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A few weeks ago I got this email from my older sister, who has been on the front lines for my parents ever since they moved to Lewiston over a decade ago to live in housing appropriate to my mom's increasing dementia:
"Just thought I should share this sobering update. I have noticed lately that Mom seems thinner and she is often sleeping when we stop by. I checked with the nurse and she said that Mom is not eating much. Most of the time they have to feed her to get her to eat anything, although she does have days where she does a little better. The nurse said this is what to expect since she is in the end stage of the disease, and added that she would be surprised if Mom made it to summer. Of course she also expected Dad to go a good year before he did, so it is just a guess on her part. Still, the nurse got my attention. I always kind of thought their deaths would come in close proximity. I am sure that somewhere inside Mom's poor tangled self, she misses her lifelong companion and is ready to go."
Dad died late last November, having made it past his 95th birthday. We didn't tell Mom. After he spent some time in the hospital for hip surgery and pneumonia, when he came back she regarded him with suspicion and no longer seemed to retain that last bit of connection that had outlived the departure of almost everything else she ever knew, including the names of her children and how to speak English. (I dubbed her speechlike vocalizations "Klingon," a nickname that stuck among all the Star Trek fans I grew up with.) She can't retain or fully comprehend anything we say to her, and if she could, why give her even that passing moment of pain before the new information vaporized?
After Dad died we moved her into a smaller single room at the care facility and she began to retreat into herself even more. When I got my sister's email I laid plans to get to Lewiston for a visit.
Not exactly for Mom, since she doesn't know who I am, although she brightens when she sees me. They're sort of for me--a fulfillment of a sense of duty to the mother who did such a good job for so many years even though that woman packed up her bags and left a bit at a time, years ago. They're definitely for my older sister, who has borne the brunt and who can skip a visit if I make one.
Over the past few years I've felt lucky that I usually got a good visit. "Good" meant that Mom was awake, seemed happy to see me, and might even occasionally get a phrase or sentence out in the midst of the Klingon.
The last time I was down for a visit to see Dad a few days before he died, with my older daughter and her husband accompanying us, at the lunch table Mom brought out quite clearly, "Aren't we having fun!" with a pleased expression. We heartily agreed that yes, yes we were.
My visit this Monday is one I'll cherish. She looked at me a bit uncertainly when I arrived and said to her, "Hi, Mom, it's your daughter here to visit!"
She asked quite clearly, "Who am I?"
"You're Gladys Greene, and I'm your daughter," I said, squeezing in alongside her on the big upholstered chair she sat in facing the TV, where a very young Clint Eastwood confronted the judge in Hang 'Em High.
"Buh--" she began, looking at me and raising her eyebrows questioningly.
"Yes, I'm Barb," I answered, thinking that she really did seem to be trying to get my name out and had the right linguistic association.
She smiled and began telling me something in Klingon. Thanks to Second Daughter pointing out years ago that one could interact with her quite smoothly by simply ignoring the meaninglessness of the words and responding solely to tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language, I'm pretty fluent in our interactions. I smile, nod, provide verbal filler like, "Oh really!" or "I see" when she pauses, and generally go with the flow.
As my friend Maggie said years ago about visiting her mother-in-law who had Alzheimer's, "You're going to a foreign country and observing the culture. It isn't your job to try to change them--you just use good manners, thank them, and then come back to your country when the visit is over."
Mom seemed worried about something. She went on at length in Klingon and then asked me something like, "How did you manage all those people?"
I said, "Oh, it went all right. It was fine." She didn't seem convinced.
"When was this?" she asked.
"A couple of weeks ago--a while ago," I answered.
The phrase "a while ago" seemed to get stuck--she couldn't repeat it back and puzzled over it, and was still worried about whatever it was I'd done with all those people.
I leaned forward, put my arms around her, patted her back, and said, "It's all right. It will all be okay."
Immediately I felt her relax into my arms as her arms went around me in return. She gave a deep sigh, then another. I rocked her a bit, holding her and patting her back. She pulled back, looked at me, and said, "Thank you very, very much." I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around her again.
Victoria, a South African aide I hadn't met before, stopped by our chair and asked if I wanted her to take our picture--I was so glad she did.
We stayed like that for 20 minutes or more, mostly silent. Every once in a while she gave a little start--perhaps that falling sensation that gets you when you're falling asleep was happening--and I'd pat her back again and tell her it was all right. She would relax again. I got tears in my eyes more than once as we sat together, holding each other.
I realized how little loving touch she receives any more and how important that is. She is assisted, moved, bathed, and more by very nice aides, but they have to handle her in a very clinical fashion. With Dad gone there isn't anyone there every day to give her hand a squeeze or make eye contact and smile with something passing between them.
When it was time to leave I eased my arms out from around her, told her I needed to go, and kissed her on the forehead, telling her I love her. She yearned toward me--I could see it in her expression--and I stroked the side of her face. She sat with eyes closed, absorbing my touch.
I didn't want to go. It makes me smile just thinking of how contented we were, holding each other. It was the best visit ever.
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Kairos: Seeking the Rhythm of God's Time
Autumn 2015
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader,
Thank you for supporting the vision of Resonance: A Theological Journal! I am excited by the growing community of readers joining together to seek God as one body.
Resonance is dedicated to pursuing God's truth within a community of Christian disciples who are committed to ecumenical generosity, historic orthodoxy and growing closer to God. As such, the goal of this project is to encourage learning and conversation across the various strands of the Christian faith. Each author or artist offers a unique perspective rooted in a particular theological tradition and informed by his or her own life experiences. Their insights are diverse and yet they are drawn together by their common love for God and commitment to serve Him with every facet of their being.
I pray that you are encouraged and refreshed through these pages as you reflect with us on the nature of time and our experience of it as Christian disciples. May everything that is said bring glory to God and bind His disciples more closely together into the one Body of Christ.
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Welcome to Cougarville. Population? Me.
Of course, my impending cougardom has been long heralded. The number of younger guys (and girls) that have started hitting on me has gone up in the past few years, to my great surprise (and occasional pleasure). I've been getting told by friends that 40 is the new 20, that I shouldn't be surprised when the young hotties start prowling around me like I'm a dish to be devoured. Faces of women who were born before I was dot the media with younger (or even MUCH younger) guys on their arms, smiling the smiles of men who are getting the best sex of their lives. And over and over, I am noticing that my willingness to ask for—nay, demand—what I want is not seen as pushy, but as provocative.
Reinventing 40
Lo and behold, something snuck up on us in the intervening years. Forty-something women are now prime real estate in a buyer's market—and it's about damn time that they (oh, wait—I mean WE) got some good press! We've come from behind in the Race To Sexy, pulling ahead of the oh-so-damaged Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons to take the lead on what's hot.
And let's face it—we should. Because not only do women look better because of improvements in nutrition and skin care (at least, those of us who didn't spend our teens and twenties baking ourselves to a crisp in the sun), we also have finally gotten it through our heads that we aren't second class citizens anymore. We know ourselves far better than we ever did before; we've been there, done that, got the tee shirt, and gave it away to Goodwill. We're surrounded by amazing role models—other women in their 50s and 60s, who, while fallible, have shown us that we really can be confident, sexy and healthy.
The Great Cougar Disconnect
Maybe it's because we're not really sure (especially the older men among us) what to do with blatant sexuality coming from women who are the age our mothers were when we were growing up. These are the mothers who we idolized—the bakers of cookies, fixers of skinned knees, and creators of the idyllic image of home. We don't like to think that our parents ever had sex; could our uncertainty about cougars come from our denial that our mothers were ever sexual beings who loved to do the dirty deed just as much as we do? Or are we overlaying our own prejudices about what's sexy and hot in the bedroom on our perceptions of older women, with their less than star-quality tits and assets jarring us into the reality that we try so desperately to avoid when thinking about sex?
The Vintage Advantage
"So, why do you like older women?" I asked a friend of mine who's been involved with his older lover for years. His answer surprised me. "I am a bit of a mama's boy…I like women with a maternal side to them. I've only ever dated one woman that was my own age," he noted, referring to his very first girlfriend. "I'm just not attracted to younger women the way that I am to older women."
Other guys I've talked to love to partner up with women who know how to get their own sexual pleasure and have enough experience to have a clue when it comes to getting everyone off. Still others note that older women have a sense of being relaxed in their own bodies that makes them more of a pleasure to spend time with. "My wife is 10 years older than I am, and she just doesn't let stuff get to her like younger women I know," said Jay. "She walks around naked with the lights on and doesn't worry about whether I'm looking at her stretch marks, which makes her 10 times sexier than if she felt ashamed of her body."
And it's not just the guys. I get pursued by delicious women under the age of 30 on a not-too-uncommon basis; they are often attracted to older women because of their experience in life, their understanding of what it takes to live happily, and their willingness to take control of the situation, in bed and out. And no, not every younger woman wants that, but enough of them do that dykes like me don't have to worry too much about becoming obsolete in the dating scene.
A few years back, I had a conversation with Dossie Easton, the sensual spitfire and writer of a number of books on BDSM, polyamory, and sexuality. I mentioned to her that if I knew that my late 30s were going to be so much better, physically, psychologically, and sexually, I probably wouldn't have stressed so much in my 20s.
"Oh, honey," she said, her eyes dancing like fire, "Wait 'til you're in your 50s!"
Trust me—after all this? I can't wait.


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The Minister for Finance said the National Asset Management Agency can deliver half the housing needs of Dublin and surrounding areas in the coming years.
A review of NAMA reports it continues to be necessary and is meeting its objectives, and will have at least 80% of its work done by the end of 2016 - two years ahead of schedule.
The agency is also now to develop the Dublin Docklands with office, retail and residential space which would rival London's Canary Wharf or Boston's Seaport.
Noonan said the development could create 14,000 construction jobs and 4,000 full-time jobs.
The Chairman of NAMA, Frank Daly, also said in a statement he believes "NAMA will ultimately return a surplus to the Exchequer."
"If achieved, this would be a very creditable outcome bearing in mind the very difficult market conditions faced by NAMA in its first three years of operation," he said.


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If you're over 85 and you're reading this online, you're probably one smart cookie -- and you're more likely to stay that way for at least the next few years, says a new study.
But there are other fun and easy ways to, as my dad used to say, "hold on to your marbles" well into your 80s. Whether it's a habit started in midlife or taken up well into retirement years, you could get crafty, spend some quality time with other people and engage in the arts.
Much has been made in recent years about the powers of intellectual engagement as we age. And if books, newspapers and challenging brain teasers are your thing, by all means, keep doing them: There's lots of evidence that a habit of strenuous mental exercise helps keep the neurons humming into old age.
But if you're above all a people person, or a person who can't resist a good crafts project, new research suggests that socializing, crafting and engagement in the arts may all help to hold cognitive impairment at bay, as well.
A Mayo Clinic Study of Aging found that among cognitively healthy people 85 to 89 who were followed for four years, engaging in significant social activity in mid- and late life drove down the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment by 55%. Engaging in craft projects in mid- to late life drove risk of such intellectual decline down 45%.
And compared with those who did not use a computer in late life, those who did were 53% less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment in their late 80s or early 90s.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Neurology, makes clear that not all the factors that contribute to the risk of cognitive impairment in old age are matters of choice: Among the 256 men and women who agreed to be assessed for as long as six years after enrolling in the study, those who were found to be carriers of a genetic variation associated with Alzheimer's disease -- the APoE-4 allele -- were at greater risk of significant cognitive decline.
In all, 121 of the 256 -- just over 47% -- of the subjects enrolled in the study developed clinically significant memory and executive function problems in the two- to six-year study period.
Also at greater risk were those with vascular diseases, chronic conditions current symptoms of depression -- including sadness, guilt, low energy, concentration problems and sleep troubles -- and those who developed hypertension during midlife.
The authors of the study acknowledge that they can't be sure whether socializing, crafting and computer use actually help keep memory and intellectual function sharper or whether the cognitively healthy are just more likely to engage in those activities. But they say these "nonpharmacological preventive strategies may reduce ... risk in the oldest old."
The human brain amazes me at all ages. Follow me on Twitter @LATMelissaHealy and "like" Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook.


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Rotary Club Liberia Dedicates Health Facility in Bomi County
Bomi County – The Rotary Clubs in Liberia has dedicated a triage health facility worth US$38,000 on the compound of the Suehn Mecca Clinic, Bomi County, as a way of buttressing the effort of the Liberian government in improving the country's health sector.
Report by Augustine T. Tweh – [email protected]
Serving as Chief Launcher, the District Governor of the Rotary Club, Aristide Tino Adediran said the Suehn Clinic Triage was built by the Rotary club in Liberia following the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease to respond to crises through the provision of food to quarantine families, supplying of equipment to health facilities among others.
According to the District Governor, the project is aimed at buttressing the effort of the government to have more robust health facilities in combating diseases in the country.
Mr. Adediran noted that Liberians need robust health facilities to prevent and contain the outbreak of infectious and contagious diseases.
He added that the health sector of Liberia has played a very cardinal role during the fight of the Ebola virus disease, and there is a need to work with the government to build more health facilities for the betterment of the Liberian people.
Governor Adediran said Rotarians in Liberia undertook the initiative in an effort to reflect a permanent change in treatment, and to prevent diseases from spreading in the country.
"I am very glad to be here today to dedicate this unique facility. I was in neighboring countries, and today I am in Liberia to dedicate this project.
A very big project has been built in your country that you need to be proud of and maintain for the good of the population.
During the Ebola we were here, after the Ebola were are still here, thank you for receiving us and giving us your full support to build this project in your district and country at large," he said.
Also speaking, the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Francis Kateh thanked the Rotary Club in Liberia for the initiative undertaken, something he described as a big boost to health sector.
Dr. Kateh added that many people have lost their lives during the Ebola crises, including nurses due to the lack of triage, and as such the initiative is meaningful to every Liberian.
"We realized that many people have lost their lives including nurses and many Liberians."
"In Kakata at many hospitals 29 health care workers got infected, out of the 29 health workers, 22 of them died. If we have had a Triage, that wouldn't have happened, and so this is a lifesaving thing.
We also realized that the first public service that the Rotary has ever gotten into was building a public toilet, and years later they are still building toilets.
So we are humble very humble that you were able to do similar thing in Liberia," Dr. Kateh said.
The Deputy Health Minister used the opportunity to caution health practitioners of the Suehn Mecca Clinic to put their patient above everything as their profession demands.
"There are sacrifices that lot of people make in order to save lives, we need to look at these things and flag them out, so that our people can realize that is not just when the bad thing happens, then health care worker are being cursed.
But there are lot of good people, and as I always said among the good apple, one bad apple spoils the entire branch.
So this is a message to all of the health care workers that we have—those that are committed, dedicated and please, we need to do the best we can to make sure that our patients come first" the Deputy Minister averred.
For his part, the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Suehn Mecca Clinic, Tamba A. Borbor, expressed gratitude to the Rotary Clubs in Liberia for the construction of a modern triage health facility to the clinic.
According to the OIC, the new triage will help ease some of the difficulties that were faced by health practitioners in the clinic.
In an interview with FPA, Borbor said the lack of vehicle to transport patients to Tubmanburg or Monrovia is another major challenge that the clinic is faced with.
"The one only ambulance we have in Tubmanburg to refer patient is down and sometimes when the patient is in critical condition and you call for the ambulance, it can delay. So for now we are in need of ambulance to refer our patients, because we receive 35 to 50 daily," he added.


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Actress Vidya Balan is on this year's Cannes jury and is fully conscious of the "august" company she is in.
At Cannes, Vidya told NDTV's Noopur Tiwari: "It's extremely exciting and invigorating to be on the same jury as Spielberg, Ang Lee and others. It's going to be a great learning experience for me. It's also a very proud moment for me as an individual, as an actor I feel proud that I've been invited to be on such an august jury. But also because Cannes is celebrating Indian cinema in its 100th year and it's India shining all the way." Vidya Balan to holiday in France with husband?
Vidya also hailed Cannes for bringing together diverse film narratives. She said: "The very fact that we have a large number of Indian films being shown at Cannes this is year is proof of the fact that there are no barriers when it comes to good cinema. Language is never a barrier, nationality is never a barrier, your style of filmmaking is never a barrier. We are back home celebrating Indianness in its full glory unapologetically. Which is why people are looking at us and saying, wow. There is no formula anymore which is very refreshing which is why I think more and more and more people in the world are going to start enjoying Indian cinema." Cannes 2013: Vidya Balan blows a French kiss in Sabyasachi
Desi girl Vidya said she had received many appreciative French comments about her Sabyasachi outfits at Cannes, adding that she was just doing what came most naturally to her: "I wear Indian clothes all the time, even back home. I love Indian clothes because the complement one's femininity beautifully and I love feminine clothing. I didn't see reason to do anything differently here, because I'm here representing Indian cinema and we're celebrating Indian cinema's 100th anniversary." Cannes 2013: Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan open Cannes with a Bollywood bang
And she saved her highest praise for Amitabh Bachchan, who opened the festival with a speech in Hindia. Vidya said: "When I saw Mr Bachchan on stage, I choked. I grew up watching Amitabh Bachchan's films and my niece and nephew who are 21 months old, they know Amitabh Bachchan. Indian cinema and Amitabh Bachchan are synonymous with each other. And when he spoke in Hindi, it was just such a proud moment. Personally, for me to have shared the stage with him and on an international platform where the talk is about India celebrating 100 glorious years, it felt really special. These are the times when you have to pinch yourself and say 'oh my god, this is for real.'"


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These instructions cover how to deploy Commotion as multiple guest VMs under a single VirtualBox host, with a virtual mesh between the nodes. Simulating mesh-level operation effectively requires a bare minimum of 2 nodes deployed on the same virtual network, with one node operating as logical gateway to the Internet and the other node as a repeater. 3 nodes is ideal, however, for broader test coverage of mesh-level operations.
Furthermore, you can create an additional VM (or VMs) to simulate a user's device (Windows, Linux, etc) connecting to a virtual Access Point (AP) on one of the nodes.
Under VirtualBox, a shared private network between multiple VMs can be accomplished via the "Internal Networking":https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_internal or "Host-only Networking":https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_hostonly modes. The instructions provided below will use the "Internal Networking" mode.
Do note that VirtualBox only supports guests compiled for the *x86* platform. Furthermore, and as of this writing, it is only possible to simulate meshes as a virtual _wired network_ between guest VMs under a single VirtualBox host. Each Commotion node must then be manually configured as gateway or repeater, since the auto-configuration tool meshconfig doesn't (yet) support VirtualBox's virtual network adapters.
The instructions below describe how to deploy multiple "Commotion-OpenWRT":/projects/commotion-openwrt nodes as a guest VMs under VirtualBox, with a virtual mesh connecting them together.
Compatible images, VirtualBox appliance files, and Commotion-OpenWRT config tarballs may be downloaded from https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/files
Below are screenshots of VirtualBox network settings used for a Commotion-OpenWRT gateway node. This node uses the host's Internet connection on its first network adapter as its gateway, and then 3 additional internal networks named *OpenWRT-lan*, *OpenWRT-meshtest*, *OpenWRT-aptest* to represent the LAN, (wired) mesh, and local AP for this node. Under Commotion-OpenWRT, the 1st thru 4th Network Adapters will appear as eth0 thru eth3, respectively.
Note that the General, System, Display, Storage, and Serial Port settings for this gateway node are identical to those described for a "stand-alone node under VirtualBox.":/projects/commotion/wiki/Virtual-Box#CreateConfigure-the-Commotion-OpenWRT-VM-guest
Net Adapter 1 settings for Commotion-OpenWRT gateway node under VirtualBox
Net Adapter 2 settings for Commotion-OpenWRT gateway node under VirtualBox
Net Adapter 3 settings for Commotion-OpenWRT gateway node under VirtualBox
Net Adapter 4 settings for Commotion-OpenWRT gateway node under VirtualBox
The repeater node configuration is nearly identical to that described for the gateway node above, with the exception that the repeater's Network Adapter 1 is not connected to the outside Internet via VirtualBox's NAT, but rather to an Internal Network with a unique name like *OpenWRT-nonet2*.
To represent the virtual mesh, the repeater node will share the internal network *OpenWRT-meshtest* with the gateway node on Network Adapter 2. The repeater node will also have its own distinct networks *OpenWRT-lan2* and *OpenWRT-aptest2* on its Network Adapters 3 and 4, respectively, to represent the repeater node's LAN and local AP.
An additional VM (or VMs) could be used to test connections to the public or private AP of any of the Commotion-OpenWRT VMs described above, and this VM could run Windows/Linux/OSX/etc to simulate the desktop of a user connecting to a Commotion node.
On this 4th VM, you would enable the 2nd Network Adapter for "Internal Networking" and specify network of the particular node's access point you wish to test, e.g. *OpenWRT-aptest* or *OpenWRT-aptest2*.


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Lead producers of the musical "Rebecca," who had already raised a marquee outside the Broadhurst Theatre, told cast members Sunday they just don't have the cash to move forward with the production.
The move comes after weeks of turmoil in which producer Ben Sprecher said he was trying to make up a $4.5 million shortfall in production costs following the death of an investor identified as Paul Abrams.
Abrams reportedly died of malaria during the summer, although news organizations have been unable to verify that he was even a real person.
Sprecher and producer Louise Forlenza told Playbill that a potential new investor who would have been able to "virtually fill in the missing gap [of funding] during the last three weeks was scared off by a malicious email, scuttling the fall launch."
As late as last week, Sprecher had told the cast that rehearsals would begin on Oct. 1, leading many in the theater community to assume the financing problems had been managed. The move leaves cast and production staff, many of whom had turned down other work to be involved with "Rebecca," without much recourse.
"Rebecca," which was to have begun previews on Oct. 30, is based on Daphne du Maurier's novel about the lady of an English estate, Manderley. Earlier European productions had been well received.
Sprecher's full statement, issued Sunday, is up on Playbill's site, and it's a doozy. It says that on Sept. 28, "an extremely malicious e-mail, filled with lies and innuendo, had been sent directly to the new investor that morning from an anonymous third party. The e-mail was designed to scare this investor away and it succeeded. The investor withdrew."
Sprecher said efforts to mount "Rebecca" would continue and that a copy of the purported e-mail has been provided to authorities to aid with a "criminal investigation."


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Sometime last year I wanted to set up a SharePoint 2007 website for my family members to exchange information. That being said, I was using a custom membership provider, and I ran into a few issues while I was setting things up. I had kept detailed notes while I was configuring my server and troubleshooting the problems that I encountered, and with that in mind, I thought that I would share my experiences. ;-]
My web server is only an older 32-bit Windows Server 2008 computer, so I couldn't install SharePoint 2010 (which is 64-bit only) and I had to install SharePoint 2007. Taking that into account, there were a few additional considerations that I had for my environment:
With my specific considerations in mind, I took a look at the following article to get started:
That being said, I did not use the following articles, even though they are related to my scenario and they looked interesting:
Here are the brief details on how I created my SharePoint website:
There are a few additions that you have to make to your website's web.config file, as well as the SharePoint Central Administration web.config file for SharePoint 2007:
<!-- added on 05/31/2011 -->
<membership defaultProvider="ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider">
<add name="ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider"
type="ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider, ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider, Version=18.104.22.168, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=426f62526f636b73"
description="Read-only XML membership provider"
xmlFileName="~/App_Data/MyUsers.xml" />
<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="ReadOnlyXmlRoleProvider">
<add name="ReadOnlyXmlRoleProvider"
type="ReadOnlyXmlRoleProvider, ReadOnlyXmlRoleProvider, Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=426f62526f636b73"
description="Read-only XML role provider"
xmlFileName="~/App_Data/MyUsers.xml" />
<!--/added on 05/31/2011 -->
<!-- added on 05/31/2011 -->
<membership defaultProvider="ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider">
<add name="ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider"
type="ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider, ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=426f62526f636b73"
description="Read-only XML membership provider"
xmlFileName="~/App_Data/MyUsers.xml" />
<!--/added on 05/31/2011 -->
SharePoint Central Administration needs to be able to find the MyUsers.xml file, so I created an App_Data folder under physical path of the SharePoint Central Administration website, and I added a symbolic link in that folder that pointed to the physical MyUsers.xml file. Here's how I did that:
cd C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\6087
mklink MyUsers.xml C:\Inetpub\SharePointSite\wwwroot\App_Data\MyUsers.xml
Note: I could have copied the XML file, but I preferred to use the symbolic link instead of having to manage two copies of the file.
If you were installing a membership provider that can perform lookups, you could add an additional entry to your SharePoint Central Administration web.config file:
<clear />
<add key="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" value="%" />
<!-- added on 05/31/2011 -->
<add key="ReadOnlyXmlMembershipProvider" value="%" />
<!--/added on 05/31/2011 -->
Okay - I admit that I everything that I did so far was probably making things harder that they needed to be, but I love a good challenge. ;-]
That being said, I ran into some problems that I thought would be worth mentioning, just in case someone else ran into them.
When browsing to my SharePoint website, I received several HTTP 403 errors. I used Process Monitor to troubleshoot the problem, and I discovered that IUSR could not access the "bin" folder in my website. (I'm still not quite sure why it was trying.) To resolve these errors, I used the following steps:
cd C:\Inetpub\SharePointSite\wwwroot
icacls bin /grant IIS_IUSRS:r
In my situation the problem was for IUSR, but if you are using a different anonymous identity or your application pool is running as a unique identity then it might be a different user. In any case, Process Monitor will let you know who needs permissions.
Later I discovered the following blog post by John Powell:
In that blog, John suggests adding the following permissions for the "bin" folder:
icacls bin /grant users:r
I'm not sure if that's necessary, but it's worth pointing out.
When browsing to my SharePoint website, I received several HTTP 404.8 errors. Those errors mean that the built-in IIS 7 Request Filtering feature was blocking something, so I did the following:
<!-- added on 05/31/2011 -->
<clear />
<add segment="web.config" />
<add segment="bin" />
<add segment="App_code" />
<add segment="App_GlobalResources" />
<add segment="App_LocalResources" />
<add segment="App_WebReferences" />
<add segment="App_Data" />
<add segment="App_Browsers" />
<!--/added on 05/31/2011 -->
Note: This removes all of the hidden segments from the global IIS 7 Request Filtering settings, which may be overkill. I have a lot of custom global request filtering settings, and I didn't want to go through each individual setting to see which setting was blocking files that I needed, so I used settings for my website that cleared the inherited request filtering settings and added the default settings.
When browsing to my SharePoint website, the information bar in Internet Explorer kept prompting me with the following message:
The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control' from 'Microsoft Corporation'. If you trust the Web site and the add-on and want to allow it to run, click here...
This message was highly frustrating, so I did some digging around the Internet and discovered that I could hack the INIT.JS file for SharePoint to suppress this message. Here's how I did that:
function ProcessImn()
// if (EnsureIMNControl() && IMNControlObj.PresenceEnabled)
// {
// imnElems=document.getElementsByName("imnmark");
// imnElemsCount=imnElems.length;
// ProcessImnMarkers();
// }
function ProcessImnMarkers()
// for (i=0;i<imnMarkerBatchSize;++i)
// {
// if (imnCount==imnElemsCount)
// return;
// IMNRC(imnElems[imnCount].sip,imnElems[imnCount]);
// imnCount++;
// }
// setTimeout("ProcessImnMarkers()",imnMarkerBatchDelay);
I should note that this solution is unsupported; and a few months I hacked my INIT.JS file, Microsoft published the following Knowledge Base article with a couple of different methods:
KB 931509: Message in the Information bar in Internet Explorer 7 when you browse to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or to a SharePoint Server 2007 site: "The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control'"
That being said, I like my solution better. ;-]
Note: This blog was originally posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/


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This is my last week here in Israel and I plan on getting in as much as I can before I leave, since I won't be back for a good while. I've found plenty of drafts to complete and topics I've put aside lately to cover during my break, so my worries about what shall happen to this blog are no more! Before leaving, I plan on going to all of my favorite places and soaking in these last moments with landscapes I love and the people I adore. Get ready for a week packed of fond farewells to some of my favorite places here in Israel, via Vespa Adventures and tons of photos. I plan on squeezing in at least one more ride to Tel Aviv-Jaffo area, more of the roads through the Judean Mountain terrian, try to get the courage to finally take the 'pa to Jerusalem, scoot some more around the Abu Gosh/kibbutz area, and a few other places I've grown fond of during these past few months. I hope you enjoy these farewell posts and soak in all the sights with me, as I say a fond Shalom to Israel and my little Roxy Vespa (-only till October, not forever).
Starting with Road 395, winding roads through the Judean Mountains,
Most of these photos are from a specific spot on the road where the two lanes become one tiny, little lane for cars going either way. I love this part of the road the most, as it is the most thrilling and daring part of the ride. Today I decided to turn around and did it again(!), as the ride was going so well. I am not really exactly sure where it is on the google map version, but I included a shot to give you all an idea where it should be located:
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I completed the nonfiction update today by going back through and adding links to all the recent interviews I've done at Dark Scribe Magazine, as well as on my spec fiction blog for Examiner.com. Lots of good stuff there from Kim Paffenroth, Ellen Datlow, Maurice Broaddus and many more. Head on up to the nonfiction tab at the top of this page to check 'em out.
Speaking of interviews, I've got a biggie on the horizon – a sprawling chat with one of my new favorites that's so big it's going to take five days to run it all. It will appear on the Examiner blog, but stay tuned here for an announcement of when…and who.


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Before the iPod helped revolutionize digital music, the boombox helped revolutionize portable music culture and now, a group of filmmakers are on a mission to find out who the Boombox creators are. A 'a docu-man hunt' to find the original designers and crafters of the iconic, portable radio/cassette player that helped spread hip hop and New York street culture to the worldwide masses.
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Book Review: The Tech-Wise Family (Andy Crouch)
This is Scott Forney's review of The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, written by Andy Crouch (Baker Books, 2017, 224 pages). This book is available online or in the bookstore.
Whatever your family status, The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch has much for all of us to consider. This smallish book (picture a thick iPad mini with an orange cover) pulls together ten commitments meant not so much to put detailed clamps on the aforementioned Apple device, but rather, as the subtitle suggests, to provide "everyday steps for putting [it] in its proper place." So, instead of a critical book about technology and the endless ways it is unknowingly warping us as individuals and society, Crouch has provided an imminently practical and positive read that, chapter by chapter, focuses on the good affections fostered within a family where screens have their "proper place."
Starting With the Family
Where does Crouch start in this foray into navigating our tech-heavy world? Surprisingly, not on technology itself, but on the family. (It caught me off guard, too, until I remembered the title.) This emphasis on family is never forgotten as he weaves us through the various commitments in very much an autobiographical manner, complete with a foreword by his sixteen year-old daughter and sections at the end of each chapter called "Crouch Family Reality Checks." These peeks behind his family's veil help keep his commitment explanations and justifications from being prescriptive and formulaic (read potentially legalistic). As well, you feel well shepherded by someone who's been through the fray before and understands how these decisions greatly influence the mission of the family and its daily life.
Developing Family Commitments
What are these commitments you might ask? (Or, rather, the deeper question you might be unknowingly asking is how radical and painful are these commitments, and could I ever pursue them?) In Crouch's own words from the introduction, "you don't have to become Amish, but you probably have to become closer to Amish than you think." . . . Wait! Don't throw out his book! He's not coming to the technology table as a Luddite from the land of horse buggies and long-bearded men (though he does live in Pennsylvania). On the contrary, Crouch is presently senior strategist for communication at the John Templeton Foundation, was both a campus minister at Harvard and editor/producer at Christianity Today for ten years, has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000, and is a self-described technophile with collectively more than ten Apple devices and a "pretty sweet TV" populating his four-person house.
So, no, he's not a 21st-century Rip Van Winkle calling us back to the pre-Internet days replete with stamps, long-distance telephone bills, and only three broadcast TV channels. Rather, he rightly sees the technology of the day for what it is, while caringly calling us to a life and "choices that our devices often make more difficult." His commitments therefore are always toward the positive, e.g. families are for forming and nourishing human capacity, with technological distractions and displacements pushed to the periphery; our days, weeks, and year deserve technology fasts so that we can rightly interact with the medium; children learn best not by the "easy everywhere" that screens provide, but through embodied interaction with the creation and culture's un-pixelated tools.
Applicable to All Ages
These commitments and the others are applicable to all ages and family statuses, so don't relegate the book's audience to a 30-ish couple with 2.4 children. Nevertheless, with the raising of children clearly in his sights throughout the book, parents (and grandparents) with children of all ages will benefit. Those of us with older children will be confronted over the evolved habits of our family life that need alteration, but nevertheless with hope and vision for change; those with younger children will benefit from the direction provided and the opportunity to walk in a wise path going forward. And all of us will benefit from considering the nudges toward a richer, fuller life, not from a reaction of fear and helplessness concerning the ubiquitous present screendom, but rather out of a right response to God's call to live in this culture we are part of and make.
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August 5, 2015 | About Face: An art show featuring expressions and the human face. Works by Susan Easton Burns, Terrence Gasca, Susan Grill-Joss, Shellie Lewis-Dambax, Alberto Mier, Catie Radney & David Wendel
So much has been said over the centuries about the human face and its expressions. Our culture places a value on characteristics in our faces–assigns beauty in subjective ways. Come and explore the ideas brought together in this study of the face.
Face it. Beauty comes in many different forms.
"Orchid" | Alberto Mier | SOLD
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what's needed by nature, and what's needed is to bring something new. – Karl Lagerfeld
"Morning Stretch" | David Wendel | 48″ x 72″ | Acrylic & Oil
"Emma" | Susan Grill Joss | 53″ x 45″ | Oil
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
– Pablo Picasso
"Power of Will" | Susan Easton Burns | 40″ x 30″ | acrylic on canvas
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
– William Shakespeare
"Lovey" | Shellie Lewis-Dambax | 45″ X 45″ | Mixed Media
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
– JD Salinger
"Where Love Resides" | Terrence Gasca | 42″ x 42″ | Oil on Canvas
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer….
– The Monkees
"Lonely Lands" | Catie Radney | 48″ X 36″ Acrylic
"Blue Eyes" | David Wendel | 48″ X 72″ Acrylic & Oil
"Faces are not simply blank canvases upon which facial expressions write their emotional messages. In fact, facial appearance and facial movement are both important social signaling systems in their own right…. the social signals derived from facial appearance on the one hand and facial movement on the other interact in a complex manner, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes contradicting one another."


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Matsui Fuyuko Charity Auction for the Recovery of Northeastern Japan
2011/12/9 ー 12/21
Both Gallery Naruyama and Matsui Fuyuko would like to present our deepest gratitude to all who participated in the event.
We were able to raise a total of ¥4,795,500, with an additional ¥500,000 donation from a generous soul in Singapore.
The resulting funds will be completely donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society for the recovery of the areas effected by the earthquake and tsunami of 3/11.
Matsui Fuyuko Past Exhibitions:
Matsui Fuyuko Exposition (2010)
Drawings (2010)
On Matsui Fuyuko (2008)
Narcissus (2007)
Matsui Fuyuko (2005)
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Taking care of the elderly citizens in the society is being increasingly seen as a professional assignment. Until a few years ago the scenario was different. Some were looked after by their own kith and kin; those who could afford appointed nurses to take care of them and many had to suffer through their difficulties. But things have changed a lot. For one, the government itself has taken up the cause of the senior citizens and a lot of changes in the laws have been made to make the public healthcare system responsive to the needs of this vulnerable section of the community. But what has come as a pleasant surprise in a recently published news report is that even the corporate world has made some positive moves in this direction. Volunteering activities are being organized to work with the aged care sector to not only improve the level of care being given but also increase the overall awareness among the public at large. You can today find a Caulfield aged care nurse to attend to an elderly person in your family if you need. These nurses do a thoroughly professional job.
It is true that there are aged care centres and private residences. The major differentiation will come from a set of factors very unique and relevant to the Murrumbeena aged care facilities. These can be listed in many ways, but the main ones include personalised care and a professional approach at all levels. Very few administrators of such facilities understand that as a person gains in age, some requirements in life change. Whatever may be the underlying reasons for this, the elderly would definitely wish to be sure that they are being specially taken care of. The staff at a private residence Caulfield market has today will have to convey this sense while attending on the aged and then only their service will be appreciated. This can come only from a focused kind of service. Click here Aarcare
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One more trait observed among the aged persons, men or women, is that most of them would prefer to be provided the care at their place of living. Now, it may not be always feasible to depute a nurse each to every older individual or couple. The next best alternative is to create a typical private residence Malvern based where the building, its surroundings, and the overall ambiance can be created to the extent that the care receiver feels he or she is at home only. Within such a home setting it becomes easier for the Caulfield aged care nurse to bestow attention and make the elderly feel comfortable and happy.
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Every Caulfield aged care nurse is mandated to learn both the theoretical and the practical aspects of caregiving, particularly to the senior citizens and following the qualification they have to work in an approved care home as an understudy. This will enable them to learn the finer aspects of caregiving. The compassion, the patience to listen to the older people and understand their wants, and finally to pass on this personal message that the care receiver can rely on the nurse for his/her wellbeing.
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Do not miss the Career Meetup in Tourism, Hotel Management, and Food Services, on Thursday, March 23rd, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Jean-Paul-Morin Hall
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When we were living in the city next to my grandmother's house, Sam and Alex spent a lot of time in my grandmother's garden. Alex was very young then, just learning to talk. Sam was already the most talkative toddler ever and she liked to christen the plants and flowers. Because it was the Disney princess phase of their lives, the plants and flowers were renamed Jasmine, Pocahontas, Esmeralda, and so on.
After spending time in the garden, they'd come home, little Alex trailing Sam, and they would often give me flowers. Not flowers that they plucked off the plants — they didn't pluck flowers. They'd pick up what had fallen to the ground, collect them and give them to me saying, "Mommy, for you." More often than not, they would give me sampaguita.
Fast forward to 2008 when we bought this house. There was a trellis-covered lanai on one side. Artfully arranged hedges and bushes blocked access from the front so that the only way to the lanai was from inside the house through a side door. We figured we didn't need a lanai because we have a real garden on the other side of the house so we had the hedges and bushes moved to the garden and the lanai became a carport.
But realizing how bare the area looked after all the plants had been moved, we mulled over what we should plant there that would't scratch the car when it got in and out. Sam suggested sampaguita. She said we would plant them near the posts and make the plants climb up the trellis.
And we did just that. The sampaguita plants have grown despite occasional drawbacks when it stormed. That's how the trellis looks today.
There are new flowers everyday.
And, to give way to the new flowers, the old ones fall to the ground. For the past several days, Sam had been picking up the fallen flowers and giving them to me.
Many have completely withered but I've kept them on my desk.
The last time that Sam came into my study with a bunch of flowers, I asked her if she remembered how she used to do the very same thing when she was about four or five. She looked rather surprised, I don't think she remembered but I did.
And I wanted to freeze that moment when past and present seemed to have become one. I told her I should press the flowers between book pages and keep them. And she replied, quite haughtily, "Ano 'yan — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (What's that — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)?"
If the last paragraph didn't make any sense to you, you probably haven't read or seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. If you've seen the American remake but have not read the book, you're missing half the fun and thrill. I've read all three books in Stieg Larsson's Millenium series, one after the other, and they were… well, let's just say that once you start, it's hard to stop until the very end. My next project is to see the three Swedish films based on the novels. Should be fun.


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Key Skills
- Effective Participation
- Creative Thinking
- Independent Enquiry
- Reflective Learning
- Team Work
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Two projects are carried out per half term and each project has two key skills linked to it so that each key skill is visited twice during the course of the year.
Year 7 Example Projects
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- Connect with Respect- Cyber-bullying project
- First Aid Certificate
- Include me- Disability awareness
- Youth Justice- Felton Prison
Year 8 Example Projects
- Sensational Science
- Discover Arts Award – National Award credited by Trinity College London.
- Career Project – CV & interview project


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Having to dodge.
Its getting stupid at this point, as soon i see either Naut, amumu or hec its nearly 100% dodge game. If the enemy has both of them you ain't winning at all, esp with how %%%%i%%%%trong aftershock is, and the worst thing is you can't ban them all. If you don't have the dps or true damage to cut through their bloody tank stats while their still doing mad amounts of damage its pointless. Its not a fact of getting good, or just learning to play around them there isn't much counter play when your team has no real dps to deal with them. Talking Around P1- D4 Elo.
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More than half of U.S. streams are polluted, with the worst conditions found in the eastern third of the country, according to a study by the Environmental Protection Agency.And throughout the nation, there are advisories which warn that fish that are caught in our national waters might be too contaminated for consumption.
In its first-ever study of shallow or "wadeable" streams, the agency found 42 percent were in poor condition, and another 25 percent were considered fair. Only 28 percent were in good condition, EPA said. Another 5 percent were not analyzed because of sampling problems in New England.
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The division of Microbiology offers a research program focusing on microbial pathogenesis and host immune responses. Faculty interests include basic research on the genetics and molecular biology of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, microbial pathogenesis, virology, immunology, vaccine development, cancer research, and bioinformatics. Collaboration among different biomedical laboratories is further promoted by the close proximity of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. The division offers courses in advanced bacteriology, immunology, parasitology, and virology. Courses on introductory and advanced bioinformatics are also offered.


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TSX.V Symbol: "WND"
OTCQX Symbol: "WNDEF"
Issued and Outstanding: 70,462,806
VANCOUVER, Jan. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Western Wind Energy Corp. – (the "Company" or "Western Wind") (TSX Venture Exchange – "WND")
(OTCQX – "WNDEF") announces that it has mailed a supplementary
directors' circular (the "Supplementary Directors' Circular") in
response to the offer (the "Offer") from WWE Equity Holdings Inc. (the
"Offeror"), an indirect subsidiary of Brookfield Renewable Energy
Partners L.P. ("Brookfield Renewable") to Western Wind shareholders to
purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of Western Wind (the
"Shares") for $2.50 in cash per Share, upon the terms and subject to
the conditions set forth in the circular of the Offeror dated November
26, 2012 (the "Offeror Circular").
The Supplementary Directors' Circular contains NO RECOMMENDATION of the
Western Wind board of directors (the "Board of Directors") as to
whether shareholders of Western Wind (the "Shareholders") should accept
or reject the Offer. Shareholders should consider the information
contained in the Supplementary Directors' Circular carefully and make
their own decisions. Shareholders who are in doubt about how to respond
to the Offer, should consult their investment dealer, stockbroker,
lawyer or other professional advisors.
Reasons for Making No Recommendation
After careful consideration of the risks and opportunities presented by
the Offer, the members of the special committee of the Board of
Directors (the "Special Committee") found themselves unable to make a
recommendation to Shareholders to accept or reject the Offer.
Ultimately, they concluded, it is a choice that will rest on each
Shareholder's personal circumstances, appetite for risk and tolerance
of uncertainty.
On July 30, 2012, the Company announced that it would be seeking a buyer
for the Company and its assets, and that the Board of Directors had
established the Special Committee. On August 10, 2012, the Company
announced that it had engaged Rothschild (Canada) Inc. ("Rothschild")
as its lead financial advisor to manage and structure a comprehensive
and efficient auction process, with PI Financial Corp. engaged as a
On July 31, 2012, Savitr Capital, LLC announced that it intended to
nominate five new directors for election to the Board of Directors.
All five of management's nominees were ultimately elected to the Board
of Directors at the Company's annual general meeting held on September
25, 2012. However, the Company believes that there was at least an
eight week delay in the proper functioning of the auction process due
to the distraction caused by the proxy contest.
After the Company's annual general meeting held on September 25, 2012,
the Board of Directors again focused on the auction process. The
auction process has since been progressing as planned and as part of
that process, the Board of Directors continues to be in discussions
with potential buyers. However, no binding offer has been made as of
the date of the Supplementary Directors' Circular. Several of the
parties contacted by Rothschild have executed confidentiality
agreements and conducted due diligence. Initial expressions of interest
were received by the Company, some of which implied a value for the
Company significantly greater than that offered by the Offeror. Seven
parties remain in the process and continue to have access to the data
room. Some of these parties have an interest in an individual asset,
while others are considering an acquisition of the Company as a whole.
Further, the Company is continuing to negotiate non-disclosure
agreements with a small number of qualified parties to gain access to
the data room. If they enter into the auction process, these parties
will likely not be in a position to provide their views on value for
several weeks.
Accordingly, while a financially superior offer may be made before the
expiry of the Offer, the Offer is the only offer to purchase all of the
outstanding Shares that is open for acceptance by Shareholders at the
date of the Supplementary Directors' Circular. Shareholders who are
attracted by the certainty of an opportunity to sell their Shares for
cash at this time may prefer to accept the Offer. The Board of
Directors does note that the Company's assets are infrastructure assets
generating power under long term power purchase agreements.
Accordingly, the value of these assets is not expected to be diminished
by the success or failure of the Offer.
On the other hand, Western Wind is an independent renewable energy
production company that owns and operates wind and solar generation
facilities with 165 net megawatts of rated capacity operating in the
states of California and Arizona. Western Wind also owns substantial
development assets for both solar and wind energy in the United States.
See "Western Wind". On January 2, 2013, Western Wind announced progress
towards bringing the Yabucoa project in Puerto Rico to a financial
close, which will create value for Shareholders. In addition, as part
of the recent "fiscal cliff" package, the United States Congress
approved an extension to a certain federal tax credit for wind power.
In the latter months of 2012, the uncertain fate of the wind tax credit
resulted in depressed valuations of companies in the wind power
industry. Shareholders who sell their Shares now, either in the market
or by accepting the Offer, will forego any opportunity to realize the
value created by the Yabucoa project, which could be significant, as
well as Western Wind's other projects including any benefit of the
extended federal tax credits for wind power.
In the view of the Special Committee, the decision of a Shareholder to
accept or reject the Offer will be based on the Shareholder's
individual circumstances, appetite for risk and hope of return.
Accordingly, the Special Committee concluded that the Board of
Directors could not usefully make a recommendation to Shareholders, but
should instead strive to provide Shareholders with all of the relevant
information to allow them to make that decision for themselves.
The Board of Directors adopted the conclusions of the Special Committee
and determined that it would not make a recommendation to Shareholders
whether to accept or reject the Offer.
The following is a summary of the principal reasons why the Special
Committee and the Board of Directors have decided to make NO
RECOMMENDATION with respect to acceptance or rejection of the Offer:
Although a financially superior offer may be made before the expiry of
the Offer, the Offer is the only offer to purchase all of the
outstanding Shares that is open for acceptance by Shareholders at the
date of the Supplementary Directors' Circular.
There are other significant risks and uncertainties related to the
Offer, which are described in further detail below. See "Risks Related
to the Offer".
Risks Related to the Offer
The Offer is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including
but not limited to the following:
Western Wind has made submissions to staff of the Ontario Securities
Commission in respect of the Offeror's ability to rely on an exemption
from the requirement to obtain a formal valuation in respect of the
Offer. The Special Committee believes that a formal valuation will
benefit all Shareholders in that it will allow them to assess the price
offered by the Offeror relative to the fair market value of the Shares
as determined by an independent valuator.
The Offer is highly conditional to the benefit of the Offeror. There
are a number of conditions which are not subject to a materiality
threshold or other objective criteria but provide the Offeror with a
broad range of grounds upon which it may decline to proceed with the
The Offer is subject to the condition that there be validly deposited
under the Offer and not withdrawn at the expiry date of the Offer,
Shares representing more than 50% of the outstanding Shares held by
Independent Shareholders (as defined in the Offeror Circular). However,
the Offeror can waive this minimum tender condition and take up all the
Shares tendered, even if the minimum tender condition is not met. If
the Offeror acquires less than a majority of the Shares, the Company's
ability to effectively carry on its business may be impaired by a poor
working relationship with Brookfield Renewable.
The purchase of Shares by the Offeror pursuant to the Offer will reduce
the number of Shares that might otherwise trade publicly and the number
of Shareholders and could, therefore, adversely affect the liquidity
and market value of the remaining Shares held by the public.
Under the Offer, the Offeror may gain effective control of the Company
without any obligation to acquire the outstanding Shares that were not
tendered to its bid. This is inherently coercive because a Shareholder
may feel compelled to tender Shares to the Offer, even if the
Shareholder considers the offer price to be inadequate, to avoid the
risk that the Shareholder may be left holding a minority investment at
a reduced price reflective of a minority discount and with
significantly less liquidity.
In the Offeror Circular, the Offeror has advised that if it cannot
complete a subsequent acquisition transaction, it will evaluate its
alternatives, which may include purchasing Shares in the market, in
privately negotiated transactions, in another take-over bid for Western
Wind, or otherwise, or taking no further action to acquire additional
Shares. Any additional purchases will be at the discretion of the
Offeror, and could be at a price greater than, equal to or less than
the Offer price.
The foregoing is only a summary of the information and factors
considered by the Special Committee and the Board. This summary is not
intended to be exhaustive. Shareholders should read the entire
Supplementary Directors' Circular, which includes further details of
the material information, factors and analysis considered by the
Special Committee and the Board.
Western Wind is a vertically integrated renewable energy production
company that owns and operates wind and solar generation facilities
with 165 net MW of rated capacity in production, in the States of
California and Arizona. Western Wind further owns substantial
development assets for both solar and wind energy in the U.S. The
Company is headquartered in Vancouver, BC and has branch offices in
Scottsdale, Arizona and Tehachapi, California. Western Wind trades on
the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "WND", and in the United
States on the OTCQX under the symbol "WNDEF".
The Company owns and operates three wind energy generation facilities in
California, and one fully integrated combined wind and solar energy
generation facility in Arizona. The three operating wind generation
facilities in California are comprised of the 120MW Windstar, the 4.5MW
Windridge facilities in Tehachapi, and the 30MW Mesa wind generation
facility near Palm Springs. The facility in Arizona is the Company's
10.5MW Kingman integrated solar and wind facility. The Company is
further developing wind and solar energy projects in California,
Arizona, and Puerto Rico.
Jeffrey J. Ciachurski
President Chief Executive Officer
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider
(as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Certain statements contained in this news release may constitute
forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities
legislation. These statements relate to future events and are
prospective in nature. All statements other than statements of
historical fact may constitute forward-looking statements or contain
forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements are often, but
not always, identified by the use of words such as "may", "will",
"project", "predict", "potential", "plan", "continue", "estimate",
"expect", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might", "seek",
"anticipate", "should", "believe" or variations thereof.
Forward-looking information may relate to management's future outlook
and anticipated events or results and may include statements or
information regarding the future plans or prospects of the Company.
Forward-looking information is based on certain factors and assumptions
regarding, among other things, the Company's negotiations with
prospective purchasers and the results of due diligence investigations
conducted by prospective purchasers, the Company's ability to
successfully negotiate non-disclosure agreements with interested
parties, the availability of a financially superior offer, the
Company's future growth, results of operations, performance, business
prospects and opportunities as well as the economic environment in
which it operates. Several factors could cause actual results to
differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking
statements, including, but not limited to: actions taken by the Offeror
or Brookfield Renewable, actions taken by the Western Wind Shareholders
in relation to the Offer, the possible effect of the Offer on the
Company's business, the outcome of the Company's previously-announced
sale process, the ability of the Company to successfully negotiate
non-disclosure agreements with interested parties, and the availability
of value-maximizing alternatives relative to the Offer. Additional
risks and uncertainties can be found in the Company's MDA for the year
ended December 31, 2011 and the Company's other continuous disclosure
filings which are available at www.sedar.com.
Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated.
Forward-looking information is subject to a variety of known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual
events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking
statements including, without limitation: the progress of Western
Wind's sales process, whether the Company is able to successfully
negotiate the terms of non-disclosure agreements with interested
parties, the results of due diligence investigations conducted by
interested parties, and, assuming the Company receives an expression of
interest, whether a financially superior offer for Western Wind
emerges, whether the Company is able to successfully negotiate a
prospective sales transaction and whether the conditions of any
proposed transaction, including receipt by the Company of all necessary
approvals, are met.
The Board of Directors believes that the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements contained in this news release are
reasonable, but no assurance can be given that they will prove to be
correct. Actual results and future events may differ materially from
those anticipated and accordingly forward-looking statements should not
be unduly relied upon. Forward-looking statements contained in this
document speak only as of the date of this news release. Except as
required by applicable law, Western Wind disclaims any obligation to
update any forward-looking information.Page |
SOURCE Western Wind Energy


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Under the agreement, XIUS will provide the important technology and integration expertise.
Hebitel, on the other hand, will provide experienced personnel and services that include license application, market identification and business planning, experienced interim staff and all launch activities necessary from an MVNO perspective.
The Modi government recently approved a new category of unified licence for VNOs, which gives smaller telcos more options to monetise unutilised spectrum, besides trading and sharing.
The MVNO services now awaiting final ministerial approval, which will pave the way for final policy.
Videocon, Future Group and Datawind have expressed their intentions to apply for VNO license in India, once the policy is in place.
Independent research firms predict India to be one of the world's largest markets for MVNOs.
"Across the world we see very successful MVNOs targeting youth, roaming markets, international calling and others. With the immense scale of the Indian market we know that many niche services will spell huge success for our MVNO clients," Paul Nicholas, Managing Director of Hebitel, said in a joint statement.
The MVNO concept has evolved over the years and many of the present day mobile subscribers are customers of MVNOs.
According to third party studies, about 10-15 percent of all mobile subscribers in Europe are subscribers of MVNOs.
"Our Mobile Services Platform (MSP) manages more than 350 million phone calls a day. Having built our own successful business in India gives us the local knowledge to provide MVNO entrants a real advantage in this complex market," G.V. Kumar, CEO of XIU said
IDC forecasts total mobile services revenue in India to reach US $37 Billion in 2017. If Indian MVNOs are successful in following European experience, the market could easily represent a US $4 Billion opportunity very quickly.


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