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Andrew Watt is head of unit for European economic policy and deputy director of the IMK. Here he answers 3 questions on economic policy in Europe and the independent Annual Growth Survey (iAGS).
iAGS stands for independent Annual Growth Survey. It is an annual report produced, since 2012, by the IMK alongside the OFCE, Paris, the ECLM Copenhagen and the AK, Vienna. It is commissioned by the Socialist and Democrats group in the European Parliament. The aim of the reports is to offer an alternative view on economic developments and economic policies in Europe to that provided by the European Commission in its Annual Growth Surveys.
No. Substantial progress has indeed been made since the nadir in 2012/13, both in terms of the economic situation and the institutional framework. The unemployment rate has fallen considerably and new institutions, such as the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure and a partial banking union have been established. However, the euro area is still far from having achieved stability. The scars of the crisis are deep and not yet fully healed. A renewed economic downturn or adverse political developments – such as a parliamentary majority for anti-euro parties in the Italian elections this spring – could quickly raise new and dangerous tensions. It is clear that much remains to be done to irrevocably put the euro on a stable footing.
There is no shortage of reform proposals for the common currency. The reform debate is complex, among other things because there are tensions between what makes sense in economic terms and what is politically feasible. In order to get one's bearings it can help to lift the perspective from individual proposals – an EU finance minister, a scheme for European unemployment insurance, or, from the liberal camp more "market discipline" for Member State public finances – and ask the question: what has to happen for all Member States to be lastingly convinced that the common currency is conducive to the wellbeing of their citizens? First the Euro Area as a whole needs to be kept on a path close to its supply-side potential. In other words monetary and fiscal policy must, working together, steer aggregate demand so as to avoid booms and, especially, damaging slumps. Secondly steps must be taken to ensure that competitive tensions and imbalances between the Member States are kept within limits. Different institutional set-ups can serve these two basic requirements. In my view such policy coordination cannot, though, be assured by asking and enabling the financial markets to sanction supposedly "irresponsible" budgetary policies at national level. That would be a recipe for even more instability. In the longer run a considerable deepening of economic policy integration between the Member States will be needed. A stable Euro cannot be achieved if each Member State sets economic policy according to its own whims and perceived interests. Chapter 3 of this year's iAGS report contains some ideas on how to move forward toward the needed deepening of integration.


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Let It All Out
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. ~Rita Schiano
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510 Summit Ave Jersey City NJ United States 07306
Sanai's Restaurant located at 510 Summit Ave Jersey City New Jersey owned by Terry Dehere
The Newkirk House, also known as the Summit House, located at 510 Summit Avenue is the oldest surviving structure in Jersey City. The two-story Dutch Colonial building, composed of sandstone, brick and clapboard dates back 1690, when it was known as the Blue Point Tavern. It was cited on a British army map drawn in 1781 for General Henry Clinton during the Revolutionary War. The building was constructed on nearly two acres of land granted by the English governor Philip Carteret to an Englishman, John Berry from Barbados in 1669, who in turn sold the site to Samuel Edsall, a "beaver marker" from Bergen, that same year. Mattheus Newkirk from Holland bought the property some time afterward, and remained in the family until it was sold in 1889. Newkirk family members were active in local politics--John and his son Jacob were both Hudson County freeholders; Jacob also served as a Jersey City alderman in the mid-nineteenth century. The building was used as an orphanage by the Queen's Daughters of Jersey City, and then by a succession of retail businesses. In 1928, the old Newkirk property line and building were changed when the present Summit Avenue was rerouted and the front of the building altered to accommodate the redesign of the street. In 1979 it was purchased and readapted by Coneco, Inc. to become a restaurant. During the renovation, it was revealed that the original structure was only one story. The outer walls are of two feet of stone fitted in lime and mortar. Beams of timber in the basement are six-by-twelve inches and those on the second floor are four-by-six inches spaced four-feet apart. Eight-inch wood pegs, rather than nails, were employed during the time of construction. Today the building is Sanai's Restaurant which is currently owned by L. Terry Dehere, former NBA Athlete, Vice President of the Jersey City School Board, and Community Activist.


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The good
With its versatile design you can use this fish finder in a variety of scenarios, and you will appreciate how easy it is to operate.
The compact receiver is designed to fit comfortably in your hand, and it comes with a liquid crystal icon display that is easy to read in most lighting.
You will appreciate its accuracy, along with its ability to detect fish in deep and shallow water.
All of the functions you need to have a successful fishing trip are included on the F33P from Hawkeye.
The bad
There are very few complaints about this fish finder, though one consumer did mention that the connecting cable can come loose in rough water. While this will affect the performance of the unit if the receiver is not connected to the transducer, this generally only happens in extremely rough water when it might not even be safe to be out fishing.
The verdict
One of the main advantages of this fish finder is its versatile design. You can choose to mount it on a boat or kayak, or simply toss the floating transducer into the water from the shore or off a pier. It is also that easy to use, after turning it on. The receiver comes with controls that are clearly marked so you can easily navigate through the menu and select the settings you need. As an added bonus this portable fish finder also comes with a convenient guide that will walk you through the simple setup steps.
The small receiver fits comfortably in your hand, and you will appreciate the easy to read display. It's compact size also makes it easy to carry, and it can even be stored in your pocket or with the rest of your gear. The liquid crystal display ensures that all of the sonar images are crisp and clear so you know exactly where to place your next cast. The screen is also polarized to prevent any annoying glare that can make it difficult to read in bright sunlight.
With the ability to detect targets in deep and shallow water you can easily go after a wide variety of fish, and since it updates the depth readings 4 times per second you don't have to worry about missing anything. It is accurate to the closest 1/10 of a foot, and is able to detect targets in depths ranging from 1 ½ feet down to 99.9 feet. This makes it easy for you to find larger game fish that are worth bragging.
All of the functions that you need to have a successful trip are included with this fish finder from Hawkeye. The sonar will transmit images of the bottom structure and contours, along with any fish swimming in the area. Beginners and experienced anglers will appreciate the "fish id" so they can easily distinguish between bait and game targets. The F33P will even display and mark the height of any weeds that might tangle your line when you are reeling in a fish.


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75Curlew Urban Towns is a new townhouse project by MTB Group and is currently in pre-construction. The new project will be located at 75 Curlew Drive in North York.
Seventy 5 Curlew Urban Towns will be a collection of 240 units of 2 bedrooms divided across 6 four storey blocks. The estimated completion date for 75Curlew Urban Towns is still unknown.
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Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman (2001)
Just to warn you, the following review may be a little biased as this book is the one I would rush to save if a fire broke out. I just adore everything about it.
Firstly, I think it is only fair to say that this novel and the consequent books in the series have become such a huge success because of the abilities of Malorie Blackman. There are an extraordinary amount of themes and morals being juggled throughout, but the novel is almost effortless to read. Young adult books tend to be full of anxieties about identity, romance and growing up, but Malorie adds other issues to these personal preoccupations within the novel. Sephy and Callum also have to manage these individual anxieties with social expectations and prejudices around race. The novel could very well have felt clumsy and like a tirade of moral debates, but the social commentary fits seamlessly within the plot.
Sephy and Callum are young teenagers and live in a world where black is right, and white is wrong. Callum and his family struggle to operate in a society where they are constantly undermined and denied opportunities because of their pale skin. Sephy is the daughter of politician Kamal Hadley and lives a seemingly luxurious life. As Sephy and Callum's worlds continue to intertwine, their feelings for each other become inevitably romantic. It becomes painfully obvious to the reader that their relationship will struggle to exist in society.
The novel is narrated in first person by both Sephy and Callum. Some very tender and emotional scenes are depicted brilliantly through this narration. At times Sephy and Callum become distant from each other but the narration doesn't the distance the reader and we can still access their most intimate thoughts. Whilst the novel is primarily focused on Sephy and Callum as individuals and as a couple, Blackman does not deny the reader of other complex characters. The story of Callum's sister Lynette is particularly heart wrenching and the depiction of Callum's brother Jude is painfully realistic. These characters actually become necessary for the reader to understand how complex the protagonists' worlds are.
Callum manages to pass exams which allow him to go to Heathcroft school where Sephy attends. Desperate to learn, Callum attempts to ignore the abuse he gets from the Crosses, but it becomes too much to bear and Callum begrudgingly decides to leave. One of the biggest forces within the novel is the Liberation Militia, which is a terrorist organisation set up and run by Noughts. This organisation sadly weaves its way into Callum's family and brings more tragedy into their world. In response to a family death, his brother and father, Jude and Ryan, are accused of setting off a bomb in a local shopping centre. Meanwhile, Sephy is battling her own personal demons with drink and feels she needs to get away in order to fully recover. She persuades her mother to let her go to boarding school, and leaves a letter for Callum to meet her if he still wishes to be with her. However, Callum does not see this in time.
It becomes a turning point in Sephy and Callum's relationship, and they do not see each other for many years. The circumstances as to how they meet again are tragic, but this is perhaps my favourite part of the novel. Whilst their relationship is explored through these life changing events, it is the moments of quiet intensity between them which are particularly evocative. Even though society and prejudices have tarnished both their lives, their love for one another and hope for equality is inspiring.
I have read this novel over 20 times (maybe more), and each time I finish Noughts and Crosses my heart aches. I cannot recommend this novel enough. It has become one of the most seminal novels of the YA genre and a review really cannot capture the skillful complexity, yet simplicity of this novel. All I have to say is get ready to never put this book down.
Pssst…There is a graphic novel version of Noughts and Crosses being released on 2nd July which I will also be reviewing.


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Ok. My computer crashed a couple of years ago that my cousin got for me. So i have started to try to reboot it again. It was loads until it gets to invalid system disk and I can't do anything. He never gave me a system disk or a reboot disk because he made it out of i guess spare parts. What is the system disk, and what can I do? I am completey lost, can somebody help??
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This is a card I created for Color Me Creations Challenge.
Our challenge is "sAnything Goes"
It is definitely my favorite kind of challenge ! LOL
I used this adorable image from Aurora Wings called
Skin: E000, E00, E11 and (E13 for high intensity)
Hair: C3, C5, C7, C9
Swing: E30, E33, E18 and E28
Dress/Shoes: C0, C1, C3
Background: BV000 BV00, C1, B21, CB and opaque white.
Marbleized and Smash
I am linking my card with the following wonderful challenges:
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Craftitude - Anything Goes or Corrugated paper
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High up, almost hidden in the shadows beyond the light from the lead-paned windows, wooden carvings of fishing boats at sea formed a frieze between the supports of the hammer-beam roof of the guild hall. Down the centre of the room ran a massive table of solid oak with high-backed chairs along either side. To one side stood a smaller table, with a design on top that reminded Maybourne vaguely of a backgammon board. There were even counters for players of the game. The room raised contradictory emotions in him. The architectural style was medieval, but the wood was light in colour instead of the black induced by age and smoky fires. On the lintel over the door were carved the letters MCIIIVII. Void of any clue as to when year zero was, the date lacked meaning. You had to go to Europe to find buildings of this nature, unless of course you were a millionaire and could ship over the real thing for reassembly in your own estates. On the walls hung tapestries which had a similar impact to the hall itself: old designs showing the exploits of gods and heroes, but with the colours bright and vivid rather than faded to dull shades of brown and blue.
He felt oddly out of place, caught between newness and a sense of age.
The guildmasters inspired the same mixture of feelings. Their crafts were antique: shipwright, leather-maker, silversmith, and so forth, but they were sharp-eyed and quick-witted in their dealings. It had taken him a week to get this appointment; outsiders were not normally welcome to speak at meetings.
As everyone took their seats, he ran mentally over his calculations. He'd had to make several educated guesses regarding the economy in addition to checking prices, but funding a small-scale trial shouldn't be beyond them, and the long-term pay-off could make them all rich. Half the problem would be trying to explain the concepts in a language that didn't even have a word for 'science'. When Heimdahl had offered to imprint the Svenska language on his brain he had accepted without hesitation, but the language had turned out to have its limitations. Sunlight had had the same offer, but he'd refused on her behalf; her brain was still developing - the risk might be minimal, but he didn't want to take it. She'd pick up the language soon enough; the problem there would be to ensure that she continued to learn English. She had a few local words already. Right now though, she sat quietly on a chair beside the doorway - close enough to be able to see him, but apart from the meeting. He'd taken great pains to convince her of the need to behave in front of these people.
Everyone was seated and waiting.
"We are exiles," he began, "refugees from Midgard, escapees from the destruction caused by the Ettins. My Goddaughter," he gestured to Sunlight in her pretty purple pinafore dress, "as you have doubtless recognised, is of the royal blood." There were a couple of nods around the table. Good, he'd caught that one correctly. Amazing what you could learn if you read enough National Geographics. Purple had been a rare, expensive colour until synthetic dyes came along. "Her father and mother fought the Ettins many times in battle, until they were defeated by treachery.
"We have fled here, to a world under the protection of the Aesir. We escaped with nothing more than we could carry. We have no weapons, no magics, but I have knowledge that will be of great use to you. However, it will take time and money to reproduce that information - I have no tools, no equipment; my books of knowledge were lost.
"But," he held up a volume of Shakespeare, "the books I still retain show proof of what I can do for you. I know how to print in such a way that each page does not have to be carved as a single woodblock. If I have the money and a skilled metal-worker, then I can build a machine to do this type of printing in a year or less. There is more, far more, ideas and concepts that will lead to enormous advances, but I won't deceive you - it will take a long time to reproduce them.
"In the case of printing, there are potential benefits to all of you. Imagine having the great legends available for everyone to read. Imagine books so cheap that you can hardly believe the price. Imagine having the knowledge of your crafts instantly available for those who wish to learn."
That gained him nothing but stony glares. Somehow, he'd goofed. How? Where? Was there a religious prohibition on printing stories of the gods?
"If the secrets of the crafts are available for all to know," one of them said, "then who will be willing to serve an apprenticeship?"
Ah, not religion, just good old-fashioned greed. Okay, hit them in the wallet.
"Forget trade secrets," he said hastily. "Just consider the money to be made from printing religious books. It currently costs seventy crowns for a scribe to copy the entire volume of legends by hand. It takes him most of a year to do a single volume. If I can print copies for one crown each, I can sell them for five crowns. By the time collating and binding are allowed for, I should be able to produce an average of a copy a day. That's three hundred and twelve copies a year at four crowns profit each, making an overall profit of one thousand, two hundred and forty-eight crowns. Now, if I-"
The master shipwright made a warding sign.
Now what!
"Karl," said the mayor, "does he deceive us?"
A man at the bottom of the long table rose and went over to the gaming table. "A copy each day at four crowns?" he said, laying counters on the table as he did so.
"That's just a rough estimate," Maybourne said. "It doesn't allow for holidays. I still don't know how many feast days you have in a year. How many are there?"
The mayor half-closed his eyes in concentration. "The blessing of the ships, the giving of the runes, harvest celebration... Thirteen in all."
"Okay, so that's three hundred and twelve minus eleven, which is three hundred and one. Multiply that by four and you get twelve hundred and four."
The mayor jerked back in his chair. "Sorceror!"
Sunlight pulled at Maybourne's hand. "Harry, what's wrong?"
He ignored her, had to to concentrate on the situation at hand.
"What did I say?"
An accusing finger pointed at him. "You cast account without even using the stones. By what kind of sorcery do you do that?"
"Wait. You're saying that arithmetic is magic? You can't do multiplication?" The date over the door had been in Roman numerals. Did they use proper numbers? The idea of trying to do any kind of math using Roman numbering was scary.
Karl looked up from his table. Not a gaming table, Maybourne's memory for the new language juggled words and finally came up with a term that had 'abacus' as its closest English equivalent, except that this device he remembered as a boy had had beads sliding on rods and this one involved a much slower movement of stones in columns. "His first calculation was correct," Karl said. "I am checking the second one."
He couldn't ignore her this time.
"Princess, I have to decide if it's safer to be a genius or a magician."
"You're a Grand Vizier."
"Okay, we'll go with magician." He switched rapidly back to Svenska. "That's nothing. I can do division as well." Did Karl look a trifle pale? He grabbed Teddy Blue, held it aloft. "I have a guardian spirit granted me by Heimdahl himself. It taught me everything to do with numbers. I can do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and..." his tongue tripped over the lack of an equivalent for 'quadratic equations' "...and numerology..." He smiled, enjoying the sudden sensation of power that came with the nervous looks of his listeners. Why stop at numerology? Let them fear you a little. He reached out his hands, spoke slowly and deliberately. "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
"That ensured that no evil spirits can enter this place until after the next blessing of the ships. Rest assured, my curses have similar power should I choose to use them."
Such a pleasure to see an attentive audience... Now appeal to greed, it's usually a reliable motive. "I'll do your accounts, keep your customers and suppliers from cheating you, for half of whatever Karl charges. And what's more, for a suitable fee, I'll even teach you how to do it for yourselves."
A race that does not use money should not be able to gamble, but the Asgard manage it anyway - they simply use different stakes. In a room aboard Bifrost, two of them relaxed surrounded by soothing microtones of grey highlighted by shifting patterns of ultraviolet dancing over the walls. Music of faint cymbals echoed in time with the tracing lights and notes of cedarwood completed the symphony.
Thor smiled gently. "I believe I said within ten days?"
"I removed all devices from him," Heimdahl said in frustration, even as he inclined his head to indicate the precise degree of political support that he would now owe Thor at the next meeting of the High Council. The music accepted his emotion, adding a hint of amber resin to the circulating air.
"Maybourne is adaptable, as are many of the Earth humans, and technology transfer is his stock in trade. He will introduce more changes before the year is out."
"But what of the treaty?"
"The treaty forbids us from artificially advancing the technology of the protected worlds. Maybourne is not Aesir and he went through the Gate at his own request, after having all technological items taken from him. I do not think there has been any violation. Indeed, in the eyes of the Goa'uld, the ideas that he brings with him may be so primitive as to be of no interest to them in any case."
Heimdahl's nostrils picked up a delicate floral scent: Thor had keyed another element to the symphony. "If the changes are of so little worth, why are you pleased?"
"Because they are critical. Earth has advanced beyond the Protected Worlds, because there are multiple cultures on the same planet. They take ideas from one another, develop and adapt them. As communications grow faster, technology accelerates. On Earth, positional arithmetic was developed by the Hindus, adopted by the Arabs and only slowly made its way over centuries into Europe. Most of their present day computers and mathematics would be impossible without it. The other change Maybourne will give them is movable type. Printing accelerates the spread of knowledge."
"But you could not be certain he would do this."
"I could not predict precisely what he would do. It might have been agricultural machinery or crop rotation with legumes - both would have increased the percentage of the population devoted to jobs other than raising food, which would also speed development. It might have been something else entirely. The only thing I could be certain of is that he is a man who seeks his own advantage; he will use anything that he has to ensure his own survival."
"Including the child?"
"What do you think?" Thor asked.
"That may be the one area in which he has a conscience."


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I just want to know....where does the time go? I am sure most of you feel the same way. Don't you remember when we were kids and time seemed to go by so slow? Then you get older and all you want it to do is have SOME time to catch up!
Okay, on to the purpose of this post. I was doing a bit of blog reading the other day and came across information on Purse Palooza, which started September 30th over at Sew Sweetness. There will be around 40 reviews of bag patterns during the event and I believe 20 giveaways! I have placed a button on the sidebar that will link you right to the page with all of the info. One of the reasons I mention this is that you can link up pictures of your own bag creations during the event, until November 11th. I have quite a few "work in progress" bags that need finishing, so I figure why not use this event to get me to actual finish them. I told myself that I was not allowed to start any new ones.....but I have to admit I am a little tempted since I bought the metal coin purse frame the other week at Finch Sewing Studio.
Now for the bags, I have two bags, both from Amy Butler's Style Stitches that I started a while ago.
I didn't get too terribly far on either of them, so I think I have my work cut out for me. The first is the Cosmo bag, which is featured on the front cover. I found some Heather Bailey home decorator weight fabric at Olde City Quilts one time. They usually have a great selection of sale fabrics at great prices. I didn't have a particular project in mind when I bought it, I just like it and the price! Then when visiting my aunt I saw she had made a Cosmo bag, which pretty much sealed the deal. I will be using the Heather Bailey home dec weight fabric on the outside and some of her quilting weight cotton fabric I had in my stash for the inside. I think that it will all look nice together, don't you?
For the second bag, I am going to finish up a Perfectly Pleated Clutch. I changed the shape of the clutch a little bit and I think I am going to change the strap as well, but not too sure. I actually stopped working on this project after I pleated the first side of the clutch and didn't really want to do the other side! Anyway, I am hoping to get both of them done before the deadline....we will see.
Then last but not least I have my cut out Datura blouse. I made a muslin this time, because I was told that the sizing was pretty precise. The muslin worked out and the size 38 was perfect without any changes...phew! So I cut the pieces from my real fabric, but I haven't had a chance to start sewing it yet. I am hoping I can get it done by tomorrow...but that might be wishful thinking again. Wish me luck, please!
This post is linked up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.
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"And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth…"
Luke 1:14
My daughter-in-law Manoela had asked about family videos. "I just want to see Kevin when he was a little boy, to hear his voice."
I looked inside the family room's closet. Where to begin? Twenty years of memories sat piled on the shelf in no particular order, not touched in as many years. I asked my husband Kurt to pick a couple, suggesting we share a tape or two during our upcoming family vacation. As Kurt grabbed cassette after cassette after cassette, I urged caution. "Kurt, too many! No one's going to want to spend that much time watching unedited family videos."
Ignoring my pleas, Kurt put every last tape into a sack. "I'll sort through them later."
Two nights later Kurt and I sat together with Kevin and Manoela and our son Kyle and his wife Katie in the living room of a rented condo. Attaching our older camera to a newer TV, Kurt loaded the first tape and clicked "Play." There on the screen were two little boys playing football in the snow, Kyle's shoulder pads dwarfing his six-year old frame, Kevin running with the abandon of a four-year old, laughter filling the frosty night air.
"Oh, Kurt…"
After the snow scenes came recordings of Kyle and Kevin playing hockey in the garage. Now my eyes began to water as Kevin giggled in sheer joy and Kyle smiled in sheer delight, both boys chasing a plastic baseball with hockey sticks meant for players twice their size.
"Oh, Kurt…"
Sounds of laughter. The giggles of two little boys touched my heart. The sounds of their laughter brought tears of joy. I'd forgotten those moments of childhood play when joy and gladness filled a room with silliness, when one little boy raced to keep up with his bigger brother.
An angel of the Lord announced the birth of John the Baptist, promising joy and gladness. Many would rejoice. The angel knew John would be part of God's great narrative. So, too, are we. So, too, are our children, their giggles and laughter reminders of great rejoicing.
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Karen Farris
What a wonderful reminder of joy, of life, of hope, and most of all of God's rich, abundant blessings found in our relationships with Him and with those we love.
Michol Phillips
I am now looking towards doing this exact same thing with our family. I am going to send our video over to be transferred to view! Thank you for reminding me of the bigger message of God's blessings and love!


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I have been gone for a while, I have been quite poorly again, but because of this, I have missed quite a lot including all the Halloween mani's I could have done and what would have been my first Polish Days, which I'm gutted about. I also missed out on this No H8 campaign which went out yesterday, I'm still posting about it though as it is something I am really strongly against.
Bullying is not funny. It is not cool. It is not right. And more importantly, it is not okay.
Most of us are, thankfully, residents of countries that support tolerance and many of our families have settled in these places simply for that reason. Generations later, it is our responsibility to perpetuate that message of tolerance across our new social platforms, including the Internet.
As members of the nail polish blogging community, we all share a love of beauty, colour, and lacquer. Other than that, we are remarkably different: from our race to our religion to our hair colour...even to our polish application techniques. To marginalize anyone because of those differences is completely unacceptable and today I take a stand against that. I refuse to allow other people's view of "normal" dictate how I behave, believe, and blog.
In solidarity with a multitude of bloggers linked below, my purple manicure represents my proud commitment to the No H8 movement. Today, November 8, I dedicate my post to ending bullying of any kind and to encouraging diversity and imperfection among our colourful community.
I was bullied as a child because of where I was from (Ireland), because of my body shape and how my face looked, because of what I wore and because I was relatively smart. Unfortunately, kids can be very mean and this can often lead to childhood depression, self harm and in some extreme cases teenage suicide.
Me and hubs make it very clear to our 6 year old that bullying is something we will not tolerate and that you treat people how you expect to be treated, and if there is someone who is more vulnerable than he is, then that is someone he needs to look after. But, sadly, in the world we live in, these types of chats with children either don't always have an effect or some parents don't even bother or care about how their children treat others, then this can carry on with them through adulthood and sometimes even increase in their animosity towards people.
I didn't do a purple mani to go with this because I have done a pretty epic mani for what would have been my first post back (which will be up in the next few days) and I don't want to take it off. So I am posting a previous purple swatch of Rimmel Marshmallow Heaven. the pic is terrible as it was when my camera was not functioning but the colour is delicious.
Head over to Eradicate H8 to find out more about this. There are loads of bloggers already involved but i coouldnt find the inklinkz code to add to the post. Sorry, i'm a bit of a dunce when it comes to these things. But you can check out Nailed It and Polly Polish, they are 2 bloggers that I read daily, who are both involved and both have the inklinkz thingy on there so you can add your link into the mix.
Look out for my next NOTD post, its a good 'un.


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Giles Hooper makes a good point in response to Anna Vignoles' batty idea that we should charge more for arts and social sciences than for science and engineering because employers value the latter more than the former (Letters, September 14).
But he muddies the main point: employers do not value science and engineering more than arts and social sciences, nor do they consider there to be a shortage of such graduates. If they did think this way, they would offer scientists and engineers higher starting salaries and better long-term career prospects. If pay and prospects were good enough, more teenagers would aim to enter these degree courses. It is as simple as that.
What big employers want is, chiefly, chartered accountants (or arts graduates who can be turned into accountants). This is obvious from the fact that they give them better starting salaries and prospects of promotion than scientists and engineers, even in engineering and science-based industries.
It is not the role of universities to distort the market by trying to induce young people to take one degree rather than another on the grounds of fees. This smacks of the failed central planning of the former socialist countries and would not work: the difference in fees would have to be huge to outweigh the difference in future earnings and career potential. Employers cannot buck the market: if they really want scientists and engineers then they will have to pay them properly and give them decent promotion prospects.
Richard Austen-Baker
Lancaster University Law School


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Hamilton Test: Williamson's ton puts Kiwis in command against Proteas
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Hamilton [New Zealand], Mar.27 (ANI): Skipper Kane Williamson struck a scorching unbeaten century as New Zealand reached 321-4 at stumps in their first innings on the Day Three of the third and the final Test against South Africa at Seddon Park here on Monday. Resuming at yesterday's score of 67-0, Williamson smashed 14 boundaries and three sixes in his unbeaten 148-run knock besides stitching a 190-run stand with Jeet Raval (88) to propel New Zealand ahead of the Proteas. It was also Williamson's 17th Test hundred, thus equaling Martin Crowe's New Zealand record. The skipper has taken ten innings less than Crowe, who smashed his 17th century in his 120th innings. Meanwhile, opener Tom Latham also struck half-century, including two boundaries. For South Africa, Morne Morkel and Kagiso Rabada bagged two wickets each. The home side, who have now taken a seven-run first-innings lead, will now aim to increase their lead when Williamson and Mitchell Santner (13*) resume the innings tomorrow.(ANI)


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Good news for all the food lovers out there! Here is come another type of salted egg dishes that is definitely going to rock your taste. Singapore has already known best as one of the best culinary attraction in Southeast Asia. A lot of people come to Singapore just to hunting some foods. Even though most people say that it isn't cheap to buy anything from Singapore, that does not mean you cannot find the cheap one in Singapore.
Besides Hainanese Chicken Rice, Singapore is also known to have another menu named salted egg chicken. Have you ever heard it ?, If not, then you might want to know some facts about Singaporean salted egg chicken.
From the dish name, we can tell that the main ingredient of this dish is salted egg. But now, some of you might be have the thinking that salted egg is not really a delicious taste to begin with. Moreover, it is too salty. So, why Singaporean salted egg chicken becomes one of the best food in Southeast Asia ?.
Well, even though the main ingredient is salted egg, Singapore serves this dish along with other ingredients that make Singaporean salted egg chicken become so tasteful and addictive. The taste itself, is not completely salty but it is also have a sweet flavour in the salted egg chicken. Furthermore, usually Singaporean salted egg chicken is served along with a plate of white rice, a fried egg and a sheet of lettuce. A simple dish, but delicious enough to tempt you.
The best option for you to enjoy such a salted egg chicken, is that you visit Singapore and go to one of the restaurants that serve Singaporean salted egg chicken. But of course, it is not easy as it said, isn't it? We cannot just go right away to Singapore now.
Therefore, while waiting for a chance for you to come and visit Singapore, it would be best for you to try a yummy recipes from this article so that you can enjoy your own Singaporean salted egg chicken. If you are ready to make one for yourselves, first thing that you need to do is to prepare all the ingredients. For the salted egg sauce, you will need :
Salted egg ingredients
- 6 cooked salted egg yolks
- 1 tsp garlic (crush it)
- ½ tsp ginger (crush it)
- 6-8 curry leaves
- 2 tbs cooking oil
- 2 chili padis
For the main ingredients, you'll need to prepare :
- 2 pieces of boneless chicken legs
- 1 egg
- 1 cup of cornstarch
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp sugar
Steps to cook
After you get all the ingredients, now you are ready to cook your own Singaporean salted egg chicken. These are the things that you need to do :
- Mash all the salted egg yolks well
- Heat up the cooking oil and put the salted egg yolks into it. Stir fry the mashed salted egg yolks until it becomes foamy.
- Add the garlic, ginger, curry leaves and the chili padis into the cooked mashed salted egg yolks. Stir fry it until it smells nice. Turn off the stove and let it be.
- Mix the sugar and the salt with the boneless chicken legs. Make sure that it mixed well and even. Let it be for 15 minutes to make all the seasonings soaked into the chicken.
- Stir the egg and mix it with the soaked chicken and the cornstarch.
- Heat up the cooking oil and start to fry the chicken. Deep fry the chicken until it gets golden brown. Remove the chicken from the oil and drain it until it dries.
- Heat up a pan, add the fried chicken and the salted egg yolk sauce into the pan. Stir it quickly to make all the fried chicken coated with the salted egg yolk sauce.
Your own Singaporean salted egg chicken is ready to eat!
So today, you get one more information about the best Singaporean cuisine. We serve you different ways so that you people would get a chance to enjoy a Singaporean salted egg chicken. It is better if once you go and visit Singapore, you come to one of the restaurants that serve Singaporean salted egg chicken.
But now you also have known how to cook Singaporean salted egg chicken yourselves. If you want to buy it in Singapore, the range price of Singaporean salted egg chicken would be $6.00! It is affordable price with such a tempting dish. So now, are you ready to try?


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Waverly School District Family,
At the request of The University of Houston Men's Basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, will be collecting tshirts and shoes for those in need. Coach Sampson issued a request on twitter to all coaches, High School and College, who reached out to help and he indicated these important needs. The WHS Student Body, led by Club leaders Ellie Whalen, Chase McAfee, Sylvia Davis, and Kalee Rhodes will be collecting any tshirts or pairs of shoes with some life left in them to donate. The items will be boxed up and mailed to the U of H on Friday afternoon where the Mens Basketball Team will deliver the items to local shelters and communities for adults and children in need. You may drop off the shoes and tshirts at the high school office or Mr. Johnson's classroom. The students would like to encourage everyone to donate Scottie or Viper tshirts, if possible. But any tshirt will be accepted!
Money donations will also be accepted to help pay for the shipping cost.
Let's do this!
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Rockies 6, Pirates 3
Talk about a productive pregame meeting.
Troy Tulowitzki hit a tiebreaking RBI single with two out in the
seventh inning and the Colorado Rockies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates
6-3 on Friday night to snap a seven-game road losing streak.
Rockies manager Jim Tracy had a 20-minute meeting with his
position players to discuss the team's lack of offense away from
Coors Field, and the lineup responded with 15 hits and by scoring
more than four runs in a road game for the first time since the
losing streak began.
"That was one of our better offensive games on the road this
year," Tracy said. "The approach taken by the entire lineup was
very, very impressive tonight.
"That's the type of offense we want to see as we move forward
through the remainder of the season. It was terrific."
Tulowitzki, Carlos Gonzalez and Clint Barmes each had three hits
for the Rockies, who have won six of eight overall as they fight to
stay in the National League playoff race. Jason Hammel pitches six
solid innings to win for the first time since July 10.
"It's a big help when the guys come through and score some runs
for me," Hammel said. "It allows you to make some mistakes, and
tonight I got away with a few. But it was a hitter's night
Rookie Pedro Alvarez hit a three-run homer for the last-place
Pirates, who have lost 11 of 15.
Hammel (8-6) allowed three runs and three hits. He was 0-3 with
a 5.33 ERA in his previous four starts.
Matt Belisle, Joe Beimel and Huston Street combined to finish
up, with Street earning his seventh save in eight
Gonzalez hit a two-out single and advanced to second on a wild
pitch before Tulowitzki's hit off Chan Ho Park (0-1) made it
Colorado added two more in the ninth. Dexter Fowler tripled and
scored on Gonzalez's sacrifice fly, and pinch-hitter Jason Giambi
added an RBI single.
Gonzalez has 24 homers, 74 RBIs, 72 runs, a .320 average and 15
steals to lead the Rockies in every major offensive category.
"He wasn't an All-Star, and that's a shame, isn't it?" Tracy
said. "As we continue to see what's unfolded since post-All-Star
break. But you know something, the numbers strongly suggest (MVP)
The Pirates tied it in the sixth. Jose Tabata hit a one-out
single and Neil Walker was hit by a pitch. After Garrett Jones
struck out, Alvarez hit a 2-0 pitch deep into the elevated seats in
right field.
It was Alvarez's second homer in three games and eighth since
July 3. He has nine overall.
"That got us right back into the game," manager John Russell
said. "We were being out-hit pretty substantially to that point,
and it seemed like it came out of nowhere. We came back and tied
it, and there was a lot of energy right there."
Gonzalez hit a solo drive in the first for his seventh homer in
his past nine games and No. 24 overall.
Tulowitzki went 3 for 5 and is 9 for 13 in his last three games.
He has a .488 career batting average (21 for 43) over 11 games in
Zach Duke allowed three runs and 10 hits in six innings for the
"The main thing is I didn't walk anybody and limited the damage
and got the outs when I needed to," Duke said. "Most of their
hits came with two outs and nobody on. I can take that."
NOTES: Fowler's triple was initially ruled a home run, but a
replay showed the ball hit off the top of the wall in center and
bounced back into play. … Park made his Pirates debut after being
claimed off waivers from the New York Yankees earlier this week. He
became the 25th pitcher the team has used this season, one off the
club record. … All but one of Alvarez's nine homers have come at
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In Cali, most of Orange County was not allowed to set off even sparklers for much of the last 2-3 decades. Here in Arizona, things are well, different.
Steve and I walked into Wal-Mart last week and the wall that was previously filled with sunscreens, pool toys and otter pop bags had been replaced with fireworks! We later read in the local freebie newspaper called In And Out that here in Anthem it was more than legal to buy these boxes and set them off from pretty much the third week of June.
The one caveat? After the 6th of July-no one better try setting one off.
Personally, I was all for going to our community center where our small town hosts a whole day of food trucks, carnival rides and games and pool time all culminating with a fireworks display around 9 p.m...
However, at the last moment (literally!) a monsoon blew into town and the display was cancelled. Don't know about the folks who wandered over to enjoy the rides and such.
I remember vividly being in the hospital for knee surgery when I was 14 and having one of the only other 2 teenagers there (the other was my roommate) come into my room-turns out it was his umpteenth surgery on his hand. The doctors were trying to save it from being mangled and burned during a July 4th celebration when one of those gun powder holders went off in that said hand.
He was only 17-couldn't understand the pull and allure then and I definitely don't understand it now.
Yes, fireworks are beautiful and create lots of "oohs" and "aahs" from all who watch them. And yes, if you add a background of patriotic music an appropriate amount of throat lumps will ensue. But I'm still all for letting those who are professionals set off these explosions a safe distance away from those who are looking up into the sky.
End of sermon.
Besides our country's birthday and celebration-it's my mom's 84th birthday! Another one where she is celebrating in one state while we are firmly rooted in another. It is what it is.
I can't quite say that I'm getting used to it. Probably never will be.
Steve is working July 4th, so is Adam. Sarah is taking Dylan for a long weekend (remember Aidan came with us to OC a month or so ago while Dylan stayed home sick) to the Bay area. What I'm hoping is that all the noise won't scare Lucky too much. She didn't enjoy all the popping sounds AT ALL last year.
Pepper's never really cared one way or the other. At nearly 10, I doubt it will bother him now.
My biggest hope for the holiday is that it WON'T be the expected 115 at dinner time and that perhaps we can plug in the misting fan and eat our BBQ under the stars. But with the looming gray skies and the threat of more wind and sideways rain, I think indoors will be best. Just hoping to get those ribs on the grill.
Here's hoping that everyone reading this will have a safe, safe and fun Independence Day.
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Just a day after Nirmala Sitharaman took the charge as Defence Minister, the Indian Army announced that it will recruit 800 women cadets as jawans (army police) for the first time in history of 1.3 million-strong Indian army!
The idea of recruiting women for 'non-officer' combat roles in Indian Army has been in pipeline since long, but it is now put into action – just a day after India's first full-time Defence Minister took charge of her duty. Indian Armed Forces is one of the strongest army with a manpower of 1.3 million soldiers – both men and women, but here too, men dominate in numbers with a ratio of 30:1. Women are often recruited in Indian Air Force and Indian Navy, but when it comes to land forces, only 3500 women are part of it and they were only recruited as 'army officers' rather than jawans – until now.
The Army has announced on Friday that women jawans would for now be recruited solely to the military police, starting with a batch of 800 to which 52 women jawans will be added every year. It is a big step in curbing the gender biases in armed forces and women will actually help in protecting the nation rather than just selected roles in medical, education, legal, signals and engineering wings, and only as officers. Women army police force will be deployed as army police and not for combat duties yet, but they can be helpful in tackling women protesters and CRPF posts.
This will be India's first step towards getting in line with other contemporary developed nations when it comes to roles of women in armed forces. It will also boost the aspiration and potential of women who are willing to work and fight for the nation – the offbeat tough women of India. It will be a huge step which will say buh-bye to gender biases and welcome the importance of strength, courage, aspiration and gut rather than gender. Jai Jawan!


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Winners of The Artist Contest 2014:
The Earl Haig Library Commons would like to extend a BIG thank you to all of the participants in this year's Artist Contest. It was a difficult decision to make between all of the artwork submitted, however after a long, thought-out process, we are pleased to announce our winners. Congratulations to Mandy Xiao, Jolie Wu, Vicky Wang, and Tina S. Toosi for their outstanding creativity and hard work! Please stay tuned for their beautiful artwork to be featured in the library early February.


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Do you AMSO? Part 2 – "M" is for Motivation
Think about the last time you found yourself shopping for clothes. Looking over the multi-colored business shirts at Joseph A. Banks last week, though I needed a shirt, I wasn't feeling that motivated to jump in and buy. Sensing my interest in the shirts, the saleswoman informed me about their current deal: three shirts for… Continue Reading ›


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This print is so fabulous! Based out of Hauppauge, New York, Scalamandré manufactures beautiful fabrics, trimmings, wall-coverings, furnishings and accessories. Franco Scalamandré (1898, Italy - 1988, New York) was co-founder of Scalamandré Inc. Fun fact: when Jacqueline Kennedy redecorrated The White House she required the reproduction of a magnificent 19th century silk. She commissioned Franco Scalamandré for the task. source
Today, the company is praised around the world for its quality, taste and style and can be found in just about every major design and home decor publication. Fun fact: this zebra print premiered in 1930s New York at Gino's restaurant on Lexington Avenue. Sadly Gino's closed its doors in 2010, but the restaurant's signature zebra print wallpaper lives on in chic homes and Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums. source


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The Priceless Inn, formerly Boston's of Tempe, was a cozy venue with wall-sized art, sofas, and a reasonably accommodating stage. Unfortunately, since it was across the street from Hollywood Alley and thus across the border between Mesa and Tempe, the Inn routinely had lower patronage. See, back before Smoke-Free Arizona in 2006-2007, Tempe had a smoking ban and Mesa did not. Guess what metal-fan bar-hoppers tend to like to do?
It's completely coincidental, of course, but it seemed like every single Priceless Inn show featured a disaster of some kind for our performance. For this show, it was the day before tax day, so attendance was very light. For my birthday show, my disastrous cover of "The Reason." For our next show in May, Jeff broke two strings and I broke one, all during the set. That's life in music, though.
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Band: Sonogasm
Date: 2004-04-14
Venue: Priceless Inn
Location: Tempe, AZ
Vocals, Bass: Mike Bahr
Guitars: Jeff Mink
Drums: Chuck Prime
Other act(s): Thousand-Yard Stare, the Todd Staples Project
1. 21 Months
2. After You Fell Asleep
3. Threads
4. Winter Moon
5. Luna
6. The Truth Will Set Me Free
7. Blue Instant
8. Schism (Tool)
We had to film this show from stage rear, since none of our family or girlfriends were on hand to run camera for us. The sound oscillates from muddy to overwhelming. An instructive show, but not one with any long-term nostalgia value. If our debut from this show, After You Fell Asleep, had gained any traction, this performance might have been more notable.
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Thursday, 27 January 2011
Generation 1: Chapter 1
"Hi, I'm AJ Houston, I'm new in town. What's your name?"
"Och hello dearie! I'm Rayna Kaminski but mostly people call me Aunty Ray so you can call me that too. New in town, are ye? It's always nice to see new faces around here. Where'd ye come from?"
"Oh, I came from Sunrise Springs. It takes a couple of hours to get there from here. Not that I'd really have any reason to go there..."
"Have ye no family up there, dear?"
"Oh, um, yeah, but I, uh, it's hard to explain."
"Ah, ye don't want teh tell me? That's fine, love. Any time you want a chat, come and find me."
"Thanks, um, Auntie Ray..." I stumbled over the name a bit, since she wasn't really my auntie.
"Bye, now!" With a wave of a wrinkly hand and a crinkly-eyed smile, she left the library.
How nice of her! I thought. If there's one thing I like, it's friendly locals.
Ahh, eating Autumn Salad on the toilet with not much of a roof over your head...it just seems so homely, doesn't it? After I had washed the dishes, I went to bed. I was going job-hunting tomorrow, and I needed to be in top form to get even the slightest sliver of a chance of getting a job. Good night!
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The Bank, Neilston Development Trust
84 Main Street
United Kingdom
Monday 23rd April, The Bank, Neilston Development Trust
10.30am or 2pm
Join us at our second Field Lab event with Locavore, where the focus will be on getting to know how soils can work for you with Horticultural expert Paul Flyn.
Over the next growing season, this Field Lab will be exploring ways to increase crop yields, improve soil health and reduce the need for weeding.
The growers at Left Field market garden will be experimenting with 7 trial beds of kale and a range of different methods, including planting through black plastic, undersowing with green manures, and intercropping with lettuce & radishes.
At this session Paul will give a presentation on key aspects of soil health & fertility, followed by a practical soil workshop at Left Field demonstrating simple ways that you can analyse your own soil. Join our Less Toil Better Soil facebook group for more regular updates.
Hot refreshments provided. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch and join us at The Bank for a chat over lunch between 1-2pm (after the morning workshop has finished or before the afternoon one starts).
Free to markets gardeners, growers, and farmers. Booking is required.
For more information contact Clem on 0131 666 2474 or email.
Funding for this activity is made available through the SRDP Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (which is jointly funded by the Scottish Government and the European Union), with partner funding from Quality Meat Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, Innovative Farmers and The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation.
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8. logo as a secondary or background element
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There is no company logo on the business card, as this is a business card for a freelancer.
The logo is the logo of the freelancer's website hence it's secondary importance in the design
On the backside of the business card, should be the logo and the URL ( [url removed, login to view] )
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Kinder Crossing (GNIS FID: 30760) is a populated place located in Coconino County at latitude 34.566 and longitude -111.143.
The elevation of Kinder Crossing is 6,440 feet. Kinder Crossing appears on the C.C. Cragin Reservoir U.S. Geological Survey Map. Coconino County is in the Mountain Time Zone (UTC -7 hours).
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Data Source - USGS GNIS FID: 30760
BOUNDARY MAPS: Flagstaff Division | Coconino County
Horse Crossing, AZ
(1.4 miles NNE)
Victorine Crossing, AZ (4.3 miles E)
Macks Crossing, AZ (4.5 miles NE)
Little Spring, AZ (5.3 miles WNW)
Lost Eden, AZ (8.1 miles NW)
Jones Crossing, AZ
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Wingfield, AZ (9.3 miles W)
Wiggins Crossing, AZ (9.5 miles ESE)
Clints Well, AZ (9.7 miles W)
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Offering a fitness centre, Ethereal Inn is set in Maafushi in the Kaafu Atoll Region, 26 km from Male City. All rooms include a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. You will find a kettle in the room. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom. Ethereal Inn features free WiFi . There is a 24-hour front desk at the property. The area is popular for snorkelling and diving. The nearest airport is Male International Airport, 27 km from the property....Read more
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Hutchins (GNIS FID: 1209686) is a populated place located within the Township of Sergeant, a minor civil division (MCD) of McKean County.
The elevation of Hutchins is 2,123 feet. Hutchins appears on the Mount Jewett U.S. Geological Survey Map. McKean County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
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Mount Jewett, PA
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How do you count words? Ashley Wagner discusses the question as part of our video on the number of words in the English language.
Definición de inspirado en Español:
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Que tiene o muestra inspiración (estímulo o lucidez repentina).
hoy no estoy muy inspirado; tuvo una locución inspirada
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Peter S. Lewicki, LL.B.; LL.M. (Taxation)
Practice Area Resume
1001 Fourth Avenue Building
Suite 4400
Seattle, Washington 98154-1192
(206) 749-0795
(206) 389-1078 (Fax)
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Practitioner is incorporated as Peter S. Lewicki, P.S.; in law practice since 1968, encompassing such diverse matters as choice of legal entity for a start-up business, advice to the entrepreneur, shareholder and partner dispute resolution, buy-outs, shareholder litigation, non-competition/non-solicitation matters, real estate problems, sale and merger of a business, employment agreements, tax controversies, estate planning, employment law including termination disputes, computer software and other intellectual property disputes, licensing and distribution agreements, international business relationships and agreements, and general business advice. Additional experience has been gained in the capacity as general corporate counsel and as a problem solver for a variety of businesses and corporate interrelationships over the years. I would like to be known as a problem solver who uses technical knowledge, intelligence and experience to untangle difficult problems in a cost efficient manner.
1. Attorney at Law in Practice for over 40 years
Peer rated in Martindale-Hubbell as Highest Rating: AV for having the highest ethical standards and legal ability. He frequesntly lectures in the field of taxation and business acquisitions.
2. Married, two children
3. Educational Background:
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. B.A. granted June, 1963.
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. LL.B. granted May, 1966.
New York University Graduate School of Law. Masters in Taxation. LL.M. (Taxation) granted May, 1972.
4. Professional Qualifications:
Attorney at Law - State of Washington (admitted 1970)
Attorney at Law - State of New York (admitted 1968)
5. Experience:
September, 1966 through September, 1969: Lieutenant, United States Coast Guard Reserve - Merchant Marine Safety (Marine investigator/lawyer). Stationed at Governors Island, New York
October, 1969 through August, 1971: Attorney - Ferguson & Burdell, Seattle, Washington.
August, 1972 through May, 1974: Attorney - Helsell, Fetterman, Martin, Todd & Hokanson, Seattle, Washington.
June, 1974 to July, 1981: Pease, Doces & Lewicki, Seattle, Washington.
July, 1981 to present: Peter S. Lewicki, P.S., Suite 4400 Safeco Plaza Building, 1001 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98154 -- 206•749-0795 and (206) 389-1708 (fax); e-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
6. Professional Societies:
Washington State Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
7. Public Service:
Trustee, Eastside Community Mental Health Center (1971 - 1976)
Director, Board of Directors, Mercer Island Boys and Girls Club (1986 -1990)
Adjunct Professor, Golden Gate University Tax Program, Seattle (1976-1996)
President: Pine Forest Homeowners Association (1991-94)
Board Member: Methow Valley Sports Trails Association
Winthrop, Washington (1994-1997)
Graduate of: Williams College (B.A. 1963); University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.B 1966); New York University Graduate School of Law (LL.M. Taxation 1972)
Awards: Most Distinguished Faculty Member-1987
Golden Gate University Tax Program-Seattle
Areas of Corporate, Estate Planning, Real Estate and Taxation,
Practice: Intellectual Property Matters
Business Acquisitions and Dispositions


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Latitude: 52.0033 / 52°0'11"N
Longitude: -2.3252 / 2°19'30"W
OS Eastings: 377770
OS Northings: 233926
OS Grid: SO777339
Mapcode National: GBR 0H0.6ZL
Mapcode Global: VH93J.NX34
Entry Name: Carpenter's Farmhouse
Listing Date: 17 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1078499
English Heritage Legacy ID: 125999
Location: Redmarley D'abitot, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, WR13
County: Gloucestershire
District: Forest of Dean
Civil Parish: Redmarley D'Abitot
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Redmarley d'Abitot St Bartholomew
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
6/180 Carpenter's Farmhouse
Farmhouse. C17, early to mid C19. Flemish-bond brick to front,
on ashlar plinth, brick-nogged timber-framing to rear, tiled roof.
Three-window front, one room deep; 2-bay rear wing at right
angles, both 2 storeys. Front: 6-panel front door up 2 stone
steps, set off centre to left; top 2 panels glazed, rest plain,
under open, single-storey, gabled porch, with timber posts.
Either side one 3-light casement window, each 8 panes, stone sill,
rendered lintel lined as voussoirs. First floor similar window
each side, with 2-light one above front door. Wide, plastered
soffit to eaves, hipped roof. External brick chimney left return,
lateral on right at rear of front section. Cellar door on right
return. Rear wing, 2-panel high framing per floor, wider set and
lighter on yard side, heavier on rear. Verandah, open front,
timber posts, to ground floor on yard side. Lean-to to gable not
of special interest.
Listing NGR: SO7777033926
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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1988 Grady-White Boats Trophy Pro Wildwood NJ in Wildwood, New Jersey
Type: Fishing boats
Fishing boats in New Jersey
View similar ads: Fishing boats, Fishing boats in New Jersey
Actual Location: Wildwood, NJ
- Stock #100304 - Nice Grady White Great Boat for Fishing and Family FunThe Grady-White 25 Trophy Pro has a long history of solid performance as all Grady-Whites do. The Trophy Pro design features an ample cockpit and a wider than normal walkway around the cabin allowing the angler to easily chase a fish forward or to go and work the anchor.Unsinkable. 223 gallons fuel. Three live wells.Huge fish ice box. Mounts for out riggers.The helm provides great visibility around the boat and all the controls are within easy reach. The owner has used this boat for offshore fishing and has treated the boat accordingly. All the navigation electronics in good shape and what is expected.A well powered boat with newer Twin 2004 Yamaha Saltwater Series II 200 HP Motors. Trophy Pros have enough flotation to keep the hull, engines and listed capacity of equipment and people from sinking if the boat should ever become completely swamped. Grady-White completely fills any hull voids with sprayed-in foam to provide the flotation, as well as to dampen sound and vibration. The solid fiberglass hull is completely hand-laid.The Trophy Pro is a very solid and well built boat that will safely take the family or friends on your successful fishing adventureThis is a brand new listing, just on the market this week. Please submit all reasonable offers.Reason for selling is bought another boatAt POP Yachts, we will always provide you with a TRUE representation of every vessel we market. We encourage all buyers to schedule a survey for an independent analysis. Any offer to purchase is ALWAYS subject to satisfactory survey results.Contact us for a free BoatHistoryReport.com report on this vessel. We pay upfront for a report on every vessel possible, and we provide this peace of mind to our buyers at no charge and with no commitment. All you have to do is ask!Take a look at ALL ***163 PICTURES*** of this vessel on our main website at POPYACHTS DOT COM. Thank you for visiting and we look forward to speaking with you!To view original photos and more detailed vessel specifications, please visit this listing on our main website at:https://www.popyachts.com/boats-for-sale/grady-white-trophy-pro-100304
Bimini Top (Hard Top); Porta-potty; Stereo
Mechanical Equipment:
Bottom Paint; Trim Tabs; Fuel Tank (2); Passenger Capacity (9); Windlass
Electronics & Navigation Gear:
Compass; Fish Finder; Radar; VHF
Electrical System:
Engine Kill Switch; Gauges; Hour Meter; Batteries (3); Fuel Gauge; 4 Switch Circuit Breaker; Battery Perko Switch (2)
Deck & Hull Equipment:
Anchor; Bait Station; Bait Well; Boat Cover; Cockpit Lighting; Eisenglass; Fish Boxes (3); Isinglass; Live Well; Porto Potti; Rocket Launchers (5); Rod Holders (8); Swim Ladder; Swim Platform; Bilge Pump; Navigation Lights
Additional Equipment:
The boat shows it has been well used for it age. There is some light oxidation in the gel coat that is expected of a boat of this age. The anchor platform has numerous cracks in the finish. There are some cracks in the side cushions around stern.
Pulpit gas leak at the top of the Auxiliary Gas Tank (73 Gal)
Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Type: Other
Quantity: 2
Beam: 9 ft. 6 in.
Fuel tank capacity: 223
Water tank capacity: 15
Speed max: 35
Actual Location: Wildwood, NJ - Stock #100304 - If you are in the market for a walkaround, look no further than this...
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Actual Location: Wildwood, NJ - Stock #111512 - This listing is new to market. Any reasonable offer may be accepted....
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1989, GRADY WHITE, Walk Around, HARD TOP, TROPHY PRO, Sport fisherman, 25', Fiberglass, Just DETAILED, Broker Boat,...
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Backloads interstate from Melbourne to Newcastle
Moving Again is a top level removalist service provider for transporting items from Melbourne to Newcastle. We have removal trucks departing Melbourne daily. Our clients have their belongings moved with the utmost care and ensure that every possible precautions are used to ensure that there our customers items receive no damage whilst in transit to Newcastle.
Move using removalists with the best equipment
We have readily available all removal tools to handle all of your requirements. All ready to use at an incredibly fair rate so you know you'll get a good deal. We ensure that all we do is at an affordable cost to our customers so the cost of moving is not something that they need to stress about, we all know moving can be a bit of a stressful experience even when using a qualified removal company, so we do all we can to make sure that every part of the move runs easily where we are involved. Let us work out how your furniture will arrive at your new place, you just worry about the other parts of your move from Melbourne to Newcastle.
Moving is stressful, leave it to the experts.
Relocating your family and personal items to a new place is a huge task. There are so many aspects to plan and too many areas you need to keep your focus on. The actual moving of your personal items is a big part to deal with, but one that you should be handing over to a qualified and specialist removalist team, such as us. Heavy furniture is difficult to shift and without proper care you could easily damage your old or new home, or possibly yourself when trying to transport large furniture without the proper equipment or training that only comes with being a removalist for so long.
Moving Again is a genuine company who take care of their customers.
Here at Moving Again we pride ourselves on being honest and genuine with our customers. W always ensure that in every area that we can have an impact on your move, that we make it a positive one. We strive to provide our clients a service they would be happy to suggest to their friends. .
We've always got a job to be done in in Melbourne. We have actually got a collection happening in Melbourne sometime later this week. Our drivers are constantly moving in and out of Melbourne, so they will know all the streets and how to get around to any house around your area. You don't even have to be ready, we are able to arrange another removal truck to come and collect your belongings sometime next week, or in a couple weeks. Let us know when you need us to collect.
Here is where we will be making our next collection, maybe you'll see us on the road sometime soon.
Moving with Moving again won't break the bank!
We strive to provide our clients with an affordable and reasonable price, without compromising on the quality of the service we provide. Far too many of our competition charge utterly ridiculous prices and do not have anywhere near a high enough standard of service to back it up. .
We're here to answer you questions, fire away.
Each and every customer has a bunch of questions to ask, it comes with the job and we expect it. We're waiting for you to either give us a call, or shoot us an email with all the questions you have, because we know they'll be coming. The problem is that almost every customer asks at least a few of the exact same questions, so we have made an FAQ to list all our highly asked questions, so then hopefully some of our clients can easily find the answers without taking the time to write it all out in an email to us. faq
Need storage for a few weeks? Check out some local storage units.
Pretty often when relocating, a customer of ours may be needing their goods to be stored for some time. Often this is the case if their new house needs some renovations, or the property has not settled. If you might be in need of storage as well as your removal from Melbourne to Newcastle why not look into one of the many self storage facilities near your destination. https://www.globalselfstorage.com.au
Get the best quote from the start. Don't waste your valuable time.
With the way everyone works today, most people get a dozen quotes before booking in a service, we know the reason, we even believe its beneficial. Although we're also aware that entering a dozen quote forms online is a massive pain. So we have been talking to as many customers as we can over our time as furniture removalists to try to understand what makes a quote form easy and simple to use. We believe we've built a quote form that is as easy as it can be for our customers to fill out, all while supplying us all the information necessary for us to accurately price your move. If you haven't got your relocation price yet, you should get started now. backload quote.
Started packing? Or need to arrange prepacking?
Have you started packing up your belongings for your removal from Melbourne to Newcastle ? Well if you have not yet begun and you're wanting to be relocating soon, then you really should begin with packing your belongings. Packing up all your personal items is a part of the move that almost everyone seems to think will be a simple and quick job. However it is almost never the truth. Packing your belongings is one part of the move that just sucks too much time away from more important issues. It's for this reason that we offer our pre packing service available to our customers. Let us worry about packing the boxes for you, we are much quicker, and know how to pack all your items to significantly help reduce damage to your belongings. We use only top quality removal cartons and the best wrapping materials for our prepacking services, so you don't need to worry about how well your personal belongings will be packed for moving.
Got a move that is a little odd? No problem!
When it comes to moving furniture, there are many different services that our clients require, and most of the time we have the ability to help with any moving scenario, like the below:
- Backloading
- Wooden Crates
- Placing Household/ Office Goods in Correct Rooms / Areas
- Packing Boxes & Packing Materials – Full Packing Service!
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Don't book with a removalist who will make you wait. We're always available.
There are many advantages in planning your removal from Melbourne to Newcastle with us, is that we have constantly got the ability to pick up your belongings. Our fleet of removal trucks is so well managed that we have a truck available for collection anywhere in Australia, as long as we are given a couple of days notice. This means situations where other removalists have been unreliable or last minute moves a breeze for us. We are able to get your items from Melbourne within a couple days, and then they would be moving on their way to Newcastle. Some removalists make you wait weeks or days to be able to get your furniture picked up, with us we can get your items collected straight away.
We have got a delivery booked in Newcastle in the next few days. We're just holding off until the customers new home settles, then we can deliver. We are moving people in and out of Newcastle at least once a week, often more. It all comes down to customer demand. If you need us to go to Newcastle then we will go there, no problem at all.
If you are at all interested, here is where we are going to be doing our next delivery in Newcastle maybe you will see us on the road!
Thought about your moving insurance? You should!
Another part of relocating that you need to think about is your moving insurance. Moving, even when done by highly skilful and well trained removal team can still run into various problems. which is why we strongly recommend all of out customers to take out insurance. We do anything we can with every customer we move to make sure that the moving insurance does not need to be used, but if for no other purpose, it gives our customers with peace of mind. It is normally a useful tool to assist in destressing you about your move. We will obviously do all we can to avoid ever needing the moving insurance policy, but in our experience it is always better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. Moving Insurance
Moving Again is the way to go!
When you look at everything we do for our customers, all the ways we strive to make relocating from Melbourne to Newcastle so much easier for you, what reason would you have to book your move elsewhere. Moving Again is the company you need to book your move from Melbourne to Newcastle in with. We're experts at relocating your furniture around Australia, we've been moving people around Australia for longer than we would like to let on, but the point of it all is we are truthfully one of the best teams available for your move without costing you a fortune to get it done. Hopefully you're now locked on moving through us, you will need to start the process by getting a quotation, which can be done here. backload quote. Otherwise we're excited to begin speaking to you and planning your removal from Melbourne to Newcastle.


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Category Archives: Gender, the Body, and the Self
Discrimination Against Overweight Applicants at Google?
Google has been talked about as a company that takes extremely good care of it's employees, but this story paints a less than great picture of discriminatory hiring practices at the company. A woman faces discrimination on the grounds of being female, a minority, or a mother in hiring practices, and also because they are heavier. Hiring employees should not take weight, sexual orientation, or motherhood into effect, so why can't we amend equal opportunity policies to include those groups and actually enforce the policies?
Female Mutilation
There is an issue of women's body parts being removed. We have women adding body parts, we have women taking body parts away here in America by way of plastic surgery. However, in some parts of the world, it's not such a rosy picture. Some women have their clitoris removed. Some do it willingly not understanding how it will affect them later in life, some don't do it willingly. Some say this is violence against women, some say this is a religious/ cultural belief in certain parts of the world and that it should be respected. It is still changing your body in some way that is not natural and is not what or how you were born.
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If male circumcision were as painful as what these women endure and if it affected men more, I somehow wonder if the issue would be stamped out more quickly?
Women More Generous Givers than Men
According to a recent study by the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the University of Indiana, women are as much as 40% more likely to donate than men.the study found that a female-headed household with a family income of at least $103,000 is likely to give to charities, on average, nearly $1,910, or $1,000 more a year than a similar household in which a man controls the checkbook.Women were 55% more likely donors to international causes than men, 42% more likely to religious organizations, and 32% more likely to youth and family groups. Image and Article From: Time
Who's in charge of your body image?
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Often times women have negative feelings about their bodies, but is that because they don't like their bodies or could it be that they feel others don't like their bodies and that makes them feel shame? According to this study women maybe content with their body but often time are put down by people they hold important.
The most powerful influence on women's appreciation of their bodies is how they believe important others view them, the study suggests. On the flip side, the more women are able to focus on the inner workings of their body — or how their bodies function and feel — rather than how they appear to others, the more they will appreciate their own bodies.
And the more a woman appreciates her body, the more likely she is to eat intuitively — responding to physical feelings of hunger and fullness rather than emotions or the mere presence of food.
"Women who focus more on how their bodies function and less on how they appear to others are going to have a healthier, more positive body image and a tendency to eat according to their bodies' needs rather than according to what society dictates," said Tracy Tylka, associate professor of psychology at Ohio State University and senior author of the study.
Sending Mom to the Chop Shop
Sending Mom to the Chop Shop
"Breast augmentations increased 55% from 2000 to 2006, going from 212,500 procedures to 329,326. Breast lifts — another favorite among the mommy makeover crowd — went up 96% during the past six years, with the total number of procedures going from 52,836 to 103,788. Tummy tucks jumped a whopping 4,384% and buttock lifts increased 174%." For more on this article click link below.
A major trend is the "Mommy Make Over" and to me it is sad that so many women (myself included) are asshamed of their bodies after such a wonderful and life chaning event as childbirth. Having my son was the bet thing that I ever did and I have the strech marks and tummy to prove it. Why should the aftermath of such a wonderful event be embarrising? What is causing these increases in the "Mommy Make Over"? The images that we are bombarded with via media are so unrealistic that it's almost comical if it wasn't such a serious topic. In many countries the signs that a woman has had a child is an honor. Why can't it be here and what can we do to fix it?
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U.N. Backs Gay Rights
In this historic decision, the U.N. has decided for the first time in history to back gay rights. While the support does not bring any established laws for the protection/rights of the GLBT community yet, the importance of this step towards equality cannot be denied. "It also established a formal U.N. process to document human rights abuses against gays, including discriminatory laws and acts of violence". While I feel that Americans are slowly but surely developing a more tolerant attitude toward these alternate lifestyles, it is also important to realize that countries banding together in support of gay rights will also put needed pressure on less accepting countries.
The 1st Video Vixen
I remember watching this video in my psychology class at PV and thought it would be a great contribute to this project. This video is about a woman who was treated like a freak because of the way she was built physically. I believe everyone should watch it because the way women present themselves now is just a result of the image in society. Women shouldn't have to show off their bodies just to make money and some women are stooping to this level. I think this would be informative not just to BLACK women but to ALL women.
Tig Ol' Bitties (Really!!!!)
As I was searching for a video for my topic this week, I opened youtube and found the enclose youtube video posted on the MAIN page! As I watched the video and listened to the music and viewed the images, I was totally shocked and appalled. It is any wonder that PLASTIC SURGEONS have hit PAY dirt in recent years with breast enhancements. I am a woman in my thirties who gives in to the societal and cultural beliefs we have about how women's bodies should look, however, I have managed to skate past issues related to my breast size. I would much prefer to take five thousand dollars and travel to a third world country than go under the knife to surgically modify my body. So, I guess in some respects, I have managed to be "o.k." with this area of my body. I can't help but think of how videos such as this might impact the younger generation who are trying to find their place in this world.
In honor of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, the actress-turned-lifestyle guru has dedicated this week's GOOP to a serious discussion about homosexuality and the Bible. But first, she explains her own views.
The actress admits that she doesn't really understand the idea of homosexuality being morally wrong.
"When my daughter came home from school one day saying that a classmate had two mommies," she recalls, "my response was, 'Two mommies? How lucky is she?!' What does it actually say in the bible that will cause some people to be upset by my line of thinking?"
I think that this post is wonderful because Gwyneth Paltrow just voices her opinion and I love her perspective. I agree that it would be a very lucky child to have two mothers, they wouldn't need for nourishment or love, and would get all the attention they need. I can understand how it is believed that a two parent household is better, yet what the saying actually means is that a man and women, the mother and father, household is better, and I don't necessarily agree with that statement. Children don't need a man and a women, they need love and care, and a safe place to call home. It shouldn't matter whether or not the household is a man-women household, a two father household, or a two mother household, they can each sufficiently raise a child.
Beauty Before Brains
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When well-respected news-show host Greta Van Susteren moved from CNN to Fox in early 2002, she not only had a makeover; she surgically altered her face to appear younger and more "beautiful." When her new show, On the Record, premiered, her hair was perfectly coiffed and she sat behind a table so viewers could see her short skirt and legs.
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Many believed that Greta Van Susteren's role as an intelligent television journalist, illustrated progression for women. It was her brains, which made her so successful and not her appearance. This was until Van Susteren made her transition to Fox, where she appeared to have a younger looking face due to cosmetic surgery. Analyst, Robin Gerber concluded that Van Susteren "has become a painful reminder of women's inequality… Being smart, smarter, smartest isn't enough. By trying to become just another pretty face, Van Susteren instead became another cultural casualty." In a sense I do agree with Gerber's statement concerning Van Susteren's surgery. She gave hope to women that beauty is not everything and that her appearance did not contribute to her position in power. Some can say that with her having this elective surgery, she has fed into this idea of what the media considers culturally acceptable for a women's appearance.


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The main tourist office in Leeds, which is one of the UK's busiest, is to move from its railway station home of 20 years.
Leeds Visitor Centre, which sees 2,000 people pass through it daily, will close at Leeds City Station tonight (Jan 30) and reopen in the cafe and gift shop of Leeds Art Gallery on Monday in a bid to save over £100,000 a year.
The centre's rental agreement was up for renewal and rates at the site were expected to increase significantly.
Leeds City Council bosses say that the move will also see Visit Leeds maintain a "mobile presence" at the station and elsewhere, and will make the service more "agile and flexible" as the authority bids to save £76million this year.
Coun Lucinda Yeadon, the council's lead for culture, said: "What we are trying to do is ensure there is a sustainable service being delivered in the financial context we are in, and also in the context that people are changing the way that they access information."
She said it would "be reasonable" to suggest that usage of the facility is expected to reduce, while its staffing will lessen due to retirements. No staff will be made redundant.
Critics had accused the council of moving the facility to a "desk under the stairs" at the gallery, suggesting the move would be counterproductive amid a tourism boom after the 2014 Tour de France.
But council bosses say only a fifth of Leeds visitors come through the station, while online visits to the Visit Leeds website have rocketed from 137,000 to 1.1m since 2010.
The council's director of city development Martin Farrington added: "We're providing more information to more people but just not in the same way."