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The transactions highlighted below are representative of Greenhill engagements. In addition, the Firm has completed many engagements that were not publicly-disclosed.
The transactions highlighted below are representative of Greenhill engagements. In addition, the Firm has completed many engagements that were not publicly-disclosed.
Advising Enviro on the creation of the world's first large-scale tire recycling group in a JV with Antin Infrastructure Partners, supported by Michelin
Advising Asterion Industrial Partners, a leading independent investment management firm, on the sale of their portfolio company Asterion Energies, a leading Pan-European renewable energy platform with over 7.7 GW of Solar PV and Wind assets in Spain, Italy and France
Advised InterGen N.V., one of the UK's largest independent power producers with a portfolio of four gas plants and a pipeline of large-scale battery energy storage system projects, on the sale of its business interests in the UK to CREDITAS Group, a Czech entity ultimately owned by Pavel Hubáček, whose energy division UCED is the fourth largest energy distributor in the Czech Republic
Advising DigitalBridge, one of the largest global digital infrastructure investors, on the sale of Wildstone, Europe's largest owner of independent outdoor media infrastructure, to Antin Infrastructure Partners
Advised Oak Hill Advisors on the sale of the San Sebastian bus station
Quercus, a specialist investor in renewable energy, has agreed to sell a portfolio of over 700 MWp of solar PV development assets in Spain to BayWa r.e., an entity jointly owned by BayWa AG and Energy Infrastructure Partners
Advised Portobello Capital, a leading Spanish private equity firm with more than $1.75bn AuM, on the acquisition through a carve out process of a controlling stake in Ferrovial Servicios, a leading infrastructure service business in Spain owned by Ferrovial
Advised Antin Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of Pulsant from Oak Hill and Scottish Equity Partners. Pulsant is a hybrid cloud specialist, with a nationwide network of 10 data centres across the UK delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud, colocation and networking services
Advising Alten Energías Renovables ("Alten"), a global Independent Power Producer (IPP), on the sale of a solar PV portfolio of 300MWp in late stage of development across Spain and Portugal to Matrix Renewables, the renewable energy platform backed by global alternative asset manager TPG. In addition, Matrix Renewables and the Alten's Management Team have agreed to enter a Joint Development Agreement ("JDA") to further develop an additional 2GW of solar PV and storage assets across Iberia
Advising Bruc OPT Energy Partners ("BROP"), a renewable energy JV owned by OPTrust and Mr. Juan Béjar, on the sale of a 50% stake in Bruc Energy, one of the largest renewable energy platforms in Spain with c.4 GWp of Solar PV assets under operation, construction and development, to funds managed by Universities Superannuation Scheme ("USS"), the largest pension scheme by assets in the UK
Advised Woodward, a leading designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control solutions for the aerospace and industrial markets, on the divestiture of select assets related to its renewable power systems and protective relays businesses to Aurelius Equity Opportunities
Advised Renewi plc, a leading waste to product company, on the sale of its Canadian operations to Convent Capital, an Amsterdam-based investment firm
Advised MDC, a Brazilian investment fund, on the sale of Thermoelectric Power Plants Camaçari Muricy II & Pecem II to Jiangsu Communication Clean Energy Technology (CCETC)
Advised Credit Suisse Energy Infrastructure Partners ("CSEIP"), an investment boutique within the Asset Management business of Credit Suisse AG, on the acquisition of the 49% stake of 250MW Concentrated Solar Power ("CSP") portfolio in Spain from ContourGlobal, an international owner and operator of contracted wholesale power generation businesses
Advised Grupo Empresarial Enhol, a leading independent renewable power generator, on the divestment of its controlling stakes in two wind farms located in Spain with a total installed capacity of 48 MW
Advised Oak Hill Advisors in the sale of Greenpark Aparcamientos, a leading off-street car park operator, to Parkia, a portfolio company of First State Investments
Advised EQT, a leading alternative investments firm with more than EUR 37 billion of AUM on the sale of its portfolio company IslaLink, a leading neutral and independent submarine fiber infrastructure operator in the Balearic Islands
Advised McDermott International, Inc., a leading provider of integrated engineering, procurement, construction, installation and module fabrication services for upstream field developments worldwide, on its combination with CB&I, a leading provider of technology and infrastructure for the energy industry
Advised the shareholders of Grupo Sidecu, the leading concessional sport center operator in Spain, on its sale of a controlling stake to Portobello Capital, a local private equity fund
Advised Digital Realty Trust, the world's largest wholesale colocation services and data center solutions provider, on its acquisition of a portfolio of eight carrier-neutral European data centers from Equinix
Advised Antin Infrastructure Partners on its sale of Antin Solar Investments, a leading Italian solar platform, to a consortium of investors comprised of Swiss Life Asset Management and Quercus Investment Partners
Advised Arle Capital Partners on the sale of Stork, an international provider of maintenance, modification and asset integrity services for large existing industrial facilities in the oil and gas, chemicals, industrial and power markets, to Fluor Corporation, one of the world's largest publicly-traded engineering, procurement and construction companies
Advised Telecity Group plc, Europe's leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, on a recommended cash and share offer from Equinix, Inc. a leading US provider of colocation data centre services globally
Advised Alcoa Inc. on the acquisition of TITAL GmbH, a privately-held German manufacturer of aluminum and titanium castings predominately for the aerospace and defense end markets
Advised TUI AG on the merger with TUI Travel Plc creating the world's number one integrated leisure tourism business (+Transaction value represents enterprise value of combined entity)


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Do You Need a Roofing Warranty?
Most roofing projects are pretty extensive and the cost to hire a contractor for a roof replacement can run to thousands of dollars. With such a huge investment in your home, it's prudent to consider the various warranty ramifications.
Choose the Right Product
When it comes to choosing a roofing product, the NRCA (National Roofing Contractors Association) has this advice:
"A roofing warranty's length should not be the primary criterion in the selection of a roofing product or roof system because the warranty does not necessarily provide assurance of satisfactory roof system performance. The selection of a roof system application should be based on the product's qualities and suitability for the prospective project. A long-term warranty may be of little value to a consumer if the roof system does not perform satisfactorily and leaks. Conversely, if a roof system is designed, constructed and manufactured well, the expense of purchasing a warranty may not be necessary."
Know What is Covered in the Warranty
This varies by the manufacturer and by product, and also by levels of coverage. It is not uncommon to have a tiered structure with classes of coverage. What is covered in one class is often excluded in another. Usually the higher levels of coverage involve longer time frames (50 years to "lifetime") and also cover a number of labor costs.
Roofing warranties are full of exclusions to coverage and often have paragraph after paragraph of fine print. Common exclusions:
- Improper attic ventilation
- Improper installation
- Color changes
- Damage from Mother Nature like hail, wind and ice
- Damage from foreign objects or foot traffic
- Lack of, or improper, homeowner maintenance
- Damage to the home's interior due to leaks, mold, etc.
Given such a long list of exclusions, it would seem that there are many ways the consumer could be left without roofing warranty coverage.
Most warranties also have limitations on coverage due to age, and are pro-rated over the life of the roof. Additional conditions are imposed based on ownership transfer and the sale of the home. The warranty normally only covers manufacturing defects, which, in my experience as a contractor, are pretty rare.
Best Practice
When I had a roof replacement on my home about 10 years ago, I chose a product from a well-known manufacturer. I had it installed by a long-established roofing company, for the higher wind rating of 130 mph (6 nails instead of 4), and I have not looked back. A good product properly installed should not need a warranty. If you chose a product such as "Bubba's Basic" and it's installed by a fly-by-night outfit then you may end up with problems, and the hope that a warranty will cover you might be just a fantasy.
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Hoops for Hope
SPU Student Brings His Anti-Violence Basketball Tournament to Campus
By Julia Siemens (firstname.lastname@example.com) | Photo by Luke Rutan
SPU student Dagim Haile-Leul is more of a chess man than a basketball player. But he uses basketball to fight gun violence "because it's a language people can understand."
It was 4 a.m. and Dagim Haile-Leul couldn't sleep. Instead, he sat in the living room with his mom, and they cried. The house was full of family photos of weddings, babies, and graduations. Some of those photos were of his cousin, Yonas Seifu, who was fighting for his life at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Weeks earlier — on April 23, 2006 — Seifu was hit in the back of the head by a stray bullet, while at a friend's house. Seifu, then 26, had graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in economics and electrical engineering. He was a consultant with a successful company, and was recognized as a leader in Seattle's Ethiopian community.
"It didn't seem real," says Haile-Leul, who was a senior in a Seattle high school then, and now is a senior at Seattle Pacific University.
That night, he and his mom prayed, and he told her, "I have to do something."
Tension in the community was high, and retaliation seemed like a possibility. "I allowed my vision to clear. I wanted to change the direction of that momentum and create something that embodies Yonas," he says.
That's how he came up with the idea for Hoops for Hope: a basketball tournament to raise money for Seifu's medical needs and to help bring an end to gun violence.
At that time, Seifu could not walk or talk and needed skull surgery. When he heard about Haile-Leul's idea, he vowed to work hard in physical therapy so he could walk into the tournament.
"I wanted to be an inspiration for all the people who were supporting me and to show them I'm not taking this lying down," Seifu says. He only had weeks, but he walked into the gym that August using a cane and wearing a helmet. The crowd of about 800 was speechless.
"Every one of us was in tears," says Haile-Leul's mother, Zene Tefera. "It was something that we wouldn't think would happen in such a short time."
The tournament was far from just a basketball tournament. It was a two-day event that included raffles, free haircuts, hair braiding, guest speakers, dance team performances, a dinner auction, and more. It united Seattle's East African and African-American communities, and raised $13,000 for Seifu's medical expenses.
For Haile-Leul, that was not the end of Hoops for Hope, but only the beginning. Tali Hairston, the director of SPU's John Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development, loves how Haile-Leul has taken his personal pain and used it as a launch pad to make a difference.
"This is not a distant issue that has never affected his life," Hairston says. "This is personal. This is God speaking into his life and using it for others."
After the first Hoops for Hope, Haile-Leul held tournaments in 2007 to 2009 that helped families alleviate funeral costs and at-risk youth go to college. Haile-Leul enrolled at Eastern Washington University, then Xavier in New Orleans, and eventually came back to Seattle.
Last year, he transferred to Seattle Pacific and has found it to be a place of rest. "When I first looked at SPU and saw its vision of 'engaging the culture, changing the world,' it felt like a fit. That's what I felt I had done with my life," he says.
Haile-Leul acknowledges that gun violence is still a huge problem in Seattle. He's gone to three funerals related to gun violence in the last year. At one of them, he watched a fight break out among grieving teens.
"Hey, there are alternative ways to deal with this," Haile-Leul said, and gave the young men his phone number.
They called the next day. And that was the beginning of the Hoops for Hope tournament at Seattle Pacific on August 18, 2012. The event drew a crowd of about 300, which included Mike McGinn, Seattle's mayor, and local news media. It raised $500 for the Boys and Girls Club, and 242 youths pledged not to take part in gun violence.
"It might not have been as big as we've had in the past," Haile-Leul says. "But I feel like God called me to do this right now. When shootings happen, it makes me realize that time isn't promised and if I'm going to do something, I need to seize the opportunity and do it."


text: Wittenberg During the Civil War Leave a reply Newspaper clipping from Springfield Republic July 3, 1863 Dr. Samuel Sprecher, President of Wittenberg College from 1849 to1874.Dr. Samuel Sprecher was the President of Wittenberg College (as it was then known) during the Civil War. Many Wittenberg students served in the Union Army during the war and, for a time, so many were serving in the Army or otherwise supporting the cause that classes were suspended. In an effort to boost military enlistment, Dr. Sprecher donated a cow to be auctioned to raise money paid in bounties, or bonuses to enlistees. The clipping above is from the Springfield Republic dated July 3, 1863, and offers just a glimpse of Wittenberg's involvement in the war.


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Editor's note: all week, CNN Newsroom, Rick's List and Eatocracy are teaming up to take a look the effects our dining choices have on our minds, bodies and wallets. Tune into CNN Newsroom daily from 9 a.m. -- 5 p.m. ET for on-air coverage and join in the discussion here on Eatocracy. ALL COVERAGE
(CNN) -- Dana Woldow issues a challenge to every member of Congress: "Try school cafeteria food in your district. Then see if you continue to make the same decisions about how you fund the program."
This San Francisco, California, mother of three is mad. As the co-chair of the student nutrition and physical activity committee for the San Francisco Public School District, she has personally led the charge to improve school meals.
"I got involved completely by accident," Woldow said. "The principal of our middle school wanted to get the soda and junk and chips out of our school cafeteria and needed a parent to help. It really wasn't an issue for me because I packed [my children's] lunch, but when I saw what was being served, I felt relieved they never asked me for money to buy it and I felt sorry for the kids who did or who had no other choice but to eat what was being served."
She got involved in 2002. She said she feels her committee's volunteer efforts have made the district's meals much healthier, but she said they still have more to do. She thinks the federal government is setting the program up for failure.
Congress is about to increase the amount of money it gives to the National School Lunch Program. The Obama administration asked for more than $10 billion to improve the program over 10 years. The current bill cuts that money in half. If the bill passes, districts will get about a 6-cent increase per child. Currently, schools in high-expense cities such as San Francisco get $2.74 a meal per child. "When's the last time you could get a lunch for that price?" Woldow asked. "What we need is really about $5 a child to feed them healthy food."
Eatocracy: Mind, body, wallet and some really fresh technology
The No. 1 meal served to children in U.S. schools is chicken fingers and French fries. Processed food is much cheaper to serve than fresh produce. A 2009 study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that 94 percent of school lunches failed to meet the U.S. Agriculture Department's regulatory standards. None of the schools met the sodium benchmark, based on the 2005 dietary guidelines. One in five schools served lunches that met the total fat standard. It's no wonder, then, that another study from 2009 that looked at children who participated in the National School Lunch Program found they were more likely to gain weight than other children.
From its beginning, the National School Lunch Program has been woefully under-funded, according to many school food experts. While the federal government mandates schools that receive federal money serve a free lunch to children whose families meet a certain income, the funds don't cover the entire cost of the meal. So, state governments or local school districts make up the difference. "Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom," said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.
Wilkins joked that around school his nickname is "Mo Money." But without it, no matter how much he wants to serve children healthier food, it's tough. "But not impossible. I do think we've done a lot with this program with very little."
San Francisco has radically transformed its meal service. When Woldow started observing what kids were served in 2002, she was shocked. "In the school cafeteria you could buy soda, potato chips, snack cakes, corndogs, French fries, apple turnovers, ice cream --you know, carnival food," she said. The popular wisdom at the time was if a school stopped serving these empty-calorie foods, the cafeteria would lose money and the district wouldn't be able to make up for the gap in federal funding with those profits. Woldow wanted to test that theory.
Eatocracy: Finding time for healthy kid lunches
She did an analysis of the budget. "What we found out was our cafeteria had actually been operating in the red even selling soda and potato chips hand over fist," she said. So, they launched a pilot project at one middle school. It eliminated the junk food from the a la cart program and removed it from the vending machines.
Instead they sold freshly made deli sandwiches, salads, soup and even sushi. "Three months after we started our pilot project, the cafeteria was breaking even. Six months into it, our cafeteria was one of two in the school district that turned a profit. So much for the idea that you will lose money if you stop selling junk food in your cafeteria," Woldow said.
The next year they expanded the program to every middle and high school. Based on the program's success, the school board passed a resolution to remove junk food by the start of the 2003-2004 school year.
Today, many of the public schools in San Francisco have salad bars. Fresh fruit and vegetables are available at every school daily. Healthy snacks such as baked chips, low-fat crackers and fruit snacks are in the vending machines. White bread is gone. Whole grain bread and wheat pasta are on the menu. The entire district also is trans-fat free. "We have been able to bring in fruits and vegetables, but it's been a costly project," Wilkins said. "As it is, there is a desire to have an even better program here, but there's such funding limitations there is an absolute limit on what we can achieve."
Most of the schools in the district lack kitchens, so they must buy pre-produced food from off-site. Most of the vegetables they use are frozen. While hundreds of farms are nearby, the district can't afford to buy organic produce.
"Schools shouldn't have to choose between meeting their children's academic needs and meeting their nutritional needs," Woldow said. "We need a higher reimbursement -- 6 cents isn't going to do it."
"We found money for small businesses. We found money for small banks. We certainly should find money for small kids," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who oversees the National School Lunch Program.
While the funding in the current bill is less than the Obama administration asked for, Vilsack vows that his department will do everything it can to help schools do the best with what money they are given. He said when he was asked to take the job as head of the Department of Agriculture, the first thing President Obama asked him to do was to improve the country's school meal program.
"We need to do a better job improving access and improving the quality of those programs," Vilsack said.
The Obama administration has launched several high profile initiatives to improve school meals. The "Chefs Move to Schools" program launched by first lady Michelle Obama from the White House lawn calls on chefs to adopt schools and work with teachers and school nutrition professionals to help educate kids about food and nutrition.
The "Recipes for Healthy Kids" is a recipe competition to encourage participants to develop healthy and delicious meals that meet nutritional requirements. Winners will be invited to prepare these meals alongside White House chefs and their work will be published in a Recipes for Healthy Kids cookbook.
Eatocracy: Rethinking school lunch
The "Healthier U.S. School Challenge" recognizes schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program that have created healthier school environments through promotion of nutrition and physical activity.
School food advocates said they like the extra attention these efforts bring to the issue of school food, but they worry it's not enough.
"A lot of the programs the USDA sponsors are based around the idea that every school cafeteria has a kitchen. Well, here in San Francisco, like a lot of school districts in this country, we don't. We haven't cooked in our elementary schools in more than 25 years. You can talk all you like about chefs moving to schools and sharing their expertise and that would be great, but we don't have any place for those chefs to cook. And you can have kids developing recipes from scratch with dark green leafy vegetables and that's wonderful, but where are these recipes going to be cooked if there is no kitchen?"
Vilsack said schools are going to have to be creative. "It's up to all of us. It isn't just up to government. The reality is everybody needs to be engaged in this," he said. "It's no one's fault but it's everyone's opportunity. If you make it a priority we will respond at USDA. Parents will respond and school districts will respond. We're already beginning to see that we will have to be creative about it. There's nothing we can't do in this country if we make it a priority."
"Maybe we've gone as far as we can go in the absence of proper federal funding," Woldow said. "We can't afford the organic sustainably raised apple, but the fact is we have an apple and not an apple turnover and that's how we measure progress."


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Gudday all
It seems to be a simple task but one that has taxed my obsolete grey matter to the hilt.
I would like call the dos command string dir /b | findstr /c:".RPT" from a C program and return the value as a variable. This variable is a file name of form *.RPT. I would then like to use this variable to open that file for manipulation. (I am using the dos command as the name of the .RPT file can vary depending upon day and date of creation.)
system("dir /b | findstr /c:\\".RPT\\" ");
inputFile = fopen("<file name found by system call>", "r"); //fopen("file name","mode i.e r-read");
The above code sends to the screen the .RPT file name e.g. it finds it quite well. See attachment.
I originally used system() as noted above but am aware that there are other alternatives viz. fork(), pipe() etc:
What would be the best alternative to use to get the information back to my C program?
But how do I prevent it from being echoed to the screen and also have it so that I may use it as I wish?


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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Pinarello Factory Tour, 2009
A visitor's photos from a Pinarello factory tour in 2009. His comments:
"While no frame fabrication was being performed, there were still some items of interest. Inside the Pinarello factory there is quite a bit to see including stacks of raw CF frames, a computer-aided design station, assembly areas, specialized fatigue-testing equipment used to test randomly selected frames and components, and a high-tech painting and decaling areas. You can also still see experienced craftsman using custom jigs to check quality and tolerances on each CF frame prior to painting."
Stories for the Italian Cycling Journal about rides, granfondo, having a good time cycling in Italy, Italian cycling history, etc. are very welcome. Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com. There are more than 1,300 stories in this blog. The search feature to the right works best for finding subjects in the blog and there is also a translate button at the bottom so you can translate each page.
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Times have changed. I saw Signor Pinarello at his original shop in Treviso in 1984. He took me on a tour of his humble factory where they made frames. A very gracious man and a fond memory!ReplyDelete
I was able attend a branding forum in Taipei last year where Fausto Pinarello gave a talk on various aspects of the operation. He had a lot to say about "Nani" and related to the audience his experiences as a child with his father coaxing him to ride. He left a great impression. Great photos of that time too. Times have changed very much and frame manufacture continues to evolve apace.ReplyDelete
- Bill JarvisApril 9, 2010 at 1:39 PM
I'd get misty for the good old days when Pina was a humble company but it's difficult when they forget their customers. I paid over $5K for a Dogma frame with blistering paint and a bad seat post and neither Gita nor Pinarello will even respond. Nice bike but they are drunk with arrogance.ReplyDelete


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Variable values in
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same regardless of where they are evaluated (unless they're reset, of
course). Exceptions to that are variables defined with the
function (see The
let Function) or the
foreach function
(see The
foreach Function, and automatic variables
(see Automatic Variables).
Another exception are target-specific variable values. This
feature allows you to define different values for the same variable,
based on the target that
make is currently building. As with
automatic variables, these values are only available within the context
of a target's recipe (and in other target-specific assignments).
Set a target-specific variable value like this:
target … : variable-assignment
Target-specific variable assignments can be prefixed with any or all of the
special keywords
override, or
private; these apply their normal behavior to this instance of the
variable only.
Multiple target values create a target-specific variable value for each member of the target list individually.
The variable-assignment can be any valid form of assignment; recursive ('='), simple (':=' or '::='), immediate ('::='), appending ('+='), or conditional ('?='). All variables that appear within the variable-assignment are evaluated within the context of the target: thus, any previously-defined target-specific variable values will be in effect. Note that this variable is actually distinct from any "global" value: the two variables do not have to have the same flavor (recursive vs. simple).
Target-specific variables have the same priority as any other makefile
variable. Variables provided on the command line (and in the
environment if the '-e' option is in force) will take precedence.
Specifying the
override directive will allow the target-specific
variable value to be preferred.
There is one more special feature of target-specific variables: when you define a target-specific variable that variable value is also in effect for all prerequisites of this target, and all their prerequisites, etc. (unless those prerequisites override that variable with their own target-specific variable value). So, for example, a statement like this:
prog : CFLAGS = -g prog : prog.o foo.o bar.o
will set
CFLAGS to '-g' in the recipe for prog, but
it will also set
CFLAGS to '-g' in the recipes that create
prog.o, foo.o, and bar.o, and any recipes which
create their prerequisites.
Be aware that a given prerequisite will only be built once per invocation of make, at most. If the same file is a prerequisite of multiple targets, and each of those targets has a different value for the same target-specific variable, then the first target to be built will cause that prerequisite to be built and the prerequisite will inherit the target-specific value from the first target. It will ignore the target-specific values from any other targets.
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Every once in a while, a knitting book will pop into my life and really change things. A few years ago, my mom bought me The Art of Knitting by Françoise Tellier-Loumagne, and this book has become the single most helpful item on my shelf. Whenever I start to feel burned out or uninspired, I open it up and, without fail, I find something new to get excited about.
Rather than a stitch dictionary, this book catalogs knitted textures – it highlights the seemingly endless number of ways a knitter can combine a yarn with a stitch structure to create a new fabric. There are no patterns, and none of the photographs suggest what the final end use of a fabric might be – instead, this book treats knitted textures as achievements all their own.
Feeling inspired by The Art of Knitting once again, I started snapping photos of some of the textures I've recently encountered –
The riot of colors in pompons made from Boboli
Waves of slipped stitches make their way up a panel of stockinette in Vintage Chunky
The cables on Kaide create mountains and valleys in Peruvia Quick
With a such a wide range of fibers, yarns, colors, and stitch patterns at our fingertips, the texture possibilities are endless!


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Our current thinking about sustainability limits our opportunity to achieve the results needed in the short timeframe we have to turn the tide.
We need to change that thinking and the leadership to do it is most likely to be found at the local level, rather than the national or global. Harness that local initiative, and the kind of big change that now seems impossible will quickly come to seem inevitable.
Much of the current large-scale focus on sustainability is what those who lead change refer to as first and second order change. Consuming less, conserving more, creating less waste are considered first order change, which asks us to make adjustments to what we are already doing. Second order change is a low-level system change such as manufacturing hybrid cars and generating more wind or solar power.What we need is third order or transformative change. This level of change requires us to integrate all aspects of our lives, bringing our thinking into alignment with reality. Rather than see life and work as separate ways of being engaged, or schools and corporations as separate systems, we see them as an embedded whole. If any aspect is not healthy, the other parts will deteriorate.
The best environment for transformational change to occur now appears to be at the level of community. The full engagement of citizens along with robust collaboration among education, community, business, and government organizations can rebuild our communities into places that foster personal well being, are supported by well integrated institutional structures and care for the environment.
This work is more likely to happen in city councils than in Congress, and among neighborhood groups than lobbyists. Local activists, governments, and communities have the opportunity to lead the way by developing a sustainable system for themselves…becoming both a part of the solution and a proof of concept.
That's a big responsibility – but step by step, local communities are proving themselves up to the challenge.
Sustainable Novato is an example of a community organization that is working to engage the local business community in conversations that build a thriving local economy and create an alliance of local businesses that support each other through a mutual rewards system. It looks at Novato's future in a holistic way, bringing together initiatives to support locally owned business and promoting a strong fiscal base for local government with measures supporting clean, renewable energy and bayland preservation.
The end result is a new vision of both economic and environmental sustainability that is achievable through local action: cynical protests that "it's just one community" can be met by the positive response that "it CAN happen here."
Educational institutions have as great a part to play as community groups.
The recent proliferation of green MBA programs is an encouraging sign – but even the greenest MBA programs are challenged to achieve the desired sustainability results using business models that contributed to the problem. By contrast, programs like Saybrook University's program in organizational systems are focused on supporting the integration of personal well being, community health, effective institutions, and a thriving natural environment.
Such educational programs develop systems thinking skills that help people learn how to change the parts while seeing the impact on the whole system. The ability to bring people together, to engage in conversations that address different perspectives and find common ground, is another critical change leader skill. Educational programs in sustainability can and, indeed, must also actively pursue partnerships to help provide resources to their local communities.
While there are fewer institutional barriers to transformative change at the local level, there are psychological ones – organizing for third order change demands a different way of thinking about the relationship between self and society.
Full engagement of citizens requires that each person and family shift their thinking from "taking care of my own" to "taking care of our community." This shift recognizes that without a thriving community, individuals and families cannot thrive. This same shift in thinking is needed in business, education, and government.
Imagine If:
- Community partnered with business to determine what products and services are needed?
- Education partnered with community and business to bring the resources needed?
- Government partnered with community and business to determine how best to support a sustainable community?
As a long time community activist, Larry Tackett believes that "once we come to realize that we are a part of the whole living system of the Earth, we won't continue to go to work each day and take actions to produce profits at the expense of everything else. We will come to realize that we still live in the community that our business decisions affect. So we must take our humanity to work with us each day and bring it back home." And we must find and demand the time to get involved in our local communities.
Empowering citizens to act together in support of community transformation is critical. Only by providing many people with the knowledge, skills, freedom, and authority to act can we address the urgency of this need as so powerfully communicated by the Four Years Go campaign. The time is NOW. We are the People who can lead the change.
NOTE: This post was originally published by the blog Triple Pundit on June 1st, 2010, and was co-written with Larry Tackett, who is president of Sustainable Novato.
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by Gloria Kobrin, author of Cookbook Kosher Cookbook - iPhone & iPad Touch Application
Eat them like candy or throw them into a salad.
Prep time: about 15 min.
2 1/2 cups shelled pecans
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice,
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
large saucepan
wooden spoon,
large cookie sheet
baking parchment
2 forks
Line cookie sheet with parchment. Set aside.
Combine sugar and water in saucepan. Bring to a boil. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon to make sure all the sugar crystals dissolve. Boil until you have a syrup that forms a thin thread when dripped from the spoon.
Stir in all the spices and then the vanilla. Remove mixture from heat. Quickly, stir in all the nuts at once. Stir until the nuts are thoroughly coated and the syrup begins to crystallize. Using the same wooden spoon, remove nuts from saucepan and spread out on cookie sheet. Allow nuts to cool for a few minutes before separating them with two forks.
Let stand until nuts harden. Store in an airproof container.
Yield: 2 1/2 cups spiced nuts
Recipes: Snacks, Spiced Nuts, Parve, Kosher


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Anonymous to target Iran with DoS attack
Hacker group aiming to cripple official Iranian sites with attacks starting on Sunday, International Worker's Day.
The hacker group Anonymous has its next denial-of-service (DoS) target in sight: Iran, CNET has learned.
Members of the loosely organized group are planning "Operation Iran," an attack designed to shut down Iranian Web sites beginning Sunday, according to their latest online proclamation. May 1 is International Worker's Day.
"The people of Iran have the admiration of Anonymous, and the entire world," the statement says. "We can see that Iran still suffers at the hands of those in power. Your former government has seized control, and tries to silence you. People of Iran--your rights belong to you."
The operation seemed to already have begun late today with Web page defacements ostensibly targeted at Iranian hackers. Anonymous left messages on several Web sites that had allegedly been previously attacked by the Iranian Cyber Army, including the site of a Canadian information systems firm and the site of a Ukrainian dancing group, according to an observer on an Anonymous Internet Relay Chat channel that members use to coordinate their operations.
Anonymous is known for its renegade cyberattacks in defense of perceived underdogs or to support freedom of expression or other anti-establishment causes. In defense of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, the group targeted PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and other companies late last year that had stopped enabling WikiLeaks to receive contributions.
Earlier this month, Anonymous targeted Sony in protest of the company's treatment of Sony PlayStation hacker George Hotz. Hotz and Sony have since settled the lawsuit Sony filed, and Anonymous has denied any involvement in a recent serious breach that exposed information of millions of Sony PlayStation Network customers.
Other Anonymous targets have been: Broadcast Music Inc., the Church of Scientology; the governments of Egypt, Iran, and Sweden; the Westboro Baptist Church; conservative activist billionaires Charles and David Koch and their companies; as well as security firm HBGary Federal, which had reportedly been working with the FBI to identify the leaders of Anonymous.


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A new Mac OS X backdoor is being distributed as part of email-based attacks against Uighur activists, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab.
The Uighur are a Turkic ethnic group living primarily in the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. As is the case with Tibet, there is an international activist movement that calls for the independence of this region and an end to alleged human rights violations against Uighurs in China.
An advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign targeting Uighur activists was detected on June 27, Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky's global research and analysis team, said in a blog post on Friday.
The campaign consisted of rogue emails written in Uighur and accompanied by a ZIP file attachment. The ZIP archive contained a new version of a Mac OS X backdoor called Macontrol that supports both i386 and PowerPC Macs, Raiu said.
Once installed on a Mac computer, the backdoor connects to a command and control server located in China and allows attackers to list and transfer files, as well as execute other commands on the infected machine.
A different version of the same Mac backdoor was used earlier this year in attacks against Tibetan activists, Jaime Blasco a security researcher with security firm AlienVault said in a blog post on Friday.
Other Uighur-themed malicious emails seen recently distributed a Windows remote access trojan (RAT) program that calls back to the same command and control server in China as the Mac backdoor, Blasco said. This Windows RAT was also previously used in attacks against Tibetan activists.
The increasing popularity of Mac computers and their adoption by high profile targets will cause the number of APT attacks targeting the Mac OS X platform to grow, Raiu said. "Just like with PC malware, a combination of exploits and social engineering tricks are generally the most effective; it won't be surprising to see a spike in such attacks soon."


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Enjoy Awards Season Better and Catch Up on Nominated Films before the Big Red Carpet Night
Enjoy Awards Season Better and Catch Up on Nominated Films before the Big Red Carpet Night
Awards Season Collection features Best Picture Nominee Film Argo
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End of Watch
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Facebook takes down 652 accounts linked to Russia, Iran
Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behavior, a far larger discovery than a "sophisticated" effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare.
The social network said Tuesday that it had removed 652 pages, groups, and accounts linked to Russia and, unexpectedly, Iran, for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" that included the sharing of political material.
Facebook has significantly stepped up policing of its platform since last year, when it acknowledged that Russian agents successfully ran political influence operations on its platform that were aimed at swaying the 2016 presidential election. Other social media networks have done likewise, and continue to turn up fresh evidence of political disinformation campaigns.
Facebook's action in late July against 32 accounts possibly linked to Russia generally involved U.S. political activity ahead of the midterm elections in November. By contrast, the latest group of apparently fake accounts appeared more intent on influencing U.S. foreign policy and regional politics in the Middle East.
Shortly after Facebook's announcement, Twitter revealed that it had also suspended 284 accounts for "coordinated manipulation," many of them apparently originating from Iran. A day earlier, Microsoft also reported a new Russian effort to impersonate conservative U.S. websites , potentially as part of an espionage campaign.
The social network said it had not concluded its review of the material and declined to say how or why the state-backed actors were behaving the way they did. But it said it has informed the U.S. and U.K. governments as well as the U.S. Treasury and State departments because of ongoing sanctions against Iran.
"There's a lot we don't know yet," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a hastily called conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon.
"You're going to see people try to abuse the services in every way possible ... including now nation states," he said. He described the deception campaigns as "sophisticated and well-funded efforts that aren't going to stop."
FireEye, a cybersecurity firm that alerted Facebook to some of this activity, noted that it "does not appear to have been specifically designed to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, as it extends well beyond U.S. audiences and U.S. politics."
Facebook said its latest action on Tuesday morning resulted from four investigations — three involving Iran, one involving Russia.
The first focused on a group called "Liberty Front Press" that set up multiple accounts on Facebook and Instagram that were followed by 155,000 other accounts. The group was linked to Iranian state media based on website registrations, IP addresses and administrator accounts, Facebook said. The first accounts were created in 2013 and posted political content about the Middle East, the U.K., and the U.S., although the focus on the West increased starting last year, Facebook said.
"The Iranians are now following the Kremlin's playbook," said Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee. On Sept. 5, leaders of Facebook, Google and Twitter are scheduled to testify before the intelligence committee about their efforts to combat political disinformation on their social media networks.
FireEye called the Liberty Front Press group an influence operation apparently aimed at promoting Iranian political interests "including anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian themes" and support for the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal.
President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from that agreement earlier this year.
While that group did not appear to be attempting to influence the U.S. midterms, FireEye said its analysis "does not preclude such attempts being made." Several social media personas it found related to the group masqueraded as liberal U.S. activists who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders. One persona also used the Twitter handle "@berniecratss" and listed its location as the United States even though the phone number associated with it began with Iran's country code, +98.
The group's activity included "significant anti-Trump messaging," but FireEye said in a detailed report "the activity extends well beyond U.S. audiences and U.S. politics."
The second group also had multiple accounts and 15,000 followers. The group was linked to "Liberty Front Press" and attempted to hack people's accounts to spread malware. Facebook said it disrupted those attempts.
A third group also operated out of Iran had as many as 813,000 followers, and also shared political content about the Middle East, the U.K. and U.S.
In all the Iranian-linked groups spent some $12,000 in advertising and hosted 28 different events.
A fourth group that attempted to influence politics in Syria and the Ukraine was connected to sources that Facebook said the U.S. had linked to Russian military intelligence.
"We're working closely with U.S. law enforcement on this investigation," Facebook said in a blog post .
In late July, Facebook also removed 32 apparently fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram that collectively had nearly 300,000 followers, including thousands that expressed interest in events they promoted.


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How Much Auto Insurance Do you Need in California?
How Much Auto Insurance is Enough?
Auto insurance blends several types of coverage into one policy. Typically, your policy will include some combination of comprehensive, collision, medical, liability and uninsured motorist coverage.
How Much Auto Insurance is Right for You?
Every person is unique – it depends on your specific situation. To calculate coverage, consider:
- Liability pays for the damage you cause to others if your car is involved in an accident. It also protects you from being wiped out financially if you are sued following an accident. The greater your assets, the more you stand to lose. If you have substantial financial resources, you may need liability coverage that exceeds the coverage that you'll get from an auto insurance policy. In that case, a Personal Umbrella Policy can provide the extra liability protection you need.
- Collision covers damage to your car from an accident. We can help you decide whether or not to carry collision coverage by balancing the cost of collision insurance with the value of your car. It might not be worth paying $200 a year for collision insurance on a car that's worth only $1,000. But if the car is worth $10,000, you probably want this coverage.
- Comprehensive coverage pays for your car if it is stolen, vandalized or damaged in some way other than in a collision. Medical coverage provides for medical expenses to you and your passengers that are the result of an accident. What you use your car for may make a difference in the amount of coverage you need. For example, we might suggest more coverage for a parent who regularly takes a carload of kids to soccer practice than for a driver who expects to drive mostly alone.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Beware of Fake Pinarello Bikes, Part II
Fake Dogma2s:
Buy only from authorized dealers to ensure you are not buying a fake Pinarello.
Pinarello now has addeed this statement on their website:
"The Pinarello Group would like to communicate to all of its customers that preventive measures and legal action have been undertaken in order to protect our trademarks, patents and goods worldwide. This move is to prevent the increasing instances of counterfeiting and the sale of non-original or fake products. Intellectual property is fundamental for our group and is guaranteed through the registration and maintenance of trademarks and patents around the world.
The Pinarello Group, from today, shall devote considerable time & effort in order to monitor the trafficking of counterfeit goods via the internet. The aim is to combat the growing phenomenon of fake products in the marketplace. At the same time, we shall also be sending a strong message to offenders by having their counterfeit Pinarello products removed from popular online auction and general websites.
We wish to inform our customers that all our products are sold exclusively via our official Pinarello Dealers and Points; you can find your closest dealer by visiting our official website www.pinarello.com . Our resellers are at your complete disposal and shall provide you with all the information required prior to the purchase of our products/s. We remind that our warranty and the after-sale services are only available upon the purchase of our genuine & original products."
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What a shame. Too bad they didn't think about this possibility BEFORE they decided to have their bikes made in a place with little to no respect for intellectual property, etc. I doubt these fake Pinarello's are being manufactured in Italy after all.ReplyDelete
@ Larry and Heather: It seems that Pinarello has this problem more so than the other Italian brands, but I have seen fake Colnagos coming out of Asia also.ReplyDelete
I'd guess ANY of the "Italian" brands who make some (if not all) of their high-priced bikes in Asia are fighting this problem. Valentino Campagnolo mentioned the theft of intellectual property in Asia as one his reasons to avoid setting up plants there. The decision was made long ago by some that the higher profits from low-cost labor were worth the risks...and now it seems that might not have been such a wise move. I'm happy to see more and more advertising in Italian mags touting "100% Made in Italy"...which means someone must still care about this - though it's not the North American market dominated by the big-three names, who make 99% of their bikes in China. The tough thing for Larry to understand is why these Chinese-made bikes don't reflect the ultra-low wages paid to the actual makers in their retail prices? When you look on ebay and see these things for $300 each, it's tough to understand why they must be marked up 10 or 20 times this amount to the final purchaser?ReplyDelete
Thank you Larry and Heather for articulating what I have felt all along. Bike manufacturers who use underpaid Asian workers to produce their machines in countries where people have no love for bike racing, only to sell these machines at huge markups to 1st world customers have made a deal with the Devil and deserve eternal damnation.To do this with low cost machines are one thing, but to use this method to produce the high end bikes we all lust after is adding insult to injury.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2011 at 10:42 AM
The real Pinarellos are made in China. Italian law says you can call something made in Italy if you do minor finishing work or even painting it in italy.ReplyDelete
sorry the real pinarello are made by carbotech taichung taiwan not china de rosa colnago M 10 are made in chinaReplyDelete
- Big MikeyFebruary 21, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Sweet, where can I get one of these fakes.....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 9, 2012 at 10:18 AM
I've bought a Pinarello imitation and I think there's an argument to be made.ReplyDelete
First of all, I'm not buying a Pinarello. I'm buying a Pinarello imitation. There's definitely a difference. It's not as light, it's not as stiff, it's not as generally good as a real Pinarello. But at the same time, I don't expect it to be, and I don't want to be. Again, I'm not buying a Pinarello. If I wanted a Pinarello, I'd buy one.
I pay less, but get less. I can't emphasize this enough: I don't buy a Pinarello. Not the quality control, not the warranty, not the stiffness, lightness, paint, or anything like that.
There's a distinction to be made.
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 9:01 AM
These warnings are rediculous, 99.9% of people buying are fully aware the frames are imitation... As for safety, I am amaZed with how few failure reports ive senn given the many thousands of online forum savy buyers getting these frames!ReplyDelete
What you mean with "imitation"? Come on guys. All "Chinarello's" are the same of Pinarello's frames. They're produced in the same factory. The matter is normally they're frames rejected during quality control process or taken by workers to sell it through Aliexpress, Dhgate etc. Of course it can involves just aesthetic issues or even defects. Is clear that if you buy a frame Chinarello you won't have guarantee or customer services, but the frame itself is not fake. It is an illegal sold frame, but not fake.ReplyDelete
I challenge you to put side-by-side a Pinarello and a Chinarello and try to figure out any difference.Replies
I concur Edson's statement. Fake infers that someone went out and designed a close to factory item. Most, if not all these "so-called-Fakes" are built side by side with the legit ones; and probably not even QA defects-just not accounted for in the production run. I would love for someone to actually post a comparison of the difference between these "fakes" and a real $5000 USD Pinarello frame..Delete
- AnonymousApril 30, 2013 at 7:55 AM
Just to set the record straight, I own a genuine Pina Prince (Caisse Team replica) and recently purchased a Chinarello Dogma 60.1 (Movistar) frame for $A399. I have built it up with Dura-ace and MOst components and it looks awesome. The ride is very good indeed, but lacks the "zing" and solid feel of the real article. It all comes back to "you get what you pay for". If the frame shits itself in 12 months, who cares?? I'll just buy another one for hack rides and training and keep the Prince for races etc.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 3, 2013 at 1:02 PM
All this American and Italian companies had taking those jobs to china. and sell all those frame like if were made by people in our countries, well you get what you paid. I know is wrong sell those frames with brand names, but also is unfair make us paid so much when the decide to manufacture them in china.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2013 at 9:37 PM
HI CYCLIST; I HAVE A PINARELLO FROM CHINA WITH NEW CHORUS COMPONENTS, $460.00 CHINA 50MM CARBON RIMS AND CARBON HANDLEBAR. I AM SATISFIED WITH THE PRODUCT. AND SATISFIED WITH WHAT I CAN AFFORD.ReplyDelete
Original Pinarello cracks too... but Pìnarello don't pay attention... the frame form photo are original and frame number are F45G530053...ReplyDelete


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Cosentino Flagship Project
Building Chile's corporate future with Dekton
BMA Arquitectos / Rodolfo Mian
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Danae | Kairos
680 m2
Architecture / Design
BMA Arquitectos / Rodolfo Mian
Façade – Flooring – Spa walls
End date
8 mm
Bringing comfort into the office
Santiago is a buzzing cosmopolitan city in Chile that has enjoyed significant growth over the past few years. The city's expansion has given way to new neighbourhoods and innovative projects in the world of architecture, including the NC3300. This premium office block with a residential design boasts 17,600 m2 of space for offices, shops, car parks, warehouses and communal areas.
Located in the exclusive neighbourhood of Nueva Costanera in the Vitacura district, this modern structure is already a landmark urban reference in the area thanks to both its design and use of the ultra-compact surface, Dekton.
A versatile material perfect for a range of applications
Joining forces for this project, the Nueva Costanera property developer and the Argentinean architecture studio BMA decided to use only the best materials and surfaces on offer. After considering various options, it was concluded that the ultra-compact surface Dekton met all the needs for façade cladding, flooring for communal areas, office terraces and the Spa area.
Creating an aesthetically pleasing office block that did not compromise on the warm and welcoming design of a residential building was the challenge faced by the NC3300 architects. A difficult balance to achieve, however the Dekton colours Danae and Kairos succeeded by lending a professional, luxury finish that sets it apart from more traditional office blocks.
The tranquillity of Danae, the excellence of Kairos
Available in a wide variety of colours, tones and textures, Dekton never fails to meet the needs of a space. This example is found in Danae, which boasts soft beige tones that achieve a sense of calm and well-being. Other earthy colours are ideal to create welcoming spaces, and this was what was needed both for the flooring in the communal areas and on the terrace.
In turn, Kairos with delicate pale grey veining on a classic white marble background creates an elegant yet subtle ambience in the SPA area.
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Sustainability in the workplace
The NC3300 building seeks to foster a sense of harmony for all those who work within its walls. With lofty ceilings and spacious communal areas, the space ensures businesses can work in maximum convenience and comfort.
Much more than an innovatively designed and decorated space, the building's architects succeeded in taking the concept of modernity that one bit further. Thanks to its sustainable standards, the NC3300 was awarded with the LEED Gold certification recognising its commitment to saving energy and the ecological treatment of its building materials. Finding all these elements in one single building can only mean one thing: luxury.


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JERUSALEM — American mediators held urgent contacts with Israeli and Palestinian officials Sunday in hopes of salvaging troubled Mideast peace talks — searching for a formula to bring the sides back together and extend the negotiations beyond a current late-April deadline.
Officials from all sides said diplomacy has picked up over the past 24 hours, and an Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief journalists, said talks with the Palestinians via the Americans were going on throughout the day.
With the sides unable to agree on the terms of a promised Israeli prisoner release, the negotiations appear to face a risk of collapse in the coming weeks. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Paris, was weighing a return to the region to find a way out of the deadlock.
The issue of the prisoner release "could be resolved or it could fall apart" in the next few days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a closed meeting of officials from his Likud Party, according to meeting participants. "In any case, there won't be any deal without getting something in return." The participants spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was closed to the media.
Under heavy pressure from Kerry, Israel and the Palestinians agreed last July to hold nine months of peace talks, setting a late-April deadline for a final agreement. When that became unrealistic, Kerry scaled back his goals and said he would aim for a preliminary "framework" agreement by April, with the goal of continuing negotiations through the end of the year to iron out the final details of a deal.
But even that more modest goal has run into trouble due to a snag over the prisoner release. When the talks began last summer, Israel promised to free 104 long-serving Palestinian prisoners in four stages, with the final release coming by the end of March. After carrying out the first three releases, Israel has balked at releasing the final group without a Palestinian commitment to extend talks.
Israeli officials say they are under no obligation to carry out the final release because of what they say is a Palestinian failure to negotiate in good faith.
Yuval Steinitz, a Likud Cabinet minister, said "it is clear" the release can't be carried out if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans on walking out of the talks the next day. "This release was meant to be carried out as the talks proceed, and not when they fall apart."
Mohammed Ishtayeh, an aide to Abbas, accused Israel of "trying to blackmail us."
But Palestinian officials stopped short of threatening to walk out of the talks altogether. The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, confirmed that negotiations were ongoing and said Abbas was "making every possible effort" to ensure the release of the fourth group.
Palestinian officials said they would drive a tough bargain in exchange for extending the talks. The officials said Abbas would seek the release of 1,000 additional prisoners held by Israel as well as a freeze in Israeli settlement construction in captured territories sought by the Palestinians.
The issue of Palestinian prisoners is deeply emotional on both sides. The Palestinians consider the roughly 5,000 Palestinians held by Israel to be heroes and freedom fighters. Israel considers them to be terrorists. The prisoners released in the previous three tranches had all served lengthy terms for involvement in bloody attacks on Israelis, and scenes of them returning to jubilant celebrations have angered the Israeli public.
Netanyahu said he would present any additional release to his Cabinet — where approval is not guaranteed. Netanyahu's coalition is dominated by hard-liners who have been extremely critical of the previous releases. The final release is especially contentious because it is expected to include convicted murderers and Arab citizens of Israel.
Kerry was in Paris to meet with his Russian counterpart for talks on the crisis in Ukraine. American officials said Kerry was considering an unscheduled return to the Middle East on Monday in search of a formula to extend the negotiations.
After brokering eight months of negotiations, Kerry has little to show for his efforts. There have been no visible signs of progress, and Israel and the Palestinians have accused each other of hindering progress.
The Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip — territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — for an independent state. They have demanded that the pre-1967 lines serve as the basis of a final border, allowing for small modifications through agreed-upon land swaps to allow Israel to keep some of the settlements it has built.
Netanyahu has refused to accept the 1967 lines as the basis for a final border, and has demanded that Israel maintain a security presence in large parts of the West Bank after any deal is reached. He also rejects any division of east Jerusalem, the Palestinians would-be capital, which is home to sensitive holy sites.
The Palestinians, meanwhile, have rejected Netanyahu's demand that they recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland. Netanyahu says such acceptance would show the Palestinians are serious about peace. The Palestinians say this demand would harm the rights of Palestinian refugees and Israel's Arab minority.
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The line for the ticket windows at a Rhode Island casino's sportsbook stretched to the door on one afternoon last month: Gamblers were cashing in their winnings from betting on the victorious New England Patriots the day before and placing new wagers for that night.
"This happens pretty much every Monday," said Craig Sculos, vice president and general manager at Twin River Casino Hotel, just north of Providence. "The building takes on this unique rhythm." This scenario is always expected in big events, which is why more and more people are shifting to 888 sport where betting is being made online and there is no hassle of withdrawing winnings.
The casino adds extra staff at its sportsbook on Mondays. And since it's the only New England state that has launched sports betting, Rhode Island is the closest place for Patriots fans to legally bet on their team. Although they can also place bets online with Market rasen betting. It could not be easier with the widely available online odds betting sites.
This could be the scene in more states in the years ahead. Legalized sports betting has caught on quickly since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2018 allowed for it to be legalized in every state; 2020 will be a test of whether that rapid expansion continues.
Sports wagers can be made legally in 13 states, while sportsbooks have been legalized in another half-dozen where they're not yet running. In all, about one-third of the nation's population lives in a state where legal sports betting has been authorized.
In 2019, the first legal sports bets were made in Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, New York and Oregon, joining eight states where betting was already running.
Voters in Colorado and lawmakers in Illinois, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Tennessee also legalized it this year, but the programs have not yet launched. The same is true in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. A bill that cleared the Michigan Legislature this month also is expected to be signed into law.
The next sportsbook to open could be in New Hampshire. The state's lottery commission approved having DraftKings, one of the biggest players in sports betting, set up mobile wagering as soon as January.
Whether to legalize sports betting is expected to be debated in 2020 in a number of states, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri and Ohio — all states where efforts this year fell short.
In Georgia, state Sen. Brandon Beach has been pushing for years to legalize horse racing as a way to promote economic development. He's now trying to get momentum for a constitutional amendment to allow casino betting, horse racing and sports betting in a state that doesn't have any legalized gambling outside the lottery. He wants to use the revenue to beef up a lottery-funded college scholarship program.
"If we're going to look at sports betting, we've got to look at the whole thing," said Beach, a Republican.
The Georgia effort is getting pushback from the Faith and Freedom Coalition, which has its headquarters there. The socially conservative group says all forms of gambling can lead to addiction, bankruptcy and crime.
"It causes all of us to pay, whether or not we play," spokeswoman Virginia Galloway said.
So far, the three most populous states — California, Texas and Florida — have not legalized sportsbooks.
But the industry is watching them, along with the fourth-largest, New York, where bets can be made only in person at four upstate casinos located far from the New York City area's massive population. Whether those four casinos can add online betting without an amendment to the state constitution is under debate.
In California, a group of Native American tribes has proposed a ballot measure for next year. The proposal would cut out rival card rooms and would not provide for online bets. Lawmakers also can propose their own plan for the ballot.
Like in New York, advocates in Florida disagree about whether legalizing sports betting would require voter approval. In Texas, it's clear that a constitutional amendment would be needed. A bill to put one on the ballot didn't get far in 2019, and the legislature isn't scheduled to meet in 2020.
"For those big states, it just takes longer," said Jake Williams, a vice president at Sportradar, a company that contracts with sports leagues for services including providing data.
As with other gambling offerings, states vary widely on what they're allowing.
In New Mexico, lawmakers never explicitly allowed sportsbooks, but two Native American tribal casinos are offering it, with bets being taken only on site. In Arkansas, bets are being taken only at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort.
By contrast, bets can be made practically everywhere in the nine states where online sports betting is happening. Online wagering has been allowed but not started in another five states plus the District of Columbia.
But the programs work in different ways. In New Jersey and Indiana, anyone who is eligible and within the state's border can sign up online and start betting. In Iowa, Nevada and some other states, bettors must first register in person at casinos.
Tax rates range from less than 7% of the books' winnings in Iowa and Nevada to more than 30% in Pennsylvania. In states such as Delaware and Oregon, where the lottery owns sports betting, the state's share is even higher.
In some states, only casinos or racetracks can apply for licenses; in others, online companies such as FanDuel and DraftKings can apply for licenses without partnering with casinos or tracks.
"We're seeing an incredible amount of diversity," said Chris Grove, a managing director with Eilers & Krejcik Gaming. "I suspect that will persist."
From July (the start of most states' fiscal years) through October, sports betting generated about $50 million in state tax revenue across the country according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the states.
New Jersey accounted for more than $15 million of that, making sports betting more lucrative for the state than in Nevada, which lost its monopoly after the Supreme Court decision. But states including Rhode Island and West Virginia are falling short of their own projections for revenue.
Rhode Island state Senate President Dominick Ruggerio, a Democrat, the biggest advocate for legalized sports betting in the legislature, is unsure whether the state will hit its $22.7 million target and worries about potential competition from nearby states. But even if it falls short of projections, sports betting is bringing the state revenue it didn't have before, Ruggerio added.
Sculos, the Rhode Island casino executive, views sports betting as another amenity rather than a windfall for casinos or the states where they're located. But it has drawn people to the casino who had never before visited.
Sculos visited the sportsbook on a recent Sunday when it was full of gamblers clapping and cheering.
"Because all of the television screens are lit up for the NFL games, you have no idea what they're clapping and cheering about, but they were having just the best time," he said. "That environment is really unique. You see it a little bit at a craps table and a roulette table, but craps might have 10, 12, 15 people standing around it. We could have over 200 people here at once. … It's a fun place to be."


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call: Cell Mates
Call for entries
Deadline: 1 May 2013
Call For Art – Cell Mates
The Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University seeks submissions for "Cell Mates," two distinct group shows that will be on view side by side in adjacent galleries. Curators Jeanne Brasile and Lisbeth Murray will divide the 2,000 sq. ft. gallery in half, creating two separate exhibitions of artwork inspired by cellular forms. The curators seek art that addresses a wide range of topics related to cellular forms to create a discursive exploration into microorganisms and concerns derived from their study.
The goal of the curators is to demonstrate modes of creation inspired by science, in addition to examining how curators using the same narrative framework can come to very different thematic and aesthetic conclusions. While aesthetics are a concern, the curators are particularly interested in how artists incorporate scientific methods into their practice, how artists obscure or pronounce the delineation between artistic and scientific practices, and/or how artists visualize scientific data to create works of art, placing the artist in the role of quasi-scientist. All types of media are eligible.
Exhibition dates are June 2 – July 18, 2013.
$15/5 entries.
Deadline: Wednesday May 1, 2013 (receipt date)
Prospectus: http://jeannecurates.com


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Please read the Program Overview below.
1. Farm Job Seekers and Host Farmers complete on-line applications. Applications should be submitted as early as possible so interested parties have adequate time for review.
2. Farm Job Seekers and Host Farmer applications are posted online once approved. Applicants can view the applications by logging in under the Apprentice Candidate or Host Farm section of the Seasonal Farm Job program page.
Application is free to OEFFA member host farmers and to all internship applicants. Host farmers who are not OEFFA members must pay a $20 processing fee, which must be forwarded to the OEFFA office before the application is posted.
We encourage student applicants to consider a $10 OEFFA student membership, which includes conference discounts, a newsletter subscription, and networking opportunities, all of which provide excellent information and resources for those learning about sustainable agriculture.
3. Once their applications are posted, both farmer and apprentice applicants should periodically review the Farmer and Apprentice Application pages. Please make note of your username and password.
You cannot access the application pages from the general OEFFA website, so you will need to log in using your username and password. You can also update your application, using the same log in system. Either party can and should take the initiative to contact the other for mutual review, on-farm visitations, and to make arrangements.
Farmers and farm job applicants should list an e-mail address on their application and check it frequently so as to not miss important communications from potential farmers or farm job applicants, and from OEFFA Seasonal Farm Job program coordinators.
4. Once an arrangement is made with a host farm, applicants should contact the OEFFA office to confirm placement.
Terms of internship agreements are to be negotiated solely between the host farm and apprentice. OEFFA cannot be involved in negotiating terms of, mediating, or enforcing intern and host agreements. We highly recommend that participating parties read the Advice for Host Farmers and Advice for Job Seekers sections of this site before filling out their applications and again before an on-site interview.
5. To applicants: if you change your mind, take a position elsewhere, or otherwise become unavailable, please contact the OEFFA office and ask that your application be removed. Host farmers should also let us know when their positions are filled for the season so that their application can be removed from the site.
6. Applications of farmers and apprentices should be posted between January 1 and July 1, and the earlier the better. Most farm job opportunities start in spring or early summer and go for 8 weeks to several months. Placement opportunities may be limited after June, though applications received will be posted to the website. Farmer and Job Seeker Applicant Pages will normally be cleared in November or December of every year.
7. Neither OEFFA nor anyone involved in this placement service is responsible or liable for any injury that may occur during an internship. Proper safety training and safety precautions will prevent most accidents.; Applicants should both ensure that adequate insurance and safety precautions are a part of the farmer/apprentice agreement.
8. OEFFA does not review or endorse applications of host or internship candidates. It is the responsibility of the program participants to safeguard themselves by visiting program participants, clearly defining and clarifying expectations, and checking references. OEFFA is in no way responsible for any harm or injury which may be incurred as a result of participation in this program. OEFFA shall not be considered a party to any apprenticeship agreement, and terms of apprentice agreements shall be considered private contracts between host and job seekers only.
9. Applications may be submitted via mail for those who do not have access to the internet, but charges will be assessed to cover copying and postage fees. For more information, contact the OEFFA office .
10. Applications will be accepted from domestic candidates only. Host farmers and apprentices from international locations should contact WWOOF International for more information on trans border apprentice applications.
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Over the years countless researchers and marketeers have sought to split the ever-growing gaming population of the world into easy-to-understand categories. This latest attempt, crafted by predicative gaming analytics company Playnomics, makes more sense than many of those, narrowing us all down to eight gamer archetypes. Which are you?
Playnomics is teaming up with global brand strategy firm Naked Communications' Naked Play division to help the big brands of the world gamify their products, which is an excellent motivator for some seriously in-depth analysis of the way the population of the world plays.
Playnomics studied how we pursue pleasure, how we solve problems and our overall social tendencies, placed them all on a very fancy graph, and from there broke it all down to eight gamer types — Scientists, Habitualists, Soloists, Strategists, Competitors, Collectors, Socialites and Politicians.
Where do you fall in this grand marketing scheme? I think I've fallen into all eight categories at one time or another, depending on my mood, the weather or pure whimsy. I play what I want, when I want (for the most part), and I dare science to predict my actions like I am some flock of migrating birds.
Also, I want to be a flock of migrating birds.


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For me, it's not so much about chasing a commission on a one-time deal as keeping a happy client for a lifetime. One of my most memorable transactions and proudest moments as a Realand was when I negotiated a deal with a seller to work with my buyers while I listed their current home. I helped the buyer and his pregnant wife get their current home into escrow with an offer above asking in less than two weeks and into their new home 2 weeks after that. This was also during the holidays when lenders and title companies normally take longer to close transactions. My clients were happy to move into their new home just in time for their new baby!
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This is a fast gluten free recipe that can be made to taste any way you like. There really is no end to the possibilities of seasonings you can use. If you're looking for something orange to serve for Halloween try the Buffalo Wing Sauce. Have fun with your food and have a Happy Halloween!
1/2 -1 head cauliflower, broken into florets
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
1-2 teaspoons of seasonings of choice – options: Cajun, Italian, BBQ, Jerk, Chili even Sriracha Sauce or Buffalo Wing Sauce works great. Whatever you use just make sure it's gluten-free.
Celtic Sea salt to taste
Place the florets into a large sealable plastic bag.
Sprinkle in your oil.
Close the bag and shake. Shake some more.
Open the bag and srinkle in your seasonings.
Close the bag and shake. Shake some more. Now give it a little shake. You want to get as much of the seasonings on as many of the florets as possible. If you would like to add more repeat the process.
Place the florets onto a foil lined cookie sheet and place into a 425° F pre-heated oven. Roast for 15-25 minutes depending on the size of the florets and how crispy you like them.
Depending on what seasonings you used you may want to sprinkle the finished florets with some salt.Print This Recipe


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A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. I wish it was that easy. The challenge is that every new business needs to be innovative and different, in order to rise above the crowd, bring real change to the world, and give you the satisfaction you seek.
Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. So for those of you that love checklists, I saw some real value in the classic book by James M. Kerr, "The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change." His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives.
Although I'm not an aficionado of checklists in general, I really appreciate one he has included for keeping up with some of the latest technological trends that are reshaping business strategies, which should be the driver for startups to fill in the gaps. I'm sure you can find some gaps, niches, or extensions for each of these technologies:
- Internet of Things. The physical world is quickly becoming Internet enabled, allowing it to be fused with the digital world. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending, have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. Other examples include smart-home remote control, cell-phone tracking, and remote auto traffic sensors.
- Mobile Computing. From tablets to smart phones to the Apple watch, people are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to assist them in managing their lives. The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives.
- Cloud Computing. This is a phrase used to describe a variety of computing technology concepts that involve a large number of computers connected through the Internet. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following:
- Software as a Service (SaaS). This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. Upgrades and troubleshooting can normally be provided over the network, as well.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it.
Platform as a Service (PaaS). This is a service delivery model that provides the capability to lease the hardware, operating systems, storage, and network capacity over the Internet. It allows startups to rent virtualized servers and associated services needed to develop, test, and run applications.
Business Process as a Service (BPaaS). Procurement, payment processing, and payroll are just a few of the business functions that can be supported through BPaaS provider, who delivers the necessary infrastructure so that organizations no longer need to staff and perform the activities in-house.
- Social Media. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn manage communities comprised of millions of people worldwide. The challenge for most businesses is determining how to best harness the potential. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.
- Gamification. This refers to the use of game thinking and software design mechanics to make it more effective and friendly for people to engage with technology. Many businesses are already weaving gamification into their strategies to enhance loyalty programs, customer retention, productivity measurement, and training.
It is time for entrepreneurs and all executives to stop being intimidated by technology discussions and, instead, establish a foundation for understanding the basic constructs that are reshaping the ways in which organizations process information and conduct business.
If a checklist like this one helps you get it done, then by all means find one and use it. But don't be bound by it. Success in business today really requires that you go beyond any known checklists, with vision, innovation, and determination. Are you driving the technology, or is it driving you?
Marty Zwilling