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No zakaah is due on the real estate and land unless the owner intends to trade in them. But that which he intends to use or rent out is not subject to zakaah. Rather zakaah is due on the rent if it reaches the nisaab (minimum threshold), which is the equivalent of 595 grams of silver, when one whole (hijri) year has passed since it was acquired.
The rate of zakaah that must be paid is one quarter of one tenth, i.e., 2.5%,
It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah li'l-Ifta (11/358):
With regard to the land that is rented out and the real estate that is rented out, zakaah must be paid on the rent when one year has passed, not on the land or real estate itself. End quote.
But if the owner is spending the rent straightaway, then no zakaah is due on it so long as he has not saved of it the nisaab for a whole year.
The lumber that your father owns because of his work as a contractor is not subject to zakaah.
The scholars (may Allaah have mercy on them) have stated that the tools of one's trade are not subject to zakaah, no matter how great their value, because the purpose of having them is to use them and not to deal or trade in them.
The same may also be said of the two cars; there is no zakaah on them so long as he does not intend to trade in them.
See the answer to question no. 74987.
There is nothing wrong with your father giving zakaah to your paternal aunt and her orphan children, rather it is better to give it to them and that will earn a greater reward than giving it to strangers, because giving zakaah to relatives is better.
It was narrated from Salmaan ibn 'Aamir (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Charity given to a poor person is charity, but charity given to a relative is two things, charity and upholding ties of kinship." Narrated by Ahmad (15644) and al-Tirmidhi (658); classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi.
As for giving zakaah to your paternal aunt and her other daughter, if they have sufficient income then it is not permissible to give zakaah to them, but if their income is not sufficient then they may given of zakaah whatever will suffice them, and anything more than that is voluntary charity and upholding ties of kinship, and it is not permissible to count it as zakaah.
But if your father would inherit from your paternal aunt (his sister) – if she were to die – then he is obliged to spend on her, and in that case it is not permissible for him to give her zakaah.
And he would inherit from her if she has no male child and if her father is deceased.
See the answer to question no. 6026.
As for the fact that she and her daughter wear makeup and do not dress properly, we ask Allaah to guide them, and that does not affect the giving of zakaah to them, but what you and your father are required to do is to keep on advising them.
And Allaah knows best.
Source: Islam Q&A


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A December Rally Is No Sure Thing
The final month of the year is typically a jolly time for stock investors, but those positive historical trends come head-to-head this year with the fiscal cliff. Steven Russolillo reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Reuters.
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By Russ Koesterich, CFA iShares Global Chief Investment Strategist
While the selloff in gold has dominated headlines lately, another commodity - oil - has also experienced price declines in recent months. The main US benchmark for crude prices is down roughly 5% from a February peak. But despite this drop, here are four reasons why I'm still a fan of energy stocks [for more ETF analysis, make sure to sign up for our free ETF newsletter].
The Outlook for Oil Prices: While the price of oil has slid in recent months, it's starting to inch higher and is currently up significantly from its April low of $85 a barrel. Looking forward, given that expected growth in oil demand is in line with likely new production, I expect oil prices to remain in a stable range between the high $80s and the mid $90s absent a Middle East supply shock, which would arguably drive prices higher.
Cheap Valuations: Though range bound oil may not be that exciting, it may be enough to support an energy sector that has dramatically underperformed the broader market so far this month. US energy companies are now trading at a 20% discount to the broader market and at just 12.5x trailing earnings, the lowest valuation of any sector.
High Dividend Yields: The large integrated oil companies are now offering dividend yields of around 3%, likely welcome news to yield hungry investors.
A Potential Hedge Against Inflation: The energy sector, at least historically, has had a positive correlation with inflation. In other words, energy stock prices have actually gone up as inflation has risen. This means that, though I don't expect inflation to be a worry until at least next year, energy stocks can potentially provide some purchasing power protection over the long term, albeit with more volatility than traditional inflation hedges.
In short, with oil prices likely to remain relatively stable going forward, the energy sector has become an interesting value play, especially considering energy companies' attractive yields and correlation with inflation. One way to access the sector is through the iShares S&P Global Energy Sector Fund ( IXC).
The author is long IXC
Source: Bloomberg
Russ Koesterich, CFA, is the iShares Global Chief Investment Strategist and a regular contributor to the iShares Blog. You can find more of his posts here.
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Have you ever found yourself wondering why, in the field of desserts inspired by Mexican food, the choco taco must always reign supreme? I mean, there is so much possibility in the genre. I know that personally, I'd be mega-thrilled about a chocolate-peanut butter quesadilla or some Cadbury Creme huevos rancheros.
But for a sweet south of the border-inspired treat that really takes the cake, why not try out a Tortilla Torte? This recipe is lightly adapted from a family cookbook recipe shared with me by Kerry Haygood of cake pop bakery Lollicakes.
Composed of tortillas stacked over chocolate cream filling and topped with a billow of fluffy white frosting, this torte visually resembles fancy stacked sponge cakes, but ultimately makes for a very different dessert experience. The tortillas take a bit of getting used to—they will remain lightly chewy even when the chocolate has had a chance to set— but the taste sensation is unlike any other dessert I've ever tried. The floury taste of the tortillas mixes quite pleasantly with the rich chocolate-sour cream filling (which is also great by the spoonful) and the complementary tangy sweetness of the sour cream frosting.
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Condé Nast buys Ars Technica is not the story. The real story is how new media is capable of growing and retaining a passionate legion of readers, so passionate in fact that they are worthy of the term community. Let me ask you something in all confidence, when was the last time you felt you belonged to the community of print publications? The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, how about USAToday? All reputable and well written/researched publications. All in the business of delivering news. Yet, even as they have opened their blogs to comments, I would be hard pressed to call many of the commenters members of a community.
When I read the announcement by Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher on Ars Technica a couple of days after the news had broken, I noticed that the word community shows up in the second paragraph. The largest amount of copy in the announcement addresses the publication's community both acknowledging and thanking its members. From the post (emphasis mine):
Together, we've done more than I think any of us ever imagined. We've built a writing team that's passionate about technology and its promise, and we've seen amazing growth thanks to the diverse expertise of our team. We have an amazing community, both in terms of its size (5+ million readers, as tracked privately by Quantcast) and in terms of its contributions. Our community is unparalleled, in my not so humble opinion, and it's a big reason why this year we're serving more than 30 million page views each month. [...]Not our product is turnkey, not our service is the best - our community is amazing, unparalleled. In fact, the one promise Fisher makes for change is an improvement of the community platform. He even addresses how he would have preferred to have broken the news himself acknowledging Ars Technica got scooped by Mike Arrington's TechCrunch. All throughout, the community is front and center.
Speaking of community, I wanted to share something that I think says a great deal about who Ars Technica is: every employee of Ars Technica was a member of its community first, and had been a longtime reader. (12 million posts, thousands upon thousands of news tips, recommendations, and corrections).
New media champions and main stream media go hand in hand. Truly. While the hottest news may indeed come from the keyboards of natives of the 24-hour, 7-day cycle, I still believe there is plenty of room for traditional media. Can we teach them and businesses in general to learn to appreciate and embrace their communities?


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As an undergraduate student, in order to acquire financial aid, I agreed to take a special first-year seminar called The Creative Process. In the class, we discussed such questions as "What is art?" and, in more concrete form, "Why do we refer to the urinal in the bathroom as simply a place for waste when we call the urinal on the gallery wall a masterpiece?" Halfway through the semester, the professor, a 50-year-old woman with dyed-black, bobbed hair and a necklace that featured a grapefruit-size bust of Jack Skellington, instructed us to consume—to consume—the book Einstein's Dreams, which, despite its name, was fiction. I did not have high expectations. I could already imagine that the experience was going to be something of a "groovy" ticket to the mother ship.
In many ways, I was right. What I hadn't expected, though, was author Alan Lightman's uncanny ability to turn psychedelic scientific concepts and abstract philosophy into concrete images and scenes. Which is precisely what Einstein's Dreams does: It commutes the more fantastic possibilities of Einstein's theory of relativity into a series of worlds where, for example, "time is a circle, bending back on itself," "time has three dimensions, like space," "time moves barely at all," "time stands still," and, finally, "there is no time." Each fictional world is set up as its own chapter, independent of the other chapters, held together only by a series of interludes in which the fictionalized Einstein walks through Bern, Switzerland, speaking with his friend, Besso, who serves mostly as a sounding board. This vignette-based structure, more akin to a collection of short stories than a novel, works because Einstein's Dreams does not aspire to a continuous narrative. The book's raison d'être is to paint individual, poetic, philosophical parables. At that, it succeeds brilliantly.
Enter Lightman's latest novel, Mr g, which tells the story of Creation from God's perspective. Like the critically acclaimed Einstein's Dreams, Mr g begins as a meditation on time, breaks into a series of short chapters that attempt to turn science into scene, and ultimately shoots for the philosophical stars. Unlike Einstein's Dreams, Mr g fails.
While Mr g mimics the vignette-based structure of the earlier novel, it strives for a more continuous narrative, and this creates a problem in that the chapters—with headings such as "Space" and "Planets" and "The Origins of Life"—read more like well-written snippets of illustration in a high-school textbook rather than pieces of a cogent plot. Where the science was seamlessly melded with the fictive worlds in Einstein's Dreams, as well as in some of Lightman's short essays like "Smile," here it stands out as, well, science. Upon returning to his newly created universe, Mr g reflects:
Triplets of quarks had combined to form neutrons and protons. These flew about at a ferocious speed, surrounded always by an ultraviolet haze of soft gluons and occasionally emitting gamma rays as they ricocheted off other frenetic nuggets of matter. Particles spun about their internal axes. Particles swerved in magnetic fields. Particles careened and accelerated and annihilated into pure energy.
Later in the novel, Mr g encounters Belhor, a Satan-like character who fills the same role in this book that Besso fills in Einstein's Dreams. While discussing the possible intellectual capacities of "intelligent creatures," Belhor tells Mr g:
There are an extremely large number of possible arrangements even for a small brain. Consider a typical atom, like carbon. Say, for example, that it has 20 possible configurations. There might be 1014 atoms in a single one of your new cells, so that there are more than 2010 14 different possible configurations of a single cell. In one rather modest brain, with 1012 cells, there would then be 2010 26 possible configurations.
In a nonfiction text on the cosmos or biology, these passages would be commendable for their poetic power, but in a novel they serve only to pull readers from their fictive dream, to remind them that they are reading the contrivance of an MIT physicist, not the word of God—even a man-made one.
In an endnote regarding the novel's use of numbers, Lightman admits, "There is no reason why Mr g would use base 10 to discuss numbers, but this base has been used here because it is the number system that will be familiar." This and other endnotes, such as "The 'tick of a hydrogen clock' is the reciprocal of the frequency of the Lyman alpha emission from the hydrogen atom, equal to about 4x10-16 seconds," highlight the degree to which the science overtakes the fictional narrative.
The French writer Albert Camus, whose short story "Pride" is also told from God's perspective, states in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus that "great novelists are philosopher-novelists […] writing in images rather than reasoned arguments." In Lightman's previous essays and novels, this is precisely what works so well. Lightman combines the science and philosophy with the images and leaves it at that. He does not try to elucidate. But Mr g does, and what we get from the explanation is an overwhelming science lecture and an underwhelming dose of philosophy-lite: "How could an individual mortal life have any meaning? And even if the individual, the tiny ant, thinks its life has a meaning, it is only an illusion."
These types of platitudes appear throughout the novel and when added up, present a fascinating paradox. In this tale told from God's perspective, it often seems as if God Himself is debating the necessity of his existence. At times subtle, this argument becomes strikingly clear midway through the novel when, speaking of the first signs of life, Mr g says, "All this had happened in my absence! Mindlessly following the rules of chance and necessity, the warm seas of the planet were churning out highly organized and efficient multicellular organisms. I felt a slight embarrassment that so much could proceed without any direction by me."
Like a cartoon fox, this passage, and many similar ones, cleverly allows Lightman, the scientist, to don the garb of God, the Almighty, to tell us that, in fact, there is no God. Because Mr g is the one arguing this point, the blow is softened, and the spiritually inclined reader can come away still believing in a deistic or immanent God, though not an interventionist one. Thus, in the four-tiered possibility of belief—atheist, deist, immanentist, and interventionist—Lightman has only alienated a quarter of his readers, and if his foxy setup works its sly purpose, maybe not even that quarter.
But he hasn't fooled everyone. Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett recently took Lightman to task in a Salon article for his, and certain other nonbelievers', unwillingness to nail religion to the wall:
Lightman wants us [atheists] to keep our criticisms hyper-polite. … This sort of fuzziness has its uses. The Vaseline on the camera lens that blurs out the wrinkles on the face of the aging movie star is not just a sop to her vanity; it is both considerate and self-serving. Let's not dwell on what her face has become; let's allow her to re-create the beauty that stunned us in the past. Everybody wins. Lightman defends much the same policy with regard to religion: Let's keep our objections in soft focus and avoid drawing attention to even quite ugly flaws.
Reading Mr g, one is left with the sense that Lightman is unwilling to commit to his convictions. He has disguised his science project as a novel and cloaked his atheism in royal robes. Ultimately, it's perhaps telling that Mr g utilizes a lowercase letter for its title deity, as the book reads with less uppercase authority and more gee-whiz banality.


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Another long Kynn spiel. Skip it if you're tired of hearing me describe my philosophy on alternate site versions. :) At 11:32 PM 4/7/2001, Nouiouat, Athmane wrote: >Hi, > >What about switch for accessibility? For example the first home-page would >ask the user if they >want Full-WAI-accesibility if so send them displays with accessibility >features, if they don't >display to them withoout any worry. If the site is carefully designed, one >can assume, that stitically >(or dynamically with ASP/JSP) two versions of the site (1 for accessiblity >the other without) is achievable! >athmane Hi, good concept, but it's not quite all the way there yet. For example, the idea of having an "accessible" version and a "non-accessible" one makes no sense -- because accessibility is all about -people-. Who is a particular version of a site accessible to, and who is it not? These are the terms we think of when designing alternate versions of a web site. In your case, you would make one that is "full WAI accessibility" (note: there is no such concept in the W3C) and one which, presumably, is not. A better model is to identify for whom you are making an alternate version, and work from there. This is a user-centric view of alternative site versions! For example, many people would consider the site you describe above, that is "more accessible", to likely be one which is designed to work with a screenreader. That may -not- be the "more accessible" version for certain _other_ audiences, such as limited textual comprehension users, or limited dexterity users. So casting things in terms simply of "more accessible" and "less accessible" is not the way to go. Instead, let's consider how we can make different versions which _meet the needs of users_. We'll start with the "default" version -- what we called at Edapta the 50% user. This is the basic graphical version; most likely it is not "basic" and all and may be the most complex of the lot! Now, since we have the information (somewhere) necessary to generate "more accessible" versions, we have no real reason _not_ to include those accessibility-helpful features (elements, attributes, etc.) which can increase the number of people who can use our "default" version. In fact, since some people may not be switching right away (or may not be able to find the switching mechanism) it may be a good assumption that people with various disabilities may be using this version. So we'll make it a good one -- as WCAG compliant as possible, for example. But then we'll move on and create other versions of the site which not only provide accessibility, but provide usability for specific audiences. We'll start with screenreader users, and provide a version of our site which is made to work well with screenreaders. What are the problems facing screenreader users? Well, here's a few (this isn't a comprehensive list): 1. Simple, basic access to content -- images which are not labeled with ALT text. 2. The order of the content can be confusing and un-usable (in the "usability" sense of things) because the order is a derivative of the graphical layout. 3. It's hard to get a good sense of context; to know where you are in a page. Also, because of the linear nature of screenreader use, you generally have to experience the entire page to find out what the content is. Now, these can all be worked around to some degree -- which is why our graphical "default" layout can be made accessible. However, we can make it even easier -- without complex work-arounds -- if we simply design a new user interface for the screenreader version. Here's how I'd address those needs: 1. Well, this is actually solved. We said that our "default graphical" version has access to information such as ALT text; therefore it's not going to be hard to include that in the screenreader version. So this is pretty much a gimme. 2. We'll re-order the page to make sense; if we can set things up so that the user has the ability to enter an index of "this is the most important, here's the next, etc" for each bit of content, so much the better. If not, we'll make educated guesses based on what we know about layout. (In other words, in the typical web layout of "Something on the top, something on the left, something on the right, something in the middle, and something on the bottom", we can usually guess that the top will be identification and perhaps a banner ad; the left will be primary navigation; the right will be secondary navigation and sidebar content; and the bottom will be tertiary navigation and indicia. The middle is what we're after; that's where we can usually find the meat of the content! This is exactly how graphical web page users' visual processing of page content works, and we'll try to model it, either through guesses or through explicit author identification.) 3. Finally, we'll construct a "table of contents" for the page and make sure we have intra-page anchors and other identifying marks to give structure which wouldn't make much sense to graphical layouts (which already have this information represented simply in the graphic design). A good example: We'll put text at the end of the page which says "end of page". So what does this accomplish? We now have two interfaces -- one for graphical use which relies on traditional "graceful degradation" for diverse access, and one which is specialized for screenreader users. Neither one is "more accessible" or "less accessible", at least, not if you are using those terms alone; a version may be more accessible OR less accessible to a _specific person_ based on that person's particular ways of using the web. Only when you speak of "more accessible to WHOM" or "less accessible to WHOM" does that type of comparison make much sense. (The same applies to "usability.") This approach allows you to create, for specific audiences, interfaces which are designed to be more accessible and/or usable to _that specific audience_ without having to worry about the implications for other audiences (whose versions of the site remain "intact" and unchanged no matter what you do to the other versions). I have hopes that this type of concept will be able to crack some of the "tougher nuts" in web accessibility, such as how to solve the thorny issues related to cognitive disabilities, where the changes suggested might result in "completely unacceptable" alterations to the "default" interface if you are not doing something like this. (Under a system such as the one described, the default interface can remain unchanged and a new one simply generated for those with specific needs.) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <email@example.com> Technical Developer Liaison Reef North America Tel +1 949-567-7006 ________________________________________ ACCESSIBILITY IS DYNAMIC. 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New to Cinco Ranch: Black Walnut Cafe
I was pleased to be invited to a preview event on Tuesday at Black Walnut Cafe Cinco Ranch. The restaurant is having its Grand Opening this weekend! This will be the fourth Houston area location of Black Walnut Cafe, with locations already in The Woodlands, Rice Village, and Sugar Land.
Jonathan and I attended the event for dinner and were asked to provide feedback on our meals and overall experience. When we walked in, we were greeted by the beautiful entranceway full of colorful light fixtures along with glasses of complimentary champagne. The seating areas have a mix of high and low tables and booths. There is a modern, casual feel to the restaurant, and the area where we sat had shiny, tin ceiling tiles!
We ordered at the counter and were given a vibrating pager that would let us know when to get our food. I enjoyed the BWC Sirloin Steak Salad ($16), and Jonathan had the Otis Otis Otis pasta with grilled chicken ($12.50).
The steak salad had a good sized portion of certified angus beef sirloin with a delicious Asian-inspired marinade. I love salads with fruit and nuts mixed in, so this was up my alley with apples and walnuts and some garlic bread on the side. I also tried the Texas Black Iced Tea which was great!
The Otis Otis Otis was pasta, alfredo sauce, grilled chicken, kalamata olives, sun-dried tomatoes, artichokes, and some feta sprinkled on top. Jonathan and I tried each other's dishes, so I can give a true review here. I love alfredo sauce and all of the other toppings on this pasta except for the kalamata olives. The combination was very tasty. As far a pasta dishes go, this was great, and Jonathan said that he would order it again.
For dessert we were given a huge piece of Hummingbird Cake. I am a chocoholic, but this cake is my new summer favorite with its pineapple-banana sweetness!
The Cinco Ranch Cafe features a full service bar, both gelato and dessert cases, and a very cool digital Coke machine with every flavor you could want. I think that Jonathan may have been most excited about trying it out, and kids will surely have fun with it.
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ACA deadline tests Dem patience
Some Capitol Hill Democrats are preparing to launch broadsides against President Barack Obama if the Affordable Care Act website isn't fixed by the end of the month.
That will come in the form of more aggressive scrutiny in Republican-led oversight hearings, open advocacy for further delay in the enrollment deadline and individual coverage mandate, and more calls for a staff shake-up in the White House.
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"The president and his team have repeatedly assured us that the system will be working by Dec. 1. That's when I start looking at what we have to do in our oversight function to hold the administration accountable for making it work." Rep. Bruce Braley, an Iowa Democrat who is running for an open Senate seat said Thursday, adding that he's contemplating whether to ask the president to fire members of his staff. "I'm thinking about those options. But my biggest concern is fixing the system and making it work."
( Understanding Obamacare: POLITICO's guide to the Affordable Care Act)
Asked whether he was mad at the president, Braley hesitated for a few seconds amid the din of a Capitol hallway.
"Yes," he said.
The building frustration — expressed in part Nov. 15 when 39 House Democrats voted for a GOP bill that would have let consumers keep expiring insurance plans — is driven by the fear that Obama's failed rollout has suddenly left scores of Democrats vulnerable to defeat in the House and Senate.
These Democrats won't win legislative changes without the assent of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — and likely Obama — but their public positioning could put unsustainable pressure on the administration's efforts to hold the line on the current contours of the law. And while the House is scheduled to return to session on Dec. 3, the Senate won't be back in from its Thanksgiving break until the week of Dec. 9.
But already, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is leading an upper-chamber push to allow people to keep their existing health plans. Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), who has introduced his own plan to give people other health care options, recently said he thought the appropriate time to act was after Thanksgiving break.
"Let's just wait and see what happens. We're gonna — we're gonna take two weeks off. I'm gonna visit with my five children together for the first time, 16 grandchildren, 44 people for Thanksgiving dinner. Let's talk about that for a while," Reid said last week.
( See POLITICO's full Obamacare coverage)
But in the meantime, Democratic lawmakers — particularly those on the House side — are preparing to try to put distance between themselves and the president because they're not confident that the White House has a Plan B for getting the policy right or protecting them in the mid-term elections.
"I don't sense that at all. When you think about it, a week after the October shutdown Democrats were experiencing a euphoric high. We thought we had Republicans on the mat. We thought we were going to win back the House and then this rollout fails," said one House Democrat from a traditionally safe seat based in a major city. "Now, we need to be concerned, all of us, me included, that we aren't viewed as ineffective and kicked out of our seats."
Not only are Democrats watching helplessly as visions of taking over the House begin to dissolve, but they increasingly perceive the danger that the Senate could flip into GOP hands and that Obama's final three years in office could be a total loss for their party's agenda.
That is, the Affordable Care Act has a lot of Democrats feeling uninsured or under-assured by Obama.
White House officials, from the president on down, insist they don't have to prepare a contingency plan — at least not in terms of the flawed website; it will be operating for the "vast majority" of consumers by the end of the month, they say.
"The truth is, we're going to fix it," Vice President Joe Biden said last Monday, adding a self-conscious appeal to a higher power for help. "God willing," he said.
But the president's promises don't carry the same weight they once did with Democrats on Capitol Hill, and they'd like a little more to fall back on than Biden's casual appeal for divine intervention. Soon, Democrats say, it won't just be Republicans who are using high-profile hearings to tear into Obama administration officials.
( WATCH: Health care: What Obama said, why it mattered)
Democrats, anxious to separate themselves from Obama before the 2014 midterm election, are gearing up to use Capitol Hill hearings to point out examples of waste, fraud, abuse or just outright incompetence to try to persuade constituents that they aren't responsible for the bungled rollout.
The big-city lawmaker predicted oversight hearings are "going to be ugly" come next month. "The more we find out about this implementation of the ACA, the worse it looks. The Congress did our job. We passed the ACA. It's up to the administration to implement the law."
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said Thursday that if the website isn't operating, as promised, by the end of the month, there won't be enough time for consumers to sign up for the exchanges before the Dec. 15 deadline to begin receiving coverage on Jan. 1.
"If it's not working substantially by the end of November then we have to think really hard about the Jan. 1 enrollment, because people will only have a couple of weeks," DeGette said, hinting that there might be congressional Democratic support for a delay at that point. On Friday, the administration announced that it would allow another week — until Dec. 23 — for people to enroll and still begin receiving coverage at the start of the new year, but that may not be enough to please lawmakers who are frustrated that their constituents haven't had as much time as they thought they would to sign up.
( Also on POLITICO: Zients: HealthCare.gov to double capacity by Nov. 30)
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough's trip to Capitol Hill two weeks ago appeared to stave off a mass insurrection, but 39 Democrats still abandoned the president on the GOP bill. The vote was held the day after Obama announced his own competing administrative fix and a series of apologies to the American public — and fellow Democrats — which appeared to have the effect of lowering the count of defectors.


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Aviation Week editors discuss SpaceX's suit against the U.S. Air Force, U.S. sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, the merger of Orbital Sciences and ATK and how they're all related in our latest Check 6 podcast.
What a week it has been in space! Well, not actually in space. The action has all been on the ground. But there have been a startling number of startling events in the space sector and they are interrelated.
Elon Musk's SpaceX filed a suit against the U.S. Air Force in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Washington imposed sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. And Orbital Sciences Corp. and ATK announced that they plan to merge.
We have several articles on all this in the May 5 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. And, in our latest Check 6 podcast, Aviation Week editors discuss these developments and how they are interrelated – and what might happen next. Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler and Guy Norris, our Los Angeles Bureau chief, join me in the discussion.
The common thread in these developments is that the space launch sector has become increasingly enmeshed internationally – and the possibility that the growing tensions between the U.S. and Russia could disrupt plans, especially in the launch sector.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was fanning the flames last week with tweets @DRogozin suggesting NASA use a trampoline to get its astronauts to the International Space Station. But there are a lot of serious possibilities that have the space industry and its customers worried. Check out our podcast.


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Young wildlife may be cute � and it may be tempting to bring a fawn, cub, chick or kit home � but tiny animals are not pets.
Wildlife Commission says �hands off� the little ones
Young wildlife may be cute � and it may be tempting to bring a fawn, cub, chick or kit home � but tiny animals are not pets. The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is reminding people that touching or feeding them can hurt wildlife and jeopardize human health. It can also harm the ecosystem. Human encounters with young animals often increase in the spring, when many wildlife species bear young.
�Wild animals are not pets, and they are not meant to be raised and fed by humans,� said Ann May, the Commission�s extension wildlife biologist. �Wild animals still have their wild instincts, even if they seem tame. Well-meaning people can be injured by a wild animal just following its instincts, and the interaction can be harmful to the animals as well.�
It is illegal to keep native wildlife as a pet in North Carolina. Also, capturing and handling a young animal can stress it, sometimes fatally. In addition, young animals that look abandoned often are not. Many species do not stay with their young constantly and only return to feed them. The parent may return and become aggressive in an attempt to defend its young. And, as a young animal grows, it, too, can become aggressive.
Feeding animals may seem harmless or even helpful. However, it causes the animal to lose its natural fear of humans. An animal may become aggressive or cause property damage in its search for more food. Wildlife can also transmit diseases, including rabies and roundworms, to humans. More information on coexisting with wildlife, including young animals, is available online at www.ncwildlife.org.
Oriental fishing tourney scheduled
The agenda for the 2013 Oriental Rotary Club Inshore Slam and Tarpon Tournament has been set. The Inshore Slam will be a one-day event on Friday, July 26. First, second and third-place prizes will be awarded based on the aggregate weight for fish presented at check-in. Only one fish per species (flounder, red drum and speckled trout) will be weighed per boat to determine the aggregate weight. Ninety percent of the entry fees will be awarded for the top three places.
The Tarpon Tournament will be on July 27 and a half day on July 28. It will be a catch and release contest, with the winners determined by the total number of tarpon landed. Official observers on each boat will deem that fish has been �caught� when the leader has been touched by a fisherman. In the case of a tie, the winner will be determined by the earliest tarpon caught. The first place boat will receive 45% of the tournament�s entry fees. Second and third place will be awarded 30% and 15% respectively. In addition, two additional tournaments will be held within the main format, a Championship TWT and Sportsman TWT.
Information about the Oriental Rotary Club Fishing Tournament, including entry fees and forms, is available by phone at 252-249-0400 or online at http://www.orientalrotary.org.
May 18 � The 24th annual Vanceboro Rotary Panfish Tournament will be held on the Neuse River and its tributaries from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone 252-244-0253 for directions and details.
May 18 � The New Bern Coast Guard Auxiliary will offer a Safe Boating course at the River Bend Town Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For information, contact Dale Petrangelo at 252-634-9083.
May 18 � Staff at Goose Creek State Park, off Hwy. 264 east of Washington, NC, will present a program on �Ticks, Chiggers and Mosquitoes� � behavior, misconceptions and how to avoid them. Phone 252-923-2191.
May 18 � The Lenoir County Archers will host a 3-D archery tournament at their range outside of Kinston from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Craig Harper at 252-521-1851 can provide more details.


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You know how fond we are of our puppies over at DCP. August 26th is their day! Move over Cesar Millan and make way for the DCP dog pound – it's National Dog Day! Make sure you keep the treats handing and take your pup for plenty of walks today. A trip to the groomer may not be a bad idea either.
There are some notable puppies in the DCP family. Everybody knows and loves Cassius – Ben's Bull Terrier. He holds down the fort in Schenectady and loves attention. Make sure you acknowledge him if you stop by the shop or he'll never let you live it down!
Jerry joined the family back in April. He holds down the fort in Boston. Jerry is a Mini-Schnauzer mix and tends to look like an old man if you don't trim his beard and eyebrows regularly!
We know several members of DCP Nation have puppies they'd love to show off, so we encourage everyone to post a picture on our Facebook page and be sure to include the name. Maybe we'll give away a prize to the dog with the most "likes" at the end of the day!
Other Holidays:
- Women's Equality Day – commemorates equal rights on the day women across the nation were given the right to vote
- National Cherry Popsicle Day
- Daffodil Day
- National Toilet Paper Day – not sure where we'd be without this one!
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- Macaulay Culkin (31)
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Proper selection of surge protective devices can increases uptime and improve personnel safety.
Facility downtime costs industrial and commercial facilities nearly $26 billion annually in the United States alone. Identifying and preventing everything that can shut down your facility is next to impossible. However, one source that can be pinpointed and dealt with is transient voltage, and an increasingly accepted way to combat transient voltage is by installing surge protective devices (SPDs).
It's impossible to prevent voltage surges from entering, or occurring in, a building, so SPDs must divert surges to ground. By design, an SPD is "self-sacrificing"—it removes harmful voltage spikes even under conditions that can cause its ultimate failure. The key is to ensure that in the unlikely event of its failure the SPD won't trip the upstream protective device, damage equipment, or harm people. Well-designed SPDs are generally maintenance free and should last the lifetime of the facility.
Why do SPDs fail? Although failures are rare, they can occur if used the SPD is used incorrectly, for example, if a wye-configured SPD is installed into a delta system. They can also occur when the primary component—the MOV—is forced to sustain a temporary overvoltage (TOV). A TOV (up to 200% of normal voltage) can result from a utility fault, loss of the neutral on a 3-phase, 4-wire system, or an improperly wired device. Though not a surge event, improper wiring accounts for the majority of SPD failures. These occurrences gradually degrade the MOV, changing its resistance from megohms to milliohms.
Fig. 1 (right)depicts how an MOV reacts to over-voltage conditions. For example, on a 120/208V 3-phase 4-wire system, the maximum continuous operating voltage is typically 150V. An MOV could likely handle a 50% increase to the nominal system voltage (1.5 x 120 = 180V) for a period of days. However, prolonged or frequent overvoltage occurrences will reduce its life expectancy.
Proper SPD testing promotes safety and reliability. SPD products that promote fuses with excessive surge current ratings don't provide the proper system coordination. They sacrifice low-level fault protection and fail to disconnect during low-current faults. This can result in catastrophic failure—which can result in a fire—and tripping of the upstream breaker or fuse.
To ensure an SPD will operate at peak safety, efficiency, and reliability, reputable SPD manufacturers will perform independently verified tests. The two UL1449 tests you should be familiar with are the limited current test and the AIC rating test, both of which an SPD must pass to receive the UL 1449 listing. The device must not produce a flame or allow exposure of the internal parts while under test.
The limited current test can be conducted by applying an abnormal overvoltage, such as a line-to-line voltage, to the SPD via a conductor pair connected to two of the following SPD terminals: phase-to-neutral, phase-to-ground, and neutral-to-ground. The test circuit limits current to 0.125A, 0.5A, 2.5A and 5A by means of the power source impedance.
The AIC rating test can be conducted in the same manner as the limited current test, except the impedance must allow for a current of at least 5,000A. As an end user, you must note the difference when comparing the SPD AIC rating with the AIC ratings of other components in the system, such as the circuit breakers, contactors, and relays. Manufacturers test the SPD AIC rating at abnormal overvoltage and usually test other components at nominal system voltage. For example, on a 120/208V SPD, the test involves applying a line-to-line voltage (208V) on the phase-to-neutral SPD terminals (120V). These are important tests because they relate directly to equipment and personnel safety.
The NEMA LS-1 specification, published in 1992, designed test parameters around an SPD surge rating of 100kA per phase. The specification required "no more than 10% clamping voltage degradation after ultimate surge." The ease and speed of performing this test allowed it to gain support and popularity. However, the clamping voltage, or let-through voltage, during ultimate surge is as much as 10 times higher than the nominal system voltage. Therefore, even if it were possible to receive a 200kA surge at the SPD, the clamping voltage would damage or destroy the downstream electronic components. The relevance of this test becomes questionable for two reasons: Your equipment is unprotected during such surges, and test labs are unable to generate peak surge currents greater than 240kA. The ultimate surge test may support claims of longer product life. However, testing for product longevity is not as important as testing for and ensuring system and user safety.
The importance of SPD thermal protection. MOV degradation happens very gradually. The increase in leakage current—due to TOV—through the failing MOV progresses at the same rate as the MOV's degradation. This heats up the MOV and adjacent thermal disconnector, causing the disconnector to trip. When an SPD fails, the MOV short-circuits, so you must provide a means for immediately disconnecting it from the system. SPD manufacturers recommend using an overcurrent circuit protective device (OCPD)—circuit breaker or fuse—in front of an SPD. Properly designed SPDs require separate OCPDs for each MOV.
The characteristics of overcurrent fuses don't allow for a simple design. The same overcurrent fuse can't conduct high surge current, which requires a large cross-sectional area, and perform low fault-current disconnection, which requires a small cross-sectional area. You can improve the SPD surge-current rating by installing one fuse per MOV, because the MOVs and fuses share the current during the surge event.
However, for low fault-current disconnection, over-current fuses require using a thermal disconnector. The thermal disconnector can handle high surges without opening and performing low fault-current disconnection, but the thermal disconnector isn't fast enough to respond to a high fault-current condition. Therefore, the combination of thermal disconnectors with the overcurrent fuses on individual MOVs solves this problem.
Thermal fusing. An overheated MOV produces sufficient heat to prompt a thermal disconnection. For small fault currents, or if the occurrence is over a longer period, the thermal fuse spring (TFS) will disconnect first. Some SPDs use a fuse trace (FT) and an MOV in series with a 30A or 60A circuit breaker. Those SPDs pass standard safety tests but may fail in real world applications. For example, if the fault current is less than 30A, the SPD might catch fire, but the circuit breaker won't trip. SPDs designed with a TFS allow disconnection of the shorted MOV at the overheating stage.
However, in instances of incorrect installation, or when a highly abnormal over-voltage condition occurs, an FT will help in the disconnecting process. At very high fault-current levels, the FT will open faster than the TFS. In these instances, the FT improves the AIC rating of the SPD.
Fuse trace technology. Silver fuse traces have been in use for years, but this design protects only to a certain level of surge current unless the cross-sectional area is large. New FT designs use copper in their circuitry to provide better surge ratings with less cross-sectional area, allowing for disconnection on low fault currents. Coordination of MOV/TFS and FT is important. Fig. 2 depicts time/current curves ('t / I' curves). The first curve, between points 1 and 2, is the MOV/TFS 't / I' curve. The second curve, between points 3 and 4, is the FT' t / I'-curve. The TFS is capable of disconnecting the MOV in the low fault condition range (between point 1 and curves intersection). The FT is capable of disconnecting the MOV in the high fault-condition range (between curves intersection and point 4).
Surge protection devices are becoming increasingly more important in preventing personnel hazards, equipment damage, and downtime. They remove voltage spikes from the electrical system even under potentially SPD-fatal conditions. How you select SPDs and match their specifications to your system will determine how well they protect you.
Chiste, C.E.T, is product manager, surge protection & power conditioning product line, Eaton/Cutler-Hammer, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.


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I have included the major waypoints to get you to Watson. If you are not familiar with this area, use Google Earth or similar map software to find the general area via any of those waypoints. Note that this map is not complete. I will make another trip into Watson this spring to finish the map and log all the old homesteads with GPS software.
While you are in the vicinity, you should visit "Jordan Craters". I you ever wanted to walk inside of volcano, that's the place to do it.


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Winter Xgames Field Guide
We were excited to produce this booklet, designed and illustrated in-house at Target by Aaron Melander. This piece was created for guests of the Target Chalet as a field guide to the 2011 Winter X Games. To begin the project, we worked closely on the paper selection. It needed to be thick and sturdy in feel yet thin enough to do some 180 degree folds to form the inside cover pocket. For the cover we duplexed two stocks after printing - off white on the outside and brown on the inside. The outside is 78lbC Canaletto Granna Grossa printed in tight register three color letterpress. A tonal pattern printed on French Poptone Hot Fudge 80lbC floods the inside.
One of our favorite commercial shops in town then helped with the interior printing and bindery. The gutt was traditional 4 color offset printed and saddle stitched at Shapco. Since the open edges of the cover are folded to the interior a final trim with the gutt in place was not possible. That meant the gutt pages needed to be stitched separately, trimmed to size, then stitched again into the cover.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A three-judge federal panel in Washington Tuesday rejected three Texas redistricting maps, finding the state failed to prove the maps complied with federal law.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in a case brought by Texas officials, who argued the redistricting maps met the requirements of the Voting Rights Act, the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman reported.
The law requires nine states with a history of discrimination against voters, including Texas, to obtain pre-clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice before changing voting laws.
The judges in Washington found three Texas redistricting maps for U.S. House and Texas Senate and House districts did not comply with the Voting Rights Act's requirements.
The maps in question were not to have been used in the November election, so the ruling will have no impact on voting, the newspaper said.
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Title: Hanging Cross
Paladin was hired to find a son who was taken by some renegade Indians, arrives to find they have a boy who may be the missing son. Paladin has to stop a war to protect more then just a boy.
Original Aired Date: December 21, 1958
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Holiday House in Fingal Bay, Port Stephens
Four bedroom, two bathroom, two storey house. Accommodates: 10 (bedroom one: queen bed, bedroom two: double bed, bedroom three: two single beds, bedroom four (downstairs): tri bunk and a single bed). Room for the extended family and close to the beach.
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Bedding Configuration
Queensize (1)
Double (1)
Single (2)
Single (1)
Tri Bunks (1)
The Location - Just a stroll across the road to Fingal Bay Beach (patrolled September to April) or just 200 metres to the Fingal Bay Surf Club, Oceanview Restaurant, Longboat Cafe, a great kids playground and a cycling and walking path. Only five minutes drive to Shoal Bay and ten minutes to Nelson Bay.
The House - This double storey house is affordable and sleeps up to ten, so you can bring the extended family. Upstairs there is a living area with a flatscreen TV, DVD player and a CD player, a dining area and a kitchen with a microwave, upright stove, dishwasher and full fridge. Three bedrooms are also located upstairs (queen bed, double bed and two single beds) and the main bathroom with shower over bath. There is external access only to downstairs, with the fourth bedroom (tri bunk and a single bed) and the second bathroom. Plus a balcony and gas BBQ, an external laundry with a washer and dryer and a double carport and offstreet parking (room to park a boat).
There are definitely smoke detectors at this property.
Off Road Driving: Stockton Sand Dunes, Barbecue, Mountain Biking, Quad Bike Riding: Stockton Sand Dunes, Birdwatching, Bushwalking: Tomaree National Park, Cruising, Cycling, Scuba-Diving, Dive Charters, Diving, Dolphin Cruises, Dolphin Watching, Fishing - Beach, Fishing - Charters, Fishing - Estuary, Fishing - Game, Fishing - Deep Sea, Exercising, Golfing, Mini Golf/Putt Putt, Horseriding, Jet Boating, Kayaking, Seakayaking, Para-Sailing/Para-Flying, Photography, Meditating/Relaxing, Animal Riding: horses, camels, Sailing, Sandboarding: Stockton Sand Dunes, Scenic Flight, Shopping: Salamander Centre and Nelson Bay, Sightseeing, Snorkelling: Marine Park, Sports Participate, Sports Viewing, Surfing, Swimming, Marine Animal swimming: Dolphin Swim Australia, Irukandji Shark and Ray, Tennis, Animal Viewing: dolphins, whales, Marine Animal watching: dolphins, whales, Walking, Water-based, Whale Cruises, Whale Watching, Wine Tasting: Murrays Brewery.
Aussie Lifestyle, Beach, Eco Tourism, Fishing, Golf, Marine, Nature based, Relaxation, Soft Adventure, Water based, 18-35's, Adult Getaway, Budget, Empty Nesters, Family, Gay and Lesbian, Group, Self-Drive, Senior.
Credit Cards: Visa and Mastercard (surcharge applies), Electronic Funds Transfer, Linen Supplied.
- Air Conditioning: portable in living area
- Balcony
- Bathroom: two
- Bath Tub
- Bedrooms: three + one downstairs with external entry only
- Boat Parking: off street
- CD Player
- Child Friendly
- Crockery and Cutlery
- Dining Room
- Dishwasher
- Clothes Dryer
- DVD Player
- Electric Heating: large bar heater
- Furniture Outdoor
- Garden Area: not fenced
- Gas BBQ
- Hairdryer
- Iron and Board
- Kitchen
- Laundry: external with washer and dryer
- Linen: linen packs included
- Lounge
- Microwave Oven
- Parking: double carport + off street
- Porch/Deck
- Refrigerator
- Shower
- No Smoking Rooms
- Stove
- Television: flatscreen
- Multiple TVs: 1 flat screen
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Most properties now provide bed linen for bookings made on or after 25 August 2015. If you booked before 25 August 2015 but have not yet arrived, you will need to bring your own bedsheets, towels and pillow cases, or contact mail [at] winningholidays [dot] com [dot] au to enquire about linen supply. Only a few properties do NOT offer bed linen as an inclusion and this will be clearly advertised on their individual listing(s). All properties will include: pillows, pillow protectors, mattress protectors, blankets and bedding covers. Future bookings made from 25 August 2015 will include bed sheets, pillow cases, towels, face cloths, hand towels and bath mats unless otherwise specified.
Guests are required to pay a 50% deposit within 48 hours of your reservation. Deposits can be made by credit card online when making your reservation or by phoning a booking consultant on (02) 4984 0100. Mastercard and Visa Cards will incur a 2.5% surcharge and American Express Cards will incur a 4% surcharge. CLICK HERE to make online credit card payments.
Alternatively guest may make a direct deposit to:
- Account Name: Winning Holidays
- Bank: Macquarie Bank
- Account Number: 301934238
Yes, your booking may be cancelled if you have not paid the deposit within 48 hours of your reservation, or if you have not contacted a Winning Holidays consultant on (02) 4984 0100.
The balance of your reservation(s) is due 7 days prior to your arrival. Peak season reservations (26 December to 16 January) are required to be paid by 1 November. Refer to Terms and Conditions.
CLICK HERE to make online credit card payments.
Winning Holidays Guests - Key Collection is strictly from 2.00pm. Guest will be required to collect keys from: 47 Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay.
Shoal Bay Beachclub Guests - Key Collection is strictly from 2.00pm. Guest will be required to collect keys onsite: 47 Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay.
Amarna Resort Guests - Key Collection is strictly from 3.00pm. Guest will be required to collect keys onsite: Christmas Bush Avenue, Nelson Bay.
Winning Holidays Guests
– are required to check-out by 10.00am. Late check-outs are available
for a small fee (subject to availability). Keys can be returned to 47
Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay or 19 Stockton Street, Nelson Bay.
Shoal Bay Beachclub Guests – are required to check-out by 10.00am. Late check-outs are available for a small fee (subject to availability). Keys can be returned to 47 Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay or 19 Stockton Street, Nelson Bay.
Amarna Resort Guests – are required to check-out by 11.00am. Late check-outs are available for a small fee (subject to availability). Please leave your swipe in the apartment.
Winning Holidays Office: 47 Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay
Monday to Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Sunday: CLOSED
- Winning Holidays Guests – Winning Holidays Office 47 Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay
- Shoal Bay Beachclub Guests - Winning Holidays Office 47 Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay
- Amarna Resort Guests - onsite: 16 Christmas Bush Avenue, Nelson Bay
Winning Holidays Office: 47 Shoal Bay Road, Shoal Bay
Monday to Friday: from 5:00pm
Saturday: from 4:00pm
Sunday: ALL DAY
Winning Holidays provide an after-hours key collection service when the office is closed. Guests will be required to come to the Shoal Bay Office and call the After Hours phone number on the front door. A representative from Swan Security will meet you at the office to issue keys for a $20 cash fee and a $30 cash fee on Christmas Day.
Yes, the person collecting keys will be required to show photo identification and produce a valid credit card as a security deposit before keys are issued. If a valid credit card is not available then a cash security deposit may be required.
When collecting keys, a Guest Registration Form must completed and a security deposit taken before keys are issued. The guest registration form can be completed in advance to save time, or at check-in. You must also provide a valid credit card and driver's license which will be sighted by a consultant for customer validation.
Please Note: Should you not have a valid credit card, then a cash security deposit is required. Cash deposits will vary depending on the property, with the minimum amount of $400.
Accidents happen sometimes. It is best to let us know if this does occur. You are more likely to incur a charge for breakages or damages if we do not know about it. Upon your departure, an inspection will alert us to any damage or missing items. As per the guest registration form you have signed, such incidents are charged to the guest accordingly.
Each property is displayed from the winter off season weekly tariff. Seasonal tariffs apply.
A clean fee and booking fee will be added to the tariff at the end of your booking showing the exact price for the requested dates.
NOTE: The Amarna Resort, Shoal Bay Beachclub Apartments and The Pines at Anna Bay offer overnight accommodation and are therefore displayed with a daily rate. Some properties may include cleaning fees in the tariff price and some are displayed separately.
Most properties will not allow pets anywhere at the property. Guests wanting to bring their pet should select pet friendly at the time of their search, which will shortlist the properties available. There is a fee of $50 per pet per week, or part thereof, in Winning Holidays Pet Friendly Accommodation
Guests who bring pets to properties that do not allow for them could face immediate eviction without refund at the discretion of management.
Port Stephens offer three kennelling options:
- CEJ's Boarding Kennels – Nelson Bay Road, Bobs Farm – 02 4982 6646
- Auramist Lodge – Nelson Bay Road, Salt Ash – 02 4982 6304
Nelson Bay Boarding Kennels – Gan Gan Road, One Mile – 02 4982 1182
All holiday homes are individually and privately owned. Some properties at times will be for sale. In most cases when a sale occurs, the purchaser will continue to holiday let and honour bookings currently in the system, therefore most guests will not be disrupted.
On occasion when a sale occurs, the purchaser may ask for the property to be vacant at the time of settlement. In this situation, Winning Holidays would arrange alternate accommodation for you in a similar property, subject to availability.
Guests will receive notification the moment Winning Holidays are notified giving guests the option to:
- transfer to alternate accommodation, or
- request a full refund.
No, you cannot have a party. Winning Holidays adhere to the Holiday Code of Conduct respecting the local residents of the area. Our policy requires a maximum of adults in a particular dwelling to help reduce noise complaints, excess cars and disruption to the neighbouring properties. If a property accommodates more than eight people then the remaining guest numbers must be for children.
Any guest found to be hosting a party of any kind or over-crowding the property will be immediately evicted without refund.
Any booking found to be a "schoolies" booking will be be immediately cancelled and evicted without a refund, whether any other terms and conditions are breached or not.
Not all properties offer air conditioning. If air conditioning is important to your stay then please select air conditioning as a requirement when searching on the website.
If the matter is life threatening, Dial 000.
The after-hours phone service is for emergencies only, for example total power failure, total water failure, lock-out or natural disaster damage. Please contact our office number on 4984 0100 and a message will be forwarded to the emergency services.
NOTE: If you lock yourself out you will be required to pay for a locksmith service call. This can be expensive!
Yes. Collection days will be displayed in the Winning Holidays Compendium provided. Guests are responsible to place the red and yellow bins to the curb on collection day if this occurs during your stay. Bin collection will pertain to private homes or duplexes only, whereas unit blocks will have a strata set-up to take the bins out for you. The best indication is to check the street / neighbours who have put out their bins as you would at home.
Reception can be affected from time to time due to the weather or distance from the telecommunications tower. Problems we saw in the old days have been significantly improved since the introduction of the digital signal.
If you would like to order mid-stay cleaning please contact Winning Holidays; Mon-Fri 9am to 5pm and Sat 9am to 4pm on (02) 4984 0100 to arrange a quote.


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But actually, if you look on a per capita basis, the fall is more severe, and we're edging towards mid-90s level of imports.
This is essentially a story of higher domestic production, and a decline in driving. What's key is that this isn't just a story about the economy right now, but a big secular trend that continues, even as the US economy strengthens.
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EU and U.S. conclude first round of TTIP negotiations in Washington
Jul 12, 2013, 01:13 ET
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first week-long round of talks for an EU-U.S. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) comes to a closure today in Washington.
"It's been a very productive week," said EU Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero coming out of the talks. "We have been striving already for many months to prepare the ground for an ambitious trade and investment deal that will boost the transatlantic economy, delivering jobs and growth for both European and Americans. This week we have been able to take this negotiation to the next step. The main objective has been met: we had a substantive round of talks on the full range of topics that we intend to cover in this agreement. This paves the way to for a good second round of negotiations in Brussels in October."
Working throughout the week, the negotiating groups have set out respective approaches and ambitions in as much as twenty various areas that the TTIP - the biggest bilateral trade and investment negotiation ever undertaken - is set to cover. They included: market access for agricultural and industrial goods, government procurement, investment, energy and raw materials, regulatory issues, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, services, intellectual property rights, sustainable development, small- and medium-sized enterprises, dispute settlement, competition, customs/trade facilitation, and state-owned enterprises.
Negotiators identified certain areas of convergence across various components of the negotiation and - in areas of divergence – begun to explore possibilities to bridge the gaps.
The talks have been based on a thorough review of the stakeholders views expressed to date. The negotiators met also in the middle of the week with approximately 350 stakeholders from academia, trade unions, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations to listen to formal presentations and answer questions related to the proposed agreement.
The next round of TTIP negotiations will take place in October in Brussels.
The first round of talks follows the official launch of the negotiations that was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the G8 Summit held on June 17, 2013. Beforehand, EU Member States agreed to give the European Commission "the green light" to start negotiations with the United States and defined their negotiating guidelines (IP/13/548). The initiative of a transatlantic agreement is based on the recommendations of the EU-U.S. High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth that steered the reflection on future EU-U.S. relations since late 2011.
The aim of the ambitious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is to liberalize as much as possible trade and investment between the two blocs. The trade agreement with the U.S. is expected to result in more jobs and more growth on both sides. That will help boost economic growth and would be a very good message for the whole world economy.
The EU and the U.S. make up 40% of global economic output and their bilateral economic relationship is already the world's largest. According to an independent study by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, based in London, an ambitious and comprehensive trans-Atlantic trade and investment partnership could bring the EU economic gains of €119 billion a year once fully implemented. The final agreement could see EU exports to the U.S. rise by 28%, earning its exporters of goods and services an extra €187 billion every year. Consumers will benefit too: on average, the agreement could offer an extra €545 in disposable income each year for a family of four living in the EU (MEMO/13/211).
The European Union and the United States have their eyes on more than just removing tariffs. Tariffs between them are already low (on average only 4%) so the main hurdles to trade lie "behind the border" in regulations, non-tariff barriers and red tape. Estimates show that 80% of the overall potential wealth gains of a trade deal will come from cutting administrative costs, as well as from liberalizing trade in services and public procurement.
That's why the two trading giants will reinforce their regulatory cooperation, so as to create converging regulations rather than have to try to adapt them at a later stage. The aim is to build a more integrated transatlantic marketplace, while respecting each side's right to regulate in a way that ensures the protection of health, safety and the environment at a level it considers appropriate. Both sides hope that by aligning their domestic standards, they will be able to set the benchmark for developing global rules. Such a move would be clearly beneficial to both EU and U.S. exporters, but it would also strengthen the multilateral trading system.
For further information:
- EU Delegation to the U.S.
- TTIP regulatory Part
- Independent study on benefits of EU-U.S. trade agreement
- More information on the EU's trade relations with the United States
www.EUintheUS.org & @EUintheUS
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Local and indigenous people have to be active participants in the REDD debate, argued IUCN during today's side event at the ongoing Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn.
While the link between climate change and forests has been the focus of various international discussions for some time, the fact that they are home to millions of local and indigenous populations has become a hot topic during the ongoing CBD meeting. Close to 100 delegates attending the side event, organised by IUCN, UNEP and others united by the Poverty and Environment Partnership (PEP), identified the need for REDD to deliver on three fronts: climate change, biodiversity, and local livelihoods.
"We should not let the carbon tail wag the forest dog", said IUCN's Economics and the Environment Senior Adviser, Joshua Bishop. Forests are about much more than the carbon they contain.
To those who actually live in and depend on forests directly for their well-being, carbon remains a rather elusive asset. Victoria Tauli Corpuz – Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – warned the audience that local and indigenous communities could be 'left out of the REDD scene'. For it to work successfully, REDD should not become a barrier to local livelihoods.
The uncertainty surrounding REDD is, unfortunately, not limited to the community level. Leo Peskett from the Overseas Development Institute, aptly presented its intricacies and provided some initial indications of how REDD could work for the poor, emphasizing that poverty reduction needed to be an explicit goal of the scheme, as opposed to a simple 'add-on'.
REDD has a tremendous potential for achieving environmental and development objectives and for this potential to be realized, those local and indigenous communities who have the most to lose from climate change and deforestation need to become the main beneficiaries. Raising community-level awareness on REDD and carbon markets is one step in the right direction, but the road towards pro-poor REDD is still long. IUCN is committed to having local communities on board for the entire ride.


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New York – Oct. 31, 2013 – Media spend attributed to multi-screen advertising campaigns is expected to grow from 20 percent of budgets today to 50 percent in the next three years, according to a new study by ANA (Association of National Advertisers) and Nielsen conducted among client-side marketers, agencies and media sellers. Multi-screen campaigns were defined as those that run during a similar timeframe across two or more screens including TV, computer, tablet, mobile phone and digital place-based media.
Emphasizing the significance of multi-screen advertising campaigns, 48 percent said they believe these campaigns are very important in effectively delivering marketing messages today. And a vast majority of those surveyed (88 percent), predict that multi-screen campaigns will be very important in three years.
"Measurement is the biggest issue that will influence the rate of growth for multi-screen advertising," said Bill Duggan, Group Executive Vice President of the ANA. "The industry needs to adopt measures that are consistent, comparable, and combinable across screens to provide a complete picture of a campaign's effectiveness."
"At Nielsen we work closely with our clients to help them deploy consistent, multi-platform measurement against their advertising initiatives, so these findings confirm what we're already seeing in the market. The potential for marketers and the industry as a whole is significant as multi-platform measurement is embraced in the marketplace," said Randall Beard, Head of Global Advertiser Solutions for Nielsen.
"We at Nielsen are committed to providing multi-platform measurement capabilities in order to make marketing spend more effective and to grow the industry as a whole. Studies like this done in collaboration with respected industry organizations like the ANA are incredibly useful for those of us who are tasked with developing the next-generation measurement tools that inform the important decisions marketers, agencies and media sellers are making every day," said Megan Clarken, Executive Vice President of Global Product Leadership for Nielsen.
Measurement is seen as the biggest issue for multi-screen advertising, as there is a huge gap between existing measurements and how respondents would prefer to measure integrated multi-screen campaigns. The majority (71 percent) said they use a variety of metrics specific to individual screens, but 73 percent said they would prefer to use just one set of metrics across all screens.
"An industry-wide initiative including trade associations and senior leaders from across the advertising ecosystem must be established to help foster standards and best practices for multi-screen campaign measurement and management," said Bob Liodice, President and CEO of ANA. "This would build on Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS), an industry-wide initiative to advance cross-platform comparability through improved digital advertising metrics and standards."
When asked what specific metrics they would like to use, client-side marketers, agencies, and media sellers consistently identified the need to determine if the advertising was delivered to the desired audience – using reach, frequency, and GRPs (66 percent) – and whether the advertising produced the desired effect – using brand lift metrics to assess awareness, likeability, and purchase intent (67 percent).
According to respondents, other critical elements of integrated multi-screen measurement included:
There are other areas and opportunities for the future of multi-screen campaigns:
ANA and Nielsen conducted the Integrated Multi-Screen Campaign survey online during July and August of 2013 among a total respondent sample of 274 people. This sample comprised 119 client-side marketers drawn from the ANA membership, as well as 80 media sellers and 75 agencies drawn from a proprietary Nielsen database. The respondents have an average of 17 years of experience in the industry.
The survey findings are featured in the white paper "Optimizing Integrated Multi-Screen Campaigns" which is available from Nielsen and ANA.
Founded in 1910, the Association of National Advertisers leads the marketing community by providing its members with insights, collaboration and advocacy. ANA's membership includes more than 525 companies with 10,000 brands that collectively spend more than $250 billion in marketing and advertising. The ANA strives to communicate marketing best practices, lead industry initiatives, influence industry practices, manage industry affairs, and advance, promote, and protect all advertisers and marketers. For more information, visit http://www.ana.net, follow us on Twitter, or join us on Facebook.
Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence and mobile measurement. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA, and Diemen, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Byram, Miss., bar and restaurant violated federal law by subjecting a pregnant waitress to employment discrimination, according to a lawsuit filed September 29, 2010 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Reed Pierce's, a billiards- and sports-themed bar and restaurant, fired Melody McKinley when she was four months pregnant after she had asked to change her shift to go to a doctor's appointment and experienced pregnancy-related complications. Although her doctor never put any restrictions on her ability to work, the complaint alleges that Reed Pierce's told McKinley she was a good employee but "the baby was taking its toll on her" and she was let go from her job. When McKinley asked to keep working as a hostess or call-in employee, the restaurant refused, the EEOC said. The EEOC asserts that the company's actions were intentional and demonstrated a reckless indifference to its employee's federally protected rights.
Pregnancy discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Mississippi (Civil Action No. 3:10-cv-00541-WHB -LRA) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The suit seeks monetary relief for the victim, a court order requiring the company to implement new policies and practices designed to prevent pregnancy discrimination, provide employee training on anti-discrimination laws, posting of notices at the work site and other injunctive relief.
"The law protects employees' rights to continue working during their pregnancy," said Delner Franklin-Thomas, district director for the EEOC's Birmingham District Office.
C. Emanuel Smith, regional attorney for the EEOC's Birmingham District Office, said, "It is important for employers to recognize that women have the right to remain gainfully employed throughout their pregnancy. This lawsuit is a step in that direction."
In Fiscal Year 2009, the EEOC received 6,196 charges alleging pregnancy discrimination.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.