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METRO VANCOUVER -- An Aquilini company was ordered Thursday to pay $55,000 after pleading guilty to a provincial Water Act charge of unlawful diversion of water from the North Alouette River for a cranberry operation in 2009.
Port Coquitlam provincial court judge Deirdre Pothecary said she considered imposing an even greater penalty due a history of violations involving companies under the Aquilinis' Golden Eagle Group -- of which Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini is a member.
"The group is not a stranger to regulatory offences," she said, noting the company has been "casual from time to time" about obeying laws related to some 2,000 hectares of farmland in the Pitt Meadows area.
But Pothecary noted that since the 2009 offence the company has given one of its senior staff, John Negrin, responsibility for overseeing regulatory affairs in hopes of avoiding further problems.
She accepted a joint agreement of the Crown and defence counsel that the numbered company, 374917 BC Ltd., should pay a $1,000 fine plus $54,000 to the province's Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation.
Crown Jim MacAuley told the court that the company had authorization from Pitt Meadows to run a pipe across the city's dike but did not have a permit from the B.C. Environment Ministry or federal fisheries department to divert up to 1.5 million gallons of water. The offence occurred between May 17 and June 20, 2009.
A private citizen reported a large fish kill downstream of where the water was illegally taken but federal officials could not find the fish and, regardless, determined that the water withdrawal could not have caused such an event, MacAuley said.
After the offence and while the charges were pending, the company did receive official approval for a similar water diversion, he added.
The Crown entered a stay on charges against seven other related companies as well as Elisa, Paulo, Roberto and Francesco Aquilini. A stay was also entered against Richard Matis, who was farm manager at the time of the incident but who is no longer employed by the Aquilinis.
Alan Blair, lawyer for the Aquilinis, noted that 2009 was a dry season and that government authorities were taking an inordinate amount of time to process the water application, all of which put the cranberry crop at risk. He said no environmental harm resulted from the offence.
None of the Aquilinis appeared in person, including Roberto Aquilini, the director of record on the numbered company that was fined.
In 2007, another Aquilini numbered company was ordered to pay $50,000 for violating the provincial Heritage Conservation Act for excavating an aboriginal site that predated European contact.
In 2003, Golden Eagle Ranch was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay $19,000 to the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund (as it was then called) for another Water Act offence related, in part, to installation of a culvert and rebuilding the top of a dike without permission.
MacAuley said another Aquilini-related company was fined $20,000 in 1998 for unlawful discharges from dairy operations in the Pitt Poulder area.

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The field content of 11-dimensional supergravity contains a higher U(1)-gauge field called the supergravity C-field or M-theory 3-form , which is locally a 3-form and globally some variant of a circle 3-bundle with connection. There have been several suggestions for what precisely its correct global description must be.
In (DFM, section 3) the following definition is considered and argued to be a good model of the supergravity -field.
The homotopy groups of the classifying space of the Lie group E8 satisfy
Therefore for a manifold of dimension there is a canonical morphism
Let be a smooth manifold of dimension . For each . choose an E8-principal bundle which represents under the above isomorphism.
Write then
for the groupoid whose
objects are triples where
is one of the chosen -bundles,
is a connection on ;
is a degree-3 differential form on .
are parameterized by their source and target triples together with a closed 3-form with integral periods, subject to the condition that
where is the relative Chern-Simons form corresponding to the linear path of connections from to
the composition of morphisms
is given by
See (DFM, (3.22), (3.23)).
Here we think of as equipped with a pseudo Riemannian structure and spin connection and think of each object of as inducing an degree-4 cocycle in ordinary differential cohomology with curvature 4-form
Notice that with the normalization implicit here the second terms is one half of the image of something in integral cohomology. So this is not itself a differential character, but can be regarded as "shifted differential character": a trivialization of the trivial 5-character with global connection 4-form given by . See below for more on this.
The above groupoid has homotopy groups
The first, the set of connected components (gauge equivalence classes of -fields) is isomorphic to the set of ordinary differential cohomology in degree 4 of . In fact is naturally a torsor over this abelian group: the torsor of -shifted differential characters.
The second, the fundamental group, is that of flat circle bundles.
Ordinarily, given a -bundle with first fractional Pontryagin class
and second Chern class
the -field is supposed to have a curvature class in de Rham cohomology given by
Since in general is not further divisible in integral cohomology, this means that this cannot be the curvature of any differential character/bundle 2-gerbe/circle 3-bundle with connection, since these are necessarily the images in de Rham cohomology of their integral classes.
See (DFM 03, section 12.1, FSS 12)
By DFM, section 12 on a manifold with boundary we are to impose .
See the discussion below for how this reproduces the Green-Schwarz mechanism for heterotic supergravity on the boundary.
Some remarks on ways to regard the -field from the point of view of ∞-Chern-Weil theory.
We shall consider the sum of two fields, whose curvature is the image in de Rham cohomology of the proper integral class
Recall from the discussion at circle n-bundle with connection that in the cohesive (∞,1)-topos Smooth∞Grpd the circle 3-bundles with local 3-form connection over an object (for instance a smooth manifold, or an orbifold) are objects in the 3-groupoid that is the (∞,1)-pullback
in ∞Grpd.
(Recall from the discussion there that if desired one may pass to the canonical presentation of this by the model structure on simplicial presheaves over CartSp and that in this explicit presentation we may replace with the more familiar . )
We consider now the analog of this definition for the universal curvature form on replaced by the difference of the differentially refined second Chern class of E8 and the first fractional Pontryagin class of the spin group. The resulting -pullback we tentatively call , though we shall have to discuss to which extend this faithfully models the -field, and which aspects of it.
For Smooth∞Grpd, let ∞Grpd be the (∞,1)-pullback
By its intrinsic definition we have that the differential characteristic class is the composite
of the smooth refinement of the second Chern class with the universal curvature form on . Similarly for .
Therefore we may either compute the (∞,1)-pullback in def. directly, or in two consecutive steps. Both methods lead to their insights.
we consider general abstract consequences of the above definition, mainly making use of the factorization. In
we find a presentation by simplicial presheaves of the direct homotopy pullback.
In the first approach connections on the E8-principal bundles never appear explicitly. In the second approach they appear as pseudo-connections, or as genuine connections whose morphisms are however allowed to shift them arbitrarily. This means that these connections are purely auxiliary data that serve to present the required homotopies. They do not survive in cohomology. This is as in the DFM model above.
Finally in
we comment how genuine -connections may appear inside the second presentation of the -model.
This implies by the pasting law for (∞,1)-pullbacks that the -pullback from def. may be decomposed into two consecutive pullbacks of the form
where on the right we find the defining pullback for (the cocycle 3-groupoid of) ordinary differential cohomology.
This implies the following structure and properties.
By the above there exists canonically a morphism
that maps -field configurations to ordinary differential cohomology in degree 4, whose curvature is the image in de Rham cohomology of the second Chern-class of some -bundle.
The differential cocycle has all the general properties that make its higher parallel transport over membrane worldvolumes be well-defined. (Apart from the coefficient of , this is the only requirement from which DFM deduce their model.)
The following proposition describes the first two homotopy groups of the 3-groupoid .
Over a fixed -principal bundle we have a short exact sequence (of pointed sets)
is the group of pairs where is a smooth refinement under of the integral image of .
Notice that we have the pasting diagram of (∞,1)-pullbacks
where the top right square is discussed at cohesive (∞,1)-topos – Differential cohomology. By the discussion at smooth ∞-groupoid – Flat cohomology we have that , where on the right we have ordinary cohomology (for instance realized as singular cohomology). Finally observe that , by the above remark. Therefore after passing to connected components by applying we get on cohomology
by reasoning as discussed at fiber sequence. In parallel to the familiar short exact sequence for ordinary differential cohomology
this therefore implies also the short exact sequence
Next we redo the entire discussion after applying the loop space object-construction to everything. Using that
on general grounds (see fiber sequence for details) and that also
(since and are right adjoint (∞,1)-functors – by the discussion at cohesive (∞,1)-topos – and hence commute with the (∞,1)-pullback that defines ), we have then the looped pasting diagram of (∞,1)-pullbacks
Observe that here is a smooth but 0-truncated object: so that
is the set of smooth functions (to be thought of as the the set of gauge transformations from the trivial -principal bundle on to itself).
In order to compute the -pullback more explicitly, we follow the discussion at differential string structure, where presentations of this pullback in terms of simplicial presheaves arising from Lie integration is given.
Write now
for the Lie algebra of and write
for the sum of the canonical Lie algebra cocycles in transgression with the respective Killing form invariant polynomials.
for the canonical diagonal embedding Write
for the corresponding smooth characteristic class. See ∞-Chern-Weil homomorphism for details. By the discussion there we present by
By the discussion at differential string structure we have that the top morphism is a fibration in the global projective model structure on simplicial presheaves (there it is shown that the analogous morphism out of is a fibration, but then so is this one, because the components on the left are the same but with fewer conditions on them, so that the lifts that existed before still exist here).
Over some CartSp and we have that is given by differential form data
on . Here, recall, takes values in , so that for instance the -curvature is in detail given by
where denotes the spin connection.
Let be a differentiably good open cover. We hit all connected components of by considering in
those cocycles that
involve genuine -connections (as opposed to the more general pseudo-connections that are also contained);
have a globally defined -form.
Write therefore for such a cocycle.
For gauge transformations between two such pairs, parameterized by the above form data patchwise on , the fact that vanishes on implies the infinitesmal gauge transformation law
where is the shift of the 1-forms. This integrates to
is the relative Chern-Simons form corresponding to the shift of -connection.
We have seen that is the 3-goupoid of those Cech cocycles on with coefficients in such that the curvature 4-form has a fixed globally defined value.
Consider the subobject
of the simplicial presheaf on those objects and k-morphisms for which .
By the gauge transformation law (2)
this means that this picks those morphisms for which the Chern-Simons form vanishes
where is the 1-form datum (with the canonical coordinate on the 1-simplex ).
In the literature often the relative Chern-Simons form is considered for "ungauged" paths of connections: for in the above formula, hence for a -valued 1-form on with no leg along the simplex (only depending on the simplex coordinate). Here, however, it is crucially important that we consider the general "gauged" paths.
Notice that on the semisimple Lie algebra and compact Lie algebra the Killing form is non-degenerate and positive definite (or negative definite, depending on convention). The latter condition means that this integral vanishes precisely if
This is the case on paths for which , but this are exactly the paths that induce genuine gauge transformations between and , where
This means that cocycles with coefficients in this subobject for are cocycles as described at differential string structure, exhibiting the Green-Schwarz mechanism on the heterotic boundary, witnessed by the restriction of the curvature equation (1) to vanishing -field
electromagnetic field ("-field")
Kalb-Ramond field ("-field")
supergravity -field
Table of branes appearing in supergravity/string theory (for classification see at brane scan).
|in supergravity
|charged under gauge field
|has worldvolume theory
|black brane
|higher gauge field
|type II
|super Yang-Mills theory
|type IIA
|BFSS matrix model
|D=5 super Yang-Mills theory with Khovanov homology observables
|D=7 super Yang-Mills theory
|type IIB
|2d CFT with BH entropy
|N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory
|(bosonic string theory)
|type I, II, heterotic
|circle n-connection
|2d SCFT
|little string theory
|D-brane for topological string
|11D SuGra/M-theory
|circle n-connection
|ABJM theory, BLG model
|6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT
|heterotic string theory
|topological M2-brane
|topological M-theory
|C3-field on G2-manifold
|topological M5-brane
|C6-field on G2-manifold
membrane instanton
|M5-brane instanton
|D3-brane instanton
|solitons on M5-brane
|6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT
|self-dual string
|self-dual B-field
|3-brane in 6d
The state-of-the-art in the literature concerning attempts to find the correct mathematical model for the supergravity C-field seems to be
A summary and review of this is in
The discussion in twisted nonabelian differential cohomology is given in
Domenico Fiorenza, Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber,
The moduli 3-stack of the C-field,
M5-branes, String 2-connections, and 7d nonabelian Chern-Simons theory (arXiv:1201.5277)
See also section 4.3.4 of
A detailed discussion of the quantum anomaly of the supergravity C-field – and its cancellation – is in
Discussion of the dual 6-form field to the 3-form C-field (required notably in the context of exceptional generalized geometry) includes
Eugene Cremmer, Bernard Julia, H. Lu, Christopher Pope, Dualisation of Dualities, II: Twisted self-duality of doubled fields and superdualities, Nucl.Phys.B535:242-292,1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9806106)
Eric Bergshoeff, Mees de Roo, Olaf Hohm, Can dual gravity be reconciled with E11?, Phys.Lett.B675:371-376,2009 (arXiv:0903.4384)
Discussion of discrete torsion (orbifold equivariance) for circle 3-bundles describing the supergravity C-field is discussed in
Eric Sharpe, Analogues of Discrete Torsion for the M-Theory Three-Form, Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 126004 (arXiv:hep-th/0008170)
Shigenori Seki, Discrete Torsion and Branes in M-theory from Mathematical Viewpoint, Nucl.Phys. B606 (2001) 689-698 (arXiv:hep-th/0103117)
and applied to discussion of black M2-brane worldvolume field theory (ABJM model) in
Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, Daniel Louis Jafferis, Fractional M2-branes, JHEP 0811:043,2008 (arXiv:0807.4924)
Mauricio Romo, Aspects of ABJM orbifolds with discrete torsion, J. High Energ. Phys. (2011) 2011 (arXiv:1011.4733)
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1.An inn, where travellers obtained food and lodging; in which sense it answered to the Greek words πανδοκεῖον, καταγώγιον, and κατάλυσις.
2.A shop, where wine and ready-dressed meat were sold; in Greek, καπηλεῖον. The person who kept a caupona was called caupo or copo; a hostess is copa, rarely caupona. I. Greek Inns.—In the earliest ages of Greece, as in the East at all times and in newly settled colonies, there was no provision for the entertainment of travellers, and the duty of hospitality was universally acknowledged. (See Hospitium.) The growth of traffic rendered inns necessary, and in later times they appear to have been very numerous. The great number of festivals which were celebrated in the different towns of Greece, besides the four great national games, to which persons flocked from all parts of the Hellenic world, must have required a considerable number of inns to accommodate strangers, not only in the places where the festivals were celebrated, but also on the roads leading to those places. The accommodation provided was, however, far from luxurious, and the character both of the houses and of their landlords was very indifferent. Inns were regarded as little better than brothels: πανδοκεῦσαι καὶ πορνοβοσκῆσαι are joined together (Theophr. Char. 6); καπηλεῖα κἁὶ πορνεῖα (Poll.ix. 34). The orgies of Demetrius Poliorcetes in the Acropolis suggest to a comic poet that "he took it for an inn":
ὁ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν πανδοκει_ον ὑπολαβὼν
καὶ τὰς ἑταίρας εἰσαγαγὼν τη? παρθένῳ (Philippid. fr. 25 M. ap. Plut. Demetr. 26). Moreover, besides the charges of fraud and adulteration to which they were liable in common with other κάπηλοι or retail dealers, the hosts were often accused of more serious crimes. Two stories told by Cicero, but taken from Greek life, both turn on murders committed by innkeepers for the sake of gain (De Inv. ii. 4.14; De Div. i. 27.57). The higher classes used these πανδοκεῖα as little as possible; yet, in default of other accommodation, the public ambassadors of Athens were sometimes constrained to lodge and even to transact diplomatic business in them (De F. L. 97; De F. L. p. 390.158=175). The word καπηλεῖον signified, as has been already remarked, a place where wine and ready-dressed provisions were sold. Κάπηλος signifies, in general, a retail trader who sold goods in small quantities. The term, however, is more particularly applied to a person who sold ready-dressed provisions, and especially wine on draught (Schol. Plut. p. 1156; Plat. Gorg. p. 518 B). When a retail dealer in other commodities is spoken of, the name of his trade is usually prefixed. These καπηλεῖα were not resorted to as clubs (λέσχαι, ἑταιρεῖαι), or for purposes of good-fellowship, but merely for sottish drinking; and hence were extremely disreputable. Isocrates tells us that in the "good old times" (i. e. the democracy of Solon and Cleisthenes) no respectable slave would have ventured to eat or drink in a καπηλεῖον: whereas in his own time young men of the greatest respectability, driven by an absurd prejudice from the schools of philosophy and rhetoric, spent their whole time in these and similar establishments, in drinking, gambling, and debauchery (Isocr. Areop. 49; Antid. 287). We are therefore not surprised to read of the low estimation in which innkeepers were held. II. Roman Inns.—A Roman wayside inn for the reception of travellers was called not only caupona, but also taberna, deversorium, and taberna deversoria (the last in Plaut. Men. ii. 3.81; Varr. R. R. i. 2, 23). Along all the great roads of Italy there were inns, as we see from the description which Horace gives of his journey from Rome to Brundusium ( Sat. i. 5). They were built as a speculation by neighbouring proprietors, and either let to a landlord or managed by slaves. They usually included a stabulum for horses and mules; hence, in the Digest, caupones and stabularii are more than once mentioned together. Where the traffic was greatest, there might be several in the same place. To take the Appian Way alone, we find the station Tres Tabernae (Ad Att. ii. 12, 13), Forum Appii differtum cauponibus ( Hor. l.c. 4), Tabernae Caediciae near Sinuessa (Epit. p. 45 M), Caudi cauponas ( Hor. l. c. 51). From Plautus downward, these hostelries occur repeatedly in Latin literature. Ambassadors were usually received at the public expense in decent lodgings; but the Rhodian embassy of B.C. 167 was driven to a sordidum deversorium ( Liv. xlv. 22). Cicero mentions a copo de via Latina suborned as a false witness (Pro Cluent. 59.163), and the discreditable tippling of Antonius in a cauponula a few miles from Rome on the Via Flaminia ( Phil. ii. 31.77). Cynthia drove past a taberna on her way to Lanuvium, and the remarks of the tavern-brawlers disgusted her poet-lover (Propert. v. 8, 19). The sprightly Vergilian Copa (q. v.) shows us, in a very modern fashion, the competition between rival establishments and the advertiser's art in full operation. The accommodation at these places was generally of a poor kind, but extremely cheap. In Polybius's time in Cisalpine Gaul there were no items in the bill; the inclusive charge (inquired beforehand, it should be added) rarely exceeded half an as (Polyb. ii. 15). For the early imperial period we have the record of the well-known relief at Aesernia, representing a hostess reckoning with a parting guest. The dialogue between the two is given at length, and the charges are: bread and a pint of wine, 1 as; meat (pulmentarium), 2 asses; mule's provender, 2 asses; and another less decent item, for which we refer the curious to the inscription itself. (This relief is figured in the Bullettino Napolitano, vi. 1, and thence in Daremberg and Saglio; the inscription is in Mommsen, Inscr. Regn. Neap. 5078=Orelli-Henzen, 7306). At Rome there must have been many inns to accommodate strangers, but they are hardly ever spoken of. We, however, find frequent mention of houses where wine and ready-dressed provisions were sold, and which appear to have been numerous in all parts of the city. The houses where people were allowed to eat and drink were called, almost indiscriminately, cauponae, popinae, thermopolia, and tabernae vinariae. The specialty of the thermopolia is noticed under Calda. These places were principally frequented by slaves and the lower classes, and are qualified by such epithets as nigra, fumosa, immunda, uncta (probably "greasy," though it has also been taken in a good sense). Among other discomforts, they were only furnished with stools to sit upon, instead of couches. This circumstance is illustrated by a painting found at Pompeii in a wine-shop, representing a drinkingscene in which there are four persons sitting on stools
|A Wine-shop. (From a Painting at Pompeii.)


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text: NANTICOKE, Pa. (AP) - The family of a corrections officer who was slain at a federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania is urging his co-workers not to blame themselves. Authorities say Eric Williams was working in a housing unit when an inmate using a homemade weapon attacked him last week at the Canaan penitentiary in Waymart, about 20 miles northeast of Scranton. Williams' father, Donald, on Tuesday released a statement directed to the corrections officers at the prison. He says the family doesn't blame anybody for his son's death except the assailant who attacked him. Donald Williams says he released the statement after prison officials told him one of his son's co-workers had committed suicide. Officials have confirmed that an officer at the prison committed suicide.


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- Disruptive Library Technology Jester by Peter Murray (Atom) - blog posts with ALA Annual 2009 tag (Atom feed for tag)
- Maggie Reads Making Mississippi Read!
- Pattern Recognition - by Jason Griffey
- ricklibrarian - I'll be there covering the Unconference and other presentations
- A Wandering Eyre - by Michelle Boule
- Washington Office District Dispatch - ALA Washington Office crew
- Library Scenester - Erin Dorney
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Easter is one of those season's where the Pinterest folk can get a little out of control. Hand-crocheted bunnies, locally grown homemade chocolates, eggs dyed so elaborately, you'd never actually want to eat them. Pshaw.
You can make Easter gloriously gorgeous without spending all your spare time at the knitting holiday-themed homestuffs. Because, these adorable Rainbow Deviled Eggs take minutes to make. Feel free to get creative with your colors! Go vibrant, neon, rainbow, or pretty pastels. A little more gel coloring will give you brighter colors, a little less coloring (and a little more vinegar) will give you softer colors. If you have trouble finding gel food coloring at the grocery store, try your local Michael's or cake supply store.
Once the eggs have been soaked into colored dye, you simple slice, devil the yolks, and serve up your picture perfect Easter treats. So easy, so gorgeous.
- 12 eggs, hard boiled and peeled
- 6 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- Gel food coloring
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic salt
- Pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, finely chopped
1. Place 2 peeled eggs each in 6 separate ziptop bags.
2. Place 1 teaspoon vinegar and 1 teaspoon food coloring in each bag. Mush the bag around to spread the color all around the outside of the egg. 3. Place in fridge for 30-60 minutes.
4. Remove eggs from fridge. Rinse in very cold water. Slice eggs in half, then remove the yolks from the center of each egg.
5. Place yolks in a medium bowl. Add mayonnaise, onion powder, garlic salt, and pepper to the yolks. Mix together with a fork or immersion blender until very, very smooth.
6. Spoon yolk mixtures back into the center of each egg.
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Traders to look to heavy slate of earnings news from Canadian miners
The TSX broadcast centre is seen in this Toronto file photo. (The Canadian Press/Aaron Harris)
The Canadian Press
Published Sunday, February 16, 2014 6:26AM EST
TORONTO -- The focus of the Toronto stock market will again be on earnings news this week after positive corporate data pushed the TSX above the 14,000-mark last week for the first time in almost three years.
Traders will take in a slate of earnings from the resource sector with base metal miners HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM), Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) and Sherritt International (TSX:S) delivering results. Gold miners Iamgold (TSX:IMG) and Yamana Gold (TSX:YRI) also post results.
The gold sector was the major advancer last week, up about 12 per cent and contributing largely to a gain of almost two per cent on the TSX even as Goldcorp (TSX:G) missed earnings estimates and Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) delivered a huge quarterly loss.
Both companies also slashed their estimated reserves in a response to lower gold prices that have prompted a reassessment of the worth of their assets. That second look at asset value comes at a time when investors have different expectations for precious metal miners.
"The focus now is more on profitability than it is on production growth," said Gareth Watson, vice-president, investment management and research, at Richardson GMP Ltd.
"During boom times, all you're caring about is how can I get more production so I can benefit from these higher prices. But when you get into these crunch times, who cares if you have a mine where you can produce gold at $1400 an ounce -- you're not going to make money off of that."
Bullion has been trading at between US$1,200 and US$1,300 an ounce this year.
The gold sector was the leading loser on the TSX in 2013, plunging almost 50 per cent as gold prices tumbled amid low global inflation and the U.S. Federal Reserve started to cut back on its bond purchases.
Other analysts point out that a recent spate of merger and acquisition activity has sparked renewed interest in the sector.
Goldcorp has made a $2.6-billion hostile takeover bid for Osisko Mining Corp. (TSX:OSK). And HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) is making a hostile, all-stock offer to acquire all the common shares of Augusta Resources Corp. (TSX:AZC) that it doesn't already own in a deal that would be worth about $540 million.
"A lot of the strategists are saying, you know what, materials are looking very attractive," said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds.
"I think this quarter marks, broadly speaking, a transition from don't even talk to me about mining to, you know what, mining is looking kind of interesting here."
Other major corporations releasing earnings this week include grocer Loblaw (TSX:L) and home improvement chain Rona (TSX:RON).
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I'm posting this in this thread, just as an update for those who've been reading along....
My mother's condition improved quite dramatically today. Her long time Cardiologist saw her today, and though nothing is assured, believes she will rebound this time, well enough to go home.
I thank everyone for the good wishes, and for allowing the situation to interfere with my reporting. In my defense, my writing style is personal, and this was also personal.
That is such good news, Kuki. I hope she continues to improve.
You did such a good job on your report. I appreciate you taking the time to inform us of another cruise line.
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Glad to hear the good news I still think you have the best job in the world. Cant wait to hear your final review.Take care
Wonderful news! I'm sure your arrival home on Mothers Day had a lot to do with it-the best gift she could get.
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Hello Table-mate! Good news on your mom. We were all very concerned for you and the family.
Great job of covering our Crystal vacation to Hawaii. You addressed most things we noticed, and the important issues that make for smooth sailing. We enjoyed getting to know you and perhaps will see you again soon. Our best to Mrs. Kuki, and your mom.
Thank you for your kind comments regarding the Virtual Cruise. And thank you for welcoming me to be a dining mate. Enjoyed the entire cruise with you guys, and it was so nice meeting you.
That is great news. Enjoy this "extra" time with your mom.
Crystal Symphony - Virtual Cruise Summary
During the course of the cruise a great many people I spoke to, when told it was my first Crystal cruise, and that I was writing live from the ship, asked what I thought of the ship, and what I thought about Crystal.
As I explained then, I attempt to only take in each day�s experience on the ship during the cruise, and make no call on the cruise until the cruise is over, or almost over. On every cruise there are incidental occurrences (they can be good or bad) which do not prove consistent throughout the cruise. While I did write about them daily, and they contribute to the final opinion, I think it�s a mistake to dwell on them during the cruise, rather than let the entire experience play out.
At a later date I�ll be writing a full review. However, I thought I should summarize the cruise now, offering more subjective views than a �review� would call for.
On luxury cruises, aside from the expected quality of the cuisine and hospitality department services, it�s often the little thing that can separate a cruise line from it�s competitors.
For example; during the last 24 hrs. on our Crystal Symphony cruise Crystal notified all passengers, with a note in the Reflections daily, that they�d be offering everyone onboard 20 minutes of free Internet time in order to allow them to check in for their flights and print out their boarding passes. A very night touch in my view.
Another nice touch is all the laundry and pressing is returned to your cabin in really nice bright white garment bags and shoe-sized bags, emblazoned with the Crystal Logo, and made of entirely recyclable materials.
In the public washrooms onboard there�s no sight of paper towels or hot air hand dryers. They only use cloth hand towels.
I�ve never encountered better �lido deck boys� (the pool attendants, and lido caf� attendants) than on the Symphony. They were always smiling, greeting you by name (I was Sir Kuki), and asking if there was anything they could do for you. Amazingly they have the knack for doing so while appearing to be truly sincere. They aren�t a part of any tipping pool, but with their great attitudes I�d be very surprised if by the end of the cruise they do pretty well. Their service was so outstanding, I�d have felt guilty leaving the ship without giving everyone I met a token of my appreciation.
Crystal excels with their activities and special interest lecturers program. Each sea day there were at least two special interest presentations, as well as the various Crystal University at Sea programs, along with the regular cruise activities such as bridge, team trivia, etc. And, as this was a golf themed cruise, each sea day there were complimentary golf clinics for all passengers.
Realistically there is no way one could participate in everything onboard, even those much more energetic than I am (not very).
Though the cabins and suites on the Symphony are smaller than equivalent categories on other luxury lines, they are well designed and well appointed. If size matters, this might be of concern to some luxury cruisers. The other concern, which I discussed in one of the daily reports is the poor quality of the balcony furniture. In my opinion, it�s an area which should be addressed immediately. At the per diem rates Crystal charges it�s simply not fitting to have balcony furniture I could buy cheap at Home Depot.
As you enter the PH Suite I was in, there is a narrow hallway you enter, with the bathroom to the right, and the walk in closet to the left. I�d like to see a curtain that you could open and close, which would separate the living area of the suite from the washroom and closet.
Cuisine and entertainment are very personal judgments. I freely admit to having no ear for music. Thus, in that area I tend to judge musical presentations, and production shows by the energy of the act, and the audience reaction. The attendance at the shows for late seating guests was quite sparse throughout the cruise, which had to make it quite difficult for the entertainers. I understand they are supposed to be professionals, and go out and perform, but I believe most of the top entertainers feed off the energy of their audiences.
Food is one of the things that most affects a cruiser�s choice of ship and cruise line. Certainly that�s not true for repeat cruisers on a cruise line. However, if you sail on a ship where you find the food unsatisfactory, it isn�t likely you�ll book it, or the same cruise line again.
I found the food in the Crystal Dining Room to be excellent, with a varied and interesting menu, which isn�t that easy to do on a 14 night sailing. Many items I tried were exceptional. I�m normally a �steak and potato� kind of guy. Yet, I think I only ate steak two nights of the fourteen.
The soups were so outstanding I made sure to have a soup course every night. They were consistently as good or better than any I�ve tasted on a ship. There were a number of times during the cruise that the appetizers I chose were so tasty I could have cancelled my other courses, and continued to have them roll out repeated orders of the appetizer.
Desserts were another matter. There were several I very much enjoyed, but generally I found they looked much better than they tasted.
The presentation of every item served in the Crystal Dining Room was beautiful, and done with real artistic flair. Nothing served just looked like a plate of food rushed to get out.
The same could be said about the little appetizer plates served before dinner in the ship�s lounges. From what I sampled, they were also very tasty.
I was less impressed by the offerings in the Lido Caf�. The layout, with various action stations, was very well done, and the caf� design relaxed and inviting. The lunch menus were more interesting, with several theme lunches proving popular. The breakfast menu was simply repetitive, and frankly seemingly no better quality than many premium brand cruise lines. The made to order eggs and omelets were of course fresh and made to order. The buffet items like the pancakes and French Toast fell flat. They were bland, and sometimes obviously left too long on their warming trays.
I took the majority of my lunches from the Trident Grill. For a grill area, it has an extensive menu. Surprising because the service area is quite small for the size of the menu. The grilled sandwiches, like Rueben sandwiches and grilled ham and cheese, are pre-prepared and kept refrigerated, then warmed in the microwave oven, then unwrapped and placed on the grill to toast the bread. Not all that impressive a system, but they did end up tasting pretty good. The fries, and the sweet potato fries offered at the Trident Grill are outstanding, and they were seemingly always taking a fresh batch out of the fryers, so they were always hot.
With the exception of embarkation day, when the staff were overwhelmed by arriving guests (solely because the Lido Caf� is not open that day, and the dining room quits serving lunch at 1:30 P.M.), the service at the Trident Grill was speedy and efficient.
Not only is the Lido Caf� closed on embarkation day, it closes daily at 1:30 P.M. I truly don�t understand the reasoning for this policy. It�s not necessary to have an elaborate buffet all afternoon, but a limited selection, of items not offered at the Trident Grill would seem more reasonable, perhaps until 3 P.M. If it was after 1:30, and you just felt like a tossed salad, you were out of luck.
With regard to service I experienced onboard�
As I said the �lido guys� were the best! The reception desk (guest relations) staff were friendly, and always helpful, and quick to try and please. David, my butler was eager to please and always offering to do more. Priscilla, my cabin stewardess was also as good as it gets. In fact, the staff throughout the ship, with the exception of those I dealt with in the Crystal Dining Room, were extremely impressive in all they did. As I said in an earlier daily report, I think the staff and crew are the key to Crystal being Crystal.
I spoke earlier in the Virtual Cruise about our dining room waiter being �home already� since this was his last week with Crystal. I do believe because of this his inattentiveness was likely the exception rather than the rule.
Though offering �Perfect Choice� (anytime) dining, on Crystal the traditional assigned dining times are still the most popular. One of the main reasons people cite for preferring the assigned dining times is because they believe the wait staff get to know them, and get to know their preferences.
After 14 nights, our waiter was still offering me pepper with every course he served, though I never said yes the entire cruise, and though I had mentioned the second day, that I don�t care for black pepper. It didn�t detract from my enjoyment of my meals at all, in fact it became a bit of a joke with my tablemates. But it was indicative of where his mind was.
The Head Waiter for our section visited the table every night during dinner. He was sociable and fun, and every single night he told us if there was anything we need or would like having to do with the food in the dining room, to simply let him know. On about the seventh night of the cruise, when he said this, I told him I was crazy for the pasta I had eaten on the second night of the cruise, and would love to have it again. He acknowledged my request, but never mentioned it again, and the pasta never appeared, nor was it offered to me.
Once again, I wasn�t suffering with my dining choices each night. I had plenty to eat. But I don�t think they should go through the nightly �schpiel�, if they aren�t going to deliver! That�s the part I resent, regardless if I am enjoying all other aspects of my meal. It belies the tag of �luxury experience�.
I also note that only once during the 14 nights did the Maitre D of the dining room make even a tertiary pass by our table during dinner. No need for a nightly visit, but I think a couple of times during a 14 night cruise would show some interest in the goings on in his dining room.
One other activity in the dining room that surprised me greatly it was allowed to take place; that was photographers going table to table to take pictures during dinner. It�s a pet peeve of mine, but I view it as crassly commercial. I don�t object to photo opportunities being available in other public areas on the ship, but in my view it�s an intrusion in the dining room, and there�s no place for it on a luxury cruise line. Crystal should take note of it�s competitors policies in this regard.
To close this out� I really loved the Symphony. With the exception of the lovely lobby area with beautiful crystal, lights, and waterfall, which jumps with WOW factor, the ship is stunningly understated simplicity, quality, and elegance.
Last edited by Kuki; May 14th, 2011 at 11:27 PM.
Thank you for a wonderful peek at Crystal and what we can expct while on board... I wonder what will change when they go 'all inclusive' next year.
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Kuki, thank you for updating the forum about your mom. Thank you for a honest mini review of your cruise.
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Thanks, Kuki! I enjoyed your review. I don't think we'll ever sail Crystal (we're too "casual" for this line ), but it was great to hear about your experience.
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Every week, Matt gets a chance to sit down with a WoW Blogger chosen this week by his Piccolo of the Flaming Fire. Find out a little more about your favourite bloggers as he tries to get to know them a little more!
This week, Anna of TooManyAnnas ran out of mana and had time to answer a few questions.
As an avid RPer, how did you come up with the history of your characters and which one would you consider your most favourite or most like you in some way?
Wow. Well, I don't really have "favourites", so much as there are specific things that I like about all of my characters. Each one of them has a little bit of me thrown in there — though they're all different from me as well. Annalira, the human priest, is the one that is most like Anna the real person, and Aleydis, Berylla, and Brietta are could compete for the silliest, but I feel close to all of my characters.
As to how I came up with their histories, well, that's a little more complicated. Probably some combination of inspiration, random experiments, planning, and pure dumb luck.
Angoleth has changed the most through these last few years because she was my first character and my first real foray into RP. Her personality has been the same for the most part, but after a few failed stories I learned to let her tell me about her history as she wants to come forward with it. Annalira was a bit of an experiment — can I create a character with a happy family and a happy childhood and still have her be believable and real in WoW's universe. The answer is, of course, yes, and she's become a very "real" character that's easy for me to RP with.
Annorah had, by far, the most research before I created her. Draenei lore is rather sparse, so I actually went to out-of-game lore sources, particularly the novels Rise of the Horde and Lord of the Clans, to learn about Draenei and Shaman lore. Even after all that, she doesn't have a concrete backstory so much as a basic framework of a history, but I had that background set up before I pushed the Create Character button.
I'll stop now, since I'm pretty sure you don't want me going on (and on) about my characters — but this is one of those topics I could probably write several pages about!
How did you get suckered into playing World of Warcraft?
I started playing the spring after release — the guy I was dating had just started playing and set me up with the trial account, which I really enjoyed. I was playing, ironically, a human priest and a troll shaman, but on a PVP server. A few weeks later my best friend and her (now) husband told me they were playing on Feathermoon, and I created Angoleth there, and the rest was, as they say, history!
Let's talk about Resto Shamans for a bit. Brain Heal has often been cited as the spell that will ruin the careers of holy priests, holy paladins and resto druids. In fact, many of the major cities have suffered riots and strikes. How would you respond to people who suggest that brain heal is far too great a weapon to be used alone?
Try to heal a heroic with it without being overgeared (that is: in pre-Kara and Karazhan gear). Chain heal is *incredibly* powerful in a group, but in solo-healing situations, especially where the tank is taking a lot of damage, it falls behind as I go OOM droping max rank healing wave. My Priest does considerably better in those situations because she has more tricks and the Shaman is not built to be a "bomb" style healer, to the point where, until I was healing tier5 geared groups, I would avoid healing heroics because I knew it'd be a huge headache and very stressful.
And the other side of that coin — I could never do the job that the priests in my raid do. Yes, I can keep a group of scrub rogues and warriors and ret pallies alive until kingdom come, but when it comes to tank healing, there are other classes that just do it better. As a Resto shaman, I can do a few things incredibly well. Group healing? You got it. But successful healing is about balance and working as a team, and the strongest healing teams are the ones that utilize ALL the available classes and tools.
You're not technically in a Guild per se. Rather, you raid with a set group of people from various other Guilds, is that right? How exactly is this different from a normal Guild and what would some of its strengths and weaknesses be?
Totally Raids, Incorporated is a group of roleplayers that got together back in the earlier days of Warcraft when their guilds were too small to raid or weren't interested in raiding progression. There are members of all different guilds in the group, at all different "levels" of RP — from avid, active, in-game RP to forum writers to people that are in character simply by not acting in a way that is counter to the Warcraft world. As a rule, our /raid chat is in character. Ventrilo is, of course, out of character. And yes, we do get boss fight explanations IC.
In a lot of ways it's very similar to a guild: we have a leader, officers in charge of various things (healing lead, loot-master, roster setup, etc) and if there's a problem we have a chain of command. We have an active forum, sign up threads, strategy posts, and a very active in game chat channel.
One of the biggest advantages to this style of raiding is that you get to have your cake and eat it too. You love your guild — they're awesome, but they're a small (in this case, most often roleplaying) guild that doesn't have the manpower or the desire to do the work and set up a raid. *YOU* want to raid, but you don't want to leave your guild. With Totally Raids — that's the norm. There are a few of us that are unguilded (like me, though I am trying a new guild with Annalira right now — shhh!), but the vast majority are people from various guilds.
And at the end of the day, if you have a bad night, are angry with someone, and feel like mashing your face into your keyboard repeatedly… when you leave the raid — you leave the raid. Until next week, you don't have to have any real interaction with the raid group unless you want to; you're back in your guild doing what you've always done.
The disadvantage is, of course, that we rely heavily on a forum to keep everyone coordinated. Fortunately everyone (at this point) is extremely good about signing up from week to week, and the board has our Karazhan, Zul'Aman, and "etc" signups as well. But if you can't get people to organize in some way, this kind of a raid corps Just. Won't. Work. Guilds have the advantage of a message of the day and periodic spam — we don't have that. But we've made it work through a combination of active forum participation and an active chat channel (that's also a really great way to find 5man groups during the week). I could see how, in another situation you might get people who were more loyal to their guilds and not actually loyal to the raid, but by and large our group is very dedicated to the raid as an entity of itself.
How are you enjoying (or hating) 2.4?
Honestly, I'm doing a little bit of both enjoying and hating.
1 second Totem Global Cooldown = Awesomesauce
New Earthshield = can I have the old one back please?
New dailies = Yay money! Yay badge gear! Boo competition. Boo realm crashes. Double boo to griefing asshats.
I know this is going to be very hard for you. But tell me 1 (one) thing that you think all Resto Shamans should know.
Be flexible. While chain heal is incredibly powerful, other classes can heal (ok — so maybe not as well on groups, but the Alliance was quite successful without Shamans for a long time) — but not every class has the ability to so dramatically alter the groups you're in. Keep your totems handy, keep an eye on the fight, and be situationally aware. Flexibility is what makes a great Shaman — of any flavor, resto or otherwise.
By sheer luck and awesomeness, you've been awarded the ability to create a new spell or ability for the Shaman in Wrath of the Lich King. What nefarious idea would you put into play?
If I'm selfish and think only about resto shaman, a HOT spell, deep in the Resto tree. If we're talking about shaman in general, the ability to summon a spirit wolf pet. Or that HOT spell… that'd be pretty hawt.
Or maybe the ability, since we're all into the Elements, to fish without fishing skill. I mean seriously — water = element. Fish in the water. Master of the Elements. Instant fish! Heeeeeeere fishy fishy fishy fishy.
Care to tell us a bit more about the blogger behind the gamer? (IE what you do when not playing WoW)
I'm a girl in real life (OMG no gurlz on teh interweb!), married, with two cats and a balcony garden. I love music and history and am quite passionate about both, as well as about teaching in general.
My career is in a bit of a transition because where I live right now doesn't have a place that I can do my advanced degrees. Eventually I want to be a professor of (medieval) cultural history. In that vein, I'm learning some living-history activities, including calligraphy and illumination — those really cool paintings in medieval books. In the meantime I'm a substitute teacher and getting ready to start on a Masters of Education. Hopefully I'll either be teaching history or music.
Spare time wise (lol!) I love to cook, read, and knit, though I don't get as much time for most of these as I'd like. Except cooking. I do a lot of that.
What inspired you to begin blogging?
I stumbled across BigRedKitty one day and was blown away by the idea of someone actually writing about Warcraft — especially hunters! Yay! Followed a long link train and ended up in BlogAzeroth. Curiosity was piqued, and I started a wordpress.com blog that transitioned to Too Many Annas about a month later. Turns out I rather like writing about Warcraft!
Just how many Annas is considered too many?
When I have to take off my shoes and socks so I have enough digits to count them, it's too many. For the record, I've not reached too many yet (though I've been told by others that I have), and I do have characters whose names are *not* Anna. …if they were all Annas, I'd definitely have too many.
Speed Questions
Have you ever found Waldo?
No, but if you find him, let me know. He's been undercutting me on the AH all week.
Most annoying aspect of World of Warcraft
u wanna join my new riad gild were starting kara and hav a bank and tabard?
u run me thru SM?
Can't raid without my _____:
Annorah: Chain Heal!
Annalira: Icefin Bluefish, Golden Fishsticks, and Zangarian Sporefish
Angoleth: 24 slot quiver.
TheRealAnna: Something to drink. Depending on the night, adult additives may be necessary.
*Chain* Healing is like ______:
A monkey flinging poo. You never know for sure who it's going to hit, but so long as you get someone, it's ok. And it splatters.
Favourite encounter in the game:
Any meeting that leads to an in character conversation, particularly if it's just two people chatting and going about their daily business.
Any fight where I get to put my full arsenal of abilities to use. Karathress, Tidewalker, and Vashj are coming to mind (though I also hate Vashj with much hating because she refuses to die).
3 pieces of advice for new raiders:
Know your stuff.
Pay attention.
Don't be a dick.
Favourite in game holiday:
Hallows End.
What kills you the most?
Going OOM.
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QQ less about shamans. It's not our fault that the raid encounters have the entire raid taking damage ALL THE TIME. Or that we're, you know, designed for that kind of healing. (Editor's note: The QQness will never stop!)
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North County is a region in the northern area of San Diego County, California. It is the second-most populous region in the county (after San Diego), with an estimated population of 826,985. North County is well known for its affluence, especially in Encinitas, Carlsbad, Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe, and Solana Beach, where house prices range, on average, above one million dollars.[1]
Beach culture is very prominent in the area, and many of the region's beaches and lagoons are protected areas to help ensure the environment remains pristine.
- 1 History
- 2 Geography
- 3 Culture
- 4 Demographics
- 5 Cities
- 6 Education
- 7 Media
- 8 Landmarks
- 9 Politics
- 10 See also
- 11 References
- 12 External links
The name dates to at least the 1970s, when many of the communities in the area were yet to become incorporated cities and local community decisions were made 40 miles away at the county seat. The North County section of San Diego County has historically been the most expensive region of San Diego, with such affluent neighborhoods as Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Carlsbad, Carmel Valley, Del Mar, Encinitas, Olivenhain, Rancho Santa Fe, and Solana Beach.[2]
In modern times, North County continues to grow as a highly influential region of Greater San Diego. The top twenty-five employers in San Diego County are closer to the North County city of Carlsbad than San Diego proper.[3]
North County is commonly divided into coastal and inland regions, with
- coastal cities being Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista, Encinitas, Del Mar, and Solana Beach, and
- inland cities being Escondido, Fallbrook, San Marcos, Poway, Valley Center, Ramona, Rancho Bernardo, and San Diego Country Estates.[4]
Both coastal and inland North County maintain two types of topography. In North County Coastal, the land is generally flat with low rolling hills. The beaches are sandy with occasional tidepools and rocky reefs popping out of the surf. In some cases the coast is dominated by bluff type geography, where the land meeting the ocean sharply drops into the sea with a short beach. In some cases, such as in Encinitas, a whole city can be bisected by a coastal foothill ridge. Mountains soon become imminent as one travels further inland, displaying the rocky peaks of North County Inland. Such peaks include San Marcos Mountain, Palomar Mountain, Twin Peaks in Poway, Mount Woodson in Ramona, and Iron Mountain in unincorporated territory between the two cities. The coastal area also becomes more rugged to the north, where the Santa Margarita Mountains dominate the area within Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Rivers and creeks flowing west from the mountains farther inland predominantly end up draining into the regions four main lagoons. Throughout their course the way they form many lakes and reservoirs supporting and array of native species.
Definitions vary, but almost always include the communities and cities along Interstate 5 north of Carmel Valley Road and Interstate 15 north of Lake Hodges. For both geographic and political reasons, opinions differ as to whether to include the northern communities within the city limits of San Diego (such as La Jolla, Rancho Bernardo, or Scripps Ranch), or close in communities and cities such as Solana Beach, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Aviara, Del Mar, Carmel Valley, Rancho Santa Fe, 4S Ranch etc.
Spanning 125,000 acres (506 km2) in the northwestern corner of the county, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton forms a large buffer separating the coastal populated areas of North County from neighboring Orange County, preventing the creation of a coastal megalopolis stretching from Santa Monica to Imperial Beach
The region has strong ties to its coast. Its notable efforts are popular for preserving many marine environments, including lagoons and tidal wetlands, many being last few on the South Coast.[5] Unlike developments in many Orange County coastal cities, the lagoons and large areas of coast have not been so heavily developed. Major lagoons and inlets lining the coast from north to south include: Oceanside Harbor, Buena Vista Lagoon, Agua Hedionda Lagoon, Batiquitos Lagoon and San Elijo Lagoon.
Flora and fauna
These lagoons provide valuable wetland habitat for many bird, reptile, fish, and plant species. The waters off the coast are also very rich in species diversity, supporting large kelp forests and rocky reefs.
Fish species included the tidewater goby, topsmelt, striped mullet, surfperch and Pacific staghorn sculpin. Leopard sharks forage near the lagoons, and their pups frequent the shallow rocky reefs off the coast.
Bird species included the great blue heron, snowy plover, Ridgway's rail and least tern. The lagoons support various species of shorebirds, wading birds, waterfowl, raptors and diving birds.[5] The number of bird species in the San Dieguito wetlands have tripled due to restoration projects by Del Mar.[6]
North County contains forty golf courses, including Torrey Pines, which hosted the 2008 U.S. Open.[7] North County is also known for its beaches, which stretch about thirty miles from Del Mar to San Onofre.[8] These beaches experience a large tourist influx from June to November. Symbolic of North County's surf culture are the various statues proliferating the region including the Cardiff Kook in Cardiff-by-the-Sea. As surf culture is an integral part of North County, so is equestrian culture. Numerous equestrian centers, including the Del Mar Fairgrounds, Rancho Camino Equestrian Center, and San Diego Country Estates International Equestrian Center, are found in the region from Del Mar to San Diego Country Estates.
North County is home to Southern California's only five-star and five-diamond restaurants: Addison at The Grand Del Mar, and El Bizcocho at Rancho Bernardo Inn.[7]
Fairs and shopping
The Del Mar Fair is home to one of the most famous racetracks in the world and is the site of the annual San Diego County Fair. Shopping malls include the North County Fair in Escondido and Plaza Camino Real in Carlsbad. Famous beaches include Moonlight Beach in Encinitas and the Oceanside Pier.
In the media
Locations in North County appear in popular television and films. Camp Pendleton is often featured in military-themed shows such as NCIS, and is the setting of the first season of Major Dad. The Del Mar Fair is also portrayed in shows such as Entourage. Veronica Mars is set in a fictional city north of San Diego; much of the show was filmed in Oceanside.
A notable fictional character from North County is shock jock Dave Rickards' "Aunt Edna", frequently featured on the popular Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw radio program, which airs in the San Diego area.
North County is considered[by whom?] wealthier and more socially conservative than other parts of the metropolitan area such as South Bay. It is the second-largest region of the San Diego metropolitan area. There are 325,995 people residing in the San Diego city region of North County alone.
In North County, 49.1% of the populace is male and 51.9% of the populace is female. White-collar jobs outnumber blue-collar jobs at a ratio of 3:1. In North County, more people have Bachelor's of Arts degrees than associate's degrees at a ratio of 2:1. More people are married than single by 2:1.[9]
Incorporated cities
Populations listed are from the 2010 U.S. Census
- Oceanside - 183,095
- Escondido - 143,911
- Carlsbad - 105,328
- Vista - 93,834
- San Marcos - 83,781
- Encinitas - 59,518
- Poway - 47,811
- Solana Beach - 12,867
- Del Mar - 4,161
Unincorporated CDPs
Populations listed are from the 2010 U.S. Census
- Fallbrook - 30,534
- Ramona - 20,292
- Camp Pendleton South - 10,616
- San Diego Country Estates - 10,109
- Valley Center - 9,277
- Camp Pendleton North - 5,200
- Lake San Marcos - 4,437
- Hidden Meadows - 3,485
- Bonsall - 3,982
- Fairbanks Ranch - 3,148
- Rancho Santa Fe - 3,117
- Rainbow - 1,832
- San Luis Rey - not known
Primary and secondary
School districts in the region include the:
- Bonsall Union School District
- Cardiff School District
- Carlsbad Unified School District
- Encinitas Union School District
- Escondido Union School District
- Escondido Union High School District
- Fallbrook Union High School District
- Oceanside Unified School District
- Poway Unified School District
- Ramona Unified School District
- San Dieguito Union High School District
- San Pasqual Union School District
- San Marcos Unified School District
- Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District
- Vista Unified School District
School districts overlap city boundaries. Depending on the zip codes of the cities and their proximity to respective schools and school districts, school districts will serve parts of different cities.
Colleges and universities
North County is home to several colleges:
- California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM), four-year university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate programs[10]
- Palomar College, a community college
- MiraCosta College, another community college
The North County Times is the main newspaper in the region. In September 2012, the North County Times was purchased by the owners of the U-T San Diego.[11] It is now known as U-T North County.
In addition to being served by radio stations from San Diego and Tijuana, North County is served by FM stations KSOQ-FM, KSSD, KLVJ, and KSDW and AM stations KFSD, KPRZ, and KKSM.
North County is served by the ABC affiliate KGTV, CBS affiliate KFMB, NBC affiliate KNSD, FOX affiliate KSWB, and CW affiliate XETV—all San Diego stations. Other local stations include KUSI and 4SD in San Diego and KTLA in Los Angeles.
Important landmarks in North County include Del Mar Racetrack, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Lake San Marcos, Oceanside Pier, Stone Steps, Twin Peaks, and Palomar Mountain, home of the Palomar Observatory.
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Most of North County is located within County Supervisorial District 5, and is represented on the county's Board of Supervisors by Bill Horn. The remainder of North County is in Districts 2 and 3, represented by Dianne Jacob and Dave Roberts, respectively.
See also
- ^ "San Diego Real Estate Market Reports". Highland Realty. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ^ California Pacific Airlines. "San Diego North Means Business". Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ^ North County Times: Coastal and Inland cities
- ^ a b "Batiquitos Lagoon". Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ^ "DEL MAR:Restoring the wetlands". North County Times. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ^ a b San Diego's North County
- ^ "North County Beaches". Schneck Enterprises. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
- ^ "North County Demographics". Point2.
- ^ "CSUSM: CSU San Marcos Academics". California State University San Marcos. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
- ^ U-T San Diego owner agrees to buy North County Times for $12 million. The Washington Post.
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C-Store version 0.2 is now publicly available. Here is a snapshot of the C-Store code base version 0.2, released in October 2006. It is built with open source tools and runs on Linux x86 computers. New Warning: This code compiles on old versions BerkeleyDB and gcc. Consequently, recently people have been having trouble compiling and running C-Store. No more releases of the code are expected -- this code is mostly useful for repeating experiments in the papers listed below. If you want to play with a generic column-store, we recommend you check out Vertica, the commercialization of the C-Store project, or download MonetDB, an open-source column-store.
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Rodriguez, who has steadfastly denied using banned substances while with the New York Yankees, made the decision nearly four weeks after arbitrator Fredric Horowitz largely upheld the discipline issued last summer by commissioner Bud Selig.
Rodriguez was in Miami on Friday and made no public remarks.
"The statements that were issued say everything that needs to be said. We have no further comments on this matter," Joseph Tacopina, one of Rodriguez's nine attorneys, said in an email.
Rodriguez was among 14 players suspended last summer following MLB's investigation of a South Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing banned substances. Given the harshest punishment, A-Rod was the only player to contest his penalty.
The Major League Baseball Players Association filed a grievance, arguing Rodriguez's 211-game ban was unwarranted or at the very least excessive. Rodriguez also sued MLB and Selig in October, accusing them of "vigilante justice" as part of a "witch hunt" against him.
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The latest in my Finished Projects. I had worked on this since September but just got him finished several days ago. He hangs proudly on my front door! He was very easy to make. I used googly eyes instead of crocheting them because I'm not very good at crocheting small things like that. It hurts my hands and fingers.


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A fire ripped through a thermal power station in southern Jordan that supplies 64 percent of the kingdom's electricity, causing damages estimated at 10 million dollars, the station's chief said.
The fire broke out Sunday night in one of the four main transformers of the power station in the southern port city of Aqaba, Khaled Shukri said in statements published by the Jordanian press Monday.
Firefighters put out the blaze before it spread to other parts of the power station and no one was injured, he said.
According to an investigation the fire could have been caused by a failure in the cables which are linked to the transformer, Shukri said, adding however that electrical supply to the country would not be affected.—AFP.
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Will.i.am & Hillary Clinton – What a combo!
The Booey Lehoo Concert has been on the radar for ages now and plenty of hype that goes with having such a diverse range of people teaming together to make this happen ie Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and, of course, Hillary Clinton and will.i.am (pic above) discussing the importance of educational and cultural ties between the US and China, a long-term initiative starting with a concert in Beijing to plant the seeds of global understanding with the younger generations. Read State Department story here.
Taking place at Beijing's National Stadium this Saturday, December 17, 2011, the concert will be featuring both US artists including will.i.am, apl.de.ap and John Legend and Chinese artists Shunza and Sa Dingding. It is organized by APSA (Americans Promoting Study Abroad), The Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation, and Crooked Timber Media with the goal of giving American high school students from low-income families public a full scholarship from seven US cities to study in Beijing on a program that focuses on "language acquisition, cultural understanding, leadership development, and exposure to international careers". The initiative will also provide a similar opportunity for Chinese students to study abroad in the United States.
"The Concert culminates a week of events celebrating China-US cultural and educational exchange. Together, the US and Chinese artists will stage an evening celebration of the possibilities when Americans and Chinese work together creatively."
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