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Seaspan Contracts to Build 5 New 4,520 TEU Vessels
Seaspan Corporation has signed contracts to build five new 4,520 TEU container vessels with Samsung Heavy Industries. Concurrent with the signing of the newbuilding contracts, the Company has signed 12-year time charters with Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K-Line"), Japan's third-largest liner operator and ranked 13th in the world by TEU capacity.
The 12-year contracts are secured at strong rates. The Company also announced debt financing for these newbuildings will be provided from a portion of its more than $900 million of new debt financings that were completed today.
The five newbuildings, which include the latest in design innovation to enhance each vessel's cargo carrying capabilities, are scheduled to be delivered between September 2010 and October 2011. With these five newbuildings, Seaspan's contracted fleet will grow to 68 vessels, including 29 vessels currently in operation that have an average remaining charter coverage of approximately 8 years. The 39 newbuildings have time charters averaging approximately 11 years in duration from delivery.
Gerry Wang, Chief Executive Officer of Seaspan, stated "We are excited to once again grow our modern fleet and enhance our leadership in the container ship industry in a disciplined manner that best serves our shareholders. First, concurrent with this transaction, we are pleased to have secured more than $900 million in debt financing under favorable terms for our entire fleet of 68 vessels. Second, by expanding our relationship with K-Line, we have secured our newbuildings on attractive long-term time charters with another leading publicly traded liner company with one of the strongest credits in the industry. Third, this accretive transaction meets our strict return criteria and positions the Company to significantly increase both its EBITDA and distributable cash flow over time, a top priority for Seaspan. Finally, we continue to diversify our revenue base as we seek to further take advantage of our integral role in the global infrastructure for the delivery of consumer and industrial goods from areas of production to areas of consumption. Going forward, we will maintain our commitment to draw upon our strong balance sheet and capitalize on attractive growth opportunities as we have done in expanding our fleet by 243% on a TEU basis since our initial public offering in August 2005."
Under terms of the Company's new $900 million debt financings, the long-term fixed interest rate will be less than 6% with an interest margin of 55 basis points over LIBOR. Seaspan plans to fund the acquisition of its five new 4,520 TEU container vessels as well as the Company's previously announced acquisition of eight new 13,100 TEU container vessels through borrowings under its new expanded debt facilities. Upon completing these acquisitions, Seaspan's potential available debt capacity will total approximately $1 billion, of which $550 million is available immediately.
Seaspan also announced it has accelerated its newbuilding delivery schedule for 2008. The Company expects to take delivery of six 2,500 TEU newbuildings this year, up from two as originally planned. The six vessels, which represent 15% of the Company's order book, are expected add a total of $7.4 million and $5.6 million in incremental annual revenue and EBITDA, respectively, for 2008.


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A PERVERT known as "Stevo Paedo" has been told he could go to jail after he exposed himself to teenage girls making their way to school.
Steven Mewes would hang out in undergrowth, targeting children using a nearby path to walk to a school in Washington, Sunderland magistrates heard.
Two 15-year-old girls first spotted Mewes on May 22, but they carried on walking, and it was not until the following day that he exposed his private parts to them.
The girls saw the 33-year-old who appeared to be urinating, while making noises to draw their attention, prosecutor Paul Anderson told the court.
"June 3 is pretty much the same situation," Mr Anderson said. "The girls are walking to school when they see the same man.
"As they get closer, one of them looks away to avoid him, but there is some noise made and the other girl looks across and his trousers are down around his thighs and she can clearly see his penis exposed. He has tissues covered in blood in his hands. The man just stands there."
When the two girls bump into a friend, they realise that they are not Mewes's only victims.
"She says 'that's him there, he's been flashing me', Mr Anderson said.
"These girls know him. He is colloquially known in the area as Stevo Paedo."
On alerting school staff, police were called.
Mewes was arrested the following day after officers retraced the girls' steps and found him in the same spot.
He was later picked out by two of the three girls on an identity parade.
"He was interviewed and said he didn't do anything, and didn't know anything about the incident," Mr Anderson said. "He didn't know he was called Stevo Paedo." Having initially denied any responsibilty, Mewes later pleaded guilty to two counts of exposure under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, in that he intentionally exposed his genitals, intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm or distress.
Mewes has previously served a "substantial term of imprisonment" for a "very serious offence sexual offence", the court heard.
Previously of Sulgrave, Washington, Mewes gave his address in court as a supported housing scheme in Fordfield Road, Sunderland.
Defence solicitor Ian Jordan asked for a pre-sentence to be prepared by the probation service.
"He has a long history of learning difficulties," he added.
Mewes was bailed on condition that he does not go near any school.
The bench warned him that all sentencing options, including imprisonment, will be open to the court when he is sentenced on November 1.


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Dignified & / and Efficient: The British Monarchy in the Twentieth Century
first edition Hardcover
2000 · Wilts
by Douglas-Home, Charles; Saul Kelly
Wilts: Claridge Press, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition, 2000. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 242 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, a bit of creasing to the edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. (Inventory #: s00019202)


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Full many a race is lost
Ere ever a step is run,
And many a coward fails
Ere ever his work's begun.
Think big, – and your deeds will
Grow, Think small, and you'll fall
Think that you can – and you
Will . . . .
It's all in the state of your
With the devastating events of this year's summer weather beginning to affect what could be termed the moral fibre of so many people's lives, these simple words of encouragement offer a small measure of support at a time when our climate seems to be straying far beyond the parameters of extreme circumstances normally recognised within living memories.
In the countryside, rural dwellers share the feelings of fellow townspeople amid their despondencies of flooded homes and are becoming acutely aware of their strong affinities with the soil and its associated fortunes of the fields, especially upon this year's apprehensive brink of harvest time.
Already, July's dispirited sodden days are casting immediate implications upon the agricultural scene. As far as farming weather records go, the greatest harvesting adversities occurred in 1879, 1912, 1927, 1946, 1963 and 1985.
In these quoted seasons I believe it would be quite conceivable that thoughts clung to the Biblical faith that "seedtime and harvest shall not fail". These seasons are categorised in terms of practical difficulties getting the crops off the fields and not necessarily in terms of yields.
The immediate concerns arising from excessive rainfalls obviously relate to abnormally high water tables in the land, causing tremendous traction difficulties with the modern machinery in the fields, and ultimate long-term destruction of soil structure.
In short, the scale and magnification of harvest field mechanisation seems to be heading for greater problems with the ground conditions of our wettest summers.
It is interesting to note that there is a much deeper historical significance in the revolution of the mechanical harvest and its unfortunate clashes with inclement weather conditions.
The inventor of the first reaping machine in the north country was Mr John Common, who farmed at Denwick, in Northumberland. His machine was the original projector in the principle of the original harvest binder, widely used until the middle of the last century.
wet harvests
His invention was tried and tested in conspiratorial secrecy – "secretly in the middle of a broad moonlight night" – in early September 1811, obviously an opportunity of dryness in a year with a perilous harvest.
Surely, this remarkable feat of engineering against all odds with the weather gives valid reasoning to the quote: "Think that you can, and you will''.
The sequel to this was that John Common gave the designs of his reaper to his trusted friend, Mr John Brown of Alnwick, an ironmonger, with the idea of constructing the reaper in wrought iron. However, his friend made a hasty passage to America, handing over the secret documents to an inventor, namely McCormack, resulting in the exhibition of the McCormack reaping machine in the Great Exhibition of 1851.
The year 1811 was the fifth in a consecutive series of six producing disastrously wet harvests between 1807 and 1812. The spring of 1811 had been warm and sunny following a severe winter, but unseasonably cold and windy weather damaged the wheat crops at the time of ear emergence in midsummer, followed by ensuing storms of rain and wind throughout July, August and September, with just a short opportunist break for harvesting in early September, although the task was not completed until late November.
'pack of hounds'
Climatically in that second decade of the 19th century, Britain was still struggling through the 'Little Ice Age' years which spanned the period 1500 until 1850.
Infamously, the year 1816 was described as the year without a summer. No doubt many people will be thinking that history is on the point of repeating itself!
In spite of current events, do not pre-judge the season, it is far too early to write off this summer altogether. Admittedly, the advocates of climate change (note the diplomatic switch of expression from global warming! ) are resembling a pack of hounds in full cry – this really is their moment!
Yet unconvincingly, their theoretical landscape of debate remains full of potholes. The case of July's weather is just one simple example, when climatologists began to notice a dramatic warming trend in the month's temperature figures in the latter part of the last century, not to mention an equally startling decline in rainfall averages.
As July scorched its way through the mid 1990s, the future die for British summers was well and truly cast, – heat and drought.
However, since 1997, excitement has faded, July has well and truly bucked the supposed trend, with mounting rainfalls and cooler temperatures, with the exception of 2003 and 2006.
Perhaps the modern theorists should accept the fact that the weather will never be an exact science and concentrate their studies on Nature's way of restoring balances.
Richard Jefferies' observations of harvest-time merciful redemption beneath the brilliantly cloudless skies of September 1879 spoke volumes when he wrote ," The sun shone in a cloudless sky, and agriculture appeared suddenly to shake off a long, unwholesome torpor".
Saint Swithin's blue skies last Sunday may have promoted an element of legendary hope with the weather situation, and with high pressure now beginning to occupy an area to the south-west of the British Isles, stretching across towards France, there is now a tendency for the Atlantic low pressure systems to move from mid-Atlantic on a more north-easterly tracking, introducing more mobile westerly conditions, although their associated fronts will still move across the country, being more active across the North and weaker further south.
Still rather unsettled, with some occasional rain or showers, but our region should benefit from westerly or south-westerly winds giving sunshine advantages eastwards from the Pennines across the Vale of York. Temperatures seasonal normal, 66 - 68 F (19-20 C) but becoming warmer as the week proceeds.


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Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family". But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
When I see a new release on audio of a classic book read by a great actor or actress, I'm in. Sometimes it doesn't work. Here, Tim Robbins' rhapsody perfectly pitches this futuro de fuego novel that for most of us was required reading in school. The boy I was surely did not appreciate Ray Bradbury's talent for telling fantastic stories or his prose or the value and experience of *Fahrenheit 451.*
This book, with Tim Robbin's narration, lit up my literary fervor with a tale of how life would be without books, and has ignited my interest in Ray Bradbury's other books.
More valuable than the credit spent, this enthralling audiobook is a reminder of the value of literature and, more than that, an infernal blast!
62 of 70 people found this review helpful
I have lost count of how many times I have read or listen to this book. This time was the most pleasant and I felt I got the most out of it. Robbins is my kind of narrator. Some might think him too dramatic, but I appreciated the feeling he put into the reading. The book is divided into three parts, with the first part being the best.
For a book written in the 40's it is amazing all the things Bradbury predicted. He predicted the death of newspapers, he predicted sitcoms, the word intellectual becoming a swear word, ear buds and people listening to something all day, Reality TV, and schools becoming more about sports then about academics. He also predicted that lots of people would be more likely to vote for the most handsome candidate, but that may have already been in practice during the 40's I don't know. He goes on about how we will need to be entertained at all times. This made me laugh, as just the other day I put coffee in the microwave, set it for 35 seconds and then worried about how I was going to fill the next 35 seconds. Some of these may be controversial, but in my mind he hit the nail on the head.
Part two was really good and part three was good. I thought in part three he got too poetic and dramatic, but Bradbury has been known to do that from time to time. His worries about over population did not happen and we did not have a bunch of nuclear wars. Books have not disappeared, they have gotten bigger, RE: Sanderson, Gabaldon, Hobbs and George RR.
Tim Robbins was great. When audible first came out with actors as narrators, I was not for it. I felt I was being disloyal to my favorite narrators, such as Dick Hill, Ray Porter, and Will Patton (who is an actor). So far, I have heard Robbins and Hathaway and both were great and made the books they read a pleasurable experience. I guess they aren't just pretty faces.
25 of 29 people found this review helpful
"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I read this in Jr. High. What a waste. I wasn't ready for Bradbury. I mean I liked Bradbury. I read a bunch of his short story collections and even dabbled with his books. But I failed at that young age to appreciate Bradbury's language. I was reading for plot. I missed the words, the texture, the depth of his words. There is a reason this is a classic and will continue to be a classic. It is damn good. It is important. It is still relevant and still sucks the wind right out of me. Save 100 books from my burning house. This might not be one of the hundred, but only because it is burned into my brain and I won't ever forget it.
19 of 22 people found this review helpful
I'm ashamed to say that during High School I made the grave mistake of using cliff notes to get through reading Fahrenheit 451. I did that for most books in High School and College and am just now going back and reading the for the first time. Like Orwell's 1984, Fahrenheit 451 is as relevant if not even more so in today's culture.
The first thing that struck me about Fahrenheit 451 is that it's actually a pretty straightforward and easy ready. Unlike many books that are "assigned reading" Fahrenheit 451 has a straightforward premise. It's set in a world where firefighters instead of putting out fires, start fires by burning books, and anyone associated with them.
What rang true most of all was towards the middle of the novel there's a scene in which the main character, Guy Montag is interacting with his wife and her two friends. It's a scene in which he reads a couple verses of poetry and the reactions of each of the characters was so distinct and so different that it took me off guard. The way in which Bradbury is able to convey the dichotomy between wanting to be happy and avoiding reality is something I wrestle with. Do I ignore the injustice in the world for my own happiness or do I fully embrace the fact that there are horrors taking place all around me?
And that's what I loved most of all about Fahrenheit 451, it made me contemplate my own life. I didn't find the story to be overly satisfying, especially the ending, but the questions it raises are profound. And its because of that, that I'm disappointed I hadn't read it earlier and urge anyone who likes my cliff noted my way through it to go back and enjoy this marvelous novel.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
I never read Fahrenheit 451 in school like most people, so this was my first time. The story was tragic, inspiring, and thought-provoking. And in a way, terrifying, like most dystopian future novels tend to be when we notice the similarities to present day society.
Tim Robbins was amazing. He shouts when he needs to, he gets excited, he gets flustered and embarrassed. So far Robbins has been the best to listen to.
35 of 42 people found this review helpful
I got this audio because I've always wanted to re-read the book. I haven't read it since elementary school. I know it's always different in your head on what voices go with what character, but I could not get over the narrators annoying impersonations. Except for Montag everybody else sounded like a hillbilly redneck. I understand they are firemen so maybe they're a little rough around the edges, but it was always the same. What really was the tipping point for me was the wife's voice. It just sounded like a whiny teenage girl that always ended her sentences in questions. Very similar to the fake voices they use in that movie White Chicks. I audible, but I think I'll stick to the actual book for this one.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Have you ever read one of those books that while you're reading it, you know it's changing your life and the way you see things?.... This book blew my mind. The simple fact it was written in 1951 and it was so spot on with so many details that are going on right now in our society. Thank God we still have books though :-) but a lot of the other things are going on right now. This was a phenomenal book. I am not the same person. I'm going to read another book by Bradbury called "Dandelion wine" I really like this author and I can definitely see his influence on Stephen King.. If you haven't read it I recommend doing so as soon as possible :-) my only complaint and it's a small one I did not love the narrator. Sometimes the voices were killing me. Mildred the wife sounded like Jocelyn from Bob's burgers. But it was fine and I could deal with it because the story was phenomenal
8 of 10 people found this review helpful
Would you consider the audio edition of Fahrenheit 451 to be better than the print version?
Yes - It renews the current nature of this classic.
This was an amazing experience - Couldn't stop listening
Who was your favorite character and why?
No question - Guy Montag is solid with sensitivity and depth. Clarisse gives the story direction that further rounds out Guy as the lead.
Have you listened to any of Tim Robbins's other performances before? How does this one compare?
Tim Robbin's performance was terrific - beyond any of my expectations! It made this an instant classic all over again. I have not heard any of his others but now he, as a narrator, has my attention.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I was riveted unlike anything I expected. As my headline states, How is it possible for a book from the early 50's to be so on target with where we are today? When originally read, it leaned science fiction. Now, it's far more the reality of our current technological times.
Any additional comments?
Brilliant. A Must Listen!
11 of 15 people found this review helpful
I hesitated buying Audible Studio's Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) because it seemed almost sacrilegious. But I've got three print versions and my kids have an electronic text version. Bradbury - who died in 2012 - had to have licensed at least the first Audible version, and his estate must have authorized this version. If the author said "okay," why shouldn't I listen? As busy as I am, I won't have time to read the text version again until I retire. And, well, Tim Robbins is the narrator.
It's impossible to write a review of "Fahrenheit 451" that hasn't already been written by Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, or some high schooler robbed of the magic of discovering Bradbury independently and forced to read the book. I just hope that the fact it's required reading doesn't obscure Bradbury's absolutely brilliant science fiction storytelling. ATMs? Earbuds? Flat screen TVs? They're all there - more than 60 years ago. But it's more than SciFi to me - it's horror.
Fear is very, very personal - I understand scary spiders, but snakes? Sure, boa constrictors can be a little intimidating, but California King Snakes are just about the cutest things to slither the ground. I've heard not everyone feels that way. For me, "Fahrenheit 451" is one of the most horrifying stories ever. I watched Francois Truffaut's 1966 movie version when I was 11, several years before I read the book. That night was the first time I woke up screaming from a nightmare. The books - burning the books. It was as if my friends were being burned alive.
The reason I keep personalizing the book and the review is that Bradbury's writing is Art, with a capital 'A.' Like all true art, it means different things to different people at different times. As a teenager, I don't think I realized it was dystopian - and I sure missed Fireman Guy Montag's feelings for his wife, Mildred. I got the overt symbolism, but only because a 9th or 10th grade teacher whose name I've forgotten made me learn it for a test.
Unfortunately, I wasn't impressed by Robbins as a narrator for this book. He's a fine Guy Montag, but as Mildred Montag and Clarisse McClellam? Ow. Mildred was biting and shrill, which is appropriate for her character - but it still hurt my ears. Robbins' Clarisse came across as vapid, and that wasn't good for a profound character.
For those of you playing 6 Degrees of Stephen King, this Audible performance is 1 degree. Robbins played Andy Dufrense in Frank Darrabont's 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption." That was based on King's 1983 novella, "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," published in the "Different Seasons" collection. Here's a less commonly known connection: King is a huge Bradbury fan, and "Fahrenheit 451" uses the term 'The Running Man' several times. King wrote an okay novella called "The Running Man" (1982) under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. which was made into a better - or maybe just funnier - 1987 movie of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Bradbury's influence on King is far beyond just that subtle tribute. For example, his 2014 "Revival" revives the Bradbury's traveling carnival from "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
The title of this review comes from dandelions Clarisse picked for Montag.
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53 of 77 people found this review helpful
Suffered through it just to see what all the stars were about, pretty slow and painful!!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Any additional comments?
The story is a classic, but the narration takes some getting into. The voice acting for the characters is great throughout, but the narration in the early scenes feels a little rushed and, at times, a little clunky. It gets better as you go through the book, and there are some points in which Tim Robbins really captures the frustration and drama of the world in which the protagonist lives. By halfway, the narrating style had me on the edge of my seat, so well worth persevering with if you find it poor at the start. As i say, the story itself is great. A really fantastic tale and a great overall audiobook.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful
Really thought provoking book. Took a while to get into and finished all too soon. Can't believe it was written in the 50's - must have had a crystal ball.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful
I loved every single word and enjoyed every second listening to this book. This will be one of the very few books I will listen to again.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
The start was a bit difficult to digest but then I've grown into it and now I simply love it. There are some passages which have a clear resonance with our modern world.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
Excellent narration and well worth a listen. A brilliant story and one we hope will not be our reality.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
Compulsive listening. A world without books would be a frightening thought. Knowledge of for everyone.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
I really loved this book and the narration was amazing. I'd recommend it to anyone. and it's so short it's not a big commitment.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
Tim Robbins was incredible often hooked me in and the ending was so emotional but full of hope
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
The story is set in a twisted future of our world - one where all media is heavily controlled and 'fireman' are there to burn books.
The lead character is conflicted - does he maintain the status quo or challenge it? Is the lesser life currently provided safer or happier? Should he make a stand?
The message behind the story is similar to George Orwell's 1984 but told it's unique way. Tim Robbins delivers a top performance - a little too quick in places but still an excellent listen.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
I tried reading this book at school (mainly because it was quite thin) and couldn't get past the first few pages. The same was true when I downloaded the audiobook; the first 15 minutes were quite difficult to appreciate. However, after that I was completely hooked. This is such an important book because, even though we may not be burning books at the moment, we might as well be; far too few people - especially amongst the young - are interested in literature at all. This book frames the whole issue in a thrilling story which grips.
The narrator did an excellent job, really bringing the characters to life, but I deducted him one star for putting extra commas in long sentences which aren't actually there. Don't worry about that, though, download this very important book.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
incredible, very relevant to today
one of the best narrations I've heard as well l
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
This is a great story that everyone should read (especially these days in a multimedia world which almost directly reflects the world described by Ray Bradbury). I like Tim Robbins as an actor but I am disappointed with this presentation. It is over dramatic at times with gasping and shouting and his voice choices are not as good as they could be. His female voices sound like Monty Python's Mrs Knickerbater at times.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
This is a great book. Satirical but not comedic. It is a dark tale of personal redemption and a societal correction after society has taken some very wrong turns. Robbins is great as a narrator.
It took me a little while to get into it but I'm so glad I did. Tim Robbins was very,very good as Montag. The only thing I didn't like was the production credits being shouted over the beautiful music that swelled as the book finished. If your going to shout every production credit DON'T bother with the music!!!!! Totally ruined the ending. Tim Robbins should do more books. 😉
There aren't enough stars to rate the performance of this audio book. Tim Robbins is brilliant. I was on the edge of my seat.
So good. an emotional performance of brilliant subject matter. It's 67 years old and will remain just as relevant today as it was then as it will be a thousand years from now.


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well this is my first build, is for a support(offensive) this is my first build is taric
I hope you enjoy this build is made as follows aa, ap, ot is for people who like to not be the simple support wich this behind the line and just doing healing and stuns
in this build i will say it's very good for the person to go alone in the line or gank a lot like a build is in fact too aggressive but I hope you like it .... atleast test it thx
ok i pick greater mark of insight cuz taric need some mpene thats for make dazzel or can be when we break the shatter.
For seals i pick greater seal of reflenishment because that's no lie that taric mana runs out very fast and also when we finish the build is going to realize that when we use the ULT will need more mana either to pressure or to take down a tower
and the last glyph is greater glyph of potency is only useful on early game for make good heals and maybe hit pretty good with the dazzel of shatter
for the quintessence i pick greater quintessence of swiftness cuz taric don't need extra hp or cd but on this build you will see you can be too much agressive and is good ohhh!!!! and i forgot when you get gank the movement speed can save you
Summoner Spells
ok on summoner spells i pick flash and exhaust because as i said earlier mind is an offensive build support flash can help you alot in gank cases and exhaust if pretty good when u are on 1v1
but you can also choise teleport and flash or maybe if your team don't got much mana burn like galio or ryse maybe can use running and clarity
mmmmm use the ult always when ur team if on a team fight or if they are hitting a turret and if u are alone well dude put it on and break the turret .... taric burn too much mana so learn to life with that ...
ok i have to say this is my first build so i don't know much about post images and explain too much about the skills and that but i hope you guys like it but that depends of the gameplay of the summoner
well the only thing can i say is enjoy playing with taric and get a nice lane parther (pusher) can be pretty good with this build thx alot ......
Pros / Cons
pretty agresive
great pusher
good survavility
can handle pretty nice the damage
good heals
early game is hard for this build
run out of mana fast
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- Victoria Ndunge and Makueni Senator, Mutula Kilonzo Jr. were in a court drama early September over a baby
- It seems Victoria Ndunge is enjoying the attention since she took to social media to brag that she the most google Kenyan
Makueni Senator, Mutula Kilonzo Jr. was sued early September by Victoria Ndung'e Musyoka who was accusing him of neglecting his duties as a parent.
Their case went viral and many eyes starting prying on them especially, Ndung'e.
Ndung'e, however, seems to be enjoying every bit of it.
She took to Facebook to brag that she's the most google person in Kenya now.
Ndung'e is said to have received a car from the senator valued at KSh 1.8million, land, and a 15-year-long life insurance policy whose maturity is worth KSh 5,000,000.
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Offer yourself a sacrifice……….Day 13
100 days of the most popular scriptures according to Gateway continued.
How majestic is our God?
Who can create such incredible things?
While we are about our business this incredible flower is doing what God commands it to do day by day.
Just be beautiful…..
The 13th scripture of the 100 day poplar verses.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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And here's today's quote of the day: For all those Game of Thrones lovers, here's what Lord Varys tells Tyrion in an earlier episode of season 5.
"You have a lot of admirable qualities Lord Tyrion, Self Pity is not one of them"
If you haven't started watching the season 5, I would strongly recommend that you do. The entire series without doubt is one of the best television series ever made. The dialogues, screenplay, story, acting – gosh everything is so well integrated that it completely sweeps you away.
And as for today's quote of the day and the choice of topic – Self Pity!
We have all been there haven't we, sometimes knowingly and most times unknowingly. And the reasons we have been there can be plenty, sometimes gut-wrenching and sometimes just to gain the sympathy and attention of people around us. And sometimes we are just there cos the situation seems extremely daunting and there seems to be no way out. But nevertheless we have all been there!
We all are pretty proud people and we very well,l know that we can take very good care of ourselves. But somehow it happens without our knowledge doesn't it? We all slip and the we have all fallen depending on the intensity of the challenges we have faced. If you claim that you have never fallen prey to self pity, then I would say that you have not challenged yourself sufficiently. Cos it is as natural as the fear of failure and sometimes a little more intense and grave too.
So what do we need to do in such a situation. We all need a little attention and a little care. Sometimes we all need that someone who knows what we are going through and appreciate that life has problems. We don't want someone to magically come and solve our problems. But all we need sometimes is just a listening ear. We talked about the 6 Sensible Quests To Solving Our Problems and how daunting each one of them becomes. But before we get there, we first need to garner our own strength and realize that there is one and only one way to solve our problems and only one person who can help us with that – US.
And deep down, we all seem to know that but we do crave for that attention cos let's all face it – we all are but human and realizing that each time is quite a brilliant thing indeed. A person can easily profess that self pity is wrong and heck as per the rules even I am supposed to do that. But for us, more than what is right or wrong, what is more important is how you feel about it and what is the best way for you to solve the problems than preaching about them.
If you are feeling pitiful about something, it may sound immoral and it may sound stupid but go through that self pity anyway. We all have that healing process, let it heal but don't let that dominate you. You are bound to feel tired of feeling sorry for yourself and find a moment where you realize that you are ready to take on the real challenge than its symptoms. Our only and only recommendation is to try and get there as soon as possible cos we all know that TIME is the only precious resource we have and we better make the most of it.
Self pity or not, but make sure that it is not eating into the precious emotions that define you. It is just a phase and treat it just like that. Any more importance you give to it is a sheer waste of time. Like Lord Varys says – of the many admirable qualities, self pity is certainly not one among them and we need to figure a way out of it and we need to figure it soon to get back on the track of our lives.
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School Scholarships – The ministry provides uniforms, school shoes, gym uniforms, tennis, school supplies, transportation and food for junior/senior High and college students for $40 per month.
Water purifiers ($50) and yearly replacement filters ($20) – The families can use dirty water from river that is purified 99.9% by the purifiers and replacement filters to provide better health care for their families.
Food distribution – Monthly the ministry distributes beans, rice and corn to help supplement the families food supply based on monthly donations. $300 to $400 is needed.
Baby pigs ($25) – Each family receives a pig that they raise and later sell and use the profit to buy another pig or chickens.
Eco Stoves ($160) – Each family receives a stove and a lean to is built to shelter the stove so they can cook outside. The stove uses less wood.
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Thailand's bond market has grown rapidly since the May 1997 devaluation of the baht that plunged the region into economic crisis.
The first major spur for the market came in June 1998 when the government was forced to support cash-strapped financial institutions - in the form of the Financial Institution Development Fund established by the finance ministry - by resuming issuance of government bonds.
Having stopped issuing in May 1990 due to their fiscal surplus, the government put out a Bt400bn offering and has continued to issue to finance the budget deficit since. In the process, it has established a benchmark yield curve that goes out to 20 years.
"The main constraints on the development of a Thai bond market before the crisis was that the government had no deficit or need to fund itself," says Chatri Sotangkur, head of fixed income, sales and trading, at Citibank in Bangkok. "After the crisis, the government had a huge deficit which led to ample bond supply which enabled it to establish good benchmarks."
He continues: "The government started to realise that without a bond market it would be difficult to stabilise the financial sector while encouraging disintermediation of commercial banks and the establishment of a bond market as a funding alternative."
The government's plans are gradual, though: it wants to develop a yield curve slowly but surely, rather than swamp the market with supply. As a result, there is not much regular on-the-run issuance. Instead, it is looking for liquidity with a minimum Bt20bn size per issue, and the selection of a set of benchmark bonds at one, two, five, seven and 10 years.
If the Singapore government decided to foster a bond market, Thailand's government was largely forced into it. Either way, Thailand's bond market is set to become one of the more vibrant ones in Asia.
Much of the impetus for this comes from the Bank of Thailand's plans to reduce the reliance of the private sector on bank credits, from a 77% share of total funds, to 55% in the next 10 years.
"This requires that Thailand has a strong market for debt instruments and equities," explained Chatu Mongol Sonakul, former governor of the Bank of Thailand, in December 2000. "Thus the development of the bond market is among the major tasks the Bank of Thailand has undertaken during the year, as it will provide the infrastructure for the conduct of monetary policy through open market operation, as well as enhance the country's long term economic development."
On the primary market side, he says, the main achievement has been the setting up of benchmark interest rates. On the secondary market side, the Bank of Thailand in June 2000 changed the status of bank counterparties to primary dealers. "This was in order to facilitate the implementation of monetary policy, to provide liquidity in the secondary market and to participate in the bidding of government and state enterprise bonds in the primary market," he says. "Moreover, when any bonds are in high demand, there will be an issuance of the bonds to ensure adequate liquidity in the market."
"Establishing a government yield curve is one of the basic requirements for a bond market," says John Tan, fixed income strategist at Standard Chartered in Singapore, "but the endgame is to help Thai corporates access the market and find alternative means to raise cash other than bank loans or offering shares."
He continues: "The Thai government after the crisis could have raised cash via multilateral loans, but it realised that one of the causes of the domestic crisis was that banks were over reliant on short term foreign currency debt which they could not pay back, and nor could their corporate clients pay them back. That led to the rise in non-performing loans that in turn constrained their ability to lend. Even if banks could lend they had credit concerns, and capital provisions became more costly for them, which meant government bonds became an attractive alternative."
Along with falling domestic interest rates and lack of available bank credit, the size of government issuance has encouraged a stream of state enterprise and private corporate issues.
In 2000, over Bt200bn worth of corporate debentures were issued by private corporations and state enterprises, with maturities extending out to 20 years - helping to reduce the cost in mobilising long term capital.
The Thai Bond Dealing Centre (TBDC) estimates the outstanding value of total bonds increased from Bt547bn in 1996 to Bt1,390bn in 1999.
Secondary market daily average volumes have risen from Bt822m in 1996 to Bt1.76bn in 1999 to Bt6bn in June 2000.
"Thailand has regular auctions at both the short and long end and a fairly strong supply," says Paul Smith, managing director and head of debt/loan syndication at Deutsche Bank. "There is also a fair bit of demand for corporate issues, but they are competing with the sizeable and regular auction style issues from the government and state enterprises."
"The Thai government issues regularly and there is a reasonably broad range of corporates that can tap the market," says one banker, "and there is also a market developing for subordinated debt." HSBC last November led the first such deal - a Bt1.8bn 10 year subordinated debenture for the part government owned Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand.
He continues: "A lot of local corporates are taking advantage of lower domestic rates. Those that previously were going offshore are now arbitraging and paying down their dollar denominated debt."
Some bankers, though, are worried about the credit quality of some offerings, especially in light of increasing retail involvement in the market.
From 1999, underwriting banks began placing large portions of their own issues with their retail depositors. Corporates swiftly followed, led by Siam Cement. In 1999 the conglomerate - a household name in Thailand, but saddled with $4.2bn in short term debt in 1997 - issued Bt50bn in bonds and in 2000 issued two bonds of Bt10bn and a Bt30bn six year issue. All issues were done via private placements, with at least 75% placed to retail investors.
"These retail investors are not necessarily sophisticated investors that are capable of making investment decisions and absorbing their losses," says Kathryn Kerle, representative director at Moody's Investor Services in Singapore. "Second, the quality of the issues on offer may be much poorer than expected."
She continues: "The economic slowdown, and the currency devaluation, have left almost all major Thai corporations with significant long term financial problems, and most have been unable to service their obligations to their banks. These obligations are in the process of being rescheduled, and in some cases bond issues are being used to repay the companies' bank lenders."
For example, Siam Panich Leasing issued a Bt4bn deal early last year, using the proceeds to repay a rescheduled ¥4bn loan issued in September 1998.
Last April, however, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stepped in to insist that all bonds carry a local rating.
Up to last year, corporates did not need ratings unless they went public, which explains why the vast bulk of issuance was privately placed. Indeed, there have only ever been three public deals ever: for Shin Satellite in November 1999, Advance Info Services and Total Access Services last year.
"If any issuer wants to issue a bond, it needs to be rated, so there is not much difference in disclosure any more between private placements and public deals," says Vincent Milton, managing director at Fitch Ratings (Thailand), which in February was given approval to provide competition to Thailand's existing credit rating agency, TRIS. He adds that previously the high costs of disclosure and distribution and registration with the SEC put most issuers off unless they needed a certain size.
In April the SEC proposed that with any issue size of more than Bt3bn the transaction can only be placed among 16 types of qualified investors, thus preventing issuers from selling to retail investors without a rating. The rule is expected to come into force in June or July this year.
"The idea is that if the name is good and the fundamentals are sound, and if the issue size is within the absorption limits of institutional investors, the issue will get the tightest pricing without paying a retail premium," says one Thai banker.
Before the crisis, the institutional investor base was undeveloped, with commercial banks the most active buyers of bonds, followed some way behind by insurance firms.
"The growth of the bond market is likely to prove volatile largely because of the lack of institutional investors and the discipline they can exert on issuers," says Moody's Kerle.
But there are some positive signs. "The government has realised from the crisis that it is not just individuals it needs to encourage the capital markets, which is why it is trying to develop institutional investors," says Citibank's Sotangkur.
It is important, he says, that asset managers have been given tax incentives to invest in bonds and that the government is also building up provident funds. At the moment contributions are made on a voluntary basis, but bankers believe that they may be made compulsory later when the corporate landscape is in better shape.
The single biggest institutional investor is the government pension fund, set up just before the crisis in April 1997. The fund has around Bt200bn under management - 60% of which must be invested in low risk long term instruments.
In addition, insurance companies are slowly coming in, while banks are major investors in bonds, partly to meet liquidity requirements and partly because in the current economic climate they are reluctant to lend to customers.
"From the buyside point of view, investors are flush with cash but there is a lack of supply," says one Thai banker. "Some Thai investors don't have much choice." *


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In my book Flexible Web Design, I give lots of reasons why liquid/elastic layouts make sense. While this will hopefully convince you, the designer, to give them a try, it's not necessarily going to convince your client that a flexible layout is acceptable for his or her own site—especially if you present comps to your client as static images created in Fireworks or Photoshop. Andy Clarke makes a great argument against presenting clients static design comp images because they set up expectations in the client's mind that the design is always going to look exactly that way, instead of varying based on the user's browser, text size, installed fonts, monitor colors, etc.
While Andy's proposal doesn't just pertain to the design process for flexible sites—he seems to advocate it for all types of sites—Andy does ask:
Is the fact that so many web pages are fixed width and centered a direct result of clients signing off fixed width design visuals?
I'm willing to answer yes to that question. Not that this is the only reason fixed-width designs get created, but I'm sure it plays a role in many of them. As I talk a great deal about in my book, as well as the presentation I've made at a couple conferences lately, you can't build a flexible page unless you've designed it to be flexible in the first place. You may design a page that must be fixed-width inadvertently, and won't catch it until you go to build the page in (X)HTML and CSS. But if your client already signed off on the design when it was a static image, it's now too late to change the design to make it liquid-compatible. Forcing yourself to build at least a rough version of the page before you present the design to the client is a great way of checking if your design is truly flexible-friendly. If you find that it isn't, you can make design changes to avoid CSS headaches later.
A lot of the commentary surrounding Andy's proposal has been that building pages for clients will take a lot more time that isn't in the budget. I think this is a valid argument. But, I also agree with the arguments that this workflow method can actually be a time-saver—or at least that the extra time spent making the (X)HTML/CSS comp can be made up later. Andy says:
As I work almost as fast in markup and CSS as I do in Fireworks, I find that the overall time that I take designing and implementing that design is dramatically reduced as I am not duplicating work. It leaves me free to spend more time on fine tuning a design and I'm sure that my designs are all the better for that.
I'm right with Andy on this one. I'll spend a lot of time futzing with the perfect border color or the perfect amount of spacing under a heading; when it comes time to build the page, I'll have to do all that futzing over again in the CSS to find the perfect em measurement, for example, that matches the spacing I created in the Fireworks comp. It's often faster for me to just leave all the work on these design details to my CSS development stage.
Another argument for time-saving comes from Kyle Weem's response to Andy's original post:
…you can absorb that extra time spent in the budget that would have been wasted on extravagant solutions generated to create identical rendering where it need not exist.
Another argument I totally agree with, especially if you are trying to create flexible designs. When you build the (X)HTML/CSS before showing to the client, you catch things in your design that are going to be tough and time-consuming to build—either because you've designed them in such a way that you can't make things flexible, or it's just going to take a lot of hacking to get it looking the same cross-browser.
All this said, this method of showing (X)HTML/CSS pages to clients instead of static design comps is not something I've actually done (though I do sometimes show wireframes before design comps). But as someone who primarily designs liquid layouts now, I can see it being really beneficial to the way I work, and I'm definitely going to give it a try soon.


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- Planning templates are available to add data and create personalized hierarchies and dimensions.
- The graphical user interface and drag-and-drop functionality simplify the building of planning and analysis models.
- Data can be rolled up according to business needs, such as adding a new department structure or modifying a product mix.
Advanced analysis features
- Complex analysis includes the ability to drill down, sort, link and chart data.
- Advanced filtering features such as hierarchy leveling, attribute values and element names enable users to produce more detailed simulations.
- Driver-based planning includes features such as pick lists, multipane docking and color-coded data changes that focus on key business drivers.
- Role-based security, structured workflows and clear audit trails improve accountability and accuracy.
- Dynamic modeling of hierarchies and dimensions provides custom views for different users.
Tight integration with Microsoft Excel
- Business users can work within an Excel environment to create custom analysis and build what-if business scenarios.
- An Excel or web-based interface can be used to contribute data and author reports.
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