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In this issue students help owners plan timber harvests, draft horses get the wood out, a carpenter turns it into boards on site, and lawyers and foresters team up to protect your family land. (Are we obsessed with local, small-scale forestry? Perhaps.)
Our first newsletter is out! Learn about how to get a Management Plan, our Wildlife Habitat Workshop, exciting research projects in the Yale-Myers Forest and much more in the first issue of a bi-annual information bulletin that will keep you up to date with the Initiative's developments.
Fall 2013 Workshop with Brett Chedzoy from Cornell Cooperative Extension - all hand-outs were graciously provided by Brett and the CCE.
Some information about silvopasturing in the Northeast, including links to online resources to get you started.
A few case studies and hard numbers about the economic benefits of silvopasture in terms of yield, animal weight gain, and production.
A simple step-by-step process to evaluate the potential of your site and help you decide which spot is best suited to silvopasture.
A final checklist to make sure that silvopasture is really for you!
What, you don't remember what we said about picking trees to thin out a silvopasture tract? That's okay. Just download the handouts (picture by Blair Rynearson).
Spring 2013 Workshop in collaboration with the Connecticut Forest & Park Association and the Eastern Connecticut Forest Landowners Association.
This presentation by Steve Broderick (Forester and Program Director at the Goodwin Forest Center) will give you a broad step-by-step program about getting your affairs in order...
...while this handout prepared by Attorney William J. Dakin (Kahan, Kerensky & Capossela) gets into the nitty-gritty of tax, probate and legal implications of protecting your land.
This presentation from CF&PA's Lindsay Michel (Land Conservation Director) discusses funding opportunities for private landowners, as well as provides biographies and contact information for local land trusts.
A young American Chestnut survivor spotted on a local owner's property (picture by Jocelyn Mahone)
Are these leaves toxic for livestock? What species make good timber? This identification guide gives handy descriptions of the plants you will meet in local forests along with information about where they grow best, distinctive features, and management implications.
Who, what, why? The Factsheet tells you everything you need to know about the Quiet Corner Initiative in a nutshell.
You can view all Quiet Corner pictures for past events and workshops on our Flickr photo album.


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Relay donates to cancer society
Relay For Life made a $6,000 donation to the American Cancer Society Auglaize County on Thursday.
Including today's funds and income from bingo, the Relay team has donated $19,629 to the ACS.
Business supporters who helped with the donations are: Auglaize Embroidery, Beth Brookhart Bakery, Bob Evans, CJ's Pizza, Woody's Diner, Max's Dairy Bar, Charme Hair — Jessica Lambert and Stephanie Unrue, Charlotte Schaub — Masseuse, Walter and Sons Inc., S&S Volvo, The Wapa Theatre, Westgate Lanes, Von, The Dance Centre and Wiesenmayer Law.
Other supporters who were unable to attend Thursday's presentation are: Ty Doty, Tracy Hatfield, Tash Schultz, Zena Moon and Audra Fetter.
The year's local Relay For Life will be held from 6 p.m. June 27 to noon June 28 at the Auglaize County Fairgrounds.


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Winning never gets old, for the 35th time in a row the
UW-Whitewater football team won, this time 42-10 over UW-River
Falls in River Falls Saturday. The Warhawks have now defeated
the Falcons ten straight times. UW-W remains undefeated this
season, 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference. UW-W also boasts 23 straight wins on the
road and 19 straight wins in the WIAC. UW-River Falls is now
0-5 overall and 0-3 in the WIAC.
UW-W, ranked first in the D3football.com and American Football Coaches Association polls, forced the Falcons into a three and out on the first possession of the ball game. The Warhawks followed by covering 52 yards in seven plays for the first score of the game, a rushing touchdown by UW-W's career touchdown leader Levell Coppage. The drive included a 34 yard reception by sophomore wide receiver Luke Menzel and a fourth and one conversion by Coppage. The extra point by Eric Kindler was good.
Again the 'Hawks forced the Falcons into a three and out but this time they weren't able to score on the ensuing possession. A third straight three and out followed for the Falcons and the Warhawks took over at their own 35 after downing the punt. On the third play of the drive Matt Blanchard threw his second interception of the season, just the fifth of his career, to Falcons' senior defensive back Matt Ainsworth. However, the Warhawk defense came through and held the Falcons to their fourth straight three and out.
UW-W took over on their own 33 after the Falcon punt and went 67 yards in six plays to take a 14-0 lead. Blanchard connected with Robinson for six yards on the first play of the drive. On the second play Coppage rushed for no gain, and on the third play, the Warhawks were aided by a Falcon pass interference call to gain a first down. After another completion by Blanchard, this time to Bernie Tamsett, then an incompletion, Coppage rushed 37 yards on third down for his second rushing touchdown of the game and ninth of the season.
The Falcons started the second quarter with the ball and a deficit of 14 points. After eight plays River Falls found themselves in a fourth and five situation. They decided to go for it but were flagged for a false start and were forced to punt. Shane Covington was set to return the punt for UW-W but bobbled the fair catch and the Falcons recovered at the three yard line. Two plays later the Falcons crossed the goal line and knocked through an extra point to tighten the score 14-7.
On the ensuing drive UW-W marched 80 yards and scored on a touchdown strike from Blanchard to Tamsett that covered four yards. Blanchard went 6-for-6 for 59 yards on the drive, while rushing for eight yards on two carries. Desmin Ward accounted for the other 13 yards on three carries.
With a 21-7 lead the Warhawk defense went back to work and stopped the Falcons after six plays. On the following drive the Warhawks went 83 yards, scoring on a 45 yard pass from Blanchard to Tyler Huber. The Warhawks used great balance on the drive throwing the ball five times and rushing four times.
The Falcons drove down to the Warhawk 27 yard line and lined up for a field goal to end the half, but Kyle Wismer blocked the kick and the teams went in to intermission with the Warhawks leading 28-7.
On the very first play of the second half, after a 30 yard kickoff return by Zach Howard that set UW-W up at the Falcon 40, Blanchard connected with Huber again, this time for 60 yards, to give UW-W a 35-7 lead after another Kindler extra point.
The following four drives, two by each team, resulted in no points.
The Falcons took over with 5:52 in the third quarter at their own 11 and drove to the Warhawk 29 yard line. On fourth and eight UW-RF elected to go for a field goal and Chad Blair again had his kick tipped at the line of scrimmage but it sailed through the uprights and the score was 35-10.
The teams traded possessions again without scoring. With 12:08 remaining in the game UW-W took over at their own 43. The Warhawks used 14 plays and 7:32 minutes to score their sixth and final touchdown of the game, this time a 10 yard rushing score by Desmin Ward.
River Falls punted after three plays and UW-W took over with 2:26 left in the game. On their first play of the drive UW-W coughed it up and the Falcons recovered. The Warhawk defense came through again forcing a loss of 19 yards for the Falcons before they punted it away. UW-W took a knee to run out the last 22 seconds of the game and preserve the victory.
Blanchard threw for 277 yards on 20 of 29 passing. Tyler Huber was on the receiving end of eight of those passes for 156 yards and 2 touchdowns. Coppage led both teams in rushing yards with 74 on 14 carries, an average of 4.9 yards per carry.
Jared Kiesow led the Warhawks with six total tackles, but Ryan Cortez chipped in five, two for a loss, and Greg Arnold tossed in four, also two for a loss. Zack Cook and Mykael Bratchett each recorded a sack. Cook's forced a loss of seven yards and Bratchett's a loss of 16. Noah Timm picked off one Falcon pass in the third quarter for the only Warhawk interception of the day.
The Warhawks own the nation's longest football win streak -- in any level of four year college football. UW-W, NCAA III champions in 2009 and 2010, has won 35 consecutive games, more than any NCAA FBS, NCAA FCS, NCAA II, or NAIA school. Whitewater's streak is not only longer but it is almost three times longer than the next team. Here are the longest current streaks at each level in college football:
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (NCAA III): 35
Stanford University (FBS): 12 (play Saturday, October 8 at 6:30 pm)
Washburn University, Wayne State (NCAA II): 10
Sam Houston State (FCS): 6 (game on Saturday, October 8 was not yet complete)
NAIA (Carroll of Montana had the longest streak snapped at 15 with a September 10 loss)
Next up for UW-W will be UW-Stout who comes to Perkins Stadium in Whitewater for a WIAC matchup on Friday, October 14. The game is a 7:00 pm start and a fireworks display will be held following the game. Tickets for UW-W home games are sold at the University Center ticket office Monday-Friday during normal business hours. Tickets are also sold at Perkins Stadium on game day. Call 262-472-2222 for ticket information.
Warhawks' Streak to 35 with Win over Falcons
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|UW-River Falls (0-5)
Winning never gets old, for the 35th time in a row the
UW-Whitewater football team won, this time 42-10 over UW-River
Falls in River Falls Saturday. The Warhawks have now defeated
the Falcons ten straight times. UW-W remains undefeated this
season, 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference. UW-W also boasts 23 straight wins on the
road and 19 straight wins in the WIAC. UW-River Falls is now
0-5 overall and 0-3 in the WIAC.


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The Postal Service has "coupled" its retail and delivery operations, both managerially and physically, since delivery services were first established almost 150 years ago. Historical patterns, or the needs for delivery service efficiencies, primarily determined the location of physical facilities, which typically house both delivery and retail operations. Demands for postal retail services are changing both geographically and demographically as consumers age and population centers shift.
Our Risk Analysis Research Center studied the strategic concept of "decoupling" the Postal Service's delivery and retail operations, examining both the physical and managerial functions. The results appear in the recently released whitepaper titled Retail and Delivery: Decoupling Could Improve Service and Lower Costs. The white paper draws upon the insights of key stakeholders, private sector delivery companies within the United States, foreign postal operators, and expert business consultants. The study found that selective decoupling of retail and delivery operations, mostly outside of rural areas, could result in lower costs, increased revenue, and better service that is more responsive to changing market conditions and diverse customer needs. The paper's key findings include:
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A decoupling strategy affords the Postal Service more flexibility to respond to changing customer needs for retail service.
The Postal Service too often ignores retail functions, which receive secondary managerial attention when competing with delivery for resources and clerk time.
Decoupling could help transform both retail and delivery into separate best-practices driven, strategic business units.
Major private-sector delivery companies in the United States as well as foreign posts previously separated their retail and delivery functions with each having its own distinct skills, training, and performance measures.
Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below.
This blog is hosted by the OIG's Risk Analysis Research Center.


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Items where Research Group is "Centre for Mathematical Biology" and Year is 2011
Group by: Creators | Item Type | No Grouping
Number of items: 24.
Bassett, D S and Wymbs, N F and Porter, M A and Mucha, P J and Carlson, J M and Grafton, S T (2011) Dynamic reconfiguration of human brain networks during learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 118 (18). pp. 7641-7646.
Boston, E A J and Gaffney, E. A. (2011) The influence of toxicity constraints in models of chemotherapeutic protocol escalation. Mathematical Medicine & Biology, 28 (4). pp. 357-384.
Bron, A J and Gaffney, E. A. and Tiffany, J M and Yokoi, N (2011) A solute gradient in the tear meniscus I. A hypothesis to explain Marx's line. The Ocular Surface, 9 (2). pp. 70-91.
Bron, A J and Yokoi, N and Gaffney, E. A. and Tiffany, J M (2011) A solute gradient in the tear meniscus II. implications for lid margin disease, including meibomian gland dysfunction. The Ocular Surface, 9 (2). pp. 92-97.
Cho, S W and Kwak, S W and Woolley, T. E. and Lee, M J and Kim, E J and Baker, R. E. and Kim, H J and Shin, J S and Tickle, C and Maini, P. K. and Jung, H S (2011) Interactions between Shh, Sostdc1 and Wnt signaling and a new feedback loop for spatial patterning of the teeth. Development, 138 (9). pp. 1807-1816.
Gaffney, E. A. and Gadelha, H and Smith, D J and Blake, J R and Kirkman-Brown, J C (2011) Mammalian Sperm Motility: Observation and Theory. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 43 (2). pp. 501-528.
Hamadeh, A. and August, E. and Roberts, M and Maini, P K and Armitage, J P and Ingalls, B and Papachristodoulou, A.
Feedback control architecture of the R. sphaeroides
Hamadeh, A. and Roberts, M.A.J. and August, E. and McSharry, P. E. and Maini, P. K. and Armitage, J. P. (2011) Feedback control architecture & the bacterial chemotaxis network. PLOS Computational Biology, 7 (5). 15 pages.
Kelly, S and Wickstead, B and Maini, P. K. and Gull, K (2011) Ab initio identification of novel regulatory elements in the genome of Trypanosma brucei by Bayesioan inference on sequence segmentation. PLOs One, 6 (10). e25666 (11 pages).
Klingbeil, G. and Erban, R. and Giles, M. B. and Maini, P. K. (2011) STOCHSIMGPU: parallel stochastic simulation for the sytems biology toolbox 2 for matlab. Bioinformatics, 27 (8). pp. 1170-1171.
MacNamara, S and Baker, R. E. and Maini, P. K. (2011) Distinguishing graded & ultrasensitive signalling cascade kinetics by the shape of morphogen gradients in Drosophila. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 285 (1). pp. 136-146.
Maini, P. K. (2011) Editorial. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 73 (1). p. 1. ISSN 0092-8240
Martin, N K and Gaffney, E. A. and Gatenby, R A and Gillies, R. J. and Robey, I F and Maini, P. K. (2011) A mathematical model of tumour & blood pHe regulation: The HCO-3/CO2 buffering system. Mathematical Biosciences, 230 (1). pp. 1-11.
Murray, P J and Walter, A and Fletcher, A G and Edwards, C. M. and Tindall, M. J. and Maini, P. K. (2011) Comparing a discrete and continuum model of the intestinal crypt. Physical Biology, 8 (2). 026011 (11 pages. ISSN 1478-3975
Perfahl, H and Byrne, H. M. and Chen, T and Estrella, V and Alarcon, T. and Lapin, A and Gatenby, R. A. and Gilles, R and Lloyd, M C and Maini, P. K. and Reuss, M and Owen, M. R. (2011) Multiscale modelling of vascular tumour growth in 3D: the roles of domain size & boundary condition. PLOs One, 6 (4). 17 pages.
Plikus, M. V. and Baker, R. E. and Chen, C C and Fare, C and de La Cruz, D. and Andl, T and Maini, P. K. (2011) Self-organizing & stochastic behaviors during the regeneration of hair stem cells. Science, 332 (6029). p. 586.
Schofield, J W and Gaffney, E. A. and Gatenby, R A and Maini, P. K. (2011) Tumour angiogenesis: The gap between theory and experiment. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 274 (1). pp. 97-102.
Simpson, M J and Baker, R. E. (2011) Correcting mean-field approximations for spatially-dependent advection-diffusion-reaction processes. Physical Review E, 82 (4). 041905.
Simpson, M J and Baker, R. E. and McCue, S. W. (2011) Models of collective cell spreading with variable cell aspect ration: a motivation for degenerate diffusion models. Physical Review E, 83 (2). 021901. ISSN 1063-651X
Soto, A M and Sonnenschein, C and Maini, P. K. (2011) Systems biology and cancer, [Editorial]. Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, 106 (2). pp. 337-339.
Sun, J and Bollt, E M and Porter, M A and Dawkins, M S (2011) A mathematical model for the dynamics and synchronization of cows. Physica D, 240 (19). pp. 1497-1509.
Venkatarman, C and Sekimura, T. and Gaffney, E. A. and Maini, P. K. (2011) Modeling parr-mark pattern formation during the early development of Amago trout. Physical Review E, 84 (4). 041923-1-049123-13. ISSN 1063-651X
Woolley, T. E. and Baker, Ruth E. and Gaffney, E. A. and Maini, P. K. (2011) Influence of stochastic domain growth on pattern nucleation for diffusive systems with internal noise. Physical Review E, 84 (4). 041905-1. ISSN 1063-651X
Yates, C. A. and Burrage, K. (2011) Look before you leap: a confidence-based method for selecting species criticality while avoiding negative populations in -leaping. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 134 (8). 084109-1.


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If you are looking for fine French wine and food, consider the Languedoc-Roussillon region of south central France. You may find a bargain, and I hope that youll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local red Pinot Noir.
Among the eleven wine-growing regions of France Languedoc-Roussillon ranks number four in total vineyard acreage. This area, which includes the Midi was traditionally known for generating immense amounts of rather dubious table wine called vin ordinaire. Recently, in part because of Australian winemakers, the region has started to produce a lot of fine wine. A few weeks ago a salesman offering free samples greeted me at my nearby wine store. While I hadnt planned to review yet another Languedoc-Roussillon wine so soon after the two others, I was particularly intrigued by this wines classification and its grape variety.
The wine bottle proudly displayed a sticker proclaiming its Gold ranking in a national contest for Vin de Pays (Country Wines) in 2006. You may recall from the initial article in this series (I Love French Wine and Food Launching a Series) that Vin de Pays is a relatively recent French classification for wines of promise that for one reason or another dont meet the stricter requirements of the presumably better classifications. Even though almost one third of French wine is classified as Vin de Pays we dont get too many of them here. I smelled a potential bargain.
The grape variety was Pinot Noir. I know of a relatively recent exhaustive list of Languedoc-Roussillon grape varieties comprising over thirty entries, some famous, others obscure. Pinot Noir was absent, surely not by oversight. Pinot Noir tends to be a cool-weather grape found in places such as Champagne and Burgundy in France, and Oregon in the United States. In our various article series we reviewed Pinot Noirs from non-traditional areas including Germany, Italy, and France (Alsace). Well see below how a Languedoc-Roussillon Pinot Noir stacks up.
Narbonne is a city of about fifty thousand that had been a major city in old Roman times. Sadly little of its Roman past remains. Youll have to be satisfied with modern sites such as the Fourteenth Century Cathédrale St-Just-et-St-Pasteur (St-Justs and St-Pasteurs Cathedral), the tallest cathedral in all of southern France. Nearby is the Palais des Archevêques (Archbishops Palace) that houses art and archeology museums. If youre feeling ambitious climb the almost two hundred steps in the dungeon for a prisoners eye view of the surroundings. The sculpture museum in the former church Notre Dame de la Mourguié displays Roman and Gallic treasures of all sorts. The twenty two kilometer (fifteen mile) Robine Canal, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, flows into the much longer Canal du Midi (Midi Canal), similarly classified. Charles Trenet, a famous French singer and songwriter was born in Narbonne. Leon Blum, a three time French Prime Minister was born in Paris but elected to Parliament from Narbonne.
Before reviewing the Languedoc-Roussillon wine and imported cheeses that we were lucky enough to purchase at a local wine store and a local Italian food store, here are a few suggestions of what to eat with indigenous wines when touring this beautiful region. Start with Gambas (Prawns). For your second course savor Loup en Papillote (Sea Bass cooked in Foil). And as dessert indulge yourself with Pêches à la Minervoise (White Peaches with Muscat Wine and Raisins).
OUR WINE REVIEW POLICY All wines that we taste and review are purchased at the full retail price.
Wine Reviewed Patriarche Pinot Noir Vin de Pays 2004 12% about $9
Lets start by quoting the marketing materials. Tasting Note: Pale ruby color; light cherry and spice aromas, sweet fresh cherry flavour, soft finish. Serving suggestion: Serve with cold roast beef.
My first meal consisted of cold beef spare ribs with cracked peppercorns, potato salad, and cucumber and onion salad. My first reaction was this is a real Pinot Noir at a great price. Its light acid did a great job of cutting the congealed fat. It was shorter and less complex than other Pinot Noirs that cost a lot, lot more.
The next meal was cold barbequed chicken with cucumber and onion salad, and potato salad. There was a lot of extract and quite a good length. I tasted tobacco and dark fruits.
The final meal involved grilled hamburgers with spicy Thai sauce, a cole slaw advertised as a health cole slaw whatever that means, and once again potato salad. In this case spicy meant really spicy. The sauce was too assertive; I had to remove most of it. While I like spices I want the wine to be there. Once that problem was solved the wine was fine. I tasted black cherries rather than the sweet cherries that I had been promised. I was not disappointed. I also tasted the underbrush and that didnt disappoint me either.
My first cheese pairing was with a local Asiago cheese that I prefer to the native Italian versions that I have tried. Perhaps in Italy The Pinot Noir was powerful with dark fruit. Then I went to a goats milk cheese, a Palet de Chevre from the Poitou Charentes region of central-western France. I might have guessed that the cheese was a Camembert rather than a goats milk cheese. Be that as it may, the wine became too acidic and lost its flavor. Then I paired the Pinot Noir with a nutty tasting Swiss Gruyere. At first the same phenomenon occurred, but later became less pronounced. I thought that perhaps the wine was starting to decline, but I finished the bottle on its own and the fruit came back in force.
Final verdict. We have a winner. We have a bargain. The two are related. At twice the price I wouldnt bother. But at the present price Ill be coming back. And Ill be looking for another Vin de Pays to try soon.
Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten books on computers and the Internet, but to be honest, he would
rather just drink fine French or other wine, accompanied by the right foods. He teaches classes in computers at an Ontario
French-language community college. His wine websites include
www.theworldwidewine.com and http://www.theitalianwineconnection.com
Visit his website devoted to Italian travel www.travelitalytravel.com
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Thanks to a challenge by Mrs. Jennifer Lester Benson to her colleagues at Emmanuel College, EC receives the Can of Beans Award as runner-up in the recent Madison County Rotary Club's Food Drive for the Madison County Food Bank.
This is part of the Rotary Has Heart challenge from Rotary International.
"We were happy to donate 106 food items and 21 toiletries toward this worthy cause," says Benson, Emmanuel College's School of Business Dean and Communication Department Chair.
"I have enjoyed being a member of Rotary International for 17 years, the majority of this with the Madison County Rotary Club.
"The Rotary motto is Service Above Self, and it is wonderful to work for a college that supports not only the good works in its surrounding communities but this very worthy principle!"
Madison County Rotary Club members, their businesses and associates brought in 746 food items, 226 toiletries, and raised $450 for the Madison County Food Bank.


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We're still two days away from the fake National Championship Game, but it's not to early for fans of Texas/Alabama to start hurling gross insults at each other. Unfortunately, Alabama's nickname makes it a little too easy for some.
This delightful little sign comes to you from a Mexican restaurant called El Arroyo in Austin, Texas. Apparently, they are famous for their cut-out letter insults.
Google Maps? Well played. Anyway, I'm sure the barbs will only get more crude as we approach kickoff on Thursday night. Maybe a sushi place in Tuscaloosa can craft a witty zinger about "polishing their longhorn" or something.
Texas Already Talking Smack [Bourbon Boys]
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Well, that's it for now. Barry P. will be here later to throw some oranges at you, Hawkeye style. (Suggested topics: #orangebowl #trashtalk #cummunication #RandyJohnson) Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin and hashies.


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Follow these Rules and Make your Sexting Experience an Exciting One
Learn the Art
The act of exchanging sexually explicit messages or photographs on mobile phone is a brilliant way of adding some zing to your relationship. Sexting is a real good way to take your relationship a step further. However, it can only be possible when you do it the right way.
Following are few tips which will help you learn the art of combining sex with texting.
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Don't Rush into Things
You must understand that sexting is a kind of foreplay which is done via mobile phone. So, you must follow the same rule of taking things slow. Avoid skipping steps and save the best part for the last.
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Don't Start Sexting before you have Sex
The pleasure which you and your partner will extract out of real intercourse is far better than what you will get it doing virtually. The golden rule of texting is not to do it before you actually have had sex.
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Do Share your Fantasies
If you have been hesitant in sharing your fantasies with your partner in person, then sexting gives you an opportunity to open up yourself. You can tell your partner about things you have.
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Don't Sext the Wrong Person
Don't ever think of having alcohol and then sexting. There are chances that you may end up sending explicit content to your family, friends or sometimes to your boss. Don't turn your pleasurable sexting experience into a nightmare.
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Do Delete
Keeping semi-clad pictures or explicit messages in your cell phone may land you in trouble. Delete the chats or pictures so that your weird fantasies remain a secret.
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Don't Write Long Texts
Keep the writer inside you tamed while you sext your partner. Long messages can be a big turn off. Remember during sexting even one word messages can also work wonders for both of you.
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Do Hide your Face
Always have control over your emotions while you are in a relationship and especially while you are sexting. When you click explicit pictures of you for your partner always remember to hide your face. Relationships are fragile and you don't want to see your private pictures on the internet once you have broken up with your partner on a bad note.
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Don't Sext More than One Person at a Time
You surely don't want to land yourself into trouble by sending wrong messages to the wrong person. But, when you chat with more than one person at a time your chances of making this blunder multiply. Refrain yourself from sexting with more than one person at a time.
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Do Sext while you are away for the Night
If you are away for a business trip or just simply hanging out with friends sexting your partner will help you keep the spark alive. It will make your partner feel special and they will know that you are still thinking of them even when you are away.
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Don't Sext Someone you have Never Been With
You must avoid sexting with someone who haven't been intimate with in real life. You must share a romantic relationship with the person in order to have a healthy sexting session.
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"Hot on the heals of Oracle's revamp of Solaris support, the licensing agreement for free downloads of Solaris 10 have changed. Here is the bit in question: "...Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the downloaded Software". So far the OpenSolaris license has not changed, it's still CDDL."


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Professional Standards Manual
Trading Services
3. Acting For Buyers
(n) Items Affecting a Property View Entire Section
(i) Issues Affecting an Owner's Interests
Many types of rights in favour of governmental and other agencies may affect a given piece of property. The following are some of the most common issues that arise. Licensees are expected to be familiar with these issues where they are common in the market area or segment in which they practice.
(1) Dedications, Restrictions and Expropriations
Not included on most title searches or plans are the Ministry of Transportation's ''takings'' as a result of expropriation or dedication. Sizes of parcels indicated on B.C. Assessment records may not reflect the net size. Rights-of-way for passage or road widening may not have been surveyed or registered. Driveways and culverts may not be constructed on any public roads without the permission of the Ministry of Transportation. Permission could also be denied on limited-access roads. On cliffs and adjacent to bodies of water (including streams, rivers, oceans or lakes), there may be building setback requirements or other restrictions to preserve the water or uplands habitat. One hundred-year flood plains, requiring minimum elevations of main floors, may be far removed from the relevant body of water. See your local Highways Department or local government office for information.
(2) Air Space Rights and Railway Lines
The Aeronautics Act limits construction and controls heights of structures in a wide arc around all airports. Properties with railway lines passing through pose a real challenge to the developer as no less than four agencies become involved for the approval of drainage, subterranean crossing of service lines, and level crossings.
(3) Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR)
The Agricultural Land Reserve, in addition to limiting development, may also take precedence over municipal zoning.
(4) Islands Trust
Those Gulf Islands that come under the jurisdiction of the Islands Trust must adhere to the development and land use approved by that body. Foreshore leases for oysters, water lots for fish farms and log booming grounds may not be indicated on the title but will certainly impact on the view or use of the waterfront landowner.
(5) Heritage Conservation Act
While the intent of the Heritage Conservation Act with respect to archaeological sites is to balance a respect for heritage and a property owner's right to develop, some private landowners may face costly archaeological studies and/or limited use of their land.
The Heritage Conservation Act is concerned with activities that may alter heritage sites automatically protected under the legislation. While it is not likely to affect properties where there is no intended change of use, it could have an impact where a change in that use is contemplated (e.g., subdivision, new construction, construction of an addition or pool).
If the intent of a property owner or potential buyer is to subdivide the property, then, as part of the process of subdivision, the proposal may be referred by the local municipality or regional district to the Archaeology Branch (of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts) to determine if an archaeological assessment is recommended. The cost of such an assessment would be borne by the property owner and can be substantial.
Further, the Local Government Act gives municipalities and regional districts the power to pass bylaws to withhold the issuance of building permits if they would result in an alteration to protected heritage property.
Licensees should be aware that archaeological sites are not at this time commonly noted on the title of affected properties. However, the statute applies regardless of whether or not the notice is registered on title.
What significance does this have for licensees? Based on court decisions in similar situations, it is likely that a court would find a licensee has a duty to know whether there are archaeologically sensitive areas in the community in which they work and, if so, whether a search for archaeological sites may provide necessary information for a seller or a buyer.
The first potential source of that information is the local municipality or regional district. However, not all municipalities and regional districts maintain up-to-date information respecting archaeological sites. The second source is the Archaeology Branch. Its website (www.for.gov.bc.ca/archaeology/index.htm) contains a broad range of information on the Heritage Conservation Act and its application, including a Data Request Form for requesting information about specific sites. Most requests for information about a specific site can be answered within four to five days. More detailed enquiries may require up to two weeks.
Licensees can also request from the Archaeology Branch a copy of a map that identifies registered sites in a specific region of the province. These sites are more likely to be clustered around existing urban areas, major rivers or other waterways, and other areas that are most attractive for human habitation.
A prudent licensee working with a buyer who becomes interested in a particular property will want to determine if the proposed use or redevelopment of that property will result in ground alteration that might be affected by Heritage Conservation Act. If the buyer does intend to alter the use, the following clause should be incorporated into the Contract of Purchase and Sale:
Heritage Conservation Act Clause
Subject to the Buyer satisfying himself/herself on or before(date) regarding the potential effect of the Heritage Conservation Act on the use and/or development of the property.
This condition is for the sole benefit of the Buyer.
Ω If not using the standard form Contract of Purchase and Sale, refer to ''Contracts under Seal''.
The Archaeology Branch may be contacted as follows:
Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Archaeology Branch
PO Box 9375, Stn. Prov. Govt.
Victoria, B.C. V8W 9M5
Tel: 250-952-5021
Fax: 250-952-4188
Website: www.for.gov.bc.ca/archaeology/index.htm
(6) Fish Protection Act — Riparian Areas Regulation
[12/18/2012 The following section was amended with updated information]
The Riparian Areas Regulation under the Fish Protection Act is intended to protect riparian fish habitat, while facilitating urban development that exhibits high standards of environmental stewardship.
A licensee acting for a buyer or seller in a transaction that involves a "stream" (as defined below) on the subject property or neighboring property should be aware that the Riparian Areas Regulation (RAR) could have a significant effect on the value and potential use or development of the property because of legislated building/development setbacks and other requirements protecting riparian areas, including riparian vegetation and fish habitat.
A "stream" in the province of BC is broadly defined in the RAR to include the following that provides fish habitat:
- (a) a watercourse, whether it usually contains water or not;
- (b) a pond, lake, river, creek or brook;
- (c) a ditch, spring or wetland that is connected by surface flow to something referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);
Riparian vegetation and streams are protected by the Federal Fisheries Act; the Provincial Fish Protection Act, and the Water Act. Municipal bylaws may also apply.
While licensees are not expected to be experts in the Riparian Areas Regulation, they are expected to be alert to the implications of RAR and are obliged to advise clients who are buying, selling or developing property that is impacted by the legislation to seek independent professional advice.
In instances where a "stream", as defined above is present, licensees drafting contracts of purchase and sale should incorporate the following clause:
Fish Protection Act Clause
Subject to the Buyer receiving and approving independent professional advice concerning any limitations on the use and/or development of the property resulting from the Fish Protection Act, on or before (date) .
This condition is for the sole benefit of the Buyer.
Ω If not using the standard form Contract of Purchase and Sale, refer to ''Contracts under Seal''.
If the RAR applies to a property, the local government will require the riparian area and development to first be assessed by a Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) such as a Registered Professional Biologist (R.P.Bio.) to determine a Streamside Protection and Enhancement Area (SPEA), which is defined as a setback that protects degradation of fish habitat. The SPEA is delineated by a QEP as part of RAR to protect fish habitat from land alteration including consideration of sediment and erosion control; damage or alteration of vegetation, and trails and landscaping.
For a list of regional districts and municipalities where the RAR applies visit:
For more information about riparian areas visit:
(7) Ground Water Protection Regulation
On November 1, 2005, the Ground Water Protection Regulation took effect. The Regulation is intended to protect groundwater and wells from contamination. The Regulation imposes duties on well drillers and pump installers as well as owners of land containing a well.
The property owner must:
- maintain the integrity of the wellhead and surface seal;
- engage a qualified well driller if alterations to, or closure of, the well are contemplated;
- ensure the well identification plate remains visible and not damaged or lost;
- deactivate or permanently close a well that has been out of service; and
- ensure the well is securely capped or covered.
Licensees should advise buyers that the Regulation will impose obligations on them if they purchase the property containing the well. Additionally, buyers should determine the extent that the seller has complied with the Regulation.
Additional information on the Ground Water Protection Regulation can be obtained from the BC Laws website at www.bclaws.ca.
(8) The Effect on Property Taxes of Harvesting Timber
Where private land is classified for property tax purposes such as forest land, and has as its highest and best use the production and harvesting of timber, B.C. Assessment values the land using a two-step process. First, they assess bare land value based on factors such as soil quality, accessibility, parcel size and location. Secondly, after timber has been harvested, BC Assessment adds the assessed value of the cut timber to the bare land value of the land.
BC Assessment provides the following example of this two-step assessment process:
For example, timber harvested in the calendar year 2015 will show up as added value on the assessment notice of a forest land property for the 2017 Assessment Roll. For property taxes payable in the summer of 2017, part of the value may come from the harvesting of trees two years previously.
Prospective purchasers of property classed as forest land are advised to enquire about previous harvesting on the property, and its possible property tax implications.
For more information, see:
• How Managed Forest Land is Assessed
• Managed Forest Land: A Warning to Potential Purchasers
(9) First Nations Lands
The Superintendent of Real Estate has advised that in his view RESA applies to the real estate services provided in respect of First Nations land located in British Columbia. Thus, the licensing and other requirements of RESA would be applicable.
In the Superintendent's view, the Real Estate Development Marketing Act would generally not apply to development properties located on First Nations land in British Columbia. However, depending on the specific terms of any land settlement agreement, such as the Nisga'a Agreement, it is possible for First Nations land to be governed by the Real Estate Development Marketing Act. A licensee acting in respect of development property located on First Nations land may wish to obtain legal advice in any situation where it is not clear whether the Real Estate Development Marketing Act would be applicable.
Licensees should advise consumers that the Real Estate Development Marketing Act does not apply and that the purchasers are not entitled to a disclosure statement, rescission rights or other benefits of the Real Estate Development Marketing Act.
Although the Strata Property Act generally does not apply to developments on First Nations land, depending on the specific terms of any land settlement agreement, such as the Nisga'a Agreement, it is possible for a strata development on First Nations land to be governed by the Strata Property Act.
Other problems of a less visible nature, but just as serious for the buyer, include First Nations lands issues which are frequently associated with land claims or significant aboriginal archaeological sites (see index under Heritage Conservation Act). However, in areas where native bands have developed land for supply to non-natives on a leasehold basis, extra caution must be taken by the licensee acting on behalf of either the buyer or seller of the improvements on that land.
Traditional remedies for contractual disputes may not be available as provincial courts or appeal panels may have no jurisdiction.
(10) Invasive Species
Many local governments have enacted bylaws pertaining to noxious weeds or invasive plants. These bylaws specifically require property owners to ensure that certain listed species are not growing on their property, or are controlled from spreading from their property.
The Invasive Species Council of British Columbia has developed the Invasive Species Toolkit for Local Government: Information for Local Government, Developers and Real Estate Professionals, which includes information on:
- Recommendations and tools available to developers and real estate professionals regarding invasive species on private lands;
- Local government jurisdiction and enabling legislation for local invasive species control programs;
- Determining responsibility and management of private property impacted by invasive species, and
- Key resources and reporting tools available on invasive species in BC.
More Information:
Invasive Species Council of BC: http://bcinvasives.ca/
Invasive Species Toolkit for Local Government: Information for Local Government, Developers and Real Estate Professionals: http://bcinvasives.ca/documents/Govt_Toolkit_Final_WEB_09_10_2014.pdf
(11) Leasehold Interests
Leasehold interests may include rental of real property of any description, strata title properties on leasehold land (prepaid or ongoing), co-operatives on leasehold land (rental leases), manufactured home pads in manufactured home parks, water lot leases for floating homes or moorages, etc. This is a complex area where the public should be urged to obtain legal advice.
Terms, renewal procedures, rate reviews, and assignability are elements of the lease which must be reviewed by the buyer with advice from a lawyer competent in leases. The licensee should not assume all leases from a common lessor are identical. The licensee should search the title and obtain a copy of the head lease in every case. He or she should become acquainted with the provision of services such as water, sewer, garbage, and snow removal. Are they provided by the landlord or contracted to third parties? How are property taxes collected? The licensee should insist that buyers make their own enquiries at the local city or municipal hall or at the band administration offices, if applicable, and provide adequate time within the Contract of Purchase and Sale for these enquiries to take place.
A case that clearly illustrated the duties of buyers' agents to their clients is the case of Rieger v. Croft & Finlay 69
B.C.L.R. (2d) 288. In 1983, Ms. Rieger purchased a unit in a housing cooperative on leased land. The purchaser was not informed that the head lease provided for a rent revision every 22 years. A rent revision occurred in 1990. The purchaser sued various parties, including the selling agent and the conveyancing solicitors. The judge found the selling agent and the conveyancing solicitors negligent. The judge found the selling agent's negligence warranted a higher proportion of fault and apportioned the fault 60/40 between the selling agent and the solicitors.
With respect to the selling agent's duty, the judge stated that the selling agent owed a duty to the purchaser to know the product he was selling. The judge found that the selling agent knew the land was leased and ought to have found out whether the lease was constant, prepaid, or variable, and how long the lease term was. The judge held that alternatively, the selling agent should have made the transfer subject to a solicitor's review of the lease or title documents. The judge found the selling agent failed in his duty and was therefore liable to the purchaser.
The judge commented that the agents for the seller did not owe a duty to the purchaser. Although they did not know of the rent revision, the judge found that nothing that the agents for the seller did was misleading. The judge also rejected the argument that the rent revision clause was a ''defect'' in title and was required to be disclosed by the agents for the seller.


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Do you remember the first time your preschooler gave you something homemade? Maybe she came home with a special project from school, and your heart jumped a few beats knowing she made it especially for you. Allowing a child to be creative on her own, without too much instruction from you, can be difficult; however, as she grows older, her preschool art projects become something you'll cherish forever.
Read "Making Fun Ornaments with Kids" on Family Fun Houston.


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posted by Kroc Camen on Mon 22nd Dec 2008 10:53 UTC, submitted by Mark Wielaard
Robert Schuster has a very detailed account of the work done to get full Java support on small devices. He managed to cross compile (and package) OpenJDK/IcedTea for OpenEmbedded/ARM through multiple build stages using various free java implementations. This provides full free (GPL) J2SE support for ARM based handlhelds, phones and embedded devices like the BeagleBoard, BUG, OpenMoko, Maemo and the Irex Iliad through Jalimo.


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As more autistic young people enter college, a new generation of autistic leaders is emerging. We believe that 'Empowering Leadership' will be a critical tool towards developing that new leadership and swinging open the doors of higher education for all.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 25, 2014
The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation (DJF), established a dozen years ago as the first national autism organization to focus exclusively on adults living with autism, has collaborated with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) to produce a handbook for college students on the spectrum containing essential advice, insights, and strategies to advocate for themselves on campus and beyond.
The result is Empowering Leadership: A Systems Change Guide for Autistic College Students and Those with Other Disabilities, written by and for autistic and differently challenged college students. Hard copies of the book can be purchased via Amazon.com for $19.95, with all net proceeds going to ASAN. A PDF version can be downloaded for FREE via the ASAN website.
The cutting-edge handbook contains in-depth first-hand writings from individuals on the spectrum about such topics as planning self-advocacy events, how to deal with disability discrimination, what schools are required to do by law, establishing a disability advocacy group at your school, how to handle dating and relationships, navigating disability and mental health services, how to cope with and voice frustrations, all aimed at ensuring that neurologically and physically challenged students have a voice on campus. Empowering Leadership is designed to be a valuable resource for college educators and administrators as well as students.
Here's what students on the autism spectrum have to say about Empowering Leadership:
"'Empowering Leadership' is a great resource for autistic students and students with other disabilities. It has valuable information that is useful for not only students with disabilities but for self-advocates of all ages and stages in life. 'Empowering Leadership' will be useful in college and beyond." - Kristen Guin, Western Kentucky University, class of 2014.
"By providing extensive, accessible information both about broader topics like the role of 'ableism' in society and specific topics like how to manage a student group, ASAN's Empowering Leadership manual is an invaluable resource for disabled students interested in developing disability rights organizations on their own campuses." - Lydia Brown, Georgetown University, Class of 2015.
Linda Walder Fiddle, founder and executive director of The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation, which co-produced the book, says: "Our mission has always included developing resources for adults living with autism to help them achieve their goals and have fulfilling and productive lives." She adds: "The opportunity to attend college provides some individuals on the spectrum with a pathway for achieving their goals, and it is our hope that this never-been-done-before guidebook will enable them to more successfully navigate it."
There is a growing population of people on the autism spectrum that are now attending college or college classes as adults, and some estimates are that nearly 35% are currently able to do so. As more and more autistic students attend university, new opportunities and challenges associated with including autistic people in higher education have emerged. While universities have been working to accommodate special needs students since the 1970s, much of this has focused around physical accessibility rather than the needs of those who live with neurological disorders. For instance, students on the spectrum face challenges not only in the classroom environment, but with regard to things such as sensory issues in dormitories and social exclusion from campus activities, as well as accommodations for and acceptance of behavioral eccentricities.
Ari Ne'eman, who spearheaded the handbook with Walder Fiddle, is the founding president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, where he initiates and directs efforts to increase the representation of autistic individuals in public policy discussions. He is himself an adult on the autism spectrum and a leading advocate in the neurodiversity movement, frequently briefing policy-makers and speaking publicly on autism policy issues. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is a non-profit organization run by and for autistic people. It was created to empower individuals on the autism spectrum to play a role in the national conversation on autism and disability issues while working to educate communities and improve public perceptions of autism.
Says Ne'eman, "As more and more autistic young people enter college, a new generation of autistic leaders is emerging, and we believe that 'Empowering Leadership' will be a critical tool towards developing that new leadership and swinging open the doors of higher education for all."
To order a copy of Empowering Leadership: A Systems Change Guide for Autistic College Students and Those with Other Disabilities visit Amazon.com.


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Edit: GIVE ME FIVE - Short PV is out. The long PV is like insane 30+ minute drama.
Ah, the wonders of using a studio to change the sound to something you can listen to. haha
It's still very AKB-formulaic though, I was hoping for something more experimental and less choir-y. Through the whole song it just sounds like one melody all the time, except for the mandatory instrumental 15 seconds near the end.
I was hoping for chorous, bridges, longer instrumental etc.
Takamina & Yuko at the guitars and Yuki at the drums look pretty cool I have to say.


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Standing Rules: Softball
SR VII: Softball Tournament Host Club
|Section 1
|At the Semi-Annual Board meeting of the Board of Directors of this Association, any member club of this Association bidding for such tournament shall deposit one-half of the hostship fee (See Appendix B2). A cashier's check, club check or money order in the amount must be deposited with the Secretary-Treasurer of this Association at the time of bidding and the balance to be paid within thirty (30) days after the tournament it has hosted. In the event the host member club withdraws prior to such tournament, the half of hostship fee will be forfeited. (See Appendix B4)
|Section 2
|Only authorized delegates speaking for their prospective tournament member club hosts must show written evidence or affidavits confirming their member club's consent to make the bids. If no bids, verbal bids are accepted within sixty (60) days of written evidence by the member club.
|Section 3
|The authorized delegates bidding must show written consent from their clubs, using their club's stationery and letterheads; they must have written confirmations as to hotel headquarters (minimum of seventy-five (75) rooms for the softball players and fans), meeting rooms for the meetings of the Board of Directors (seventy-five (75) capacity), softball field having at minimum of four (4) good playable diamonds in the same area, bleachers with a seating capacity of five hundred to one thousand (500-l,000) and suitable rooms for the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Secretary-Treasurer, and Sports Information Director of this Association. This Association allows two (2) years waiting period instead of three (3) years to get fields/diamonds confirmation. It still requires the three (3) years confirmation letter from club to provide the entertainment to secure a tournament bid.
|Section 4
|Each member club of this Association bidding for hostship must have a softball team which has participated in the regional softball tournaments of this Association for at least three (3) consecutive years prior to making its bid for the hostship, and must continue to participate in the regional softball tournaments of this Association until its hostship, plus the following year's tournament. Any CAAD club member that violates the agreement, shall draw an automatic fine (See Appendix B4).
|Section 5
|Each Host Club shall appoint a tournament committee to take complete charge of the regional softball tournament of this Association. The Chairperson of the regional softball tournament committee shall notify the Commissioner and Secretary-Treasurer of this Association of its respective official tournament date; site and address of softball fields and a sketch of field layout; addresses of hotel headquarters; name and address of Host Club; name and address of tournament chairman; names of tournament committee members; and tournament program (tentative or complete) not later than May 1st of each year.
|Section 6
|The General Chairman of the regional softball tournament of this Association shall make a complete report of the plans of the said tournament to the Executive Board of this Association at least three (3) weeks before the tournament.
|Section 7
|The Host Club's tournament committee shall decide on the distribution of the tournament trophies, awards, and prizes, which shall meet with the approval of the Executive Board of this Association.
|Section 8
|The Host Club may have the distinction of providing liability insurance for the fans during the regional softball tournament of this Association.
|Section 9
|In conducting the regional softball tournament of this Association, the Host Club shall be held responsible for rental of softball diamonds/fields, make proper arrangements for the teams, games, certified officials, official timers, 15 official scorekeepers, and the fans, purchase trophies, special awards, and official softballs, engage quarters for the regular board's business meeting, cover one hundred percent (100%) transportation expenses of the four (4) officers of this Association, pay four (4) nights suitable rooms for the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Secretary-Treasurer, and Sports Information Director. If the Host Club is unable to provide their own scorekeepers, and Sports Information Director shall appoint scorekeepers, and the Host Club shall pay an amount (See Appendix B8) for their services, to any person, including the officers of CAAD.
|Section 10
|In case of continuous three (3) days rain, the next year's regional softball tournament of this Association shall be held at the following year's Host Club site.
|Section 11
|During bidding, there shall be no soliciting or making promises of gifts or donations of any kind by any bidders of tournament hosts during the softball Board of Directors meeting.
|Section 12
|Maps to the softball park must be available to those who register.
SR VIII: Softball Tournament Rules And Regulations For Men And Women
|Section 1
|Each softball team's deaf club must be a member of both the NSAD and CAAD before June 1st in order to participate in annual regional and national softball championship tournaments of this Association and the NSAD.
|Section 2
|This regional Softball Tournament of this Association shall hold annually between 3rd weekend of July and 2nd weekend of August.
|Section 3
|The Regional Softball Tournament site and member club sponsor shall be voted upon by the Board of Directors of this Association, between 3rd weekend of July and 2nd weekend of August the Board of Directors meeting of this Association, two (2) years in advance and the Softball Board of Directors meeting shall be scheduled at 12 P.M. on Fridays.
|Section 4
|There shall be no softball team entry limit in the Regional Double Elimination Softball Tournament of this Association. When the number of entries is eight (8) or less, the double elimination plan shall be used to determine third (3rd) and fourth (4th) places.
|Section 5
|Member clubs of this Association may enter more than one (1) softball team including minimum twelve (12) players per team. In case of not meet the minimum, the participating teams with less than twelve (12) registered participants shall pay the "dummy" player special rate up to twelve (12).
|Section 6
|No other clubs outside of this Association shall be permitted to play in this tournament, but they can put up a challenge for a post-season game. This challenge game will be managed by the opposing teams.
|Section 7
|The original copy shall be signed in the softball player's own handwriting with his/her uniform number, the other two (2) copies shall be typed or printed by the member club's Secretary-Treasurer or team manager. No proxy signature shall be accepted. The original duplicate copies shall be returned to the Sports Information Director of this Association on or before July 1st.
|Section 8
|A fine of $5.00 per day will be charged to your club if any sports team register form(s) along with monies is mailed after the stated deadline date and the day that postmarked.
|Section 9
|In addition to the entry fee (See Appendix B10), each entrant shall also send in a forfeit fee (See Appendix B10) and NSAD entry fee (See Appendix B10) each to insure appearance and guarantee that the entrant will play its required number of softball games at the Regional Softball Tournament of this Association. In the event an entrant fails to play its required number of softball games, such entrant shall automatically lose its forfeit fee (See Appendix A15), which shall be kept in the treasury of this Association. The part of forfeit fees (See Appendix A16) will go to Host Club if the team is backing out of tournament. Teams that show up will get a full refund (See Appendix A15).
|Section 10
|All softball players of any member club's softball team which has entered the annual Regional Softball Tournament of this Association must be bona fide members of their respective clubs as of July 1st.
|Section 11
|All softball managers/coaches are required to attend a meeting on Friday at the Host club's clubhouse.
|Section 12
|The total of twenty (20) registered softball players (including minimum twelve (12) players), manager, coach, and athletic director, will constitute each participating softball team's roster entered in the Regional Softball Tournament of this Association. Each participating softball team member of the Regional Softball Tournament of this Association shall be admitted free to all softball games of such tournament (limited to a softball squad of twenty (20) which includes softball players, managers, coach, and athletic director).
|Section 13
|There will be no prize money awards for any member club teams in any regional tournaments of this Association.
|Section 14
|This Association allows any team which has nine (9) players to start the game with understanding that there will be an automatic out for every at bat of the tenth (10th) absent player.
|Section 15
|All regional softball tournament games in both the Championship Flight and the Consolation Flight shall be played in seven (7) innings, except in case of rain or forfeit, of which the umpires shall be the sole judges. In case of team lateness, a fifteen (15) minute wait shall constitute grounds for the forfeit of a tournament game, and the deciding game score shall be seven (7) to zero (0). If one (1) softball team is ahead by ten (10) or more runs at the end of the fifth (5) inning, the umpires shall then have the power to call it a complete softball game. The game limit of one (1) hour and fifteen (15) minutes shall be used during the softball tournament.
|Section 16
|The athletic directors, managers, coaches, and captains shall be held strictly responsible for the conduct of their softball players ON and OFF the fields. In case of neglect, riots, or other unsportsmanship conduct, the Executive Board of this Association, after giving the case a thorough investigation, shall be empowered to enforce a fine or suspension.
|Section 17
|Each participating softball team is to have complete and alike softball uniform made by manufacturer with six (6) inches jersey numbers on the back. All players have the choice of wearing either of pants or shorts in the same color. All players must wear softball caps. Steel spikes are prohibited, only plastic or rubber cleats are allowed. The stretch type undershorts is allowed and it must be in uniformity with others who wears it on the same team.
|Section 18
|To be fit for the Regional Softball Tournament of this Association, all softball diamonds/fields shall be somewhat similar to each other. There shall be no barriers in the outfield area.
|Section 19
|Two (2) new softballs must be provided by the Host Club for each softball tournament game of this Association.
|Section 20
|Any player using illegal bat(s) caught on the field/tournament shall be automatically ejected of the tournament.
|Section 21
|The Host Club, with the help of the General Chairman or the tournament aide, shall assign official scorers and certified umpires to all games before the start of the Regional Softball Tournament of this Association.
|Section 22
|All tournament softball games in the Regional Softball Tournament of this Association shall be played under the Slow-Pitch rules.
|Section 23
|The Host Club sponsoring the Regional Softball Tournament shall see that they hire certified umpires, representing the local umpires association, which is affiliated with the Amateur Softball Association or United States Slo-Pitch Softball Association, to govern all tournament softball games and ground rules in accordance with the official rules of the Amateur Softball Association or United States Slo-Pitch Softball Association and CAAD.
|Section 24
|An extra player (EP) or hitter (EH) is optional, but if one is used, it must be made known prior to the start of the game and be listed on the scoring sheet in the regular batting order. If the "EP or EH" is used, he/she must be used the entire game. If for any reason the "EP or EH" cannot continue in the game, it will result in an automatic out when it is his/her turn to bat and will remain so till the end of the game. (Refer to ASA guideline.)
|Section 25
|All member clubs are required to pay the team entry fee, team forfeiture fee, and surcharge before third Monday of July. The club shall lose its forfeiture fee if not done by the deadline date.
|Section 26
|The team's score sheets are the official score sheet for all softball tournament games except semi-final and final, which will be done by an official scorekeeper.
|Section 27
|To be recognized for All-Star Softball teams, the players must play a minimum four (4) games.
|Section 28
|Round Robin games shall be used for the decision making of All-Star selection.
SR IX: Softball Tournament Rules And Regulations For Women
|Section 1
|This Association shall annually hold a Women Softball Tournament of this Association in conjunction with the Regional Softball tournament of this Association between 3rd weekend of July and 2nd weekend of August.
|Section 2
|Women Softball Tournament shall be played if less than 3 (three) teams.
|Section 3
|The Women Softball Tournament shall be a double elimination softball tournament played under Amateur Softball Association Slow Pitch rules with an eleven (11) inch softball.
|Section 4
|All players must be on the field at least a half hour before their games.
|Section 5
|All catchers must wear face masks (when wearing glasses).
|Section 6
|Players may not wear jackets or sweaters when on base or on the field. Pitcher may wear jackets only when they are on base. Players may not wear jogging pants.
|Section 7
|Each player must wear the entire approved uniform of her member Club's team and all players must dress alike. Shorts and/or pants are acceptable. Jeans may not be worn.
|Section 8
|A player who is pregnant may not participate in tournament games.
|Section 9
|Women softball players are not required to wear softball caps.


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Wishlist/Finger based Ebook Reader
From Openmoko
OK, the UI has changed since I wrote my initial wish so I guess I should modify it just in case somebody out there is looking to be a genie.
I still think that an ebook reader should be operable without a stylus, at least on its main page, a stylus might be needed for changing the options on the settings tab (more later).
I think that the name of the book should be displayed on the topbar of the app, if pressed this should open the file dialog to open other books.
The main body of the app will obviously display the text, pressing the AUX button should page down or stop scrolling. Pressing on the right hand side of the text could open a side bar with up (back one page or slow scrolling), right (retract sidebar) and down(page down or speed up scrolling) arrows on it.
Below the main body a progress bar could be used as a means to zoom to another part of the book like a scrollbar.
I think that we could get away with as few as 2 buttons at the bottom, one to start/stop scrolling and one to switch to an settings page where you can alter line spacing, font (for plain txt documents), sidebar at left or right, etc.
If anybody wants to implement this I'd love to help with ideas, testing and any documentation that would be needed but my coding skills are limited at best, which is why I'm not writing it myself.
[Edit] Maybe it would be better to use landscape mode? That way the eyes need to hop less from one line to another. [/edit]


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Area teams run well at Centreville
The Centreville cross country invitational was held on Saturday.
There were freshman-sophomore races for both the boys and girls.
Sturgis' boy's "AB" team placed first overall with 19 points. Grant Brown won the race with a time of 17:13 to pace the participants. Terry Stahl came in second at 17:40 and Trever Sprowls was third at 17:46 to seal the top three spots for the Trojans. Stahl, Sprowls, Polzin and Franks all had season best times.
David Polzin was 13th at 19:43, Luca Kroemer was 16th at 20:25 and Nicholas Franks was 17th at 20:29.
Three Rivers was fifth in that race with 69 points.
Alfredo Castro came in 14th at 20:01, David McCriston was 15th at 20:21, Joe Lundquist came in 18th at 20:40 and Jacob Huff came in 22nd at 27:50.
In the girl's junior-senior race for "B" schools Three Rivers was first at 16 points. Marley Guy was second at 22:39, Alicia Schmidtendorff came in third at 23:05, Taela Sigman was fifth at 25:27 and Kimberly Sibert was sixth at 28:18.
Sturgis' Peyton Boughton claimed first in the race individually at 20:37. Elle Bowman was fourth at 24:23 and Jacquelynn Allan was seventh at 29:39. Jasmin Galvan Sanchez came in eighth at 30:19 and Denver Stevens was ninth at 34:29. Bowman and Sanchez had season's best times.
The girl's freshmen-sophomore race saw Three Rivers claim first at 14 points. Alyssa Speelman was first overall at 22:59. Jamie Barrett came in second at 23:06 and Rain Barnes was fourth at 23:27.
Carolyn Kirchner was seventh at 24:32, Kayla Bachinski came in 12th at 25:50 and Olivia Shutes was 14th at 28:20.
Sturgis came in second with 28 points.
Andrea Hernandez Garcia was third at 23:06, Emma Robertson was sixth at 24:30, Sarah Hackman came in eighth at 24:34, Alaina Cholometes was 11th at 25:14, Morgan Fletcher was 13th at 26:51 and Valeria Garcia Luna was 15th at 29:00.
In the boy's "AB" freshmen-sophomore race Coldwater placed first at 23 points.
Sturgis was able to place third overall in that race, claiming 45 points overall.
Shawn Bell won the event, pacing the pack with an impressive 16:55 time. Daniel Tetzloff was the next Trojan in line, taking ninth at 19:27 in front of Brandon Jones in 16th at 20:58, Brendan Sprowls in 19th at 21:45, Aaron Rueppel in 21st at 23:09 and Cesar Becerril coming in 22nd at 24:30. All six runners had season's best times at the event.
Three Rivers' team placed fourth with 46 points.
Dylan Alexanderson came in sixth place overall at 19:21 for the race and Nate Eldridge was 12th at 19:50 and Andrew Johnson came in 13th at 19:57.
Also running in the race for Three Rivers was Jon Scare in 15th at 20:57, Evan Griffioen in 17th at 21:17 and Alec Robison in 18th at 21:44.
In the junior-senior "CD" race Quincy was first at 31 points. Constantine claimed second at 51 points.
Leading the Falcons was Dave Jones in third at 17:55. Isaac Hartley came in sixth at 18:25, Ezra Amstutz was 20th at 20:23 and Hunter Kline came in 22nd at 20:45.
Jacob Dewitt was 37th at 23:05 and Patrick Ryan was 41st at 24:26.
Mendon's team was fifth with 76 points.
Zach Darmofal came in fifth place at 18:10. Michael Campbell came in 21st at 20:25, Joe Gales was 24th at 20:48 and Tyler Frisbie was 26th at 21:10.
Chance Vroman came in 38th at 23:16 and John Rice was 46th at 25:29.
Centreville was eighth at 104 points. Matt Clementz came in 19th at 20:04, Eli Schwartz was 27th 21:16 and Tyler Sheteron came in 28th at 21:17.
Chase Alexander ran a time of 21:42 to take 30th, Vincent Frankowski was 42nd at 24:51 and Hunter Miracle was 45th at 25:25.
The "CD" boy's freshmen-sophomore race was won by Bridgman with 20 points followed by Schoolcraft and kalamazoo Home School.
Constantine came in fourth place with 66 points.
Noah Beegle came in sixth place overall at 19:38.
Tim Kinney placed ninth at 19:44, Dustin Spencer was 20th at 21:54 and Zach Harrison was 31st at 25:17.
Tyler Shank was 32nd. He had a time of 25:32 while Sam Yoder was 33rd at 26:23.
Colon's team was fifth with 82 points.
Daniel Alva came in fourth place at 18:51 and Larry Peppers was 16th at 21:25.
Andrew Lash placed 28th at 22:59, Michael Weaver was 34th at 26:40 and Nathan Clipfell came in 35th at 30:42.
Neither Centreville or Mendon had enough participants to qualify as a team.
However, Brady Reynolds was fourth at 18:39 for Centreville.
Mendon's Jacob Hagenbuch came in 14th place at 20:15, Austin Yunker was 16th at 20:15 and Garrett Russell was 24th at 21:12.
In the girl's "CD" junior-senior race Centreville was eighth at 80 points.
Marissa Mohney was 15th at 24:38 and Abby McLain was 18th at 25:30.
Rebecca Chupp was 19th with a time of 25:37, Haley Schlabach was 28th at 28:18, Catherine Rigby was 29th at 28:40 and Bailey Kelley was 37th at 37:39.
Mendon's Jenna Griffith was eighth at 22:26, Grace Leighton was 31st at 26:18 and Lauren Samson was 47th at 30:18.
Colon's Skyler Harvey was ninth at 22:29, Constantine's Emily Schrock was 14th at 23:59 and Melissa McNamare of the Lady Falcons was 29th at 26:08.
In the freshmen-sophomore race Constantine was sixth at 109 points.
Malory Hulse was 23rd at 24:56, Tieler Faulkner was 24th at 24:57, Caroline Stacey was 30th at 26:28, Alexis Middleton came in 32nd at 28:32 and Erica Rodman was 33rd at 38:17.
Individually, Mendon's Mary Leighton came in fifth at 22:12, Jenna Gales was 11th at 23:14, Colon's Anessa Broker was 19th at 23:46, Mendon's Taylor Schmidt was 34th at 26:04 and Colon's Hunter Stroh came in 42nd at 30:33.
Bronson at Harper Creek
Bronson's cross country teams competed at Harper Creek Saturday.
They ran four races, one each for freshman-sophomores and junior-seniors for the boys and girls.
In the boy's upperclassmen race Matt Cosby was 22nd at 18:18, Wes Disbro was 41st at 19:59 and Jordan Alger was 50th at 20:58.
In the underclassmen race Isaac Robinson was 58th at 24:14 and Jake Butters was 64th at 26:14.
In the girl's upperclassmen race Mary Alberran was 34th at 24:02, Corissa Ross was 37th at 24:18, Tana Shimp was 48th at 24:58, Cristal Luviano was 71st at 26:59, Oriana McBride was 72nd at 27:00 and Deziree Alger came in 88th at 31:17.
In the underclassmen race Arianna Clemens was 37th at 25:12, Kelsey Robinson was 48th at 26:52, Biana Uriostegul was 65th at 29:44, Julia Jiminez was 66th at 29:48 and Loretta Johnloz was 68th at 31:16.
Lakeland at Caston
Lakeland's cross country teams competed at the Caston invite on Saturday.
The boy's squad placed third out of the 19 teams.
Kyle Burchett placed seventh at 17:48 while Eric Herber claimed 11th place at 18:03 and Mishael Theis was 31st at 18:47.
Garett Chrisman was 40th at 19:14, Kaleb Wadsworth was 43rd at 19:20, Dustin Riehl claimed 61st at 20:13 and Daniel Areseano was 68th at 20:23.
The girl's team placed eighth out of 14 squads.
Massie Maskow placed 17th at 22:17.
Michaella Burchett came in 31st at 22:52, Ashlyn Maskow was 57th at 24:39 and Hope Brewer came in 59th place at 24:42.
Hope Sustaita was 66th at 25:03 and Brittany Linn came in 89th at 27:37.


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Today is the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. It's a feast that holds great meaning for me, mainly due to the interpretation given to the Baptism of Jesus by St Cyril of Alexandria.
Cyril is not exactly en vogue in the English speaking world, and hasn't been since the 19th century when Charles Kingsley's historical novel Hypatia laid the heinous death of the famous female philosopher, Hypatia, at the feet of Cyril of Alexandria. Ever wonder why you don't find Cyril in the Nicene/Post Nicene Fathers collection of texts? Many, myself included, think it is because of Kingsley's novel. And negative depictions of Cyril continue.
Cyril is also unpopular because of the perception that political concerns were primarily behind his vociferous attacks on Nestorius; a perception that, in my opinion, Henry Chadwick definitively debunked in 1951, but the perception continues unabated.
The reality is that Cyril was not the most saintly individual. He could, in fact, be a fairly horrible person. His treatment of Alexandrian Jews, for example, was - to put it lightly - deplorable.
beyond Christology, and his interpretation of the baptism of Jesus and his reception of the Holy Spirit is particularly worth reading, especially on this Feast. While Cyril's reading of Jesus' baptism lacks the kind of critical weight expected by moderns of biblical interpreters, it paints what I think is a stunning theological picture.
The problem of Jesus' baptismal reception of the Holy Spirit for Cyril was this: If Jesus needed to receive the Holy Spirit at baptism, doesn't that mean that Jesus is less than divine? Cyril addresses this by suggesting that we need to understand Jesus' reception of the Spirit as having profound implications for our salvation. He does this by connecting the event of Jesus' baptism with the creation account in Genesis, and particularly with Genesis 2:7, which recounts that God "breathed the breath of life" into Adam.
Cyril interprets this "breath of life" to be the Holy Spirit, and argues that God's breathing of the Spirit into the first human demonstrates that we were created to exist in intimacy with God. We were created to partake of the divine nature, to participate in the divine, and so to attain the beauty of likeness with God.
Sin disrupted this intimacy. Cyril describes the fall, not as a descent into depravity and sinfulness, but as a loss of the Holy Spirit. Through the exercise of the freedom God gave us, humankind shrank from intimacy with the divine and so lost the Holy Spirit.
Cyril argues that one of the central purposes of the Incarnation was our recovery of intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit, and it is this recovery that Jesus' baptism accomplishes. Through the Incarnation, the Son of God made man becomes the Second Adam, and at his baptism, the Second Adam receives the Holy Spirit, not for his own sake, but for the sake of all humanity.
While the first Adam lost the Holy Spirit through sin, the sinless Second Adam receives the Holy Spirit and preserves the Holy Spirit that all humankind might once again experience transforming intimacy with God through partaking of the divine nature. Cyril actually suggests that Jesus' representative reception of the Spirit is as significant for our salvation as his death and resurrection, for it is through our renewed participation in the Holy Spirit that humanity is transformed to become like Jesus Christ.
Aspects of Cyril's interpretation of Jesus' baptism are to be found in thinkers prior to him (notably Irenaeus and Athanasius), but none set the event of Jesus' reception of the Spirit within the entire narrative of humanity's creation and fall as does Cyril.
Cyril's interpretation reminds us to remember our own baptisms on the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus, to remember that baptism - at least within my own Roman Catholic tradition - is primarily to be understood as the gift of God's self to us, the gift of the transforming presence of the Holy Spirit who moulds us to become like the God who is Love.


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I have a friend, we've known each other almost 15 years. I was only a Christian for four years - I made a really rushed commitment, a couple of years down the road, started reading things (the BIble) properly and having big questions and luckily, even though there was lots of pressure not to leave, I "saw the light" and left the Church (it was hard not to once I started thinking for myself!).
I only have one Christian friend now. She is a very genuine person and I have kept her friendship for 15 years. But recently, I've been wondering if we are just friends because we have known each other so long. I find myself constantly having to bite my tounge, otherwise we would end up having full blown arguments. I find it frightening that, in her world, the Bible pervades any kind of other reason. I find it upsetting (and insulting) that I know she still thinks of me as a lost soul and is still praying for me (but then don't I think the same of her?). I find it upsetting that her children are being brainwashed to pray to the invisible God too. I know it is done with sincere motives but that doesn't change the fact I find it upsetting. My question to you all, is I think my friendship might be done, sad as it is. I probably need to have a chat with her but am scared it will all come out wrong and will turn into a slanging match. I don't think a phone conversation or writing a letter is the right way to deal with it either. I'm wondering if anyone else has ever been through this and am looking for a bit of moral support I guess :)
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Daniel Ricciardo believes he is "ready" for Red Bull after his day's running with both Toro Rosso and Red Bull at Silverstone on Thursday.
The young Aussie set the fastest time of the day for Toro Rosso whilst achieving third fastest overall for Red Bull, though his Red Bull stint was disrupted after a trip in the gravel trap.
"The off was my mistake," Ricciardo said afterwards. "Probably just pushing a bit too hard."
Asked if the pressure of the speculation had got to him, he insisted: "No, it's fun, it's exciting.
"I didn't take this day as a duel with Kimi," he insisted. "But I enjoyed it.
"I think this test is something for Red Bull to look at, but there's still the rest of the season with Toro Rosso to do, so I'll switch my focus back to that and won't get too caught up in any rumours," Ricciardo added.
"Whatever happens, happens. If I don't get the chance, at least this was a nice little bonus.
"If the decision was up to me, I'm ready," he is quoted by Italy's Autosprint.
The man he will possible partner at Red Bull next year, current triple world champion Sebastian Vettel, will be behind the wheel of the same RB9 on Friday conducting his own test of the new Pirelli tyres coming for Hungary.
Speaking after his run, Ricciardo admitted he would be "watching the times" with interest.
"I hope he won't make me look silly," he laughed.
Should Ricciardo get the call up to Red Bull, many believe his seat at Toro Rosso will be taken by young Portuguese Antonio Felix da Costa, he was behind the wheel of the Red Bull on Thursday morning and afterwards said:
"I got out of the car and said 'I'm ready, I want that'."
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text: OECD releases reviews on BEPS Action 14 Global Tax Alert Share this 5 OCT 2017 By: Joel Cooper James Dalley Randall Fox Shee Boon Law, Ph.D. The OECD has released analyses of individual country efforts to improve dispute resolution mechanisms. Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States are the subject of this first tranche of stage 1 peer review reports that evaluate how countries are implementing the new minimum standards agreed in the OECD/G20 BEPS Project. Stage 1 peer review reports focus specifically on the implementation of BEPS Action 14, the objective of which is to improve the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) by establishing a minimum standard that ensures tax treaty-related disputes are resolved in a timely, effective and efficient manner. The best practices that the selected countries were reviewed against are as follows: Part A: Preventing Disputes Jurisdictions should implement bilateral APA programs. Jurisdictions should have appropriate procedures in place to publish agreements reached by competent authorities on difficulties or doubts arising as to the interpretation or application of their tax treaties in appropriate cases. Jurisdictions' published MAP guidance should provide guidance on APAs. Jurisdictions should develop the "global awareness" of the audit/examination functions involved in international matters through the delivery of the Forum on Tax Administration's "Global Awareness Training Module" to appropriate personnel. Part B: Availability and access to MAP Jurisdictions should implement appropriate administrative measures to facilitate recourse to the MAP to resolve treaty-related disputes, recognizing the general principle that the choice of remedies should remain with the taxpayer. Jurisdictions' published MAP guidance should provide that taxpayers will be allowed access to the MAP so that the competent authorities may resolve through consultation the double taxation that can arise in the case of bona fide taxpayer-initiated foreign adjustments. Jurisdictions' published MAP guidance should provide guidance on multilateral MAPs. Jurisdictions should take appropriate measures to provide for a suspension of collections procedures during the period a MAP case is pending. Such a suspension of collections should be available, at a minimum, under the same conditions as apply to a person pursuing a domestic administrative or judicial remedy. Part C: Resolution of MAP cases Jurisdictions should implement appropriate procedures to permit, in certain cases and after an initial tax assessment, requests made by taxpayer which are within the time period provided for in the tax treaty for the multi-year resolution through the MAP of recurring issues with respect to filed tax years, where the relevant facts and circumstances are the same and subject to the verification of such facts and circumstances on audit. Jurisdictions should publish an explanation of the relationship between the MAP and domestic law administrative and judicial remedies. Jurisdictions' published MAP guidance should provide guidance on the consideration of interest and penalties in the mutual agreement procedure. Jurisdictions should include paragraph 2 of Article 9 of the OECD Model Tax Convention in their tax treaties. The reports suggest that the six assessed jurisdictions are performing well in the following areas: provision for rollback of bilateral advance pricing agreements (APAs), with a view to preventing potential future disputes availability and access to MAP in situations that are required by the minimum standard adequate resourcing of the competent authority and a pragmatic and principled approach taken for the resolution of MAP cases and timely implementation of MAP agreements. The main areas where improvements are required were identified as: resolution of MAP cases within the pursued average of 24 months, particularly when the cases concern transfer pricing and improvements on the clarity and accessibility of MAP guidance for some jurisdictions. In addition, each jurisdiction was given recommendations in order to align their tax treaty MAP provisions with the Action 14 minimum standard. For a number of those treaties, the adoption of the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS (the MLI) will have already achieved this objective, with the only jurisdiction not signatory to the MLI that was subject of the peer review being the United States. The OECD will continue to publish stage 1 peer review reports in accordance with the Action 14 peer review assessment schedule. Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Sweden will be the subject of the second tranche of peer review reports. Stage 2 peer monitoring will be launched one year from the adoption of the Stage 1 Peer Review Report by the Inclusive Framework. Key takeaways The increased volume of literature on APAs and MAP published by numerous tax administrations in recent months indicates that countries are taking the commitment to meet OECD minimum standards seriously. Over the past year alone, several countries have released new guidance, either on the application process for bilateral APAs, or the MAP negotiation process in their respective jurisdictions, including Canada, Costa Rica, Greece, India, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Poland, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. All these efforts are expected to make APAs and MAP viable mechanisms to both prevent potential future disputes and to resolve those that have arisen with either a taxpayer or tax treaty partners. Furthermore, according to the Terms of Reference to Monitor and Review the Implementing of the BEPS Action 14 Minimum Standard, published in October 2016, an important function of MAP is ability to be used to resolve treaty interpretation difficulties: "The MAP, which is independent from the ordinary legal remedies available under domestic law, allows the competent authorities of the Contracting Parties to resolve differences or difficulties regarding the interpretation or application of the Convention on a mutually-agreed basis. This mechanism seeks to ensure the proper application and interpretation of tax treaties so that taxpayers entitled to the benefits of the treaty are not subject to taxation by either of the Contracting Parties which is not in accordance with the terms of the treaty…" With unilateral rulings coming under scrutiny, and subject to uncertainty around automatic exchanges, MAP should be actively considered as a viable alternative for "bilateral rulings," a practice that has so far been used more in transfer pricing but it clearly has potential to expand into other areas in the post BEPS environment. With Action 14 being taken seriously by a growing number of tax administrations, and tax disputes likely to increase in the coming years after the full implementation of BEPS, taxpayers should take MAP into account as a mechanism that can operate in conjunction with domestic dispute resolution procedures, and do so early on in the dispute resolution process. The 24-month resolution timeframe set by the OECD as the minimum standard is putting pressure on countries to resolve disputes in a timely manner and is likely to make MAP an effective mechanism, perhaps even more quickly than domestic processes in many jurisdictions. For more information, see our APA and MAP Country Guide, or contact any of the authors.


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Loyola press release - April 16, 2012
Loyola University New Orleans Head Men's Basketball Coach and Director of Athletics and Wellness Dr. Michael Giorlando was recently honored at the National Association of Basketball Coaches Hillyard Champions Luncheon. NABC member coaches who led their collegiate team to regular season conference championships were recognized. Giorlando led the Wolfpack to the Southern States Athletic Conference West Division championship this season.
The Wolfpack enjoyed their best year under Giorlando, finishing the season 20-10 overall and 11-7 in SSAC play. The Wolfpack earned the best regular season winning percentage (.679) and their first 20-win season since Jack Orsley's 1947-48 squad.
This is the second honor for the men's basketball team in the last three weeks. Last month, the team was presented the 2011-12 Buffalo Funds Five Star Champions of Character Team award from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Teams that receive this prestigious award demonstrate everyday decisions of respect, responsibility, integrity, servant leadership and sportsmanship. These athletic programs strive for excellence in and out of competition and are part of communities throughout the country dedicated to character-driven intercollegiate athletics.
"I'm very humbled to receive these two awards from the NABC and the NAIA on behalf of Loyola University New Orleans," Giorlando said. "To be recognized along with the best in college basketball is quite an honor. This is a testament to the hard work of our players and our assistant coaches. I also want to thank the entire Wolfpack community for their support this season."
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Through the first two months of the Orioles' season, second baseman Ryan Flaherty's reputation hinged much more on his glove than his bat.
In 30 games, Flaherty was perfect in the field. At the plate, though, he struggled, starting the year 0-for-17 and batting .133 before being sent down to Triple-A Norfolk on May 18.
But after being recalled Wednesday night, Flaherty showed some offensive life, going 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI in the Orioles' 9-6 comeback win over the Washington Nationals and 1-for-3 with a run in Thursday's 2-0 victory..
"No one wants to get off to a slow start," Flaherty said. "It is nice to come up here and get the hit right away, but, like...