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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Remove any excess fat off chicken. Slice lemons paper-thin. Under the skin of the chicken place 2 slices of lemon and 2 leaves of sage. Heat butter in large skillet over high flame. Season chicken with salt and pepper and place skin side down in skillet until golden brown. Turn over and sear other side. Place entire skillet on wire rack in oven and cook for 12 to 15 minutes or until done. Remove from oven and serve over caramelized endive.
In a large saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add your garlic and shallots and cook until translucent about 2 minutes. Place endive in the saucepan, and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 20 minutes over low heat, until endive is tender.


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While it is true that a timeshare contract is a binding legal document, it is often mistakenly thought that such a contract cannot only be cancelled. In fact, most timeshare companies maintain that their contracts are non – cancellable. This misconception is perpetuated by timeshare companies and user groups that are funded, maintained and controlled by the timeshare industry.
The FHA 203k loan program provides home buyers the opportunity to buy and fix up a property, without exhausting their personal savings.
The alchemists of Wall Street are at it again.
The banks that created risky amalgams of mortgages and loans during the boom — the kind that went so wrong during the bust — are busily reviving the same types of investments that many thought were gone for good. Once more, arcane-sounding financial products like collateralized debt obligations are being minted on Wall Street.
The revival partly reflects the same investor optimism that has lifted the stock market to new heights. With the real estate market and the economy improving, another financial crisis seems a distant prospect. What's more, at a time when the Federal Reserve has pushed interest rates close to zero, the safest of these new investments offer interest rates almost double that paid by ultrasafe United States Treasury securities, according to RBS Securities, which was involved in such instruments in the past.
But the revival also underscores how these investments, known as structured financial products, have largely escaped new regulations that were supposed to prevent a repeat of the last financial crisis.
"All of this seems like a fairly quick round trip," said Manus Clancy, a managing director at Trepp, a research firm that focuses on commercial real estate. "You are seeing a fair number of sins being forgiven."
Banks are turning out some types of structured products as fast or faster than they did before the bottom fell out. So far this year, for instance, banks have issued $33.5 billion in bonds backed by commercial mortgages, slightly more than they did in early 2005, when the real estate market was flying high, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
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You wouldn't suspect it from the colour, but Specialized's Enduro Comps are otherwise minimal in their styling.
The material is light but not flimsy, and combines with the easy cut to make these shorts extremely comfy over long distances and hours in the saddle. The textured inner surface wicks well and dries quickly, making them a great warm-weather option.
These aren't shorts with instant hanger appeal, but with a couple of hip pockets, one zipped secure pocket and a deep, stretchy back yoke plus that great fabric, they're transformed on the bike, both in the way they look and the way they perform.
This article was originally published in Mountain Biking UK magazine, available on Apple Newsstand and Zinio.


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I've been itching to ink up and colour this image since I got it, I stamped it up, started colouring it in and when I looked at this weeks LIM challenge the lovely Mandi & Chrissy want us to put it 'In the Frame'. As part of this image is in a frame I'm hoping it counts, if not just throw me out, evict me.
I love Stamps Happen stamps, they have some fabulous images and this one is called 'It's Magic' and is coloured in Copics.
Nothing much else to say about it other that the photograph looks a little blurred - I think I need photography lessons!!!


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News Releases
|Cheniere Reports Third Quarter 2017 Results, Raises Full Year 2017 Guidance and Provides Full Year 2018 Guidance
Recent Highlights
Liquefaction Projects Update
Construction operations at both the
Cheniere reported a net loss of
During the three months ended
During the three and nine months ended
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA2 for the three and nine months ended
"I'm pleased to report our strong third quarter results today, which are a product of continued execution and operational excellence across the company. In addition, we are again increasing our full year 2017 guidance and are introducing our guidance for full year 2018" said
"We are revising our 2017 guidance upward as operating results continue to exceed earlier expectations, and we have greater certainty on results as we approach the end of the year. Our 2018 guidance range is driven primarily by LNG production scenarios at Sabine Pass and expected market pricing for LNG during 2018."
LNG Volume Summary
The following table summarizes the volumes of operational and commissioning LNG cargoes that were loaded from the
In addition, during the three and nine months ended
Summary of Financial Performance
Third Quarter 2017 Results
Our financial results are reported on a consolidated basis. Our ownership interest in
Variances in results of operations for the three and nine months ended
Total operating costs and expenses increased
Selling, general and administrative ("SG&A") expense increased
Included in SG&A expense were share-based compensation expenses of
Although we realized net income before non-controlling interest during the three and nine months ended
Capital Resources
As of September 30, 2017, we had cash and cash equivalents of
Liquefaction Projects
We are developing up to three Trains near
We are developing up to seven midscale liquefaction trains adjacent to the
Investor Conference Call and Webcast
We will host a conference call to discuss our financial and operating results for the third quarter on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at
About Cheniere
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This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements" within the meanings of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements, other than statements of historical or present facts or conditions, included herein are "forward-looking statements." Included among "forward-looking statements" are, among other things, (i) statements regarding Cheniere's business strategy, plans and objectives, including the development, construction and operation of liquefaction facilities, (ii) statements regarding expectations regarding regulatory authorizations and approvals, (iii) statements expressing beliefs and expectations regarding the development of Cheniere's LNG terminal and pipeline businesses, including liquefaction facilities, (iv) statements regarding the business operations and prospects of third parties, (v) statements regarding potential financing arrangements and (vi) statements regarding future discussions and entry into contracts. Although Cheniere believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Cheniere's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including those discussed in Cheniere's periodic reports that are filed with and available from the
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Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA represents net loss attributable to Cheniere before net income (loss) attributable to the non-controlling interest, interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, adjusted for certain non-cash items, other non-operating income or expense items, and other items not otherwise predictive or indicative of ongoing operating performance, as detailed in the following reconciliation. Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to represent cash flows from operations or net income (loss) as defined by U.S. GAAP and is not necessarily comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
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Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA is calculated by taking net loss attributable to common stockholders before net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest, interest expense, net of capitalized interest, changes in the fair value and settlement of our interest rate derivatives, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and adjusting for the effects of certain non-cash items, other non-operating income or expense items, and other items not otherwise predictive or indicative of ongoing operating performance, including the effects of modification or extinguishment of debt, impairment expense and loss on disposal of assets, changes in the fair value of our commodity and foreign currency exchange ("FX") derivatives and non-cash compensation expense. We believe the exclusion of these items enables investors and other users of our financial information to assess our sequential and year-over-year performance and operating trends on a more comparable basis and is consistent with management's own evaluation of performance.
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Location: Crop Improvement and Genetics Research
Project Number: 2030-21220-002-03-I
Project Type: Interagency Reimbursable Agreement
Start Date: Aug 6, 2017
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1. Develop a cenH3-based method for creating doubled haploid grasses like switchgrass. 2. Use the model perennial grass Brachypodium sylvaticum to identify combinations of transgenes that confer tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses. 3. Develop a gene containment system to minimize gene flow from transgenic switchgrass plants. 4. Create transgenic switchgrass plants containing the best combinations of transgenes identified in objective two (2) and the gene containment system from objective three (3). 5. Evaluate the best transgenic switchgrass plants from objective four (4) in field trials.
We will utilize a systems biology approach to develop new breeding tools for perennial grasses and apply those tools toward improving switchgrass. Specifically, we will employ two complementary approaches to overcome the difficulty of breeding a large, polyploid, self incompatible plant. The first approach will accelerate conventional breeding by developing a method to rapidly create doubled haploid lines to create fully homozygous lines for breeding. The second approach is to develop tools and reagents to accelerate the biotechnological improvement of switchgrass including: modules for improved stress tolerance, a test bed to evaluate transgenes in a perennial model grass and a robust gene containment system. This relates to objective 2 of the inhouse parent project, "Objective 2: Identify and demonstrate the utility of crop-derived gene expression control elements.(promoters/enhancers/terminators/insulators) that facilitate trait development in crop plants"


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Saturday, 6 September 2008
A Cats Life
At 5am they are either playing tag up and over my bed or if I have locked them out of the bedroom they will scratch on the door, or if they are outside they will meow outside my bedroom window until I open the door.
I gave up months ago trying to change their habit.....has anyone ever tried to tell a cat what to do!!
As long as I feed them they will let me go back to bed until 7am, which I think is very generous of them.
For the next 9 hours the photographs below tell the story of their busy day!
All said and done, life would be very dull without them and the antics they get up to when they are playing and when they invite the 2 cats next door for a romp up and down my hallway is great fun to watch.
Ellie & Wilson leading a busy life!!!
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- Fly Girl said...
Ellie and Wilson appear to live a charmed life! I love the mirror image photo of them napping... as well as the other showing double-duty as a pillow!
I've had cats, and love them too, but am presently and most often a dog person. My Scout seems to have your cats' routine down pat!
- 7 September 2008 at 07:38
cats and beds are unseprable! We have 1 cat who is "boss" of the bed, no room for the others! It is Maya, and she sleeps at our feet, so that does not bother us. Today, they are all inside, it is raining really hard. Good that they sleep so much. 96 for our blogmeeting now, although we closed the subscriptions, since we had to pay for the meals in advance. People wait until the last minute, even after closing, they still want to subscribe. No idea right now for Miami, since Wim is looking for another job now. It will all depend on that. He will start a course soon for "webmaster" and that should be no problem here to find a job. Hopefully next spring he will have his new job. He used to work in the transport business (logistics) which was too stressful. Bye for now Peg. Hugs, Alida
- 7 September 2008 at 20:51
- Fly Girl said...
Your kind comments made my day when I read them (on the post about my student, "T.") I must admit that I've had my struggles with students in the past, and I probably will again in the future.... I'm far, far, far from perfect. But I do try to be the right kind of caring person, and you were sweet very sweet to comment about me.
I love the photo you added to your heading! Very interesting!
Have a great week!
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Neighbours have described being woken by screaming, then stepping out into the night to see a young man yelling "He's dead, he's dead".
The man, described as a burglar by police, found the body of a man hanging inside a vacant home in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
People close to the 27-year-old say the man had gone to the house looking for somewhere to sleep on the belief it was empty.
Instead, he entered a lit hallway in the otherwise darkened home and found the dead man.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said she heard the young man yelling and went outside to investigate the commotion.
"I come out here and said 'What's happening?' He just came running up and said 'He's dead, he's dead'. I said 'Who's dead?'. He was scared. He was shattered."
"We thought he had moved," the neighbour said of the dead man. "I haven't seen him for about three weeks."
Another neighbour saw the dead man a week ago, but police said he had been dead for no more than a day when the discovery was made.
Hamilton city tactical co-ordinator Senior Sergeant Freda Grace said if the burglar had not discovered the body when he did it could have been days before the man, thought to be in his 40s, was found.
It is understood the young man raced to his mother's house a few doors away and rang police to raise the alarm.
His mother declined to go on record about why her son was in the house, but said he was not a burglar.
Police arrested the man for the break-in and called him a burglar but released him later that morning and Mrs Grace said no charges had been laid.
Mrs Grace said the young man was "known" to police and she hoped the tragic circumstances would alter his behaviour.
Mrs Grace said the whole situation was "incredibly sad".
The death was not being treated as suspicious and had been referred to the coroner.
Several small flowers have been left at the house where the lawns are unmown and junk mail overflows from the letterbox.
The neighbour said the dead man worked long hours and had two children who did not live with him.
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Friday, June 16, 2017
Humble Quilts Have my Heart
24 comments:
LOVE these humble quilts! I've done borders in that "liberated" style.......only I didnt know it was liberated......I just thought it looked neat!! Thanks for sharing this great quilt show.ReplyDelete
so wonderful to see a quilt where the maker didn't worry about perfection, used what she had on hand with the skills she had to exercise her quilty muse....a true quilter in my estimation...ReplyDelete
And I thought my grandmother was a bad quilter!!! Her mother and sister were absolutely beautiful quilters but my grandmother tried really hard!!! I have some of her blocks that are so bad that I don't know what do do with them!!! Thanks for the giggle!!!!ReplyDelete
Polka dot sashing - I'm in love!ReplyDelete
How very interesting! I actually like those half blocks at the top of the quilt. Quirky and I like quirky.ReplyDelete
Yes, they are very liberated, but so loveable because of it! :o)ReplyDelete
Oh, what wonderful humble quilts! I love the "almost reaches" garden maze applique. : )ReplyDelete
And those 4-patches are quite liberated, for sure.
Oh how I wish I could quilt like that.... it's definitely in the style of my grandmother and our family treasures her choices.ReplyDelete
Oh, yes, my favorite quilts too! Thanks for these pictures, the quilts are delightful!ReplyDelete
I, too, love that truly wonky double 4 patch. :) It is especially sweet when you know that four patches were the common first sewing lesson for little children (usually girls). Maybe this is some beloved child's beginning block? So sweet!ReplyDelete
:) Linda
Love humble quilts!ReplyDelete
Those quilts just make you smile and know those quilters must have just loved the process and threw caution to the wind.ReplyDelete
Love these old quilts.ReplyDelete
Mine too! They just have so much more character! Why do we sweat the wonkiness in our piecing. I've been trying to relax and I think it's finally working! I would take a humble quilt any day over something with perfect piecing!ReplyDelete
Oh that little Bear Paw probably would've come home with me! I love those blocks!ReplyDelete
Love those humble quilts - especially the polka dots. And the 4-patches! In the second photo with the red squares, it looks like they made a dart where there was too much fabric. Am I wrong?ReplyDelete
These quilts are great--they obviously go by Tim Gunn's mantra of "make it work"!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2017 at 8:12 AM
I just love these! Makes me wonder about the makers. I think we would have been good friends. ��ReplyDelete
They are precious!ReplyDelete
You are so right about the charm in these quilts. Thanks for sharing more quilts from the show. They are lovely.ReplyDelete
Love how wonky the X's are on that first quilt. Some great humble quilts you shared thank you.ReplyDelete
Really wonderful examples of quilts that steal our hearts!ReplyDelete
I love these humble beauties. You ave such a great eye. The ''flaws'' are what make the quilts so charming! Is that a dart? And the polka dots, how fun!ReplyDelete
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Rick Bayer
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Office: ext. 208
Two words drive me: "life change." I'm amazed by the grace of God that shows up as He changes lives. I love to hear, see, witness and be part of stories of God at work in our community.
Steve Bains
Community Development Pastor
Office: Ext. 209
I enjoy journeying alongside the many people who are interested in knowing God more intimately. I am passionate about working with people who are interested in discovering how they can serve their neighbours.
Chris Reitmayer
Youth Pastor
Office: Ext. 202
I just love the people of Gracepoint and I am so thankful to do life with them. I am passionate about seeing us grow together as a community of Jesus-learners who increasingly seek God's kingdom and dream God's dreams for the world.
Gregg Baker
Worship Arts Pastor
Office: Ext. 213
I am driven to help people discover (and develop) their gifts and talents to bring glory to God and enjoy Him forever. This is how we worship the Lord.
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What gets me up every morning and energizes me is all the people I meet during the day. From the wee ones to the older ones, each has a story and as I listen and interact with them, I am invited into their lives. A great privilege!
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Children's Administrator
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I've served as the Children's Administrator for over a decade and what I find most rewarding about my support role at Gracepoint is simply serving alongside with others - beautifully blending our time and talents to invest in the faith journeys of our kids and to glorify God.
Tracy Baker
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I LOVE my job at Gracepoint and serving my church family! I also find real joy in connecting with others and meeting new people.
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I get to serve my Gracepoint family in KU. Together we are leading kids to live the greatest adventure ever: walking with Jesus. My desire is to know the Father more and to live at home in His love - discipling children to do the same.
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Dear Mr. Gee: you don't punch down
This is pretty fucked up:
"Henry Gee is an editor at Nature magazine. I've met him: he's smart, he's interesting, he's extremely opinionated and often obnoxious, so we have at least one of those things in common. He and Dr Isis have a long-running feud — it may have begun with Gee publishing an awful piece of short fiction called Womanspace, or it may have been something to do with an argument at Science Online, but I don't know and don't care.
But now it has blown up in ways that are ultimately going to be damaging to Gee. Dr Isis is a pseudonymous blogger and scientist, and rather vindictively, Gee has outed her. Why? Because she was mean to him."
(Via Oh, Henry » Pharyngula.)
I'm a science nerd, I even considered a degree down that direction, but realized my passion more aligned with spending time with story. But Nature was one of the magazines I used to pore over in the library, or when I hung out at the college's science center. I had two stories published there, and it was really one of those full circle, realized dreams moments.
However, I after reading the links and following this up, I can't in good conscience say that I'd feel comfortable supporting or submitting my work there again given what is done to those who bring criticism.
Criticism is healthy. Henry Gee is in a position of power, and as I've said before, you don't use power to punch down. Mr. Gee did exactly that.
Punching down is a concept in which you're assumed to have a measurable level of power and you're looking for a fight. Now, you can either go after the big guy who might hurt you, or go after the little guy who has absolutely no shot. Either way, you've picked a fight, but one fight is remarkably more noble and worthwhile than the other. Going after the big guy, punching up, is an act of nobility. Going after the little guy, punching down, is an act of bullying.
I'm far from a prominent scientist, or a major SF figure. But I don't think I care to be associated with this.
You won't be seeing anything from me in Nature in the future.


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(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's ABC network is tapping its blockbuster "Avengers" franchise for a new TV show, looking to reverse a ratings decline that put it last of the four largest networks among audiences coveted by advertisers.
The network is so confident in "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." that it scheduled the show on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. eastern time, where it will face off against TV's top-rated scripted show, CBS' crime juggernaut "NCIS."
ABC plans to air a total eight new shows this fall, according to a schedule of its Fall lineup that was released by the network. It will also retool its long-running hit "Dancing with the Stars," cutting it back from two nights to one after its ratings weakened.
Its "S.H.I.E.L.D." offering is ABC's first effort to translate the big-screen success of Disney's Marvel comics movie franchise to television.
Last year's Marvel movie "The Avengers" and current hit "Iron Man 3" had the industry's largest- and second-largest box office openings in the United States and Canada, and "The Avengers" ranks third in all-time domestic ticket sales behind "Avatar" and "Titanic."
The new TV show will star "Avengers" actor Clark Gregg as agent Phil Coulson, who assembles a small group of agents to investigate strange happenings around the world. "Avengers" movie director Joss Whedon, who created the hit sci-fi TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," will serve as executive producer.
"We believe S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to recruit a whole new audience coming in," ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee told reporters on a conference call. "And we don't necessarily think that audience is the same as NCIS."
The show tested well in "all four quadrants," meaning young and old, men and women, Lee said.
It faces a tough opponent in "NCIS," the top-rated non-sports show on television. The show, which debuted in 2003, this year attracted an average of 21.3 million total viewers, according to Nielsen data, slightly behind only NBC's "Sunday Night Football."
ABC hopes to lure younger viewers with the fast-paced, special effects laden show instead of "NCIS," whose viewers have a median age of 60, Horizon Media analyst Brad Adgate said.
"ABC needs a youth-targeted, male-skewing show," Adgate said.
The network hopes S.H.I.E.L.D. will attract viewers to Tuesday night, where ABC plans an entire night of new shows, including "Lucky 7," a drama produced by Steven Spielberg that follows seven gas station employees in Astoria, Queens who win the lottery.
Lee will unveil the lineup of shows to advertisers Tuesday afternoon at New York's Lincoln Center during a presentation for the "upfront" selling season, when networks try to convince advertisers to buy billions of dollars of ad time in advance.
ABC, like rival broadcasters, wants to bring in new viewers to help reverse audience declines this season. Prime time viewing has shrunk 9 percent at ABC, according to Nielsen data provided by Horizon Media and based on viewing the same day a program airs.
Another Disney-owned network, ESPN, confirmed on Tuesday it is in preliminary talks with wireless carriers about subsidizing data plans to boost mobile usage of its sports content.
"We've had lots of preliminary conversation, but there's nothing imminent," ESPN President John Skipper told reporters following his network's upfront presentation in New York.
"If you remember, in the first generation of smart phones, there was lots of concern that a lot of video ate up the plans in a hurry," Skipper said. "So that's a concern to us because we have lots of fans."
Skipper did not say which carriers ESPN was talking to. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that ESPN had spoken to at least one major U.S. wireless carrier.
The sports network previously tried the mobile market with its own cellular service, Mobile ESPN, which shut down in 2006.
Reporting By Liana B. Baker in New York and Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles; Editing by Ron Grover and Tim Dobbyn


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I am a Christian. There are times when I am not the best Christian I can be, and honestly, those times are plentiful. This whole Bruce/Caitlin Jenner thing has made me ask myself how am I, as a Christian, supposed to deal with it. Not just about this, but homosexuality as a whole.
I am not perfect. No one is. I am a sinner. So is everyone else. God loves me. God loves everyone else. He loves me just as much as He loves everyone.
I have friends who are gay, and most of them are wonderful and funny people. And while personally I think that being gay is wrong, that doesn't mean that I don't respect, nor love, my gay friends. It is not up to me, nor is it my place to tell them what they should or shouldn't do with their lives. It is up to me to love everyone, as Jesus would.


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Functional and able to overcome any obstacle in its way. The Levet can be comfortably worn all winter and promises to be the loyal companion of those always on the go, who savour the excitement of the city to the fullest. A high-performance jacket with winning elegance.
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- Down quilted technical wool gabardine field jacket
- Tuckaway hood
- Metal zipper and snaps front closure
- Snap-flap patch pockets
- Rubberised coil zipper left pocket with side entrance
- Elastic drawcord waist
- Felt Moncler logo
- Short length
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Does your business have a feedback lab?
Does your business have a feedback lab?
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Feedback is a critical part of the improvement process. Without accurate and timely feedback it's almost impossible to improve and learn from our mistakes, be that as individuals, as teams or as organisations.
The Feedback Lab is an organisation looking to aid this process in our civic institutions, be they government bodies or non-governmental organisations. Their manifesto consists of three basic questions:
- "What do citizens want?"
- "Are they getting it?"
- "If not, how will things change?"
With a particular emphasis on the last point of facilitating that change by connecting up the feedback with the people who can deliver change. It's a fascinating, and no doubt much needed, project that will hopefully assist some big improvements in public service delivery.
What about the private sector though? How good is your organisation at soliciting feedback on performance and delivering that insight to the people that are equipped to make the changes needed? Lets look at a couple of the key areas of corporate feedback.
Internal performance feedback
Most of us suffer from illusory superiority bias, which in other words means we often think we're much better at things than we actually are. This is born out by research by various management organisations showing that managers seldom share the same perspective on their performance as the people they manage.
The issue of accurate feedback remains one that too many organisations fail to get right. The annual performance appraisal is far too infrequent to do the job effectively, whilst it's unlikely that many organisations have a sufficiently strong culture to support negative feedback between employees and managers.
"In our organization, we seem to be excellent at praise when things are going well," is a typical response from one such survey. "But when things are not necessarily going well, we are shy about an honest discussion because we fear how this tough (although positive feedback) criticism will be taken. We prefer the silent treatment in fear of offending and de-motivating the individual. Every time this happens, the organization loses."
Of course, feedback shouldn't just be negative. Telling someone they're doing a great job is often the single most effective form of motivation you can offer them, yet is something too many of us are reluctant to provide.
Do you need a feedback lab?
Suffice to say that internal feedback is just one of the various kinds of feedback you can receive on your performance. Customers should regularly be providing you with insights into how you're performing, whether that's by crunching the analytics to spot trends or through more formal feedback mechanisms such as idea storms or customer surveys.
The question I have however is whether feedback is so important that you need a group of people within your organisation who are dedicated to soliciting accurate feedback, and ensuring it reaches the right people (in the right format) to make changes possible? Is feedback important enough to warrant a dedicated team rather than having it as part of our roles as it is at the moment?
I'd be fascinated to hear your thoughts in the comments.
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How long did the Romans remain in undisturbed possession of Gaul?
About 800 years, when various "Barbarian hordes" successively over-ran the country, and drove back the Roman armies.
Who were the principal of these barbarian hordes?
The Burgundians, the West-Goths, and the Franks.
The above statement is from a nineteenth century primer on French history. This one however:
During the second half of the fifth century the mighty Roman Empire in Western Europe collapsed. This was due to a long period of internal decay and the invasions by barbarian hordes.
is from 2014.
The idea that the Middle Ages began with "barbarian hordes" sweeping down out of the north to destroy what had been Western (i.e., Roman) civilization is an enduring one. Along with this comes an idea of these invaders as forest-dwelling primitives who brought on "Dark Ages" of chaos and destruction. This image is all the more persistent for being useful; writers who want to foretell the next decline and fall of Western civilization regularly invoke it to suggest what awaits us:
Djuvara believes that these "barbarian hordes" will transform "civilized and prosperous Christian Europe of today into Euro-Indo-Arabia of tomorrow."
Unfortunately, anyone unfamiliar with this era may well, however unconsciously, envision it in these terms, seeing early France as a lawless place where cities had essentially disappeared, where people lived in isolated enclaves straight out of numerous TV shows and films set in some uncertain "Dark Age" where only lone heroes like Conan or Xena could fend off marauding bands and isolated petty tyrants. Of the food, one blogger recently wrote: "The entirety of the Roman Europe became taken over by Barbarians, that is, a variety of Germanic tribes. These northern invaders relied on subsistence agriculture and foraging for wild plants."
Running all through the "Dark Ages" image is that old theme of the "barbarian hordes". As Brewer notes, the main such groups in France were the Burgundians and the "West-Goths" (Visigoths), but above all the Franks. What then were the Franks like? Did they sweep into Gaul, destroying everything in their path? Were they indeed primitives, living on "subsistence agriculture and foraging for wild plants"? And did they reduce Gaul to a similar state?
How destructive was the Frankish invasion (if that's what it was) of Gaul?
Consider this overview of the conquest of Gaul by the "civilized" Romans:
The death toll over these eight years likely rose into the hundreds of thousands... and tens if not hundreds of thousands more were enslaved. Some entire communities were largely wiped out – the Veneti and Eburones for example, and the inhabitants of Cenabum.
The (necessarily estimated) figures vary: "In the course of seven years, Caesar had... killed perhaps a million people;" (Nardo); "The casualty figures for the Gauls, Germans and Britons combined ran into the hundreds of thousands;" "Caesar's Gallic War must have dealt a major blow to the size and balance of Gaul's population." (Gilliver/Whitby)
No such figures exist for the Frankish take-over of Gaul, in part because it was far more rapid but also (as will be seen) the Franks, however violent they were in specific raids or battles, did not overall seek to displace or even especially change their subject populations.
Compare this too to the behavior of a far more "civilized" group in later centuries: the Spanish, who found two flourishing, sophisticated cultures in South America and... eradicated them. Nor was it the Franks who forced their fellow human beings to fight to the death for the entertainment of bloodthirsty crowds.
Viewed under these lights, the Franks (like some of their fellow "barbarians") come out looking pretty good.
This said, one cannot deny the Franks' reputation for ferocity. There are indeed cases where they massacred at least small groups of people and they did take some time to lose their old habit of living by pillage. In one famous incident, one of Clovis' sons, Theuderic (reigned 511-533/534), silenced rumbling from his followers by allowing them to loot and pillage Auvergne (but in part, it seems, because he thought the people there had betrayed him). While civil wars would later cause much suffering, such profit-minded raids would largely end until the advent of the Vikings centuries later.
When Clovis' last Roman opponent fled to the Goths, the Franks threatened them with war if he was not handed over. The Goths' role in the fall of Rome has left them with an enduring reputation for ferocity, but these Goths (Visigoths) chose to hand their guest over, in chains – because, Gregory of Tours notes unkindly, "fear is natural to the Goths". Certainly, the latter too were not the bloodthirsty primitives some might imagine, but it is also true they were Arians – that is, to Gregory's mind, heretics (though Christians) and so objects of his contempt.
In another famous case, the Thuringian king Hermenfroi made the mistake of betraying Theuderic. Theuderic and his brother Clothar (reigned 511-561) invaded and devastated Thuringia (and took Hermenfroi's niece Radegund, then a child, to later make her Clothar's wife). But this was hardly the impulsive violence of untutored barbarians; to the contrary, it was a reminder not to betray the Franks.
This is ironic because, if the Franks were not randomly and crudely violent, they were one thing: treacherous. Not least to each other. In fact, the long litany of murders, cruelties and wars which makes up much of Gregory de Tours' History of the Franks is above all between them. A ringing example comes from that very invasion of Thuringia. Theuderic, having enlisted his brother Clothar's help in that effort, then planned to kill him. Rather comically, Clothar spotted the feet of the intended killers under a curtain, thwarting the plot. Still more amusingly, Theuderic, to lull his suspicions, gave him a great silver platter as a gift, then, regretting it, sent his son after Clothar to ask for it back. And got it. ("Theuderic," writes Gregory, "was very clever at such tricks.")
Not all such family quarrels ended so humorously; the Frankish monarchs (and their relatives) seem to have been more dangerous to themselves than anyone else. Unfortunately, when this led to civil war or war with other Germanic allies, it was often civil populations that suffered. But the same would be true through much of French history, no matter how "civilized" the government.
As for the murderous quarrels themselves, anyone who considers these proof of the Franks' barbaric nature might compare them to the incidents in I, Claudius, which, though fiction, is based on actual Roman history. If the Franks come off poorly in the comparison, it is only because their cruelties were less refined.
Invaders or saviors?
Whatever the Franks' true nature, were they indeed unwelcome outsiders, come to conquer Gaul; or were they familiar allies of the Gallo-Romans, and their saviors?
The latter, some historians argue. Trends in history change, and this one may be contradicted in its turn, but an increasing number of modern historians see Clovis' triumph in a far more benign light. Before even citing such positions, however, it may be necessary to clear away some demonstrable misconceptions.
One is any idea that the Franks "came out" of any place, dark forest or otherwise. Arguably, this may have been the case when they first appeared in Roman Gaul, but by the time Clovis (430 – 486/487) became the first French king (c. 486), the Franks had not only been settled in much of what is now Belgium, they had been interacting with the Romans for some time. In fact, they had been their allies, or at least their clients. (Much of the Roman army in fact was dominated by Germanic soldiers by then.) Childeric (c. 440 – 481/482), Clovis' father, had fought alongside the Romans against the Visigoths and the Saxons. The two cultures were in regular contact. Russell: "Geary has demonstrated the existence of a long tradition of Frankish exposure to Roman material culture and Roman military tradition."
Lorren draws this picture, largely based on archaeological evidence:
In a general way, there was not in the Vth century a substitution of one civilization for another: German migrations did not brusquely put two peoples in contact who did not know each other. The reality is certainly nuanced but, without reducing so complex a phenomenon to a simple slow and peaceful penetration, without taking into account combats and attacks, one can admit that this epoch marks the completion of a long period of permanent contacts and of interpenetrations.... It is not a question – which would be unthinkable – of the substitution of one population for another but of the progressive copenetration of two civilizations. Already before the Vth century, a mixed civilization was created which pursued and solidified itself in its originality after it.
One would expect an "invasion" to lead to the replacement of the defeated by the victors, at least in many places. But instead, writes Lorren, one sees a new civilization emerge:
This new civilization, based on compromise and synthesis of diverse elements leads to the rebirth also of multiple indigenous influences which had preceded the Roman epoch, such as already Germanic or Celtic influences for example. Cemeteries common to Germans and the local population, agrarian life, the anthroponyms and toponyms, vestimentary or familial habits attest not to a competition or a struggle but a fusion.
Another misconception is that Clovis defeated any substantial portion of the Roman power. In fact, there was very little Roman power in the north by then, so little in fact that a Roman official named Syagrius (430 – 486/487) was able to run a kind of rump state centered on Soissons (and so somewhat optimistically called "the kingdom of Soissons" by Gregory de Tours). This was the Roman that Clovis defeated to become ruler of Gaul (albeit, initially, a small part of it). The fact that such a minor character (or, more precisely, his father) had been able to establish such a power base gives some idea of how little influence the Empire exercised at this point.
In other words, there was a power vacuum at this point, one no more advantageous to the Gallo-Romans than the Franks. Werner, looking at these events, writes:
Nothing... allows us to speak of "conquest": Clovis' Franks were the allies, if not the saviors, of the Gallo-Romans, and the enemies – better, the rivals – of other Barbarians.
It is Remy of Reims, a key contemporary witness, who with a single word converts our conjecture into certainty. To members of the high clergy who dared criticize Clovis' memory, the old bishop evokes the merits of the great king, who was "custos patriae" ["protector of the country"].
(Some readers might object, reasonably enough, that the Franks did loot and pillage along the way, especially at the start, making them strange "saviors" by modern standards. But consider that as late as 1639, the citizens of Abbeville still suffered depredations from the very soldiers sent to protect them. (Louandre) It would remain the case long after the medieval era that armies were dangerous to civil populations, no matter what side they were nominally on.)
Far from being driven out or killed by the Franks, the Gallo-Romans remained the main occupants of Gaul:
Far from being driven out or killed by the Franks, the Gallo-Romans remained the main occupants of Gaul:
My research... has led to the conclusion that it is not the "Frankish people" who "conquered and occupied" a country, but a king, or rather a dynasty, who took power in a regnum which already existed. In declaring himself, after the fact, chief of all the Francs (rex Francorum), he gave the name of this people to the regnum which from then one was his: regnum Francorum. The elite itself of this kingdom was not exclusively Frank. The king's subjects were, if one may say, multinational, but in the majority Gallo-Roman; they nonetheless made of the qualification for their king, rex Francorum, a sort of manifesto, or tool, of their political identity. In fusing with the Frankish elites, the Gallo-Roman elites helped the king guarantee the continuity of social life.
"If the Franks were barbaric brutes," Werner asks, "why did they not brutally let the subject populations know that they must accept their defeat and submit to the victor's law, which modern historians, they, know so well how to describe?" He goes on:
Well, the Frankish kings never make the legitimacy of their power repose on conquest, but, to the contrary, on a peaceful legitimacy. In their clementia principalis (an imperial formula), they display their desire to be the protectors of their subjects. In the acts of nomination of high functionaries..., they exhort the latter to respect the law of all the gentes: Franci, Romanis (named immediately after the Franks), Burgundiones and all the others. Roman law was never abolished; it continued to apply for the Romani and, of course, for the Church.
And in fact, as numerous writers have pointed out, the "conquered" influenced the "conquerors" as much, if not more, than the other way around:
In the mass of Romanized populations of Gaul, the "intruders" were Romanized rather rapidly (with the exception of the north-east and a few enclaves)... As for the Roman elites in Gaul, the bishops who came out of them would be richer and more powerful than before under the Merovingians, who would make the number of abbeys rise from a few units to several hundreds.... It is privileged classes, Roman and barbarian, who will direct Frankish Gaul.
No doubt opinions differ on this complex subject. But certainly a number of modern scholars view the Franks, not as destructive conquerors, but as a force for order at a moment when Rome had largely abandoned that role.
Perhaps the strangest accusation against the Franks is that they destroyed what civilization they found. It is probably far fairer to say that they failed to restore it to what it had been. Roman cities in Gaul, for instance, were already in decline before their rule: "Most late Roman fortifications in Gaul... enclosed a much smaller area than had been inhabited previously." "most Roman centres in Gaul suffered during the disasters of the third century." (Nicholas); "Archaeology shows that the cities of northern and central Gaul suffered general, gradual, but very real decline in the late empire and post-Roman periods" (MacGeorge).
The Franks were poorly placed to restore the technologically and bureaucratically advanced culture that had preceded them. But they hardly set out to destroy it. If anything, many showed an almost childlike eagerness to imitate it. Written law, for instance, was unknown to the Germans. Yet all the Germanic groups, not only the Franks, but the Burgundians and the Visigoths, were quick to have their laws set down in writing (necessarily in Latin). Clovis issued edicts in Latin almost from the start. Fortunatus mentions thermes (hot baths) in Clothar's palace and Anthimus records various Roman delicacies – sow's womb, peacock – and seasonings served at Theuderic's table. Gregory of Tours tells how Chilperic (reigned 561-584) had circuses built at Soissons and Paris "where he gave shows to the people" (Chilperic also wrote Latin verse, though Gregory claims it was execrable). He also describes two dissolute bishops who regularly went to the baths before dining, just like any decadent Roman.
The Franks were poorly placed to restore the technologically and bureaucratically advanced culture that had preceded them. But they hardly set out to destroy it. If anything, many showed an almost childlike eagerness to imitate it. Written law, for instance, was unknown to the Germans. Yet all the Germanic groups, not only the Franks, but the Burgundians and the Visigoths, were quick to have their laws set down in writing (necessarily in Latin). Clovis issued edicts in Latin almost from the start. Fortunatus mentions thermes (hot baths) in Clothar's palace and Anthimus records various Roman delicacies – sow's womb, peacock – and seasonings served at Theuderic's table. Gregory of Tours tells how Chilperic (reigned 561-584) had circuses built at Soissons and Paris "where he gave shows to the people" (Chilperic also wrote Latin verse, though Gregory claims it was execrable). He also describes two dissolute bishops who regularly went to the baths before dining, just like any decadent Roman.
Once Clovis had converted, he and subsequent Merovingian kings financed various religious institutions, thereby reinforcing the wealth and authority of what remained an essentially Roman church.
If cities remained weak, they hardly disappeared or lost their importance. Metz, Soissons and Paris would all house royal residences. Bishops were established, as a matter of course, in major cities and church councils were held in them.
The Franks had excellent reasons to adopt two Roman institutions: taxes and tolls. After all, why burn and pillage a city when you could simply collect revenue from it on a regular basis? This did not always go smoothly; after two of her children died, the otherwise sulfurous (in Gregory's view) Fredegund told her husband to burn the tax rolls. But basically the whole Roman system of wills, contracts, donations, and all the financial apparatus such documents supported became, in whatever form, standard in France.
France was not always well-governed, not least because of in-fighting among the Franks, and key aspects of Roman infrastructure, such as good roads and public education, declined or disappeared. But none of this was due to any willful destruction by the Franks or any other Germanic groups. Roman culture was unique and represented centuries of development. The Franks simply were not equipped to revive its almost mechanical structure and efficiency. Still, their fundamental embrace of their subjects' culture can be summed up in one very simple fact: France for centuries has been a Latin, not a Germanic, country.
If cities remained weak, they hardly disappeared or lost their importance. Metz, Soissons and Paris would all house royal residences. Bishops were established, as a matter of course, in major cities and church councils were held in them.
The Franks had excellent reasons to adopt two Roman institutions: taxes and tolls. After all, why burn and pillage a city when you could simply collect revenue from it on a regular basis? This did not always go smoothly; after two of her children died, the otherwise sulfurous (in Gregory's view) Fredegund told her husband to burn the tax rolls. But basically the whole Roman system of wills, contracts, donations, and all the financial apparatus such documents supported became, in whatever form, standard in France.
France was not always well-governed, not least because of in-fighting among the Franks, and key aspects of Roman infrastructure, such as good roads and public education, declined or disappeared. But none of this was due to any willful destruction by the Franks or any other Germanic groups. Roman culture was unique and represented centuries of development. The Franks simply were not equipped to revive its almost mechanical structure and efficiency. Still, their fundamental embrace of their subjects' culture can be summed up in one very simple fact: France for centuries has been a Latin, not a Germanic, country.
Other barbarians
Of all the Germanic groups, few have as ugly a reputation as the Goths, whose name has lingered on as a threat by rebellious adolescents in the form of a movement meant to be frightening. Much of this reputation rests on their role in the fall of Rome (410).
First, note that the Goths were divided into two groups: the Visigoths (the "West" Goths) and the Ostrogoths. The simplest thing to say about the latter is that they produced one of the greatest and most admired rulers of this period, Theodoric the Great (reigned 475–526), who established a kingdom at Ravenna which was one of the glories of its time. Otherwise, it was the Visigoths who sacked Rome.
This event occurred under Honorius (384-423), who was then emperor in the West (already a weak position at that point). Stilicho, a Vandal-Roman general (showing in itself how integrated Germanic groups were with Romans), was Honorius' guardian in his youth and the best defender against the Visigoth Alaric (reigned 395–410). Ultimately however Honorius distrusted Silicho and had him executed, two years before the sack of Rome.
People suspected of favoring Stilicho had already been slaughtered mercilessly within Rome. Once he was executed, says Greenwood,
the Roman soldiery... could find no more appropriate mode of testifying their joy than by murdering the wives and children, and pillaging the property of the barbarian auxiliaries entrusted to their protection.... The kindred and relatives of the slain flocked together from every quarter, and simultaneously threw themselves into the arms of Alaric for redress and retribution.
Even then Alaric restrained himself and sought only monetary compensation and an exchange of hostages. "The proposals of Alaric were rejected, and the only chance of safety to Italy and Rome was wantonly thrown away."
Yet even then Alaric only blockaded the city, ultimately winning concessions and promises of further ones. The story for a long time after this is of near-concessions by the Romans, last minute refusals, a moment when Alaric was actually welcomed by the Romans, still further dithering until:
the Gothic king saw himself duped by the imperial government, his warnings derided, and his menaces met by defiance; no course remained but to convince his adversaries of their error by woeful experience; and he resolved reluctantly, but firmly, that Rome should pay the penalty of the willful folly of her vain and capricious ruler."
Greenwood goes on:
It is impossible to withhold our praise from the temper in which Alaric approached Rome. Every precaution was taken to restrict, as much as possible, the bloodshed and destruction, which, in case of capture by storm, could not be wholly prevented. It was strictly enjoined that the lives of all who took refuge within the churches... should be spared; and that in the pursuit of plunder the warriors should abstain from needless outrage or vengeful slaughter.
(Note that the Goths themselves were Christians, though Arians.) Greenwood allows that events were probably bloody nonetheless, but adds "if the proper allowance be made for the impression the event itself was calculated to produce, and for the character of the assailants, we think the amount of suffering inflicted and endured will be reduced far below what might have been expected."
The sack of Rome then followed craven, indecisive and even murderous behavior by a weak Roman administration and was, if not restrained, intentionally limited by its leaders; nothing like the savage, unrestrained orgy of impulsive destruction a brief resume might suggest.
Alaric died shortly after. The Visigoths then ended up in the south of France, where they established a kingdom that lasted for several generations, "the first barbarian state to be firmly established on imperial soil, the state traditionally known as 'the kingdom of Toulouse'" (Musset). At this point (418) they become feodorati of... Rome. That is, less, than a decade after the sack of Rome, the Visigoths were back in the Romans' good graces. Though the Visigothic occupation in Gaul was hardly pacific – some of the most searing descriptions of barbarian atrocities come from this period – they soon established a state whose later legal codes would show remarkable balance and care for the rights of both barbarians and Romans.
The other main Germanic group in early France was the Burgundians. These Burgundians, who probably came down from Scandinavia, were very unlike the refined aristocrats who would later create the reknowned Burgundian court. The history of the Burgundians is harder to reduce to broad lines. They became Catholics early on, which distinguished them from the Arian Goths, for instance. They also served as feodorati, apparently faithful feodorati, of the Romans. Very little about them, in fact, suggests the violence or conquest often associated with the word "barbarian". They too would establish a moderate and balanced legal code; ultimately they would end up being assimilated by the Franks.
Final thoughts
The individual stories of the Germanic groups in Gaul are complex and too extensive to more than outline here. But hopefully one thing that is clear from the above is that none of these were crude, forest-dwelling savages living by destructive impulse. By the time these groups made inroads into Gaul, all had had enough contact with Rome to be influenced by, even attracted to, its values. These groups, too, showed nuanced and strategic thinking. If all were capable of violence, all too lived in violent times. By the time they were established in Gaul, they showed signs of looking beyond looting and pillaging as they, more or less consciously, moved towards settled lifestyles. What is more, quite far from trying to destroy what remained of Roman civilization, they attempted, however clumsily, to embrace and revive it.
The most important point here is that the very phrase "barbarian hordes" is of dubious use in serious history. These were individual groups, with individual histories, and not undifferentiated masses of wild-eyed primitives. Anyone seeking to understand this period will want to start by looking beyond such stock phrases.
Andradi, Satyajith "MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM AND THE RISE OF POLYPHONIC CHURCH MUSIC" The Island July 18, 2014
Paugh, Dr. Ileana Johnson, "Demographic Suicide and Ethnic Replacement", Canada Free Press July 14, 2014
Karl Ferdinand Werner, "La "conquête franque" de la Gaule : itinéraires historiographiques d'une erreur." Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes V154 1996
Russell, James C., The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: ASociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation 1996
Nicholas, David M., The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century 2014
Musset, Lucien, The Germanic Invasions: The Making of Europe, AD 400-600 1975


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Grief and DementiaA 6-minute video on the losses and grief associated with dementia, both for the person with dementia and for his/her families/carers.
FreeDem FilmsFreeDem Films, an initiative of the NEIL Programme at the Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin with support from GENIO, have developed a series of 10 creative films which aims to tackle the stigma and fear associated with the diagnosis of dementia in Ireland. The ten films are short animations covering different aspects of memory, understanding and living with dementia:
- Can your memory go completely?
- How does memory work?
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- How can we include people with dementia in our community?
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Fashionista Goes Shopping is a lilac jelly with white hexagonal and smaller-sized "sand" glitter. The lilac base colour is quite bright, but not neon or in-your-face bright shade. Noticeable bright, that is :)
*The nail polish was kindly provided by El Corazón company for my consideration. In this post I expressed my honest and unbiased opinion about the product.


text: New Standard Equities Acquires 276-Unit Apartment Community in Port Orchard, WA for $38.15 MillionFebruary 23, 2017 PORT ORCHARD, WA - A newly formed joint venture of New Standard Equities (NSE) and an affiliate of Brixton Capital has acquired Arbor Terrace, a 276-unit multifamily community in Port Orchard, WA, from Sea 1800 Sydney Avenue, LP in a transaction valued at $38.15 million. Arbor Terrace is the second acquisition in the immediate area in less than two months and third in Kitsap County in the past year for NSE, a Los Angeles, CA-based real estate investment and management company, noted CEO and founder Edward Ring. "We love the value-creation opportunity at Arbor Terrace," said Ring. "When we initially looked at this asset we immediately saw a tremendous potential to improve the property's cash flow through renovation. Given that the US Navy is such a huge economic driver in the County, we became even more excited about the prospects for continued long-term growth in this submarket." NSE's $3 million repositioning budget includes a full renovation of the asset's 1995-vintage unit interiors, and improving the fitness center, leasing facility and general curb appeal of the property. Arbor Terrace complements NSE's recent $13.25 million value-add acquisition of the 120-unit Village Fair apartments in Bremerton, WA from a private seller. NSE plans to invest an additional $1.8 million to bring Village Fair, a 1984 vintage asset, up to modern standards. The two assets, in combination with Sea Glass Village, a 182-unit community the firm purchased in March of 2016, brings NSE's asset base in Kitsap County to 578 units, at a total cost basis of more than $65 million. Andrew Kirsh, co-founder and head of the real estate practice at Los Angeles-based law firm, Sklar Kirsh LLP, represented the buyer in this transaction, and was instrumental in bringing together NSE and Brixton Capital Group. "The market volatility following the election created a challenging atmosphere which seriously threatened the deal," said Kirsh. "I was happy to be in a position to bring the two groups together to launch an important new joint venture, not just for this transaction, but for other value add opportunities that will benefit both firms in the future," he said. The acquisition was leveraged with a $30.15 million loan from Freddie Mac, which was arranged by CBRE's Capital Markets Group led by Vice Chairman Brian Eisendrath. New Standard Equities / #Apartments #Multifamily


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Some cool designs from Stubborn Sideburn, designed by talented Japanese artist Junichi Tsuneoka, who describes his style as, "California Roll," combining Japanese pop culture and American urban culture together into something very unique and eye-catching. (mmm… California roll)
All of STBN SDBN tees are hand crafted, and are printed in ultra-limited numbers of less than 24 per design (only 24 of each!?) adding that, "It's more of my design output purpose. I would rather design more than produce same thing over and over."
He also showcases some slick sticker and print designs from his store at stbnsdbn.com. I look forward to seeing more designs from the very talented Mr. Tsuneoka, as he is off to a great start!
Check out some of the stickers; these designs would also look great on some t-shirts:


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Samsung Epix i907 manual leaked
After BGR showed us today the new Sasmung Epix i907 un-boxed pictures, we investigated more and we found the official manual for the new Epix. Here are the manual pictures and specifications.
- UMTS/HSDPA; 1900 and 850 and GSM EDGE quad band
- 320×320 pixel touch screen;
- 2Mpix camera;
- Wi-Fi;
- Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 OS
- Stereo Bluetooth
- Themes customization
- AT&T navigator
- Micro SD card up to 16 GB
- Screen 320 x 320 pixel 65K colors
- SMS and MMS
- Voice Memo
- Microsoft Voice Command Technology for voice recognition


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Whether you're a local business looking to increase awareness of your products or services, or simply want to support a unique community asset, we're always open for a chat... we have tea & coffee, just bring biscuits.
Or maybe you're a representative of a local cause or community project and wish to spread your message, we can help you do that too. Being a non-for-profit community organisation ourselves, we fully understand the challenges that may bring and are always ready to help.
Music is what brings most of us together here, and being able to support local artists to important to us. So if you are performing locally, or want to come and play live on-air, get in touch with us.


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New Orleans Pelicans big man DeMarcus Cousins had to be helped off the court after suffering what head coach Alvin Gentry called an Achilles tendon injury Friday night.
[Stream the NFL Pro Bowl live on the Yahoo Sports mobile app]
He went to the floor late in the Pelicans' 115-113 win over Houston Rockets and could not put pressure on his left leg while being helped off the court.
Sources told Yahoo Sports' Shams Charania after the game that Cousins suffered an Achilles tendon tear.
New Orleans All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins has initial diagnosis of a torn left Achilles' tendon, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. He's on way now to get MRI to confirm.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 27, 2018


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Fracking company INEOS's recent takeover of a rival energy company, Moorland Energy, has revived concerns that the company may be planning to build a gas processing plant near Thornton le Dale. Planning permission for this plant was approved in 2010 by the then Secretary of State for Communities, Eric Pickles, after the application was rejected by the NYCC.
Anti-fracking campaigners warn of 'industrialisation of the countryside'
Anti-fracking campaigners say this move by INEOS highlights the true intentions of the company and the threat that the fracking industry poses to people living in the area and Yorkshire's successful tourist industry.
Russell Scott of Frack Free North Yorkshire said, "Fracking is a heavy industrial activity which requires thousands of wells to be financially viable. But it's not just the number of multi-well fracking pads that will devastate our countryside – there is also a huge amount of related infrastructure that will be needed, including water treatment plants, new pipelines, dehydration plants, compressor stations, new roads – and of course gas processing plants like the one planned for Thornton le Dale."
David Davis, from Hovingham, says: "Planning permission for the gas processing plant at Thornton le Dale is still valid until later this year, which is a gift to any company wishing to frack Ryedale. INEOS can easily apply for an extension to this permission, and may decide use this gas processing plant in order to process the gas from nearby fracking well-pads
Ian Conlan, of Frack Free Ryedale, added, "fracking entails many such gas processing plants, as well as thousands of lorries near to people's homes. This move will increase our resolve to oppose the wholesale industrialisation of Ryedale."
[1] For company's change of name document, please see attached document, or go to https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06559929/filing-history , click on filing history, and scroll down to 14th December]
[2] Again go to the above link and click on the People tab for information on Gary Haywood and Tom Pickering.
[3] see attached screenshot from http://frack-off.org.uk/extreme-energy-fullscreen/ – PEDL 120 is the dark grey block which includes Helmsley and Thornton le Dale. If you use this screenshot, which you are very welcome to do, please credit Frack Off]


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To get the full effect of this week's RTW, you should probably go ahead and read Lee's super amazing poem on the YA Highway post, but the gist of the topic is: What do you want Santa to bring you this year?
Well, I could be totally lame and say that there's nothing I need from Santa -- I already have a great fiance and child and the best friends ever -- but I can certainly come up with some material things I wouldn't say no to if Santa decided to bring them. (Shoot, I don't have a chimney! hehe.)
I've sort of wanted a Kindle for a while, and lately I've really wanted one. I'm never going to stop buying physical books, ever. But I can only own so many, and a Kindle would be great for reading books I want to read but don't want to own, and also for reading friends' mss.
I would also take any and all of the millions of books on my to-read list. What is up with all the new awesome books coming out before I can get to the old awesome books?? (But don't stop coming out, new awesome books!)
A new couch, maybe, because I haven't bought one yet for my new apartment.
A device that slaps me every time I chew on my sweatshirt strings. It is so gross and yet I CANNOT STOP.
The awesome red Wii! Obviously I'm not going to buy one because that's just stupid, but I totally think that people who already have Wiis should be able to exchange theirs for the pretty red one.
A million dollars. (What? I promise, I would spend it wisely!)
Share your own post on YA Highway, and while you're there (speaking of gifts!) check out our holiday giveaway if you haven't yet. Lots and lots and lots of prizes.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
RTW: What do I want from Santa?
To get the full effect of this week's RTW, you should probably go ahead and read Lee's super amazing poem on the YA Highway post, but the gist of the topic is: What do you want Santa to bring you this year?
Posted by Kaitlin Ward at 9:45 AM
Labels: Roadtrip Wednesday, YA Highway
10 comments:
- Katy said...
A million dollars? No problem! My To-Read list is out of control too... hoping to knock some of that out during the holidays. Merry Christmas!
- December 15, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Jennifer Hoffine said...
Shoot. I forgot to ask for the million dollars. That would take care of a few of my stresses:)
- December 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Alicia Gregoire said...
I like the money portion, but who wouldn't?
Great list.
- December 15, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- Sarah Enni said...
Seriously. That's like the red-and-white Twilight versions. If it's new and shiny and pretty I want it SO BAD. I would trade it in for sure.
- December 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Kate Hart said...
A million dollars. I would also like to go to there.
- December 15, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Abby Stevens said...
Maybe I should've added a million smackers to my list, too. Smart thinking, Kaitlin. ;)
- December 15, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- Pam Harris said...
There's a red Wii?? *scurries to Google*
- December 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- Kaitlin Ward said...
It's a limited edition Christmas one! Maybe it's already gone, but I saw it in a store one day and I wanted it SO MUCH. (Sarah, ditto on the red and white Twilight books. I so so want them!)
- December 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- Gracie said...
You chew on sweatshirt strings... I chew on headphones, I've already broken two pairs and got a few shocks... not fun. I seriously need to break that habit!
- December 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM
- Horserider said...
Wait...they have red Wiis? O.O I'm with you on the e-reader. I'm hoping to get a Nook sometime in the next eight months. I'll never stop buying and reading paper books, but it's so shiny...
- December 17, 2010 at 7:19 PM


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The Minister of Transport Phil Twyford has dismissed rumours that the Warkworth to Te Hana section of the Road of National Significance (SH1) will be canned.
Rumours arose when the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) postponed three information days about the indicative alignment for the motorway, scheduled for this month.
However, Mr Twyford issued a statement stating that investigations and planning for the motorway would continue.
"The Labour-led Government has not altered any existing roading projects except Auckland's East-West link," Mr Twyford says.
"Investigation work by the NZTA into the Warkworth to Wellsford project is continuing as it did before the election."
NZTA could not confirm when a final designation on the route would be released, but a spokesperson said it would not be before the Government's policy statement on land transport was released in April.
"The Government has signalled this is likely to include new priorities for transport investment throughout New Zealand and will influence the timing and funding required for existing work programmes to proceed," an NZTA spokesperson says.
Meanwhile, Labour MP and Rodney resident Marja Lubeck confirmed that the Labour Party was in the process of discussing priority projects for transport.
"I see the congestion on State Highway 1 so, in my opinion, it's definitely a priority project," Ms Lubeck says.
Phillips Road property owner, Mark Illingworth, who could be affected by the motorway, is frustrated that no information has been released about the final route.
"I haven't heard anything since half-way through last year and I would like confirmation of a route so I can make some decisions around my land," Mr Illingworth says.


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Sunday, 14 April 2013
My {travel} Journal for Venice
15 comments:
- Sue @ Miss Phoebes Perch said...
What a beautiful book! I hope that it will become a wonderful record of your nice trip. Have fun!
- 14 April 2013 at 13:53
- Beth Leintz said...
Love all the different papers you used.
Let us know how "on the road" journalling goes. I know I've tried to keep travel diaries, but it can be hard on vacation because sometimes by the time I'm back to my hotel, I'm just too tired to write.
Whether you journal during your trip or when you get home, I'm anxious to see the pages.
- 14 April 2013 at 16:13
- Claudia said...
Your journal is lovely! Have a wonderful time in Venice.
- 14 April 2013 at 16:32
- Leanne said...
oh I'm so excited you're going! I hoped for a trip there this year, but I think perhaps I was being a tad unrealistic...
Your journal looks wonderful -- do share the pages when you get back! Have a fabulous time....
- 14 April 2013 at 17:18
- Rhonda said...
Safe travels, Tina. You will have a fabulous time. Your travel journal is beautiful and yet practical.
I cannot wait to hear all about your trip!!
- 14 April 2013 at 17:28
- oldgreymare said...
Tina it is perfect right now without a word in it, but it will be spectacular when you are finished with it..
Safe and wonderful travels my friend
- 14 April 2013 at 18:11
- Sandra Kaye said...
OOOOOOooooo...LOVE it!!! You did great my friend!! I wish I was going with you :):) You have totally inspired me to make a Paris journal. I go in September:):) Dont forget to IG while you are in Venice..I want to see whatcha doing:):) Hugs-S
- 14 April 2013 at 18:39
- morkaren said...
Den bog ser skøn ud, jeg håber du må få en dejlig tur til Venedig, og have mange uforglemmelige minder med hjem i den fine bog. knus morkaren.
- 14 April 2013 at 20:23
- Elizabeth Johnson said...
Its beautiful. You inspire me.
- 14 April 2013 at 22:49
- suziqu's thread works said...
Gorgeous Travel Journal here Tina. I can see how excited you are about the trip by your journal creation also.
A perfect time to go and hope you really enjoy your stay there.
Happy Journalling!
x Suzy
- 15 April 2013 at 00:01
- the paper addiction said...
How fabulous - I hope you have a fabulous time!! Your journal looks delicious! xx Michelle
- 15 April 2013 at 08:57
- Karen said...
Your travel journal is so lovely. I hope you have a wonderful vacation in Venice.
- 18 April 2013 at 00:50
- ingridp said...
Ohhhh Tina, how lovely. I was in Venice just before the Ticket To Venice and I made the book after. Tell me if you want two very good restaurants!
Have a good trip,enjoy
- 20 April 2013 at 23:18
- jan b. said...
l-o-v-e it!
- 5 May 2013 at 19:57
- pheobe22 said...
Hurrah, that's what I was trying to get for, just what a stuff Presented at this blog!! Thanks admin of the site. Cheap Travel
- 8 June 2018 at 08:26


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Time to start the NEAR END COUNTDOWN !
Or maybe it just has some cool looking disco balls crashing into each other.
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Radia Tapes: 062 - Radia, G.Ganapathy Subramanium (ET)
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The Power Tapes
on Outlook India
(Phone rings)
Niira Radia: Yeah Ganu, hi.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Hi. Two minutes? Do you have two minutes?
Niira Radia: Yeah yeah, go ahead.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam:
I didn't disturb you yesterday, I only sent only messages because I thought it must have been a busy, busy day, you know, with all kinds of things going around. One unrelated thing I wanted to tell you. One, we are on some kind of a, uh, test launch uh, you know, soft launch tomorrow...and for budget some big, you know, programming is being planned. So our people will get in touch with you.
Nira : He is - Sridharan is in touch with me.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Yeah, yeah, that's right. Knowing other guys, you know, they cannot be really trusted, you know what, it is suggested that one or two big names from this group, say Muthuraman or whatever can uh sort of you know, join the programme etcetera, form discussions and some CII panel. If they are anyway going to be part of CII panel, maybe you can maybe advise them to, you know, sort of participate in some of the ET discussions etc. So that will be good because one, there will be join programming with Times Now so that will give a little more mileage, and also they will have a better rapport with the people
, even though there are different levels, the rapport may not (inaudible) at this level it will be good.
Niira Radia: But Ganu, where are you people going to be airing? Because you're not on Tata Sky yet, right?
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: I think Hathway guy has signed up, he is the first.
Niira Radia: Who? Hathway?
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Hathway, yeah, and Tata Sky I think the discussion still going on it's not finalised...I think Airtel fellow has signed. And others are yet to sign.
Niira Radia: Okay.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: So they are also letting it happen in a, you know, step by step manner.
Niira Radia: Uh huh.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: So that you know, from the soft launch, as we move towards the budget, there will be uh more uh wider footprint.
Niira Radia: Right.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: But on Budget Day till say about 2.30 we are on Times Now. The programming on ET Now will be on Times Now as well.
Niira Radia: Uh huh.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: So, that way it is interesting.
Niira Radia: OK. I'll uh...I am trying to get Muthu. I have got mail from Sridharan. I am trying.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Yeah yeah yeah. So that'll be good no. Like, why should your people not be there?
Niira Radia: I don't know Ganu, generally if you notice our trend in the past is that we've never commented on budget, we do, I mean we make certain comments...but limited, because that is not been (inaudible) of Tatas...you know that.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Yeah yeah, what they can do is instead of directly commenting on the budget, they can comment on the situation [inaudible] on what is happening in the economy, what is happening to the revival process what is happening internationally and what are ideal things for us to sort of look at...and that way.
Niira Radia: Okay, let me ... I got the mail yesterday, I'll take it up today.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Okay.
Niira Radia: I'll do that. We were supposed to meet today or tomorrow, Ganu?
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Pardon me?
Niira Radia: Were we supposed to meet today or tomorrow?
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Uh uh...Who?
Niira Radia: You and I were supposed to meet, no?
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. You tell me,
, whenever. I mean, I'm okay today also but only reason I did not disturb you yesterday was because I thought that yesterday was a hell of a busy day. But whenever you tell me... today also. Afternoon if you...I'm going to be free from 12 onwards. I have one little meeting now uh, Planning Commission, that will be over. And after that I am free. May be 11 to 11.30 I will be with Montek After that I am free.
Niira Radia: Uh, Ganu, I've got a couple of issues. I will reach office 3 o' clock probably. Let me call you, because I don't know how my day is.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Sure sure, you either send me a message or you know, give me a call, no problem at all.
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: So tentatively I should keep 2.00, 2.30 free, right?
Niira Radia: No no, because I don't know...I will reach office only around 3:00 I think
G. Ganapathy Subramaniam: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay fine. I will wait for your message, then.
Niira Radia: No because there's a -
(Tape ends abruptly)