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If you're making a movie about kids meeting an alien, it's probably semi-compulsory to include a flying-bicycle scene, as an E.T. shout-out. But nowadays, you can make the effects look way cooler. Right? Right Or... not. Witness this hideous example.
This clip comes from 2005's No Place Like Home, which features an all-star cast, including Judge Reinhold, arguably cinema's most famous masturbator. The alien is played by Geoff Stults (Happy Town), who only learns English towards the end of the movie — a lot of the cinematic action is taken up by Stults running away from the high-larious redneck Deputy "Dead" Ned and an uptight federal agent (Joanne Pacula), who Judge Reinhold high-lariously insinuates is a lesbian because she doesn't enjoy his good-natured sexual harrassment. Meanwhile, Stults must learn our ways, which mostly involves kissing first a magazine page and then the blonde girl, played by Alana Austin. And there's a high-larious scene where the kid with the bandana accidentally flies around using Stults' light saber-y power rod. (Don't touch Geoff Stults' rod. It ought to be a warning label.)
Anyway, the bicycle scene is the true highlight, thanks to how little effort they go to to make it appear that the bikes are actually flying. Show some wheels hovering above the ground? Check. Show an image of the road, from the view point of the riders, looking like you're gliding along it? Check. Show an image of Alana Austin's face shot from below, as if she's hovering? Check check check. What more could you possibly ask for?
All of a sudden Spielberg looks like even more of a wizard than ever. [IMDB]


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|PREFACE xi CONTRIBUTORS xv PART I SOURCES 1 Chapter 1 Introduction 3 Stuart B. Levy Chapter 2 Path to Resistance 7 Vivian Miao, Dorothy Davies, and Julian Davies Chapter 3 Antibiotic Resistome: A Framework Linking the Clinic and the Environment 15 Gerard D. Wright Chapter 4 Ecological and Clinical Consequences of Antibiotic Subsistence by Environmental Microbes 29 Gautam Dantas and Morten O. A. Sommer Chapter 5 Importance of Adaptive and Stepwise Changes in the Rise and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance 43 Lucia Fernandez, Elena B. M. Breidenstein, and Robert E. W. Hancock Chapter 6 Environmental Reservoirs of Resistance Genes in Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria and Their Possible Impact on the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance 73 Paris Laskaris, William H. Gaze and Elizabeth M. H. Wellington Chapter 7 Mechanisms of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance and Lessons Learned from Environmental Tetracycline-Resistant Bacteria 93 Marilyn C. Roberts Chapter 8 Environmental Antibiotic Resistome: New Insights from Culture-Independent Approaches 123 Isabel S. Henriques, Artur Alves, Maria Jose Saavedra, Mark H. M. M. Montforts, and Antonio Correia PART II FATE 149 Chapter 9 Environmental Pollution by Antibiotic Resistance Genes 151 Jose Luis Martinez and Jorge Olivares Chapter 10 Quantifying Anthropogenic Impacts on Environmental Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance 173 Amy Pruden and Mazdak Arabi Chapter 11 Antibiotic Resistance in Swine-Manure-Impacted Environments 203 Joanne Chee-Sanford, Scott Maxwell, Kristy Tsau, Kelly Merrick, and Rustam Aminov Chapter 12 Antimicrobial-Resistant Indicator Bacteria in Manure and the Tracking of Indicator Resistance Genes 225 Christina S. Ho¨lzel and Karin Schwaiger Chapter 13 Municipal Wastewater as a Reservoir of Antibiotic Resistance 241 Timothy Lapara and Tucker Burch Chapter 14 Strategies to Assess and Minimize the Biological Risk of Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment 251 Thomas Schwartz Chapter 15 Antibiotic Resistance in Animals--The Australian Perspective 265 Olasumbo Ndi and Mary Barton PART III ANTIMICROBIAL SUBSTANCES AND RESISTANCE 291 Chapter 16 Detection and Occurrence of Antibiotics and Their Metabolites in Pig Manure in Bavaria (Germany) 293 Katrin Harms and Johann Bauer Chapter 17 Fate and Transport of Antibiotics in Soil Systems 309 Alistair B. A. Boxall Chapter 18 Antibiotics in the Aquatic Environment 325 Klaus Ku¨mmerer Chapter 19 Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Wild Fish 337 Thomas Heberer Chapter 20 Role of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment 349 Ulas Tezel and Spyros G. Pavlostathis PART IV EFFECTS AND RISKS 389 Chapter 21 Human Health Importance of use of Antimicrobials in Animals and Its Selection of Antimicrobial Resistance 391 Scott A. McEwen Chapter 22 Antimicrobial Resistance Associated with Salmonid Farming 423 Claudio D. Miranda Chapter 23 Effect of Veterinary Medicines Introduced via Manure into Soil on the Abundance and Diversity of Antibiotic Resistance Genes on Their Transferability 453 Holger Heuer, Christoph Kopmann, Ute Zimmerling, Ellen Kro¨gerrecklenfort, Kristina Kleineidamm, Michael Schloter, Eva M. Top and Kornelia Smalla Chapter 24 Tracking Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes through the Composting Process and Field Distribution of Poultry Waste: Lessons Learned 465 Patricia L. Keen and Nancy De With Chapter 25 Environmental Microbial Communities Living Under Very High Antibiotic Selection Pressure 483 Anders Janzon, Erik Kristiansson, and D. G. Joakim Larsson Chapter 26 Antibiotic Use During an Influenza Pandemic: Downstream Ecological Effects and Antibiotic Resistance 503 Andrew C. Singer and Heike Schmitt Chapter 27 Use of Veterinary Antibacterial Agents in Europe and the United States 539 Ingeborg M. van Geijlswijk, Nico Bondt, Linda F. Puister-Jansen, and Dik J. Mevius Chapter 28 Regulatory Research on Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment 549 Emily A. McVey and Mark H. M. M. Montforts INDEX 569
|Examines effects of the environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes on human health and the ecosystem Resistance genes are everywhere in nature-in pathogens, commensals, and environmental microorganisms. This contributed work shows how the environment plays a pivotal role in the development of antimicrobial resistance traits in bacteria and the distribution of resistant microbial species, resistant genetic material, and antibiotic compounds. Readers will discover the impact of the distribution in the environment of antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotics on both the ecosystem and human and animal health. Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment is divided into four parts: * Part I, Sources, including ecological and clinical consequences of antibiotic resistance by environmental microbes * Part II, Fate, including strategies to assess and minimize the biological risk of antibiotic resistance in the environment * Part III, Antimicrobial Substances and Resistance, including antibiotics in the aquatic environment * Part IV, Effects and Risks, including the effect of antimicrobials used for non-human purposes on human health Recognizing the intricate links among overlapping complex systems, this book examines antimicrobial resistance using a comprehensive ecosystem approach. Moreover, the book's multidisciplinary framework applies principles of microbiology, environmental toxicology, and chemistry to assess the human and ecological risks associated with exposure to antibiotics or antibiotic resistance genes that are environmental contaminants. Each chapter has been written by one or more leading researchers in such fields as microbiology, environmental science, ecology, and toxicology. Comprehensive reference lists at the end of all chapters serve as a gateway to the primary research in the field. Presenting and analyzing the latest findings in a field of growing importance to human and environmental health, this text offers readers new insights into the role of the environment in antimicrobial resistance development, the dissemination of antimicrobial resistant genetic elements, and the transport of antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotics.
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Obviously, I have done very little on this rusty old site. No point going over the reasons.
Some of you still poke in on occasion, especially when the PIAA Board of Directors meet because I usually have a live blog.
Well, I'm kind of having a blog today. The difference: I'm running it through the PIAA District 3 site (my employer) rather than this blog.
It will be a bit more dry since I've excised the editorial comments, but the raw info will be there.
Click here to access the D3 blog.


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Operation Santa Claus begins in Alaska villages
by Maj. John Callahan
November 18, 2016
TOGIAK, Alaska - In a rare daytime appearance, Santa and about 50 of his elves - including Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and First Lady Donna Walker - came early this year to visit Christmas cheer upon the schoolchildren of this remote village in Southwest Alaska.
The early visit was made possible by the Alaska National Guard's Operation Santa Claus, now in its 60th year. Each year since 1956, volunteers have come together to process and package donated Christmas toys, school supplies, books and staple foods. Most of these "elves" are affiliated with the Alaska Army or Air National Guard; others step forward from local businesses and community groups. Alaska Air National Guard crews then fly the elves and their collected goodies to a selected handful of villages a year.
In the festive Togiak School gymnasium, small schoolchildren climbed onto Mr. and Mrs. Santa's laps to receive gifts. Others crowded around the visiting Guard members, peppering them with questions, and challenged their guests to push-ups and "Eskimo stick" contests.
"The children were really excited to learn they were coming," said Sam Gosuk, principal of the Togiak School. "And so were the adults. I really want to thank the people here - not only students, but also teachers and some members of the community - who stayed up late decorating the gym. Everything was very organized."
"It was so amazing," Margie Frost, the school's secretary, said to Walker as she drove the governor and first lady back to the Guard's waiting C-130 aircraft afterwards. "I have a story I'd like to tell you.
"In 2000, my dad died near Bethel," she continued. "He fell through the ice. That was December 23. We got the news on Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve - that he was missing.
"I didn't think I would ever feel the same about Christmas. But now I do, seeing how happy all the kids are. It is really special. I feel like that Christmas spirit is back."
Three additional Operation Santa Claus missions are scheduled for 2016. The elves will visit Akiak, Akiachak, Tuluksak and Grayling in December. Altogether, Operation Santa Claus 2016 will deliver Christmas cheer to about 1,800 children, said Op Santa Volunteer Coordinator April Gettys.
Operation Santa Claus began in 1956, when floods and a drought ruined the hunting and fishing season for residents in the Western Alaska village of St. Mary's. With only enough money to pay to have food shipped in and nothing left over for Christmas, the mother superior of the village's Roman Catholic mission wrote a letter to the Alaska National Guard asking for help. Radio and television stations and Anchorage's two newspapers spread the word, and within days the Guard was inundated with donations of new and used toys. The mission closed in the late 1980s, but the gift-giving effort continued to grow. Since then, literally tens of thousands of Alaska's schoolchildren have had their Christmas seasons brightened through Operation Santa Claus.


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Adam Gross is the University of Maryland's School of Architecture's Kea Distinguished Professor for the Spring 2010 semester. The Kea endowment was established early in the School's history and is the highest honor that the Architecture Program can bestow. This endowment permits the program to engage outstanding individuals in the field with architecture students and faculty.
Adam's duties as Kea Distinguished Professor will involve a series of six day-long engagements with the 14 students in the ARCH Master's Thesis in Architecture. It will also include a public lecture this spring. This follows Adam's teaching engagement as the Fay Jones visiting Chair at the University of Arkansas where he taught in 2007/2008


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After a whopping 13-year tenure, supermodel Heidi Klum is officially hanging up her wings. As she told Page Six at Paris Fashion Week, "All good things have to come to an end. I will always love Victoria's Secret. It has been an absolutely amazing time."
Frankly, we're surprised that the chief angel has still been walking the Victoria's Secret runway after all this time, considering her myriad other duties, including playing the the host of "Project Runway" and designing two new lines -- a maternity clothing collection and a fitness shoe. All of this is to say nothing of the fact that she's also become a mom four times over in the last decade. But then again, when you're 37 and look that good, why stop?
The lingering question of who will replace Klum as VS's "Head Angel," however, remains. Many of the top models in the brand's arsenal are either currently pregnant (Miranda Kerr and Doutzen Kroes) or just recently had a baby (Adriana Lima), though -- taking Klum as a prime example -- that doesn't necessarily mean they're ruled out. There are also some A-listers worth considering right now: veteran Alessandra Ambrosio, for one, or perhaps a rising star like Chanel Iman.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
There is a problem in the design of Pluto/LinuxMCE in that while you can install a CORE, you need an orbiter in order to add diskless MDs. The best way to do this is to install it as a Hybrid initially. That being said, you should see your diskless MD successfully boot from your core and print a message on its monitor saying it has announced itself to the core. Do you have a dual network card configuration? You said DHCP is working with the other xp machines. Are they connected to your secondary network port on your core?


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Adjustable Pedals At Your Feet
With the vast array of pedal assemblies in the aftermarket world, I stumbled upon a cool set of pedals that were basic looking in nature but packed a big punch as far as adjustability. You may say that your stock pedals don't need the adjustability and you stop just fine.
My response to that would be, "How does your leg and foot feel after a long drive or sitting in rush hour traffic?" When I first started building my '59 Apache my goals were simple, build a nice driver that can go anywhere at any time. Well, as most of our readers, my projects change in-between build phases—so has my long-term project. The new goal is very similar to the old goal but now I have thrown a few curves into the mix, literally curves, that's right I want to build a truck that can handle a Goodguys autocross course but still retain the drivability and street ability that the original version 1.0 truck had. Not to mention, I don't want to put 30-inch spinners on the truck, I don't think that is what CLASSIC TRUCKS magazine is about. I think Grant Peterson, former Associate Editor, was onto something by pushing the performance end of classic trucks. Isn't that what the original hot rodders did? A street driven truck that can drive fast in a strait line and carve the canyons with a Corvette? Is that possible?
So why would I install aftermarket pedals on my truck? For several reasons and here is why: My personal truck came with a four on the floor and the stock pedals just felt uncomfortable, especially since the truck was a daily driver.
Next, the clutch was all manual, meaning that when I pushed the clutch pedal it would pivot to another arm that would hit the clutch fork and push the throwout bearing until the clutch was disengaged. As the clutch parts wore out the pedal would get feedback and transfer to my foot, not to mention the effort to press in the clutch. Talk about a left leg work out …
My third thought was that what if the truck came with an automatic transmission and you wanted to shift gears like a mad man. Changing the pedals to an aftermarket style pedal assembly will give the option of putting that five- or six-speed transmission in if desired.
And finally, my fourth thought was about brake options and the ability to adjust the pedals mechanically to suit the truck's needs, especially when considering options such as Wilwood Engineering's Superlite 6R big brakes or other big brake combos. The bonus is that they make the stock or upgraded smaller disc brakes feel good because of the modern pedal placement. CT


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Right now, thousands and thousands of people around the world are waiting in lines to get the new iPhone.
Some of them have been waiting all night.
Some of them have been waiting for days.
Of course, none of these people need the new iPhone.
The new iPhone doesn't really do anything that the old iPhone doesn't do.
And none of these people will be substantially better off once they get the new iPhone.
And yet, for a variety of reasons--one of which may include the most effective corporate brainwashing campaign in the history of mankind--these thousands and thousands of people around the world are, once again, trading valuable hours of their lives to wait in line for the new iPhone.
In the 1960s, a whole generation of young people made an idealistic pilgrimage to Woodstock, New York, for a rock concert that symbolized the hope and dreams of an era. A few decades later, when perspective provided some clarity, it finally dawned on everyone what had really gone on in those fields: A bunch of kids had spent days boozing it up, getting stoned, and slopping around in the mud.
Someday, the thousands upon thousands of folks who will end up spending days of their lives waiting in iPhone lines may wake up and come to a similar realization.
They don't call it the "reality distortion field" for nothing.
(Of course, it's probably more productive than sitting on the couch and watching TV. And the folks waiting on lines will soon be helping to stimulate consumer spending, economic growth, jobs, and all that. So, ignore this crotchety old dinosaur and go find a line to wait in!)
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#neverliberal #nevermarxist
In other words, you don't even have the pretense of a logical argument, and ridicule the concept that someone would demand coherency in a debate.
You have difficulty with comprehension on the political forum..........even when facts are presented.
If anyone could explain God in scientific terms, it would probably cause your brain to melt. We wouldn't want that.
Where did you present facts, other than a pseudoscientific extrapolation from general relativity you probably did not understand?That "anyone" clearly isn't you. You're bluffing, and you know it.
I'm not bluffing. God can't be explained in scientific terms.........not by me anyway.
Not by anyone. If something cannot be explained in scientific terms, it does not exist.
Would you say only things subject to perception by our particular five senses exist?
OK, let me rephrase that:Anything that cannot be objectively verified or supported through the scientific method has no reason for us to believe that it exists.So technically, God could exist. But the probability is pretty low, because the only way he could exist would be by coincidence. Flying monkeys on Mars could exist, but for all intents of purposes we can conclusively say that they do not.
Got it. So we can conclusively say that life does not exist anywhere but on planet earth. We cannot objectively verify or support it through scientific method, so there is no reason to believe that it exists.
No, we can use basic probability analysis (read: math) to suggest that life is very much likely to exist somewhere else in the universe (something that would turn Christian theology on its head).Can you use similar arithmetic to establish that the probability of God existing is more than infinitesimal? ----You see, your entire logic here is "you can't prove that X couldn't possibly exist, so it must exist."I suppose we should start preparing for the invasion of the flying hippos from Jupiter sometime soon.
God isn't something I argue about. You may have noticed that I haven't attempted to prove that God exists.
It must be lonely being you. It explains a lot of your behavior on here. I suspect that it ties in with much of the liberal anger that we see. Hatred is all you have. Pretty sad existence.
Then exactly what are you trying to prove?
According to your convoluted logic, anything that can't be mathematically or scientifically quantified can possibly exist
Love cannot possibly exist..............and neither can hate.
Infinity cannot be quantified, therefore the universe does not exist.
Pi cannot be quantified, therefore it cannot exist, and yet it is depended on daily...............just like God.
Like I said.......you'd make a crappy scientist. Scientists go out and do the work to either prove or disprove something. The very best you can ever come up with is a demand for someone else to to prove something. We have a word for those kind of people................LOSER.
I said exactly the opposite. Please try again.Love and hate can both be scientifically verified. You need to read up on this stuff.The universe is not infinite. You need to read up on this stuff.Pi can be mathematically proven to exist. And it can be quantified - just not in decimal or fraction form. Try again.You don't understand Burden of Proof or the Rule of Parsimony, and you think that the universe is infinite. You also came up with the "pi exists, therefore God exists!" argument, which just made my day. That's the most convoluted piece of crap I've seen written all week. Thanks!
Ditto. Prove that the universe is finite.
You know as well as I that you have no idea what you're talking about.


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Jays Fans Can Relate to Near Perfect Game
Millions watched last night as Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish took a perfect game into the ninth inning. Spectators in Houston were on their feet as Darvish got Jason Castro to ground out for the first out. Fans cheered as Carlos Corporan was then retired for the second out. Everyone's hearts were pumping in their chest. But then it happened. On the first pitch he saw, Houston Astros infielder Marwin Gonzalez hit a pitch up the middle for the first Houston hit of the game. The perfect game was over.
Toronto Blue Jays fans can relate with this feeling of your heart sinking in your chest in the ninth inning. In fact, on August 8, 2010 Brandon Morrow took a no-hitter into the ninth. Mirroring Darvish, Morrow retired the first two batters, only to have the third batter of the inning, Evan Longoria, get an infield single. Much like the Rangers did last night, the Blue Jays still won, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays, but it was still a tremendous disappointment for the fan base despite the win.
In addition, Roy Halladay's second career start was synonymous with Darvish's. On September 27, 1998, Halladay held the Detroit Tigers to no hits with just one out remaining in the game. Detroit Tigers outfielder Bobby Higginson had a 0-2 count when he hit a solo home run. It would be the only hit and run the Tigers would score as the Boys in Blue would win 2-1 during the last game of their season.
Morrow and Halladay, however, were not the sole Blue Jays ninth inning victims as Dave Stieb got robbed twice. Think that is bad enough? They were on back-to-back occasions! On September 24 and September 30, 1988, Stieb took back-to-back no hitters into the ninth. In fact, in both occasions, he was only one strike away.
The first one occurred on September 24, 1988 when the Blue Jays were in Cleveland. With two outs in the ninth, Indians number nine hitter, Julio Franco, broke up Dave Stieb's no-hit bid with a single right up the middle that mirrored Gonzalez's last night. Stieb followed by retiring Dave Clark and securing his first one-hitter as the Blue Jays won 1-0.
His second occurred the following Friday, but this time home in Toronto. Stieb kept the Baltimore Orioles quiet until again, he was a strike away. This time, however, Jim Traber silenced the crowd at the SkyDome with a single off of a fly ball to short right field down the line. Joe Orsulak grounded out to second base to end the game as the Blue Jays won 4-0.
What was your most memorable ninth inning heart-sinking moment? Comment in the section below.


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Watch: To the Wonder
Directed by Terrence Malick (Redbud Pictures, 2013)
Over the course of 40 years auteur filmmaker Terrence Malick has made just five feature films. Yet these films have been of such a unique and compelling quality that he has become one of the great filmmakers of our times. He has taken on weighty subjects in a characteristically meditative style in films as divergent as the award winning World War II drama The Thin Red Line to the ponderous Tree of Life. Now, to this impressive oeuvre, Malick adds a love story, To the Wonder.
To characterize any of Malick's films as having a singular subject is admittedly a disservice. His films are expansive in thought and in image. They demand the full attention of the viewer as they poetically meander through questions both philosophical and religious. Thus love absorbs To the Wonder, but it is a love at once overwhelming and fleeting, human and divine.
To the Wonder drifts along languorously with the story of two lovers, Neil (Ben Affleck) and Marina (Olga Kurylenko). Their lives at times powerfully intersect with others, such as the heartbroken Jane (Rachel McAdams) and the melancholy Father Quintana (Javier Bardem). We hear their thoughts, often louder than we hear their conversations. We follow their turbulent journey, from the arches of Mont Saint-Michel to the windswept plains of Oklahoma, all captured by the brilliant cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki. The music of Wagner and Bach break in and out as the camera glides past Mariana and Neil's glances and outstretched hands. Their stories almost unfold like memories or reminiscences. The overwhelming mood is that of an intense interiority.
But this love that is inside the characters of the film is continuously struggling to reach out. We see this through Marina's hands, so often outstretched to Neil and to the sky. We also see this in Father Quintana whose hands are frequently outstretched to comfort the poor, the suffering and the imprisoned. Love in this film seems to be related strongly to the experience of presence and of distance. Marina suffers Neil's emotional distance but continues to reach out for him. Father Quintana suffers God's distance but continues to reach out to help people who suffer their own estrangements and absences. Love's presence drifts while they try to hold on.
To be sure To the Wonder leaves one with no easy answers. However, its mystery and beauty compelled me to watch it twice. After the first viewing I felt that moments of inspiration and joy were overpowered by a sense of sadness and loss. However, after a second viewing, another narrative unfolded, and at its heart I was surprised to catch a glimpse of an unexpected moment of wonder. The end we see may depend as much upon ourselves as upon Malick.


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10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
GEOG3240 analyses the ways that globalisation has drastically changed the contemporary geography of cities and economies in the context of new global flows of finance, goods, services and ideas. GEOG3240 builds understandings of the rise in power of global cities, the new forms of governance which control them and their intersection with global networks. The course also explores the development of new global geographies of production and consumption. Common themes in the subject include the discursive constructions of globalisation, the nature and effects of technological change, systems of governance, the operations of enterprises, markets and labour markets, the impacts of changes on disadvantaged groups and the possibilities for progressive futures.
- Semester 1 - 2020
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Analyse the processes and impacts of change in urban and regional economic spaces at a variety of scales;
2. Analyse the processes of urban and economic change as effected by globalisation;
3. Understand the major debates and conceptual approaches and theories regarding the nature of economic and urban changes in the contemporary global period;
4. Examine a range of methodologies and approaches appropriate to the study of urban and economic change;
5. Transfer their geographical skills and competencies to other subject and employment areas, including the interpretation of subjective data sources; the presentation of material, data interpretation, critical evaluation, essay writing (analysis and synthesis); oral presentation and performance skills and an ability to work in groups and individually.
- The empirical evidence for globalisation
- Theoretical understandings of globalisation
- Networks and global cities
- Internal functioning and governance of global cities
- The operation of the global economy
- Spatial impacts of economic globalisation
- New economic spaces
- The nature and operation of the enterprise
- Urban markets and labour markets
Assumed knowledge
Either GEOG2080 or GEOG2130 and SOCS2400.
Assessment items
Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Tutorial Assignment
Essay: Essay 1
Essay: Essay 2
Formal Examination: Formal Examination
Contact hours
Face to Face On Campus 28 hour(s) per Term Full Term
4 hours per week for 2 weeks and 2 hours per week for 10 weeks
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I think this is a joking reference to the harps that angels might play as someone ascends to heaven.
Excerpt from Reuters news:
Former President George H.W. Bushremained in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital on Thursday, but his longtime chief of staff issued a reassuring message, urging the media and the public to "put the harps back in the closet."
Query:What is meant by "put the harps back in the closet."
I think this is a joking reference to the harps that angels might play as someone ascends to heaven.
Some newspapers and members of the public will have assumed that George Bush Snr was about to die. The media were probably preparing obituaries etc. However, as he appears to be recovering, they will all need to hold fire and not get carried away. As JMurray said, angels carry harps and, in religious circles (Christianity at least), angels with harps appear when someone dies and the angels accompany them to heaven. It's not yet time to use those harps so they should be put back in the (metaphorical) storage cupboard where they are kept.
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PS - it's a one-off usage - not (in the language I use) idomatic. (Incidentally, it seems to me rather poorly thought through: do the metaphorical angels keep their harps - unused - in journalists' actual closets? Perhaps the metaphorical angels live in metaphorical closets, waiting to be dusted off harps and all at the first whiff of an obituary? )
It has been reported that Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary for George H.W. Bush on its website for a few minutes on Sunday. So perhaps some angels had indeed taken their harps out the closet prematurely, the German-speaking ones anyway.
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LEXINGTON, Mass., Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avaxia Biologics, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company developing oral antibody drugs that act locally within the digestive tract, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AVX-470 for the treatment of ulcerative colitis. AVX-470 is an anti-TNF polyclonal antibody and is the first clinical candidate to come from Avaxia's oral antibody platform. The Company expects to initiate a Phase 1b clinical trial of AVX-470 in patients with active ulcerative colitis in the near term.
"Clearance of the IND allows us to advance AVX-470 into clinical development, which furthers our goal of providing patients afflicted with inflammatory bowel disease with a promising new treatment option," stated Barbara S. Fox, CEO of Avaxia. "Because AVX-470 is delivered directly to the GI tract, it has a lower potential for systemic immunosuppression than injectable anti-TNF therapies while potentially retaining the proven benefits of anti-TNF antibody therapy for inflammatory bowel disease."
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Avaxia has created a technology platform and a broad patent portfolio around orally administered antibodies that affect targets in the digestive tract. AVX-470 is the first product from Avaxia's platform to reach clinical development. AVX-470 is a bovine polyclonal antibody to tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a pro-inflammatory protein that has been implicated in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Today, injectable anti-TNF antibodies are used as an effective treatment for many IBD patients, with about $2.5 billion in sales in 2011. However, as injected drugs, they suppress the immune system throughout the body, not just locally in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, where the disease occurs. The potentially serious side effects resulting from this systemic immunosuppression warrant a "black box" warning label.
AVX-470 is administered orally, rather than injected, and is intended to remain in the GI tract where the inflammation occurs, rather than distributing throughout the body. The goal is to have a safer anti-TNF drug for IBD. This goal may be attainable because AVX-470, unlike all currently marketed antibody therapies, resists digestion and is therefore suitable for oral administration and direct delivery to the GI tract. The unique stability of AVX-470 comes from its source—the colostrum (early milk) of cows immunized with TNF. Bovine colostral antibodies are naturally resistant to digestion.
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Avaxia is developing orally administered antibody therapeutics that act locally within the digestive tract. Our lead product is AVX-470, an oral antibody against tumor necrosis factor for inflammatory bowel disease. Avaxia also has programs in GI acute radiation syndrome, celiac disease, oral mucositis and diabetes.
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The City, seen in the previous three Thief games as well, is pure steampunk. It looks like Victorian era England but also features advanced technology such as electric lights and robotic sentries. The industrialization has led to a wide gap between the rich and the poor. The poor live in hastily constructed shanty towns.
In the new reboot of the series, the City's problems are just getting worse. A plague is spreading throughout the population. The city's ruler, the Baron, is a tyrant. Not that that's any concern to Garrett, the main character of the game. He spends his days robbing the city's wealthiest residents.
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Hey there, Mr. 'Born in the U.S.A,' how would you feel about writing a new National Anthem? It's not really happening, but recently TV's '60 Minutes' and the magazine Vanity Fair collaborated to conduct a poll asking Americans what musician should be the choice if there was ever a call to pen a new song for our country.
Bruce Springsteen easily topped the chart, securing 22 percent of the vote. Right behind him was country icon Dolly Parton, who earned 19 percent of the vote. Both are definitely American treasures, with Springsteen's blue collar songs earning him a 'Time' magazine cover in the '70s and millions of fans that have made him a top draw at concerts for four decades.
Meanwhile Parton has been one of the biggest stars in country music for years, playing the Grand Ole Opry, appearing on television and in film, and even going so far as to open her own Dollywood theme park.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Gas prices have risen a bit in New Hampshire over the past week.
The average retail price for a gallon of gas averaged $3.44 on Sunday, up 4.2 cents from the past week.
The national average also has increased 4.5 cents in the last week, to $3.31 a gallon.
The website Gasbuddy.com says prices in New Hampshire were a penny per gallon higher than the same day a year ago, and 5.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
The national average is 6.7 cents per gallon lower than a year ago, and 4.5 cents per gallon lower than a month ago.


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Let $A$ be a set of $100$ natural numbers. prove that there is a set $B$ $$B\subseteq A$$ such that the sum of $B$'s elements can be divided by $100$
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Let $A$ be a set of $100$ natural numbers. prove that there is a set $B$ $$B\subseteq A$$ such that the sum of $B$'s elements can be divided by $100$
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take a chain of subsets of $A$, $\emptyset\subset\{a_1\}\subset\{a_1,a_2\}\subset...\subset A$. this chain has 101 elements. now sort them by their sum modulo 100. two of the sets in the chain must be equal modulo 100. hence there is $n>m$ with $ (0+a_1+...+a_n)-(0+a_1+...+a_m) $ divisible by 100, so that $a_{m+1}+...+a_n$ is divisible by 100.
let $A_0=\emptyset, A_i=\{a_1,a_2,...,a_i\}$ where $A=\{a_1,...,a_{100}\}$. let $s_0=0, s_i=\sum_{k=1}^ia_k$. we have 101 numbers $s_0,...,s_{100}$ which we will sort into 100 groups $G_0,...,G_{99}$. we put $s_i$ in group $G_r$ if the remainder after dividing $s_i$ by $100$ is equal to $r$. since there are 101 numbers $s_i$ and only $100$ groups, one of the groups $G_r$ will have at least two numbers $s_n,s_m$ in it (without loss of generality, $n>m$ since one of them will have bigger subscript). if $s_n=100k+r$ and $s_m=100l+r$ then $s_n-s_m=100(k-l)$ is divisible by $100$. by construction, the number $s_n-s_m$ is precisely the sum $a_{m+1}+...+a_n$ corresponding to the subset $A_n\backslash A_m$ of $A$ (note that $A_n$ is not empty because $n>m\geq0$ and that $A_m$ is a proper subset of $A_n$ so that the difference $A_n\backslash A_m$ is nonempty).
Use induction with the statement being "a subset for each number smaller or equal than n', then look at the numbers mod 100. Add the new number to an appropriate subset mod 100 (this is where the pigeonhole principle comes in). For induction root look at cases of even and odd numbers (to do 1 and 2).


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Kelly Litton hasn't met a large, purple dinosaur yet, but, like the folks at the paint desk in Lowe's "Can you match this? This? This?" commercial, she sees homebuyers' treasures of all sorts.
"Believe me, I've seen it," says Litton. "One couple brought in a big table so they could match their flooring and cabinets. But, this is good; it helps us help them." As the manager of Cambridge Homes' World of Cambridge design center in Elgin, Litton guides new-home buyers through the product-selection process. Like most builders, Cambridge staffs its center with interior designers.
For buyers of custom homes, the design center visit may include floor-plan selection, too. At Orren Pickell Designers & Builders' Imagine Showroom in Northfield, designers help buyers fine-tune their plans, then choose products and finishes.
"It's like a mini Merchandise Mart," says Pickell showroom manager Tom Hackett. "We try to jam-pack in as much as we can so people can see lots of options. We're always remodeling it to keep it fresh."
Many builders include landscaping and hardscaping packages at their centers, too.
The more homework you do before your design-center visit, say the designers, the smoother the process. They encourage you to visit their model homes and Web sites, peruse magazines and collect pictures of rooms and products you like and don't like.
"If we can ask what it is that you like about a picture, it helps us narrow down your decisions so you don't have to look at thousands of products," says Hackett. "Pictures help because what's 'storybook style' to one client, for example, is something different to another buyer."
Buyers' first reaction to design centers, say the designers, is awe. Overwhelmed by the dizzying array of metals, ceramics and woods, their eyes glaze over as the hands on their stress-o-meters spin out of control. Take time to acclimate, the designers tell them.
Nowhere is it written that you must make all the decisions in one visit. "After about three hours, you're worn out," says Toll Brothers sales manager Ashley Sims. "Then, maybe it's time to sleep on it."
Litton recommends you make at least one "browsing visit" before sitting down with a designer to make decisions. Bring your camera so you can review products after you get home.
Many designers give buyers charts to list their "must-haves" and "maybes" and tally their total prices. Most builders have standard choices that keep the buyers within their "allowances." Upgrades, though, add to the bottom line.
Make at least one of your design-center visits during daylight hours, say the designers, when you can see products' true colors.
Some buyers are super-decisive, report the designers, pointing to a room vignette and saying, "I want that." But, most take advantage of the designers' guidance in order to juggle their likes and dislikes.
"There are so many choices to make, you get 'analysis paralysis,'" says Michael Cason, who bought a condominium from Magellan Development in Chicago in February. "There are 80 shades of every color, and that's just the paint. I'm a financial planner and my wife is in marketing, so we're not designers. We were glad to have the benefit of (designer) Lee's (Okamoto) experience."
Okamoto says she asks buyers "how they live, work and play, because it all makes a difference. A surgeon, for example, might want to come home to warm colors instead of lots of stainless steel. Or, an empty-nester couple who is buying here after selling their house in the suburbs wants this to be their hip-and-happenin' place."
Many buyers have a prized possession they want to work around. For Cason and his wife, Jane Dretzka-Cason, it was a painting. For another, it is a chandelier from a previous house or Grandma's cherry highboy.
"I have dogs, so I wanted to be sure to pick out flooring that would work for them, but also be beautiful," says recent Toll Brothers buyer Mary Weinberg. "The designers helped me make practical choices."
Most designers have a proven product-choosing order. Litton says she starts with the kitchen. "It is the center of the home and sets the tone," she says. "Then, they choose flooring, then bathrooms. Then, the rest kind of falls into place."
Along the way, the designers joke that they double as marriage counselors for couples who cannot agree. Cambridge has a "man room" with a television for spouses who "really don't care," reports Litton.
When a buyer's want list exceeds her budget, designers recommend ways to cut back. Agonize over the crossing-the-Rubicon decisions and relax with the revocable ones, they suggest. Paint, for example, is a cheap and easy change, but replacing cabinetry is an expensive and hefty afterthought.
Another way to trim the budget is to consider lower-priced versions of your gotta-haves, like stainless-steel appliances that are not top-of-the-line or stone countertops that are only 3/4-inch thick.
Okamoto tells budget-strapped buyers to concentrate on rooms their guests will see and upgrade private rooms later. "For now, put the granite you really want in the kitchen and use a less-expensive type of counter in the bathroom that no one sees," she says.
Some buyers save money by engaging outside designers to help them make the right decisions the first time around. Within the builder's limits, the designer can help you choose some of your own products. Then, suggests Highland Park-based designer Laurel Feldman, consider checking out the showrooms at the Merchandise Mart Design Center in Chicago, so vast that it has its own ZIP code.
Although you must enlist a designer to shop the Mart's upstairs showrooms, its first floor (LuxeHome) is open to the public. Ditto for the Mart's next sample sale on May 14 and 15. "Not everything at the Mart is high-end," Feldman tells novices.
Bottom line, the design-center concept is orchestrated to ease the home-building process and keep construction on schedule.
"I've built custom houses and remodeled before, so I know how much running around and phone calls are involved," says Weinberg. "The center made it all so much easier and took less time. I wasn't limited to (the products) they had, but could use their samples and play with them until I made the right choices."
Don't let the deadline pressure get to you, advise the designers. In the grand scheme of things, choosing the wrong towel bar isn't the end of the world.
Besides, adds Sims, "Everything comes back in style eventually because there are only so many ways the manufacturers can make things. Remember brass? It's back."
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Set in an ideal location, these San Jose apartments are available in thoughtfully designed one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts for lease. Avalon Morrison Park offers townhomes with modern kitchens featuring quartz stone countertops, stainless steel appliances, and wood plank flooring (in select homes). Live effortlessly with amenities that include a state-of-the-art fitness center, pool, barbecue area with gas grills, and resident lounge. Walk to nearby Whole Foods Market for all your grocery needs or Downtown San Jose for entertainment. We're also conveniently located three blocks from Diridon Station and located near Highways 880, 87, 280, and 101, making commuting a breeze.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you sit at home and fret about the 2014 Super Bowl being played in New Jersey. My God! It could be cold! And what if Bon Jovi plays the halftime show? This could be the end of football forever! LET'S GO!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) Tonight, your American Idol is crowned. But you don't care about that. Neither Crystal Bowersox or Lee DeWyze are gonna go on to have Kelly Clarkson's career. No, tonight's finale is really just a chance for you to see Simon grace the judge's table a final time before he goes off to "The X Factor" next fall and leaves THIS show hopelessly irrelevant. I almost think he let DeWyze off the hook last night specifically so he could sabotage this show and strengthen his new one. Think about it. The guy's had one foot out the door all season, and it's suffered because of it. He's like Vince Carter in his Toronto days. He's mailed it in. That's breach of contract, I think! Anyway, Crystal wins and you can now look forward to a somehow more generic version of this show in 2011. ANTICIPATION: SIMON OUT!
TRANSFORMERS – 8:00PM (ABC) Hop back a few years to the original movie in what is now a dominant global film franchise. Oh, it was a simpler time back then. Shia LeBeouf wasn't hitting people with his car. Megan Fox was just an innocent young girl washing Michael Bay's car. And there were no jive talking robots who may or may not have been racial stereotypes. Oh, what a time it was. So young. So full of promise. ANTICIPATION: ROBOTS!
UNDERCOVER BOSS – 8:00PM (CBS) The White Castle CEO has trouble in his own bakery. That pesky Harold and Kumar have grown Velvet kush in there again! "Bakery" takes on a whole new meaning! ANTICIPATION: WEEEEED AND BURGERS!
CSI: NEW YORK – 10:00PM (CBS) It's your season finale tonight. Last chance to watch Gary Sinise grimace before summer's out. ANTICIPATION: MUTED TONES!
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By Andrew Callus and Maya Nikolaeva
PARIS (Reuters) - The chief
operating officer of BNP Paribas is to step down at the
end of June and retire completely on Sept. 30, France's
biggest bank announced on Thursday as it wrestles with
U.S. authorities over a potential $10 billion fine.
New York's banking regulator had requested the departure of the
long-serving Georges Chodron de Courcel as part of a settlement for
alleged violations of sanctions against Iran, Sudan and other
countries, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on June 5.
BNP Paribas did not mention the investigation in its announcement.
It said the 64-year-old's departure, in less than three weeks' time,
was at his own request and would allow him to comply with new French
bank regulations on the number of directorships he can hold.
Chodron de Courcel is one of the bank's three most senior managers
under Chief Executive Jean-Laurent Bonnafe and has direct
responsibility for the investment banking activities that are at the
centre of the investigation.
A spokeswoman for the bank said he had planned to retire this year
anyway and would not comment further on the U.S. proceedings. A
source familiar with matter said last week the bank was not
considering executive departures in connection with the
The bank said Chodron de Courcel had "devoted his entire 42-year
career to BNP and then BNP Paribas, and has made a decisive
contribution to the Group's development, and especially to the
project which eventually led to the creation of the new BNP Paribas
On Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter said Vivien Levy-Garboua,
a senior adviser and formerly the head of compliance for the French
bank, was also among people targeted by the superintendent of New
York's Department of Financial Services, Benjamin Lawsky.
U.S. authorities - five of them in all including the New York
financial regulator - are investigating whether BNP evaded U.S.
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banking circles. President Francois Hollande raised the issues with
Barack Obama last week.
On Wednesday, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer said a dollar
clearing suspension could be disruptive to the international
financial system.
BNP has said publicly only that it is in discussions with U.S.
authorities about "certain U.S. dollar payments involving countries,
persons and entities that could have been subject to economic
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It has set aside $1.1 billion for the fine but told shareholders it
could be far higher than that. Last month it also said it had
improved control processes to ensure such mistakes did not occur
The bank's market value has dropped by 15 percent, erasing around 11
billion euros ($15 billion), in the four months since it first
announced the provision for the fine on Feb. 13. Its shares were up
0.5 percent at 51.60 euros on Thursday.
Since then the scale of the likely fine has risen sharply, and a
figure as high as $16 billion was suggested at one point, according
to people familiar with the matter.
In the past two years the U.S. Justice Department has said it has
broken records on penalties for corporate misconduct at least seven
times, including three times this year alone. The most recent was
Credit Suisse in May, which paid $2.6 billion over charges that it
helped Americans evade U.S. taxes, the largest penalty ever levied
in a criminal tax case.
Total corporate criminal penalties in the United States overall
increased about 647 percent between 2001 and 2012 to about $4.3
billion, according to figures compiled by University of Virginia law
school professor Brandon Garrett.
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related to the 2007-2009 financial crisis have produced big
settlements connected to trillions of dollars in subprime mortgage
products. U.S. authorities have also turned their attention to other
crimes involving big dollar amounts, including money laundering,
sanctions violations and the rigging of benchmark interest rates.
(Reporting by Andrew Callus, Blaise Robinson, Alexandre
Boksenbaum-Granier and Natalie Huet; Editing by Ingrid Melander,
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Partnerships in Character Education Program
Rhode Island Department of Education Abstract
Contact: Linda Greenwood
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Modeling Character Education in Partner Districts
Application Number: R215V000006
Project Period: 7/l/006/30/03
FY 2000 Award: $334,578
FY 2001 Award: $357,369
FY 2002 Award: $303,498
This proposed project is a partnership of the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), the state's higher education community, and school districts in three diverse communitiesPawtucket, Providence, and Westerly. The project will be designed to create schools that model universal ethical values such as fairness, honesty, compassion, respect, and responsibility. Character education will be a vehicle for creating socially, emotionally and behaviorally healthy schools that inspire teachers to rethink the impact they have on students; students to have increased respect for themselves, their classmates and school staff; and parents and community to support and collaborate with schools to promote the affective dimensions of educational achievement and the development of students of good character
Each of these communities has committed with RIDE to develop and implement a systemic character education strategy built on current state and local school reform efforts. RIDE is well positioned to develop and implement such a program because of the state's Comprehensive Education Strategy (CES), which creates a foundation on which systemic change is taking place throughout the state. The CES is an "ALL KIDS" agenda and includes instruction, learning, school accountability, and support systems. Creating and maintaining partnerships among schools, communities and families is a cornerstone of our agenda in moving forward successfully to promote high academic performance in a safe, healthy and nurturing school environment. RIDE has a well documented track record in working to create and sustain such partnerships on the state level, as well as helping school districts do so in their communities.
The partner districts will work with RIDE to implement activities in seven areas: planning, professional development, curriculum revision, student character development, parent and community involvement and support, replication at other sites, and development of a media campaign that will generate a broad base of support for character education efforts.
Each of the three districts and eleven participating schools will begin the process of bringing character education into their existing environment by assessing their current school community, as well as the goals and objectives of their newly developed School Improvement Plans. This process will increase awareness of the values already at work and will provide indicators of any inhibitors. It will also help the school task forces to know how to begin the process and how to determine criteria for involvement. All 13 schools have committed to provide 24 hours of professional development and 40 hours of follow-up small group sessions for 25 percent of their staff in the first 2 years of implementation. They also have committed to ensure that whatever model they develop will include all students.
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Metropolis of Singapore
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The Holy Metropolis of Singapore, headquartered in Singapore, is an eparchy of the Church of Constantinople. Currently vacant, this see was established in January 2008 to encompass Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Maldives Islands, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
On January 9, 2008, the Holy Synod of the Church of Constantinople decided to divide the western part of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia from the eastern part, thus forming the Holy Metropolis of Singapore which extends further west to encompass South Asia. As yet, the metropolis has not had a bishop elected to lead it.
The Episcopacy
This see is currently vacant.
- Archimandrite Daniel (Toyne) is the sole priest in Singapore.
- Rev Fr Chrysostomos Manalu is the archepiscopal vicar for Indonesia.
Rev. Chrysostomos Manalu is a graduate of the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece (1995). Fr. Chrysostomos has taken many underprivileged children under his care as more and more of the Indonesian people sink into poverty. He provides them with room and board, food and schooling. A women medical center, Theological school (St. Paul Theological School) and a boarding house are also in the works in order to better serve the needs of the area.
Orthodox parish in Medan:
St. Demetrios Orthodox church,
Jl. Kapiten Purba, Simalingkar, Medan
, Indonesia.
Tel: 62-61-8368747
Former metropolitans
- Metropolitan Nikitas (Lulias), formerly Metropolitan of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (when it also encompassed the area now in this Metropolis), now director of the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute in Berkeley, California, USA.
Related articles
- Archimandrite Lazarus (Moore), missionary in India 1952-1972.
External links
- Translation of the announcement establishing the Holy Metropolis of Singapore
- Official Website of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople
Metropolis of Singapore
- Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church in Singapore.
Exarchate of Indonesia
Exarchate of India
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2014 Lexus GX460 Priced at $49,995
Updated Lexus SUV receives the spindle grille and a $4700 price cut for 2014.
With the RX crossover getting all the attention, the Lexus GX is often forgotten in Lexus' SUV lineup. For 2014, Lexus is attempting to revive the GX by grafting on the corporate spindle grille that now adorns every Lexus other than the CT200h hybrid.
The 2014 Lexus GX460 also receives a price cut of $4710 to $49,995 despite gaining new standard features. On the outside, the GX460's new aggressive front end features LED headlamps and DRLs, and new clear taillight finish. The biggest interior addition is a new eight-inch touchscreen that controls infotainment and the optional navigation system, and a new espresso wood and black trim package is available as well.
A Premium Package, which Lexus says will have the same $54,705 price as the base 2013 GX460, includes navigation, park assist, three-zone climate control, and heated rear seats, and a $61,625 GX460 Luxury model adds an adaptable air suspension, blind spot monitor and cross traffic alert technologies, and different graphite-finish wheels.
Under the skin, the seven-seat GX460 continues on mostly unchanged from its introduction in 2010, as it is still based on the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado platform. The 2014 Lexus GX460 offers only one powertrain option: a 301 hp, 4.6-liter V-8 paired with a six-speed automatic and standard full-time four-wheel-drive.
With its surprising off-road chops and low-range four-wheel-drive, the Lexus GX460's closest competitor is the 2013 Land Rover LR4, which starts at the exact same price of $49,995. Other competitors include the 2013 Audi Q7, 2014 Infiniti QX60, and 2014 Acura MDX, all of which are priced lower than the 2014 GX460 but are crossovers that offer much less go-anywhere capability.
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Blockchain is an emerging technology based on the decentralisation of data and authentication of transactions through a shared ledger. It has the potential to change the way the world works, from banking, title ownership and the internet. Like the early days of the internet it currently operates across several distinct chains (or networks) and has a rudimentary naming system, so opportunity is ripe for early adopters to take advantage of future developments.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Frank Gaines scored 29 points, including two free throws with 3 seconds to play in overtime, and IPFW defeated IUPUI 80-79 Saturday night.
The Mastodons (10-13, 3-6 Summit) made 12 of 19 3-pointers, or 63 percent, to help offset IUPUI's 63 percent overall accuracy from the field. Gaines was 6 of 9 from 3-point range.
Luis Jacobo had 13 points, including three 3s, for IPFW. Joe Edwards scored 12 points and Michael Kibiloski scored 10.
Mitchell Patton scored 25 points to lead IUPUI, including the last four points of regulation to tie the game at 65. Donovan Gibbs had 17 points and Greg Rice scored 16.
The Jaguars (6-18, 1-9) have lost eight in a row, including Thursday's 89-71 defeat at Oakland when the Golden Grizzlies' Travis Bader scored a NCAA season-high 47 points.
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MART wrote:Presently working on a tour that will contain approx 30-50 panos when finished and a larger number of hotspots.
At present multiple panos or hotspots can be selected with the use of "Ctrl" but it would be very handy to have a "select all hotspots" and "select all panos" as a single function rather than manually having to select each one individually to apply a global command.
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Brill and the International Simone de Beauvoir Society are pleased to announce the journal Simone de Beauvoir Studies (SdBS) will be published with Brill as of 2019.
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