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The steep increase in prices paid in Townsville last year follows a 13% fall in 2016, demonstrating growth in the region and the strength of reef tourism. Meanwhile, the Whitsunday Islands recorded the steepest decline in accommodation prices, falling 14% in 2017 after bearing the brunt of Cyclone Debbie.Read More »
Enticing visitors with safer roads
The Andrews Labor Government has launched a new campaign to help international visitors to Victoria drive with confidence and stay safe on our roads, with accommodation and tourism providers expected to reap the benefits.Read More »
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It's been a long year and as it's our last ever newsletter for 2017 (expect us back in your inbox again January 11), we thought we'd leave you with some awkward moments shared by accom guests (and possibly some staff).Read More »
Accidental narcissists: what have guests become?
The rise of digital and mobile and its impact on commerce has given consumers more information, and consequently more power, than ever before, as well as an ever-increasing expectation for instant gratification.Read More »
Government congratulated for Chinese tourism efforts
To capitalise on the immense opportunities associated with the growth in visitor numbers from China, it is critical that all levels of Government pursue ways in which passengers can be facilitated into the state...Read More »
Exclusive affiliation agreement extended
The multi-year contract extends the relationship first established in 2000 and comprises the existing 23 club properties, as well as future properties...Read More »
What female guests want, new study uncovers
First things first: Women (and a majority of men who were asked) like the idea of a hotel offering devoted to women.Read More »
Discovery Parks launches new water park
The new waterpark, being built at Discovery Parks - Lake Bonney, will feature three slides, a huge tipping bucket, water cannons and several spray zones. The 500sqm waterpark will be themed to reflect the beauty of the Murray River and the local citrus growers.Read More »
Capitalising on event hype: how hotels are standing out
Events draw thousands of domestic and international visitors to areas across Australia each year, whether for business or leisure. Accommodation providers benefit from this, particularly when events, conferences and festivals run over a period of days or weeks - but how can you maximise on guests during these periods, and is it worth the extra effort and expense?Read More »
National Customer Service Awards recognition
Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific's customer experience team has been recognised in two categories at the prestigious Australian Service Excellence Awards, which will be held at the Westin Hotel in Sydney on October 25.Read More »


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Massive Shakeup At Calvin Klein
Massive Shakeup At Calvin Klein
Was it something Justin Bieber said?
Three months after Calvin Klein was riding high on the dreadlocked pop star's underwear ads, the company is parting ways with both of its creative directors.
Calvin Klein announced Tuesday that Francisco Costa, creative director of womenswear, and Italo Zucchelli, his menswear counterpart, would be leaving "as part of a global revolution in the direction of the Calvin Klein brand."
According to Women's Wear Daily, Raf Simons, Christian Dior's former creative director, is favoured to take over — Calvin Klein plans to consolidate the two jobs into one.
"The house has consistently declined to comment about Simons joining the firm," wrote Lisa Lockwood at WWD. "It is believed that Simons, former creative director of Christian Dior, has a non-compete with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton until the summer."
If the rumours are true, Simons will have big shoes to fill. Costa, who joined Calvin Klein in 2001, is famous for his classic, minimalist aesthetic and for designing Jennifer Lawrence's standout red dress for the 2011 Oscars. Zucchelli, who started at Calvin Klein in 2004, is well known for his use of untraditional materials (including the foam from a bicycle seat).
"Everyone's replaceable. A lot of designers get replaced, and often get forgotten," Calvin Klein himself said prophetically last week. "It's a difficult time, but things change."

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Opening statements have begun after a Mississippi man filed a civil case after suffering permanent injuries from undergoing brain surgery intended for another patient. The man sued a surgeon and radiologist in September 2001 after alleging the doctors misdiagnosed him as having terminal brain cancer. The medical misdiagnosis lawsuit alleges the doctors improperly reviewed MRI scans and other scans of the man before the operation and did not notice the MRI films examined before and after the operation had a different patient's name on it.
According to the medical misdiagnosis lawsuit, the man believed for months he had cancer and underwent a biopsy in August 2000 to remove brain tissue for testing. This is when the man claims the doctors misinterpreted his films for those of another patient at the hospital.
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Finally the FIFA 17 Serie A TOTS has been comfirmed officially on 16, June, 2017 since the FIF 17 TOTS release date on 12th May! How many good players have you packed till now, it seams that there are few good players in the previous leagues TOTS, it does not matter, here comes the excellent FIFA 17 Serie A TOTS, which will include those excellent players from the Italy's Serie A / Calcio A league, among which there are a few 90+ players such as the 98 Higuain, 96 Chiellini, 95 Buffon, 94 Hamsik, 94 Mainggolan etc. The Serie A TOTS Squad is available now in the FIFA Ultimate Team packs from 6pm UK, June 16th, until 6pm (UK time), June 23rd, 2017. Just check the details of the Fifa 17 confirmed Serie A TOTS in the follows:
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GK: Gianluigi Buffon – Juventus (Italy) – Italy
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ST: Alejandro Gómez – Atalanta (Italy) – Argentina
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Barratt Developments (LON:BDEV) provided the market with an encouraging trading update on Wednesday, sending shares up.
The housebuilder said it expects to beat market expectations for annual profits, after its completion rates reached its highest level in nine years.
Pre-tax profit in the year to 30 June is expected to grow to £765 million from £682.3 million, ahead of analyst predictions of £699-£740 million.
Total home completions, including joint ventures, increased to 17,395 from 17,319 the year previously, with the average selling price rising by 5.9 percent to £275,000 from £259,000.
On private sales, the average price increased 8 percent to £313,000 from £289,800, encouraged by inflation in house prices.
In addition, the company revealed it had confirmed forward sales of £2.1 billion, up from £1.8 billion during the same period last year.
At the same time, net cash balance for the company rose to £720 million, up from £592 million.
"It has been another very strong year for the Group both operationally and financially," commented chief executive David Thomas.
"We have delivered our highest number of completions for nine years, more than any other housebuilder, and continue to see a positive mortgage environment and strong consumer demand." He continued.
The company, alongside other house developers, have benefited considerably from the government's Help to Buy scheme, which gives first-time buyers access to funds to help get on the property ladder.
Nevertheless, it remains to be seen how ongoing Brexit negotiations will impact the U.K housing market, which has already showed signs of stagnation with house price growth slowing.
Conversely, earlier this week rival house-builder Bovis Homes (LON:BVS) announced its intention to set aside an additional £3.5 million to deal with faults with customer homes, after a series of complaints.
The company has had to set aside the additional funds after company pressure to fulfill sale targets led to hasty completions and customers being sold uncompleted houses.
Shares in Barratt ultimately rose as much as 1.5 percent in early morning trading following the update. As of currently, shares are trading up 0.26 percent as of 11.46AM (GMT).


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Layer 05 opens with Lain speaking to "God", who explains to her that humankind doesn't really seem to be evolving anymore, and thanks to the Wired, people finally have a way to escape from being mere humans. This part of the show starts with "God" talking over loud music accompanied to animation of humans going about their everyday lives, only for the music to stop suddenly, with the show going back to its usual slow pace. We see Lain crossing the street, with the crowd around her almost walking in slow-motion.
We then cut to Lain's sister, Mika, who is coming home after meeting her boyfriend. As usual, she is cold and aloof, but in a different way to Lain. Mika appears to hold almost everyone and everything in total disdain, and she seems very hard, emotionally. Even after witnessing a traffic accident, she still doesn't care, and calmly walks away. I guess she's basically just a normal teenager in a lot of ways, though, like with all of Lain's family, there does seem to be something slightly unnatural about her and the way she acts. Even when she finds Lain standing out in the middle of the road, spaced out and with cars zooming all around her, she doesn't even come across as concerned, just annoyed. (Notably, though, nobody seems to care about Lain; not a single person makes an effort to save her.) Despite this, I still end up feeling sorry for Mika after everything she goes through here. Weird, inexplicable stuff happens to her, like something out of a David Lynch film. She finds herself lost in familiar places, and is delivered cryptic messages.
In-between the stuff happening to Mika, the episode occasionally cuts to a younger Lain, sitting in her room, being told "stories" about prophecies and other such things by various figures, such as her toys, or her father. The music in the background and the darkness of the room gives these scenes a rather dreamlike feel. It also shows a little more of who Lain is; she seems much more extroverted as a child, which is true for a lot of people. It makes me wonder how her character developed over time, and just what her true personality is. (I should just point out here that she's gone back to being quiet again, despite her chattiness in the previous layer.
There is much talk of some sort of prophecy here, and with this layer, I do get the feeling that big, puzzling events are beginning to happening. They're subtle and quiet, as usual, but they're certainly large. Lain's image starts appearing, not only on a giant screen, but in the sky, too, like she's some sort of Messiah. Then again, maybe she is.
This is one of my favourite episodes of SEL. Like the previous one, it brings a lot of horror elements present in the show to the surface, but in a much more interesting way. The horror here is of the surreal, psychological kind, which fits the feel of SEL perfectly. This episode also uses the non-linear narrative very well, managing to tell a coherent story that is still incoherent in many ways. It's also nice to see how characters other than Lain are being affected by all the strange stuff that's going on in the series.


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Going thru the Wikileaks dump ran across this I know it's old news but I still find it interesting just how the Democrats have no problem even telling each other a barefaced lie
" Andy – I want to share something with you that is probably going to make you angry, but then I am going to give you an opportunity to do something about it. For months, you've heard the Clinton campaign endlessly repeat in interviews and on social media that they have raised millions and millions of dollars for state parties through something called the "Hillary Victory Fund." They've even used it as an attack line to insinuate Bernie wasn't willing to help down-ballot Democrats. Well, yesterday morning, thanks to a Politico investigation, we found out that less than 1 percent of the $61 million raised by the Victory Fund has stayed in state party coffers. And indeed, the majority of the money spent by the Victory Fund has gone to benefit Hillary Clinton's primary campaign against us. The piece said some state party fundraisers believe they are basically acting as "money laundering conduits."( source: /wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/9288 )
So in their own words, they are acting as "money laundering conduits." for the Clinton campaign. So multiple state parties got about 6 million to share among themselves and the lion's share went to Clinton campaign which comes out to about 55 million sounds fair right? Lol, One wonders just where that money went? to buy what or who? It seems if it has the Clinton name attached to any money it either comes up missing or the money allotment seems to overwhelmingly fall in the favor of the Clinton name as in this case. No wonder Poor Old Bernie didn't know what hit him.
If they are this dishonest within their own party how do you think they will treat the rest of us?


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the apparatus for this or the room or stall enclosing it
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a fall of many objects, as tears, sparks, or missiles
air shower
showers, a room or area equipped with several showerheads or stalls for use by a number of people at the same time
As verb (used with object)
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the head
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a similar strand of rayon
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to reach the top of
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to distill off only the most volatile part of (a mixture)
to strike (the ball) above its center, giving it a forward spin
to make (a stroke) by hitting the ball in this manner
to top-dress (land)
to have coitus with (a woman)
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to rise aloft
As Verb phrases
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top out, to finish the top of (a structure)
to reach the highest level
As Idioms
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to become enraged; lose one's temper
to go mad; become insane: He must have blown his top to make such a fool of himself
off the top of one's head, Informal
head (def )
on top, successful; victorious; dominant:to stay on top
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in addition to; over and above
close upon; following upon: Gale winds came on top of the floods
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elated: The success made her feel on top of the world
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over the top of the parapet before a trench, as in issuing to charge against the enemy
surpassing a goal, quota, or limit
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to kill oneself
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A multinational surveillance operation conducted by the Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency has resulted in the investigation of a Taiwanese purse-seiner for potential violations of Micronesia's fishing license conditions.
Operation Kurukuru 2017 was a 10-day surveillance operation that took place in October. More than 500 officials from the 14 nations belonging to the Forum Fisheries Agency participated, boarding and inspecting more than 100 vessels.
The Federated States of Micronesia participated in Kukukuru, seizing a Taiwan purse seiner they suspect of illegal fishing, according to a Radio NZ report. The vessel remains under investigation as to whether the vessel breached license conditions, according to Radio NZ.
Micronesia's National Oceanic Resources Management Authority Director Eugene Pangelin said the operation demonstrated the FFA's power to work together to ensure fisheries laws are being properly followed.
"We want those vessels given the right to fish in our EEZs to take their license conditions seriously, or face prosecution," Pangelin said.


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Cenas, 04 Nov 2013They're all unlocked.you sure about that ?
Well I finally got my hands on the Nexus 5 and all I can say that it is a very good device, except that the speakers sound a bit strange, and the battery life is kind of disappointing. Just by using the device for an hour (screen time 29 minutes, wifi was on all the time, no sim card inserted) the battery went from 95% to 78%.
1) The phone is trained to your voice.
2) You can disable the "Ok Google" voice activation.
post the review already gsmarena -_-
Its here but now updates are stopping me trying it just yet and I usually do a 12-16 initial hr charge..These updates are welcome though as always..
I had trouble trying to connect to wifi,so tried again with my sim card in and no problems,,so if your like me and want to mess about using wifi whilst using your other phone it may not connect to wifi without sim.
Sumeetxolt, 04 Nov 2013yes i agree but, cmon man, that can't be compared over here! U r lying!
anyone who got the phone try the usb otg for flash drives and hdd.it would help a lot of people to know if it works
note a huge leap foward compare to nexus 4..same ram,same 28nm process cpu,same 3d performance(768p,ad320 comparable to 1080p,ad330).can we call it nexus 4s..hmm..i think it can..
Nexus 64 bit, 04 Nov 2013I saw a comparison in YouTube between the Nexus 5 Vs Iphone 5S Vs SGS4, Iphone 5S still faster... morebecause ios is not heavy operating system comaper between android phones only fastest and smoothest with no bloatware
edge12, 04 Nov 2013Hi,does the U.S version works in ASIA - Specially in PH!! :) Thanks.. I heard that the U.S ve... moreThey're all unlocked.
Got mine today. Superb performance. Simplicity and pure android experience. Must have smartphone this year!
Hi,does the U.S version works in ASIA - Specially in PH!! :) Thanks..
I heard that the U.S version is Unlock so it means the Anywhere in the Globe this phones WORKS???
jdonins, 04 Nov 201316Gb of storage meory would be to insuffiecient, 32Gb so so. no SD slot, not good.Agreed 16gb is not enough for a moderate-high end user, 32gb is a must on this phone.
16Gb of storage meory would be to insuffiecient, 32Gb so so. no SD slot, not good.
kris., 04 Nov 2013That phone was from a OS which was one of the first "smartphone" os.yes i agree but, cmon man, that can't be compared over here!


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Q: I know my homeowners insurance will protect my interests against fire, theft and natural disasters, but what about liability? How do I know if I have enough coverage?
A: To determine how much liability coverage is enough, you'll need to assess how much risk you have. For many people, the coverage included with their regular homeowners policy is enough. But in some situations, you may want more. Some common reasons to get more coverage include:
You own a swimming pool. Reduce your risk by enclosing your pool with a fence and locking gate. Remember that even when everyone is keeping "safety first" in mind, accidents can happen.
You own a dog. No matter what breed, dogs can bite. However, if you own certain breeds, you may need additional coverage.
You frequently have parties. If you regularly host social events, the risk of someone getting hurt on your property can increase.
When you're trying to decide if you need additional coverage, it pays to consult with a professional insurance agent. And when you're ready to buy or sell a home, turn to me. As your trusted real estate professional, I'm here to help you.


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Sugar Addict Victimized
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Snowman Fever
Successful Snow Dance!
Honey, I Love You!
Pepsi! What have you done to me?!
All I can say -- thank you for the liquid candy! However, I've got to tell you it's kind of like giving crack to a drug addict...
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|Regina, the snowwoman. We don't do anything normal in this household.
It turns out the snow dance worked better than I could have ever imagined! I suppose I should begin the un-snow dance soon. Someone alert Van at Fox8 News. I'm going to prevent any more snow until next winter!
In the meantime, I decided to have a little fun out in the snow I created. Here is a photo of the fruits of my labor this morning.
Successful Snow Dance!
OMG!! It finally worked! All my dancing paid off! Snow dancing, I mean.
Perhaps I'd better stop before this gets out of hand...
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|Stormtrooper, Chewbacca, Yoda and Darth Vader, respectively.
You know, nothing says, "Honey, I love you," quite like a handful of Valentine candy hearts nestled in the lobotomized cranium of Chewbacca, Yoda, Darth Vader or some generic, cloned stormtrooper from Star Wars!
This relatively inexpensive, yet expressive statement of love is perfect for your special Valentine this upcoming February 14th.
Delicate Purple Flowers
We found these beautiful little flowers all over the place while biking around Kiawah Island. This small photo of a particularly large batch surrounded the mailbox of a house across the street from where we were staying.
While the scientific name of these little guys eludes me at the moment, my otherwise incredible horticulture knowledge tells me the common name for them is purply-pink, delicate flowers. Amazing, huh?!
I've been posting some of these pictures on another blog. Why? Partly... Okay, mostly because I haven't figured out how to utilize the 'page' function on my blog.
Well, guess what? I am figuring it out now!
So keep watching this space, as well as reading Fuzzy, Black Dogs and, perhaps, we'll grow and learn something together. Hopefully, if this works properly, you'll get to enjoy my photography as well as my regular blog posts.


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New Home Checklist
Kitchen Essentials Checklist
Whether you're moving into your first apartment or you're moving to a new house, the kitchen will be an important part of your new home. Our checklist of kitchen essentials has all of the tools, utensils, cookware, and gadgets you'll need to whip up some delicious meals. Below we'll cover the necessities you should have for your first kitchen as well as some nice-to-haves that will help expand your cooking repertoire.
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Best Wi-fi and Programmable Thermostats
Buying a new thermostat is not like buying other home appliances like a vacuum or a pressure cooker. There are many things to consider before buying a smart thermostat – what type of HVAC system you're running, what features you need, whether you're looking for energy savings, convenience, or both, etc. One of the most important questions is whether it is worth upgrading from a traditional thermostat to a new, Wi-Fi or programmable thermostat.
Best Smart Door Locks
Smart locks one of the most vital aspect of every connected home of today. These locks don't just let you come and go as you please. They can temporarily grant access to friends, family, and the delivery man. They lock the door behind you when you leave in case you (or one of your children) forget. And they can monitor who enters and leaves your home while you are away. Some smart locks can even be activated through the use of voice commands or triggers coming from other home automation services and devices.
Smart locks will change the way you think about securing your home, and connecting them to larger smart home systems can make your life so much easier. In this guide we review the best smart dead bolt locks, cover the pros and cons of each, and share our top pick.
Best Home Security Camera System
Surveillance must be an integral aspect of any home protection system. Home surveillance systems provide the ultimate peace of mind to homeowners and parents by allowing you to keep an eye on things even if you are not physically present. There is a new wave of smart cameras on the market that come with varying levels of complexity, capability and price tags. In this buying guide, you will learn more about the best home surveillance system and how to get the best home security camera system for your particular situation.
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Carbon Monoxide Detector Beeping? 5 Things You Should Do Right Now
A carbon monoxide detector and alarm is designed to alert users about the unsafe level of carbon monoxide. These work through making flashing lights and noise. Nevertheless, they also make flash lights and noise under some conditions. The noise that they make was described as chirping, beeping, and squeaking.Majority of carbon monoxide detectors make sounds a much shorter c [...]
Kitchen Essentials – How to Set Up Your Dream Kitchen
Whether you're moving into your first apartment or you're moving to a new house, the kitchen will be an important part of your new home. Our checklist of kitchen essentials has all of the tools, utensils, cookware, and gadgets you'll need to whip up some delicious meals. Below we'll cover the necessities you should have for your first kitchen as well as some nice-to-hav [...]
Moving Checklist – 12 Things to Remember
Moving into a new home or apartment? With the whirlwind of things to do, it's easy for some of the smaller items to fall off to the wayside. That's why we created this moving checklist. There are a few basic things you can do early on in the process to make moving day a breeze. Below we've listed 12 important things to do when moving. [...]
How to Secure Home with Hidden Outdoor Security Camera
Hidden outdoor security camera is a multi-camera surveillance system which is hidden from intruders and installed in any outdoor portion of your home. Such cameras are placed in the driveways, walkways and other secure places. Homeowners consider various variables in making their choice of such cameras, as well as in determining the best places to hide it. The most important th [...]


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Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior: Lecture Overview
In last week's readings and lecture, we examined instances in which widespread informal reports and rumors of crime were instigated by moral panics when no actual crimes had occurred. If our definitions of crime are far from universal, and if the stories we casually tell about the existence of crime can be so wildly inaccurate, how can we possibly begin to build a careful accounting of the crimes that actually do occur? In this lecture and accompanying readings for this week, we consider the daunting task of making reliable measurements of crime… and discuss a few reasons why seemingly solid crime statistics might not be so solid after all.
Before you start to review this lecture, be sure to read the second-week assignments laid out for you in our course syllabus:
- Read Hagan Chapter 2
- Read Goldstein, Joseph. 2012. "Police Reports Suggest Officers May Sometimes Portray Crimes Less Seriously." New York Times, September 16. Accessible through the "New York Times" database at UMA Library Databases web page.
- Listen to Glass, Ira. 2010. "Is That a Tape Recorder in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me?". This American Life, September 10.
- Read Rayman, Graham. 2012. "The NYPD Tapes Confirmed". Village Voice, March 7.
- Participate in Activity #3 (Evidence-Based Crime Interventions) via the "Activities" on our course Blackboard page.
Before you start your readings, consider listening to author Frank Hagan's brief audio podcast, which describes Chapter 2 and summarizes the essentials of some of its content.
Our lecture subjects this week are:
- Moral Panics Revisited: Thinking About Bath Salts
- Moving through Doubt to Measurement: the example of Rural Crime
- The Language of Research: Hypotheses, Variables and Operationalizations
- The Dark Figure of Crime: Misrepresenting Crime in America's Cities
- Activity for the Week: Evidence-Based Criminology
Moral Panics Revisited: Thinking About Bath Salts
When I taught this class a few years ago, a student asked me a reasonable follow-up question based on her own professional experience:
I have worked in law enforcement for 15 years and over the course of 15 years in service I have spent countless hours in training regarding drugs and their effects. This particular subject makes me wonder about the new scare of designer drugs (bath salts and spice). Can you point me in the direction of research of these particular drugs, I'm just curious of how severe the problem really is. I completed a class a few years ago where we discussed what to look for when someone is under the influence of bath salts and it is a major concern with jails as we are not equipped to handle the effects of this drug. Since the completion of this particular training (class), I have not encountered anyone under the influence of bath salts and prior to this class we had 1 case where an arrestee was under the influence of bath salts. I'm really interested in this, I'd like factual data, or is this the latest "moral panic"?
Is there a moral panic going around regarding bath salts, the cocktail of drugs with stimulant and other properties that apparently hit Maine last year?
To answer that question, let's review (from last week's video segment) the main features of a moral panic:
- A folk devil (either one member of a low-status group or a whole low-status group) is said to be exhibiting threatening behavior
- A consensus emerges that the supposed threat is real
- All the hubbub raised is overblown compared to the objective threat
- The hubbub emerges quickly and also subsides quickly
Does the concern with bath salts fit the criteria of a moral panic? Well, it certainly has been volatile, quickly emerging into public consciousness and also quickly receding about a year ago. The following are "Google Trends" patterns in search data for the phrase "bath salts" over time in the state of Maine, with a peak indicating high search volume in 2011-2012 and dropping back to nearly nothing shortly thereafter. By contrast, searches for "heroin" and "meth have been more gradually growing over time in Maine through 2016:
and if we look at the pattern over space within the United States we can see that Southern Maine has experienced the second-highest concentration of searches about "bath salts" in the nation, surpassed only by the region of Scranton, Pennsylvania…
The criterion of volatility in concern is clearly satisfied for bath salts (especially compared to the gradual increase in interest in heroin and meth). But what about the other criteria? Was the 2011-2012 concern regarding bath salts disproportionate to the actual problem? Here's where assessment gets tricky. The following shows the average number of suspected bath salts cases reported to the Northern New England Poison Center each week during the years of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 (unfortunately, the Poison Center stopped sharing such statistics after 2014):
Would you say that a handful of reported cases of bath salts intoxication per week in Maine constitutes an epidemic? What if I changed the units of measurement to yearly cases? Would reporting the same information as "226 cases in a year in 2011" be more liable to provoke concern? What if I pointed out that the number of cases reported to the Poison Center would typically represent the most severe, troubling and out-of-control cases, that reporting to poison centers is not mandatory, and therefore that likely many more instances of bath salts use in Maine have occurred each year? Would you say this is "disproportionate" or not?
In addition, has any low-status group been targeted as responsible for the reported bath salts epidemic? I have trouble identifying any pattern of derogatory references to any group in the news coverage of bath salts, although I encourage you to review available news sources and see what you conclude. Do you find any pattern here?
While there certainly was a great deal of concern regarding bath salts in Maine, especially four to five years ago, that concern does not necessarily indicate a moral panic. The problem of bath salt use is not a slam-dunk case of a moral panic because it's difficult to assess whether the danger is disproportionate to concern, and there's not an immediately identifiable scapegoat.
Even though we don't appear to have had an old-fashioned moral panic in Maine when it comes to the case of bath salts, we do see evidence of a mala prohibita process of authorities encountering a new source of harm, identifying that source of harm as a social problem, and deciding to classify that source of harm as criminal in nature. When bath salts first came to Maine, buying and ingesting the concoction was not criminal. It was, in fact, possible to openly purchase the substance in local "head shops." State and federal criminalization in 2011 was part of a concerted effort to demonstrate public disapproval and diminish a worrisome wave of use.
Moving through Doubt to Measurement: the example of Rural Crime
Drawing inspiration from T.S. Eliot's poem "East Coker," the following video recorded in the early spring of this year begins where we left off at the end of our previous week's discussion: in doubt, confronted with instances of supposed crime as hyped moral panic, wondering how it is possible to distinguish the hyped from the real. The video further explores such doubt, discussing reasons why crime may be underreported in rural areas and overreported in urban areas. When dealing with information about crime, it is almost always better to make systematic observation than to traffic in stories, but with all statistics it is important to question, question, question.
In the video above, we delve into the criminological literature to question the reality of the urban/rural crime difference in general. In a post to the Kennebec Journal in the spring of 2015, I apply those questions to the particular case of the capital city of Augusta in Maine, which I argue has possibly gotten a bum rap for its "high" crime rate:
When the real estate website Movoto declared Augusta to be the "#1 most dangerous place in Maine" this February, was that fair? An article in the Kennebec Journal listed a number of sensible complaints about this label. In this post, I'd like to develop one thread of criticism a bit further: crime rates in Augusta may appear unfairly large simply because Augusta is a city.
Movoto didn't do any original research to come up with its ranking; it relied on the FBI's Crime in the United States report for 2013, to which more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies contributed counts of crimes observed by police. The FBI measures crime as a rate, the number of observed crimes per 100,000 residents. The chart you see here draws from the FBI's own data to show that the areas of Maine with the highest crime rates are apparently our state's largest cities, including Augusta.
This trend does not always match other observations, however, and that's because the FBI's data is far from perfect. Based on interviews with young people, social scientists Jay Greene and Greg Forster conclude that young people living in cities fight, engage in petty theft, use drugs and drink alcohol no more often than students who live in suburbs. According to criminologists Barry Ruback and Kim Ménard, rape crisis centers report a higher rate of sexual assault cases in rural areas than in cities.
Yet the arrest rate for these sorts of offenses is higher in cities. Why? Police cars more regularly patrol densely-packed areas in cities and are therefore more likely to see crime when it occurs. When young people commit crimes in suburban or rural areas, few or no police see it because those police are spread out over large areas. When young people commit crimes in cities, they get arrested.
In addition, many people commute to cities during the day to work, study or obtain social services, as Michael Shepherd points out in his article. This trend increases the number of people in cities in the hours when people are most active, and simultaneously decreases the number of people in suburban or rural areas. When some of these suburban or rural people visit cities, they commit crimes. Now, crime rates are fractions, with the number of crimes as the numerator and the number of residents as the denominator. The crimes visitors commit are assigned to cities, but those same visitors are not counted as residents of cities when calculating the rate of crime. Instead, they are counted as residents of the rural or suburban places they only sleep in.
Put it all together and crime rates will appear larger inside cities and smaller outside cities.
For reasons like these, the FBI declares it unfair to rank cities against small towns using its data. Unfortunately, for websites desperate to attract readers and advertisers, headlines disparaging our largest cities may be just too juicy to resist.
The Language of Research: Hypotheses, Variables and Operationalizations
If systematic observation through research is important in order for us to move beyond doubt to make some firm conclusions about crime, then it is essential that we confront and master the language of research and start to work at moving from reading processed textbooks to understanding research articles. As an undergraduate student and a high school student before that, you may be familiar with textbooks as the dominant mode of written instruction. But in both the academic and professional sphere, social scientists most commonly accumulate and disseminate knowledge through research articles published in journals. Social scientists subscribe to prominent social science journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Networks, and Criminology so that they can maintain an awareness of knowledge in their fields. When conducting their own research, they also may review the literature on a subject by searching journal articles through free services such as Google Scholar or paid services such as JSTOR and Academic Search Complete (available to you at the UMA Library Database page).
Your journey as an undergraduate student should take you from lower-level classes dominated by textbooks to upper-level classes that incorporate a significant number of professional research articles. By the time you have graduated with a Bachelor's degree in the social sciences, you may not understand every method employed in professional research. Nevertheless, you should be able to read, understand, and usefully react to the hypotheses and variables described in a research article. Reading a research article is quite unlike reading any other form of writing. It's a practiced skill that requires patience and repeated effort. This week's activity is designed to put just a little bit of that practice under your belt, asking you to "identify a research study" and in that study "name the independent and dependent variables, and indicate how those variables are operationalized." Let's talk a little bit about independent variables, dependent variables, what operationalization means and how this all fits together into a hypothesis.
In research, a variable is simply something that can be measured and the state of which varies from measurement to measurement. The number of gray hairs on a person's head is a variable, and its value (measured as a count of gray hairs) usually increases over time as that person ages. Researchers in criminology are typically interested in studying variation in some kind of outcome related to crime, and in trying to figure out what explains that variation. The outcome of interest studied by a criminologist (for instance, the number of violent crimes in a year by a person, or the number of violent crimes observed in a state per 100,000 population in the state) is called a dependent variable.
What makes the crime rate go higher? What makes the crime rate fall lower? An independent variable, like a dependent variable, is something that can be observed in the social world and that can take on different values. Independent variables are important because when they change, the dependent variable may change too. For instance, someone studying the crime rate may suggest that as the number of police cars present in a neighborhood goes up, the crime rate in that neighborhood goes down. "Number of police cars in a neighborhood" is an independent variable, "crime rate in a neighborhood" is a dependent variable — and the suggestion about how variation in one is associated with variation in the other is called a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a researcher's best guess about the the pattern in the data that they will find.
Finally, in order to test a hypothesis in the real world, it is essential for a researcher to be able to precisely measure each variable. To operationalize a variable is to describe exactly how values of a variable will be measured in the real world. For instance, if the "crime rate" is a variable a researcher is interested in, that researcher will have to be say something specific about what she or he means by the words "crime rate." What is the crime of interest, and what is a rate? "The number of murders observed in a state during a given year per 100,000 population in the state, as reported by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports" is an exact indication of how the researcher will measure the variable "crime rate." This exact measurement is useful because readers can understand exactly how research has been carried out, and other researchers will know exactly how to replicate the original researcher's work to verify any findings.
The Dark Figure of Crime: Misrepresenting Crime in America's Cities
Before you started to read this week's lecture, you read (or listened to) the reports of Joseph Goldstein, Ira Glass and Graham Rayman. In combination, and corroborating one another, they paint a picture of a New York City Police Department that distorts crime statistics, at once inflating arrest statistics for minor offenses to create a picture of an active police force and at the same time dampening police reports of serious crimes to create the image of a rejuvenated Big Apple that is safe and tourist-friendly. The reports by Goldstein, Glass and Rayman by and large are not indictments of New York City police officers, who put their lives on the line every day in order to keep others safe. Rather, these reports indict the leaders of the NYPD who are (if these reports are to be believed) so concerned with the popular image of New York created by crime statistics that they are willing to tamper with crime reports to preserve that popular image.
New York City is hardly the only city in the United States that's faced a scandal regarding the misreporting of crime for public relations purposes. In the 1990s, the city of Philadelphia faced a similar problem. Reporters Michael Matza, Craig R. McCoy and Mark Fazlollah of the Philadelphia Inquirer shared the following account in 1998:
Soon, the Police Department will begin using sting tactics on its own officers, having undercover investigators pose as crime victims to see whether police report the incidents properly.
Now, the Justice Department is starting an inquiry into the fudging of crime statistics in the nation's fifth-largest city.
Rarely if ever has there been so much pressure on Philadelphia police to present an accurate picture of crime.
"Going down with crime" – downgrading major offenses to minor ones to polish the image of commanders and police commissioners and make the city look safer – has been a reflex in police station houses for decades.
The methods and motives varied, but the result was almost always the same – to shift offenses out of the "Part I" group of major crimes tallied nationally by the FBI and watched closely by the media, the public, politicians and the headquarters brass.
The practice endured, top commanders now say, because favorable statistics made higher-ups happy and helped careers. It endured also because the department's leaders rarely put teeth into their rhetoric about accuracy – never insisted that the numbers be right as well as rosy.
"Every commissioner told the troops that they wanted accurate coding – and none of them meant it," said Chief Inspector Vincent R. DeBlasis, 60, a 39-year police veteran and a former chief of detectives. "It was all window dressing."
When underreporting practices by law enforcement in Philadelphia were stopped, the reported crime rate in Philadelphia promptly rose by 9 percent.
What does this mean? Is the sharp fall in the national violent crime shown in the graph below merely an artifact of police underreporting? Let's look at data through 2014 (reports on 2015 are due to be released some time toward the end of September 2016 — I'll let you know when that happens):
There are two reasons why such a conclusion would probably be an overreaction. First, the very nature of murder, considered by many to be the most serious crime, resists underreporting. Murder unfortunately creates a dead body, and these are difficult to undercount. Yet the murder rate shows a decline in recent years, a decline similar to the overall reported decline in violent crime:
In addition, as this graph from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows, National Crime Victimization Survey trends — of violent and property crimes reported to researchers by crime victims — have also shown a steady drop in recent years:
The fact that this trend from reports by crime victims matches the trend of reports by police officers leads criminologists to feel more confident that the trend is real, and not just the consequence of changes in reporting by either police officers or victims.
While there are many good reasons to question the veracity of crime reports, there are also some good reasons to suspect that, using multiple methods, some real and important trends in criminal behavior can be uncovered. As Frank Hagan declares in your course text, the use of multiple measures and multiple methods helps to ensure that an apparent trend in crime statistics reflects an actual underlying trend in crime being experienced in society.
Activity for the Week
This week, I'm asking you to click on the "Activities" link on the left-hand side of our course Blackboard page and complete the following activity:
On pp. 35-37 of Frank Hagan's Introduction to Criminology textbook, two sources for "evidence-based research" on effective and ineffective crime reduction methods are listed:
- "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising" (correct link: http://www.ncjrs.gov/works)
- CrimeSolutions.gov (http://crimesolutions.gov).
Find a supposed crime reduction method that is identified in one of the sources. For the source you have chosen:
- identify the overall finding: is the method evaluated as effective, ineffective, or promising but of uncertain effectiveness?
- report how many studies the evaluation is based upon
- identify one of the research studies forming the basis of that evaluation, name the independent and dependent variables for that study, and indicate how those variables are operationalized.
To receive credit for Activity 3, log in to Blackboard and upload your work to "Activity #3: Evidence-Based Crime Intervention" in the "Activities" section of our course's Blackboard page. Activity 3 is due by September 17.
One of the reasons I'm asking you to do this is to start immersing yourself in the material of criminological research. A good criminologist tests the claims of others — and I want you to apply that standard to me as an instructor and to Frank Hagan as a textbook author. This week's activity work is clearly related to the "evidence-based research" section of Hagan's textbook on pages 35-37. Unfortunately, some of the references made by Hagan are out of commission. On page 35, the reference to the Bureau of Justice Statistics website is out of date — the current link is actually www.bjs.gov. The preventingcrime.org website referenced on p.35 has been defunct for more than half a decade, and the work of that website by the University of Maryland has not been updated for more than a decade.
Fortunately, that work in producing evidence-based evaluations of crime research is preserved at another website, http://www.ncjrs.gov/works, and new evidence-based evaluations are being produced through a separate effort at http://crimesolutions.gov. I look forward to receiving and learning from your review — not of these entire websites, but of just ONE crime reduction method described on BOTH websites. If you have any questions regarding this week's activity, please send it on to me and I'll be glad to point you in the right direction.
Carter, Timothy J. 1982. Rural Crime: Integrating Research and Prevention. New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield.
Donnermeyer, Joseph F. 1994. "Crime and Violence in Rural Communities." Pp. 27-
63 in Perspectives on Violence and Substance Use in Rural America. Oakbrook, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Greene, Jay P. and Greg Forster. 2004. "Sex, Drugs, and Delinquency in Urban and Suburban Public Schools." Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Education Working Paper Number 4.
Ruback, R. Barry and Kim S. Menard. 2001. "Rural-Urban Differences in Sexual Victimization and Reporting: Analyses Using UCR and Crisis Center Data." Criminal Justice and Behavior 28(2):131-155.
Weisheit, Ralph A. and Joseph F. Donnermeyer. 2000.
"Changes and Continuity in Crime in Rural America."
Pp. 309-359 in Criminal Justice 2000 Series, Volume 1: The Nature of Crime. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
Weisheit, Ralph A., David Falcone and L. Edward Wells. 1994. "Rural Crime and Rural Policing." Research In Action September: 1-15. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
Wing, Janeena. 2009. "Unmasking Unreported Crime: Idaho Crime Victimization Survey 2008." BJS/JRSA National Conference Proceedings.


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I started the new year by making a lot of new memories!
January 7th, a friend of mine's and I went to see a long time fav artist ; Xavier Naidoo Live in Hamburg. I was excited the whole week, counting down each day till the event, picking out what to wear, listening to his songs more than normal. And the concert was Amazing! There was alot of surprise artist that came and i was introduced to a few new songs, and that was so nice. The arena was full, the atmosphere, his presence that is so strong, the power behind his soul, the power behind his voice making me feel like a teenager again, his lyrics, his message, his goal… the feeling of the bass hitting my chest, with every beat in every song, the loudness.. the light show. ahhh just everything. I really enjoyed my self alot.
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Skid Proof – If We Keep Our Eyes on Jesus
By Brenda Wood
Are You Skid Proof? Brenda uses the great Canadian winter to remind us that we must keep our eyes on Jesus if we are to walk with Him.
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Skid Proof
Part of Canada's great beauty is its winter snow. I like to admire it from my window (near the fireplace and with a good book). Regularly though, I must brave the elements and venture into the real world. The first snowfall is always a surprise. We act as though we have never seen it before and forget everything we ever knew about driving in the stuff. Recently, I read an article explaining (once again) how to drive in snow. It said "Your car will go where you are looking."
Our Christian Walk
How like our Christian walk! We mindlessly gaze at constant advertising and wonder why we eat so much, or buy too much. We watch off-colour movies and are astonished to find ourselves swearing. If we kept our eyes on Jesus, what would we see, buy, eat, say?
Then turning to his disciples, He said privately, Blessed (happy, to be envied) are those whose eyes see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see what you see and they did not see it, and to hear what you hear and they did not hear it (Luke 10:23- 24, AMP).
Christ also suffered for you, leaving you (His personal) example, so that you should follow in His footsteps (1 Peter 2:21b, AMP).
Father God, We're looking in too many wrong places. A skid lies ahead. Give us grace to keep our eyes where they belong, fixed firmly on the Author and the Finisher of our faith. Jesus. Amen
Brenda Wood
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This post is a lil' different to my usual pre-planned, location-driven, countless photos to choose from instalments on the blog, but I wanted to share these photos nonetheless. My incredible Mum held her sixtieth birthday party on the weekend, and the theme was sixties; an era that already shapes many of my style choices and one that will forever inspire me with colours, designs and spirit. After too much deliberation (there are so many cool icons I would have loved to dress as) Jack and I were encouraged by one of our favourite films, Legend, to go as Reggie Kray and his wife Frances (although Jack actually ended up being Ron so he could wear the glasses…).
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Camel coat and talking style inspiration
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Company creation
Documents required
|Basic Procedures
|Statutes of Company (*) Initials on each page with signature of all partners on the last page The location of the premises should be indicated in the statute or in company minutes
|Photocopy of the manager's National Identity Card (NIC) OR IF FOREIGNER, copy of passport with the long-stay visa
|Manager(s)'s residence certificate (original) < 3 months
|Rights to premises (headquarters or place of activity) OR lease contract or sublease agreement (*) – please mention the telephone number of the property-owner)
Plan of location testified by Fokontany
|Power of attorney and legalized copy of CIN of the legal representative
|Declaration relative to Senior managers of company (manager and co-manager) (*)
|Eventually, authorisations from concerned Ministries for regulated activities
(*): Model or form can be obtained from EDBM or downloaded from the website: www.edbm.gov.mg
|Additional documents for shareholder of legal entity
|Excerpt of Trade and Companies Registry <3 months
|IF CREATION of SARLU: registered status
|IF MALAGASY LEGAL ENTITY: Minutes of shareholding interest recorded + copy of tax card
|Additional documents for limited company (SA)
|Minutes of constitutive general assembly
|Minutes of Board of Directors
|Declaration of subscription and payment
|Application form
|Statement of subscription and payment
|Certificate of deposits / paid-up capital
|Additional documents for liaison office, branch or agency
|Statutes of parent company
No need for statutes for the liaison office, branch or agency
|PV (duplicate) with: appointment of representative, opening a liaison office, agency or branch, designating the street address of headquarters and location of premises in Madagascar as well as the start and end date of the financial year
|Extract from the Trade and Companies Register (RCS) <3 months in French of parent company (French translation for other versions)
|Documents required for the activity of wholesaler, manufacturer, collector and importer
|Certificate of existence of the place of activity (sales office and warehouse) issued by the Fokontany of the located place
|Detailed plans of the place of activity with clear indication of the office, the sales store, the warehouse, testified by Fokontany
|Formal business registration letter (*) for manufacturers and importers / prior authorization for wholesalers (at the Regional Taxation Office Analamanga 67 ha)
Fees (Payable in cash to Front Office of EDBM)
|Registration of statutes
|0.5% of the share capital (minimum charge: 10,000 Ar)
|Registration of commercial lease
|2% of the total rent for the term of the lease
|Minutes – Power of Attorney
|2 000 Ar
|Registration on Trade and Companies Registry
|16.000 Ar
|Statistical Registration (STAT)
|40.000 Ar
Income taxation on revenue (IR)
If option IR
If option IS
|100.000 Ar for taxpayers exercising agricultural, craft, industrial, mining, hotel, tourism or transport activities
|16.000 Ar for farmers, livestock raisers, fishermen, small mining extractors, carriers/goods-handlers using non-motorized vehicles (cart, rickshaw, dugout canoe etc.)
|320.000 Ar for other companies
|50.000 Ar for craftsmen, small restaurant managers, small producers
|100.000 Ar for mining artisans, artists and such persons, salespersons, hotelkeepers, contractors, restaurant managers
|150 000 Ar for self-employed or freelancers, multiple activities and others.
Documents issued (within 4 days) provided that the submitted files are complete
- Registration documents (statutes and commercial lease contracts: original and duplicate; proof of payment of instalment)
- Statistical card with STAT number
- Taxation card
- Extract from trade registry
- RCS receipt with RCS number
- Acknowledgement receipt of payment of registration fees and instalment of IR
- Copy of the notification of the new company's creation extracted from EDBM website
Department(s) involved
- EDBM-Taxation: Ministry of Finance and Budget (MFB) / Directorate-General of Taxes (DGI)
- EDBM-RCS: Ministry of Justice (MINJUS) / Trade and Registry Court
- EDBM-INSTAT: National Institute of Statistics
Notes and references
Law N° 2014-010 of 21st August 2014 amending and completing some provisions of Law No. 2003-036 of 30 January 2004 on Commercial Companies
- General Taxation Code 2017
- Law N°2016-032 of 28 December 2016 on Finance Law 2017
- Law N°2016-007 as of 12 July 2016, on amended Finance Law for 2016
- Decree No. 2011-050 of 1 February 2011 amending Decree No. 2005-151 of 22 March 2005 and Decree No. 2004-453 of 06 April 2004 establishing the conditions of application of Law No. 2003-036 of 30 January 2004 on Commercial Companies
- Decree No. 2008-440 of 5 May 2008 on the Trade and Companies Registry and advertising furniture credit
- Decree No. 2005-380 of 22 June 2005 on the registration of new statistical institutions engaged in economic or social activity in Madagascar
- Order No. 15981/2011 of 26 April 2011 on the tariffs of the commercial register and companies to pay in cash to the Front Office at EDBM or RCS at EDBM
- Decree No. 2002-1008 of 11 September 2002 on the new statutes of INSTAT, Public announcement No. 16-13/VPEI/SG/INSTAT/DG/DAF of 8 March 2013 on tariff and statistical maps and Communication 2271 -13/VPEI/SG/INSTAT/DG, renewing statistical cards to pay in cash to INSTAT at EDBM
- File reception at EDBM Taxation office: 08h30-12h00
- Tax card issuance: from 14.30
NB: No reception of files on the last day of the month (business monthly statementy statement)


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Theresa and Ryan's wedding was the last wedding of 2012 for me! What a way to close off another great year, complete with a "friendor" reunion with Rhia Amio, Suzie Kim, Hannah Chang, Velsie Mak, and Henkaa! In addition to loving Ryan, Theresa loves Hello Kitty, so it was only appropriate for her to read […]
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The Minerals Council of Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Senate Committee Review of the EPBC Amendment (Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development) Bill 2012.
As you are aware, the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) represents over 85% of minerals production in Australia. The MCA's strategic objective is to advocate public policy and operational practice for a world class industry that is safe, profitable, innovative, environmentally responsible and attuned to community needs and expectations.
MCA members have a long-standing commitment to sustainable development and the effective management of Australia's water resources Although the minerals industry is a comparatively small user of water, currently utilising 3.6% of consumptive use water1 nationally, the economic return provided from that use is significant at the national, regional and local level.
The MCA supports greater investment in improving the understanding of water systems and resources and the development of a scientific information base to inform planning and environmental decision processes. The MCA also supports the development of regionally based, integrated approaches to resource management.
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I know I've talked about the Yudu machine from Provo Craft before - well, someone just called into the Yudu infomercial line with the greatest story about the Yudu I think I've ever heard.
Apparently, their parents were happily camping when a bear came into camp and was going to attack them. Well, their brave little chihuahua jumped in and attacked the bear back. Then the chihuahua managed to scare the bear away. So now, these people are using their Yudu machine to make t-shirts to help them raise money to pay the medical bills for the chihuahua that is in the pet hospital.
Is it terribly sick and twisted that I think that is hilarious?! If this dog is anything like my neighbor's chihuahua, which totally has little man (or little dog) syndrome...then, I could totally see why it thought it could take on a bear. I am just amazed that it didn't get squished! I totally want a t-shirt with some random chihuahua on it that says something fantastic like 'The chihuahua that defeated the bear!'
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An Italian story
In the 1948 Vescovi family opened in Chiari (BS) a shop of radio TV and household, with annexed a reparation laboratory.
30 years later, with the liberalization of the Tv stations, officially unlicensed, from that laboratory was born the idea to build equipments for the Television reception.
Founded in September 1973 as LINEAR Vescovi Pietro & Figlio, the company began to build devices for the domestic reception and at the end of 1975 LINEAR started the production of FM transmitters and then TV equipment.
The first low power TV transmitter was installed in San Fermo (BG) in 1976.
1976-1980 LINEAR widened its production range with the introduction of low and medium power tube models. In these years LINEAR met a large success in national market, becoming one of the most important broadcasting manufacturer.
In October 1976 LINEAR attended its first industrial fair in Vicenza showing a domestic amplifier switchboard for condo, useful for more than 100 antenna sockets. This got excellent feedback and thousands of pieces were sold in northern Italy.
In 1977 the company renamed to "LINEAR F.lli Vescovi"
1980-1985 introduction of tube high power transmitters and analogue microwave links.
In the early '80s, LINEAR decided to concentrate all efforts and assets in the sole production of Television products with the target of obtaining the maximum efficiency and reliability at the best cost.
In order to meet the increasing requests and needs of an expanding market, in 1984 LINEAR moved to a modern and larger building.
In 1991 first exhibition at the international trade fair in Montreaux.
The '90s brought LINEAR to become a worldwide company thanks to the participation to the most important TV broadcasting conventions.
In 1993 the name of the company changed at the current LINEAR srl.
In 1994 headquarters expansion. The new total area covered about 1200m2.
1995-2000 launch of the whole range of high power Solid state transmitters for all bands.
The beginning of the new Millennium marked the advent of a new broadcasting era: the Digital Technology. In these years LINEAR srl began to produce digital Tv transmitters and microwave links, expanding its range of products.
In 2004 inauguration of the current headquarters: a new, wide, state-of-the-art 4000m2 manufacturing plant, which reflected LINEAR's new development needs.
2004-2005 thanks to Italy digital experimentation, LINEAR srl consolidated its position in national market.
2006-Today LINEAR srl is dedicated to developing best-in-class broadcasting devices according to the most recent and innovative technologies at very competitive prices.
Currently LINEAR srl products are installed in over 100 countries worldwide with great acceptance due to the excellent quality, reliability, and flexibility of design, meeting the most demanding specifications from our global clientele.


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I am kind of bummed that October is over. It is one of my favorite months and its gone!
Not much going on here, just normal everyday smalltown stuff. We are coming up on an election here in good ole Grantsville. It's turning out to be quite ugly. We've got a guy running for mayor who is trying to get the Chief of Police fired on trumped up allegations. His campaign manager is a convicted felon who can't even vote, and he's going around threatening people to keep their mouths shut about certain things. I can't beleive that a small town, not big enough for a traffic light, has some guy posing as a crime boss type. He's threatened the news paper..and is going door to door trying to intimidate people into voting for his guy.
Kind of creepy.
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Thursday, November 3
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hey now...i've been to grantsville, and i know they have a traffic light. :)
- 3:20 PM, November 03, 2005
- Becky said...
nope.. There isn't a traffic light. All they have are the crosswalk lights that only blink when the kids are coming or going from school.
- 6:27 PM, November 03, 2005
- Rachel said...
Mom told me bout the elections but it sounds like it's getting worse since I talked to her.
Hopefully people won't be intimidated by this guy.
- 5:36 AM, November 04, 2005
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