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As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.
In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.
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Norman Baker: I shall be brief for similar reasons. I have heard a good discussion and many useful contributions, and I do not want to let the matter pass without putting on record my concern that we have not yet dealt with the sensible points raised by the hon. Members for Wellingborough and for Redcar in particular, and also those of the hon. Member for Beaconsfield. That is not to say that the amendment is right—I believe that in some ways it is flawed. As my hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland said this morning, we shall not support it. However, that is not the same as pretending that the clause is perfect.
I am concerned by the Minister's response. He has failed to deal with the suggestion that there is a difference between those who know or suspect and those who, retrospectively, had reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting. If someone had reasonable grounds but did not know or suspect, they could not have disclosed information. That is an important difference, but that was not reflected in the Minister's reply.
The Minister seems to be equating the offence under subsection (2)(a) with that under subsection (2)(b), although they are patently not the same offence. The only reason that he wants to do that is that, as we have heard, prosecuting authorities currently have difficulty persuading the courts that someone knows or suspects. He wants to lower the threshold in order to get more successful prosecutions. Of course, we all want him to find some way of ensuring that those who genuinely know or suspect are brought to justice. However, he must make sure that innocent people,
Column Number: 1119who have simply been negligent or did not know, are not caught up in that net.
Mr. Ainsworth: The purpose is to secure an adequate level of reporting, not of prosecution.
Norman Baker: With respect, I do not think that that is the issue. Disclosure is mentioned in subsection (5)(a). Of course anyone who knows or suspects should disclose, and if they do not, they should be brought to book. However, that is not the issue, which is about those who should suspect but do not—those who are caught under subsection (2)(b). I am talking about protecting those people and separating the two offences. We heard a driving analogy from the hon. Member for Beaconsfield, a fishing analogy from my hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland and a point about splitting the offences from the hon. Member for Wellingborough.
This is a serious matter. If the Minister persists in not splitting the offences, and does not recognise that they have different impacts and vary in seriousness—one is complicit and one is negligent—there will be consequences. Either those who are simply negligent will face a higher penalty in the courts than they should, or the court will regard the law as unfair. That will weaken the Minister's position. Those who are caught under the provisions—there may be too few of them for the Minister—may have offences of knowing or suspecting downgraded by the court, as the offence is lumped together with that of having reasonable grounds. In other words, it would be like ensuring that those few people who are caught driving dangerously were prosecuted for driving without due care and attention.
The Minister may be weakening his own case. The amendment is flawed, but the hon. Member for Beaconsfield was right to table it. The Minister should, even at this late stage, say that he recognises the issue. He should consider the issue carefully and table an amendment to deal with it, if not today, at another sitting or, better still, in another place. I hope that he will agree.
Mr. Grieve: This has been an interesting debate. I am grateful to hon. Members of all parties for their contributions. I say that because issues relating to the amendment have arisen about the clause and its wording. One of those issues had not occurred to me before this sitting. It is about how one would draft an indictment for the offence. I am mindful of the passage of time, and I shall ensure that I am sitting down and we can have a vote on the matter in time to take the other business. I want to make that clear beforehand, so as to reassure the Whip, who otherwise will wonder why on earth we went through this exercise.
The Chairman: Order. May I make it clear that we have to dispose of the other business, and it is debatable.
Mr. Grieve: I appreciate that.
First, the intentions of the Government and the Opposition are not far apart. We all want a system in which people give time and attention to whether to make disclosure. I am also happy with the concept that there should be a criminal offence in relation to those
Column Number: 1120who know or suspect but do not make that disclosure. However, I have great anxiety about the reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting and imposing an objective test when there is no guilty knowledge.
I commend the speech of the hon. Member for Redcar to the Minister. She expressed the position well, by identifying clearly her anxieties about the way in which the legislation might work in practice. Although the word may have been abused during the Committee, she came close to saying that the Bill was slightly tyrannical. It puts people in a climate of total uncertainty, and indeed fear of whether they are committing or might be committing a serious criminal offence unwittingly. That form of criminality that does not commend itself to me. On that score, I hope that the Minister will think again.
I want to turn to what seems to me to be another important point. In a sense, it is not a repetition of what I said earlier, as it emerged during debate. It started with the contribution of the hon. Member for Wellingborough. Looking through the Bill, and wishing to support the Minister 90 per cent. of the way, he identified the curious drafting of the clause. At the slight risk of repeating myself, the reason for the curious drafting was the adoption of section 52 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994, which reads almost identically, and includes the defence of a reasonable excuse, which appears at exactly the same point in the clause. He properly picked up on the oddity of that when no reasonable excuse could be available because the person would not have known in the first place, and was still being criminalised.
The model of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 has been adopted when it does not make sense in practice. Although it made sense in terms of an offence of knowing or suspecting, it no longer makes sense given two limbs—knowing or suspecting or having reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting. Thereafter, the saving clauses do not make sense. If nothing else, that ought to be a good reason for the Minister to reconsider the drafting aspects, even if my view is that he should go much further than that.
The hon. Member for Wellingborough asked why the two offences are not separated, and he continued—this was much more heretical—to suggest two different penalties. I have wondered what I would do if somebody asked me, as a counsel, to draft an indictment under clause 324. Would I draft it to state that a person knew or suspected, or had reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting, and that that is his criminality? If the Minister intends that to happen, a serious problem arises. When the case reaches court, the prosecutor must nail his colours to the mast, and someone who is convicted may have to be sentenced on the basis that he had only reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting, although the evidence may be glaring that he knew or suspected all along.
The only way out of that would be to request a special verdict. That is frowned on in our courts, although it has been done. The judge would have to ask the jury a twofold question to secure a conviction. He would ask whether the members of the jury believed that the defendant knew or suspected, or
Column Number: 1121that he had only reasonable grounds to know or suspect. Of course, if we had two clauses, one could draft two counts on the indictment—one for each offence. The jury could be invited to return an either or verdict on one or the other.
However, the issue goes further than that. We have discussed—I hope that the Minister is listening, because I am trying to help him—a person who commits an offence. However, the Minister will agree that a body corporate could also commit an offence. A person and a body corporate are identical for legislative purposes. The Minister could consider that knowing or suspecting must apply to people, but there could be an offence against a corporation of having reasonable grounds to know or suspect, which could be punishable by only a fine, if the mischief that the Minister is so anxious about is imposing a financial penalty or sanction on large organisations.
The suggestion does not necessarily commend itself to me, although it commends itself far more than the Bill, which criminalises individuals who do not have guilty knowledge. There is a much greater track record of individual corporations that are liable for negligent acts, such as in the area of health and safety at work. Allegations in such cases would not normally be made against an individual, but in any event there is no sanction of imprisonment. It is absolutely astonishing that the Committee should contemplate a person losing their liberty because of the negligence that we are discussing.
The Minister might consider that the matter is worth exploring. I anticipate that we will lose the vote, although I will press the amendment to a Division. I hope that he considers the matter with his officials, because he may table an amendment on Report, or in another place. He may find that people's minds are working in the same direction and would reach an outcome that would satisfy his desire to raise standards and satisfy those of us who are alarmed at the prospect of individuals being criminalised and imprisoned for offences in which there is no guilty knowledge of any kind.
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However, for the moment, I must go with the evidence behind the amendment and my position. In such circumstances, I would not do justice to my arguments or those of the hon. Member for Redcar—I am sorry that she has slipped out of the Committee; I hope that that was not because she thought that she would be delicately situated on the matter because of her arguments—if I did not press the matter.
I detected that the view expressed by the Liberal Democrats, perhaps understandably, differed between this morning and this afternoon. I understood that they would support the Government rather than the amendment. I hope that they reconsider that position because the clause is totally unsatisfactory.
In such circumstances, the correct procedure is to vote on the amendment. I commend it to the
Column Number: 1122Committee because it removes a provision that is poorly drafted, criminalises individuals and is wrong. If the Minister returns on Report with a further amendment, I will listen carefully.
Question put, That the amendment be made:—
The Committee divided: Ayes 3, Noes 15.
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Starting A Small Business: Financing Your Business
No matter what line of business you go into, you will need startup capital to get your business going. Some typical startup costs facing new business owners include:
- Electronic equipment: computer, printer, scanner, fax machine, photocopier, etc.
- Vehicle
- Furniture and fixtures: desk, lamps, bookshelves
- Office supplies
- Reference books
- Supplies/inventory
- Manufacturing machinery and equipment
- Advertising: domain name, domain hosting, mailers, website design, etc.
- Operating Space
- Licenses
- Permits
- Corporation fees
- Legal fees
- Security deposit for renting a business location
What you need to buy can also depend on the degree to which you want to separate your business from your personal life. Many people will use their personal vehicle, cell phone and a room in their home to meet these needs inexpensively. Incorporating to separate your business assets and liabilities from your personal ones also costs money, but it offers an extra layer of protection if your business fails.
You should also consider operating costs that you'll pay regularly in the course of running your business. Some of these may be required before you set up shop and on an ongoing basis thereafter, like insurance, membership fees and dues, loan payments and employee wages.
Sources of Startup Capital
How much money you can afford to risk on your business from your personal savings and how much money you need to open for business will determine whether you need to look elsewhere to raise startup capital. Let's consider the pros and cons of each potential money source.
Personal Savings
Personal savings are commonly used by business owners to help pay for startup costs. You won't incur any interest expense when you use your own money to finance your business. You also won't have any creditors to pay back, and no one will come after you for money if your business fails or isn't successful right away. On the other hand, most people have already earmarked their personal savings for other uses, like retirement and a rainy day fund. Unless you already have plenty of extra money lying around, you might want to start setting aside some of your savings each month to put toward your business. You might also be able to tap your home equity. but it's a big risk to tie the success of your business up with having a place to live.
Banks provide business loans to finance vehicles, equipment, real estate and other expenses. These loans are generally for a short term, such as six to seven years, but the duration can often vary based on the type of financing required. Some type of collateral generally must be used to secure the loan - usually the vehicle, equipment or real estate being purchased with the loan, or a blanket lien on other assets. Expect to pay a loan origination fee and, of course, interest. Business loans can offer the security of a fixed monthly payment and a fixed interest rate, although variable rate loans may also be available. (Not sure what sort of loan you should get? Read Which is better, a fixed or variable rate loan? )
Some banks may only offer loans on large amounts; if you need to borrow less than the minimum requirement, seek other financial institutions to provide a more accommodating loan or dip into your personal finances. You might also want to finance your equipment and vehicle needs with a line of credit or a conditional sales agreement.
If you plan to seek a loan from a bank, be prepared to provide a detailed explanation of how much money you need and for what purposes, as well as a detailed explanation of how you will be able to repay the loan. The bank may want to see recent personal income tax returns. bank statements. credit history and other personal financial information.
Small Business Administration Loans
Small Business Administration (SBA) loans are an option if you don't qualify for a regular business loan. Your business must be owner-operated, for profit, organized as a sole proprietorship. corporation or professional partnership, and fall within the size guidelines set by the SBA. Because these loans are guaranteed by the government, they can be easier to qualify for than conventional business loans. They also allow you to make lower payments over a longer period of time. Although SBA loans are provided through regular banks, the government simply acts as the guarantor. Special SBA loans are available for veterans, active duty military, reservists, National Guard members and the spouses of people in these groups.
Credit Cards
You can always use a business and/or personal credit card to pay your business startup costs, assuming you already have or can qualify for a credit card. However, unless you have a card with the required limit and a low interest rate that you will be able to make regular payments on, credit card financing can quickly get you in trouble. You don't
want to borrow money for your business at a 20% interest rate because the balance will grow each month and it can become very difficult to pay off the debt. Sometimes it is possible to get a card with an introductory interest rate as low as 0%. If you take advantage of an offer like this, make sure you have a plan for paying off the money you borrow before the card's interest rate goes up. (To learn more, see The Pros And Cons Of Small Business Credit Cards .)
Business Line of Credit
A business line of credit should have less rigorous qualification requirements than a business loan. It is similar to a business credit card in that it is an unsecured loan and you can use it as you need rather than borrowing a lump sum all at once. It can be used to refinance debt as well as to finance working capital. payroll and all the same types of expenses as a credit card financing. It is typically designed to be a short-term loan and may have a variable interest rate and an annual fee. Some banks may only offer large business lines of credit, such as $25,000 and up, so this may not be the right option for you if you only need access to a small amount of credit.
Family and Friends
Are you willing to risk your personal relationships by mingling them with money? Only you know the nature of your relationships with friends and family, and whether any of these people are a viable source of financing. But if your business goes under, would you rather have to explain to a stranger or to your best friend that you're not sure when you'll be able to pay them back? Mixing friends and family with finances adds yet another risk to your business endeavor - the risk that you'll ruin a close relationship. (For more on mixing your personal and business relationships, see 8 Ways To Help Family Members In Financial Trouble .)
Nothing can strain a relationship like money. Merely asking for it can be enough to introduce awkwardness into an otherwise sound relationship. If your dad won't lend you startup capital, you might find yourself thinking, "How can my own father not believe that I have what it takes to succeed?" It's much easier to be rejected for a loan by someone who doesn't know you because you'll know it's purely a business decision, not a personal one.
Pursuing venture capital means bringing someone else, generally a stranger, into your business as a partial owner. If retaining control of your business is important, you shouldn't consider this financing option. Usually, you will not receive any profit yourself until your investors have profited from your business. Additionally, this type of financing limits the entrepreneur's upside potential since venture capitalists will often require majority ownership of the business. On the other hand, the majority of the downside risks are also assumed by the lending party. (For more insight, read When Your Business Needs Money: Angel Investors .)
How Much Capital Do You Need?
There is no one-size-fits-all method for determining startup capital needs because each business has unique requirements. Basically, you need to make a list of the startup items specific to your business and research each one to determine its cost. It's important to actually do the research, and not just guess - especially if you are doing this for the first time. If you rely on hunches, you may grossly under- or overestimate your expenses. Also, if you're seeking financing, the lender will be hesitant and may not take you seriously if your numbers aren't realistic and well-researched.
When you're starting a business, there are a couple of ways to get carried away with spending money. First, you may be overemphasizing about the tax deductibility of business expenses. While tax breaks will reduce your costs, they won't make your purchases free. You'll still be paying for the bulk of everything yourself, so you shouldn't buy it if it isn't necessary. Second, you may be so excited about starting a business that you have trouble differentiating necessary expenses from optional ones. Do you really need a brand-new, solid wood desk, or will that card table in the garage get the job done just as well?
Remember, initially the most important thing is keeping your business afloat so you can earn a profit. Every purchase you make should be directly related to this goal. Minimizing what you need to buy and how much each item costs will help you meet this goal. You want to get by on as little startup capital as possible. (Don't overlook the details when starting up a business. It's the small expenses that have the potential to make or break a great idea. For more information, refer to Business Startup Costs: It's In The Details .)
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sheesh so many of these keep coming out :/ ya know. it reminds me of megaman battle network, you spend countless hours on it, and link up with buddies, and bam a new one comes out :/ . now not that this is a bad game, if anything yugioh games are cool, its just that it seems like yugioh gx was released not too long ago .
well anyway ahh well more games to play
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX was a different type of game... It was a RPG/Card Game. This one is a pure card game... Heck, there's no dialogue whatsoever. (To make up for it, this one has like twice the number of cards.)
Ugh I wish Nintendo would jump on this bandwagon again and release another Pokemon TCG game (on DS plz). I loved the first two on gameboy color, but they both only featured cards of the original pokemon (granted, there was like 440 something cards in the second one, still). :/
Cool. This is supossedly the best in the series (out of 2004 and 2005, though 2004 was pretty damn awesome...)
This series of games must be selling quite well, despite there being around three to four new versions every year.
Is this as good or better than Nightmare Troubadour on the DS?
I can't say. My main gripe with this game is that there's no story mode, it's just duel after duel after duel, with no reason to go on.
hey how cna i download that rom?
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You don't. Read the rules.


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Elephants face same extinction fate as woolly mammoth
The fate of the forest elephant rests in our hands. But will it go the way of the woolly mammoth, as it is hunted for ivory and its habitat is destroyed?
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Forest elephants are being poached at an alarming rate"
Have you ever wondered why hawthorn trees have such vicious thorns? Like many spiny plants, this is a defence they have evolved to avoid being eaten - by giant herbivores, including elephants.
Throughout the UK there are similar evolutionary clues nodding to the not so long-extinct plant-eating giants that once roamed here.
Up until about 15,000 years ago modern elephants' ancestors - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres and a host of other elephant-like mammals - were spread throughout the globe.
Mammoths were "just a species of elephant," says Professor Adrian Lister of the UK's Natural History Museum.
"And until the end of the Pleistocene, there were millions of them throughout the globe, including in northern Europe and North America."
- Last year, scientists confirmed that forest elephants were genetically distinct from African savannah elephants
- Forest elephants have straighter tusks and more rounded ears
- They also share features with Asian elephants with five toes on the forefeet and four toes on the hindfeet
But, as the climate shifted, their open grassland habitat was invaded, either by forests or tundra.
"That loss of habitat squeezed the species down into small fragmentary populations," says Professor Lister. "And human hunting may have helped mammoths on their way to extinction once they were in this perilous state."
Now, it seems, we could be repeating history.Under siege
The remaining three elephant species have been squeezed down into three areas - Asia, the African savannah and the forests of central Africa. And as well as the endangered Asian elephant, the relatively diminutive African forest elephant - only recently shown to be a distinct species - is now in crisis.
Forest elephants in Africa, to some extent, escaped the "ivory holocaust" during colonial times, and the widespread slaughter of their savannah-dwelling cousins for their ivory in the 1970s and 1980s. This was largely because they were hidden away in their obscure forest habitat in the vast Congo Basin.
Stephen Blake is an elephant expert from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany, who worked on forest elephants for more than a decade for the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). He says that this habitat is now being chopped up.
"Forest elephants need vast uninterrupted areas of wilderness to range through.
"But as logging and resource extraction become more important in the region, the animals are squeezed into smaller pockets of forest where they become easily accessible to poachers.
"There are no good estimates of how many forest elephants remain - probably some tens of thousands, but they are being poached at an alarming rate."
Surprisingly, the biggest problem is not the destruction of forest habitat for logging - although this is damaging. It is actually the construction of roads that is doing the most damage to the species.
Kate Evans, a US conservationist and founder of the charity Elephants for Africa says: "The roads go straight through the heart of the forest, so they also provide easy access for poachers."
And where these roads are not protected by law enforcement, forest elephants are petrified of them.
Dr Blake explains: "If you put a 20 mile ring of death around your house, the chances are you won't want to go more than 15 miles from home.
"And if that ring [closes in], you're going to feel besieged.
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I think the extinction of the mammoth is a salutary lesson that applies to modern extinctions"
"You won't be able to go to the places you need to, you won't be able to see your friends, you will become imprisoned, and most likely the food will start to run out. It's just like that with forest elephants."
The illegal ivory trade - fuelled by civil unrest and organised crime in some central African countries - supports the poaching.
Kate Evans says that forest elephants' relatively straight and dense tusks are highly attractive to carvers and poachers.
"Most of the market is in Asia," she says. With a growing middle class that have access to cash, we have seen an explosion in the demand for ivory there."
According to Traffic International, the wildlife trade monitoring network, organised criminal gangs in Asia are shipping large quantities illegal ivory from Africa.
While in central Africa, ivory products are openly sold in village shops.'Empty forests'
Just as these giants need their forest, the forest needs them. Dr Blake describes the elephants as "mega-gardeners".
The researcher and his colleagues spent several months camping in the dense forests tracking the elephants. He has found that, during their lumbering treks, forest elephants can vacuum up hundreds of pieces of fruit from under a single tree.
They then deposit the seeds they have eaten with a generous helping of fertiliser - in the guise of elephant dung - throughout the forest. Another side effect of their fruit-rich diet is that they probably defecate around 17 times per day.
"Almost every pile of elephant dung contains viable seeds from up to 16 different plant species and thousands of individual seeds," says Dr Blake.
"Tropical forests are so diverse that a seed that lands near its parent plant has a suite of seed predators and pathogens waiting to nab it," he explains.
"So if you're a seed and you land under your parent, the probability of you surviving is almost zero."
Forest elephants, however, can take seeds several kilometres from their parent plant.
"It's like the parable from the bible - some seeds will land on stony ground, some on poor soil, but some will land on good soil...
"With lots of elephants roaming the forests, at least some seeds are likely to land in the right place to grow," says Dr Blake.
And a myriad of other species depend on the structure of the forest that the elephants create.
"Insects, mosses, lichens, invertebrates, other vertebrates; a whole gamut of animal, plant and fungal species are specific to certain trees or plants," explains Dr Blake.
"If we lose elephants, we're going to lose those trees; forest biodiversity as a whole is going to diminish."
Professor Lister says that forest elephants are suffering from the same "double whammy" that claimed the woolly mammoths - habitat loss and hunting.
"Today both of those sides of the pinch are caused by humans," he says.
"I think the extinction of the mammoth is a salutary lesson that applies to modern extinctions."
Dr Blake says that time has already run out for the forest elephant.
It could be too late for the lessons we could learn from the mammoth and the mastodon to make a positive difference.
As resource extraction from central Africa becomes more important, more roads and bigger roads will cut through the forests of the Congo basin.
Without effective wildlife management, the elephants will eventually have nowhere left to hide, Dr Blake says.
"We have seen some exciting initiatives like the development of national parks and landscape scale management programmes developed over the last 20 years, but the resources needed to manage these areas properly are pitiful compared to those available for resource extraction."
"I think we've basically blown it."


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Introduction to Queries
After creating a table and populating it with records, you may want to see what you can do with data stored in it. One of the most commonly performed operations by the users of a database is to look for data or to isolate data that responds to a particular criterion. Looking for data that is conform to a criterion is referred to as querying. The result of retrieving data based on a criterion is called a query.
As a database developer, you perform queries by passing instructions to the database engine. This is done using some special reserved words.
In SQL Server, data analysis can be performed using Enterprise Manager or the SQL Query Analyzer.
To create a query in Enterprise Manager, you can right-click a table, position the mouse on Open Table, and click Query. This would display the Data In Table window:
The Data In Table window is divided in four sections:
By default, the Data In Table window displays all these sections. If you don't want a particular section or some sections not to display, you can hide them. To hide a certain section, you can right-click it and click Hide Pane. To hide any section, you can right-click anywhere in the window, position the mouse on Show Panes and click one of the selections:
A check mark on the left side of a name means its window is displaying. The absence of a check mark means the section is hidden. This means that, to display a hidden section, you can click it.
Column Selection
A query is primarily built by selecting one or more columns whose data you want to view. In the top section of the Data In Table window, to select a column, you can click the check box on the left side of the name:
After you have clicked the check box of a column, it becomes selected in the second section also and its name appears in the SQL statement. Another technique used to select a column consists of clicking a box under the Column header of the second section. This would reveal that it is a combo box. You can then click the arrow of the combo box to display the list and select a column from that list:
Notice that, in the second section, if you click a combo box that already contains a column but select another, the previous one would be replaced by the new one. Also, after selecting a column in the second section, its check box becomes selected in the table (in the top section) and its name gets added to the SQL statement.
If you know the name of a column that you want to add, which you can see in the top section, you can directly enter it in the SQL statement.
Any of the above three techniques allows you to select one or more columns to build the desired query.
Query Execution
After creating a query, you can view its result. To view this result, you must execute the query. To do this, you can right-click anywhere in the Data In Table window and click Run. Alternatively, on the toolbar, you can click the Run button .
After executing the query, the bottom section gets filled with data from only the selected column(s) of the table. Here is an example:
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Early life
Enoch was born to a family of undertakers and practiced his peculiarity on his father's 'customers'. Enoch is also described as having a cockney accent, which suggests that he is from East London. He brings Bronwyn Bruntley's brother Victor back to life occasionally to chat.
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
Enoch first appeared in Chapter Eight. One of his homunculi nudged Jacob's foot. They talk over Jacob's first meal in the loop. Enoch mentions he's around 117 years old. Then he and Jacob talk about his peculiarity. Jacob tried to ask Enoch about the loop, but he ended up going to Victor's room as Enoch suggested. Enoch and Jacob met at Victor's room, where Jacob asked Enoch about "Raid the Village", a game the peculiars (excluding Emma) play in which they literally raid the village.
Knowing about the problems in the peculiardom, he has shown great desire in war especially war items like battle-axes. He also spent his time performing horrific experimental surgeries on his homuncli during the lockdown. He worked at the home's basement laboratory, which Jacob described as "resembling a Civil War field hospital".
In the tenth chapter, Enoch cooperates with Emma's plan to wake Martin, the dead museum's curator. Enoch failed waking him the first two times, but succeeds on his third try. They interrogate the curator but was interrupted when Dr. Golan appeared, trying to get Jacob on his side of the war. Golan lets Malthus alone with the syndrigasti after being rejected by Jacob. They run to avoid being hurt by the hollow. Enoch, together with Bronwyn, ran to the loop, where hollows can't enter.
They meet Emma and Jacob at the loop after Jacob killed Malthus. After they learned about the kidnapping, they tried to catch Golan at the dock. Not having any chance to help, Enoch was left in the home.
After the battle at the docks, they learned that changeover didn't come and they need to find someone who can help Miss Peregrine. They decided to sail and buried Victor. Enoch, having a deep friendship with Victor, left "his very best" homunclus on Victor's chest. Emma suggested someone to make a speech to dedicate the journey ahead, so Enoch help up Miss Peregrine who let out a great screeching cry, and the syndrigasti answered with a cry too. Enoch sat with Hugh and Jacob in their boat and they set out for their journey.
Hollow City
Enoch's first appearance in Hollow City was in Chapter One, together with Jacob, Hugh, and Emma. It was also mentioned in the chapter that Enoch brought a duffel bag filled with reptile hearts. He was the first one to notice that Cairnholm is disappearing from their sight. When the bad weather came, Enoch's boat was the first to appear.
On Chapter Three, Enoch led the syndrigasti in hiding from the wights. He showed his passion for battles, especially when he sees the air raid blimp. When Bronwyn read a story from The Tales of the Peculiar Tales of the Peculiar, but doesn't believe in it. He also showed a bit of his leadership within the chapter. His suggestions are the base of most of the peculiars' action. Enoch also asked random questions around this chapter and next one, showing his curiosity. Enoch contributed to their first plan to help Miss Peregrine.
With the gypsies, he mostly encouraged and helped his co-peculiars suceed in making good decisions, although he despised them. When taken by wights, Enoch carried a small bag of grave dirts full of worms. After being rescued by Hugh, Enoch apologized to him because he always humiliated him for his peculiarity. At the train, he ordered all of the staff's goose liver pâté and teased Olive about being picky.
It was revealed in Chapter Three that Enoch spent years in London, a place he was fond of and often boasted about. He led the peculiars in their journey in London, identifying the places to go with Emma and Jacob. Enoch also the one who discovered the peculiar pigeons's hiding place. Although he always touches dead body organs, he thought twice before going down. When the syndrigasti met the Bone Brothers, he was the first one to know they are peculiars too.
At Sam's and Esme's house, he acted differently. He tried to cheer up Esme, who is scared by the bombing, by demonstrating his peculiarity. He made his last clay homunculus from Cairnholm ride on a rubber duck in the tub, to the delight of Esme. After the hollows reached their hiding place, Enoch wobbled to a car parked nearby. He also remarked that "talking loop theory is better than going into pointless hysterics", referring to Hitler. He had an argument with Bronwyn again about saving Miss Peregrine or the normals. Sam, offended by Enoch's view on the normals, also confronted him.
In Chapter Eleven, Enoch, annoyed by Winnie's confusion, told her he'll "personally roast her on a spit". This showed his temper, his impatience, and determination to save Miss Peregrine's life.
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He is described as having messy blonde hair and "cadaverous black ringed blue eyes, lIke a racoon".
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel
In the graphic novel, Enoch is shown wearing a light green shirt and beige overalls, the same basic outfit he wears in the original Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. His physical appearance includes messy blonde hair and dark-ringed blue eyes. He is skinny.
On the outside, Enoch puts on a show of being tough but often comes off as cruel. He loves stirring up mischief in the house and usually succeeds. He often adds his own two cents and is very sarcastic and snarky. Enoch also hinted at his great liking for war at different chapters of both Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City. He shows more of his personality in the latter. He once states, "I like sad stories. Especially ones where a princess gets eaten by a dragon and everybody dies in the end."
Enoch has the power to give life to inanimate dead things. He keeps preserved animal hearts such as sheep, cow, rodent, and reptile, in Miss Peregrine's basement. He likes to create homunculi out of clay and train them to one day have a "massive" army. It is interpreted that he occasionally uses his gift to bring Victor back for a short while for chats. He uses small rodent hearts to bring his clay soldiers to life but "it takes a right lot of 'em to rise up a human being, even just a minute." (as stated in Chapter Seven). When bringing Martin back, Enoch uses sheep hearts but it only works after the first to die. He tells Jacob, Emma, and Bronwyn that he might not be able to raise Martin since he's "pretty far gone," referring to how mutilated his body is.
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In Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Enoch and Jacob are neutral towards each other. In Hollow City (where the childrens' personalities are revealed more) Enoch acts more critical and hostile, especially towards Jacob. Enoch doesn't have much faith that Jacob be helpful because of his limited knowledge of the world of peculiarity as well as his own. A few times, Enoch also refers to him as "the American", suggesting that he is also judgemental of the country. Enoch sometimes appears as being jealous of him, although this may be because the other children seemed to accept Jacob more than they accept him.
Miss Peregrine
Enoch is a resident of Miss Peregrine's loop. Even though he dislikes the headmistress' strict attitude, he still follows her orders. He cares deeply for her and snaps at the other children for being slow when her life is in danger.
Emma Bloom
Enoch appears slightly jealous of Emma, which suggests that he may have a crush on her. Regardless, they seem to have a decent on/off relationship with each other.
Bronwyn Bruntley
Enoch treats Bronwyn cruelly, as seen when he pretends to consider waking Victor when he actually had no intention of raising him. Even after Bronwyn begs him raise her brother, Enoch swiftly shuts her down and tells her that it'd be cruel to do so, since Victor prefers it where he is.
Victor Bruntley
Enoch refers to Victor as his friend, despite the fact that he is dead. Because Enoch is able to bring things back from the dead, he has previously been able to talk to Victor and shares things he has told him, such as his liking of where he is in the afterlife.
Horace Somnusson
Enoch often calls Horace a coward and is quick to snap at him. Though he seems to bully Horace, Enoch is seen to sleep back-to-back with him in Hollow City and even laughed when Horace mocked him. The two are considered to be friends.
Hugh Apiston
Enoch makes fun of Hugh's peculiarity. Enoch is repeatedly rescued from the face of danger by Hugh and his bees (from the Wight's captivity and the lady at the train station). He also comforts Hugh when he's crying over the loss of his bees, and offers to revive them if he could.
Millard Nullings
He admits he taunts Millard from time to time for being invisible but still considers Millard a friend.
Martin Pagett
To find out if there is a wight outside of the loop, Enoch hatches a plan to revive Martin and ask him about his murderer. Enoch brings some pickled hearts to use on Martin, which all fail except for the last one.
- It is mentioned that Enoch speaks with a slight "cockney" accent, cockney meaning being a native of East London. However in the film he speaks with a Scottish accent, because the actor is Scottish.
- He has an extensive knowledge on all things military.
- Enoch claims to be a realist, though Emma believes him to be a pessimist.
- He likes London very much, having told Horace and Millard several times while in the loop.
- In Hollow City, Enoch says that he was born December 3rd, 1892. Contradictory, in the official peculiar calendar, his birthday is placed on August 26th.


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Our management team has extensive experience in life settlements, complimentary backgrounds and international experience from having worked at major banks and hedge funds. The board of directors consists of both successful entrepreneurs and senior managers with extensive experience from the financial industry.
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The secondary market for US life insurance policies offers long-term investors both risk diversification and attractive returns. The main risk, longevity, is uncorrelated to most other asset classes. We have since 2011 sourced life insurance policies in order to build a diversified life insurance portfolio. Our strategy aims to systematically mitigate the longevity risk by carefully selecting policies using quantitative methods. The fund obtains a life expectancy report from an independent medical underwriter, in most cases. Our proprietary premium optimization algorithms are highly advanced and create a competitive advantage.
Life Settlements
The secondary market in US life insurance policies, also known as life settlements, offers investors the opportunity to purchase life insurance policies at a discount to face value. The estimated size of the annual turnover in the secondary market was approx. 3.9 USD billion in 2014 according to Conning Research. The key investment features making this an attractive asset class are attractive yields combined with excellent credit quality and low correlation with bonds and equities.
Ress Life Investments A/S begins to invest directly in life insurance policiesAs previously announced, Ress Life Investments A/S is planning to invest directly in life insurance policies and securities linked to longev...
Johan Jonson appointed Risk Manager for Resscapital ABResscapital AB has appointed Johan Jonson as Risk Manager for the company. Johan Jonson (b.1964) has over 25 years of experience in the fina...
Gustaf Hagerud appointed Managing Director of Resscapital ABThe board of Resscapital AB today appointed Gustaf Hagerud as the new Managing Director for the company. "Gustaf brings a wealth of knowle...
Resscapital becomes signatory of UNPRIResscapital AB has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and commit to follow its principles. We believe t...
Jonas Martenson has an international finance background and has lived in Switzerland, Belgium and the UK. In Switzerland he worked with OTC derivatives and then moved to Brussels to work in fund management. In 1996 he joined Schroders in London and subsequently worked for Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch focusing on selling OTC derivatives and structuring derivative products to European institutional investors. Prior to co-founding Resscapital AB, Jonas was Head of Derivative Sales at Hypovereinsbank in London. Jonas holds a M.Sc. in International Economics from the Gothenburg School of Economics.
Andreas Ametrin was previously Partner and Team Leader at a major multi-strategy hedge fund in London where he analyzed and developed trading strategies and risk management tools. Andreas also worked for a number of years at Sungard in Stockholm, where he was responsible for valuation of credit derivatives and general interest rate modelling. He also has extensive experience in programming and risk calibration of model parameters. Andreas holds a M.Sc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Linkoping Institute of Technology in Sweden.
Anton Pozine has extensive experience within the life settlements and longevity linked space. Anton joined Resscapital in 2011 and has reviewed longevity-linked securities with over USD 10 billion in face value and has purchased life insurance policies with over USD 450 million in face value. Anton holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Linkoping Institute of Technology in Sweden.
Gustaf was previously Partner at the fund manager Kestrel Investment Partners in London. Before moving to London, Gustaf was Head of Asset Management and deputy CEO of the public pension fund AP3, one of the largest pension funds in Scandinavia with global investments in most asset classes. Gustaf worked for seven years at AP3 and prior to that ten years with global tactical asset allocation at Alecta and AP1. He has also been a trader in various positions at Nordea and Swedbank. Gustaf holds a PhD in Finance from Stockholm School of Economics, a MA in Economics from University of British Columbia and a BA in Economics from the University of Stockholm. His research is focused on volatility forecasting. He is also an author of a textbook on the Swedish financial markets.
Niklas Midby has a background mainly in finance. Niklas begun his career in consulting and then spent twelve years in international investment banking where he held various senior positions in corporate finance and private equity. Returning to Sweden, Niklas joined OM (now Nasdaq OMX) where he was responsible for all exchanges and clearing houses, including the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Since 2003 he manages his own investment company and serves on several boards, including as Chairman of Sbanken ASA. Niklas holds an B. Sc. from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Non-Executive Director of Resscapital AB, has a background mainly from equity and equity derivatives, including ten years in London working for Salomon Brothers, Bear Stearns and Deutsche. Per is the co-founder and Chairman of Mangold Fondkommission, a broker which provides services within corporate finance, equities, securities issuance and asset management. Since 2002 he manages his own company and serves on several boards, including as Chairman of Black Earth Farming Ltd. Per holds an B. Sc from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Jonas Martenson has an international finance background and has lived in Switzerland, Belgium and the UK. In Switzerland he worked with OTC derivatives and then moved to Brussels to work in fund management. In 1996 he joined Schroders in London and subsequently worked for Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch focusing on selling OTC derivatives and structuring derivative products to European institutional investors. Prior to co-founding Resscapital AB, Jonas was Head of Derivative Sales at Hypovereinsbank in London. Jonas holds a M.Sc. in International Economics from the Gothenburg School of Economics.
Claes-Johan Geijer has a background within management in industrial corporations and banking. Claes-Johan worked for more than ten years at Swedish Match, Stora and Lexmar Corporation in various countries. He then became Managing Director of Swedbank in Luxembourg and in London and thereafter Senior Vice President at Swedbank in Stockholm. He then became a partner in a Swedish venture capital company. After leaving in 2001 he became the Managing Director of Banque Carnegie Luxembourg and for several years also served as Group Head of Private Banking within the Carnegie Group. Since 2012 he serves on several boards. He holds a B.Sc. from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Product category: Pump components
According to the mold casting material casting for sand casting and metaltype. Sand casting is a sand as the main material, make the traditional mould casting process. General use of the gravity casting sand, there are special requirements can be used when the low pressure casting,centrifugal casting process. The metal mold casting is the modernproduction process of casting mold with heat-resistant alloy steel. Metaltype can use gravity casting, also can use the pressure casting. Metalpressure casting in casting machine is currently the highest production efficiency of casting process. Casting mold metal mold can be used repeatedly, each cast once a casting, die life is very long, the production efficiency is very high. Metal castings not only good dimension precision,surface finish, and pouring liquid metal in the same condition, the castingintensity higher than sand. Therefore, in the mass production of smallcastings, non-ferrous metal casting, as long as the melting point of material is not too high, generally preferred metal mould casting.However, the metal mold casting also has some shortcomings: because the price is high heat resistant alloy steel material, and processing the hollow wheel are relatively expensive, so the metal mold is not cheap.For single or small batch production, is allocated to each product on themould cost is high, the general is not easy to accept. Because the die metal processing equipment, mold material by size and cavity castingequipment capacity constraints, so it is incapable of action for largecastings. Therefore in small batch and big production, rarely using the metal mold casting. In addition, the metal mould while using heat-resistant alloy steel, but the heat capacity is still limited, generally used for casting aluminum alloy, zinc alloy, magnesium alloy, has been seldom used in copper alloy casting, and even fewer for ferrous metal casting.
Wuxi City Bao Ming Precision Casting Co., Ltd., plant about 5000 square meters, covers an area of 10 mu, about 50 employees, enterprisededicated to the production of carbon steel, stainless steel materials,precision casting and finished product, using water glass lost waxprocess advanced, investment casting is a large-scale professional production base, set plant and machinery processing factory precision casting as a whole, the annual production of precision casting and all kinds of precision casting products 300 tons, mainly exported to Europe and the United States and Japan and other countries.The company is located in Taihu coast of goose lake, not only has a full set of production facilities and equipment: waxing machine, coating equipment, dewaxing facilities, intermediate frequency electric furnace,sintering furnace, tempering furnace, electric welding machine, argon welding machine, shot blasting machine, lathe, planer, milling machine,pressing machine, is also provided with a detecting equipment of theindustry leading: spectrum analyzer, tensile test machine, etc.. Theequipment can ensure to provide customers the final finished castingparts with high precision, and can meet the requirements of customers,physicochemical properties of materials such as a full range of precisionmeasurement.
The product application scope of the company is very extensive,covering almost the whole equipment manufacturing industry and machinery manufacturing industry the application fields, mainly include:shipping, food machinery, pump and valve etc.. Management systemprocess and operation of the company through the ISO9001 quality certification. Proficient in implementation of the national standard (GB),American Standard (AISI), Japanese standard (JIS). The applicationmaterials mainly 25 steel, 304 steel, 316 steel, 316L steel.
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Cinema and Paris: A Love Story
From Paris Blues to Midnight in Paris, not forgetting Last Tango in Paris… So many cinematic masterpieces were born on the streets of the capital!
In the background or as a central subject, Paris has always attracted and fascinated filmmakers from all over the world. Putting its movement, its sparkle, its darkness and its beauty at the disposal of artists who come to immortalise it on a reel. The city of light shows its fidelity to the filmmaker's camera every time: sometimes bleak, sometimes romantic, sometimes magical. The monuments, the suburbs and the neighbourhoods create a certain atmosphere, guided, step by step, by the director. Since 1917, the period of silent cinema, Paris' scenery has been shown in international cinema with The Darling of Paris by J. Gordon Edwards. Shot in a studio in Los Angeles, the film liberally adapts the famous Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris.
For decades filmmakers have continued to declare their passion, making it today one of the most-filmed cities. But maybe the director's love for Paris is just a response to the love that Paris itself has for cinema?
The attachment of Paris to cinema dates back to its origins. For it was at the Boulevard des Capucines, in the very heart of the city, that the first public cinema projection took place on December, 28th, 1895, by Antoine Lumière. Since then, cinemas have continued to multiply. So much so that the French capital can boast having the biggest number of screens per resident in the world. And even though recent years have seen the growth of big cinematographic companies, Paris fights for the existence of independent, experimental art cinema and for the conservation of its projection. Keep in mind that a big distributor is not the only way to see a film.
So that the talented artists can have a chance to share their art with the public, and so that the art of the cinema doesn't reduce itself to a money issue. And so that this artistic expression can grow in all its diversity and originality: Independent cinema networks and international film festivals are organised all over the city, giving the seventh art the chance to be seen, to the great pleasure of the public. Paris has preserved a place for cinema in its cultural universe. Adding to it, besides everything else, its biggest international database 'The Cinémathèque', thus continuing the patrimony of the seventh art.
Yes, Paris loves cinema, as much as filmmakers love Paris. And the city will continue to illuminate them with a thousand lights, and this beautiful love story is far, very far from over.
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UNICEF is recruiting to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Communication Specialist (Campaign Manager) – L3 Temporary Appointment – 364 Days
Job Location: Nigeria
Educational Qualification: Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, International Development or other relevant discipline. (Or a graduate degree plus at least 12 years of demonstrated professional experience in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications).
Years of Experience: Three years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in campaign management/public advocacy within the United Nations, NGOs or other similar organizations. Experience leading or supporting communications activities/initiatives in Nigeria or other West African context is desirable
Other Requirements:
- Fluency in English is a requirement.
Start date: 1 September 2016 End date: 31 August 2017
Timeframe: 364 days (Full time) with possibility of renewal for a further 364 days.
Duty Station: Consultant will be based in Nigeria, with travel to New York and Seattle as required for successful implementation of initiative. Frequent travel may be required.
Job Specification(s):
- Background:
With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and from UNICEF HQ, UNICEF's Nigeria Country Office will develop and implement a 2-year communications campaign, seeking to raise awareness around serious and persistent inequities that exist in health and education within Nigeria.
This initiative will seek to generate lessons on successful approaches to increasing awareness and willingness to mobilize around the issue of inequity among targeted demographics and to document successful communications approaches. The initiative will build understanding around how to communicate effectively with a general audience on child survive and thrive equity issues and how to engage targeted audiences, primarily urban middle class, millennials and youth in Lagos and Abuja areas, around specific calls to action.
- Purpose of the position:
The purpose of the consultancy is to lead the process of planning, implementing, documenting and reporting on this initiative, with support and guidance from the Chief of Communications, UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, and a project manager based in UNICEF HQ. The contract is for an initial duration of 364 days, with possibility of renewal for a further 364 days.
- Expected results:
- Lead planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and documentation of a 2-year communications campaign focusing on inequity in Nigeria with support from 1) UNICEF Nigeria Country Office 2) UNICEF NY Division of Communication colleagues, 3) an external, Nigeria-based communications agency, which will be contracted to support this initiative.
- Working with selected communications agency, ensure successful completion of all tasks required to ensure effective planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and documentation of the campaign, including, but not limited to the following:
- Development of a comprehensive audience research report identifying: 1) media usage habits; 2) demographic insights; 3) language characteristics; 4) knowledge, attitudes, and practices; 5) other information pertinent to campaign development.
- Production of a campaign plan, media outreach plan, content development plan, influencer outreach and engagement plan and campaign evaluation plan.
- Testing of the campaign narrative and key messages to ensure relevance and impact
- Development of a revised campaign narrative and key messages based on testing findings to ensure campaign relevance. This exercise will be done after responses to KAP sample survey is compared with baseline results established during landscape mapping.
- Creation of campaign assets based on narrative and key messages, including PSA, imagery, social media and media assets, highlighting potential return on investment from strategic investments in equity around health and development.
- Roll-out of campaign plan, media outreach plan, content development plan, influencer outreach and engagement plan and campaign evaluation plan.
- Campaign implementation through activation of campaign assets via social media, traditional media outlets, influencer mobilization.
- Produce report highlighting lessons learned documented throughout the lifespan of the project, demonstrating impact achieved and shared with partners.
- Share datasets created as part of the above deliverables with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of regular reporting. Share compilation of datasets with the Foundation at the completion of the project.
Apply Before: Wednesday 3rd August 2016.
How to Apply: Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, recent CV, and up-to-date P11 form to Mr Guy Taylor, Communication Specialist, [email protected] by Wednesday 3rd August 2016.


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TAMPA — Over the boom of cannons and the wail of police sirens, the shouts of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla pirates echoed through downtown Tuesday afternoon.
A shipload of men "sailed" to Gaslight Square Park shortly after noon, tossing out treasured Gasparilla beads and demanding Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn come out of City Hall and face them.
"Where's the mayor?" they shouted. "We want the key!"
Every year before the annual Gasparilla invasion, a small contingency of pirates from the Krewe demand the key to the city from Tampa's mayor. And every year since he has held the title, Buckhorn has refused them.
"Ye Mystic Krewe of Cowardly Lions, you are not going to get this key," the mayor told the captain in front of a small crowd that gathered to watch the negotiations.
But Capt. Jim Von Thron told the mayor he won't be able to keep the key from them for long. The pirates will return for it this weekend.
"On Saturday, I'm coming back with a much bigger crew," Von Thron said. "You can't handle Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla."
The famed Gasparilla Invasion and Parade of Pirates will take place beginning at 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
For more information, go to www.gasparillapiratefest.com.
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OUAT's Hook & Emma really need to stop lying to each other
First David lied to Snow, and now Hook lies to Emma. What is wrong with these couples on Once Upon a Time? Of course there are going to be lies and secrets, because this is a TV show we're talking about. However, secrets tear people apart, and who wants to see either of these beloved OUAT romances break up? I certainly don't.
More: If Regina dies on OUAT, there's going to be a serious price to pay
Tonight's episode featured not only Jasmine and Aladdin's story, finally, but also a way that just might save Emma from what appears to be a tragic future. Based on what the oracle showed Emma, it seems like her destiny includes death. Guess what? Jafar also showed Aladdin (who is a savior like Emma) the same thing with his oracle bird.
That said, Jafar did give Aladdin a way out of his potential death. Thanks to the Three Fates, there is a pair of shears that are apparently a way for a savior to change their future. A savior can choose to use the shears by severing ties with their destiny. If the shears are used, that person will no longer be the savior, but they will supposedly live a prosperous and happy life.
All of this seems too good to be true because magic always comes with a price, right? That's probably one of the reasons Emma chose not to use the shears. After meeting up with Jasmine, Emma, Regina, Hook, and Henry partnered up with her to find Aladdin. He's been missing, but Regina created a potion that tied him to Emma, another savior, in hopes that it would lead them to him.
More: You know Robin's return to OUAT is gonna be bad, in a good way
Eventually, they wound up at a crypt, and Jasmine immediately thought Aladdin was indeed dead. However, he isn't. He is very much alive because he chose to use the shears given to him by Jafar. He then handed Emma the shears, but she'd rather find another way to save herself because she is the savior and she doesn't want to give up just yet. She is willing to pay whatever price comes with the magic she was gifted — though let's hope that doesn't mean her death.
So, Hook took the shears and told Emma that he buried them "thousands of leagues under the sea." Did he, though? No, he did not. That's right: Like Emma kept her future a secret from Hook, he is now keeping this secret from her. Like Snow told Emma, you can't build a life with someone if you keep secrets. Well, that's not happening with either Captain Swan or Snow and David.
They all need to stop lying to each other. I'm sure Hook is thinking the shears will save his one true love from death, but all of this could end up doing more harm than good. And what will happen when Emma finds out Hook lied to her and that he still has the shears? Lies tear couples apart, they don't bring them together.
Here's hoping all of this gets sorted out because I can't handle an unhappy ending for Emma and Hook.
Once Upon a Time airs Sundays at 8/7c on ABC.
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I thought I'd spice up the interview list on Ceiga a bit by interviewing someone from a large VFX studio instead of the usual short film director/artist. Chris Johnston who worked for Framestore is someone I got in touch with through a mutual friend and who I actually went to University with (small world). So I took up the opportunity to interview him for the blog about his experiences at Framestore.(more…)
The first time I came across the Flipped Normals website I remember thinking to myself, wow – I wish this resource was around when I was learning 3D. The website is so colourful and well designed it almost invites you to dive straight into the videos and that's another thing all the tutorials are videos which is perfect for the young 'youtube' generation. I've managed to grab an interview with the creators of the site Henning Sanden & Morten Jæger to find out more about the site.(more…)
When I first saw and played about with Sketchfab a few years ago I was incredibly impressed with what I saw. 3D models in the browser wasn't something that was really seen at that time and they've come a long way since then. I've managed to get an interview with Alban Denoyel the Co-founder & CEO.(more…)
We're pretty envious of Andrew Baker. The Creature and Character Designer studied at New Zealand's Wanganui School of Design before migrating to LA to work on Sega's game Golden Axe: Beast Rider and facial modelling for Image Metrics. He then returned to the land under the land down under (New Zealand, in case that doesn't make sense) to work alongside Weta's legendary co-founder and co-director Richard Taylor. We had a chat with Andrew about how he gets things done, what it's like to work at Weta Workshop, as well as his guitar and skateboarding skills!(more…)
The first time I saw Legend of the Flying Tomato I got that feeling you get when you see a good Pixar film. It's such a professionally put together short 3D film, one that comes once in a blue moon. I've interviewed Aurry Tan, one of the three students who put this together (the others being Michael Yates & Sharon Huang) to find out how it was made.(more…)
Ignyte are a brilliant production studio based in Munich who have created some absolutely impressive pieces of work. I've managed to get an interview with the owner of the studio Leif Petersen.
I don't know if you've seen the short film Take On An Idea but it's a very impressive short film put together by Swedish artist Fredrik Kasperi. Here's an interview to find out why and how he put it together.


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We pride ourselves in offering an individually tailored service to all our clients and are able to draw on a wealth of experience gained over a period of more than 25 years each working in Norfolk and North Suffolk. Both Nigel Boulton and Colin Brown are fully qualified members of RICS as well as being Registered Valuers. For our panel clients, Boulton and Brown is BS EN ISO 9001:2008 accredited.