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BJP today slammed Congress for fielding suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's wife against Narendra Modi, saying the party stood "exposed" by using Bhatt as a "major pawn" for sponsoring a hate campaign to defame Gujarat.
"Congress is exposed thoroughly today. In the last 10 years, they carried out a hate campaign...They defamed Gujarat to the hilt. And Sanjiv Bhatt became a major pawn in the hands of Congress," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
By fielding Bhatt's wife Shweta in the Gujarat assembly polls, he said, "It is clear today which forces are working behind Sanjiv Bhatt, after his wife became a Congress candidate."
Javadekar said whatever Bhatt did in last 10 years, the "whole architect, script writers and directors were the Congress".
"It was Congress-sponsored hate campaign to defame Gujarat and Gujarati voters will definitely teach a bitter lesson to Congress," he said.
Shweta Bhatt today announced in Ahmedabad that she will contest the state Assembly elections on a Congress ticket against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from Maninagar constituency in the city.
"Yes, I will be fighting against Modi from Maninagar on a Congress ticket," she said, adding that she will be filing her nomination papers shortly.
Sanjiv Bhatt, in an affidavit in the Supreme Court last year, had alleged complicity on the part of Modi in the 2002 riots. He also deposed against Modi before the Nanavati Commission, probing the riots.
Bhatt, who was the Principal, SRP Training School, was later suspended by the state government.


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Bank of America Lending Consultant - Malden in Malden, Massachusetts
Job Description:
The FC Lending Consultant is a role that consists of training and mentoring program with the LC graduating to a mortgage loan officer position upon successful completion of the program. The Lending Consultant (LC) will generate a minimum 70% of their mortgage sales goals by managing the end-to-end consumer mortgage referral requests that originate within assigned Financial Centers. Additional sources of revenue to meet 100% of mortgage sales goals may be developed through self-sourcing from relationships with local realtors and/or builders. The LC will successfully complete pre-assigned training activities, achieve personal production goals, and coach Financial Center associates on best practice referral strategies. The LC will have the ability to originate Bank products.
This position is subject to SAFE Act registration requirements . Pursuant to the SAFE Act requirements, all employees engaged in residential loan mortgage originations must register with the federal registry system and remain in good standing. Since your position requires SAFE Act registration, you will be required to register and to submit to the required SAFE Act background check and registration process. Failure to obtain and/or maintain SAFE Act registration may result in your immediate termination.
Required Skills
Ability to analyze and comprehend complex financial data and recommend appropriate financial solutions
Provides exceptional customer service at all stages of the process
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3 years sales experience
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Introduction to the General References and Guides
| General References and Guides
This article is part of a series.
|Introduction to the General References and Guides
|Overview of Databases and Indexes
|Database and Index Types
|List of Specific Databases and Indexes
|Library Catalogs
|List of Useful Finding Aid References
This article originally appeared in "General References and Guides" by Kory L. Meyerink, MLS, AG, FUGA in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
A genealogist researching a family history or pedigree faces mountains of records that may contain some reference to the family or ancestor of interest. This series focuses on the major finding aids that enable genealogical researchers to tap these vast resources faster and more efficiently. The finding aids covered in this series include databases, which are compiled collections of genealogical information; indexes, which identify where in a record or set of records information can be found about an individual; catalogs, which help determine where records are; bibliographies that identify records; and directories of organizations and other researchers. A growing number of these finding aids are now accessible electronically, and that availability will also be discussed.
Databases and indexes, especially in the last decade, have become essential tools in genealogical research. In fact, with the ongoing information explosion and the increased availability of earlier records, databases and indexes are the best tools with which genealogists can search large collections of records successfully. Indeed, the explosion of published sources in the past two decades, with the attendant increase of indexes and other finding aids, means that this series can only be an overview of the key kinds of finding aids, with the introduction of some specific examples. For more detailed information on the materials introduced here, as well as an extensive discussion of published versions of most kinds of genealogical records, see the Ancestry companion volume, Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records.
Databases, indexes, and other finding aids are perhaps the most important sources genealogists use. They provide access to information that may previously have been difficult, if not impossible, to search. Computer technology makes indexing simultaneously more feasible and more necessary.
How can genealogists learn about new tools and indexes? Involvement with colleagues in professional societies and local genealogy societies is important. So are regular surveys of major genealogical periodicals and those in your area of interest.
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The joy of saying-I'm back again!
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Hello all! Yes, the chatty one (me!) has returned! I see new profiles here-new friends to meet, and of course my old buddies too. I would love to know what has been happening in the past-is it two years? Since I was here last. What has everybody been up to?
After my stressful-yet enjoyable-studies, I spent some quiet time, and discovered another love-writing. I have managed to write and publish a book-the first of many, I hope. KINdred Spirits was published August 15, 2017. However, I won't quit my day job! It was something I've always dreamed of accomplishing, and I was very lucky enough to be able to do it.


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Last week, we told you that the founder of The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman, was looking for a way to purchase Nikola Tesla's old tower and make it into a museum. In just one week, his $850,000 fundraising goal has been reached and exceeded. Wow!
The property is on the market for $1.6 million, and New York State agreed to match a donation up to $850,000. Donations reached $873,000, so now they can afford to purchase and preserve the tower. The group still needs at least an additional $5 million to turn it into a full fledged museum.
This goal got a boost from Tesla's Elon Musk and a last minute donation of $33,000 from a generous patron.
During the week, 20,000 people have donated and the drive has generated an average of $145,000 per day.
There are 39 days left. Keep donating.


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An event every day that begins at 11:00 AM, repeating until September 1, 2019
Get discounted tickets this summer to the National Museum of American Illustration! Bring your family and friends out to the National Museum of American Illustration to discover art that reflects the country's culture. Discover through the self-guided tour with an audio guide of the American Imagist Collection, which also features the second-largest Norman Rockwell painting collection.
Find your cheap tickets here to visit the National Museum of American Illustration! These tickets are available daily through September 1. This is the perfect opportunity to fully immerse yourself in America's visual history for less money. You'll also enjoy seeing the largest collection of original paintings by J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, and more. Everyone will love the variety of oil paintings and artifacts that highlight Howard Pyle's work. In addition, this admission ticket also includes access to the Frederick Law Olmsted Park and Arboretum! Be sure to check their website for daily visiting hours.


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text: Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was… (more)


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Opportunities for growth are everywhere ... but sometimes we choose not to recognize them.
We hear a lot of talk about the power of positive thinking, benefits of thinking positive, and the quest toward having a positive attitude. But what does it really mean in practice?
"Positive thinking" can be defined as making a choice to focus on the bright side of a given situation ... or, put another way, to see the cup as half full rather than half empty. Positive-thinking people dwell on the agreeable aspects of any situation. They minimize the unfavorable aspects and maximize the favorable components. Positive-thinking people often say things like, "At least we can be thankful that ..." or "We can deal with that by ..." In contrast, negative-thinking people tend to dwell on the unfavorable aspects of a situation. They may have trouble moving on from a setback and identifying and pursuing solutions.
Opportunities for growth are everywhere ... but sometimes we choose not to recognize them.


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Fusible necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
We're launching a brand new third-party application service for Twitter users on Tweetups.com. The website is aimed at being the world's largest network of Twitter groups who love to meet up face-to-face across the globe.
Our target audience is everyone on Twitter.
- Artwork must be original, and must not infringe on "look and fee" of other third party twitter applications
- Logo in black & white
- Logo in color
- Web 2.0 "Look and Feel", simple, bold, big text. Strong colors that draw the eye, and that would look great on a t-shirt
- Fully layered PSD file
- Do not use a bird in the logo and don't use Twitter logo colors. We don't want to be thought of as a Twitter site or confused with the Twitter logo. We want to be our own independent brand. It must be unique
- We'd like the logo with text only, but another version to see how it looks with people in or around the logo to help illustrate the social aspect of a tweetup
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Back in the 1920s and 1930s, when most black women worked as domestics, scrub ladies and washerwomen, one young black woman born in 1895 in Washington, D.C. would spend her life on the world political and cultural stage.
It wasn't all beer and skittles, however, when her lawyer father died young and her mother had to work as a beautician.
But that didn't stop the daughter, Eslanda Cardozo Goode, from making acquaintance with a wide variety of world leaders.
"Blacks" like Jomo Kenyatta and Patrice Lumumba. "Browns" like Jawaharal Nehru and Indiria Ghandi and a bevy of "white" leftists like Emma Goldman and Max Eastman.
Eslanda starred in movies, wrote plays, novels and magazine articles and stood up against racism, colonialism, anti-Semitism. She traveled to 40 countries crossed the ocean 30 times.
She also suffered the slings and arrows of the Joe McCarthy witch hunt. You don't hear much about her these days, only about her husband, Paul Robeson, with whom she was married for 44 years.
Read all about her in "Eslanda," by Barbara Ransby (Yale University Pr, n.p.).
Wisconsin's treatment of the insane has probably received as much notice as more populous states.
Back in the 1970s Michael Lesey wrote "Wisconsin Death Trip," which purported to explain the late 19th century economic crisis that overtook our country by examining Black River Falls and environs.
BRF natives didn't take kindly to many of the assertions, nor, as a neighbor, did I. But one set of facts still sticks with me.
When a Yankee tradesman went broke, in most cases, he committed suicide. But when a Norwegian-American farmer went belly up, he usually was sent to Mendota.
There's a new book out from the University of Iowa Press, "The Best Specimen of a Tyrant," by Thomas Doherty ($20 paper).
After reading it, I came to the conclusion that the Yankees probably made the right decision. Because one Yankee in this meticulously written history chose the mental hospital route.
He was a preacher, Romulus Oscar Kellogg, and he was insane. His brother committed him to Wisconsin's first mental hospital in 1865 and he didn't get out of it alive.
The rest of the book is devoted to the institution's first supervisor, one Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand, whose life would make one fabulous movie -- think of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Award-winning Minnesota poet Kate Hallett Dayton is out with a new book of poems from Nodin Press ($16, paper). "Salt Heart" deals with basic elements of life, including salt:
"'She's the salt
of the earth,' some say, hard
working, unpretentious.
Not the same as a Salty Dog,
an experienced sailor
or a libidinous man.
In the mission movie
prepubescent girls
marry old men, carry babies,
salt sweat streaming down
their stomachs and backs
and a little boy,
belly distended,
stands in the light
of an open door,
refrigerator empty.
The body needs salt
to tighten muscles,
especially the heart."
Dave Wood is a past-vice president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.


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Sarno, Lucio; Schneider, Poul; Wagner, Christian (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study the properties of foreign exchange risk premiums that can explain the forward bias puzzle, de¯ned as the tendency of high-interest rate currencies to ap- preciate rather than depreciate. These risk premiums arise endogenously from the no-arbitrage condition relating the term structure of interest rates and exchange rates. Estimating a±ne (multi-currency) term structure models reveals a noticeable tradeo® between matching depreciation rates and accuracy in pricing bonds. Risk premiums implied by our global a±ne model generate unbiased predictions for cur- rency excess returns and are closely related to global risk aversion, the business cycle, and traditional exchange rate fundamentals. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9098
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Hockerts, Kai (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Over the past decade product service systems (PSS) study has established itself as a research field. Most recently scholars have occupied themselves with the design and implementation of product service systems, which they posit help reduce environmental and economic inefficiencies. However, extant literature leaves open the question why such inefficiencies exist in the first place. This paper proposes opportunistic behaviour, bounded rationality, and asymmetric information as possible explanations for the existence of the inefficiencies discussed by PSS scholars. It continues by exploring five types of property rights and the role they can play in increasing eco-efficiency. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7123
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Abstract: We argue that the property rights perspective, as developed by economists such as Coase, Alchian, Demsetz and Barzel, is uniquely positioned to inform and further the understanding of competitive strategy. This is because of its consistent focus on the capture and protection of property rights as a main explanatory principle; a principle that we argue may also be usefully applied to the study of firm strategy. In our view, all firms trade resources spent on capture and protection off against value creation. Strategizing concerns changing the tradeoff to the advantage of the firm by identifying and influencing impediments to value creation. We use these insights to derive a number of refutable propositions, and argue that key insights from both industrial organization economics and the resource-based view are consistent with the property rights perspective. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6866
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Investigating formal and informal CSR practices and the views of managers and workers in SME garment companies in South AfricaJeppesen, Søren; Kothuis, Bas (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The article seeks to contribute to the SMEs and CSR literature in developing countries by providing; a) a 'Southern' SME perspective, which includes the voices of managers and workers, b) a perspective of CSR, which opens up to informal CSR practices that SMEs undertake, and c) an analysis of the key institutional issues affecting the CSR practices of SMEs. It presents perceptions of CSR practices among 21 SMEs in the garment industry in South Africa, based on 40 interviews with managers and 19 interviews with workers through the use of qualitative and quantitative interview frameworks. It highlights a high degree of similarities between managers and workers, though knowledge of (cognitive level) the concept 'CSR' differ considerably. Informal practices are widespread and of key importance to the SMEs, expressed by managers and workers alike. History, industry and manager-workers relations are found to be important factors in explaining the CSR perceptions and level of practices. It is suggested that future research investigate the role of informal practices further and explore the role of institutional theory. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9083
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Del 2: Arkitekternes perspektiv og erfaringerKreiner, Kristian; Gorm, Majken Merete (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7985
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Del 1: Bygherrernes perspektiv og erfaringerKreiner, Kristian; Gorm, Majken Merete (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
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Theory and ExamplesClemmensen, Torkil (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this chapter, I will review current approaches to online sociability and present and exemplify a psychological theory, the Social Reality theory, of online sociability. By analyzing sociability in a virtual world based university course, I will present and analyze examples on how to understand the students' design of the conditions for sociability as communication about cultural symbols, such as avatars and virtual landscapes, and the social reality of perceived groups of people. The analysis results will be used to illustrate different kinds of online sociability: superficial, convivial, and negative sociability. The chapter suggests solutions and recommendations to designers and researchers with a focus on online communities and networked communication. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6440
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Abstract: We consider a model of commercial television market, where private broadcasters coexist with a public television broadcaster. Assuming that the public TV station follows a policy of Ramsey pricing whereas the private stations are profit maximizers, we consider the equilibria in this market and compare with a situation where the public station is privatized and acts as another private TV broadcaster. A closer scrutiny of the market for commercial television leads to a distinction between target rating points, which are the prime unit of account in TV advertising, and net coverage, which is the final goal of advertisers. Working with net coverage as the fundamental concept, we exploit the models of competition between public and private price and quantity in order to show that privatization of the public TV station entails a welfare loss and results in TV advertising becoming more expensive. Keywords: TV broadcasting, imperfect competition, Ramsey pricing, welfare comparison. JEL classification: L11, L82, L33 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7501
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The art of creating sociality. Key note presentation at the conference: Entrepreneurial Societies and the English-speaking World: Cultures, Contexts, Perspectives, Paris, September 16-18th, University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3.Hjorth, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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Economic and political rationalityZinner Henriksen, Helle; Mahnke, Volker; Meiland Hansen, Jens (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture capital backed innovation. JEL Classification: D82, G24, G28, H24. Keywords: venture capital bank finance, matching, moral hazard, public policy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7658
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Abstract: In recent years, venture capital has become an important source for nancing young entrepreneurial rms. Given the apparently more innovative nature and extra value added of venture capital backed rms compared to other firms, policy makers have taken an increasing interest in an active venture capital industry. We explore how selected policy instruments determine the incentives of individuals to start up new rms and of venture capitalists to nance and advise them, and how policy thereby influences the size and nature of the industry and how it aspects aggregate welfare. We examine the impact of wage and corporate income taxes as well as capital gains taxes and start-up capital subsidies on the volume and quality of venture capital backed entrepreneurship. JEL-Classi cation: D82, G24, H24, H25 Keywords: Entrepreneurship, venture capital, double moral hazard, taxes, sub-sidies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7569
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The Case of NemID in DenmarkMedaglia, Rony; Hedman, Jonas; Eaton, Ben (Honolulu, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Governments envisioning large-scale national egovernment policies increasingly draw on collaboration with private actors, yet the relationship between dynamics and outcomes of public-private partnership (PPP) is still unclear. The involvement of the banking sector in the emergence of a national electronic identification (e-ID) in Denmark is a case in point. Drawing on an analysis of primary and secondary data, we adopt the theoretical lens of collective action to investigate how transformations over time in the convergence of interests, the interdependence of resources, and the alignment of governance models between government and the banking sector shaped the emergence of the Danish national e-ID. We propose a process model to conceptualize paths towards the emergence of public-private collaboration for digital information infrastructure – a common good. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9430
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An international analysis - from a legal and economic perspectiveAndersen, Henrik; Cao, Fuguo; Tvarnø, Christina D.; Wang, Ping (Nottingham, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This book provides a legal, economic and policy analysis of Public Private Partnerships. It is designed as a text for students at university level, but also for lawyers, procurement officials and policy-makers. The book consists of an EU, a WTO and a Chinese legal perspective. As explained on the cover page, the book was prepared as a part of a collaborative project in higher education, the EU Asia Inter University Network for Teaching and Research in Public Procurement Regulation 2009-2011, funded by the EU. This project involved several universities in Europe and Asia and has sought to promote and support the teaching of public procurement in Europe, Asia and globally. This text is one of five books produced under the auspices of the project that are designed to be used as resources in the teaching of public procurement law and regulation. The main editors and chapter authors are listed below, but it should be recognised that the text is a collaborative effort of all the partners to the extent that it has benefited from input by, and discussions between, many different persons at the different partner institutions. In addition to the authors and editor mentioned below, the text has benefited from editing and proof reading by Laura Graham at the University of Nottingham and text assistance from Marie Pade Andersen , Cecilie Voss and Kim Jørgensen at Copenhagen Business School whose assistance the project would like to acknowledge gratefully. The contents of the book are up to date as of August 2010. It has also been possible to include later developments in some parts of the book. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8422
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Meaning and PracticeWeihe, Guri (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Offentlige forvaltninger verden over har været præget af voldsomme reformbølger de seneste 20-30 år, og den private sektor er i stigende grad blevet inddraget i den offentlige serviceproduktion. Privatiseringer og udliciteringer kendetegnede således forvaltningspolitikken i mange vestlige lande op gennem 1980erne og 1990erne. De mange reformtiltag er i forvaltningslitteraturen kendt under betegnelsen New Public Management. En af de senere udviklinger i den moderne forvaltningshistorie er fremkomsten af offentlig-private partnerskaber (OPP). OPP har i dag fået en lignende udbredelse som de tidligere privatiserings- og udliciteringstendenser. De fleste vestlige landeforvaltninger har således forsøgt sig med OPP, og i forvaltningslitteraturen har antallet af publiceringer om emnet været hastigvoksende de seneste cirka 10 år. Trods den store udbredelse, i såvel teori som praksis, skorter der imidlertid med klassifikationer, endsige definitioner af OPP begrebet. Denne afhandling har to centrale formål. Det ene er at afdække OPP begrebets mangetydige betydninger. Det gøres ved at kortlægge hvordan begrebet bliver anvendt i den internationale forvaltningslitteratur. Analysen viser at begrebets grænser er slørede, og at betegnelsen OPP bliver anvendt om en mangfoldighed af offentlig-private samarbejdsformer dækkende over uformaliserede netværksbaserede relationer såvel som stærkt formaliserede kontraktstrukturer. På baggrund af analysen inddeles forvaltningslitteraturen i en række strømninger. Dermed skabes et overblik over feltet som ikke eksisterede forud for analysen. Denne del af analysen munder endvidere ud i en ny måde at klassificere og definere forskellige typer OPP på. OPP er et relativt ungt forskningsfelt. En markant barriere for udviklingen af feltet har været manglen på anerkendte klassificeringer/definitioner. Begrebsdefinitioner er en forudsætning for teoriudvikling. Ved at afdække OPP begrebets mangetydige betydninger, og ved at udvikle nye måder at klassificere og definere OPP på bidrager denne analyse væsentligt til den fremtidige teoriudvikling om OPP. Afhandlingens andet formål er at afdække hvad der kendetegner samarbejdsrelationerne i idriftsatte OPP-projekter. Det er en udbredt opfattelse blandt praktikere såvel som forskere at OPP bebuder noget kvalitativt nyt relativt til de fordums tiders privatiseringer og udliciteringer. Der findes således en udbredt teoretisk diskurs om at OPP indebærer tætte og tillidsbaserede samarbejdsrelationer, dialog og fokus på processer frem for output. På trods af sådanne udbredte forventninger og antagelser om samarbejdsformens karakter, så er der forbavsende få systematiske empiriske studier af hvordan samarbejdsrelationerne ser ud i praksis. Ved empirisk at kortlægge samarbejdets karakter i fem britiske OPP-projekter udfylder afhandlingen derfor et vigtigt hul i den internationale forvaltningslitteratur. Analysen bidrager til litteraturen på to centrale måder. Den viser, for det første, at forventningerne om kvalitativt anderledes samarbejdsrelationer ikke bliver indfriet i flertallet af de analyserede cases. Det forventede skift fra hierarkiske, kontrolorienterede principal-agent relationer mod fladere, tillidsbaserede principalprincipal relationer ses ikke i praksis. For det andet ses der dog alligevel stor variation i den måde hvorpå samarbejdet udmønter sig i de forskellige cases. Den ene case udviser således mange af de førnævnte samarbejdskarakteristika som typisk bliver kædet sammen med OPP. Analyseresultatet peger på, at samarbejdsrelationernes kan udmøntes væsensforskelligt indenfor den samme type kontraktstrukturer. Dette peger videre på, at formelle strukturer kun giver en begrænset indsigt i samarbejdets karakter. For at få en dybere forståelse af OPP, er det derfor nødvendigt at gå bagom kontrakten og analysere hvordan samarbejdsformen udspiller sig i praksis. Der identificeres endvidere en sammenhæng mellem samarbejdspraksis og partnerskabsperformance. De cases som involverer de mest tillidsbaserede og tætte relationer ser samtidig ud til at være de cases, der præsterer bedst. Analyseresultaterne har implikationer for OPP litteraturen og ledelsesmæssige implikationer. For det første giver resultaterne anledning til at revidere den eksisterende teoretiske diskurs om OPP. Der er en tendens i litteraturen til at forbinde bestemte samarbejdsstrukturer med bestemte typer samarbejdsprocesser. Resultaterne her indikerer at disse to dimensioner ikke følger hinanden. Dernæst peger resultaterne på at ressourcer og ledelsesmæssig opmærksomhed med fordel kan rettes mod de løbende samarbejdsprocesser, da dette kan få betydning for samarbejdets udfald. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7734
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Addressing a Nebulous ConceptWeihe, Guri (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: There is a great deal of confusion about the meaning of the concept public-private partnership (PPP). Much is written on the subject but only rarely do authors give an adequate account of what they mean when they talk about PPP, nor do they acknowledge that there exist qualitatively different PPP research traditions. The lack of conceptual clarity leads to false statements about PPP, since what is true for one specific PPP-type does not necessarily apply to other forms of PPP. This paper reviews the literature on PPP and argues that there exist at least five distinct approaches in the burgeoning PPP literature with different origins and that it is vital for analytical clarity that authors place themselves within one of these traditions when doing research on PPP. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7348
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An Embedded, Comparative Case Study of Municipal Waste Management in England And DenmarkDam, Sofie (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD concerns the potentials and challenges for conducting innovation in public-private partnerships (PPPs) towards the objective of transforming municipal waste management towards more sustainable systems. In recent years, local authorities have been met with intensified demands from the EU and national governments to change existing waste management systems from solutions based on disposal and recovery towards more recycling and prevention and at the same time deliver more efficient waste management services through the inclusion of private businesses. These two demands may to some degree be mutually supportive, but may also lead to challenges in the prioritization and development of new solutions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9169
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With Comparative and Multi-level Case Studies from Denmark and IrelandHelby Petersen, Ole (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD dissertation studies national similarities and differences in policy and regulation of public-private partnerships (PPPs), with an empirical focus on Denmark and Ireland. The starting point and motivation for the study is the observation that whereas PPPs are often depicted in the academic literature and in policy practice as a globally disseminated governance scheme, in reality, a closer examination of the PPP reform landscape reveals significant differences in national governments' PPP policy and regulation and in the amount of actually implemented PPP projects. By comparing the initiatives taken by the Irish government, which has embraced PPPs, with those of the Danish government, which has been a PPP sceptic, this study inquires into the fundamental questions as to how, why and to what consequences some governments have developed widespread policy and regulation frameworks to support the implementation of PPPs, whereas others have been much more reluctant. The dissertation addressed four research questions: (i) what are the key actors, strategies and institutions that create policies and regulations for the formation of PPPs?; (ii) how did governments' PPP policies and regulations develop over time, and how can their similarities and differences be explained?; (iii) how do differing national policy and regulation frameworks serve to facilitate or hinder the formation of PPPs, exemplified by four case studies from the schools sector?; (iv) what framework conditions does the EU set for PPP initiatives at national and sub-national levels? The main aim of the dissertation is to study how and why national PPP policy and regulation frameworks developed over time. At the national government level, the study thus contains both diachronic and synchronic analysis. Furthermore, in line with previous research within what has been called the governance approach within PPP studies, policy and regulation are also seen as constitutive elements that tap into and set the general framework conditions and institutional 'rules of the game' for the realisation of concrete PPP projects. The comparative interest at the central government level is thus supplemented by an analysis (a) of the interplay between decisions about policy and regulation at the national level and the formation of concrete PPP projects, and (b) of the EU's role in regulating decisions about PPPs at national level and in relation to the formation of concrete PPP schemes. A main finding is that whereas academic PPP literature often portrays governments' rationales for resorting to PPPs in terms of achieving innovation, collaborative advantage, value-for-money, new market possibilities, improved risk sharing etc., the findings brought to the fore in this dissertation suggest that a primary objective indeed was to remove major public infrastructure investments from governments' balance sheets, and thereby reduce the pressure on public capital budgets and provide more infrastructure than would otherwise be possible. However, as the off balance sheet rationale has been shown to be largely false, because there is always a bill to pay in the long term, this raise a number of broader legitimacy and accountability issues, which the present PPP policy and regulation frameworks of governments do not seem to adequately address. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9114
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Written by: Collins-Penniman
Recorded: 7 September 1963
Producer: Bernie Andrews
Released: 30 November 1994 (UK), 5 December 1994 (US)
Paul McCartney: vocals, bass
John Lennon: rhythm guitar
George Harrison: lead guitar
Ringo Starr: drums
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On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2
The Beatles recorded Little Richard's 1957 hit Lucille twice for BBC radio.
The song was first released in February 1957, and became an international hit for Little Richard. It was co-written by blues musician Albert Collins.
The Beatles shared a bill with Little Richard at the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, Wallasey, on 12 October 1962, and again at Liverpool's Empire Theatre on 28 October. He also performed alongside the group at Hamburg's Star-Club in November 1962, during the group's fourth trip to Germany.
We used to stand backstage at Hamburg's Star-Club and watch Little Richard play. Or he used to sit and talk. He used to read from the Bible backstage and just to hear him talk we'd sit round and listen. It was Brian Epstein that brought him to Hamburg. I still love him and he's one of the greatest.
They performed it one more time for the radio, on 7 September. This version, recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, London for the Saturday Club programme, was first broadcast on 5 October, and was later included on the Live At The BBC collection.
I could do Little Richard's voice, which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing, it's like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it. You have to actually go outside yourself. It's a funny little trick and when you find it, it's very interesting. A lot of people were fans of Little Richard so I used to sing his stuff.
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
The Beatles recorded Lucille twice during the Get Back sessions in early 1969, at London's Twickenham Film Studios. They played the song on 3 January, the second day of filmed rehearsals, and again four days later.
Lucille, baby do your sister's will
Lucille, baby do your sister's will
Well you ran off and married
But I love you still
Lucille, baby satisfy my soul
Lucille, baby satisfy my soul
Well you know I love you baby
I'll never let you go
Well I woke up this morning
Lucille was not in sight
I asked her friends about her
But all their lips were tight
Lucille, please come back where you belong
Well I'm talking to you baby
I'll never do you wrong
Well Lucille, baby do your sister's will
Ooh Lucille, yeah baby do your sister's will
Well you ran off and married
But I love you still


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Politics & Government
Data sought on how veterans fare as civilians
Joint Base Lewis-McChord and the state of Washington have been pouring resources into new programs to help veterans find steady work over the past few years, and now officials want to know if the efforts are paying off.
The state has established goals to deliver 5 percent of state contracts to veteran-owned businesses, hire veterans in state agencies and increase college retention among recent veterans.
But data is hard to come by, officials told Gov. Jay Inslee Tuesday at a quarterly meeting of the Washington Military Transition Council.
It's a common problem across the Defense Department. In April, the federal Government Accountability Office published a report on military transition programs that cited cutting-edge programs at JBLM. But it found little data across the country on how military service members fared in the civilian world, even six months after leaving uniform.
Instead, military bases were only able to show data regarding how often troops used their programs.
Inslee was speaking to a group he created last year that calls on military and civilian agencies to collaborate on reducing unemployment among veterans. It aspires to help military service members find a job as soon as they separate from the Armed Forces and to connect them with better-paying work.
"This is where the real work is done to honor our people," Inslee said. "What we're doing may not be as eloquent as the Gettysburg Address, but it's where we really honor our veterans."
Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs Director Lourdes Alvarado-Ramos said her agency is working on collecting data on veteran-owned businesses receiving state contracts. A representative from the state Office of Financial Management is updating statistics on veterans in the state workforce.
But there's no easy solution for tracking private sector data.
More than 11,000 veterans are expected to leave the military out of Washington state installations each year through 2016 as the Defense Department carries out a postwar drawdown.
JBLM is home to innovative programs preparing troops for civilian work. There's one that trains them for jobs at Microsoft, another in the heating and air conditioning industry. Officials are working on programs to train troops for retail management and other fields, as well.
Over the past year, more than 4,200 troops at JBLM took advantage of programs that let them visit job fairs, businesses and colleges during their final months of military service.
"Other states are trying to replicate the kinds of success we're having," JBLM base Commander Col. Charles Hodges told the council Tuesday.
In the past year, the Legislature passed a law offering immediate in-state tuition at public universities to veterans who move here. Lawmakers passed another law prodding schools to offer more credit for military experience.
Inslee floated the idea Tuesday of persuading government agencies and federal contractors to commit to setting employment targets for veterans.
"Veterans really ought to have some sort of leg up, given who they are," he said.


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JumpforOpportunity necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 25 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
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Opportunity International is organizing a fundraising event called Jump for Opportunity. Our goal for the Jump for Opportunity event is to recruit young entrepreneurs to raise money for Opportunity International by going out of their comfort zone, and jumping 14,000 feet.
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We are looking for a really innovative logo that combines the fundamentals of Opportunity's mission with the idea of young people going skydiving to benefit those around the world. If possible, we would like to have Opportunity International's logo incorporated (the globe). However, we also want it to be something separate and distinct that captures attention and makes it look like a really dynamic event.
We definitely want the words Jump for Opportunity included with the logo, with Jump and Opportunity in bold. We would also like to use the tagline, "Defying Gravity".
The Opportunity International logo files are attached if you would like to use them to work off of.
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I had a MAJOR thrill yesterday. While perusing (read *stalking*)my daily blog faves, I saw that my secret agent crush was into women's fiction. Everyday is different, of course, but yesterday she was feeling women's fiction. Yeehaw! I quickly pulled up my query which I have been ripping on and rebuilding for e v e r, and sent it off with a note…"saw your blog, love your blog, got some WF for you!!" Secret agent crush zips me back a …."send it over," and I lose it. Frozen, I don't want to blow it. I hooked the funnest agent in NYC with a query *pat on my back here* but I was terrified to send it. Then, God intervened as he so often does when I'm in in spazzy mode. A heavy rain because a lightning storm extravaganza and deluge. Then whoo went the wind and out went the lights. Right. I was giddy. I had time to think. It was out of my hands. No power, no web.
When the power was back up I had enough sense to open and reread my entire manuscript. Its been a while since I set it aside and so I saw it with fresh eyes. Who can trust their eyes though, really? So, I sent it over chapter by chapter to the Word Whisperer. I think that I may have caused her brain damage when I called to warn her because the lightning zapped her phone and shocked the crap out of her ear. Can she hear me now? Not sure, but that woman can read.
We were up until after 1am, wrangling loose commas and finding errant misspells, the occasionally missing 'a' or 'the.' Over all, the manuscript looked great, made me laugh, and it is ready to go to secret agent crush today…as soon as I freak out over the synopsis a little more.
Are my little *read HUGE* attacks really procrastination? Statistically speaking, my rejection is only a click away. Or, am I being prudent? After all, I don't want to get a quick rejection because I didn't take my own advice and properly prepare. Well, either way, today is the day and my second full manuscript is headed to its appropriate (hopefully perfect) agent contact.
Here we go!


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Writing a book is no small feat and you should be proud of yourself for all the hard work you've done. The next step is to let the world know about your story and where they can find it. A good press release can be just the thing to spread the word quickly and generate some buzz around your work. But what makes for a great press release? These 10 tips should help.
Know Your Audience and Stick to the Facts: Most press releases will be read by a journalist. They aren't interested in being sold something or helping you drive visitors to your product page. The best way to increase the likelihood that your release will be picked up is to do as much of the work for the journalist as possible. Provide interesting facts, numbers, statistics from analysts, or quotes from yourself or your readers. Do your research and include it in the release – anything you can do to provide unique, interesting information will increase your release's credibility and its chances of being picked up.
Write in Third-Person: A press release is always written in third person because you are announcing news to a fresh audience and need to make the subject of your release as clear as possible.
Say Who or What in the First Line: Journalists are very very busy and receive tons of releases everyday. A good release should be able to get your point across within the first paragraph because most journalists only have time to read that far. It isn't always possible, but if you can mention the subject of your story within the first sentence, better yet, the first word of your press release, you can immediately set an expectation for what the release is about and if it is relevant to the reader.
Keep It Simple: Try to focus on one main point throughout your release – otherwise you risk confusing your reader. A great press release should make the journalist want to call you to learn more, not scratch their heads halfway through. A good rule of thumb to help is to keep your release down to one page and around 300 – 500 words.
Call to Action: Every release needs to finish with a call to action. In many cases, with a book release, the call to action would be along the lines of: "Jim Brown's book, The Greatest Book Ever, is available at www.lulu.com." Or, "To learn more, visit www.lulu.com." Without a call to action, readers will finish your release and say: "Ok, now what?"
Avoid Buzzwords: A journalist is interested in finding the story in your release so they can write their own. Buzzwords like "innovative," "breakthrough," "revolutionary," are all an immediate turn-off to a journalist. They are more interested in the facts that can back claims like this up.
Boilerplate: Every press release has a short, two to five sentence paragraph at the bottom called a "boilerplate." This is a high-level summary about the press release's subject material. For an author, think of it as a brief bio about yourself to give a journalist more information if they need it. Items like how long you've been writing, where you've been featured, where readers can find your work, awards and accolades, etc. are all good things to mention in a boilerplate and establish yourself as a reputable source.
Think of a Catchy, Thought Provoking Title and Subheading: I list this close to the bottom because a great press release title should summarize the content of the release in one line. A clever title can often be just the thing to catch a reader's eye. If you can't think of anything catchy, then try to highlight the most interesting, exciting news from the body of the release. You don't have to use subheadings, but they can be a great way to give just a little more detail about your release upfront. This should be complimentary to your title, and aim to further hook the journalist into reading further.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Think of keywords associated with your work and the audience you want to reach. Good SEO can help drive your release up further in search results on sites like Google and Yahoo!. Simply including keywords relevant to your subject will increase your release's visibility.
Sending It Out: There are many ways to send out a press release. I recommend a wire service like PRWeb or GlobeNewswire. Services like this typically charge a one-time fee that lets you use their distribution lists and will let you optimize your release in multiple formats such as a PDF, HTML, or plain text to ensure you reach the most readers. However, you may have your own list of contacts too. Emailing a release to a journalist is fine, but remember, you don't like to be spammed and they certainly don't. Emailing a journalist multiple times, addressing them by the wrong name, or sending them content that isn't relevant to their field of coverage is a sure way to get yourself blacklisted from ever getting coverage from them.
Now that you're ready to tell the world your story, feel free to use the handy press release template below. Just copy and paste the layout into a document and plug in your own information. Note the "###" at the bottom. This indicates the end of the release. Also, if you mention Lulu, please be sure to include this line at the end of your boilerplate: "The views and opinions expressed in this press release do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Lulu.com or its affiliates." For more examples, also check out the Lulu press center.
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Don't Do Show N Tells
Fund: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Posted by Anonymous on 2007-05-13
If asked to send your slides in without a meeting -- refuse. Make it very clear that the ONLY reason for a meeting is to invest in your deal "as is." Don't do show-n-tells; often KP meets with people with no intention of investing -- it's called market research and their famous for it. That said, they're one of the best firms in the world due in part to their deal flow (i.e., you sending them your stuff). Like Sequoia they are (in reality) VERY CONSERVATIVE, like commercial bank lenders. Once your deal is close to being a "sure thing" post-Beta, get a meeting with a senior partner.PRIVATE: Members Only (68 Characters)


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Russell Westbrook won't play with USA Basketball this summer
USA Basketball says Oklahoma City guard Russell Westbrook will not participate this summer so he can rest some previous knee injuries.
Chairman Jerry Colangelo says Tuesday that USA Basketball had been communicating with Westbrook since the end of the season and knew his withdrawal was a possibility.
Westbrook was a member of the Americans' gold medal-winning teams at the 2010 World Championship and 2012 Olympics. He has had multiple knee operations since, though was able to help the Thunder reach the Western Conference finals.
Colangelo says in a statement that the U.S. would love to have Westbrook but that "this is the right decision."
The Americans will begin training camp on July 28 in Las Vegas, a month before the World Cup of Basketball opens in Spain.
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The designation of the Alabama tornadoes as a Category 1 disaster – the ranking given to 9/11 and hurricane Katrina – has put FEMA and its new director to the test.
Since taking the helm of the Federal Emergency Management Agency two years ago, Craig Fugate has begun a dramatic, common-sense revamp of national preparedness. He has led a Twitter-driven campaign to recalibrate American attitudes toward disasters and the role of FEMA amid the rubble.
In keeping with that do-something reputation, Mr. Fugate planned to be on the ground in Alabama Friday, to talk recovery with officials and hear from disaster survivors. Planned stops included an emergency command post in Phil Campbell, a Disaster Recovery Center in Hackelburg, and Bethel Baptist Church in Pleasant Grove.
With an estimated 328 dead and thousands homeless, the April 26-27 tornadoes became the agency's biggest post-Katrina challenge. Early praise for FEMA's response from Southern governors suggests that this may mark a turning point for the tarnished agency.
"In a big disaster like this, you usually start hearing complaints from state and local officials within at least 72 hours," says David Schanzer, a homeland security expert at Duke University in Durham, N.C. "If you're not hearing [complaints], it's usually an important sign that things are going pretty well."
In a marked contrast to the delay after hurricane Katrina, Fugate urged President Obama to declare Alabama a federal disaster area even before the harshest damage reports were in.
With at least 305 tornadoes reported in six states for the two-day period, it is the largest tornado outbreak in US history.
"If you can't tell me it's not bad, I'm going to assume it's bad ... and go," Fugate told The Associated Press, as he toured the area by air on May 1.
Appearing with Gov. Robert Bentley (R) of Ala-bama the day after the storms, Fugate reiterated that FEMA was taking a support role, then gave the governor the floor.
"It's not FEMA's role to step in midstream and take over, but to allow folks to do all they can and to let them know that there's help if they need it," says Edwin Bailey, who worked with Fugate in Achuala, Fla., as emergency responders. "Craig gets that."
After hurricane Katrina, President Bush's "heckuva job, Brownie," to then-administrator Michael Brown, a lawyer and political appointee, came to symbolize the chasm between federal leadership and the situation on the ground. Mr. Brown resigned shortly thereafter.
Because the FEMA director is often a politico, Fugate, with no college degree and few political connections, made for an unorthodox appointee. He rose to the position by reputation alone: When Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano went looking for nominees, people just kept mentioning his name.
Fugate served as emergency management director for hurricane-prone Florida before taking the helm of FEMA. His first order of business was to demand that all FEMA employees have their own disaster readiness kits at home, part of his mission to reassess not only the agency's response capability, but also the survival readiness of Americans.
As part of that strategy, FEMA now urges Americans to have at least seven days of provisions on hand at all times – up from three to five days. Fugate also rewrote the agency's mission statement to replace "protect the nation from all hazards" with "support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together."
"We tend to look at the public as a liability," Fugate told the Atlantic Monthly in 2009, but "who is going to be the fastest responder when your house falls on your head? Your neighbor."
In a way, disaster experts say, he has achieved more by promising less. "Fugate is trying, in essence, to retrain or manage the expectations of the citizenry of this country," says Chris Emrich, who researches disaster preparedness at the University of South Carolina.
"We've become dependent on federal government for any kind of disaster, but ... I think what you're going to see in Alabama is a transition from this idea of vulnerable populations" to a model of resilience.
To be sure, Fugate's strength is as a first responder. But the ultimate determination of FEMA's effectiveness will come in the drawn-out appeals and long-term recovery that stretch far beyond the disaster, says Gavin Smith, a natural hazards expert at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Contributing to FEMA's Success in the tornado-torn South is that many residents already epitomize the self-reliance Fugate preaches. FEMA outreach workers had to practically drag some people to the recovery centers where they could file paperwork for help. "We'll set up tents. We'll hunt," one Alabamian told reporters.
FEMA quickly set up dozens of recovery centers and paid out $3 million in emergency aid within five days of the tornadoes. Fugate still wasn't satisfied. For one thing, a delivery of blue roof tarps was behind schedule, as another rain front moved into the area.
Although many people, especially in remote rural areas, still hadn't seen federal representatives a week after the storms, few voiced the resentment or sense of abandonment that dogged FEMA during the Katrina response.
Experts note that the comparison to 2005 is imperfect. Katrina was far more challenging overall. Many widely perceived failings in the response were not due to FEMA alone, but mismanagement by many government officials.
The agency's new direction hasn't been universally lauded. In early May, Gov. Rick Perry (R) criticized FEMA for failing to designate most of Texas a natural disaster, after 9,000 wildfires ravaged his state.
But FEMA's response to the tornadoes has been well received. "Where the federal response is concerned, there's little to criticize and much to praise," opined The Birmingham News editorial board on May 4. "That's very encouraging, indeed."


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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have put their Montecito, California, mansion on the market for $45 million, Sotheby's International Realty confirmed
The home known as "The Villa," was designed in the 1930s by architect Wallace Frost, according to broker Suzanne Perkins.
The 10,500-square-foot residence features six-bedroom, six-bathroom nine fireplaces, a media room, multiple libraries, a regal living room, a formal dining room, stainless-steel appliances, relaxing stone terraces and exquisite landscaping on 16.88 acres in the hills surrounding Santa Barbara.
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Lambs kidneys in Burgundy
25g / 1oz butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion peeled finely chopped
125g / 4ozs mushrooms chopped
125g / 4ozs bacon diced
8 lambs kidneys
300mls / 1/2 pt of Burgundy
salt and pepper
1 garlic clove crushed
Bouquet garni
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Heat half of the butter and the oil in a large frying pan.
Add the onions, mushrooms and the bacon. Fry until golden then remove and keep warm.
Slice the kidneys length ways then trim and remove the membrane and any white cores.
Add the prepared kidneys to the frying pan and cook over a high heat to seal them.
Then reduce the heat and cook for 3 to 4 mins.
Remove and keep warm add the wine to the frying pan with the onion, mushroom and bacon mixture.
Season and add the garlic and bouquet garni, simmer for 10 mins.
Mix the remaining butter with the flour and add to the sauce a little at a time.
Stirring all the time until thickened. Pour over the kidneys, sprinkle with the parsley and serve with noodles.
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A 1999 Community Health Needs Assessment revealed the growing need for accessible health care for adolescents in the Newport community. Working with several community partners, NLH received a three-year grant in 2001 from the Endowment for Health to plan and open a school based health center in 2002 at Newport Middle High School (NMHS).
TTC provides improved access to primary care and preventive care for adolescents. All students at NMHS are eligible to enroll at TTC. Each August families are sent information about the Center and the student enrollment and permission forms. Approximately 50% of the current student body is enrolled. The Center is licensed and bills Medicaid and private insurance. Reimbursement from all sources in FY03 was $19,000.
The Center allows students to seek care at the school-based health center without leaving school or waiting for provider appointments. The presence of the Center has also had the result of giving over 100 students a medical home at the Newport Health Center with the same provider they use at TTC.
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I also found a page advertising a book with all sorts of useful information in it, such as amazing ingredients to use to repair a cracked windshield.
And, of course, the Almanac provides plenty of information on what kind of weather we can expect. After perusing the outlook for our region I discovered that most of the forecasts include phrases like: temperatures and rainfall slightly above or slightly below normal. I found none that predicted a particular month would be hotter than the pits of Hades or wetter than the bottom of that trough somewhere in the Pacific that's supposed to be the deepest hole in the ocean.
I'd like to see Almanacists (sic) go out on a limb once in a while and indicate that, say, May will be "a frog strangler (See ark plans on page 47)." Or maybe that "July will be so hot and dry that spit will evaporate before it hits the pavement, even when inundated with a Redman chaw."
You don't get that kind of colorful prediction. Slightly above, slightly below, average or about the same as usual, has to suffice. So I'll not bother passing along that information, assuming that if there's some really interesting weather coming you'd just as soon not have the surprise value spoiled beforehand.
Still, the Almanac offers valuable insights into things we hardly ever think we need insights about. For instance, weeds may be an interesting source of vitamins. A brief article listed yellow dock, lambsquarter, chickweed, purslane, and wild mustard as edible.
The one that got my attention, however, was a reference to "poke salet." One of the first paying jobs I remember when I was a country kid was picking poke early in the spring for my Aunt Allie.
Aunt Allie was a short woman, about as wide as she was tall, a bit eccentric but good-hearted. She and Uncle Henry would show up the first or second weekend in March at my grandparents' farm. Aunt Allie would contract with me to pick her some poke leaves, with which she would make a salad, and which I never ate.
I'd earn a quarter for a grocery sack full of poke leaves, collected in an hour or two from the woods behind my grandparents' house. Aunt Allie always did a quality control check before I got paid, culling out the bigger leaves, which she claimed were too tough to be palatable. "Not fitten to eat," I think is the way she put it.
Sometimes the bulging grocery sack would shrink to several hands full of tiny leaves. But I still got my quarter.
I actually used to eat another wild green, which we knew as creasie. It may have been cressie, or kreesie or kriesie. I never saw it spelled out, so it could be any number of edible greens common in the South.
Creasy tasted a bit like tender spinach leaves and I'd nibble on them sometimes when I was fishing. It seemed to prefer low, moist places, which were conveniently located near my best fishing holes. My grandfather used to "wilt" it with hot fatback grease before eating it, likely with a half-dozen hot peppers on top.
Some undocumented information suggests eating wild greens as a good way to "purge" your system in the spring. Anytime we started purging, however, my mom just dosed us with a bait of castor oil and halted that process as rapidly as possible. She didn't have much patience with five kids all in a purge at the same time.


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Parney necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Fast Track Estate Agency
Fast Track Estate Agency is a new UK estate agency specialising in achieving quick property sales. The estate agency is web based and this logo will be shown on our website (in development), next to all properties we display on the major property portals, on 'For Sale' boards and in property brochures.
The unique selling point of our estate agency is that the properties we advertise are slightly discounted in order to sell them quicker. The name has been chosen to represent that sales will be quicker than normal.
We are happy to provide more infomation on the company should you need it.
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Property Buyers who are looking for discounted property and able to buy quickly - i.e. they have finance in place and are not in a property chain. They buy through us as they know they can buy property at a discount. They are normally relatively affluent property investors. The majority are male between 35-55 years old.
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Needs to be modern and minimalist
Inspiration. I like these simple designs and clever use of illustrations which show the nature of the businesses:
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Teenage actress Chloe Grace Moretz is determined to remain a role model for young girls because she has worked too hard to become a leading Hollywood name to throw it all away on a wild night out.
The "Kick-Ass" star insists she will never go off the rails like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears because she has no interest in becoming a party girl.
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Looking to know more about Enkays Classes in Mumbai for 11&12 commerce coaching
Hello sumanta, please check review of the Enkays Classes for 11&12 commerce coaching here . Also please note you can fill an enquiry form on the page provided to get the latest information on anything regarding the Enkays Classes for 11&12 commerce coaching classes. I saw a few reviews of the institute, in general it looks good. But better go and visit the place.
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my poor christmas tree has been ahem....naked shall we say for the last 5 christmases. i've been shamefully using an old white receiving blanket draped around the bottom of the tree. it's a sad boring excuse of a tree skirt and i admit i hate putting it there every year. so this year i've decided to "try" to get one made. no pressure...just adding it to my would love to have done this holiday season list.
after reading a comment on last week's holiday crafting support group post requesting a christmas tree skirt roundup i thought "aha...now that's exactly what i need to roundup". so here you go! i got out my lasso and rounded up what i think are some spiffy and purdy christmas tree skirts. you've got quilted, pieced, felt, no sewing, knitted and crocheted tree skirts. have fun & most of all i hope you get inspired! also, if you know of an awesome tutorial of your own or one you love please leave a link to it in the comments below and i'll add it to the "your faves" section of this post! alrighty...go pour yourself a nice big glass of (spiked) egg nog and let's get crafty!
|1. vintage embroidered tree skirt 2. sewing 101 tree skirt on design sponge
|1. rockin' retro christmas tree skirt 2. spiderweb christmas tree skirt 3. christmas tree skirt in july
|no sew ruffled christmas tree skirt
|1. striped tree skirt 2. ruffled tree skirt 3. ruffled tree skirt 4. scalloped felt tree skirt
|simply quilted patchwork tree skirt from sew 4 home
|1. cloud9 christmas tree skirt 2. festive christmas tree skirt 3. buddy the elf tree skirt 4. fur trimmed tree skirt 5. diy ruched tree skirt
|diy felt flower tree skirt
|1. quilted tree skirt 2. christmas tree skirt
|christmas tree skirt tutorial from simple simon & co
|1. poinsetta tree skirt tutorial 2. heirloom wool tree skirt
|granny tree skirt
|1. silent night tree skirt 2. snowball tree skirt
|retro ripples skirt
|hemlock ring blanket
- stars all around the tree skirt pattern from simplicity
- hexagon tree skirt tutorial by jaceycraft
- esch house quilts north pole tree skirt tutorial
- bird in hand quilts christmas tree skirt
- fruitcake under my tree tutorial
- christmas tree skirt from pauls block party
- silent night tree skirt
- round ripple tree skirt
- star tree skirt
- granny tree skirt
- diy no sew rufffle christmas tree skirt tutorial
- christmas tree skirt
you can find all the holiday crafting support group posts here.
link up, join in, comment below, add pics to our flickr group and take part in our conversations on ravelry too! we want to see what you're making, planning on making and what you've got planned for the holiday season. if you've posted about holiday crafting add your link in the comments below as well. it's way more fun if you all join in (if enough people comment i may just start a wee linky party for us to use). i loved seeing all of your holiday gift lists last week! i added about another gazillion projects to my faves :)
what's your favorite christmas tree skirt? knit, crocheted, sewn or crafted? do you have a fave pattern? have you made your own christmas tree skirt before? fill us in! show off your handiwork! let us know how your gift making & decorating has been going :)


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Applications are now available to exhibit at the 2012 SEMA Show, the premier automotive trade event where manufacturers of specialty parts and accessories connect face-to-face with more than 60,000 quality buyers from throughout the world. The application, or Exhibitor Space Rental Agreement (ESRA), is available at www.semashow.com/buyabooth.
According to a press release, submissions are accepted any time before the event takes place Oct. 30-Nov. 2, but manufacturers who return their ESRA with a deposit by April 27 will "have greater opportunities to collaborate with show organizers and participate in the Priority Booth Selection Process." The selection process is the first opportunity exhibitors have to select the actual location of their SEMA Show booth.
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