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"Office" and "serenity" are two words not often uttered in the same sentence. Step inside the offices of Los Angeles-based designer Barbara Barry, however, and serenity prevails.
White walls form a blank slate for design inspiration. Watercolors and graceful sketches dot tidy work spaces. Surfaces are illuminated by diffused California sunlight. Color is subtle, if used at all. Glamour balances simplicity.
"My office is white and clean and without decoration--a blank canvas on which to create," says Barbara. The only must-have items in the office? Fresh flowers from the garden. Open space. And sunlight--plenty of sunlight.
Photography: Mark Edward Harris
"I am so blessed to work in California, where the light is constant and clear," Barbara says. "Light is probably the thing that inspires me most. It seems imbued with energy and magic. It brings things alive and can render the mundane sublime."
Rooms saturated in white give way to whispers of almost imperceptible color. Refined watercolors painted by Barbara are sprinkled throughout the space. Fabrics in her signature subtle palettes appear brilliant against the studio's monochrome surroundings. A graphic black-and-white advertisement for her tabletop line for Wedgwood dominates a back wall alongside a well-utilized bulletin board.
"We take our work seriously, so our office is a bit like a laboratory with its absence of decoration and color. It allows us to approach each new project unencumbered," says Barbara.
Since founding her interior design firm in 1985 (projects range from private homes to restaurants and yachts), she has added product design to her repertoire—creating a well-edited array of elegant pieces with an eye toward timeless simplicity: furniture for Henredon, Baker, McGuire, and HBF; lighting for Boyd; crystal for Baccarat; tile for Ann Sacks; fabrics for Kravet; bedding for Bloomingdale's; even tea and candles. The list goes on.
A bulletin board full of inspiring images takes on a life of its own.
Small items and still lifes scattered on desktops throughout Barbara's studio offer a glimpse of the motivations and influences behind her myriad designs.
The pattern on Barbara's "Radiance" china for Wedgwood was inspired by the dots of a sea anemone, its color by the pearl-like beige of a shell.
Something as basic as the ethereal variations in color of a strand of pearls and the texture of this shell tile can influence the design of an entire room.
Barbara has had this chair miniature mock-up for years and continues to find its simplicity inspirational.
20 Ways Barbara Barry Nurtures Her Spirit
Light It is everything! It illuminates a space and lifts my spirit.
Color I love subtle shades of colors because they are soft on the eye and soul.
Form I thrill to the shape of things…from an egg to a spoon to a teacup.
My garden Nature is my biggest inspiration—mesmerizing and elegant. My garden is where I begin each day.
The Beverly Hills Farmers' Market I live for each Sunday when I jump out of bed and head to the bounty that is unique to California—strawberries, avocados, ginger, flowers galore. It is endless!
Walking I do my best thinking on my walks and always come back inspired.
Yoga and Breathing I start and end my day with a series of simple poses and breath work. It connects me back to my body and makes me feel alive.
Great Sheets It is the most restorative thing to climb into a bed of crisply ironed sheets. I feel like a princess, and I'm grateful for all that I have.
Tea I love tea. The art of preparing it, the beautiful ways to serve it, the healthful benefit of it, and the ritual of stopping to enjoy it.
Solitude It's probably the most vital thing that restores my spirit. I don't watch television or listen to much music. I like silence…in fact, I require it.
Drawing A blank piece of paper and a sharpened pencil, and I am a happy girl.
Girlfriends From my sisters to my BFFs . . . listening and sharing heals all.
Blank Slate I love the blank canvas. Whether it is the dining table ready to be set, the dinner to be cooked, or the design ready to be sketched. That feeling of starting is so inspiring!
Space A clean desk and an empty room—pure potential.
My Bulletin Boards I love to put up whatever inspires me on a bulletin board. I see a connectedness in the way all beautiful things seem to relate.
Watercolors I take watercolors with me everywhere I go. It's my way of capturing the inspired moment.
New Beginnings The minute I get a new project I feel that sense of excitement and play. It's my favorite moment in a project because it is filled with potential.
Family I was raised by an artist mother. It was/is everything to me—from seeing her exclaim with passion over color and ideas to building a belief in myself that I could do the same.
Home My home is my haven, and it is a testament to my work—fresh and clean and calm.
Beautiful Process, Beautiful Product I believe food cooked with love tastes better, and design made with care and good energy is evident.

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Opinion: Mexican President Pena Nieto 1-Teachers 0
WSJ's "Americas" columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady talks with assistant editorial page editor James Freeman about recent teachers union strikes in Mexico, and President Pena Nieto's determination to press on with reforming the educational system. Photo: AP
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... I ... the teachers unions in this country were tossed Mary Anastasia O'Grady are America's columnist even what's what's happening in Mexico where a new president Enrique Pena Nieto tone has been the ... perhaps I'm making some progress in the in a pretty tough fight with the teachers unions while this week actually the last couple weeks have been on very contentious because aam ... the teachers union took their fight to the streets of Mexico City ... and as I say my column ... Mexico City on a good day ... I often look like a giant parking lot and I ... you can imagine with thousands of teachers protesting they took over the aam ... means city historic square ... but they've blocks unimportant their affairs and a block access to the international airport ... and missed the city of twenty million people it's the largest Spanish speaking city in the world ... ALM so it has not got the attention of a ... non Test Out Mexicans but the people of the world ... and the attention of Mexicans specifically sounds only care about translating into a lot of sympathy for these the striking teachers ... that don't forget that on when the president and union took office in December ... he had a run-up platform then he said he was gonna modernized Mexico and I think growing faster ... I'm keeping the integration with North America ... and all that requires a more serious handling of the public education system ... of public education has been for ... decades really more of a political post ... I mean is that professional post and the teachers get things like automatic ten year when they graduate from ... college ... and on very I almost nonexistent ... performance evaluations ... so when he did was in springtime the first half of the year he passed amendments to the Constitution ... that would allow him ... to pass laws ... aam which would make them more accountable and those lives actually were passing Congress last week ... and I he spoke from St Peter's for saying that he would sign into law ... so the teachers are very upset about this because of their mission their view is that you know how dare you ... judge my performance ... the teachers profession is sacred and and no one's allowed to ... do that and and of course that's a big break with the past but is very important for the future Maxthon was a concert or refreshing ... you ... talk about how well you're seeing a ... in the contrast of the so the teacher demonstrations also some parents uneven there since the UN kids getting out there and say hey we wanna go to class now and we wanna learn stuff ... does this mean that ... that the thing in yet so does is winning our little too early to say that why think the most promising thing here is that he he does seem to be the winner any as I said that teachers profession was considered the most sacred for so many years but ... I think the parents are more and more understanding essential announ pen in education are really not can have a shot at middle class life in Mexico ... and out of one on a noticeable development ... last week ... was way and that parents in the southern city of La kakak which is very much controlled by the left and by the teachers union ... I've decided that they went on break the picket line send their children to school of the chili in a bid the chill in the pants actually March and the street saying look we demand the right to a school ... of the teachers responded by saying we're going to close the schools were going to shut them down ... and outs of this is an ongoing fight but I think it does suggest ... that there's life within civil society in Mexico and it also suggests I think a break with the very corporatist ... up close to model ... that existed for so long and of course that started the break with that started with a nice American free Trade agreement ... in nineteen ninety four ... and this is just a further development of that Max was a long way to go the way to go but ... we have to say this mean for a relatively new president often a fairly good start indeed view look at this you look at the opening up the oil market somewhat ... earning getting more optimistic about the sky while in on what I'm a little bit afraid of this I don't wanna get too far out front because I am optimistic in the sense that you know these amendments and than the amendments to the oil sector ... are very important than necessary ... but there is as we know the difference between necessary and sufficient and ... I think they are necessary but really ... Mexico needs two LeapFrog had ... in education and start moving to you know the kind of online learning the stuff that we're talking about here in the US that ... I'm in order to really make that children and the students more competitive globally so there's a long way to go but yet to start somewhere and I think this is a very good beginning firms good things for sure ...


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For today's Geneabloggers theme of Tombstone Tuesday it is the grave of Eliza and Francis Farmbrough that I show here. Francis is the great grandson of my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read and he shares this grave with his wife Eliza.
The wording is very difficult to see now but to me it looks like there could also be another Francis Farmbrough in the grave too, unless his description on the stone is as the husband of the late Eliza.
I thought it quite ornate with the book and flowers at the top, quite different from most of my ancestor's graves. The Inscription reads (as best as I can see it!):
In Memory of
Francis Farmbrough (I think this is probably saying Eliza is the wife of FF)
died December 31 1891
aged 85(?) years
(unreadable) Farmbrough
also of the above
Francis Farmbrough
died December 18 1904(?)
in his 99th year
It wasn't until I was sorting this photograph out to add to this Tombstone Tuesday post, that I realised that I had no note of where this Tombstone was actually situated!! I checked my genealogical programme to see where Eliza and Francis had died but don't show this!! This is partly because my old computer died and I fairly recently bought the one I am now using and have not finished adding all the ancestor details to my programme from the printed sheets I took of the programme on the old computer (I sensed it was not very well) and of course, this is a very laborious job and I am doing it in between sorting out all my other records!! So I do have the details, just not to hand as I write this!!


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This object lesson in our vile underclass in all its glory reminds us of the abject failure of our welfare state. For Matthews, her seven children were simply an income-generation scheme.
How much longer will our politicians allow this to go on? It proves Dave's point about a broken society; but will he have the courage to argue that the ready availability of state cash incentives to breed out of wedlock creates odious people such as Matthews, and they must be abolished?
Which is precisely the point made on this blog; I'm not interested in making a moral judgement on the lifestyle of the underclass, or on bastardy, but the economic and social cost to the rest of us is already vast, will get much worse during the recession and is simply unsustainable in the long term.
A glance at the figures should show how we are already paying for this growing social breakdown. Over the past ten years the cost of policing has risen by 40 per cent, prisons and the courts by 46 per cent, youth justice by 45 per cent and working-age benefits by 25 per cent.
Some forecast that the scale of this problem will double in the next 15 years. How will we afford that?
There is a simple truth that Brown and his party are just too thick to understand, and it's that welfare causes poverty. The most effective measure in tackling poverty is restricting welfare. Clinton's reforms in the US have won for millions the dignity of work and the benison of belonging that the caustic effects of welfare had taken from them.
Bold and radical action is needed, and quickly if this destructive downwards spiral is to be broken. And since we can never build enough prisons, and cannot let people starve or allow children to be abused and neglected, only a move as heroic as Community Settlements will answer.


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In Search of the Next Uber, SherpaVentures Raises $150 Million
SherpaVentures, an investment firm founded by two early backers of car service Uber, has raised $150 million for its first fund in its quest to be a venture-capital firm less ordinary.
Founded by Shervin Pishevar, a former managing director of Menlo Ventures, and Scott Stanford, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, Sherpa, in many ways, is representative of a new class of boutique firms: young, city-based, and striving to differentiate themselves from earlier generations.
Located in the heart of San Francisco's downtown -- many miles from the famed Sand Hill Road where many venture firms reside -- Sherpa's office of roughly a dozen employees is filled with plush Herman Miller chairs and black-and-white murals by local artists.
Mr. Pishevar is an Iranian immigrant and former tech entrepreneur who regularly hobnobs with the elite of Washington D.C. and Hollywood. Meanwhile, Mr. Stanford, who helped lead Goldman's investments in Facebook and Uber, is part of a new wave of bankers turned techies. One of Sherpa's anchor investors is TPG, a private equity firm that like several of its peers has recently become very active in venture investments, having led Uber's funding round last year.
The co-founders bristle if you call SherpaVentures "another venture capital firm" -- they call it an investment firm that is more akin to a concierge for entrepreneurs. Half of the group is an investment vehicle, SherpaVentures, and the other half is SherpaFoundry, a vehicle to incubate new companies and to connect their portfolio companies with larger, often public, companies.
"We felt like there was an opportunity to create a guild-like model," says Stanford. "It's our name. We like to be in the background making magic happen--hauling the bags up the mountain, enabling great success, the ones behind the camera at the summit."
In its bid to be different, Sherpa is also part of a larger trend transforming venture-capital firms into full-service auto body shops. Many, including some of the largest such as Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, now employ several specialists, such as designers and brand marketers, to help portfolio companies. It's a way to do more than throw money at a startup-- and more importantly, a way to stand out in a crowded field where even individual investors, through sites like AngelList, can write multi-million dollar checks.
Sherpa's network of contacts is essentially made up of the Rolodexes of Stanford, Pishevar, and Tina Sharkey, the foundry's CEO and a former Johnson & Johnson executive. Through them, it is possible to meet celebrities like Ed Norton or Olivia Munn to test out your service (both of which, not coincidentally, are Uber shareholders) or get a call with lawmakers. The foundry, meanwhile, exists, in part to help broker partnerships with big brands, according to Sharkey.
Sherpa's model is heavily influenced by its co-founders' most prominent investment: Uber.
Mr. Pishevar, through Menlo Ventures, led Uber's Series B round of funding in 2011, which also included Goldman Sachs, led by Mr. Stanford. Separately, the men both assisted Uber with projects ranging from small to strange, from helping to recruit top executives to bringing in influential investors. Mr. Pishevar, for example, brought in a cadre of celebrity investors in the Series B round, including Mr. Norton, Ms. Munn, the musician Jay-Z, and actor Will Smith. In 2012, the two met in person at the All Things Digital conference, a conference formerly run by the Wall Street Journal. A year later, they decided to start Sherpa in the hopes that they could replicate their success with Uber with other companies.
The pair often speak of tasks in Uber-language. In discussing a job opening at one of their startups, Mr. Pishevar says they need a "Ryan Graves of Uber," an executive at Uber who didn't know anything about the market when he started but learned quick and is now the company's head of operations.
So far, Sherpa's portfolio includes Munchery, a food delivery startup (Uber for food), Shyp (Uber for shipping), and Storehouse (a visual blogging platform).
In terms of thesis, Sherpa is looking in the consumer space and is stage agnostic – which means it could make a big investment at a later stage if the company was compelling. Asked whether Sherpa's broad mandate and willingness to invest in at big valuations could lead to Sherpa overpaying for startups, Mr. Pishevar says he is impervious to such a notion.
"When I did the Uber deal at $290 million (valuation), I got a lot of that kind of feedback – we've seen how that worked out," he says, referring to Uber's latest $18.2 billion valuation.
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Definition: Ease of doing business ranks economies from 1 to 190, with first place being the best. A high ranking (a low numerical rank) means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index averages the country's percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in the World Bank's Doing Business. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators.
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Homotopy type theory is a new branch of mathematics that combines aspects of several different fields in a surprising way. It is based on a recently discovered connection between homotopy theory and type theory. It touches on topics as seemingly distant as the homotopy groups of spheres, the algorithms for type checking, and the definition of weak ∞-groupoids. Homotopy type theory offers a new "univalent" foundation of mathematics, in which a central role is played by Voevodsky's univalence axiom and higher inductive types. The present book is intended as a first systematic exposition of the basics of univalent foundations, and a collection of examples of this new style of reasoning — but without requiring the reader to know or learn any formal logic, or to use any computer proof assistant. We believe that univalent foundations will eventually become a viable alternative to set theory as the "implicit foundation" for the unformalized... More > mathematics done by most mathematicians.< Less
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(Reuters) - Janet Yellen, who is set to take over as head of the Federal Reserve next month, is "hopeful" that U.S. economic growth will accelerate in 2014 to 3 percent or more and persistently low inflation will move up toward the central bank's target, according to a Time magazine interview released Thursday.
"I think we'll see stronger growth this year," Yellen said in the interview, released online ahead of the Time edition's January 20 publishing date. "Most of my colleagues on the Fed's policymaking committee and I are hopeful that the first digit (of GDP growth) could be 3 rather than 2."
U.S. gross domestic product growth has averaged 2.6 percent through the first three quarters of 2013, but appears to have gathered momentum in the second half the year. Third-quarter GDP growth was recently revised up to 4.1 percent, though it is not expected to have sustained that pace for the fourth quarter.
Yellen, who will succeed Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on February 1 and will be the first woman to hold the job, also said she believes that the persistently low level of inflation, a worry for policy-makers, will pick up.
"The recovery has been frustratingly slow, but we're making progress in getting people back to work, and I anticipate that inflation will move back toward our longer-run goal of 2 percent," she said.
The Fed's preferred measure of inflation is currently running at roughly half that pace -- just 1.1 percent on an annual basis -- and has been in a downtrend since the spring of 2012, the only time since the recession it has reached the target level.
Worryingly low inflation notwithstanding, Yellen stressed that her current top priority is to lower the U.S. unemployment rate, currently at 7 percent, to the longer-run range estimated by the Fed of between 5.2 percent and 5.8 percent. The Fed has pledged not to consider raising its benchmark interest rate until the unemployment rate has fallen to at least 6.5 percent.
The recovery in the housing market will also gather pace in 2014 and the fiscal policy headwinds that the Fed has cited persistently as a drag on growth will also ease, she told Time.
"I expect it (the housing market) to pick back up and I do expect a further recovery," she said.
Yellen's appointment to chair the Fed was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Monday.
The primary challenge facing her is to manage the winding down of the Fed's massive stimulus program, under which it had been buying $85 billion of U.S. Treasury and mortgage-backed securities each month in a bid to keep interest rates low and spur spending and hiring. Last month the Fed, with Yellen's support, decided to begin scaling back those purchases, and it cut the targeted level to $75 billion this month.
The reduction of the Fed's presence as the biggest buyer of Treasuries risks a rise in interest rates, which could act as a brake on growth. Indeed, yields on benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury notes have risen back to near 3 percent from around 2.85 percent before the Fed's December 18 announcement.
Yellen defended the bond-buying program, known as quantitative easing, against criticism that it has primarily benefited the wealthy because of the boost it has given to prices of riskier assets, such as stocks.
By making safe assets such as Treasuries scarce, the Fed's program forced rising demand for a wide range of other assets, driving up their prices. The Standard & Poor's 500 index (.SPX), for example, delivered a total return, including reinvested dividends, of 32.4 percent last year, its best year since 1997.
"You know, a lot of people say this (asset buying) is just helping rich people. But it's not true. Our policy is aimed at holding down long-term interest rates, which supports the recovery by encouraging spending," she said in the interview, conducted on the day the Senate confirmed her nomination. "And part of the (economic stimulus) comes through higher house and stock prices, which causes people with homes and stocks to spend more, which causes jobs to be created throughout the economy and income to go up throughout the economy."
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West Shore Road's reopening a good sign
The reopening of West Shore Road in Mill Neck shows that, for all its serious fiscal problems, Nassau County can accomplish something big.
Why is one North Shore road, which still has two phases to go for full restoration, worthy of praise now?
For one, the repair of 1,980 feet of a 1.9-mile road likely is the first of what hopefully will be many successful post-Sandy restorations in communities across the region.
It shows that Nassau, and, by extension, Long Island, can get things done -- and get the road reopened ahead of the schedule that County Executive Edward Mangano had set.
The route's restoration also marks another chapter in the fascinating life of a historically significant roadway and the scrappy community that hugs it.
There was a time when master builder Robert Moses himself coveted West Shore Road, which, under one of his many grand plans, was supposed to help funnel traffic to and from a bridge to be built between Long Island and Westchester County.
Early on, in the late 1950s, it appeared Moses had support. But opposition decades later killed the project.
The neighborhood, where early deeds extended land ownership all the way down to the waterfront, made sure the roadway never would be threatened in the same way again.
The property owners, according to a local history, gave their waterfront property to the federal government, which later would designate it a protected wetland.
The move kept the property out of the hands of the state and, by extension, thwarted Moses from attempting to exercise eminent domain.
Then, as now, West Neck was not a road for speed.
It overlooks waterways frequented by a variety of fish and fowl.
The roadway, which was built in 1938, needed restoration decades before Sandy superstormed through, dating back at least to the 1980s. By 1993, according to National Bridge Inventory data, officials were recommending that the artery be replaced.
By the 21st century, Mangano's administration was beginning to pay attention. But, still, the renovation stalled in the legislature.
Sandy changed everything last October by knocking a portion of the tumbledown seawall to bits, closing the roadway and forcing the drivers -- measured at 12,000 annual average daily trips -- to add 15 minutes to their trips with detours through Mill Neck and Lattingtown.
To be sure, there's still much to be done. The complete restoration is expected to cost $35 million, a portion of which Nassau hopes to get from the federal government and other sources.
The roadway remains a mess during rainstorms, and raised metal plates -- which would be removed as roadway repairs extend north and south of the refurbished middle portion -- make it imperative that drivers watch the road rather than the scenery.
The county intends to complete what it started. And that includes balancing the concerns of multiple and sometimes conflicting constituencies, including the walkers and bicycle riders who frequent the overpass.
Some neighbors believe the road should be private. But business owners in Bayville, whose revenue dwindled because customers couldn't easily make their way there, are gleeful.
All of which makes the swift reopening of West Shore Road post-Sandy something unexpected, something new.
Just the kind of kick Long Island needs.
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Utah County Treasurer
Kim Jackson, Treasurer
Property taxes are the principal source of local revenue available to a county to finance their operations. State & Federal funds, grants, miscellaneous fines, fees, licenses, permits and taxes produce the additional revenue essential for the mandatory and non-mandatory functions of county government.
The County Treasurer is required to bill, collect, invest, safeguard and disburse revenue from property tax collections. We do this on behalf of approximately 46 taxing entities. These include three school districts, the local cities, the county, special service districts, and redevelopment agencies within the geographical borders of Utah County.
Wells Fargo Bank Branches in Utah will no longer accept "walk-in" property tax payments. This does not impact taxes paid by mortgage companies.


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West Wing Evacuated Due to Overheated Transformer
(WASHINGTON) -- The West Wing of the White House was evacuated early Saturday morning due to an overheated transformer.
"Early this morning, an electrical transformer near the West Wing malfunctioned and set off a smoke alarm in the West Wing. The transformer problem was quickly resolved," a White House official told ABC News. "Electricity and personnel access to the West Wing has returned to normal. The First Family was unaffected."
U.S. Secret Service told ABC News that at around 7 a.m., someone reported seeing smoke coming from what looked like a mechanical closet in the West Wing of the White House.
The D.C. Fire Department later clarified that it was an "odor that smelled like smoke" that was reported.
Out of an abundance of caution, the West Wing was evacuated and the D.C. Fire Department was called.
A D.C. Fire Department official said that the smell eventually dissipated, and there was no fire.
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Patch Tuesday Addresses 12 Vulnerabilities, Ignores Zero-Day Glitch
If it's the second Tuesday of the month, it must be Patch Tuesday. This month Microsoft has issued seven security updates dealing with 12 vulnerabilities across all platforms. What is conspicuously missing is a permanent fix for the recently found Zero-Day exploit.
On Monday, the company issued a temporary fix that prevents the flaw from being exploited without forcing users to tweak their browser settings. Microsoft warned that this fix is not designed to replace actual security updates but revealed that it is working on a permanent fix.


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No. 94,869
KAU KAU TAKE HOME NO. 1, et al.,
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1. Damage to private property caused by contractors working on a public road construction project does not support a cause of action for inverse condemnation if the damage is not necessary to complete the road construction project.
2. Any person with a claim against a municipality under the Kansas Tort Claims Act must file a written notice of the claim with the municipality. The filing of a proper notice of claim is a prerequisite to filing an action in the district court against a municipality. These notice requirements are jurisdictional. If the statutory notice requirements are not met, the court cannot obtain jurisdiction over the municipality.
3. An abutting property owner has no right to the continuation of a flow of traffic from nearby highways to the owner's property. The regulation of traffic flow does not involve a taking if it furthers the government's police power to promote the safety, peace, health, morals and general welfare of the people.
4. State action resulting merely in a diminution in property value is not a taking.
5. Under the facts of this case, increasing the driving distance between a landowner's property and nearby roadways is not a compensable taking.
Appeal from Sedgwick district court; MARK A. VINING, Judge. Opinion filed June 9, 2006. Affirmed.
Joseph R. Borich, III, argued the cause and James B. Jackson was with him on the brief for the appellants.
Douglas J. Moshier, senior city attorney, argued the cause and Gary E. Rebenstorf, city attorney, was with him on the brief for the appellee.
ROSEN, J: Kau Kau Take Home No. 1, Inc., and Peggy Schoenhofer (Appellants) appeal the denial of their claims for inverse condemnation against the City of Wichita (City). Appellants operate a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant located on West Irving Street southeast of the intersection of Tyler Road and Kellogg (U.S. Highway 54) in Wichita. Tyler Road is a two-way street running in a north-south direction. Kellogg/US 54 is an access-controlled highway running in an east-west direction. West Irving Street is a two-way street, generally running in an east-west direction on the south side of Kellogg and the east side of Tyler Road. Appellants' property accesses West Irving Street via two entrances directly onto West Irving Street. Appellants' property does not have direct access to either Tyler Road or Kellogg/US 54.
In 2002, the City of Wichita began a construction project to reconfigure and reconstruct the intersection of Tyler Road and Kellogg/US 54. Prior to the City's project, West Irving Street intersected Tyler Road just south of the intersection of Tyler Road and Kellogg/US 54 and a few hundred feet west of the Appellants' property. The City's project eliminated the intersection between Tyler Road and West Irving Street, causing West Irving Street to dead-end just west of the Appellants' property.
Prior to the City's project, patrons could access the Appellants' restaurant from Tyler Road by turning east onto West Irving Street directly from Tyler Road. Patrons on Kellogg could access the restaurant by turning south on Tyler Road then east onto West Irving Street. To leave Appellants' restaurant along Tyler Road or Kellogg/US 54, patrons turned left out of the parking lot and drove a few hundred feet west on West Irving Street to Tyler Road. From Tyler Road, patrons could access Kellogg/US 54.
After the City's project eliminated the intersection of West Irving Street and Tyler Road, patrons approaching the restaurant from Tyler Road must turn east onto East Kellogg Street (the south outer roadway to Kellogg/US 54), to drive past the restaurant, then turn right onto a spur that connects to West Irving Street and backtrack to the restaurant entrance. Patrons traveling west on Kellogg/US 54 are required to exit at the Tyler Road ramp onto West Kellogg Street (the north outer roadway to Kellogg/US 54), follow the U-turn lane to East Kellogg Street, driving past the restaurant, then turn right onto a spur that connects to West Irving Street and backtrack to the restaurant entrance.
The City's project significantly altered the route for patrons leaving Appellants' restaurant. Patrons returning to Tyler Road and westbound Kellogg/US 54 must turn right upon exiting Appellants' parking lot, travel east on East Kellogg Street approximately 1 mile to Ridge Road, turn left, crossing Kellogg/US 54, turn left onto West Kellogg Street, driving west approximately 1 mile to Tyler Road to the westbound Kellogg/US 54 highway. According to Appellants' expert, the City's project increased the driving distance between Appellants' property and westbound Kellogg/US 54 or Tyler Road by approximately 2 miles.
However, it is important to note that the project did not change either of the Appellants' two points of access to West Irving Street and did not eliminate any direct access between the Appellants' property and Tyler Road because Appellants never had direct access to Tyler Road.
Appellants filed a petition against the City for inverse condemnation, seeking compensation for the temporary and permanent restriction of access to their property. Appellants also sought payment for a temporary easement, claiming that the contractors used Appellants' land for access during the construction of the project. The City filed a motion for summary judgment. The district court granted the City's motion, denying all of Appellants' claims. Appellants bring this appeal directly to us pursuant to K.S.A. 26-504, which allows an appeal directly to the Supreme Court when a district court denies a petition for eminent domain.
For their first claim of error, the Appellants assert that the district court erred when it granted the City's summary judgment motion, denying their claim for a temporary easement. Appellants claim that the contractors, as agents of the City, "trespassed and invaded the real estate of the [Appellants] in the course and scope of their duties to Defendant City, and have used said real estate for their own purposes, including access to other portions of the Project, without permission, and without just cause or excuse, in contravention of the ownership interests of [Appellants]."
In its motion for summary judgment, the City argued that the Appellants' claim sounded in the tort of trespass rather than inverse condemnation. Because Appellants failed to file a notice of claim with the City pursuant to K.S.A. 12-105b, they were precluded from raising a tort claim under the Kansas Tort Claims Act against the City.
Appellants, on the other hand, argue that all eminent domain cases involve trespass or a continuing nuisance. According to Appellants, when the offending acts are committed by private individuals, the claim sounds in tort. However, when the trespass or continuing nuisance is committed by a public body with the power of eminent domain and the purpose of doing public good, the claim must be for inverse condemnation rather than a tort.
"Summary judgment is appropriate if there are no genuine issues of material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." City of Wichita v. McDonald's Corp., 266 Kan. 708, 714, 971 P.2d 1189 (1999). An appellate court reviews a summary judgment decision using an unlimited standard of review. 266 Kan. at 714.
Inverse condemnation is a cause of action for compensation when a governmental entity takes private property. An inverse condemnation proceeding is initiated by the party with an interest in the private property rather than the governmental entity. Such an action is available when private property has actually been taken for public use without the initiation of formal condemnation proceedings by the governmental taker. To establish a claim for inverse condemnation, a party must establish an interest in the real property and a taking. Deisher v. Kansas Dept. of Transportation, 264 Kan. 762, 772, 958 P.2d 656 (1998).
A compensable taking requires the government to acquire possession as well as the right of possession and control of tangible property to the exclusion of the former owner, with such title in fee or easement as provided by the statute underlying the proceeding. In either a condemnation or an inverse condemnation proceeding, the question of whether there has been a compensable taking is a question of law. 264 Kan. at 772.
In Deisher, the plaintiffs filed an inverse condemnation action against the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), claiming that blasting on an adjacent easement for a highway construction project caused the water table to drop and significantly reduced the water level in the Deishers' well. 264 Kan. at 764. The Deisher court concluded that the damage to the Deishers' well was not necessary to complete the KDOT project because the State did not need to use Deishers' water or to divert their water to complete the road construction project. Rather, the damage to the well resulted from the negligence of the State or those acting on behalf of the State. Consequently, the Deishers' claim sounded in tort, not inverse condemnation. 264 Kan. at 774.
The Deisher analysis applies in this case. Appellants do not allege that the contractors asserted control over the property to the exclusion of the Appellants. The alleged damage to the Appellants' property caused by the contractors driving over the property was not necessary to the completion of the City's project. The alleged damage was caused by the contractor's negligence. Consequently, the Appellants' claim sounds in tort, not inverse condemnation.
K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 12-105b requires any person with a claim against a municipality under the Kansas Tort Claims Act to file a written notice of the claim with the municipality. The filing of a proper notice of claim is a prerequisite to filing an action in the district court against a municipality. The notice requirements of K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 12-105b are jurisdictional. If the statutory requirements are not met, the court cannot obtain jurisdiction over the municipality. Myers v. Board of Jackson County Comm'rs, 280 Kan. 869, 876-77, 127 P.3d 319 (2006).
Appellants admit that they have not filed a notice of claim with the City. Accordingly, the Appellants' failure to provide the statutory notice of claim precludes their relief. The district court properly granted the City's summary judgment motion in regard to the Appellants' claim for a temporary construction easement.
For their second claim of error, the Appellants assert that the district court improperly granted the City's summary judgment motion, denying their claim for a temporary or permanent easement. Appellants claim that they should be compensated for the loss of access to their property on both a temporary and permanent basis. Summary judgment is appropriate when there are no genuine issues of material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Review of a decision granting summary judgment decision is de novo. McDonald's Corp., 266 Kan. at 714.
To establish a claim for an easement based on inverse condemnation, the Appellants must show that they have an interest in the land and that there was a compensable taking. The City does not contest Appellants' interest in the land. Rather, the City contests the Appellants' assertion that there has been a compensable taking. The determination of whether there was a compensable taking is a question of law. This court reviews questions of law using an unlimited standard. Eberth v. Carlson, 266 Kan. 726, 731, 971 P.2d 1182 (1999).
Appellants argue that the compensable taking is the restriction of the right of access to their property. Because patrons must travel further to access their restaurant, Appellants argue that their right of access has been impaired.
"'Right of access' is traditionally defined as an abutting landowner's common-law right of access from the landowner's property to abutting public roads. Such a right is the right to reasonable, but not unlimited, access to existing and adjacent public roads. [Citations omitted.] When the government actually blocks or takes away existing access to and from property, the landowner is generally entitled to compensation." McDonald's Corp., 266 Kan. at 718.
See also McCall Service Stations, Inc. v. City of Overland Park, 215 Kan. 390, 396-97, 524 P.2d 1165 (1974) (allowing the property owner to be compensated for the loss in value based on the loss of one of its access points to the abutting highway); Kohn Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Overland Park, 221 Kan. 230, 235-36, 559 P.2d 771 (1977) (upholding the reduction in property value based on the elimination of an access point to an abutting highway).
Right of access is distinct from the "regulation of traffic flow" or "circuity of access." McDonald's Corp., 266 Kan. at 718. The regulation of traffic flow, also referred to as "restricted access," is a "limitation or restriction on the landowner's right of access to and from abutting public roads or highways." Eberth v. Carlson, 266 Kan. At 734; McDonald's Corp., 266 Kan. at 718. Such a restriction involves the police power of the State. Kansas courts have recognized a city's police power to regulate and restrict the use of public roads to the extent necessary to "'provide for and promote the safety, peace, health, morals and general welfare of the people.' [Citations omitted.]" Eberth, 266 Kan. at 734.
An abutting property owner has no right to the continuation of a flow of traffic from nearby highways to the owner's property. McDonald's Corp., 266 Kan. at 718. As long as the regulation is reasonable, the regulation of traffic flow does not involve a taking. Eberth, 266 Kan. at 735 (eliminating the landowners' highway cross-over and constructing a new cross-over on nearby land was not unreasonable and did not constitute a taking); see also Hales v. City of Kansas City, 248 Kan. 181, 185, 804 P.2d 347 (1991) (installing medians that prevented turning onto the landowner's property was a reasonable exercise of police power and not compensable); Hudson v. City of Shawnee, 246 Kan. 395, 403, 790 P.2d 933 (1990) (closing one of the landowner's two entrances onto the abutting street was a reasonable exercise of the city's police power); Small v. Kemp, 240 Kan. 113, 727 P.2d 904 (1986) (relocating a frontage road near the landowner's property, eliminating the intersection between the street abutting the property and another street, and causing a circuitous route to landowner's property was a reasonable exercise of police power and not a compensable taking); Ray v. State Highway Commission, 196 Kan. 13, 19-20, 410 P.2d 278, cert. denied 385 U.S. 820 (1966) (replacing landowner's access to limited access highway with access to a frontage road that accessed the highway was not unreasonable and did not amount to a taking); Brock v. State Highway Commission, 195 Kan. 361, 370-71, 404 P.2d 934 (1965) (causing circuity of travel by eliminating the landowner's direct access to a limited access highway and constructing a new frontage road for access is not a taking); Pringle v. City of Wichita, 22 Kan. App. 2d 297, 917 P.2d 1351 rev. denied 260 Kan. 994 (1996) (eliminating the intersection between the street abutting landowners' properties and a main thoroughfare without changing the landowners' entrances was a reasonable exercise of police power and not a taking); Lewis v. Globe Constr. Co., 6 Kan. App. 2d 478, 484, 630 P.2d 179, rev. denied 230 Kan. 818 (1981) (temporarily closing the road abutting landowners' property for repairs and temporarily blocking access to landowners' parking lots was a reasonable exercise of the police power).
In McDonald's, the City of Wichita instituted an eminent domain action for a roadway construction project, seeking a temporary easement for construction and a permanent physical taking of part of Wal-Mart's land. Wal-Mart owned property located at the northeast corner of Dugan Street and West Kellogg Street, the north outer road to Kellogg/US 54. Wal-Mart had two entrances on Dugan Street and two entrances on West Kellogg Street. The City eliminated the intersection of Kellogg and Dugan by installing an overpass without an exit onto Dugan and converted the outer roads on either side of Kellogg/US 54 to one-way rather than two-way roads. After the City's project, Wal-Mart continued to have two entrances on Dugan Street and two entrances on West Kellogg Street. Nevertheless, patrons had to travel as much as three additional miles to reach Wal-Mart's property. Wal-Mart sought to increase its condemnation award based on the reduction in its property value due to circuity of access. Wal-Mart claimed the City's restrictions to its access were unreasonable.
The McDonald's court noted that Wal-Mart had access to the same streets after the construction project, and the City did not close any of the access points to Wal-Mart's property from the adjoining streets. In concluding that Wal-Mart could not consider the restricted access in determining the market value of the property, the McDonald's court acknowledged that Wal-Mart would not have had a claim for compensation based on the restriction of its access to public highways. The McDonald's court concluded that the exercise of the City's police power to regulate the traffic flow around Wal-Mart's property was not unreasonable and refused to allow Wal-Mart to repackage the "'unreasonable use of the police power' argument" into a valuation claim. 266 Kan. at 720-21, 725.
Other than the procedural posture that distinguishes this case from the McDonald's case, the McDonald's court's holding that there is no claim for compensation based on a restriction of access to Wal-Mart's property is on point with the facts in this case. The Appellants in this case have the same access to West Irving Street that they had prior to the City's project. The additional 2 miles of travel to access Appellants' property is less than the additional 3 miles of travel that the McDonald's court found to be reasonable. Like Wal-Mart, Appellants have failed to establish that the City's regulation of the traffic flow around Appellants' property was unreasonable. Thus, Appellants have failed to establish a compensable taking.
Appellants attempt to analogize this case to Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n of America v. City of Wichita, 221 Kan. 325, 559 P.2d 347 (1977). In Teachers, the City of Wichita (City) changed Kellogg/US 54 to a fully controlled-access highway. Although the City constructed a service road to run alongside the highway, the service road was not a frontage road with direct access to Kellogg/US 54. Several landowners along Kellogg/US 54 brought a suit for inverse condemnation claiming a loss of access because they had direct access to Kellogg/US 54 before the construction project and no access to Kellogg/US 54 after the construction project. To reach the landowners' property from Kellogg/US 54 after the construction, patrons had to travel on several other streets to reach the service road. The Teachers court held that the police action in eliminating the direct access to Kellogg and replacing it with a "tortuous and circuitous route" was not a reasonable exercise of the City's police powers. 221 Kan. at 328, 336. The Teachers court distinguished its holding from Brock and Ray because the landowners in Brock and Ray were given access to the highway via a frontage road that had direct access to the highway. However, in the Teachers case, the City did not provide a frontage road with direct access to Kellogg/US 54. 221 Kan. at 333-34.
Teachers can be distinguished from the facts in this case. In Teachers, the landowners had direct access to Kellogg/US 54 before the construction project. After the construction project, the landowners in Teachers had no access to Kellogg/US 54 even through a frontage road. Their access to Kellogg/US 54 required travel on several other roads. In this case, the Appellants never had access to Tyler Road or Kellogg/US 54. The Appellants' property had access to West Irving Street both before and after the City's construction project. Thus, the Appellants did not lose any direct access points. Teachers does not support the Appellants' claim for loss of access.
Appellants also argue that this court should consider the substantial impairment of the fair market value of their property. However, Appellants fail to cite any authority for the proposition that the reduction in value constitutes a taking. This court specifically noted that "State action resulting merely in a diminution in the value of property" is not a taking. Small, 240 Kan. at 118. In making this statement, the Small court relied on Mugler v. Kansas, 123 U.S. 623, 31 L. Ed. 205, 8 S. Ct. 273 (1887). In Mugler, the State forced the closure of a brewery after the approval of a constitutional amendment forbidding the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors. The brewery owners argued that the brewery was built before the constitutional amendment and, thus, the forced closure amounted to a governmental taking because it decreased the value of the property. The Mugler court concluded that the exercise of the State's police power in prohibiting specific uses of property did not involve a taking regardless of whether there was a decrease in the value of the property. The Mugler court stated that the legislation did not "disturb the owner in the control or use of his property for lawful uses, nor restrict his right to dispose of it." 123 U.S. at 669.
Relying on Mugler, the Small court refused to find a taking because the change in traffic flow around the landowner's property diminished the value of the property. The Small court noted that the State's action did not control the use of the property or restrict the landowner's right to dispose of it. 240 Kan. at 119.
The Small court's analysis applies in this case. The City's construction project does not control the use of the Appellants' property or restrict the Appellants' right to dispose of the property. Thus, the Appellants' argument that there is a taking based on the reduction in the property value is without merit.
Appellants' claim for inverse condemnation due to a loss of access involves only the regulation of traffic flow. The City's road construction project has not changed the Appellants' direct access to an abutting street. Because the City's regulation of traffic flow near Appellants' property is a reasonable exercise of the City's police power, Appellants have failed to demonstrate a compensable taking. We affirm the district court's order granting summary judgment to the City and denying Appellants' claims for a temporary and permanent easement.


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YouProfitMarketing necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
You Profit Marketing, Inc.
Hello Everyone,
Thanks again for doing the past two logo projects I needed. Now I thought I'd get your help with a website. My core business is creating and implementing direct response marketing campaigns for small businesses.
Example: owner of a bakery wants to sell more bread, I write a sales pitch about how great his product are and women come into the store by the hundreds (real story) that campaign is getting a 14% response rate and 90% up-sells in the store.
I've either done, organized, or created everything from: print ads, local SEO, national PPC, sales scripts, sales letters, squeeze page copy, magazine ads, etc.
The purpose of this website (and accompanying blog...contest soon on 99Designs) is to generate leads for my business of creating these campaigns. The majority of my current leads are from direct mail sales letters and referrals from past and current clients.
The site will be heavy on content and video, I've always found that people are looking for information and giving it to them is the best way to get them to trust you enough to sell to them later.
The accompanying blog will be wordpress based. I already have a server and ftp client set up. I'm barely competent at anything involving HTML but I can iFrame and simple stuff like that.
Small businesses that spend at least $1,000 per month on marketing. I seem to work really well with plain jane business like bakeries: restaurants, lighting manufactures, hot tub dealers etc.
This isn't to say I wouldn't want to write copy for software or something like that. But when I look at my current client this is the theme.
Websites that I like as examples of MainSite>Blog include: http://www.OrangeSoda.com, http://www.InfusionSoft.com, http://www.SpeedPPC.com, http://www.MaxBlogPress.com,
Soon I will have Dream weaver so I'll be learning how to play around with design. I must be able to manage this website myself.
My HTML competencies are pretty sparse, in that, I can i-frame a page and set up re-directs and cloaking through my sever and ftp client (can you tell I had a hand in PPC affiliate marketing???)
Joomla based.
Accompanying blog with be wordpress based.
My email autoresponder is GetResponse but I might switch back to InfusionSoft
I have a whole selection of plug in's from MaxBlogPress that work fantastic, so if you take a peak over there it might help get you an idea of the look.
Visually the website should be clean and easy to navigate. Please keep in mind the absolute basics for SEO like: T/S privacy, contact us, services, etc.
For each topic or service there will be a video or sales pitch then a squeeze page or opt-in for more info/pricing. It is critical that these invoke a person's response. If you have previous experience with what works and what doesn't in opt-ins then please show your stuff here.
I've managed over 300k Adword ads so I know how hard it can be to make profitable websites with expensive traffic.
My ICV (Immediate client value is $500) my lifetime client value is around $8,000.


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UPDATE: We have new images of Professor X and Magneto in action!
One of the four major superhero comic book movies debuting this summer, and the only one yet to reveal any official footage or images, is that of X-Men: First Class. The Twentieth Century Fox X-Men prequel, directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) and produced by Bryan Singer (X-Men), takes us back in time to the 1960s to tell the tale of the origins of the X-Men.
Focusing in on the history of Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, X-Men: First Class also features a cast of relatively unknown mutant characters, few of which have shown up in previous X-Men films. Until today, we've yet to see what these characters will look like on screen and in costume. Here is your official first look at the mutant cast of X-Men: First Class.
So far, we've been living off of set photos, but the X-Men: First Class cast image first leaked on MSN for a brief moment yesterday but was quickly taken down while it spread like wildfire across the blogosphere. We waited until Fox released the official images so you can see them in proper form. Meet the X-Men and enjoy your first look at the team, in and out of costume, as well as Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw.
Update: Courtesy of a /Film exclusive with Matthew Vaughn, we now have images of Professor X and Magneto in action as well!
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In the main cast shot, note the two mutant masterminds who eventually part ways on their plans for mutantkind, becoming Professor X and Magneto, respectively. Here are the characters and their aliases, from left to right:
- Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender)
- Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne)
- Emma Frost (January Jones)
- Azazel (Jason Flemyng)
- Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult)
- Alex Summers/Havok (Lucas Till)
- Angel Salvadore (Zoe Kravitz)
- Raven Darkholme/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence)
- Charles Xavier/Professor X (James McAvoy)
While I cannot say that the first official X-Men: First Class cast images are impressive or inspiring (although fans will sure dig Emma Frost's authentic outfits from the comics), it does show that they aren't shying away from the use of colors and costumes, paying a little more tribute to the X-Men books, at least in style if not story.
They did a great job with Azazel and I look forward to seeing Flemying play him in action. Havok has the circular symbol on his chest, similar to some of the comic designs, and Mystique's design is consistent with the X-trilogy. Many fans are undoubtedly curious how Hank McCoy's blue fur will be explained as he appeared in a cameo without the fur in X-Men 2. Chances are they're pretending that didn't even happen.
The images do not however, give us a look at Edi Gathegi's character, the ever-evolving mutant known as Darwin, which brings into question his role in the film and as part of the '60s era X-Men team. My guess is that he's from the future since in the books, he's one of the newest characters and Matthew Vaughn previously alluded to First Class acting both as an in-continuity prequel and a quasi-reboot of sorts, referencing what J.J. Abrams did with Star Trek.
[Update: While Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News undergoes his miraculous recovery, he had chat with Bryan Singer who gave him the following first X-Men: First Class teaser poster- Get well soon Harry! Head to AICN for their high-res version.]
Fans, before bringing down any potential wrath upon these images, let's wait to see what the characters look like in live-action when the X-Men: First Class trailer releases. They certainly have stiff competition up against Marvel Studios' Thor and Captain America features as well as Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment's Green Lantern.
As an X-Men fan myself, please share your thoughts with me on Twitter @rob_keyes and make sure to follow @screenrant for all of your movie/TV needs.
X-Men: First Class opens in theaters June 3, 2011.
Source: Fox, LA Times
Update Source: /Film


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From a single initial as a treat for you, to a new baby's initial and their birthstone to match, or three initial discs for three children's names we have made some beautiful bespoke necklaces.
We have A-Z, the & symbol and a selection of gemstones to choose from. Whether you choose one initial or five this necklace will truly belong to you.
Choose your favourite initial & gemstone and we will make a necklace especially for you.
Chupi hand carves the original piece, which is then cast in solid sterling silver using an ancient Egyptian method. Each piece is then polished, ready for you to wear and love.
-Length: 45cm/ 18 inches
-Solid sterling silver disc
-9mm round sterling silver disc hand-stamped with the letter of your choice
-Sterling silver chain
-Finished with a silver Chupi charm and lobster clasp
-Made with love in Ireland
-Hallmarked in Ireland's historic Dublin Castle
Each disc is hand stamped using an old fashioned cast iron stamp. Every letter is different because we love the individuality of hand stamping.
Would you like your necklace longer or shorter? We would love to make it especially for you. Simply add a note when you are adding the necklace to your basket and we will make a bespoke piece for you with no extra charge. Please note it will take an extra day or two for your piece to be made.
This piece is exclusively available on Chupi.com & in our store in Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin 2, Ireland.
We offer free international shipping. Your order from Chupi will be shipped for free by registered to post to anywhere in the world. Once your order has been dispatched you will be emailed a tracking number, allowing you to track your package with your local postal service website. We additionally offer an expedited two day Express Service via DHL if you need your package delivered urgently. Click here for more information.
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Inspired by wild & natural things
Ireland is the last place in the world that magic still exists, from the beautiful Wicklow hills where Chupi was brought up to the wild beaches of Kerry our collection is inspired by wild & natural things. We work with feathers, twigs and leaves paired with the sparkliest Grey Diamond to create a magical collection.
Made in Ireland,
loved everywhere
Through our heritage, our inspiration, our team, the very heart of what we do and why we do it will always be Irish. Chupi is proud to say our jewellery is made in Ireland, loved everywhere.
Packaged with love
Make your piece extra special with our complimentary luxury gift packaging. Your piece will arrive beautifully presented in our luxurious Chupi jewellery box hand-tied with the softest grosgrain ribbon, held within our distinctive Chupi bag. Ready to give to that someone special or keep for the perfect treat.


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Economic Theory and Financial Policy
- toggleI The Role of the International Monetary Fund
- 1 The Essence of Bretton Woods Monetary Cooperation
- 2 The International Monetary Issues of the Bretton Woods Era Are They Still Relevant?1
- 3 Fifty Years of Exchange Rate Research and Policy at the International Monetary Fund
- 4 The IMF and Its EMU Members
- 5 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund A Changing Relationship
- 6 The Articles of Agreement of the IMF and the Liberalization of Capital Movements
- toggleII New Thoughts on the SDR
- toggleIII International Economic Policy: Theory and Practice
- 10. The IMF Monetary Model at 40
- 11 The Two Monetary Approaches to the Balance of Payments 1 Keynesian and Johnsonian
- 12 Is APEC a Natural Regional Trading Bloc? A Critique of the 'Gravity Model' of International Trade 1
- 13 Financial Relations between the Netherlands and Belgium 1943 to 1993
- 14 Repairing the International Monetary System An Unfinished Task?
11 The Two Monetary Approaches to the Balance of Payments 1 Keynesian and Johnsonian
- Editor(s):
- James Boughton
- Published Date:
- December 2004
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2016ers staying quiet on shutdown
Nearly everyone in the 2016 GOP presidential field agrees: A government shutdown is a no-good, very bad thing.
Yet with the lights-out moment for federal agencies now under way, the leading Republican White House hopefuls have all but zipped their lips when it comes to calling out the Hill gamesmanship that is poised to shutter agencies across the U.S. government for the first time in nearly two decades.
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The incoming GOP presidential class has talked about a shutdown like you'd talk about a bad thunderstorm: it's unpleasant and inconvenient, but there's not much to be done about it and it's awfully hard to hand out blame.
( POLITICO's full government shutdown coverage)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told CBS over the weekend that a shutdown "by definition, is a failure" and said that "responsible Republican leaders" aren't pushing for that outcome. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have both expressed opposition to the idea of a shutdown, while even Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul – who has vowed to oppose legislation that funds Obamacare – called closing down the government a "dumb idea."
To the surprise and frustration of some party leaders in Washington, what no one in the GOP pack has done, to date, is truly take a rhetorical two-by-four to the congressional Republicans who have refused to pass a so-called "clean" continuing resolution that would keep the government open – and authorize spending for the Affordable Care Act.
This would seem to be a perfect moment for someone in the GOP to deliver an abrupt rebuke to the legislators – including "defund Obamacare" champion Ted Cruz, himself a 2016 prospect – whom many Republicans blame for making the party so harshly confrontational, conservative and just plain unpopular.
( PHOTOS: 17 times the government has shut down)
The problem, Republicans freely acknowledge, is that even leaders who believe the party must rebrand or move to the middle recognize that the right holds extraordinary sway over presidential nominating contests, perhaps even more so than the left did in the Democratic Party back in the 1980s, before Bill Clinton and other centrist Democrats took control.
So for now, the 2016 field, like much of the rest of the professional Republican community, is stuck hoping that the party will learn a lesson on its own if and when the approach that has brought the country to a shutdown appears to backfire. The strategy, if one call call it that, is akin to hoping a toddler will only stick her finger in a light socket once.
"This was a dead-end policy from the start," fumed New York Rep. Peter King, an outspoken critic of his party's right flank who has said he may run for president in 2016.
( Also on POLITICO: Government shutdown: House GOP to delay individual mandate)
King, a kind of Howard Beale for electability-minded Republicans, called the whole defund-slash-shutdown push a "con-man routine" and expressed dismay that others in his party won't come out and say so.
"Maybe they're afraid of offending the base or maybe they're afraid of offending Ted Cruz. I have no idea," King said. "People are looking for a leader. They know it's wrong, they know it's crazy. But it's like 'The Wizard of Oz': nobody wants to say that there's nothing behind the curtain."
Republican pollster Christine Matthews – who advised Mitch Daniels, the former Indiana governor known for his fiscal straight talk – emphasized that many governors "have gone on record to say that it's irresponsible and that government should work it out, not shut down."
( PHOTOS: Republicans, 2016 contenders)
"I'm not sure any of them wants to grab the flag and run with it, but, when asked, are pretty unequivocal that they think it's dumb and irresponsible and not what they would do if in that situation," she said.
For their own political purposes, that kind of criticism may be enough for Christie, Walker, Jindal and the rest of the outside-the-Beltway 2016 gang. Simply by criticizing the idea of a shutdown, they may have inoculated themselves against the kind of damage that their D.C.-based competitors could face in the event that a shutdown turns into a real political rout.
Indeed, each of the most prominent senators who may be angling for the Republican presidential nomination – Cruz, Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio – are squarely in step with the "defund" movement.
If the goal is merely to gain a political leg up on senators who have helped trigger a shutdown – well, not being a U.S. senator who votes for a shutdown may accomplish that on its own.
Among Republicans concerned about their party's positioning for the 2016 election, however, there's a broader concern: that regardless of his personal resume, the next GOP presidential nominee will be seriously hobbled by a party brand defined by politically reckless members of Congress.
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a top adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, shrugged at the notion that a new spirit of legislative bipartisanship could come from presidential candidates outside Washington.


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Communication via online networking sites could kill your social life – and you – in German director Simon Verhoeven's ghoulish horror.
A familiar array of attractive, yet vacuous, American college students are easy prey for Friend Request, which boasts a similar plot to the 2014 thriller Unfriended, albeit without that film's neat stylistic quirk of depicting slaughter in browser windows on the heroine's desktop screen.
Verhoeven's picture is more conventional and achingly predictable, telegraphing misery for each unsuspecting victim as a malevolent spirit wreaks havoc in the real and dream worlds, accompanied by deafening shrieks on the soundtrack.
These hoary, cheap scare tactics were outdated when fax machines were the latest technological marvel and certainly won't impress audiences who hanker for sophisticated shocks and nail-biting sustained tension.
On an emotional level, we might feel concern or sympathy for the characters if the director and his two co-writers had invested time in developing their intricately intertwined personal relationships.
Unfortunately, with so many people to dispatch in 92 minutes, the emphasis throughout is on cruel and gory demises.
Death sequences lack originality and most include a swarm of computer-generated black wasps, which are supposedly linked to witchcraft.
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Power your home with your turbo training
Earlier in the year, we reported on research that said Bradley Wiggins could save £11 a year running his washing machine by pedal power - a fact that was disputed by some of our readers, but nonetheless made the point that all the power being put out by a cyclist on a static trainer is wasted.
Not any more. The South African product design consulting firm Ideso has come up with a prototype of the PowerPac, a turbo trainer cum generator that turns your pedal strokes into juice in a portable battery.
Winning the Red Dot Design Award for Best of the Best for 2012, the PowerPac battery can be charged in about 80 minutes of pedalling, and although the designers admit it's not going to be enough to power your whole household, it will definitely keep a laptop or phone running, as 132Wh of charge or potential energy can be stored in the battery. Numerous devices can then be charged or powered from this stored energy.
Red Dot judges praised the "sleek, robust, and functional feel that will not look out of place in any household."
For more info, see Red Dot.
Cat Ears: Improved hearing at speed, and stick-on Wiggo sideys in one
If you ever find it hard to hear your riding buddy as you whizz downhill, you might well consider these Cat Ears noise reducers. Or possibly not. Anyway.
They work in supposedly the same way as the fur in a cat's ear, protecting the ears and breaking up and dampening the wind. They're aerodynamic, according to the blurb, as "the faux fur can move with the wind 'flow' vs. being a rigid object". Hmmm.
According to the makers, Cat Eyes can reduce wind noise by about 40 - 60%. Here's a technical drawing (cough) that shows you how:
Simply wrap the faux-fur around the leading helmet strap and attach using the hook and loop Velcro strips. Sadly original Cat Ears are only available in black at the moment.
Cat Ears cost between 8 and 15 dollars.
For more info see Cat Ears.
Just 20 of the Limited Edition Van Moof 'Noir' to be produced
We brought you news of the the Limited Edition Van Moof 'Noir' earlier this week but what we didn't tell you is that you'll need to sharpen your elbows and get straight to the front of the queue, because there are only 20 going to be produced - ever.
The Noir is based on the recently introduced Van Moof M2. It has a striking dark coloured aluminium rust-free frame, with an innovative solar powered LED light system built inside its tubes. These LEDs are not only solar powered, but can also be charged through the micro USB cable on your phone.
That means the lights are un-nickable, and won't run out on you, provided they spend some time in the light each day.
The thick wide wheels make riding on and off pavements and obstacles problem-free. The broad handlebar, SYAD saddle and durable Schwalbe tires top-off the smooth no-nonsense look.
For more info, see Leftfield Bikes.
Biologic protection for your tech goodies
Biologic has announced its Bike Mount for the iPhone 5 and a Soft Shield for the iPad, providing essential protection if you feel the need to drag your gadgetry into the great outdoors.
The Bike Mount is a fully-enclosed, hard plastic case that is secured with a heavy-duty, double-pivot latch. A welded, touch-sensitive membrane on the front allows full use of the iPhone's applications, while a soft silicone liner provides a secure fit while providing shock resistance for the phone. Integrated RidgeSeal technology forms a tight seal between the case cover and liner for protection against the elements.
A clear plastic window on the back allows full use of the rear camera, even while riding. The Bike Mount for iPhone 5 can fit on handlebars or stems with a diameter of 38 mm or less.
In addition to the new iPhone case, BioLogic also announced the release of its Soft Shield for iPad, a waterproof fabric cover for iPad.
"For quite a few of us, the iPad has become indispensable travel gear and out in the real world an iPad needs a bit of protection from things like sweat, rain, dust, and dirty fingers," said uke Hsu, Biologic Project Manager. "The Soft Shield keeps the elements out and your iPad safe inside."
The Soft Shield for iPad is crafted from a waterproof, sonically-welded fabric to meet rigorous IP66 water and particle protection standards. The dark grey linen-like fabric is a non-slip material, making the iPad easier to handle even with gloves on.
With the Soft Shield on, iPad features are fully accessible, including the front touchscreen, rear camera, volume controls, and on/off button. The Soft Shield also includes a TRRS in-line earphone adapter, so users are able to listen to and control their iPad through earphones equipped with in-line remotes.
For more info, see Biologic.
Ultimate high-viz waterproof for the fashion-conscious
The new 100% Omni rain poncho from Rainwave is the perfect way to make riding on a wet day a happy experience.
In stylish blue or brown animal print these are full length ponchos, complete with reflective stripe across the back, that pack down into a matching carry bag, ready to whip out in a rain emergency.
They're generously proportioned (one size fits all) and fit over your normal coat. The hood looks plenty big enough to tuck under or over a helmet, and the fabric is windproof and waterproof, but also breathable so you don't arrive at your destination wetter on the inside than the outside.
Unlike Dutch-style ponchos, this one doesn't cover the handlebars, but in this case it's a bit of a blessing, as you can sling it on when you're not on the bike as well. Cuff and waist straps stop it from flapping about when you're riding. The ponchos are £80 each.
For more information, visit Rainwave.
The perfect mascot - Eddy Merckx figurine
He's widely asserted to be one of, if not the greatest rider of all time, so there's really no better mascot for cyclists.
Here's a little curio - a vinyl figure, but definitely not a toy.
It's designed by Richard Mitchelson, based on his original 'Eddy' illustration for Rouleur Magazine.
This vinyl figure is 6 inches tall, and comes in a presentation box. Costs £35, so let's help it makes you ride faster too.
For more info, see Rouleur.
After an unpromising start, having to be bribed by her parents to learn to ride without stabilisers, Sarah became rather keener on cycling in her university years, and was eventually persuaded to upgrade to proper road cycling by the prospect of a shiny red Italian bike, which she promptly destroyed by trapping a pair of knickers in the rear derailleur. Sarah writes about about cycling every weekend on road.cc.


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