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Before Joe Thornton heads into an uncertain offseason in which he could be a free agent and leave the San Jose Sharks after nearly 12 years, he had more pressing business. Thornton underwent surgery on a torn ACL and MCL in his left knee Monday to repair an injury that sidelined him less than two weeks before he returned to play the final four games of a first-round series loss to Edmonton. The futures of Thornton and teammate Patrick Marleau, who will both turn 38 before next season begins, are the biggest questions for San Jose headed into the offseason. The two have been the face of the Sharks for years . . . The Blackhawks fired assistant coach Mike Kitchen, who joined coach Joel Quenneville's staff in July 2010 . . . The University of Michigan named former Michigan Tech coach Mel Pearson its head coach, replacing Red Berenson, who retired this month after 33 years at the helm.
Serena Williams fires back at Nastase
Serena Williams spoke out in response to suspended Fed Cup captain Ilie Nastase's comments speculating about the skin color of the baby the pregnant Williams is expecting. The 23-time major champion wrote on Instagram on Monday: ''It disappoints me to know we live in a society where people like Ilie Nastase can make such racist comments towards myself and [my] unborn child.'' Williams is black. Her fiance, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is white. Williams also referred to Nastase's ''sexist comments against my peers'' — a reference to his verbal abuse directed at British player Johanna Konta, British captain Anne Keothavong, and the chair umpire during Fed Cup matches over the weekend. He was ejected from the Romania vs. Britain contest and provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Federation . . . Maria Sharapova's first opponent after her 15-month doping suspension said the Russian should not have been granted a wild card for the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany, or upcoming tournaments. Roberta Vinci, who will face Sharapova in a highly anticipated first-round match Wednesday, does ''not agree'' with organizers giving Sharapova a free passage into the main draw of their events. ''She is a great player and I have nothing against her. She paid for her mistakes,'' Vinci said. ''She can return to play but without any wild cards, without any help.'' Sharapova's suspension for using heart drug meldonium after it was banned at the beginning of 2016, ends on Wednesday, just in time to enter the opening round of the indoor clay tournament she won three times in a row from 2012-14. Vinci joined the likes of Caroline Wozniacki, Dominika Cibulkova, Agnieszka Radwanska, and Angelique Kerber in speaking out against wild cards for players who return from a doping suspension.
Ex-BC star Bagley to coach high school
Former NBA guard John Bagley was named head boys' coach at Warren Harding High School, his alma mater in Bridgeport, Conn. Bagley became a star guard at Boston College, where he was named Big East Player of the Year. He was chosen 12th overall by the Cavaliers in the 1982 NBA Draft, and also played with the Celtics, Nets, and Hawks during an 11-year career . . . North Carolina juniors Joel Berry II and Theo Pinson will join freshman Tony Bradley in declaring for the NBA Draft, though they won't hire agents, giving them until May 24 to withdraw their names and return to school. Tar Heels junior Justin Jackson previously announced he would enter the draft and hire an agent . . . Big 12 defensive player of the year Jevon Carter of West Virginia declared for the NBA Draft but will not sign with an agent . . . Louisville junior forward Jaylen Johnson will hire an agent and remain in the NBA Draft . . . Guard Austin Rivers, sidelined since March 30 with a strained left hamstring, is expected to return for the Clippers on Tuesday for Game 5 of their Western Conference playoff series with the Jazz . . . Indiana wants the NBA All-Star Game and sent Larry Bird to get it — in an Indy car. Bird drove four blocks down Fifth Avenue in his car to deliver the Pacers' bid to host the 2021 game to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, fitting his 6-foot-9-inch frame into a car usually driven by much shorter people
Indians' Delabar suspended 80 games
Former All-Star pitcher Steve Delabar, 28, a veteran of six major league seasons with Seattle, Toronto, and Cincinnati, was suspended for 80 games following a positive test under baseball's minor league drug program. The righthander, with Cleveland's Triple A team in Columbus, tested positive for the performance-enhancing substance Ostarine . . . Mariners minor league righthander Jonathan Aro was suspended 50 games for an unspecified violation. Aro made his big league with the Red Sox in 2015, appearing in six games . . . Twins third baseman Miguel Sano was suspended for one game and fined by MLB for ''aggressive actions'' that caused benches to clear during Saturday's game against Detroit . . . The Diamondbacks placed righthander Shelby Miller on the 10-day disabled list with right elbow inflammation and recalled righthander Silvino Bracho from Triple A Reno.
Marathoner Mayorova banned 4 years
Russia's track and field federation said marathon runner Albina Mayorova was banned for four years for doping. The All-Russia Athletics Federation said that the suspension was handed down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after the two-time Olympian tested positive for excess testosterone in a test taken last year. The ban is likely to spell the end of the 39-year-old Mayorova's competitive career. Mayorova's best result at a major championship was eighth at the 2012 Olympics in London. She has also been a top-10 finisher at the Boston, London, and Chicago marathons . . . Russian heptathlete Tatyana Chernova was stripped of her 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal for doping with an anabolic steroid. The International Olympic Committee said Chernova's urine sample revealed traces of turinabol in a retesting program of Beijing and 2012 London Olympics athletes. In a previous doping case, Chernova lost her 2012 Olympic bronze medal and was also stripped of the 2011 world title — which went to Jessica Ennis-Hill of Britain . . . Jockeys Javier Castellano, Victor Espinoza, and Garrett Gomez, and thoroughbred Goldikova have been elected to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame. Castellano, 39, has won the Eclipse Award for outstanding jockey the past four years. Entering the week, he had 4,664 career wins and was ranked fifth all-time in purse earnings, with more than $276 million . . . Former Czech Republic defender Frantisek Rajtoral, 31, who won the domestic league soccer title four times before joining Turkish club Gaziantepspor, died on on Sunday. The Czech football federation said in a statement that Rajtoral had ''committed suicide in Turkey'' . . . Tomasz Gollob, the 2010 world motorcycle speedway champion, is in an induced coma after injuring his spinal cord in an accident while training in Poland. Dr. Cezary Rybacki of the hospital in Gollob's hometown of Bygdoszcz, where the racer underwent surgery Sunday, said Gollob was on a respirator and that his condition was serious, but stable.


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FOX Sports Media Group completes acquisition of SportsTime Ohio
LOS ANGELES and CLEVELAND – December 28, 2012 – FOX Sports Media Group and SportsTime Ohio today announced an agreement that calls for FOX Sports to acquire SportsTime Ohio, the Cleveland-based regional sports network that has been offering local telecasts of Cleveland Indians games for the past seven seasons.
In addition, FOX Sports Media Group announced that it has secured the exclusive long-term local telecast rights for Indians baseball, ensuring that the Indians will once again be part of the FOX Sports portfolio of regionally televised hometown teams. Prior to the 2006 season, Indians games were locally televised by FOX Sports Ohio.
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FOX Sports Ohio serves more than five million homes throughout the state of Ohio, as well as portions of Kentucky, Indiana, western Pennsylvania, western New York, and West Virginia. FOX Sports Ohio is the exclusive regional TV home of the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Cavaliers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Columbus Crew, Xavier Musketeers, and Cincinnati Bearcats.
SportsTime Ohio also offers other locally relevant sports content, including Cleveland Browns programming, OHSAA football and basketball playoffs and championships, and Mid-American Conference events.
"The acquisition of SportsTime Ohio solidifies our business in Ohio, and FOX Sports Media Group's new long-term agreement with the Indians reunites the team with the FOX Sports family," said Jeff Krolik, executive vice president, FOX Sports Networks. "We look forward to once again showcasing the Indians to their fans, as well as working with the Indians ownership to continue to enhance the value of this iconic franchise."
Cleveland Indians Chief Executive Officer Paul Dolan said: "We look forward to a long-term partnership with FOX that will continue to bring state-of-the-art broadcasts of Indians games to the fans while strengthening the franchise and enhancing our ability to build competitive teams."
Through its subsidiary FOX Sports Networks (FSN), FOX Sports Media Group is the leader in local sports programming, with 20 owned-and-operated regional sports networks, which collectively produce over 5,000 live local events each year and serve as the exclusive regional TV home to more than half of all MLB, NHL, and NBA teams.
About FOX Sports Networks (FSN)
FSN is the nation's leading provider of local sports. Through its 20 owned-and-operated regional networks, FSN produces over 5,000 live local events each year and serves as the regional TV home to more than half of all MLB, NHL, and NBA teams. FSN is also one of the leading national distributors of collegiate sports, televising more than 1,000 events from the Big 12, Pac-12, SEC, ACC, and Conference USA. FSN's nationwide roster of regional sports networks includes FOX Sports Arizona, FOX Sports Carolinas, FOX Sports Detroit, FOX Sports Florida, FOX Sports Indiana, FOX Sports Kansas City, FOX Sports Midwest, FOX Sports New Orleans, FOX Sports North, FOX Sports Ohio, FOX Sports Oklahoma, FOX Sports San Diego, FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Southwest, FOX Sports Tennessee, FOX Sports West, FOX Sports Wisconsin, PRIME Ticket, SportSouth, and Sun Sports.

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FIGURE OUT THE DATE. Today (October 1) is a rare palindromic date in
America, where it's written (month/day/year) as 10.1.01. Brits,
Aussies and South Africans, who write day/month/year, encountered the same
palindrome on January 10. Stand by for October 11, when Americans will
marvel at this six-digit palindromic date: 10.11.01. Poms, Ockers
and Springboks will have to wait until November 10. 0110
BE CALLED COLIN TOWELS? "Warm Up, America! Everyone loves to snuggle
into a cozy afghan when the weather's cool" said an Internet website now
withdrawn from view. And there won't be much demand for the books Absolutely
Gorgeous Afghans and Adorable Afghans for Baby. Not many Americans
will want the 2001 Afghan Calendar, but the book 7-Day Afghans may
fare better. Those Afghans, of course, have no connection with Osama bin Laden. Cotton tapestries called Afghans, nearly all made in the
U.S., have suddenly become politically incorrect. Maybe they should be renamed
Colin Towels. To read on, please click on AFGHANS.
NEVER SAID IT. No, Nostradamus did NOT predict four centuries ago the
calamity which destroyed New York's World Trade Center on September 11,
although countless email messages asserted that he did. Newspapers around the
world unknowingly misquoted Nostradamus as having foreseen the 2001 terrorist
attack in 1645 and as having predicted that "the third big war will
begin when the big city is burning." "It's a hoax," declares LIEmails,
a website which investigates and exposes Internet lies and myths. "It is
NOT by Nostradamus" says the equally knowledgeable Nostradamus
Repository. And TruthOrFiction
sums it up in a single word: Fiction! For a full explanation, please
click on NOSTRADAMUS.
ICEBERG PICTURE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. Copies of a breathtakingly beautiful
photograph showing a massive iceberg above and below the surface of the ocean
are currently circling the globe in emails relayed by many of its admirers.
Having a suspicious nature, and being aware of the truth of the adage Don't
Believe Everything You See on the Internet, I decided to check it out, if
only to find out just how the intrepid photographer had achieved the apparently
impossible feat of taking a shot over and under the water at the same time. Sad
to say, two Internet investigators declare the picture's a fake. Read their
findings by clicking on ICEBERG.
PIRATES. When heavily-armed Australian troops boarded the Norwegian
freighter Tampa in a bid to prevent it from landing a large group of asylum
seekers on Christmas Island in August 2001, the ship's captain said it was an
act of piracy. By a strange coincidence, centuries ago pirates used the
Tampa Bay area in Florida as a stronghold from which to raid commerce. To
read this topical story, please click on TAMPA.
For further details of Florida's colorful history, by writer John Everlove,
click on GUESTLIFE.
PENNY STAMP. A tiny scrap of bright-red paper, worth at least a million
dollars, is locked away in a Pennsylvania bank vault - and the key's been
thrown away. It's one of the world's rarest stamps, the famous Penny
Magenta... yet nobody can inspect or buy it. "Many feel that it's
the world's ugliest postage stamp ever issued," says Stampville.com
"It is crudely printed, cut to shape, and heavily canceled."
The stamp has been a great profit spinner for each of its owners... that
is, until the present one. For the full story, please click on Vermont (US)
stamp expert Michael Mills's great new website, GLASSINE
HOVERCRAFT WORLD SPEED RECORD. A bid to set a new world speed
record for hovercraft is planned to be held on Lake Burley Griffin, in
Australia's capital city, Canberra, in 2004, as the highlight of the World
Hovercraft Championships. The events, which are sure to attract global media
coverage, will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the world's first hovercraft
race, held on March 14, 1964, on the then partially-filled lake. I was there as
the Sydney-based public relations officer for the sponsor, BP, which supplied
fuel and lubricants for a wide variety of motors, ranging from tiny Victa
lawnmower engines to one salvaged from a Catalina flying-boat. For full
details, click on 2004
and 1964. 0109
POLO: The Game That Attracts Wealthy Men
and Lovely Ladies. The peculiar sport of Elephant
Polo, largely confined to the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, will be demonstrated
in Thailand for the first time when an international three nations test series
is played in Hua Hin, 238 kilometers south of Bangkok, from September 14 to 16.
Organisers say teams from Australia, Singapore Nepal, Sri Lanka, and two
from Thailand will participate in what has been called "one of the world's
fastest games on one of nature's slowest beasts." To read on, please
click on JUMBO
BUSINESS NAMES. More than 80 years ago, a Kidderminster, England estate
agent, Edward Doolittle, invited his young assistant, Reginald Dalley, to
become his business partner.Their firm still uses the marvelous name Doolittle
and Dalley. Another great business name was coined after Rodger Reid met and
later married Marsha
Wright in New Preston, Connecticut. Today, Reid and Wright is just the
right name for their antiquarian book center. To see more great business names,
click on NAMES.
DECORATE BALLOON BOUND FOR SYDNEY. A wealthy
American living in Bangkok (Thailand) is scouring the world looking for a nude
model whose image will decorate a huge new hot-air balloon which he plans to
display in Sydney next year. Alf Erickson, heir to a bread fortune, recently
swapped his home in Florida in favour of a luxury suite on the 14th floor of
"the world's finest hotel," Bangkok's Oriental. He already owns three
hot-air balloons, which have been displayed in several European countries.His
Internet website, which reads like a personal diary, contains dozens of
photographs of his favourite models, dressed and undressed. For further
details, please click on ALF.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT Y. While Thailand, New Zealand and Wales
promote towns claiming "the world's longest place name" as tourist
attractions, the place with the world's shortest name, a tiny French village
called Y, is almost unknown. It appears on hardly any maps, and few Internet
search engines know anything about it. Y (its 29 inhabitants pronounce it as E),
whose brief name dates back to 1241, is near the township of Ham ans
Athies in the department of Somme in Picardy. To continue, please click on Y
PLACE NAMES. Thailand has beaten off challenges from New Zealand and Wales
for the world's longest place name. The Tourism Authority of Thailand plans to
display Bangkok's 171-letter name on large billboards at four places, including
a point near the country's Grand Palace, a prime tourist spot. Bangkok's
historic name is so long that citizens usually call it Krungthep, or City of
Angels. The capital's modern name, Bangkok, means City of Wild Plums. Internet
websites in Thailand, Wales and New Zealand all claim their countries have the
world's longest place name. Among the longest U.S. place names is the 46-letter
name of a lake in Massachusetts: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. To
see an edited story from the Sydney Morning Herald, click on SMH;
for a longer version, click on BANGKOK
or SRI LANKA. 0108
I WROTE ABOUT ERIC CATMAN...THE FANS HIT THE WIT. The U.S. has a living
Generic: Gen Eric Shinseki, Army Chief of Staff. Fifteen-year-old Wendy
Fierberg, of Norwalk, Connecticut, narrowly missed being named Generic. And
there's a real-life Eric Cartman in London Ontario, Canada. I
learnt these three things as guest columnist of Anu Garg's "A Word A
Day" for a week last month (July 2001). On the very first day I
suffered a baptism of ire because, in discussing generics and people named Eric,
I had carelessly written "South Park's Eric Catman (who has more
lives than any cat)..." MORE.
IN THE I930s: STATIC IN THE ATTIC. Nearly 70 years ago, in the early days of commercial broadcasting, New
Zealand station 4ZC Cromwell, with a power output of 25 watts, broadcast its
programs from Lowburn Ferry. Several other N.Z. stations had outputs of only
seven watts. Far away across the Pacific, the Crosley Radio Corporation, of
Cincinnati, Ohio, boasted that its station, the new 500,000 watt WLW, was the
most powerful in the world. For a nostalgic look at radio stations around the
world, just posted by Hermod Pedersen, of Sweden, in his e-magazine
hard-core-dx.com ("Probably the best DX site in the world")
click on DX.
Sixty-three years ago, I wrote about my schoolboy hobby in a feature article
published by the Brisbane Sunday Mail - click on 1938
for an image (322Kb gif file). 0108
NOT ALWAYS GHARSTLY. Only an honest man or a pregnant woman can grow good
parsley. The seeds have to go to the devil and back seven times before they
sprout, so they take at least a month to show signs of growth. And if you give a
plant to a female, she will promptly become pregnant. Despite those old wives'
tales, parsley, a member of the carrot family, has been cultivated since the
days of Ancient Rome. Americans use it mostly as a garnish, while European and
Middle Eastern cooks use it instead of salt. [The couplet "Parsley is
gharstly" was written by U.S. humorous poet Ogden Nash (1902-71) a
descendant of General Francis Nash (1742-77) of North Carolina, who gave his
name to Nashville, Tennessee.] To read on, please click
Parsley. 0108
HALF-MILLION WORDLOVERS. What must be the world's largest
school, the free, world-wide A Word A Day service, will soon enroll its 500,000th
student. The prestigious U.S. magazine The Smithsonian calls it "a
globe-circling cyberphenomenon, one of the most addictive free services
available on the Web." School principal Anu Garg, a 34-year-old
computer engineer who works for AT&T in Columbus, Ohio, began his own
education sitting under a mango tree in a small Indian village, with a few
broken sticks of chalk and a blackboard made by painting a flat piece of wood
with soot. He so loves "the music and magic of words" that he e-mails
AWAD free to subscribers in some 200 countries in all continents (including
Antarctica) five times a week. For full story, please click on ANU.
WAS LITTLE MISS MUFFET? Little Miss Muffet sat on a
tuffet / Eating her curds and whey / Along came a spider, who sat down
beside her / And frightened Miss Muffet away. For centuries, millions of
children around the world have recited that nursery rhyme. No one seems to know
the identity of either Little Miss Muffet or the poet who wrote about her. Many
people in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, a small commuter village 20 miles north
of London, believe Patience Muffet, who lived there 400 years ago, was the
original Little Miss Muffet, and that her father, Dr Thomas Muffet, an
entomologist who died in 1604, wrote the rhyme. As the oldest printed version is
dated 1805, in an American book, Songs
for the Nursery, that theory seems unlikely. Muffet had no children of his
own; and two step-daughters from his second marriage to a widow named Catherine
Brown would probably have been Little Miss Browns. The good doctor would have
written Little Miss Brown / Went to Town... For full story, please
click on LITTLE
MISS MUFFET. If you wish to learn more about her hometown, visit David
Brewer's interesting website at Brookmans
APOSTROPHE MAN IS A DREAM COME TO LIFE. George Richards, editor of the Sydney
Morning Herald's popular Column 8, has for years fought the misuse of
apostrophes, through a fictitious, nitpicking character he calls Apostrophe
Man. In a classic case of Life copying Art, a retired copy editor
and reporter in the English town of Boston has formed an Apostrophe Protection
Society. By a fantastic coincidence his name is John Richards. I don't
think he's related to George... Boston, (1981 population 26,495) is the
small Lincolnshire seaport town from which a small band of Puritans, later known
as the Pilgrim Fathers, set off via Plymouth on the 180-ton sailing ship
Mayflower. After a stormy voyage across the Atlantic, the tiny ship reached
North America, and the little group landed on Plymouth Rock, to found the first
English settlement in New England. (To read on,
click on BOSTON). 0107
COPYBOYS: AN EXTINCT SPECIES. Generations of famous editors, politicians and
businessmen began work as copyboys, when that job was the first rung of a
traditional ladder to success. My own climb up the journalistic ladder led not
to success, but to a small weather station perched on the roof of The Press, a
morning daily occupying a gaunt, fortress-like building in Christchurch, New
Zealand. Aged 16, and just out of school in 1935, at the end of the Great
Depression, I had scored a job there as a copyboy (wages one pound, then
equivalent to four U.S. dollars, a week). I dreamed of emulating my favorite
American authors, Don Marquis, Damon Runyon and Sinclair Lewis. This article was
published by one of my favorite newspapers, the oddly-named Hereford Brand,
in Hereford, Texas, on April 28, 2001. Click on Hereford
Brand. 0107
open letter to the His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of
Merioneth and Baron Greenwich,
also called Philip Mountbatten (original name Philip, Prince Of Greece and
Denmark) on the occasion of his 80th birthday, June 10, 2001. Hi Phil (as
you know, we're a bit informal here on the Internet). I have good news for you.
Please read these consolatory words written many years ago by Frank C. Laubach: "The first 80 years are the hardest. The second 80 are a succession of
birthday parties. Once you reach 80, everyone wants to carry your baggage and
help you up the steps. If you forget your name or anybody else's name, or an
appointment, or your own telephone number, or promise to be three places at the
same time, or can't remember how many grandchildren you have, you need only
explain that you are 80." Click on Philip
for a tale with a sting in its tail. To see pictures of the Duke in his 80th year, plus detailed biography, click
on 80th
Birthday. 0106
TEENAGER'S GREAT WEBSITES. Thousands of
teenagers around the world have their own websites, but Nattawud Daoruang's may
well be the world's best for that age group. Begun four years ago, when he was
only 12, his first modest three pages have grown to 343 pages and 842 images
spread among eight professional-looking sites, which attract 5000
visitors a week, from more than 100 countries. "We don't all live in
the jungle or ride elephants to school, and we do have TV," he says
on his outstanding Thailand Life
which he has developed into a weekly online magazine telling the Internet world
about his life and country. To read this story, click on THAI
NOSTRADAMUS. "When the ninth bridge crosses the Ness, there
will be fire, flood and calamity," the Brahan Seer predicted some 300
years ago. The ninth bridge was built in 1987. Within two years: the Piper Alpha
oil rig in the North Sea exploded, killing 167 oil workers (fire); the
127-year-old rail bridge across the Ness was washed away (flood); an
American aircraft crashed in flames on Lockerbie, with a loss of 279 lives (calamity).
The Brahan Seer worked as a labourer on the Brahan Estate, seat of the Seaforth
chieftains. He saw future events by peering not into a crystal ball, but through
a hole in a curious small bluish-black stone. Click on Brahan
Seer. 0106
IS PRUNE KING PLUM CRAZY? King Prune's five-year reign as head of Royal Prune University is in
dire peril, because the California Prune Board has just changed its name to the California Dried Plum Board, hoping that calling
prunes dried plums will boost worldwide sales of its product, just as the humble Chinese gooseberry rocketed to popularity
when New Zealand growers marketed it as Kiwi Fruit. "Who would take any notice of me if I
adopted the ridiculous title of King Dried Plum, of Royal Dried Plum University?" asked King
Prune, tears streaming down his wrinkled face. "That would make me a laughing-stock. If
everyone adopts the name change, we'll have to alter thousands of words on our Web site.
Worse still, we'll have to prune our staff." Click on Foodiesite.
CHAD. If your parents or grandparents remember World War II, they will probably recall seeing graffiti
of a funny little man with wide-open eyes and a huge U-shaped nose, peering over a wall. Britain knew him fondly as Chad or
Mr. Foo, while
Americans called him Kilroy. In Britain, he appeared on walls of buildings, on shop windows, and in newspaper cartoons. Below him were the
words: WOT - no sugar? (or Tea, or Cigarettes, or whatever else was in short supply). In the United States, the caption just read KILROY WAS
HERE. Americans serving in the armed forces took him with them wherever they went.
Click on KilroyWasHere.org.
the left is a reproduction of a drawing of Kilroy/Chad on a glider of the British First Airborne Division before it left England to take part in
Operation Market Garden , an attempt to free occupied Holland. Had it succeeded, the war might have ended months before it
did. Airborne units of the 101st US Airborne Division landed in southern Holland on September 17, 1944, in what was then the
largest airborne operation in history. Click on the drawing to read about
Operation Market Garden. (The drawing was copied by
Gary Bainbridge, a 16-year-old signwriter in Nottingham, England). 0105


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Australian shepherd thought to have originated and bred in Basque, a region in the mountains between Spain and France. This dog is known as "Australian", why? because he came along migration Basque rancher from Australia to America in about the 1800s. Australian Shepherd had received various names, among others; California Shepherd, Bob-Tail, Spanish Shepherd, Pastor Dogs, Blue Heeler and New Mexican Shepherd. but finally unveiled its name as an Australian Shepherd.
Australian Shepherd male has a height of about 46 to 53cm (20-23 inches) with a weight of about 18 to 25 kg (50-65 pounds). while shepherds australia female ranged height 52 to 58cm (18-21 inches) with body weight 25 to 29 kg (40-55 pounds)
Australian Shepherd is a very popular type of dog. These vary in shape and size depending on the blood line: some lines selected for the show ring looks, while others were developed purely for their ability to work. Regardless of the line, this solidly built medium breed and stand 18 to 23 inches at the withers. It has a thick coat in one of four colors: black, red merle, blue merle, and red solid. Often have a white coat and brown marks. They can come in Toy, Standard and Mini.
Because Merle coloring, most of this type can display eye color can vary from dark brown to light yellow, and the difference in eye color sometimes occur, such as one or both become blue. This is a characteristic, called hetrochromia, is one of the deficiency or excess melanin and harmless. The ears are set high on the head in the form of a triangle and when noticed something that may fall to one side of the ear which is called 'rose'.
'Aussies' as it is fondly called, were bred to be working dogs. and this dog breed is intelligent able to work tirelessly. This is the kind of reliable that can be taught anything. He enjoys learning and working, and has incredible energy and endurance.
Shepherd of the nature of work requires Australia to make their dogs to have as pets, and one in which the owner must be someone who can invest time and energy in the dog and likes to walk and play. If the owner is ready for this and understand the needs of their dogs, they will get much more out of their pets. This is a dog, active bending physical needs must be met.
Aussies Shepherd Puppies
Health Problems
Aussie able to survive up to 15 years, if in good health. but this breed like other working breeds, can be prone to hip dysplasia. in addition, gene for merle coloration also carries a factor beautiful blind / deaf, so the initial testing is required. other health problems concerns include cataracts CEA, CHD, nasal solar dermatitis, Pelger Huet syndrome, iris coloboma. Occasionally seen: lumbar sacral syndrome, epilepsy, PRA, vWD, distichiasis, PDA, and PPM. some of these offspring are often sensitive to ivermectin, however, for the prevention of heartworm dose considered safe. sometimes it is also sensitive to the IMHA (Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia).
Maintenance and Training
This is not the type that suits your lifestyle, and it would require at least two good runs and walks per day. Less and may become unmanageable because of boredom. Owner must provide mental stimulation, because it is a very intelligent breed and will do well with obedience and such street. good care at least once a week, especially when shedding to prevent the build up of dead hair. It is best to avoid over-baths.
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New data from the New York State's Labor Department have shown a sharp increase in financial industry jobs, with the city adding 6,800 positions from the end of February through May. That's the largest three-month increase since 2008, and it has understandably attracted a lot of buzz in the econoblogosphere.
But my colleague Eric Dash, who covers the banking industry, warns that people may be reading too much into this number, since it is not adjusted for seasonal changes.
Eric writes me:
The banking industry's hiring boom may be short-lived. Wall Street typically experience a pickup in hiring during the spring and early summer. Most bankers will not join a new firm until late January or February, when they receive their annual bonus paycheck. The banks, meanwhile, are hesitant to hire in the fall to avoid guaranteeing big year-end bonus payouts along with a forced vacation, known as garden leave.


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|" This shot shows Saturn's rings nearly edge-on, but dominating the scene is Rhea, 1500 km (950 miles) in diameter, seen here 61,000 km (38,000 miles) distant. Below it is Dione, to the right and just above the rings is Epimetheus, and Tethys is all the way on the right, below the rings.
So what's the fifth moon? Look to the right of Dione, right at the rings. See that tiny bump? That's dinky Prometheus, all of 119 km (71 miles) along its longest dimension — it's basically a spud orbiting Saturn. Prometheus, along with its sister moon Pandora, act like shepherds, keeping Saturn's F-ring particles entrained."
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The JTHS Archives Committee is a group of dedicated volunteers who are preserving the history and traditions of the Joliet Township High Schools. The committee started in 1978 as a group of teachers and alumni to inventory significant memorabilia. All of the members recalled items that had disappeared from view and wanted to prevent that from happening in the future.
Currently serving on the Archives Committee are alumni, family members of alumni, teachers, former teachers and others interested in preserving the collective memories and traditions of Joliet Township High School. If you would like to join the committee please contact Kristine Schlismann at 815-727-6967 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hurrah for Jane Brocket, who has created recipes for the pies - renamed Katy's paradise picnic pie - and all sorts of other treats that feature in so many of the older books for children.
Brocket must have had a whale of a time researching for her latest book - illustrated in black and white in contrast to the glorious colour in her previous publication, Domestic Bliss. Her own favourites such as the Enid Blyton books, Anne of Green Gables, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Heidi and Pippi Longstocking have inspired recipes like Swallows and Amazons seed cake, Bruce Bogtrotter's heroic chocolate cake, Ellen's extremely comforting posset, Milly-Molly-Mandy's muffin man muffins and Mrs Glump's melt-in-the-mouth shortbread.
Chapter headings such as Proper Elevenses, Cooks' Special Treats, School Food, Kind and Thoughtful Treats and Special Occasions entice the reader to riffle through the pages, reminisce about their favourite childhood books and perhaps recreate some of the treats mentioned there.
This book, with its title inspired by the cherry cakes and lemonade mentioned in various Famous Five titles, is a must-read. Brocket is such an imaginative writer and I can't wait to see what she'll come up with next.
Rating - I give this 5/5 GREAT!!
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Last night after we made love Bill went outside to wait for the rain.
He stood on the flagstone patio,
hands in the pockets of his white terry robe,
watching the oncoming storm hover in the distance.
She was moving in her own time.
I opened the back door and leaned outside,
"A watched pot never boils." I said.
But I knew, if watched long enough, it would boil.
Bill stood patient, planted, like a tree
whose roots are thirsty for wet.
"I felt a drop," he said.
This morning the house is quiet,
except for the sounds of sleep and wind and rain.
Until I turn on the news–
pictures of splintered trees,
pictures of floating cars, flooded and stuck in muck,
pictures of sand bags and empty beaches and businesses shut down,
a flash of yellow earthmover slogging through mud
and inevitably dramatic coverage of a swift water rescue
from the quick rising LA River.
Later, I'll dress for weather.
New winter boots
water resistant, lined with fur.
Ultramarine raincoat
that matches nothing.
I'll walk, head down, to the car,
open the trunk and dig for the umbrella.
It seemed like a good day to share this poem I wrote last year.
This was published in The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles in the June 2014 edition.


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We went to a great Lebanese restaurant on Rue Sherbrooke, but I didn't write down the name of it. Located across the street from the hotel, it was a tasty jaunt over. We had fattoush, tabbouleh, homemade hummus and baba ghanoush, and a chickpea soup type dish with olive oil, onion, radish, tomato, and spices - all with pita.
For the two nights I was there, I went to ChuChai, a Thai vegetarian restaurant. This restaurant is a bit pricey, but worth it! They have a whole line of mock meats including shrimp, fish, beef, chicken, and duck. They also have only vegetable dishes and vegetable dishes with tofu. The menu is truly extensive. Since it is Thai, most of the dishes are influenced by the cuisine. For example, they have several varieties of Tom Yum soup with various types of meat and/or coconut milk, several types of dumplings and spring rolls, and each section of mock meat has their own specialty entrees.
Above is a picture of the peanut sauce chicken with crispy spinach.
Vegan wonton soup.
Tom Yum soup with vegan shrimp.
Crispy, deep-fried seaweed with tangy sauce.
Vegan duck with spinach in a soy sauce dressing.
My favorite dishes were the wonton soup and the vegan duck. The duck surprisingly tasted a lot like real duck... which was odd, but interesting. Other dishes we tried were bok choy with shiitake mushrooms, Chinese chicken salad, pan fried dumplings, and lychee for dessert. Overall, I am excited to go back to Montreal and try new restaurants!


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This in an official merchandise from Big Hit Entertainment manufactured and distributed by Compact Design Inc. What you can see here is a jigsaw puzzle from Hwa Yeong Yang Hwa On Stage Epilogue concert goods. It contains 300 pieces. The size of the jigsaw is 340 x 250 mm and the size of the package is 180 x 125 x 34 mm.
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A new tax scam targeting students has been quickly gaining momentum. Scammers are making calls to demand payment of a non-existent tax, which they call the "federal student tax". No such tax exists, but scammers are tricking people into paying it. The IRS has issued a warning to taxpayers, asking them to remain cautious.
How This Scam Is Operated
Scammers make a telephone call pretending to be the IRS, and demand payment of the bogus "federal student tax". They convince the taxpayer to wire the payment immediately. If the taxpayer shows reluctance, the scammers can become aggressive and threaten to report the student to the police.
Scammers typically use certain personal information that makes their calls appear legitimate. They might have obtained information, such as the student's name and the name of the student's educational institute. Also, scam artists may use sophisticated technology to masquerade as IRS employees or the police. They use names of real IRS agents, and generate false indicators of IRS caller-IDs to appear authentic.
"These scams and schemes continue to evolve nationwide, and now they're trying to trick students,' IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said, "Taxpayers should remain vigilant and not fall prey to these aggressive calls demanding immediate payment of a tax supposedly owed."
Finding Out Their Fake
Any unsolicited phone call claiming to be from the IRS where the individual demands immediate payment, especially through wire transfer or a prepaid debit card, is a fake. The IRS will mail a notice regarding the payment of any taxes due.
A person that threatens the taxpayer with arrest, deportation, license revocation, etc. for not paying taxes immediately, is a fake. The IRS follows an established process to collect back taxes, which begins with notices sent via post. The tax agency provides sufficient time to the taxpayer to pay any back taxes, and with a variety of payment options.
A person asking for personal, financial or tax information over the phone such as credit or debit card numbers, PINs, tax filing status, or social security number, should immediately raise a red flag. Before sharing sensitive information, always confirm the identity of the caller.
How to Respond
Upon receiving such calls, taxpayers should immediately hang up. They should not communicate with the scammer at all. Many of them are seasoned criminals operating in a group. Instead, report the call to the Federal Trade Commission by visiting ftc.gov and clicking on 'File a Consumer Complaint'. Add "IRS Telephone Scam" in the notes. Alternatively, taxpayers may call the TIGTA at 800-366-4484.


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Treating Chikungunya with Miric Biotech Ltd
Chikungunya is an infection which is caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) where the fever and joint pains typically occur two to twelve days after the relative exposure. The very young, old, and those with other serious health problems are generally at high risk of this severe virus. The percentage (risk) of death is 1%.
How is it transmitted?
Miric Biotech experts says it gets transferred among humans by mosquitoes. The females of Aedes Aegyptii and Aedes albopictus are the main species of mosquitos that spread this dangerous disease. These mossies bite during the day.
The test
The blood tests are repeated and are constantly gazed at. If it drops, it is better to be under medical observation. At this stage, the doctor's supervision is very important.
The Treatment;
Although There is no such vaccine for chikungunya but the Treatment is mainly symptomatic – such as giving painkillers to relieve the joint pain – using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs which are not asprin-based. Drugs are mostly analgesics and antipyretics. The patient is generally advised for maximum fluid intake.
The preventive methods;
Avoid as much as you can i.e. getting bitten by mosquitoes. Keep the surroundings clean and tidy of moribund water/pools where mosquitoes breeding is possible. Use mosquito nets and close windows in the evening to prevent mosquitoes from entering.
Home Remedies with QUICK BITES:
* Garlic paste application can relieve joint pain.
* Grapes can relieve severe symptoms.
* Raw carrots can boost immune system.
* Coconut water is an effective remedy.
The Remedies;
- Tulsi (Sacred Basil) leaves are given to chikungunya patients as they reduce the fever and have a positive effect on the immunity.
- Eating raw carrots as salad or otherwise is helpful in increasing the immune resistance of people afflicted with chikungunya. It protects them from complications such as joint pain.
- Local application of garlic paste or clove oil with pepper wrapped on the painful joints provides relief from the pain.
- Chewing Ashwagandha.Using epsom salt (magnesium sulphate) in lukewarm bathing water mixed with neem leaves.
- A person should be made to drink a lot of coconut water. It is the best home remedy available for relief when afflicted with chikungunya.Coconut water detoxifies the liver and that is helpful in quick revival of patients.
Miric Biotech Ltd experts say Ayurvedic medicines that can helpful in managing muscle and joint pains in Chikungunya are:
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Yograj-GugguluVat-Gajankush-RasPunarnava (Boerhaavia diffusa) Punarnavadi-GugguluVish-Tinduk-VatiMaha-Vat-Vidhwans-RasNishottar (Operculina turpethum) Sinhanaad-GugguluDashmool-ArishtaTagar (Valeriana wallichii)Triphala-GugguluChitrak (Plumbago zeylanica)Guggulu (Commiphora mukul)
With several intriguing and unanswered questions, the Chikungunya phenomenon is an emerging global disease where as of now no specific antiviral treatment is available, the MiricBiotech Limited with its utmost supremacy in the field of medical science and technology has some of the best expertise specially when it comes to dealing with such kind of endemic infection, until then the prevention and vector control at personal and community level should be implemented at the early stages.


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I've lost count of the amount of times I've been hit up by the 'grammar police' online! I'd say at least 99% of bloggers have been targeted by these _____ and have had to bite their tongues in the process.
You know the people I'm on about – the ones that pick out ALL of the grammar mistakes in your posts then politely leave a comment below highlighting each one…
Seriously – you'd think they have nothing better to do!
Now I may have seen a certain deal of success through blogging over the last several years but I'll be the first to admit I'm no Shakespeare!
If you read my work…you'll find mistakes ( there'll probably be a few in this post by the time I finish it! ).
Thankfully it looks like I've found a place for all these…individuals…to go AND earn a little money at the same time…
So, is BlogMutt scam or can it become the new home for the grammar police?
Let's find out…
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BlogMutt Review
BlogMutt is based in Boulder, CO, and was founded by Scott Yates and Wade Green in 2011. The best way to describe it is as a 'blog centered' content service.
The sign up process is pretty simple:
- I chose a username and created a password
- I then allowed them to connect to my LinkedIn account ( for verification )
- I checked that little 'agree to terms and services' block that nobody ever reads
- I completed a short English grammar test
Not bad so far – anyone can do this!!!!
Writing For BlogMutt
So once you've been put under the microscope ( and been accepted ) you'll have the whole BlogMutt universe at your fingertips!
Inside the platform bloggers can purchase certain packages that allow them to display blog post requirements every week ( the more packages purchased the more posts they can request! ).
They post a brief description of what they want and provide a couple of keywords for the title of the post and the content.
As a Bloggmutt writer you can explore all these blogs and find out what makes them tick – you can get a feel for what the bloggers want and expect in their content!
So, find a blog post request that interests you and get writing – keeping in mind the requirements for the content.
Once you have finished, submit it and wait for the blog owners reply. They can either buy your post, send an editing request, or outright reject it.
This is the main problem with these types of platforms I'm afraid – they look after the blog owner but the writer must stand on their own two feet!
It's not the end of the world if your content gets rejected – you can always sell the article/post on to someone else or it can stay in the queue to be picked up by another writer ( after a week's wait ).
BlogMutt Pay
BlogMutt works on a point system that allows it's writers to go for a specific level of jobs. To begin with you will get $8 for every 250 to 350 words post that is actually purchased by a client.
The more content of yours that gets purchased the more points you will receive. You can then move up the rankings towards $19 for 600+ words, $40 for 900+ words, and $72 for 1200+ words.
You are able to cash out your money through Paypal whenever you please.
BlogMutt Scam?
The only way this part of the Blogmutt review will work is if I go through a few of the more comment BlogMutt complaints out there.
The first BlogMutt irritant I came across online was the initial levels of pay – many writers feel that $8 for 350 words is a bit 'tight' at best!
I have to be honest here – I don't really agree with that!
It will take me no longer than 10 minutes to write a 350 word post so do the math – that's about 6 posts an hour!
At the end of the day 350 words is nothing – even if you do a super-careful job it shouldn't take you longer than say 30 minutes?
As a starting point to a writing service I feel that $8 for 350 words is fine – the more work you do the quicker you will rise through the rankings!
The second BlogMutt irritant I came across was the rejection policy in place – publishers can reject for any reason they see fit!
Well, once again, I really don't see the problem with this!
What kind of blog owner is going to accept work they feel is not up to standard?
At the end of the day if you are entering this 'writing online' niche you are going to have to play by the content requester's rules – period!
Don't forget that YOU OWN the rejected piece of content on BlogMutt – just be prepared to offer it to someone else!
BlogMutt Legit?
Yep, definitely – 99% of online content jobs use the same sort of format that they do…successfully!
You have to realize that if you are getting into this content gig you are going to meet with picky publishers. If they don't like your work – they ain't gonna pay for it!
Don't expect every piece of your work to be accepted at first – this will never happen.
Find your feet, keep plugging away, and tot up those BlogMutt points day by day. The more content you produce – the better you will become at it!


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A magical training programme that can get you the perfect beach body (or for brides, the perfect wedding day figure) is surely too good to be true, right? Actually, it does exist, and it is called German Body Composition (GBC).Read More
Feeling strong for some people is not about the weight they are able to move, but is about being able to feel fit for life, play with their kids, enjoy the outdoors and better manage life's demands. Joint Dynamics assists your body develop the strength to produce force or lift substantial weight relative to your bodyweight, physical alignment and current health. Feeling strong for some individuals has nothing to do with the weight they are able to move but the ability to feel fit for life, playing with their kids, being able to enjoy the outdoors or just managing life's demands with ease and grace.Read More
Movement is a craft just as learning a musical instrument is. The way a sculptor or painter hones their craft, at Joint Dynamics we build movement artists capable of meeting scripted and unscripted life demands with strength, power, flexibility and endurance conducive to long-term health or as a requirement for athletic performance.
Together with our clients and clinicians we form a team that builds injury resilience whilst becoming high performance movement maestros.
Embedded within this philosopy we work on authentic confidence that feeds excitement to face challenges not with fear, apprehension and hesitation but with a trained response that says "I can do this".
Olympic lifting teaches you to use your muscle fibres more efficiently and rapidly, resulting in your body positively responding to your workout long after the sweat has dried. Read More
Our philosophy at Joint Dynamics is that weight loss/gain is a balance between 'energy in' verses 'energy out'.
'Energy in' refers to the amount of calories consumed in one's diet, while 'energy out' is defined by the amount of calories burned during the day daily through habitual behaviours, exercise and also one's resting metabolic rate, which is a function of body composition.
Regardless of your condition, we are able to support and progressively develop all clients in a systematic way with exponential increasing returns on your training investment, all while coaching effective and athletic movement patterns that reduce the likelihood of injury and greatly increase your day to day performance. We achieve this with the integration of our clinicians, sport and exercise scientist, personal trainers, movement coaches, personal trainers and massage therapists.
Having mobility is essential for completing everyday activities with relative ease. However, controlled full joint movement deteriorates with age, especially for those with a sedentary lifestyle. This leads to joint mobility issues, mainly at the hips and shoulders.
We can help you improve joint mobility issues, even endemic ones, with a series of exercises and movement patterns, which will improve your wellbeing and also boost your sports performance.
Personal training is important for maintaining the wellbeing of your body, through regular exercise with joint mobility drills, complemented with nutrition advise and stretching therapy, massage and physiotherapy. It will provide you with better movement, and help you feel more confident, have more energy, sleep better and release stress. You no longer need to worry about pulling a muscle while playing with your kids or worry about your knee problem when going hiking with friends. Personal training truly helps you improve your quality of life.
Whether you prefer having a massage before or after working out, both methods can be beneficial. Pre-race massages help to stimulate muscles, whereas post-race massages are more of a cool-down/recovery massage.
We believe that swimming is a multi-disciplinary approach. For kids we first try to create an encouraging fun atmosphere that will allow for the teaching water awareness and safety, before moving on to competitive strokes. Through games, skill drills and hands on in the water coaching, body position, alignment and techniques are constantly reinforced. For older kids and adults our experienced team can tailor competitive stroke development and swim conditioning sessions regardless of the what level the participant or athlete is at. We also teach adults how to swim.
Our well-trained instructors are up to date with current swim approaches and can handle individuals or groups.


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Sandcastle Beach House
House, Dolphin Sands
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Welcome to our Sandcastle, your home away from home.
Just five minutes north of the historic town of Swansea on the East Coast of Tasmania. Uninterrupted views across Great Oyster Bay of both Swansea and Freycinet National Park including The Hazards and Schouten Island. A fantastic base to explore this part of Tasmania.
Amazing outlook from a private, comfortable, fully self-contained beach front holiday house. The 3.5 acre property enjoys 55 meters of beach frontage, with only a narrow reserve between the house and the beach. Easy access along the path to what feels like your own private beach. The remainder of the property is set in bush and well away from others.
A holiday destination to relax, unwind and treat yourself to some quiet time. Stroll along the beach, collect some shells, enjoy the views from the veranda and deck, then fall asleep in the evening with the sound of waves lapping the shore.
The large open plan kitchen/dining/living area is on the first floor with access via an internal staircase or external ramp. You need to be upstairs to appreciate the view.
Sleeps maximum of 6 people.
Master bedroom - Queen size bed
Second bedroom - 2 Single beds
Extra sleeping - bunk bed
All linen, pillows, doonas, blankets supplied.
Large bathroom with separate toilet upstairs and an additional shower and toilet downstairs.
Bath towels, hairdryer provided. Beach towels are not provided.
Laundry with washing machine, iron and ironing board available.
TV, DVD Player, CD Player.
Fully equipped kitchen - fridge/freezer, cooktop/oven, microwave, dishwasher, dishes, glassware, cutlery, cookware. BBQ downstairs.
Heating consists of a wood fire with a good stockpile of wood or small panel heater near the bedrooms.
Local Area
Swansea is located 5 minutes by car or 30 minutes walk along the beach. Bank/ATM, Petrol stations, Post Office, Newsagency, Chemist, Hardware store, 2 small supermarkets, Cafes, Restaurants, Hotel, Bottleshop and Bakery.
Boat ramps located in Swansea, Swan River and Dolphin Sands.
Freycinet National Park is only 56 kms away by road. This area includes Friendly Beaches, Coles Bay, Cape Tourville Lighthouse, walks and cruises to the famous Wineglass Bay.
141 kms to Hobart 116 minutes and 128 kms to Hobart Airport 105 minutes
135 kms to Launceston 101 minutes and 121 kms to Launceston Airport 89 minutes
215 kms to Devonport Ferry Terminal 2.5 hours
General Terms & Conditions
This is a home, treat it as your own, respect your neighbours, leave it as you find it.
To confirm bookings we require 20 deposit and the balance to be paid 14 days prior to arrival.
Bookings are deemed as "confirmed" when deposit has been received. All cancellations incur the loss of deposit paid.
Failure to pay outstanding balance prior to 14 days will deem the booking cancelled.
In exceptional circumstances refund can be made, less deposit paid.
The number of guests occupying the property for the duration of the appointed dates must not exceed the number specified at the time of booking. Should there be any changes to the number of guests we must be notified.
No smoking inside the home please.
Strictly no pets allowed.
Unless arranged in advance, check in time is 2pm and check out time is 10am. Requests for varying times will be accommodated where possible.
We do not accommodate groups of unaccompanied minors or school leavers.
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MZ-Q series automatic die cutting &creasing with stripping machine
Usage: die cutting for thin paperboards (cardboard: 90-2000gsm, flute board: thickness less than 4mm).
Feeding mode: automatic suction feeder
1) Details of each parts
a.Feeding section
The high speed feeder is made of lightweight aluminum alloy with anode treatment on the surface. The forward, backward, high and low positions can be adjusted according to the stock for smooth feeding of thin paper. Large gram cardboard and Corrugated paper etc. top speed can reach at 7500s/h, die cutting precision is within ± 0.07mm
b. Feeding table
Slanting paper –running table is more suitable for feeding and orienting of the high speed thin paper, be equipped with bi-function orienting device, the side guides can be changed from push to pull by the simple adjustment of one screw.
c. Die cutting section
Pneumatic push button die chase locking mechanism to ensure safe and operator friendly changing of the die , complete lost control throughout the entire machine.
Centerline system compatible to centerline for quick change over and short set up time.
Upper and lower stripping tool mounting frame be pulled out for job set up and make ready The high quality transmission mechanism and cam movement curve provide stripping stability and accuracy, the pneumatic raising device for upper stripping board creates more internal working space
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Name:Millionaire Dream
In this millionaire dream review, I will uncover this so-called making money machine and tell you exactly how this system works, what is millionaire dream system? I will answer this question in a bit but first of all, I wanted to congratulate you for being skeptical about this business and that you are doing a research on it before you attempt to sign up to their system.
There are plenty of scams out there and we can't just buy every offer we come across with while we are navigating online, it's a good idea to look for more information about the product before we buy it, remember that most of the scam artists are very persuasive and great sellers, I don't like their shady practices because they try to sell a bad quality product which is not very ethical. Having said that, let's get on with the millionaire dream system.
What is Millionaire Dream System?
They claim to be an automatic software that will generate you thousands of dollars the first day you use it, making that amount of money on the first day is not very realistic, the video that is on their home page is hyped as hell.
The video starts right away with some testimonials of very excited people telling how much they've made with the millionaire dream system, the fun part of these claims that are most likely fake is that every one of them tells the whole amount of money they've made including cents.
If you want to laugh a little bit, you should go to their video on youtube and read the comments, it has become a really funny trend in the comment area, in order to access to their video on youtube you only have to click on the youtube logo at the bottom of the video like is showed in the image below.
Their testimonials are so ridiculous that you'll find making fun of them, in the comments.
The guy on the video that supposes to be the owner doesn't even introduce himself, we don't know his name neither who he is, he doesn't seem to care about it and he starts talking about how you are one of the 7 selected people to try out their millionaire dream system, even though, the video has been uploaded to youtube in May 3/2015.
I'm sorry to turn you down but you are not one of the 7 people that have been selected by millionaire dream to try their system out, they said that just to make you feel special and to push you to sign up to their website.
More Fake Testimonials
When you scroll down on their home page you'll see some more testimonials but it's not surprising that they are also fake, all of their profile's pictures have been extracted from google, they didn't even take the time to try to get some good pictures, they just stole them from google, what does that tell you about the credibility of millionaire dream?
For example one of his fake beta testers is called Igor Baladaninan, well, that is what they say his name is but the real person in the picture is Mahesh Babu, a famous Indian actor, wow, these millionaire dream people have no respect for their audience, would you think your money will be safe with them?, I DON'T THINK SO.
How Millionaire Dream System Works
They don't make very clear how it works, it's all hype and "money proofs" all over their home page, but if you still want to try millionaire dream after all, let me tell you what you can expect after you sign up to their system, you'll be redirected to another video and you'll be explained that in order to activate the software you will need to make a deposit of $250. It's not free after all.
Your money is going to be invested into binary options trading, a very risky practice if you don't know what you are doing, so your money goes to a random binary trading broker, he will trade with your money and there's a huge chance you are not going to see your money back again, it's like gambling but worse because you don't even know the person who bets your money.
Now, what the millionaire dream owner gets? He gets a commission every time somebody deposits the $250, he won't tell you that, but that's how it works, that's why all these binary options software have come out lately, the creators of these systems don't risk their money the only one losing money would be you.
Millionaire Dream Verdict:
My Final Opinion
I don't recommend the millionaire dream system, in fact, I don't recommend binary options at all, it is just very risky and if you don't know anything about it, you'll lose your money for sure. Making money online is still possible, actually, it's even easier than before but you need to learn first how the industry works.
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'what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?' Mark 8:36
Oscar Wilde's Preface to his only novel, written in response to the scandalised and scathing reception Dorian Gray received from the press, issues the reader with a warning. Wilde states that 'those who read the symbol do so at their peril' and that the role of the critic is to 'translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things'. I am unsure if I can answer Wilde's demand of the critic and therefore proceed, somewhat cautiously, at my peril.
The premise of Wilde's dazzling novel is that a beautiful young man, the eponymous subject of the picture, rashly exclaims that he would give up his soul to remain young forever and have his portrait age instead. His desire is inexplicably granted, leaving Wilde to examine the consequences in a book that is as much a meditation on art and life as it is the story of one man's terrible choice. A vindication of the saying 'be careful what you wish for' if ever there was one.
Though a relatively slim volume and one that I managed to race through within a day, The Picture of Dorian Gray is more challenging than its number of pages might suggest and remains a bit of a puzzle. While the plot in itself is straightforward enough – though the central metamorphosis affecting the portrait remains a mystery – it is Wilde's probing of ideas, by turns playful and philosophical, that throws up innumerable questions. Can or should art contain anything of its creator? What relation does art bear to life? How far is it possible to influence another human being? I could go on and on.
One of the most fascinating of the concepts thrown about in the novel is that of art. The Preface advocates 'art for art's sake', boldly stating that 'no artist desires to prove anything' and provocatively declaring that 'all art is quite useless'. Of course its lack of a practical use is one of the beauties of art; it needs no use but to be experienced, appreciated and enjoyed. Wilde also writes in the Preface that there is 'no such thing as a moral or an immoral book', suggesting that, contrary to the opinions of the age, art cannot corrupt. This may well be a defence against the accusations made towards his controversial book, but it sets up the rest of the novel in an intriguing manner. Art, Wilde argues, does not exert moral influence, yet it is the exquisite beauty of his portrait that prompts the wish that will determine the rest of Dorian Gray's life, while he claims that he has been 'poisoned' by the book that his friend Lord Henry Wotton lends him.
Here there may possibly be detected a note of cynicism. While Dorian blames the influence of both art and his persuasive friend for his descent into sin, it is perhaps more likely that this is a facet of his nature that has been present all along. He embraces a selfish life devoted to pleasure with little hesitance and although he describes the painting as his 'conscience', he seems unswayed by it in his actions despite his disgust for it. When the portrait eventually reveals Dorian as a hypocrite, it is easy to conclude that this is what he has been throughout, placing blame at art's door when it is he who is truly at fault – a damning rebuke to readers who saw immorality in Wilde's work. After all, the art that Dorian experiences later in life during his dedication to pleasure holds only temporary sway over him, failing to truly move or influence him.
Almost more fascinating than the central character is his friend and mentor Lord Henry Wotton, surely one of the most quotable characters in English literature. Spouting wonderfully preposterous phrases such as 'I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible' and 'the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it', his speeches should be savoured. It is not surprising that his witticisms found him connected with Wilde himself; in one of his letters, the author wrote that 'Lord Henry [is] what the world thinks me'. Many of the scenes seem set up merely to prompt philosophical discussion led by Henry, leading to dialogue that, unsurprisingly for Wilde, fizzes and sparkles. Henry is indeed all talk and whenever we see him he is connected with conversation rather than action, living vicariously through Dorian, over whom he attempts to exert his influence.
Speaking of influence, Wilde's own literary influences are quite evident throughout the novel. The central idea of a character surrendering his soul in exchange for some kind of earthly gratification immediately recalls the Faust legend, widely disseminated through Marlowe and Goethe's literary incarnations, although Dorian Gray wishes for eternal youth rather than unlimited knowledge. There are also hints of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Wilde's contemporary Robert Louis Stevenson not long prior to Dorian Gray, continuing the nineteenth century literary fascination with doubling and doppelgangers that can arguably seen in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein and the Creature) and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Jane and Bertha).
Furthermore, there is a hint of the Gothic as Dorian's dread intensifies, with the portrait almost taking on the qualities of a supernatural demon or monster. As surely as the Creature is destined to be Victor Frankenstein's end, Dorian's life is irrevocably tied to the monstrous picture that his wish has created. Visible also are strands of psychology, a study that is referred to frequently throughout the novel. Yet Wilde takes all these influences and inspirations and moulds them, to take the words of the Preface, into 'new material'. Filled with dazzling conversation and beautifully crafted prose, Dorian Gray is, like its protagonist, perfectly formed.
As has probably been made evident, I could write on and on about this book. A quick and thrilling read, it unites a gripping central plot with thought-provoking questions, leaving me to continue mulling over the many philosophical points raised. My initial thoughts only begin to touch on the many themes of this novel, so please expand on my musings by adding your own comments and letting me know what you thought about the book.
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A publisher called Taylor Made Publishing acquired the titles a couple weeks ago and have now made a statement about their plans via Ravelry. The original statement can be found here. I have pasted the exact statement below:
Sew Hip, Modern Quilting, Handmade Fashion and Simply Beautiful magazines are up for sale.
Previously published issues will not be available for sale from Tailor Made Publishing. Subscriptions to Inside Crochet, Yarnwise and Handmade Living will be honoured.
We are delighted to announce that Zoe Clements is to take on the position of Editor of Yarnwise magazine and Charlotte Brett will be Editor of Handmade Living magazine. The Editor of Inside Crochet will be announced within the next few days.
Tim Harris
Director - Tailor Made Publishing
They posted this statement via the group administrator on Ravelry, and emphasised that they want to move the magazines forward in an ethically sound way so hopefully this will be the end of the problems previously associated with the magazines.
Letters have gone out to the magazines subscribers (along with the most recent issue of the magazines) confirming that their subscriptions will be honored and that the next issues of the magazines should be with them by the end of June. The current issues of the magazines are also out in the shops now too.
It remains to be seen who will take over the sewing and quilting magazines, I will update again when I have more news. It will be interesting to see how the magazines develop over the coming months, the new owners will have a lot to overcome with all the negativity associated with the magazines.
What do you think? Will this be a fresh start or has too much damage been done to the magazines reputations?


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Duterte supporters rally against U.S.
Around 500 activists rally in support of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-US rhetoric, a day after his 100th day in office. Nathan Frandino reports.
Hundreds of activists mark President Rodrigo Duterte's first 100 days in office with celebration. Together they hold anti-U.S. posters and wave their firsts in the air, echoing Duterte's criticisms of Manila's military and economic ties with the U.S. Renato Reyes says Duterte is standing up for the country. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTIVIST LEADER, RENATO REYES, SAYING: "We have a president who is thinking of national sovereignty and national interest and who is not bowing down to the United States that is the most important contribution that the president has made in his first 100 days." Duterte has repeatedly cursed the U.S. for criticism of his ongoing drug war. He has also threatened to broker new ties with U.S. rivals China and Russia. But Reyes urges Duterte not to be beholden to those countries either. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTIVIST LEADER, RENATO REYES, SAYING: "We cannot have a repeat of master-puppet relationship with any other country. We had that with the United States, we cannot have the same when dealing with other countries." And that's the kind of relationship Duterte has shown no interest in having.


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- Instead of using holiday fabric, I choose seasonal fabric (reds and greens for Christmas)
- Replace dull blades and needles, makes for more accurate cutting and sewing. However, use caution when replacing rotary blades they are sharp! (Yes, I have trimmed some fingernails and needed band aids. In addition to being a slow sewer, I am also a klutz).
- Dig into your scrap pile. The strips for the log cabin are 1" wide.
- Slow stitching helps with accuracy--the one time when my slow stitching becomes an asset
- If you are new to quilting, the log cabin design is a good place to start. You don't have to worry about points and the design is very versatile
- Nice backs make nice fronts
This is the backing fabric--I thought the white in the fabric is like little stars brightly shinning.


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|Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus - why are the underparts so peachy?
|Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
|Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
|Orange-crowned Warbler Vermivora celata
|Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
|Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
|Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
Westmount Summit + (both cemeteries), May 15, 2017
Turkey Vulture-(1)
Ring-billed Gull-1 (2)
Sharp-shinned Hawk-1
Downy Woodpecker-1 (2)
Hairy Woodpecker-4, including a female showing an unusual peachy wash through the underparts, (2)
Northern Flicker-(2)
Pileated Woodpecker-1 (1)
Great Crested Flycatcher-(1)
Blue-headed Vireo-5+ (4+)
Blue Jay-1 heard (2 heard)
American Crow-5 (9)
Common Raven-(1)
Black-capped Chickadee-6+ (8+)
White-breasted Nuthatch-2 (2)
Red-breasted Nuthatch-2 (2)
House Wren-(1 attending three different nesting sites...decoys?)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet-6+ (6+)
Eastern Bluebird-(2 singing)
Hermit Thrush-1 (1)
American Robin-3 (6)
Gray Catbird-1 (1)
European Starling-2 near the summit
Nashville Warbler-2 near the summit, (2)
Orange-cronwed Warbler-1 (1 by the cannons)
Chestnut-sided Warbler-3
Black-throated Blue Warbler-4
Black-throated Green Warbler-3+
Yellow-rumped Warbler-(10+)
Black-and-white Warbler-4+
Ovenbird-2 (1)
Warbler sp.-an odd olivey warbler briefly seen in the low trees in L5, possibly trilling like a Chipping Sparrow - I have my theories...
Rose-breasted Grosbeak-(1)
Northern Cardinal-2 (2)
Chipping Sparrow-3 (12+)
Song Sparrow-4 (6)
White-crowned Sparrow-1 (2)
White-throated Sparrow-45+ (large group of 80+ rallying and moving north on Mount Murray)
Dark-eyed Junco-(4)
Baltimore Oriole-(1)
American Goldfinch-6+ (10+)


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Author & Artist
Meerkatsu is the artist name for BJJ black belt Seymour Yang.
I'll start by saying I haven't yet started a personal blog because I don't feel like I have yet anything to say (since I've been doing BJJ for only 3 weeks).
But when I do, the last thing I'll care about is those who do nothing but criticize people who talk, muse, debate or (over)analyze aspects of BJJ. You see, there's lots of people like that in every sport. You go to a bodybuilding forum and you'll have a bunch of tough guys whose replies consist mainly of "stop talking about this and go train", "stop counting calories, shut up and eat already". This is as if writing stuff on the internet (or any other hobbie for that matter) is mutually exclusive with working one's ass off on the mat, the gym, wherever. Like I'll stop being on the computer at 11pm so I can go roll an extra hour everyday.
It's just stupid.
Yeah good point Andre.
The only statement from Hywel's article that I take real issue with is this:"I have never come across a bigger bunch of self-obsessed, egomaniacal piss-artists than I have in the world of martial arts."
I would argue that a lot of traditional MA are full, perhaps too full, of the aforementioned p-artists, who not only blog, but litter martial art magazines with articles and fill youtube with their guff and produce books en-masse. So I avert my attention away from these things as they burn my eyes.
I guess i haven't run across the self-obsessed, egomaniacal blogs yet. The ones I've read are usually lower belts trying to sort things out.
But it was a funny, biting article nonetheless. On which board did you run across the link?
The freedom of the Internet. Its a great thing. It allows everyone to have voice no matter their credentials. Even me.
This was the core message for me:
"If you blog about BJJ and you use it as a journal for your training, that's fine. I'm not bothered. I may even be interested. If you use it to communicate with friends and acquaintances who aren't nearby, that's fine. I dig that.
If you're using it to promote yourself as some kind of jiu-jitsu authority or to appear clever, then fuck right off."
In other words, stay humble and you'll be roight guv'nor!
@Steve, the forum thread where I first saw the article is found
I think the same sort of sentiment as that post expresses can be applied to anything else personal that anyone blogs about. And someone will always take issue with the way you write or present yourself. Whatevers. If you don't like it, don't read it. Click "Unsubscribe" and you're done.
For me, I write about everything because everything happened, and this is the way it happened for me. I'm sure I make mistakes, do the wrong things, say the wrong things -- and I have no problem with these being pointed out to me -- but then I've never claimed to be perfect in either jiu-jitsu or life. I still have a lot to learn. Sometimes I learn it as I write, and sometimes as I read back over it later. (And yes, I read back over my own posts even months later. Not to see how great I did back then, but to see what I'm missing and where I can improve.) In many ways, I'm not writing for anyone but myself; I'm just letting you all read it, too.
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One of my tai chi students shared this. It is so true.
A number of years ago, I took the family to watch Hawaii Theater's Sleeping Beauty...
Advice from a woman who's been married sixty-seven years
By Joshua Rogers
Published December 11, 2015
Five years ago, I was at a wedding...
Questions to ask yourself....
!. What has happened
2. What needs to happen
3. How can I make it happen
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Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) September 23, 2016
Middle-market business consultants at Nead, LLC are pleased to announce their latest expansion into online real estate investing for accredited investors. The company has expanded opportunities to include access to high yield hard money lenders, mezzanine financiers and alternative real estate lenders for both commercial and residential real estate deals. Funding options include both debt and equity for various options of the capital stack.
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Accredited investors are defined as individuals with $1,000,000 in net worth outside the value of their personal real estate. An accredited investor can also be defined as an individual whose income is $200,000 for the last two years (or $300,000 a year for two years combined with a spouse) with the expectation that the individual will meet or exceed that level of income in the current calendar year. Finally, an accredited investor can also be an individual or spouse and individual whose net assets exceed $5,000,000 or more.
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Late last summer, Gnorman came to live in my garden. At first I was happy that he had chosen my garden to inhabit, hoping he would chase away the resident rodents who were being so destructive to the vegetable crops not to mention flower bulbs. Gnorman even brought his own little shovel to dig out the rodent holes and evict them. After awhile, though, strange events began to occur. We put in a "beach" area next to our pond, just because we could and because it gave a nice spot where you could walk right up to the edge of the pond to view the goldfish hiding under the waterlilies. I thought it would be a nice to touch to sprinkle some of those sparkly flat marbles among the gravel just because I'm one of those "oh, look! Something shiny!" kind of people. Here is how our little beach path looks.
As you can see, we also have quite a collection of large seashells around the sides of the pathways, not to mention quite a few stray plants growing in the middle. Ack! More weeding to do. My wonderful husband and his grandmother have always collected shells and pretty rocks, and the smaller items I display in a vintage glass cover for a ceiling light fixture which is placed just out of sight of this photo. This is where one of the strange events started occurring. I kept finding small shells scattered along the pathways of the garden in danger of being stepped on and broken. I would always place them back in their proper place, and the next day they would be running amok again. Then my husband would come into my quilting room and hand me a handful of the shiny flat marbles stating he had found them two or three hundred feet out in the pasture. I even found some near the trees in our orchard, a hundred feet from the garden area. Then this morning, I went outside to pull weeds, and found proof of who was moving things about in the dead of night.
The evidence is clearly sitting on the raised bed timber for all to see. You can see Gnorman in the background pretending he knows nothing about it, but I think we all can see, he's been caught!
Believe it or not, I haven't spent all my time lately playing in the garden. I have been quilting away like a madwoman as well, but spring fever has definitely set in here on California's Central Coast. Things haven't looked this lovely for years, thanks to the ton of rainfall that we've been blessed with this last season, continuing up to this past week when we got almost two tenths of an inch. I know it doesn't sound like much to most folks, but when your rainfall average for an entire season is only 16 inches, every drop makes a difference. So far this season, we have received 21.09 inches. Two seasons ago, it was less than 3 inches for the entire season. Some of our neighbors who live in the more hilly areas have nearly 30 inches. As a result of all the rain, our wisteria and lilacs have never looked better. Here is a quick sampling of the eye candy.
Wisteria. Can't you just smell the fragrance?
Rosa banksia (Lady Banks Rose) which blooms only once a year but is spectacular for a few weeks in the spring.
This photo was taken from the farthest Southwest corner of the garden looking towards the orchard which is the tree in the background that has yellowish green foilage. As you can see, all of our 60 something roses are about to explode into full bloom, the smoky orange on the right is my Laura Bush bush. You can also see a little peak of purple wildflowers left on the hill on the far side of the road. Sadly, the hills and wildflowers are just starting to dry up now that the weather is hitting the mid-80s during the day. One last photo of a red-tailed hawk I caught soaring in the skies above our home.
As far as quilting, I have been working on a quilt for the person who won the custom made quilt that I raffle off every December to benefit the youth group at our church. This December's winner is a lady who belongs to my quilter's anonymous group (quilt guild), so I feel pressured to get it perfect. She provided the pattern and most of the fabric. I added some fabric from my own collection because I just couldn't resist going with the theme, which is fall leaves sewn into a very interesting Log Cabin quilt pattern. It required me to figure out how to make trapezoids, a totally new skill for me. In addition, the pattern made the quilt 58 inches square, and she wants it to be a 40 inch long by 70 inch wide wall hanging. This required a bit of a redesign once the center of the quilt was done, but I think I have met the challenge. I don't want to post any photos just yet because she does read my blog on occasion. I probably will have to break down and send her a photo later today to see if she approves of what I'm planning to do for the last border, though I usually try to save the finished result as a surprise for the recipient. Oh, well, sometimes you can't have it all. I guess I better get back to finishing up that border.


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Milwaukee area hiring outlook improves for second quarter
- Author: Rogelio Becker Mar 15, 2017,
Mar 15, 2017, 0:41
In the northern part of the country (including the business hub of Oulu), companies predict there is a greater chance that they will have to resort to redundancies than be able to hire more employees.
Of the 700 Singapore employers polled in the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, 13% of employers forecast an increase in staffing levels, 5% anticipate a decrease and 81% are not expecting any changes.
"With seasonal variations removed from the data, London's second-quarter net employment outlook of seven per cent is a three percentage point decrease when compared to the previous quarterly outlook", said Nikki Sharpley of Manpower's London office in a media release. This is the same for the first quarter, suggesting that hiring intentions in the second quarter are likely to stay relatively stable quarter on quarter.
Five of the ten industry sectors report stronger hiring prospects when compared with the previous quarter.
"I think you see when looking for a job, the positive sign is that employers remain confident, and the confidence that we saw coming out of the last quarter of 2016 continues into 2017, " Layden said. AG Rao, Group Managing Director of ManpowerGroup India said, "The hiring outlook will move at a slow but steady pace as the Indian companies gauge the impact of the ongoing global slowdown compounded by automation in the IT sector and talent scarcity for niche skills". "Furthermore, intense pressure from online retailers and lacklustre consumer sentiment has resulted in the second consecutive quarter of negative outlooks for the wholesale trade & retail trade sector".
Large companies, defined as those with more than 250 employees, and medium companies (50-249 employees) have net employment outlooks of 21% and 10%, respectively. The recent and most high-profile example of this phenomenon was India's online marketplace Snapdeal, which was reported to have laid off as many as 600 employees in February 2017.
Across Asia Pacific, hiring intentions will vary widely.
However, most employers - 77 per cent - plan to maintain their current staffing levels.
- Surrey: 10%, up four percentage points. The public administration & education sector plans to increase employment by 11 percentage points and transportation & utilities by eight percentage points.