh).
The campaign previews are being processed by a new service provider, Litmus. Because of some differences to the way their API works, you'll probably notice that everything feels a little zippier than before.
After you click the "Run Inbox Inspection" button, you get this:
That's the first big change. Before, we just generated a ton of screenshots. It was cool to see how your email looks in all kinds of crazy email apps around the world, but if nobody on my list checks email from Japan's "Goo" client, I really don't want to deal with (or wait for) that particular screenshot. I really just want to know what my email looks like in the most popular email programs for my subscriber list. So now, MailChimp uses that cool user-agent report (launched last July) to determine what the 10 most used email programs are for your list.
And those are the 10 screens we show by default.
For one of my campaigns, the 10 most popular email programs in all the different variations provided by Litmus yielded 32 screenshots:
For example, you get all the different variations of Outlook 2003 you'd expect:
with images on, images off, plus what it looks like inside the preview pane (with images on/off).
Full Program Views
Previously, we showed you only the email portion, and had a dotted line where it was cut off on the screen. Now, you get a "full program" view of what it looks like inside the email app. In the case of Hotmail, which extracts Youtube clips and displays them separately from your email (um, at the top), this makes a huge difference:
Explorer vs. Firefox
For webmail apps, like Gmail, Hotmail, etc., we now display what it looks like in both Internet Explorer and Firefox:
Apple Mail (hallelujah)
Inbox Inspections now include Apple Mail, too:
Web-based Views
And you'll notice a variant where we display how your email's subject line looks within the inbox of different email programs:
Above, you can see where my subject gets cut off by Gmail.
Manual Override
If you have the need to see your email rendered in some other email program (let's say I wanted to check Lotus Notes or the iPad), there's a "manual client selection" checkbox:
which expands to reveal all your different options. Keep in mind that in any given inspection that you run, we'll only do 10 at a time. If you want more reports, they're still free, but you'll have to run them manually again. I'll be honest with you: this is solely to keep that delicate balance between freemium and moochium in check. This is free for you, but not free for us.
New Previews and Spam Filter Checks
Here's a list of all the campaign previews available:
- Outlook 2007
- Outlook 2003
- Yahoo! Mail (Explorer)
- Yahoo! Mail (Firefox)
- Android 2.2Gmail (Firefox)
- Hotmail (Explorer)
- Apple Mail 4
- Hotmail (Firefox)
- iPhone
- Plain Text
- Symbian S60
- Thunderbird 2.0
- Thunderbird 3.0
- Outlook 2010
- Me.com (Firefox)
- Outlook 2000
- Outlook 2002/XP
- Windows Mobile 6.5
- Gmail (Explorer)
- BlackBerry Text
- BlackBerry HTML
- AOL Mail (Firefox)
- Apple Mail 3
- iPad
- Lotus Notes 7
- Lotus Notes 8
- Lotus Notes 8.5
- Lotus Notes 6.5
- AOL Mail (Explorer)
And here are all the spam filter checks available:
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Barracuda
- MessageLabs
- Postini
- Mail.com
- FastMail
- Hushmail
- Lycos
- Mobile Me
- Yahoo! Mail
Smart Folder Under /Reports
Under the Reports section in your account, you'll see a new smart folder, where we store all your Inbox Inspections in one convenient place:
And We're Not Done Yet
For now, Inbox Inspections are free so long as you're a customer on a monthly plan or if you're a Creative Agency Partner. Yeah, we know. But we had to do it this way, because of time constraints (on our part). Long term, we want users to know that our plan is to bundle the Inbox Inspector with our free Delivery Doctor feature, and to make this a comprehensive testing suite that's available as an a la carte feature for pay-as-you-go (PAYG) customers too. For now, any PAYG or monthly user that had Inbox Inspection credits in their account will see them converted to Monkey Rewards points, which can be used to buy email credits (or you can save the points to buy inspections when they're available for you again).


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Come To Me Payday
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This payday, which was today for me (you jealous) I am really wanting some day to night pieces and I've already started with Black skater dress and PU detail which was half price on ebay on the boohoo clearance shop...so I was totally justified!ReplyDelete
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Gems I am jealous :( what a bargain you got- can;t wait to see it on your blog xxDelete
Yayyy payday! My wishlist is long and ever changing, like you I find blogging it is good and helps me find perspective. I am london bound tomorrow- there will be topshop based trouble.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm just about to order those Topshop wedges- I need them so badly xxDelete
That necklace is a beaut! I've already mentally spent 90% of my leftover pay...so stop tempting me with stuff!ReplyDeleteReplies
Ooo am I the bad example for once haha- just wait til we go to Leeds... haha xxDelete


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Year: 1999
Editorial: Alfaguara
Language: Castellano
Published at: Taiwan Mobile Co. (Taiwan), Knihy Dobrovsky (Czech), Nasza Ksiegarnia (Poland), WMF Martins Fontes (Brazil), Nha Nam (Vietnam), Can Yayinlari (Turkey), Wuhan SCS Culture Co. (China).
Synopsis: Isn't it true that your younger brother gets away with murder, they buy him whatever he wants, he never gets punished half as much as you and, on top of it, you get the short end of the stick when you get in a fight? Well, these same problems Manolito Gafotas has with his brother Imbécil. And maybe he is not such a dumbbell; after all he is Manolito's brother.


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I have written about this place a couple of times before but I am kind of in the mood lately to re-post about some of my favorite places. This is another place that hubby and I eat regularly—probably half the time we grab a weekday lunch together, this is where we go.
Typically, our order consists of the Vietnamese pancake and the rare lemon salad (you can read about both in my last post). This time hubby was insistent that we mix it up a bit so we got one of our classics, the pancake ($7.25), and on the recommendation of our server (and pretty sure the "mom" of this mom and pop operation—he's in the back cooking), we also tried #60 on the menu, the cubed beef rice dish ($8.25).
The pancake is delicious. It's always good and just such a perfect dish. The pancake is made with rice flour and turmeric (giving it the color) and is very thin with nice crispy edges. The inside is stuffed with bean sprouts, onions, pork and shrimp. My favorite thing to do is to take some of the big lettuce leaves on the side, put some of the pancake into it, drizzle the seasoned fish sauce on top (which gives it a nice tangy flavor), add a little of the fresh cilantro, and roll it up and eat it. Seriously, it's amazing. It's big, and we always split it (the picture is just my half), but we always eat every bite.
The cubed beef dish was very good as well. It was described on the menu as "curried" beef with onions, lemongrass and crushed peanuts. I didn't realize until after I ate it that the peanuts were missing. Regardless, the dish was very good. The beef was cut into slightly larger dices than what you see in a lot of Vietnamese dishes, and was sautéed very hot so that a caramelized edge formed on each piece. There were lots of super tender onions mixed in as well and when you added more of the seasoned fish sauce that came on the side here also, this dish was great. It needs the little extra tanginess from the sauce but once it has it, and you get the light flavor of the lemongrass and the fairly mild taste of the curry, it has a very good taste. The beef is certainly cooked through, but has a great taste due to the way it is prepared. The whole dish is served over nice, slightly sticky rice and again, isn't bad wrapped up in the lettuce and with the fresh cilantro served with it. I'm not sure if I think it's better than the rare lemon beef we normally order, but it's definitely worth throwing into
the rotation.
I have never had the Chinese side of their menu—I have been warned that it isn't as good as the Vietnamese side—but I really like nearly everything I have had from there. If you like Vietnamese food, and don't mind a bit of a dive, give this place a shot.
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Madagascar, lies in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa and is home to thousands of animal species – like lemurs – found nowhere else, plus rainforests, beaches and reefs. Near the busy capital, Antananarivo, is Ambohimanga, a hillside complex of royal palaces and burial grounds, as well as the "Avenue of the Baobabs," a dirt road lined by massive centuries-old trees.
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The great island is a true Garden of Eden for naturalists and nature enthusiasts: there are 12,000 to 14,000 species of vascular plants, 85% of which are endemic. There are 175 species of palm trees, 170 of which, are endemic. All of the 97 species of lemurs are unique to the island.
The most representative mammals of the Island are undoubtedly the lemurs. These prosimians have literally "exploded" into nearly fifty species and sub-species, which sizes range from that of the thumb, to that of a toddler.
You don't have to be a professional diver to be carried away by an ecosystem which counts as one of the richest in the world! In Nosy Be, the seabed offers a special display, as if all the wonders of this earth had decided to meet here.
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