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Technical Papers
Frequently Asked Questions
Other Questions About Submissions
Volunteering for the Technical Papers Program
I would like to submit my paper to conference X or journal Y as well as to SIGGRAPH 2008.
You must submit to just SIGGRAPH 2008 and await our response before submitting elsewhere (should your work not be accepted by SIGGRAPH 2008). If you submit your paper to another conference or journal simultaneously, we will reject your paper without review. We'll be in contact with the editors of several graphics journals, and chairs of other graphics-related conferences, swapping information. We usually find four or five double submissions each year.
I would like to submit my paper to conference X. Their submission deadline is after SIGGRAPH's program committee meeting, but they require abstracts to be submitted before SIGGRAPH's program committee meeting. May I submit the abstract?
Yes. The prohibition against dual submission kicks in when a full paper substantially equivalent to your SIGGRAPH paper is submitted elsewhere. For conferences that require extended abstracts or other formats, you should ask the Papers Chair before submitting, to avoid risking your paper being rejected from SIGGRAPH.
But I want my paper to be in SIGGRAPH 2008. I promise that if it's accepted by SIGGRAPH 2008, I'll
withdraw it from the other conference or journal.
We appreciate your eagerness to have your paper published by SIGGRAPH 2008. There is only one route to having this happen (see the previous paragraphs).
We've submitted a paper about a pilot study to conference X, and now we'd like to submit a paper about the full-blown user study to SIGGRAPH 2008. How should we go about that to avoid the perception that it is a dual submission?
Cite the submitted paper in your SIGGRAPH 2008 submission with a note to the reviewers that either it will be accepted by conference X, or you will publish it as a tech report and make it freely available on the web. Send in an anonymous version with your SIGGRAPH 2008 submission. Then when you write the SIGGRAPH 2008 paper, treat the pilot study as already published. Don't repeat text or figures from that paper in the SIGGRAPH 2008 version.
I sent in a paper to workshop X with the understanding that it was for review purposes only, and the workshop would have no published proceedings. Now, four months later, they tell me that they're going to publish the proceedings and include it in the digital library. Unfortunately there is significant overlap between that paper and my submitted SIGGRAPH 2008 paper. How should I handle this?
We realize that you didn't intend to do anything against the SIGGRAPH rules, but now that the workshop rules have changed, you should either withdraw the workshop paper from the proceedings or withdraw your SIGGRAPH 2008 submission.
Prior Publication
I am thinking about submitting a paper to SIGGRAPH 2008, and I'm uncertain about the requirements. Specifically: "Your paper cannot have been previously published in an equivalent or similar form. A paper is considered published if it has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal or in published meeting proceedings that are commercially available afterward to non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication." Does this include abstract-reviewed published meeting proceedings (for example, SPIE proceedings)? Does your restriction apply to papers accepted for journal publication?
If the meeting proceedings are published in a form that is visibly, reliably, and permanently available afterward in print or electronic format to non-attendees (as in the case of SPIE proceedings), then it is not appropriate to submit a paper that has been so published to SIGGRAPH 2008. If your work has been accepted for journal publication (or even submitted), it is not appropriate for submission to SIGGRAPH 2008. For more details, see Publication Policy and Prior Art.
How do I reference an ACM SIGGRAPH Sketch on the same topic as the paper that I am writing?
Depending on the year of presentation, the Sketch might appear in the ACM Digital Library. If it does, you should use the ACM Digital Library as a reference. If it is not archived, you may refer to the oral presentation at the conference or the abstract, if it appeared in one of the conference publications. If you were the author of the Sketch, then citation is not strictly necessary because publication of a Sketch does not preclude publication of a full paper. If you were not the author of the Sketch, then you should cite the Sketch to respect the author's ideas. If the authors have published a subsequent paper, thesis, or tech report about their work, you should cite that instead of the Sketch because it will be a more useful pointer for your readers.
A month after submitting our paper, we obtained much better results. Can we withdraw our paper from review and submit it elsewhere (or wait until next year)?
SIGGRAPH submissions can be withdrawn at any time. However, authors should remember that the program chair and the senior reviewers on their paper know who they are, and may have already spent considerable effort reviewing their paper. Withdrawing a paper won't help your reputation with these reviewers.
How do I include a reference to myself without identifying myself?
The general rule is to use the third person. For example, if Fred Brooks were to write a paper, he might say in his "related work" section: "Brooks et al. [12] discuss a system in which molecular visualizations are ... Our work builds on some of the ideas presented there, and on the ideas of Smith et al. [14] and the interaction techniques described by Wolford [18]." He would NOT say: "The authors, in prior work [12], discussed a system in which molecular visualization ... " The only case in which anonymous references are appropriate are unpublished manuscripts, in which case he might write: "The authors have also developed closely related techniques for molecular manipulation [15], but that work is outside the scope of this paper." Reference 15 would then read: [15] Anonymous Authors. Molecular manipulations through computer graphics, submitted to CACM.
If there is any danger that reference [15] might be considered a dual submission, then you should submit it as supplemental material with your SIGGRAPH submission, along with a cover letter (also submitted as supplemental material) briefly explaining the differences between it and your SIGGRAPH submission. You do not need to anonymize the cover letter, and normally you do not need to anonymize the supplemental manuscript either. However, if you believe it is important that all reviewers see that manuscript, e.g. because it explains background concepts they might need in order to judge your SIGGRAPH submission, then send in an anonymous version with your SIGGRAPH 2008 submission. This will allow it to be sent to tertiary reviewers. Make sure your cover letter clearly identifies which PDF file is your SIGGRAPH 2008 submission.
If you can submit these supplementary materials (and any cover letter) electronically, please do so. The submission form provides separate areas for submitting supplementary materials intended to go to all reviewers versus supplementary materials intended to go only to the primary and secondary reviewer. Non-anonymized materials that would identify you as the author, including any cover letter, should go in the second area.
My SIGGRAPH submission needs to cite a tech report or thesis that might be hard for reviewers to find. What should I do?
You are welcome to submit that report or thesis as supplemental material. Cite it in the third person in your SIGGRAPH submission, even if you are one of its authors. This avoids the necessity of anonymizing it.
My SIGGRAPH submission needs to cite one of our own web pages, which can't easily be anonymized. Now what should I do?
If you can reasonably cite the web page in the third person, go ahead. Remember, however, that reviewers may be reluctant to visit cited web pages, since doing so could compromise their anonymity. If for some reason you can't cite a web page in the third person, or if doing so would compromise your anonymity (e.g. the same pictures appear in your submission and on the web page, or the web page includes a link to a paper by you that is cited in your SIGGRAPH submission as Anonymous Authors), then don't cite it; find another solution. If in this unusual case you're worried about a reviewer thinking that you've appropriated other people's work without proper citation, then submit as supplemental material a letter explaining the situation. You do not need to anonymize this letter.
My SIGGRAPH submission needs to cite another, concurrent SIGGRAPH
submission by our group. Now what should I do?
Cite it as [16] Anonymous Authors, A grand unified theory of computer graphics, submitted to SIGGRAPH 2008, and submit as supplemental material a letter telling us which paper_id you are referring to.
I know I am supposed to remove my name, company name, etc. from the document, but should I also remove names from the acknowledgements? If the paper is accepted, should I send another copy to you with this additional material?
You should not include an "acknowledgements" section in the submission. If your paper is accepted, you will submit a revised version that identifies you and your co-authors, your affiliations, and any acknowledgements that are appropriate.
Other Questions About Submissions
Where can I find a list of the Computing Reviews categories? Also, are we restricted to using keywords specified on the web site?
Yes, select one primary topic area and one or more secondary topic areas that best describe your paper. See ACM's Computing Classification System to determine the selection of keywords to describe your paper.
I have a problem with the video material I need to submit. My work involves manipulation of video, which has already been captured in PAL format. I can use a conversion service to go to NTSC, but this will negatively affect the quality of the video material. Would it be OK to submit the video as a QuickTime MPEG-4 movie on a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, instead of as a VHS tape?
The Detailed Instructions & Checklist page says pages should be numbered, but the document preparation instructions say that
page numbers should not be included. Which is correct?
You should number the pages. For the final version, if your paper is accepted, we'll ask that you not number the pages, but please number them for the submission. The sample documents in Document Preparation for Conference Proceedings all include page numbering.
The details in my imagery are very subtle: I am concerned that the reviewers will not print my paper on a suitable printer or view my video with an appropriate codec.
You still need to submit your paper as a PDF file, but you are welcome to use the physical submission process and send hard copy of the paper (in addition to submitting it electronically), or selected images, or of your video.
Does the video submitted by January have to be final quality? Or will people whose papers are accepted have the opportunity to prepare a more polished video?
You'll have the opportunity to prepare a more polished video. Of course, the better the submitted video looks, the more likely reviewers will be able to see the strength of your work, so early polishing is a good investment of time and energy.
Do we have to prepare the paper in the final format?
Yes, please do so. Seeing a paper in final format lets us verify the page count and allows us to compare it to other papers.
Hey, I know your REAL email address. Can I use that?
No, use the Papers Email Contact Form. Why? First, I might be unavailable for several days. Second, during parts of the submission and review process, I will be buried in email. If you use the contact form, your email will go to the Papers Chair, Papers Advisory Board, and selected administrators of the papers review process. One of them may be able to answer your question, and they will often do so surprisingly promptly.
If you have a question of extreme delicacy, or a question on which the Papers Chair or a member of the Papers Advisory Board might be conflicted, and only in this case, then you may use a real email address.
Can I submit after the deadline?
No. The deadline is absolute.
But I had a major life event (birth, death, divorce ...) just two days ago!
The deadline is absolute. You may, of course, submit the work in its current form by the deadline, even if it's not the paper that you'd like it to be.
But my fancy color printer stopped working at 4 pm, and the FedEx deadline is looming!
The deadline is absolute. Equipment failures are common, and SIGGRAPH 2008 cannot adapt its schedule to accommodate them.
I was unable to upload my submission on time. The system was overloaded, and halfway through uploading my submission the deadline passed.
The deadline is absolute. Submissions that are in progress when the deadline passes, even if it's because our server has slowed down due to high load, will not be accepted. You should allow enough lead time to avoid this kind of problem.
I submitted a paper and six copies of a video. Unfortunately, in our rush to meet the deadline, we incorrectly set our gamma during taping, so we sent a fairly poor-quality video. I have since corrected the problem. May I substitute new videos for the ones I submitted? The video is identical, except for the gamma correction.
No. The submission deadline is absolute. All materials must be submitted by the deadline.
I'm using the SIGGRAPH 2008 English Review Service, and they didn't get back to me soon enough, so it's SIGGRAPH's fault that my paper isn't ready. Can I submit late?
The deadline is absolute. The English Review Service makes no guarantees about turnaround, and it's up to you to make contingency plans.
I'm not in the US, and US Customs often holds up submissions, so I have to send my supplemental materials off two weeks earlier than US researchers would. Can I send it by the deadline instead, and you'll receive it about two weeks late, after US Customs has had a chance to process it?
The deadline is absolute. If your supplemental materials must pass through various hurdles to get here, you must plan in advance how to submit it early enough to ensure arrival on time.
I gave my supplemental materials to Federal Express, and I have a receipt to prove that they promised delivery before the deadline, but there was a snowstorm in Boston, and Federal Express couldn't meet their promise.
If you can provide the receipt (and we'll ask for it), then we'll accept the materials whenever Federal Express delivers them.
I am submitting a paper on topic X, which I know is an area of expertise for committee member Y. Can I ask that Y be a senior reviewer of my paper?
I am submitting a paper on topic X, which I know is an area of expertise for committee member Y. Can I ask that Y not be a senior reviewer of my paper, because Y works for a competing company?
No. Indeed, Y may well be the best qualified reviewer for your work, and if so, we may ask Y to be the senior reviewer.
Am I allowed to ask for my paper to not be reviewed by someone from whom I do not expect a fair review?
No. The reviewer selection process includes no such provisions. Surprisingly often during the committee meeting there is discussion such as: "This paper got scores of 5, 4, 5, 4.5, and 2, but let me explain the score of 2. The reviewer picked at small details, was angry that his own work had not been properly cited (although when I looked at it, it appeared to have been treated more than fairly), and then wrote a very cursory review of the main contribution of the paper. It seems as if there's something going on here that doesn't have to do with the quality of the paper and we should discount this score as an outlier."
Isn't the committee more likely to accept papers by committee members and other insiders? How do you prevent a conflict of
Any paper on which a committee member has a conflict of interest will not be discussed while that committee member is in the room. While each committee member has a list of papers and the committee members who reviewed them, these lists are customized so that the names of the members who reviewed papers on which I have a conflict of interest will not be shown on my list. In general, the acceptance rate for papers by committee members has been slightly higher than the acceptance rate for those in the overall submission pool. But the acceptance rate for these same people has also been higher in years when they were not on the committee; they're invited to be on the committee, in part, because of their expertise in the field.
I'm a SIGGRAPH reviewer, and I'd like to show this paper to one of my students, who frankly knows more about the topic of this paper than I do. May I?
Yes. You may show a paper under review to a small number of people, normally one or two, providing that you:
1. List their name(s), title(s) (e.g. "my PhD student"), and affiliation(s) in the private section of the review form, (question 9, which goes only to the papers committee).
2. Clearly instruct them on the rules of confidentiality of the SIGGRAPH review process.
However, it is not appropriate for others to write the review for you. If this is your intention, then you must discuss it with the senior reviewer who assigned you the paper. At their discretion, they may officially reassign the paper to your student. In this case, you lose a free mug, and the student gains one!
Reviewer #4 clearly didn't read my paper carefully enough. Either that or this reviewer doesn't know anything about the field!
How should I respond during the rebuttal period?
We've all received SIGGRAPH reviews that made us mad, particularly on first reading. The rebuttal period is short and doesn't allow for the cooling-off period that authors have before they write a response to a journal review. As a result, authors need to be particularly careful to address only factual errors or reviewer questions in the rebuttals rather than letting their emotions show through.
Please don't say: "If reviewer #4 had just taken the time to read my paper carefully, she would have realized that our algorithm was rotation invariant."
Instead say: "Unfortunately, Section #4 must not have been as clear as we had hoped because Reviewer #4 didn't understand that our algorithm was rotation invariant and he was therefore skeptical about the general applicability of our approach. Here is a revised version of the second paragraph in Section 4, which should clear up this confusion."
Remember that your rebuttal gets sent to all the reviewers; you don't want to offend them. In particular, you want the two senior reviewers to come out of the rebuttal process sufficiently enthused about your paper to champion it at the committee meeting, and if the paper is accepted and needs revision, then you want them to feel sufficiently comfortable with you as an author that they are willing to "shepherd" the paper through the revision process.
Now that I've read the reviews of my paper, I see much better how to organize it so it will be clear to the reader. Can I do
this reorganization and upload the new version during the rebuttal period?
No. The rebuttal period is for addressing factual errors in the reviews, not for getting revised text into the review process. The committee members will have only a short time in which to read and act on your rebuttal, and it must be short and to the point. Hence, it will be limited to 2,000 words in the first place.
Between January and late March, we've gotten some really cool new results for our paper. Can I upload those results during
the rebuttal period? I'm sure that they will make the reviewers realize the importance of our approach.
No. The rebuttal period is for addressing factual errors in the reviews, not for getting new results into the review process.
Reviewer #2 says that our collision-detection algorithm won't work on concave objects. But it will, as we just demonstrated with the lid of the teapot. Can we upload a movie showing this new result?
No, not in the first round. Time is very precious at this stage in the review process, and you must keep your rebuttal short, or the reviewers and committee members will not have time to read it. If explicitly requested by a senior reviewer, please upload the additional video material.
I answered all reviewer criticisms during the rebuttal period, but no one responded, and now my paper is rejected. How can I be
sure the reviewers received and actually read my rebuttal?
The reviewers and committee members will have only a short time in which to read and act on your rebuttal. If additional information is not required, you may not receive a response to your comments. If you can view your rebuttal comments in the online review system, so can your reviewers. Rest assured that rebuttal information is considered and can be very helpful in the selection process.
Are papers merely published in print, or is there a presentation as well?
There is a presentation, of about 20 minutes length, followed by five minutes of discussion and questions.
Where can I get the ACM Copyright Form on the web? I need to show it to my employers before I submit.
ACM Copyright Form (PDF)
My paper was just accepted to SIGGRAPH 2008, and I'm thrilled. But now my boss points out that I can't use Mickey Mouse as the
example in my paper because I don't have the rights to use him. What do I do now?
The Call for Technical Papers explicitly stated that you MUST have permissions for all the images in your paper and the footage on your videotape, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM at the time of submission. You should immediately tell the Papers Chair what you propose to use as a replacement. If the new images or footage are not substantively similar to that submitted for review in the judgment of the Chair and the Papers Advisory Board, then acceptance of your paper will be rescinded. The archival record (Proceedings and DVD-ROM) must contain material that is equivalent to what the reviewers saw at the time of review.
What follows is not "official" SIGGRAPH policy, but rather the idiosyncratic impressions of former Papers Chairs, based on many years of service on the Papers Committee.
Is it important to submit a video with my paper?
There is a very strong correlation between submitting a video and getting accepted. An animation paper without a video is almost certain to be rejected.
Why are good papers rejected?
Check out this article by Jim Kajiya, the Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 1993, for many excellent reasons. Although some of the details are dated, the general wisdom is timeless.
My paper was accepted with major revisions to a subsequent issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics. Does it have to appear there or can I submit it somewhere else?
SIGGRAPH 2008 submissions can be withdrawn at any time. The offer to publish a revised version of the paper in an upcoming TOG issue is completely at the discretion of the author.
How do I decide whether to submit my work as a paper, a talk, or a poster?
The Technical Papers program is the most competitive of these three. Technical Papers also give you a chance to work out your ideas at greater length. Finally, Technical Papers represent a citable archive, which are stored in the ACM Digital Library and elsewhere; beginning in 2008, SIGGRAPH Sketches and Posters will not appear in the ACM Digital Library, and are therefore not citable as prior work by other papers.
If you believe your work is sufficiently mature to be a paper, then submit it to the Technical Papers program. If it is rejected from this program, you still have time to submit it as a talk or poster.
How soon will my paper accepted with major revisions be published in ACM Transactions on Graphics?
The revisions will be verified by the original SIGGRAPH 2008 reviewers, which greatly accelerates the refereeing process. Some papers can appear as soon as the October issue following the annual conference, and most should appear before SIGGRAPH 2008.
My paper was accepted with major revisions to ACM Transactions on Graphics. Great, but I want to submit it to another
workshop, symposium, or conference first.
The offer to retain the original SIGGRAPH reviewers evaporates the moment the paper is submitted anywhere else. The paper can always be submitted to TOG later, but it will be reviewed through the ordinary refereeing process, which may, but probably will not, include any of the original SIGGRAPH 2008 reviewers.
What about patents and confidentiality? Are the two senior reviewers and the three tertiary reviewers under a confidentiality
agreement not to disclose the contents of the paper to others? Some organizations like IEEE have all reviewers sign a confidentiality agreement. It's very important that I know for sure, since my employer may want to apply for a patent, and it affects when I may submit the paper to the SIGGRAPH conference. Can I, for example, get a written guarantee of confidentiality?
Reviewers are asked to keep confidential all materials sent to them for review, but they do not sign a confidentiality agreement. In general, there is wide respect for the confidentiality of submissions, but we cannot promise anything, or provide a written guarantee.
It would not be wise for SIGGRAPH to give you legal counsel on the matter of patents and publication; we urge you to seek independent legal advice. The main issue is that in different jurisdictions (such as Europe) prior public disclosure could invalidate a patent application. The situation is different in North America, where you have one year after public disclosure (for example, publication) to file a patent. It is a common practice for authors to prepare a patent filing coincidentally with their SIGGRAPH publication.
When will my paper be publicly available?
Technical Papers accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH 2008 will be published in the July issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics, available in print and electronic format in early August 2008. Brief descriptions on accepted papers will be published on the SIGGRAPH 2008 web site in May 2008.
Volunteering for the Technical Papers Program
I've been doing graphics for years. May I be on the Papers Committee?
The Papers Chair selects the committee. I'll be selecting with several goals in mind, including: coverage of areas in which I anticipate submissions, getting some "old hands" who have been on the committee before, bringing some new folks into the process, recruiting people who will work well together and treat papers with respect and enthusiasm, and getting representation from diverse communities. If you'd like to participate, send email to the Papers Chair and tell me about yourself and your areas of expertise.
I've volunteered to be on the committee for three years now, and I've never been chosen. What's up with that?
It may be that others are better qualified, that we already have committee members with expertise in your area, that the chairs do not feel that you've been in the field long enough to be an effective committee member, or any number of other reasons. The committee composition does change from year to year, though. Please keep offering your services.
Just what sort of workload is involved in being on the Papers Committee?
You must review about 20 papers. For about 10 papers, you must find two additional reviewers, and for the other 10 you must find one additional reviewer. You must attend a Papers Committee meeting, during which time, you'll discuss papers, possibly be called on to provide additional reviews of a couple of papers, and be expected to listen carefully to a lot of discussion that has little to do with you. You may also be asked to act as a referee for a paper that's been conditionally accepted or conditionally accepted with minor changes, to verify that the final version meets the requirements set for it. Finally, you may be asked to chair a papers session at SIGGRAPH 2008.
What do I get for all the work that I'll be doing as a committee member?
In material terms, you get a deep discount when registering for SIGGRAPH 2008. You also receive the recognition of your colleagues, the gratitude of authors, and the sense of satisfaction that comes from knowing you've given something back to the organization that helps disseminate research in graphics.


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2017 Prize schedules for Cattle/ Sheep/ Goats & Poultry are currently available
Two local charities will be in attendance at Lurgan Show 2016
Southern Area Hospice Services & Meningitis Research will both be providing advise and information on show day.
Be sure to pop along and support both of these charities on show day- Saturday 4th June
ORGANISERS of the Lurgan Show launched their forthcoming 104th year show last week.
The launch event, held for the first time at the historic Palace, Armagh was kindly hosted by the Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council, Councillor Darren Causby.
Proceedings commenced with a warm welcome by Show Secretary Michele Doran to the dozens of volunteer committee members, sponsors and elected representatives, all who contribute, year on year, to ensure the show's success.
Guest Speaker for the evening was Mr John Henning, Head of Agricultural Relations, Danske Bank.
Mr Henning delivered a meaningful address to the assembled guests, whilst praising the efforts of all involved in preparing for another county show event.
The launch was also the perfect platform upon which it was announced that the Lurgan Show will this year again be supporting two charities- the Southern Area Hospice and Meningitis Research.
Representatives from both charities were in attendance and spoke at the show launch.
Show Chairman, Winston Humphries, in delivering his address, welcomed a number of new committee members who have recently joined the Society. He also expressed his thanks to the generosity of the wider farming community and businesses who support the show.
Show organisers are pleased to announce a number of new attractions are being held at Lurgan this year in conjunction with the local council.
June is the Northern Ireland Good Food month of Dairy and with this, a range of cookery and food taster demonstrations will be showcased.
In addition, an expanded rural skills village will be displaying a varied range of traditional skills and crafts.
Lurgan Show being held this year on Saturday 4th June will commence with Equestrian events at approximately 8am. The horse arenas will host many major qualifiers for SHB, Ponies (UK), Equifest, Irish Shows Association and The North of England Show.
Pennie Bunting, Horse Secretary will be endeavouring to do all to ensure that a great display of classes will be running all day. Lurgan also host classes for Clydesdales, Miniature Horses, Donkeys and many more.
The Show Society are pleased to announce that for the first time in Northern Ireland as a non-area show, Lurgan will this year be awarding Welsh Pony & Cob Society Bronze Medals within the Welsh In-Hand Section.
The Equestrian schedule is now available and all entries, with the exception of the Donkey classes, must be with equestrian secretary on or before before Saturday 21st May.
Contact: Pennie: 07769903187
The cattle section will offer some 101 classes in 2016. Judges will be travelling from across the British Isles. A new Cup, presented to the Show Society at the launch, was kindly presented by the Savage Family, Clogher, Donacloney in memory of the Late George Savage, a faithful supporter of Lurgan Show. The Challenge Cup will be offered to the Champion in the Rare/ Traditional/ Minority breed in show.
Classes will also once again be offered for the British Blue breed, with judge Ian McFadden, Castledawson. Once Again, many qualifiers are on offer including the Minsups Charolais Championship, the McLarnons Feeds/NISA Dairy Cow Championship, the Linden Foods/NISA Pedigree Beef Heifer Championship, the Bank of Ireland Blonde Calf Championship, the Bank of Ireland/NISA Junior Bull Championship and a points show for the British Simmental Competition. The Northern Ireland Holstein Breeders Club will be offering an award for the Champion Female pedigree Holstein, whilst the Irish Aberdeen Angus Association will present rosettes for the Champions of the show. In addition, a number of sponsors will be supporting the prize fund including McLarnon Feeds, Genus, Kilco Dairy Hygiene and Woodside Farm.
Contact: Sandra-07855020670
Running alongside the Cattle Lawn on show day, there will be the ever expanding sheep section. Lurgan will this year host the largest number of sheep classes held to-date for potential exhibitors. 105 classes are on offer with qualifiers for the Danske Bank/NISA Sheep Championship, The Clogher Valley Cydection Young Handlers Qualifier and the NI Continental Sheep final qualifier.
Contact: Adina- 07803353806
Show representatives are pleased to announce that classes have also increased in this section, with 18 Classes now available to a broad range of goat breeds.
Lurgan Show Society are delighted to now be working in co-operation with the NI Pygmy Goat Club, after hosting pygmy classes independently at the show for the past number of years. A generous prize fund is available to both Champion and Reserve Champion with Mr Stephen Cherry, Templepatrick, judge for the event.
Contact: John-07855007746
Section Chairman, Mr Trevor Gardiner has confirmed 112 classes for a range of hard feather, soft feather, waterfowl and true bantams will be available for intending exhibitors.
Contact: Ailene- 38329956
All types of vintage, classic and customised vehicles are welcome to Lurgan Show. Registration can occur on arrival at the showgrounds, this via the Windsor Avenue entrance, accessible from the Town Centre. Admission fee for vehicles is only £5 which includes access to the show and a specially commissioned Lurgan Show Mug.
The Home Industries section will showcase a vast array of incredible talent. Ranging from Floral Art, painting, miniature gardens, baking, sewing, and photography, the 3000 plus exhibits will be what is on offer in Kings Park Primary School, located adjacent and accessible from the showgrounds. Entries for this section close on 5th May.
Contact: Mary- 07575636540
A number of pitches are still available for trade stands. For further details and to book your space, contact 07732172214 (After 6pm)
Full details of prize schedules and entry forms are available at: www.lurganshow.co.uk or firstname.lastname@example.com
Lurgan Show Society wishes to appoint a
Home Industries Section co-ordinator.
The person appointed will act as Secretary to the Home Industries Section.
The person will also be responsible for the administration for this section and reporting directly to the overall Show Committee.
An honorarium is paid.
The person appointed will need to:
Be able to work on their own initiative and have a flexible approach
Be computer literate, including emails and preferably excel
Deal effectively with telephone queries and be a good communicator
Be able to work to and meet deadlines
Ideally have an interest in or knowledge of arts and crafts & local schools
The workload is unevenly distributed throughout the year and is busier closer to show date.
The job entails carrying out the following type of tasks:
Attending meetings
Following up action points from meetings
Working with the Committee in preparation for the annual show.
Preparing and distributing the Home Industries Show schedule in conjunction with the Home Industries committee.
Together with the other Secretaries, taking Section show entries.
Order and prepare rosettes and prize cards for show day
Ensure judging books are prepared for show day and collate the results for the press
Deal with the return of trophies from the previous year
Liaise with the Treasurer to collect sponsorship
Send out tickets/ exhibitor/ judges information before the show
Liase with local schools/ presentation of schools awards after Show day.
Applications should be made to Mrs Noelle Menaul- 028 406 28974 or email@example.com
2015 saw over 300 poultry exhibits with a wide variety of classes entered.
Well done to all the Champions and to all exhibitors, stewards, judges and helpers many thanks for ensuring a GREAT day was had by all in the Poultry Tent
Trevor Gardiner Chair
Aileen Smyth Secretary
Lurgan & District Horse & Cattle Show Society committee recently held a very successful family BBQ and social evening at Bleary Farmers Hall to round off a very successful show year.
The event was attended by a large gathering of Show Officials, office bearers, members and helpers along with family and friends.
It was a great opportunity to engage with each other and reflect upon the year past. This event also rounded off the 2013 show year and prior to the forthcoming AGM and commencement of another nine months of planning working towards the 2014 show.
The Committee are always keen to keep expanding the show and open for new ideas and suggestions.
However, to progress and develop the annual event, more volunteers are required. If you believe you can offer any help or assistance, no matter how small, it would be greatly appreciated.
Meetings are held monthly at Bleary Farmers Hall. For more details contact: Michele Doran- 07732172214 or email@example.com.
The following have been duely elected for the 2013/ 2014 year:
Patron: Hugh HARRIS
President: William MARTIN
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I think that PokerStars (or the company that buys them) will make a strong push to get into Atlantic City. There has been a rash of casino closings with Showboat and now Trump Plaza, perhaps, to be the latest to shut their doors. The revel is on its way out from what I hear, as well. So there are going to be a lot of properties up for sale and, unfortunately, a lot of casino workers out of jobs.
I think someone like PokerStars coming in and buying one of these casinos really makes send and perhaps if they are 'restructured' under new ownership then the DOJ won't have to admit that they are allowing PS to operate on US soil after having fined them for doing something "illegal".
Anyway, I see PS being bought out/restructed and then that entity taking a foothold in New Jersey.
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Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Oceania
There is evidence of human settlement as long ago as 35,000 years in what is now Papua New Guinea. This comes from an archaeological site at Matenkupkum, just south of Namatanai in New Ireland province. Other archaeological digs at several locations in New Ireland have discovered tools and food residue dating back 20,000 years.
In more modern times, Papua New Guinea (known popularly as 'PNG') - the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (which is the second largest island in the world) - was divided between Germany ('German New Guinea') and Great Britain ('British Papua') in 1884. The Dutch had West Papua, now the Indonesian territory of Papua. The southeast part of the island, also known as Papua, was owned by the UK but administered by Australia - and thus a colony of a colony - until Australian independence in 1901, when it became an Australian colony. In 1914 the Australians did their part in the Allied war effort and took control of German New Guinea, and continued to administer it as a Trust Territory under the League of Nations and (later) the United Nations. This was not just disinterested colonialism. Gold had been discovered in several places and was rapidly exploited. Remnants of vast gold dredges can still be seen in the Bulolo and Wau area.
During World War II New Guinea was the site of fierce fighting on land (at Buin and on the Kokoda Track) and sea (at the Battle of the Coral Sea). It was the first place in the war where the Japanese advance was checked and then reversed. After the war, both New Guinea and Papua were administered from the government center of Port Moresby on the south coast, in Papua. In 1975, the country - now united as 'Papua New Guinea' - achieved independence from Australia. Today Papua New Guinea continues to be the foremost country in Melanesia. The country struggles to fulfill the dreams of independence as economic stagnation, corruption, law and order problems, and a nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville all conspire to make the country somewhat less than a tropical paradise.
The attempts by Bouganville to break away at the time of Independence led to a decision to offer the regions of the country a certain amount of political autonomy. Decentralization led to the establishment of nineteen provincial governments and the process of dividing up the country into unviable administrative units seems to be continuing, with a decision in 2009 to split both Southern Higlands and Western Highlands provinces into three new provinces.
In 2009 Papua New Guinea received 125,000 visitors, but only around 20% of these declared themselves as tourists. The country offers the traveler a true paradox. With little tourist infrastructure outside the main tourist areas, getting around can be tough. But Papua New Guineans themselves are wonderfully welcoming people who will go to great lengths to accommodate strangers. Tourism is well developed and growing in a handful of locations. Beyond these PNG is 120% adventure travel and not for the inexperienced or faint of heart.
For people who can make it out to PNG, the experience is unforgettable. PNG's incredible natural beauty is simply indescribable. Its unique flora and fauna includes enormous radiations of marsupials and birds, including the Raggiana bird-of-paradise (PNG's national symbol) and several species of tree kangaroos. Untouched coral reefs compete with spectacular WWII wrecks for the attention of divers, and the hiking is out of this world.
With rugged terrain, inter-tribal mistrust, and diverse languages, intermarriage between the peoples of PNG has, until recently, been very limited. Physical and facial appearance varies significantly throughout the country; from those who look almost Polynesian in some coastal areas, through the short, stocky Highlanders, to the tall and statuesque people of the area around Rabaul in New Britain and the dark-skinned inhabitants of Bouganville, who could almost come from Africa.
The central highlands of Papua New Guinea were not mapped until the 1930s and not effectively brought under government control until the late 1960s. As a result, the people of PNG are as interesting as the geography, flora, and fauna. Papua New Guinea is a place that often markets itself as 'the Last Unknown' or a place where you can still find 'Stone Age People'. Of course, telling a Papua New Guinean that you consider them a stone age savage is incredibly rude. And while you can - if you try hard enough - find old men who remember the first time they or anyone in their society saw metal, you'll also have trouble finding anyone who hasn't seen Titanic. Indeed, what makes Papua New Guinea so interesting today is not the fact that it is some sort of living museum, but its incredible dynamism. In the hundred-year shift from stone to steel to silicon, Papua New Guineans have turned the shortest learning curve in human history into one of the most colorful - and often idiosyncratic - experiments in modernity ever produced by human beings. Featuring ritual garb made of human hair and rolled up Instant Noodle wrappers, rap in Pidgin English, or tribal warriors named 'Rambo' for their valor in combat, Papua New Guinea's collision with global culture has been intense and fascinating. So don't worry about the fate of 'traditional culture' -- in the bar-room brawl between PNG and the global culture industry the biggest worry is keeping PNG from pummeling global culture to a pulp.
Papua New Guinea is just to the south of the equator and has a tropical climate. In the highlands, though, temperatures are distinctly cool. The (very) wet season runs from about December to March. The best months for trekking are June to September.
The country is situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire, at the point of collision of several tectonic plates. There are a number of active volcanoes, and eruptions are frequent. Earthquakes are relatively common, sometimes accompanied by tsunamis.
The country's geography is diverse and, in places, extremely rugged. A spine of mountains, the New Guinea Highlands, runs the length of the island of New Guinea, forming a populous highlands region mostly covered with tropical rainforest. Dense rainforests can be found in the lowland and coastal areas as well as very large wetland areas surrounding the Sepik and Fly rivers. This terrain has made it difficult for the country to develop transportation infrastructure. In some areas, airplanes are the only mode of transport. The highest peak is Mount Wilhelm at 4,509 metres (14,793 ft). Papua New Guinea is surrounded by coral reefs which are under close watch to preserve them.
There are many great books about Papua New Guinea, including great fiction as well as non-fiction. An excellent book for the general reader about Papua New Guinea is Sean Dorney's Papua New Guinea: People, Politics, and History Since 1975. The third edition is the best, but it is pretty hard to find outside of Australia (and is not that easy to find there).
John Laurel Ryan, a former employee of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), also wrote an excellent book, "The Hot Land" which was published about 1970. Among other fascinating historical information it contains accounts of various manifestations of cargo cult, John Teosin's "baby garden" on Buka Island, and eye-witness reports that have been rigidly suppressed in other media about the Indonesian takeover of what was formerly Dutch West Papua. This excellent and at times disturbing book will also be hard to find, and sadly its author even harder!
The South Australian Museum in Adelaide has an excellent exhibit on Papua New Guinea that includes many historical artifacts and good documentation and reports from the early missionaries that worked among the PNG tribes.
PNG can be conveniently divided into 11 regions (7 on the main island and 4 island regions):
Jackson International Airport in Port Moresby is the nation's international airport. Port Moresby is an expensive, dangerous, and unappealing city with nothing of interest for the tourist. It would be best to book your internal flight to leave Port Moresby the same day as your international flight making it unnecessary to leave the airport. Madang, Wewak, Goroka, and Mt. Hagen are much safer than Port Moresby and Lae and the best places to begin your journey in PNG.
PNG's ports include Madang, Lae, and Port Moresby on the mainland, Kieta on Bougainville, and Rabaul and Kimbe on New Britain. However these only service internal ferries. International ferries are unavailable.
There are also cruises such as the Coral Princess and ones from Aurora Expeditions .
The only land border is with Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia, and crossing it involves some preparations but is not that difficult as it might have been. In Jayapura, Indonesia you'll find a PNG consulate to apply for a tourist visa. The PNG consulate is located in Mendi, a ten minute green PMV (public motor vehicle) ride away from Jayapura's capital. The price is 2000 rupiah on any PMV.
Depending on your Indonesian visa there are different options to cross the border. If you have a Visa-on-Arrival, issued to you for example at the Jakarta Airport, you can only cross the border using a boat or by stamping out at customs in Jayapura and then immediately traveling to the border 30km away. Western travelers attempting the latter should expect to pay some miscellaneous fees and jump moderate bureaucratic hoops before leaving. Boats can be rented from Hamedi. Any other type of visa you can rent a car, or an ojek and cross the land border. If renting a vehicle for the crossing one should expect to pay approximately 300,000 rupiah from Jayapura town and travelers should expect to pay upwards of 500,000 rupiah to return from the border to Jayapura.
Papua New Guinea is a strange place when it comes to travel. The tropical conditions, fierce geography, and lack of government capacity means there are very few paved roads in the country.
With the exception of a brief span of road connecting it to the immediate hinterland and a road that will enable you to follow the coast southeast for a few hours, there are no major roads linking Port Moresby to anywhere else.
On the north coast, a tenuous highway runs from Madang to Wewak only in theory.
The big exception to this is the Highlands Highway, which begins in Lae (the country's main port) and runs up into the highlands through Goroka to Mt. Hagen with a fork going back to the coast and Madang. Shortly outside Mt. Hagen the road branches, with southern line going through the Southern Highlands to Tari while the northern line runs through Enga province and ends in Porgera.
The most common way to travel is by PMV/bus with the locals.
Lae, Madang, Goroka, Tari, and Mount Hagen are all connected by a good highway. As a newcomer it is probably advisable to get help from locals (e.g., hotel-staff). Most towns have several starting points. A trip from Lae to Madang costs around 20 Kina, to Mt. Hagen 30 Kina.
Papua New Guinea has historically been one of the world centers for aviation and still features some of the most spectacular flying in the world. In the 1920s, Lae was the busiest airport in the world - it was there that aviators in the gold mining industry first proved that it was commercially feasible to ship cargo (and not just people) by air. In fact, Lae was where Amelia Earhart set off on her last journey.
Air transport is still the most common way to get around between major urban centers - indeed, pretty much every major settlement is built around an airstrip. In fact, the main drag of Mt. Hagen is the old airstrip! Travel from the coast into the highlands is particularly spectacular (don't take your eyes off the window for a second!) and pilots from America, Australia, and other countries work in PNG at reduced salaries just for the great flying. If you don't like small planes (or even smaller helicopters!) however, flying to more remote locations in PNG may not be the best option for you.
Madang, Wewak, Goroka, and Mt. Hagen are much safer than Port Moresby and Lae and the best places to fly in and out of.
The two major domestic airlines are Air Niugini and Airlines PNG.
People living in PNG's archipelagos get around locally with the ubiquitous banana boat - a thirty or forty foot fiberglass hull with an outboard motor.
In addition, two or three shipping lines also sell tickets for passengers who want to leapfrog from one city to another. These ferries run only two or three times per week and offer upper and lower class. Upper gets you a bunk to sleep on while lower gets you a hard seat.
There is a ferry twice a week between Madang and Wewak.
One small ship leaves the city of Lae once a week, stopping at Finschhafen and Umboi Island. Sleeping on the open deck of a ship as it crawls slowly through the South Pacific night is about as romantic as it sounds, but beware - it gets cold on the open ocean no matter where you are, so take some warm clothes or buy a cabin inside.
The Kokoda Trail is a 60-mile trail, beginning in the Port Moresby area and leading up into the Owen Stanley Range. This trail was first used by gold miners in the 1890s and is most known as a historical World War II site as the Japanese tried to reach Port Moresby along it. It takes about five days to hike this track, which includes plenty of ups and downs between mountain ridges and streams.
The Highland region is made of long string of fertile valleys, each separated by mountains, that mean the Highlands are composed of many distinct tribal regions.
In the Eastern Highlands is Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea's highest mountain (14,880 feet). Climbing Wilhelm is relatively easy; but three or four days are recommended to allow for sightseeing. There are views of both the north and south coasts of New Guinea from the peak. The Wahgi River in this area is considered one of the best whitewater rafting destinations in the world.
With over 800 languages, it was pretty difficult to get everyone talking to each other. Two pidgins grew up in this area; Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu, and when the Anglophones married the Hulis and the babies learned the only language they had in common, Tok Pisin became a creole. Tok Pisin sometimes looks like it is English written phonetically ("Yu dring; yu draiv; yu dai" means "You drink; you drive; you die"), but it is not; it has more personal pronouns than English and its own quite different syntax.
Tok Pisin is spoken in most of the country and short inexpensive guidebooks on learning Tok Pisin can be acquired in the many bookstores.
Hiri Motu is spoken in Port Moresby and other parts of Papua, though since Port Moresby is the capital, you're likely to find Tok Pisin speakers in the airport, banks, or government. When approaching locals, try to speak English first; using Tok Pisin or another language can make it look like you are assuming they don't know English.
You might sometimes have trouble hearing what the locals are saying because they speak very quietly. It is considered rude by some of the local groups to look people in the eyes and to speak loudly.
Go scuba diving, using one of more than a dozen local scuba diving operators. The national Scuba Diving industry body is a good starting point. Papua New Guinea has some of the very best tropical reef diving anywhere in the word.
PNG is a birdwatching mecca with over 700 species of birds including many birds of paradise[11]. Definitely bring a pair of decent binoculars and ask in the villages for a volunteer to help you find the birds. An amazing experience!
Information through the Surfing Association of PNG .
Another popular attraction here is trekking through the mountains, coastal lowlands and rolling foothills of the Kokoda and other trails. The Kokoda Track attracts many hundreds of walkers a year.
The most popular activities for tourists here are festivals such as the The Sing-Sing performances at the annual Goroka and Mt. Hagen shows. During these shows, there are usually more than fifty ensembles that turn up. The festivals are competitive and the winning ensemble is rewarded by being invited to give concerts at many restaurants and hotels during the following year. This beauty and colorfulness of New Guinea's festivals is both pleasing to watch for tourists and helps the locals financially.
Fishing is becoming increasingly popular in PNG. Species include Black Marlin, Blue Marlin, Sailfish, Yellow Fin, Skipjack and Dogtooth Tuna and the Giant Trevally. Mahi Mahi (Dolphin Fish), Mackerel and Wahoo. A particularly challenging fish is the black bass, which, pound for pound, is considered to be the toughest fighting fish in the world.
Flightseeing is a word that should have been coined in PNG. If you can afford it, just flying around some of PNG's remote airstrips is an adventure in itself. There are strips that seem impossibly short, strips that seem to end with a mountain, strips where if you don't take off in time you will plunge into a ravine, and airstrips surrounded on three sides by water. From Port Moresby you don't have to fly far to get the experience. There are flights to villages on the Kokoda trail and others in the Owen Stanley mountain range in Central Province and you can fly a scheduled circuit or "milk run" in one morning, although you will have to be at the airpiort by 5am. Check with Airlines PNG for schedules. Fane, Ononge and Tapini strips are particularly scary. Don't forget your life insurance!
There is not so much shopping in the regular sense to be had in PNG. In the major cities there are a few malls and supermarkets. Otherwise most of the shopping is done in small markets that are held at irregular intervals. A great place to visit is the craft market which is held once per month in Port Moresby opposite Ela beach in the car park of the IEA TAFE College. There it is possible to buy handicrafts from every part of the country. Although it is slightly more expensive than out in the villages, the prices are very reasonable. Haggling is not really an accepted custom, one can haggle a bit but to do it excessively could annoy the locals.
Don't buy bird feathers.
PNG food is largely devoid of spices. A typical way of cooking is a Mumu, an underground oven in which meat and vegetables, such as Kaukau (sweet potatoes), are cooked. In just about every meal that PNG's inhabitants eat there is rice and another form of starch.
In the lodges that tourists stay in there is usually a blend between this type of food and a more westernized menu.
There are brands of local beer in PNG. The local brew, SP (short for South Pacific) Lager, is owned by Heineken. Excessive alcohol consumption, primarily of beer, is a major social problem. Beers and wines are often served fairly warm due to a lack of refrigeration in certain areas. Also, while the water quality varies from place to place (and in some cases from day to day), it is generally best to stick to bottled water, even in the upper-market hotels.
Papua New Guinea offers a wide choice of accommodation for tourists with very little of it budget.
Hotels are very expensive (~$100/night). Guesthouses are the best budget option in the towns but even then still expensive (~$40/night.) The least expensive option is to stay in village guesthouses (~$15/night) - and that's where the fun is anyhow.
Port Moresby has international hotels including the Crown Plaza and Airways International, mid range hotels such as Lamana and guesthouses. The regional areas offer International and budget hotels depending on the size of the town and some provinces have guest houses. There is a new eco-tourist lodge in Alotau called Ulumani Treetops Lodge, the place is beautiful overlooking the Milne Bay and offers a new bungalow or backpacker options.
There is a very expensive lodge ($200/night!) that sits on the edge of Tari basin called Ambua Lodge that is run by Australians. This lodge is "an inspired mixture of local architecture, spectacular views and modest luxury off the beaten track." It is in the Tari Gap 2100 metres in the PNG Southern Highlands, which is the homeland of the Huli clan with their human hair wigs adorned with colourful flowers. It borders on the mid-montane rain forest and grasslands which gives a spring feeling all year round. This lodge won the 1991 Pacific Asia Travel Association's Pacific Heritage Award which sighted due to it's "superb example of culturally sensitive and ecological responsible tourism."
A stones throw down the road from Ambua Lodge is the more rustic Warili Lodge that is run by locals, is only $20/night, and offers birdwatching as good as, or better, than what is offered at Ambua Lodge.
PNG has a workforce of close to two million people in a few different industries. Thre is high demand for skilled people but it is still difficult for women and men that are considered to be "unskilled" to find work. Many people have informal small businesses to make money.
PNG has a reputation as a risky destination in some circles (primarily Australian ones.) This is due predominantly to the activities of criminal gangs (known in Tok Pisin as raskols) in major cities, especially in Port Moresby and Lae.
Raskolism is generally a result of unemployment stemming from increased domestic migration from subsistence farming in the hills to the nearest urban area.
Understand that there is no history of heavy settlement in the Port Moresby and Lae areas. Hence, they are colonial cities comprised of a mix of tribal people which fosters instability. Madang, Wewak, Goroka, Mt. Hagen, and Tari are much safer with longer periods of settlement and a more stable tribal homogeneity.
The villages are quite safe. The locals will "adopt" you as one of their own.
If you are planning a trip to PNG, don't spend time in the cities. They are boring and devoid of the culture to be found in the villages. But if you must, the most important thing is to stay up to date on the law and order situation in the locations you are planning to visit.
Most hotels in Port Moresby are secure and situated inside compounds, generally with guards patrolling the perimeter. Don't be alarmed, as actual gunfire in the capital is mercifully rare. If planning on taking a tour of any city, make inquiries with your hotel or accommodation provider, as many will be able to either walk with you or drive you to wherever you are planning to go, or just around the local area if that is what you want to do.
Don't go out after dark. If you must, stay very alert.
Flying in small planes can be very risky. Hardly a year goes by without at least one fatal accident (the most recent in August 2009 when 12 people were killed). While the planes are usually well-maintained and the pilots technically proficient the problem is the mountainous terrain. Many smaller airfields are situated in steep valleys. When there is cloud cover planes have difficulty in finding them and sometimes crash into a mountain. The national airline, Air Niugini, which flies internationally and to the major cities of the country has, however, an unblemished safety record in 32 years of operation.
Saltwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) are very common in Papua New Guinea and are capable of growing to immense lengths of 7 meters or more (although individuals over 6 meters are rare). They can and do occasionally devour humans and should be shown respect at all times. They are equally at home in coastal waters as they are in freshwater lakes and rivers. Swimming is generally not advised except at higher elevations and in hotel swimming pools. Papua New Guinea, along with Australia, has the highest and healthiest population of large Saltwater Crocodiles in the world.
Papua New Guinea is home to many active volcanoes and several of the most popular treks involve getting close or actually climbing one or more of these. Always heed local advice and a regular check of The Smithsonian Institute's Volcanic Activity Report would be wise.
Tap water in some regions can be unsafe to drink.
Malaria can be a hazard as well, although many villages - particularly those connected to industry - are regularly treated for mosquitoes. Take the appropriate precautions against mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases.
Malaria medication can be purchased at the pharmacies and, in addition to warding of malaria, will keep your stomach happy as well.
As in many Melanesian cultures, greeting people with a friendly handshake is very important. Be aware, however, that it is a sign of respect not to make eye contact when this is being done. The sight of hotel staff calling you by name, shaking your hand and looking at the floor may seem unusual at first.


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1) Reading. Because, even when you work at a bookstore, there's no time for reading @ work. Just plenty of time to buy more books. ;) Sci-Fi/Fantasy, History, whatever catches my fancy.
2) Playing games on my DS. I'm not a video game person, but I got a DSi XL for my b-day last year, and it's fun to play games on. My current obsession is Dragon Quest IX. :D
3)Hanging out with Torpedo, my family's Shar-pei. What can I say? He's adorable, wrinkly, and loves attention. With the warmer weather we can spend more time outside in the backyard hunting squirrels. ;)
4)TV. I like the Science channel, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, etc. Just watched the season finale of Game of Thrones last night! Ack! Gotta finish book #2.
5) When I'm lucky enough (time, money, etc) I get to spend time with friends and/or my bf. I especially love it when we can all get together, go into downtown Annapolis, and have a good time! They don't call it a drinking town w/a sailing problem for no reason! ;)
I also enjoying listening to music (humorous music, heavy metal, and renaissance festival-type music) and doing absolutely nothing. :)
Sounds like a lot of fun!
Oh ya. I forgot one of my hobbies.
Splitting wood so I can heat my house time lapse.
Artsy-fartsy things like drawing, painting, and shodo (Japanese calligraphy. I'm a novice.)--------Uhm, karaoke, writing, watching Western tv series... Doctor Who, Supernatural, and Glee mostly.... I am a Star Trek fan-- do PBE style RP with one of my friends back stateside.... Hm. I sew and crochet, too. Never did learn knitting, darn it. I used to do more graphics and also jewelry making... One of these days, I want to get into mold-making so I can cast my own dolls... I have a friend who is into asian ball jointed dolls... I'm more interested in the creative processes than the fandom that goes into that.
Well, I'm never really "working", since I retired from gainful employment in 2006. When my retirement was approaching, I started wondering how I would spend those "golden years". I started thinking about how much I had enjoyed playing guitar in a rock & roll band during my high school and college years. When I graduated college in 1966, I put the guitar down, and turned my attention to grad school, career, and family. My guitar got stolen a year or two later, but since I didn't have time to play, I chalked it up as a loss and moved on. Somehow I went all the way through my "productive" years without playing music at all! 40 years later, I began to feel nostalgic for the musician experience, so I bought a cheap guitar and amp, and started re-learning the songs I used to play back in the '60s. Before too long, I recruited other musicians through Craigslist and formed an instrumental surf-rock band. That band was marginally successful for about 4 years, and then it was disbanded due to lack of interest. I recently joined a newly forming oldies band that plays R&B, Motown, and other great music from the 1950s through '70s. In this band I'm both guitarist and webmaster. I just finished putting together the band's new website, which includes some audio and video from our first gig about a week ago.
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Hitting a new 52-week high is a notable milestone for any company, and it can mean a trading opportunity on either the long or short side, depending on one's perspective. Some view a company hitting its highest price in a year as a sign of momentum and think it means it's time to buy in. Others, though, tend to interpret a new 52-week high as likely signaling the end of a strong run, with the stock peaking out before a period of decline.
However one plays it, it's often a critical moment for any stock and should be noted by investors.
The new 52-week high came on a volume of 180,745 for a stock that has a float of 49.83 million shares and an average daily volume of $278,026. The day's trading means the company's market cap is now at $3.3 billion and it has a 50-day SMA of $61.56 and a 200-day SMA of $57.04.
WGL Holdings Inc. now has a P/E ratio of 24.2.
For a complete fundamental analysis analysis of WGL Holdings Inc., check out Equities.com's Stock Valuation Analysis report for WGL. To see the latest independent stock recommendations from Equities.com's analysts, visit our Research section.
WGL Holdings Inc through its subsidiaries sells and delivers natural gas and provides energy-related products and services to customers in the District of Columbia and the surrounding metropolitan areas in Maryland and Virginia.
WGL Holdings Inc. is based out of Washington, DC and has some 1,529 employees. Its CEO is Terry D. Mccallister.
WGL Holdings Inc. is also a component of the Russell 2000 Index, which is an invaluable tool for any small-cap investor. Consisting of the smaller 2,000 publicly traded companies of the 3,000 largest companies in America by market cap (which combine to make the broader Russell 3000 index), the Russell 2000 gives the most comprehensive snapshot of the small-cap market of any index out there.
What's more, the Russell 2000 is maintained by Russell Investments, a company committed to using rules-based methodologies to construct unbiased indices that differ from the committee-selected Dow Jones Industrial Average or S&P 500.
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Firm also recognised with highly commended accolade in eight further countries
SINGAPORE, 13th May 2013 - Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL), the global financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate, has been honoured at the International Property Awards Asia Pacific, in association with Virgin Atlantic, held in Kuala Lumpur on 10 May 2013. The firm won a total of 11 awards; the five star 'Best Property Consultancy' award in three countries across the region, and highly commended status in a further eight countries.
Alastair Hughes, CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle Asia Pacific said: "We are pleased to have been recognised in these awards. This success is testament to the talent and dedication of all of our employees in Asia Pacific and their focus on providing an excellent service to our clients across the region and globally."
Jones Lang LaSalle secured the five star award in Singapore (for the third consecutive year), Indonesia and Thailand, and was also named Highly Commended Property Consultancy in Hong Kong, Australia, China, Japan, India, New Zealand, The Philippines and South Korea.
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22 Years Ago: Vince Neil Releases His Debut Solo Album, 'Exposed'
Next to Van Halen's spiteful parting with David Lee Roth, no other singer vs. band debacle in the pop-metal scene generated more press or tested allegiances harder than Motley Crue's ugly divorce from singer Vince Neil in 1992.
And on April 27, 1993, the blond banshee drew first musical blood against his erstwhile Crue mates -- beating them into record stores by nearly a year -- with the release of his debut solo album, Exposed.
What's more, while the new Motley Crue would try (and fail) to essentially grow up by replacing their partying ways with brooding grunge philosophies, Neil was wise enough to stick with what he knew.
As a result, prototypical offerings such as "Can't Have Your Cake," "Fine, Fine Wine" and the first single "You're Invited (But Your Friend Can't Come)" (which was featured in the movie Encino Man) packed several D-cups worth of pyrotechnic guitars to indecently banal lyrics, often sounding suspiciously similar to Motley Crue's final triumph, "Dr. Feelgood." But then, what better way to win over fans torn about their loyalties?
Even the musicians hired to co-write the material with Neil made perfectly good sense for someone determined on staying his musical course, and included talented Night Ranger and Damn Yankee, Jack Blades (who brought with him the mandatory ballad in "Can't Change Me," among other tunes), former Billy Idol guitar shredder Steve Stevens, and recent Ozzy Osbourne cast-off, Phil Soussan.
Neil's studio band was completed by ex-Enuff Z'Nuff drummer Vik Foxx. Following a serious disagreement between Stevens and Soussan (who would eventually place an injunction on the LP over uncredited songwriting), rhythm guitarist Dave Marshall (from glam chanteuse Fiona's band) and bassist Robbie Crane (later of Ratt) were brought in for the subsequent tour, which curiously saw Neil opening for Van Halen.
But despite the high profile tour, music videos and fan-pleasing songs, Exposed rose no further than a respectable No. 13 on the U.S. album chart and failed to earn gold certification – a far cry from the multiple platinum awards that Motley Crue had grown accustomed to stockpiling.
The only consolation for Neil came from seeing his old bandmates' endure similar misfortune, when their eponymous LP featuring new singer John Corabi suffered from similarly underwhelming sales and alienated fans with its radical change of sound, to boot. Realizing, perhaps, that they were greater than the sum of their parts, Neil was back into the Crue fold in 1997.
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You can't separate Manu Ginobili's flopping from the rest of his game, so I can't say unequivocally that he's one of my favorite players to watch since he entered the league. Experts can term it "gamesmanship" but flopping is terrible to watch. That's not to say that aspect isn't an incredibly important factor as to why the dichotomy in Ginobili's game is so fascinating: His carefully calculated flopping is offset by seemingly unchained drives to the cup that resemble a young, out of control player. But that's where he's his best.
There's only one way to describe these contrasting styles, switching from rare awareness to hell-bent aggression. We'll let Gregg Popovich take it from here.
Ginobili has always surprised his defenders by his quickness, and it's still the case now as a 34-year-old. His ball-fake on Kevin Durant in Game 2 froze one of the game's best players on a slicing layup that was one of many cuts that bled the Thunder to death.
Thing is, it wasn't long ago he used to be absolutely ruthless at the rim, too. While all of the basketball world is on a Spurs Revival Tour (playing their greatest hits!), I wanted to bring back Ginobili's own best cuts and how he finished them.
8. Taken from a 2011 game against the Bulls in Chicago, this is the perfect introduction to Ginobili Driving 101. Notice the pin-ball effect while driving to the rim.
7. The set-up is what makes this so good. The entire 76er defense is facing Ginobili, so you know there should be no surprise. Yet he still takes Jodie Meeks off the dribble and treats Spencer Hawes like a traffic cone in a driver's test.


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(Reuters) - Inflation targeting has served the Bank of England well and it should keep that as its main policy tool, despite the strategy's role in fuelling a credit bubble that led to the financial crisis, a Reuters poll found.
The conclusion, based on a survey of economists taken this week, also comes despite inflation being persistently above the central bank's 2.0 percent target for some years.
The Bank Governor-designate Mark Carney, who currently runs the Bank of Canada, is seen as more likely to favour a flexible inflation target rather than abandoning it.
"There's always going to be a great deal of pressure on the incoming governor to try and magic up a recovery," said Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec. "But changing targets is not the solution. What you need is a different toolkit."
The poll results suggest that Carney, an outspoken and ambitious central banker, will not push to abandon the inflation target when he checks in to work on London's Threadneedle Street in July. Britain's government sets the target.
"Inflation targeting has served the UK well over the past 20 years but failed to address the various imbalances in the economy during the early half of the 2000s," said Shaw.
What was missing was better oversight of the financial system. Like many, he favours better macroprudential policy to prevent another boom and bust.
Carney will have that and an expanded regulatory role in his remit.
"Beyond that, our view is that expectations on what an inflation target, or any other target can achieve, are often overambitious," said Shaw.
Brian Hilliard, chief UK economist at Societe Generale, said that having another macro target would not have helped prevent the financial crisis.
A clear majority of forecasters, 38 of 51, said that the Bank should not drop inflation targeting, a view outgoing Governor Mervyn King fiercely defended in a recent speech calling instead for fine-tuning.
Only 10 economists said the bank should abandon its inflation target. The remaining three said it should change the measure of inflation it aims to keep under control.
But for most of the past decade inflation has been above target, and during every month since December 2009.
Those results suggest that any serious consideration of targeting economic growth, an argument Carney discussed at length in a speech last year but which he kept mum about in recent public appearances, is highly unlikely.
Britain's economy has barely grown at all since 2010 and is one of the few among its industrialised peers that is still smaller than where it was before the crisis began in 2007. It shrank in the last few months of 2012.
A small majority, 19 of 37, said that if the Bank were to drop inflation targeting it should instead adopt a dual mandate like the Federal Reserve, which also targets unemployment.
The bank has been widely criticised for focusing on consumer prices while letting credit expand wildly early in the last decade, triggering an unprecedented boom in house prices.
Britain's economy is still struggling to escape from the mess after that boom went bust. While printing hundreds of billions of pounds trying to reinflate the economy, the Bank has paid little heed to its inflation-fighting mandate.
"Low inflation was more the result of general global conditions than anything the Bank was able to achieve," noted Commerzbank economist Peter Dixon.
"So whilst it served a useful purpose the target may not, in retrospect, been appropriate for the conditions prevailing at the time, in which asset price inflation was a bigger problem."
Stephen Lewis at Monument Securities was more harsh.
"Inflation targeting failed to take account of the distortion of asset values and excessive credit creation in the years up to the crisis. It is a blinkered approach to policymaking."
Meanwhile, the probability of further bond purchases by the bank, or quantitative easing, has fallen to a median 40 percent from 45 percent in a poll taken earlier this month. Bank Rate was seen on hold at a record low of 0.5 percent until at least the middle of next year.
"Additional QE would provide only marginal benefits for the real economy, while increasing longer-term risks of higher inflation, bubbles and financial distortions," said David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce.
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This Week in Alabama History
July 12 - July 18
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At the National Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, half of the Alabama delegation walks out in protest of the party's stand for civil rights. Three days later those delegates and other southerners formed the States' Rights party, or "Dixiecrats," at a convention in Birmingham, nominating Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president.
Other Events this Week
The Alabama legislature ratifies the 14th amendment to the U.S. constitution, thereby meeting one of the requirements for readmission to the Union. In part, the amendment guaranteed that states could not abridge citizenship rights of "persons born or naturalized in the United States," which included freedmen.
Harper Councill Trenholm, president of Alabama State College from 1925 to 1962, is born in Tuscumbia. A graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Chicago, Trenholm served as instructor and director of the college extension program before assuming the presidency. During his long tenure Alabama State graduated its first four-year college class in 1932, developed a model teacher in-service program that served African-American teachers statewide, and began the legendary Turkey Day Classic football rivalry between Alabama State and Tuskegee Institute.
The Dixiecrat Convention assembles in Birmingham, with over 6,000 delegates from across the South in attendance. They selected Strom Thurmond as the presidential candidate for their States' Rights Party. In the 1948 presidential election the Dixiecrats carried four states, including Alabama, where Democratic candidate Harry Truman's name did not even appear on the ballot.
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text: New Jersey has become the first state to require that all dogs and cats be buckled in. Fines from $250 to $1000 can be levied. Dogs may be seat belted with a special dog harness available through various pet stores or may be in a carrier. Cats will probably have to be in a carrier as they are not so keen on harnesses. However, either approach will do. Ray Martinez of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission says that the purpose of this law is to prevent distraction of the driver. It is aimed first and foremost at the people who drive with dogs in their laps. However, it goes beyond that to all animals in the car. If the car is involved in an accident, or even if the driver breaks quickly, dogs can be thrown as projectiles into seats or the windshield to obvious harm. Or they can hit people as well. We at dogfriendly.com have encouraged people to seatbelt their dogs in for a long time; we're not so sure that this should be a law, but it's a good idea anyway for the safety of the dog and people in the car.


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The hack of Sony's PlayStation Network in April this year was launched from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform. But Amazon is keen to emphasise that it has procedures in place to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.
"We take the privacy of our customers extremely seriously. But at the same time usage of our service comes with terms of service, which basically mean that abuse and illegal activity is not allowed," Amazon's chief technology officer Dr Werner Vogels told CSO Online.
"Of course we do not run around looking continuously at what you do. But we do have a set of algorithms in place, and a set of monitors in place, to look for those particular patterns that are illegal," he said.
Amazon had become "very intelligent" at spotting suspicious behaviour, Vogel said. The company has a dedicated team watching for misuse, and customers are "vigilant" in reporting suspicious activity.
Vogels was in Sydney today to present the opening keynote address at the AWS Cloud Tour 2011 event. Both he and the AWS technology evangelist for Asia-Pacific, Simone Brunozzi, told attendees that security was Amazon's priority, with heavy investment in identity and access management.
However Vogels told CSO Online that cloud customers must understand that a certain level of trust and control has to be in place.
"A common request might be, 'Can we see your data centres?', and we explain to our customers that actually letting you walk through our data centres would be a security risk. You would not want other people walking through your data centres either," he said.
"When we take an airplane, we don't really examine the maintenance record of that airplane before we actually go on board."
Amazon will review a potential customer's existing security procedures for their own data centre, and explain how Amazon's procedures would match each line item.
"I have yet to encounter a situation where after that discussion the customer is not completely satisfied with the information that we give," Vogels said.
Vogels considers end-to-end security to be a core component of cloud applications, along with the ability for workload to be decomposed into individual instances and deployed automatically. Building a moat around your application is no longer sufficient, he told attendees. Security needs to be built-in throughout the application's architecture.
"We will forever have security and operational excellence as our number one investment area," Vogels said, promising that AWS would always provide "more fine-grained [security] controls than you've ever had in your own data centre".
Vogels refused to be drawn on recent media reports that Amazon intends to open an Australian data centre in the near future. "We do not comment on rumours," he said.
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