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When it comes to a company's social media strategy, it's easy to get wrapped up in Facebook and Twitter. That's where most of the people are, after all.
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Comment on status updates. This is a good way to stay in touch with current and past clients. Just don't be too pushy by promoting your services. It's more important to let your contacts know you're around and active.
Search groups related to your field. If you want a leg up before meeting with a potential customer or client, you can search forums related to your company. That way you'll know the kind of questions customers are asking in advance of a sales pitch. It also helps to stay active in those groups to get your name out there. (You can search for groups in the drop down menu located on LinkedIn's main search bar.)
Ask for recommendations from clients. If you receive a complimentary note from a client, it never hurts to ask them if they would add that under your LinkedIn profile's recommendations. This will give prospective clients a good idea what it's like to work with you.
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New Zealand is an adventure and activity paradise. The following article provides an introduction to 5 "must-do" activities in New Zealand.
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New Zealand is rightly famous as the adventure capital of the World. Below you will find 5 of the top activities to do during your stay in New Zealand.
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In 3rd position is the Tongariro National Park, the one-day Tongariro Alpine Crossing is a stunning walk through the impressive volcanic landscape of New Zealand. A beautiful walk along steaming craters and emerald-green lakes with a great view on active volcanoes. A remarkable walk and rated as one of the best one day walks in the World!
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Notice is hereby given that the Nibley City Council will hold a public hearing to consider a proposed Ordinance 18-04: A Proposed Rezone Application for Parcel 03-008-0001, located at approximately 1200 W and 2200 S, to Rezone the Parcel from Agricultural and Residential R-2A to Residential R-2.
This Public Hearing will be held on March 15, 2018 at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as can be heard. The Public Hearing will be located at Nibley City Hall at 455 W 3200 S.
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On March 16, 2005, the 15th Annual Jolt and Productivity Award winners were announced at SD West 2005, recognizing 15 Jolt winners and 45 Productivity winners for books, products and websites that have "jolted" the industry. Editor in Chief Alexandra Weber Morales and I presided over the ceremony, which honored new entrants and old standbys, with a preponderance of fresh faces at the front of the queue.
From a field of 300 entrants narrowed down to 90 finalists, eight of the 13 Jolt winners (excluding the two book categories) had never captured the coveted Lucite-encased Jolt can, only three are repeat Jolt winners, one had previously won a Productivity Award, and one had been nominated in 2003, but hadn't received an award.
O'Reilly was the big winner this year, capturing Jolts in both book categories and the Website and Developer Networks category, as well as two Productivity Awards. "O'Reilly really cares about and works on learning; the company approaches technical material from a variety of directions to accommodate various learning styles," says Rick Wayne, Software Development's New and Noteworthy editor and Jolt judge. Gary Pollice concurs: "I think they've 'jolted' the way we look at books by bringing fairly technical topics to people in a way that will help them learn."
Besides reading great books, judges also get to add tools that impress them to their permanent library, such as Agitar's Agitator and Dashboard 2.0 for automated testing. Judges who found themselves using Agitator regularly for testing were "very impressed."
But this year saw some challenges due to the products' increased complexity, installations and documentation. "The products that I was most impressed by were easy to install and get running," says judge Andrew Binstock. "Macromedia's products are prime examples." The other judges agreed: Macromedia also won two Jolts and two Productivity Awards.
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This year, more first-time entries challenged the previous year's incumbents than ever before, and we're finding that certain niches warrant new categories. For example, Project Management Tools became Management Tools this year to include analysis and portfolio management entries, and Design and Analysis Tools was renamed Design Tools to accommodate the growing number of products in that field. This constant refinement also extended to Testing Tools: This year, we distinguished between Automated Testing Tools and Defect Tracking Tools.
Software Development judges evaluated entrants in 15 categories: Books (General); Books (Technical); Business Integration and Data Tools, Change and Configuration Management Tools; Design Tools; Languages and Development Environments; Libraries, Frameworks and Components; Mobile Development Tools; Management Tools; Security Tools; Automated Testing Tools; Defect Tracking Tools; Utilities; Web Development Tools; and Websites and Developer Networks. One product in each category received the coveted Jolt Award, while the three runners-up were honored with a Productivity Award plaque.
The Esteemed Judges
Software Development thanks these 26 gurus for
dedicating three months to the evaluation process.
- Scott Ambler
- Hugh Bawtree
- Andrew Binstock
- Sylvain Chery
- Donna L. Davis
- Robert DelRossi
- David Dossot
- Gary K. Evans
- Mik Kersten
- Warren Keuffel
- John Lam
- Rosalyn Lum
- Chris Minnick
- Alexandra Weber Morales
- Larry O'Brien
- Gary Pollice
- Roland Racko
- Johanna Rothman
- Sue Spielman
- Rick Wayne
- Michael Juntao Yuan
Coming Next Month:
Coverage of the inaugural Stan Kelly-Bootle Eclectech Award, presented at the Jolt Award ceremony.
Steve Bourne, author of the Bourne shell for Unix and a past president of the ACM, accepted the award on Stan Kelly-Bootle's behalf.


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Through the years, many attempts have been made to reconcile biblical chronology with modern geological time scales. Some have argued that the days of Genesis 1 represent vast eons of time, while others sandwich millions of years within the first two verses of this chapter. Still others inflate the time span between the genealogies in Genesis to find this coveted time. All of these approaches meet with insuperable difficulties when the biblical data are accepted as historical.
In 1977, the late P.J. Wiseman introduced a novel interpretation of the days of Genesis in an attempt to bridge the chronological chasm between the Bible and modern geology. This theory, which recently was resurrected by Donald Wiseman (1991), suggests that the six days in Genesis 1 refer to the time period God took to reveal what He already had accomplished, rather than the time frame of His actual creative work. This approach offers the best of both worlds. It does not deny a literal understanding of the days in Genesis 1, and it allows for the time needed to accommodate the evolution model or an ancient Universe.
Advocates appeal to extrabiblical and biblical evidence to support this view. Certain ancient Near Eastern myths refer to pagan gods instructing rulers in the arts, crafts, agriculture, etc., for six days. Since Genesis is similar in literary structure and vocabulary to such ancient myths, we are asked to concede the possibility that Genesis 1 also chronicles six tutorial classes delivered by God to man (see Wiseman, 1991, 3[1]:31). To further bolster this theory, P.J. Wiseman suggested the following translation of Genesis 2:3-4: "And God blessed the seventh day and set it apart, for in it he ceased from all his business which God did creatively in reference to making these the histories of the heavens and the earth, in their being created in the day when the Lord God did the earth and the heavens" (Wiseman, 1977, pp. 201-202). This translation draws a subtle distinction between the creation of the Earth and heavens, and the activity from which God ceased on the seventh day, i.e., revealing the histories of the heavens and Earth.
This theory, however, does not do justice to the biblical text. First, it is improper exegesis to force the concepts of pagan creation myths into the Genesis narrative simply because it manifests some similarities in literary style and vocabulary to such ancient Near Eastern compositions. While mythical texts occasionally illuminate our understanding of obscure words and practices mentioned in the Bible, they should not serve as the controlling factor of biblical exegesis (see Brantley, 1993). Genesis has the right to be interpreted by its own context, just as any other literary work. And, a candid reading of the text indicates that the divine action during the six days was that of creation, not revelation (cf. Genesis 1:1,7,21, et al.).
Second, Wiseman's translation is inconsistent with the structure of the Hebrew text. The Masoretes inserted the Hebrew letter peh between Genesis 2:3 and 2:4, suggesting that verse four began a new paragraph. Wiseman ignored this ancient textual notation, and forced them into one ambiguous sentence. Unlike Wiseman's translation, however, Hebrew scholars generally recognize that verses two and three are linked syntactically in such a way that they emphasize the actual completion of creation (see Keil,1:67-68). Further, verse four is isolated grammatically from the preceding narrative. Hence, Wiseman's translation is a forced, unnatural reading of the text.
Theories of this kind demonstrate how much the biblical text must be bent to accommodate evolutionary time scales. Yet, such interpretations challenge the credulity of Bible students much more than would a literal understanding of the text.
— Garry K. Brantley, M.A., M.Div.
Brantley, Garry K. (1993), "Pagan Mythology and the Bible," Reason & Revelation, 13:49-53, July.
Wiseman, Donald (1991), "Creation Time—What does Genesis Say?," Science & Christian Belief, 3[1]:25-34.
Wiseman, P.J. (1977), Clues to Creation in Genesis (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott).
Keil, C.F. and F. Delitzsch (1983 reprint), Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).
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SAN ANTONIO – Much too little. Much too late.
LeBron James squeezed most of his scoring into a 90-second stretch of the third quarter, which basically sums up one of the worst offensive nights the Miami Heat have endured in the "Big Three" era of the last three years.
They shot 41 percent. Two starters didn't score a single point. James slogged his way through a putrid first half for the second straight game. All that, and so much more, added up to a 113-77 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night.
San Antonio now leads the series 2-1, with Game 4 on the Spurs' home floor coming on Thursday.
The defending champions need to win three of the next four games to extend their reign, and anything close to another offensive showing like what they turned in on Tuesday night will surely not be enough for the Heat to complete that quest. Dwyane Wade led the Heat with 16 points, Mike Miller — who simply does not miss 3-pointers in the NBA Finals — made all five of his shots, all from long range, for 15 points.
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12 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I love it! How can I reach Johanna?
- March 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- Stephen Orr said...
Johanna's email added
- March 12, 2009 at 8:19 PM
- Posey Parker said...
Brilliant! Inspiring! Makes me itch for some scissors and paper!
- March 13, 2009 at 1:48 AM
- Newell said...
Great blog! Thanks for letting me know about it. Problem is that I'll probably be spending way too much time on it. Hope you'll be posting about your garden, too!
- March 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- Heather Beth Taylor said...
This is completely stunning and inspired. Would LOVE to see in person.
- March 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM
- Stephen Orr said...
Hi Newell! Thanks so much I will be posting about my gardening upstate. Simple as it is
- March 16, 2009 at 9:49 AM
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- March 18, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- jennykim81 said...
stephen! it's jenny kim from the domino days. :)hope you're well! i was just on designsponge and read about this. i'm curious what store the display was made for because i think i may be going home to korea at the end of april. it would be amazing to see johanna's work in person!
- March 18, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Stephen Orr said...
HI Jenny--
I will find out and let you know!
Thanks so much for visiting
- March 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- Christopher Rawlins Architect said...
Hi, I am the architect who, along with my brother John, designed the store that Johanna Burke and Demetrios Argyropoulos so beautifully elevated with the vertical garden. The store is Nancy Gonzalez, a handbag boutique located at the Galleria Shops in Seoul. I expect to have professional photos in a week or so and will send them your way.
- April 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Stephen Orr said...
Thank you Christopher! I would love to show the finished picture in a new post when you get it. I was waiting to include all your details for that post when more people can see it not that it's not a secret project.
- April 2, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Helen said...
Simply gorgeous.
- December 1, 2009 at 2:18 PM


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Luckily, the Tesla Model S won't need a nuclear reaction to reach 88 mph.
In case you haven't seen the movie or just forgot the numbers from the Flux capacitor's spec sheet, the Doc's electrical time machine needs 1.21 'jigawatts' of power, which it gets from a nuclear reaction produced by plutonium stolen from a group of Libyan terrorists. 1.6 million horsepower discharged for a moment makes time travel possible at 88 mph.
The Model S only has 270-310 kW of power and a capacity to hold 60-85 kWh, but with the Signature Performance model's 0-62 mph time of 4.2 seconds, which is sort of a different kind of time travel compared to the DeLorean.
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Other Names: Ft. Lamar, James Island
Location: City of Charleston
Campaign: Operations against Charleston (June 1862)
Date(s): June 16, 1862
Principal Commanders: Brig. Gen. Henry Benham [US]; Brig. Gen. Nathan Evans [CS]
Forces Engaged: 8,600 total (US 6,600; CS 2,000)
Estimated Casualties: 889 total (US 685; CS 204)
Description: Early June 1862, Maj. Gen. David Hunter transported Horatio G. Wright's and Isaac I. Stevens's Union divisions under immediate direction of Brig. Gen. Henry Benham to James Island where they entrenched at Grimball's Landing near the southern flank of the Confederate defenses. On June 16, contrary to Hunter's orders, Benham launched an unsuccessful frontal assault against Fort Lamar at Secessionville. Because Benham was said to have disobeyed orders, Hunter relieved him of command.
Result(s): Confederate victory
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This is the first building constructed in Indianapolis to house the manufacturing operations of the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company. Part of the building contained the Indianapolis branch of Lelia College as well as the Madam Walker Beauty Parlor.
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It's still unclear if the Dallas Cowboys should be taken seriously in the NFC. But, warts and all, they're still in the mix.
The intense race for the playoffs is in full gear. Check out the latest situation in the postseason chase. More ...
The Cowboys knocked off a stubborn Philadelphia Eagles team Sunday night, improving to 6-6 with a 38-33 win. Dallas now is seventh in the conference, trailing the 7-5 Seattle Seahawks by one game in the standings. The Seahawks have the head-to-head tiebreaker by virtue of their Week 2 win in Seattle.
Perhaps the biggest takeaway for the Cowboys is Dez Bryant, who appears to be taking his game to another level in his third season. The former first-round draft pick finished with five receptions for 97 yards and two touchdowns and now has 26 catches for 388 yards and five touchdowns in the past three weeks. That's star production.
Bryant's first touchdown grab also allowed Tony Romo to make history. The 18-yard connection was the 166th touchdown pass of Romo's career, moving him past Troy Aikman for first on the Cowboys' all-time list.
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This wasn't an easy win. The Eagles actually jumped out to a 14-3 lead, with Nick Foles playing the best football of his young career. Bryce Brown also impressed with 169 more yards on the ground, but his third lost fumble in two starts led to a back-breaking defensive touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Damaris Johnson's 98-yard punt return for a score made things interesting late, but the ever-reliable Jason Witten pulled down the Eagles' onside-kick attempt to seal it for the Cowboys. Crisis averted in Jerrahworld ... for now.
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December 17, 2003
Los Angeles — UCLA Anderson School of Management's IS Associates has selected health care executive Leonard Schaeffer as the 2003 recipient of its exalted Information Systems Associate Executive Leadership Award. As chief executive officer of WellPoint, the nation's second largest health insurer, Schaeffer has endeavored to and succeeded in improving the health status for a majority of Californians.
The IS Associates Executive Leadership Award is an annual honor that recognizes a senior executive's leadership in the exceptional application of information technology within an organization. IS Associates, a part of UCLA Anderson for more than 20 years, has conducted cutting-edge research and education in information systems and has contributed considerable intellectual capital in the area to Southern California's rich body of information systems professionals.
"We're pleased to honor Leonard Schaeffer for his success in implementing information technology solutions that improve access to and quality of health care for millions of Californians," said Bruce Willison, dean of UCLA Anderson. "His leadership offers an inspiring example for others to follow."
Schaeffer went out on a limb in 1992 and organized a Blue Cross plan that was customer-focused. While most other Blue Cross plans are organized around product and function, WellPoint revitalized itself through Schaeffer's efforts and by 1996, had established two independent foundations - The California Endowment and the California HealthCare Foundation.
WellPoint is a different health insurance company model for numerous reasons. Schaeffer and his associates, understanding that too much vital knowledge was previously only on paper, have capitalized on advances in information sciences and technology to provide better value through choice-based products, significant service enhancement, simplified (paperless) transactions and better access to cost and quality information.
The company weaves its unique perspective on technology into its primary goals. WellPoint aims to capitalize on technology as a competitive advantage. In its business strategies, the company encourages the use of technology as a service, cost and advantage that achieves rapid and effective responses to customers' ever-changing needs.
The inability of health plans to pay in a timely manner has been a key source of concern over the years. Under Schaeffer's guidance, WellPoint dared to be different, reminding others how important its members and hospital and physician customers really are. While Wall Street has held on to the myth that health plans should delay payment, WellPoint has coupled human and financial capital with information technology to explain why they should and will pay claims faster. Orderly pay improves its relationships with hospitals and physicians in its network, and it makes for more timely data for actuarial analysis. Finally, WellPoint lowers its administrative costs by using technology to collect and process claims, and reduces the numbers of duplicate bills.
Another information systems initiative under WellPoint's belt is the Subimo and Consumer Cost Guide. The company partnered with Subimo to provide members with easily accessible, quality information that compares hospitals in their communities. Using the guide, members can be the architects of their own care - comparing in-patient care, overall safety standards and reputations. In addition, members can contrast the number of procedures done at each facility, the complication rate, the infection rate, as well as the physician staffing within the ICU.
Clearly deserving of this award, Schaeffer shows no signs of slowing down in the IT arena. WellPoint plans to further implement IT solutions in its efforts to be a better mediator between the company and its many constituents.
According to Schaeffer, only a large company with sustained investment in information technology can use its significant membership size to collect, aggregate and interpret huge amounts of data from multiple sources. By doing so, WellPoint plans to remain the insurance company role model that they've become.


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Member Mark Reid shared with us his response to an email from another member, Vi Shirey, asking if her John T. Potter was on the CD of 17,000 Wood County, Texas surnames.
No. John T. Potter does not exist on this database. I see a John L Potter b. 1843 from GA.
The CD has been given to both the Quitman and Mineola libraries. I have up-dated the database somewhat since the creation of those CDs but I have not updated the CDs. You are welcome to the database just by asking. You must use Personal Ancestry File (PAF) to read it. That program is free from the LDS web site.
Mark's reference to the database of names being free for the asking is a repeat of an offer he made in October 2009 and which is still available.
Mark wrote this in a comment (in part) on the Wood County Genealogical Society Coffee Klatch at Genealogywise:
For several years, I have been compiling a database of Wood County people.
A couple of years (maybe more) ago I put a CD in the Quitman and Mineola libraries containing this database, at that time a bit over 17000 people.
The Society also offered the CD for sale, but with zero response.
I keep putting people in the database and I am now up to a bit over 18,700 people. I want other people to have access to this material although I must
retain the ability to keep plugging away at additions, etc.
One possible thing to do: I would be willing to email a compacted data file to any member/researcher. Just ask at firstname.lastname@example.com.
This is a valuable resource for any researcher of Wood County. If you are interested, please contact Mark at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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sp_bindsession (Transact-SQL)
Binds or unbinds a session to other sessions in the same instance of the SQL Server Database Engine. Binding sessions allows two or more sessions to participate in the same transaction and share locks until a ROLLBACK TRANSACTION or COMMIT TRANSACTION is issued.
This feature is in maintenance mode and may be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. Use Multiple Active Results Sets (MARS) or distributed transactions instead. For more information, see Using Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS).
Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions
sp_bindsession { 'bind_token' | NULL }
' bind_token '
Is the token that identifies the transaction originally obtained by using sp_getbindtoken or the Open Data Services srv_getbindtoken function. bind_tokenis varchar(255).
Return Code Values
0 (success) or 1 (failure)
Two sessions that are bound share only a transaction and locks. Each session retains its own isolation level, and setting a new isolation level on one session does not affect the isolation level of the other session. Each session remains identified by its security account and can only access the database resources to which the account has been granted permission.
sp_bindsession uses a bind token to bind two or more existing client sessions. These client sessions must be on the same instance of the Database Engine from which the binding token was obtained. A session is a client executing a command. Bound database sessions share a transaction and lock space.
A bind token obtained from one instance of the Database Engine cannot be used for a client session connected to another instance, even for DTC transactions. A bind token is valid only locally inside each instance and cannot be shared across multiple instances. To bind client sessions on another instance of the Database Engine, you must obtain a different bind token by executing sp_getbindtoken.
sp_bindsession will fail with an error if it uses a token that is not active.
Unbind from a session either by using sp_bindsession without specifying bind_token or by passing NULL in bind_token.
Requires membership in the public role.
The following example binds the specified bind token to the current session.
The bind token shown in the example was obtained by executing sp_getbindtoken before executing sp_bindsession.
USE master;
EXEC sp_bindsession 'BP9---5---->KB?-V'<>1E:H-7U-]ANZ';
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An investigation of the prevalence and impact of organisational learning in UK police forces.
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This research aims to inform the relevance of Organisational Learning (OL) to policing management practice by investigating its impact and prevalence in UK policing. In the prescriptive literature, OL is propounded as an ...


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Alton is home to the Alton NH Police Jail. This prison serves Belknap County County and surrounding areas. Alton NH Police Jail is a police department jail, serving Alton and surrounding areas. Be sure to check that an inmate is at a location and can receive visitors before making travel plans.
Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for everyone's health and wellbeing. Sadly, many prisons don't make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create a financial burden on inmates and the families who pay for these calls. A service from Globaltel helps avoid these additional charges by creating local phone number that an inmate can call that connects to your long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Globaltel at Inmate Calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit Jail Postcards.
Every jail or prison will have their own unique rules for inmate visitation. Every inmate is informed of these visitation rules and what days and times they are allowed to have visitors. The first step is to get set up with phone service so you can contact your inmate directly and get accurate information about prison visitation. Prisoners are often placed in city jail for pretrial detention. Then they may be transferred back to jail to serve short sentences after trial, or placed in a temporary facility while awaiting transfer to a longer-term prison facility.
Alton NH Police Jail is a police department jail, so many of the prisoners there will be awaiting trial, awaiting transfer or serving short sentences on a variety of charges. In addition to setting up jail call services with GlobalTel jail calls at Inmate Calls. You will also need to place some funds in an inmate's commissary account so they can make calls, buy stamps and envelopes.
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Getting charged with a traffic violation can be really bothersome. Instead of doing something productive, you'll have to appear before a traffic court judge and plead your case. But it can even be worse when you miss your court date. In general, the court only recognizes three valid reasons for missing a court date. One is if you'd been incarcerated before your scheduled trial. Another is when you're called to military duty. The court also considers medical emergencies or hospitalization. Excuses like "it slipped my mind", "I had to work" or "I was out of town" are definitely not acceptable. So what should you do when you miss your court date for a traffic violation? First, let's look at what punishments you can expect after missing your court date. What Happens When You Miss


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Bill Gross no longer runs the world's largest mutual fund.
Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund has shrunk by US$37.5-billion since the start of this year, ending last month with US$247.9-billion in assets, according to data provided by Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, and compiled by Bloomberg. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ended October with US$251-billion, Vanguard Group Inc. spokesman John Woerth wrote in an e-mail, taking the top spot.
Investors are pulling money out of traditional fixed-income funds in anticipation that the three-decade rally in bonds is ending, and adding to stock funds, particularly low-cost index funds, as the bull market in U.S. equities is in its fifth year. Pimco Total Return, which became the biggest mutual fund in 2008, is on track to have the worst redemptions ever this year, losing US$4.4-billion in October and US$33.2-billion in 2013, according to estimates from Morningstar Inc.
"This is part of the great rotation from bonds to stocks that is overdue," Michael Mullaney, who oversees more than US$10-billion as Boston-based chief investment officer for Fiduciary Trust Co., said in a telephone interview. "The best of bond returns is behind us."
Michael Reid, a spokesman for Pimco, declined to comment in a telephone interview. Gross and Mohamed El-Erian, the co-chief investment officers of Pimco, didn't return e-mailed requests for comment.
Bond Redemptions
Investors started to flee bonds this year on concerns that the Federal Reserve will taper its bond-buying program, which could lead to higher interest rates and a decline in fixed- income prices. Stocks have rallied on rising corporate earnings and forecasts that the U.S. economy will accelerate in 2014.
U.S. bond mutual funds saw net redemptions of US$117-billion in the four months through September, while stock funds received US$35-billion, according to the Investment Company Institute in Washington.
Gross' fund more than doubled in size between 2008 and 2012 as investors deserted stock funds after the financial crisis for the perceived safety of bonds. The fund attracted US$50.1-billion in 2009 and US$22.6-billion in 2012, according to data from Chicago-based Morningstar.
Pimco Total Return gained 4.8% in 2008 as Gross sidestepped the collapse of the housing market. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 37% that year, including reinvested dividends.
The fund trailed 74% of rivals in 2011 as Gross missed a rally in Treasuries. Gross, in a letter to clients, called the year "a stinker."
Trailing Peers
Pimco Total Return lagged behind 56% of peers this year and beat 77% over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Vanguard fund was buoyed by a 27% return in the CRSP US Total Market Index this year, a benchmark that includes stocks of different market capitalizations.
Vanguard, the biggest U.S. mutual-fund firm, with almost US$2.4-trillion in U.S. fund assets, has grown as the champion of indexing. Index funds represent 63 percent of Vanguard assets, Woerth said. Company founder John Bogle argued that most investors can't beat the market and advised them to buy low-cost funds that track indexes. Vanguard also offers funds in which the managers pick stocks and bonds.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund more than tripled in size since the end of 2008.
Indexing has also grown with the popularity of exchange-traded funds, nearly all of which mimic indexes and can be traded throughout the day like stocks. Vanguard is the third largest U.S. provider of ETFs, behind Boston-based State Street Corp. and New York-based BlackRock Inc., Morningstar data show.


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Families share pain and joy in Wall of Heroes dedication
Three years ago on Oct. 28, Payton Manzingo, then 16, was on the phone with her father, Noel, and the two were discussing their plans for the evening. He was working at the family's jewelry store in Jasper, and his plan was to take his daughter to the Cedar Tree restaurant. She was on her way to meet him at the store.
Just a few minutes later, 37-year-old Manzingo stepped outside – and dropped dead.
"We hadn't been off the phone 15 minutes," said Payton. A brain aneurism took the life of the outwardly healthy Manzingo and stunned his family, especially his mother, Gloria, a former city councilwoman who was working at the jewelry store that day, as well. She said she walked outside and saw her son lying on the ground.
"I thought he was playing a joke," said Gloria, as Noel had a reputation as a practical joker who, in addition to helping run the jewelry business, also worked as a welder and mortician and as anything else that was needed.
"He loved to joke," said Payton, who is following in her father's footsteps by attending school to become a mortician. The Manzingos, along with 11 other families, shared their stories and tears Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 15, at Christus St. Elizabeth in Beaumont as the hospital dedicated its Wall of Heroes to those who, like Manzingo, donated their organs to others.
"The greatest thing we can do is to help other people," said Father Joe Mundadan, who blessed the recently painted murals on the walls of the second and sixth floors of the ICUs with prayers and holy water. The murals, which were painted by students from Memorial and Port Neches-Groves, were selected from a total of 40 submitted designs. Families and friends of the 12 donors posed for a picture in front of the walls and some were even joined by the nurse who took care of their loved one.
"We as nurses get very attached to our patients," said Mary Eagan, chief nurse executive of the Christus Hospital system's Southeast Texas region.According to Christus, when a patient loses brain reflexes and is pronounced brain dead, the hospital contacts Southwest Transplant Alliance, which then discusses the option of organ donation with the patient's next of kin. In the event the patient is an organ donor, the consent is already obtained. After consent, the Southwest Transplant Alliance matches organs with patients in need.
"I really think the wall has made a difference," said Kathy Rodgers, director of trauma at Christus St. Elizabeth. "Because people are in the waiting areas and they're looking at it, seeing the impact that it makes. And when you speak to the family about the organ donations, I think the photos hanging up are really going to make a big difference. You've got different cultures, different age groups, races, and both males and females."
Nine patients have had their organs donated this year.
For Gabe Hernandez and Gina Seinsheimer, both of whom work for Southwest Transplant Alliance, they have the task of talking to the families and asking during a very difficult time if they would like to donate their loved one's organs.
"I call it a gift from God; honestly, I don't know how I do it. Basically I just walk in their holy ground," said Seinsheimer, who worked with Fedro Gatlin's family among many others in the 10 years she's been approaching families about organ donation.
"I talk to families about the kind of person they were, and were they a loving, giving person. Were he to see someone drowning or see someone on the street that was needing help, or needing CPR, would he have been the type of person to stop and help? That's kind of how I approach it because most people would throw a drowning person a life saver," Seinsheimer said.
Hernandez, who's been with the Southwest Transplant Alliance for 12 years, said national statistics indicate 82 percent of families agree to organ donation.
The hour-long ceremony brought up a lot of memories for both the families and nurses alike, as the donors came in all ages, and their causes of death were as random as a freak occurrence like Manzingo's to a senseless murder like that of Beaumont native Gatlin, who died on May 1 in surgery after being shot in the head while riding a bicycle.
His murder remains unsolved.
His son, Fedro Gatlin III, a sophomore at Ozen, attended the ceremony with other family members. He's still coping with his father's loss.
"It just hurts," Gatlin said, "I mean, they didn't have to kill him."
While Gatlin hopes his father's murder is eventually solved, he does take some solace in knowing that his father helped preserve or enhance someone else's life.
"It was a good thing he saved lives," said a somber Gatlin, "so those people don't have to feel the way we feel."Fred Davis can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 227, or by e-mail at fred [at] theexaminer [dot] com.


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If I had known that procuring contestants was this easy, I would have started the Unified Kangaroo Boxing Federation years ago. [Daily What]
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Take equal parts MacGuyver, James Bond, and Bob Marley; heat it over an open flame until lightly toasted and you've got yourself one Hashbean420. Seriously, this guy could smoke a bowl out of a rock using lightning strikes and unicorn farts if he needed to. Today, however, he takes a look at the many wonderous ways we can imbibe hash oil, the crack of the marijuana universe.
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Cherry Kush, Blueberry Yum Yum, Fruity Pebbles, Sour Diesel—the names of various weed strains aren't just (or at least completely) clever marketing schemes. The name reflects the taste. But how does a marijuana plant actually recreate tastes of citrus, pine, cinnamon, and berries? It actually all comes down to compounds known as Terpenoids. Big Buds Magazine has an interesting piece on this flavorful chemical, check it out here.
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Perhaps this qualifies: Political analysts Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik find it more likely that the Democrats will lose the Senate in 2014 than that they will win the House.
They write:
Based on historical measures, it would take a massive popular preference for Democrats to overcome their logistical disadvantage, perhaps an almost unheard-of lead of 13 points in the generic ballot questions pollsters use ("will you vote Democratic or Republican for House in the next election?"). Currently, the generic ballot shows a slight Democratic lead of two to three points.
As for the Senate:
Democrats are defending seats in seven states that Mitt Romney won in last year's presidential race: Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. Mr. Obama won an average of just 40.5% of the vote in these states. In addition, the retirements of longtime Sens. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) and Carl Levin (D., Mich.) make those previously safe seats much more competitive. Factor in some freshmen Democratic senators elected from swing states in Obama's 2008 wave (the last time this batch of seats was contested), and Republicans could run competitive challenges in 10 or more Democrat-held seats. Incompetent GOP nominees could change the picture, but almost all of the seats that Republicans are defending are in solid-red states.
Obviously, we shouldn't put much stock in speculation about elections that are a year and a half away. But amidst all of the gloom and doom speculation that the Republican Party is doomed unless it "recasts" its conservatism — in which we also shouldn't put much stock — it doesn't hurt to hear that 2014 might be a good year.
JOHN adds: I don't know whether we will re-take the Senate, but I am pretty sure that, barring some massive unforeseen development, we won't lose the House. Last time we had an election when Barack Obama wasn't on the ballot, the GOP did extremely well. I look for it to happen again in '14.


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Actress Danielle Fishel has confirmed she and Ben Savage are heading back to the small screen in a sequel to their hit '90s series "Boy Meets World."
Fishel admits she and Savage agonized over the decision to reprise their roles as childhood sweethearts in new show "Girl Meets World" as they didn't want to tarnish the legacy of their coming-of-age sitcom, which wrapped in 2000 after seven seasons.
In a post on her Tumblr.com page, she writes, "Those years (making 'Boy Meets World') were among the most warm, hilarious, insightful, educational years of my life and I wouldn't trade them for the world. Another thing I wouldn't trade for anything is the integrity and the heart with which BMW was made.
"Making the decision to do the (new) show involved more conversations than you can possible imagine. These conversations were with (former co-stars) because they were all instrumental in creating and maintaining the heart of BMW. The first comment out of every person's mouth was, 'Let's only do it if we think we can create something as special as we did with BMW.'"
The pair will star as married parents to a pre-teen daughter, and Savage has taken to Twitter.com to share his excitement.
He tweeted, "I'm going to be a father! Well, on TV at least. The 'Boy Meets World' sequel is officially happening!"
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as how my campaign to dissuade the US Left from endorsing the wholly
un-Left-like candidacy of John F. Kerry has about as much hope of succeeding
as my parallel campaign of getting Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake
re-united for next year's Super Bowl, I've decided to pursue a new tack.
And this one has all the elements the "Oh my gosh, Kerry is an atrocity – Go Kerry Go!" cheerleaders can really feel comfortable with. So, who knows? Maybe it will work.
Before I draw back the veil, let me tell you why I think it's a winner.
1. My proposal allows the Left to participate in the upcoming election -- something leftists clearly want to do. Oh sure, between elections, they'll carry on about elections being bought, about how the two main parties are simply separate wings of the same party, about how capitalist democracy is a sham, and about how non-electoral activism is far, far, far more important that the sixty-second democracy of the ballot box, but that's for lecture halls and speaking tours and David Barsamian interviews.
As election day draws nearer, all that stuff becomes passé -- hardly the kind of thing realistic, hard-nosed people, with their feet firmly planted on the ground, would waste their time on.
2. My proposal allows the Left to participate in the election in a way that will really make a difference in the outcome of the vote. And that's important, because not only do leftists want to vote, they want to vote for a party that clearly has a chance of winning. Politics is a team game, and it's good to be rooting for the winning side.
3. My proposal will give ample opportunity to leftists to hold their noses, something they need to do to establish their credentials as hard-nosed realists, and to show how they're not dumb enough to let principles get in the way.
4. With my proposal, leftists can say, "Sure, the candidate is atrocious – no question about it," and really mean it.
5. My proposal will let liberals, progressives and radicals justify voting for a detestable candidate by invoking their favorite fantasy: "Once we get our guy elected, we'll mobilize to pressure him to move to the Left."
So, here it is.
The US Left should decide today to become the most vociferous, activist constituency of the Bush campaign.
Yeah, I know, it's a gobsmacker and jaw-dropper, but don't react – think. And consider: Bush has a good chance of winning. You want to back a winner, or a loser? Be realistic.
And yeah, I know -- Bush is almost Hitler-like. No doubt about it. I hate him as much as you do. But do you want Kerry, an ardent militarist, and the richest man in the Senate, in the White House? He says he's going to spend more on the military than Bush, add 40,000 more troops to the Army, and insists the US remain the world's preeminent military power. He wants to exercise US power boldly, says he won't wait for a green light from allies or the UN to use military force, and has articulated a doctrine of preventive war. That sounds pretty Hitler-like to me.
Bush, on the other hand, is only "almost" Hitler-like. A slight difference, but important.
What's more, Kerry's an admitted war criminal. He was in Vietnam, shooting up peasants in free-fire zones. Bush isn't much better, but at least he stayed home, and kept his hands clean. There's no Vietnamese blood on him. That makes Bush marginally better. And while his hands are indeed stained with the blood of Afghan peasants and Iraqis, Kerry, who voted for and approved Bush's wars (but thought the French and Germans should have been invited along for the ride) hasn't escaped the same taint. So, the way I see it, Kerry has more layers of blood to scrape away.
And yes, Bush represents the other wing of the business party, but at least he's open about what he's up to. There's no beating around the Bush with Bush. The Hitler-like Kerry, however, would hide his zeal for the bold exercise of US power behind a veil of moral authority – and behind words like "muscular internationalism." At least Bush says, "Look, we want total control, and we've got the firepower to get it." It's nice to know what you're dealing with – an incompetent incapable of putting a pleasing gloss on the expansionist logic of US capitalism. For that reason, he's slightly better. And you know, these guys have so much power, a slight difference can have an enormous impact (or so I've heard it said.)
There are, then, two choices this November. You can vote, or not vote. If you don't vote, there's a chance the militarist, war criminal, Hitler-like Kerry will become President. Or you can be realistic, and vote for the one candidate who has a chance of stopping him: Bush.
And with Bush in the White House, his new Leftist constituency can mobilize and agitate to make clear the militarist, bold exercise of US power proposed by the other guy won't be tolerated. If it's possible to bore within the Democratic Party, to push it to the Left, why not with the Republicans? Give it a try!
What's that? The proposal strikes you as dumb, reactionary, misguided, absurd, silly, dangerous and totally fucked-up? I guess you're right. It is.
But look. Is it really any different from the dumb, reactionary, misguided, absurd, silly, dangerous and totally fucked-up policy proposed by Chomsky, Zinn, Parenti, Herman, the four geriatrics of the US Left, as well as the Communist Party, ex-high class muscleman for US capital Stan Goff, and Mr. Society's Pliars, Michael Albert? The only difference is that I've replaced Bush's name with Kerry's, and offered a more realistic assessment of the latter, as opposed to one straight out of a university seminar on how the Democrats are slightly better. (Must be – they're Democrats! And no specific examples, please. We like to keep this on a purely abstract level.)
Is the US Left so confused, tentative, gutless and completely under the spell of the Democratic Party that it has lost touch with reality and believes, still, after all this time, that the Democrats are slightly better than the Republicans, and can be shifted to the left? It must be so, for the Communists, the Socialists, Z-Net and Michael Moore's fan club, operate as little more than recruiting branches for the Democrats – and have for some time. Last I checked, US politics had shifted about 10 more degrees to the Right, after doing the same four years earlier, and four years before that, and four years before that. It kind of looks like the plan isn't working.
I could pretend it is, or that it has a chance of working soon, but Chomsky exhorted me to be realistic, so realistic I'll be. Face it. The four geriatrics have grown old at the head of a US Left that's been as successful as Pat Boone trying to sell himself as a bad-ass rocker. So give my proposal a try. It has about as much chance of working as the old one. And who knows? Maybe you'll prefer being an elephant's tail to a donkey's ass.
Stephen Gowans is a writer and political activist living in Ottawa, Canada. Visit his website at: http://www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/.
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Aussie builders: We can't give it away
Australian housing developers are resorting to discounts, gift cards and help with mortgage payments to compete for dwindling buyers as home sales slow.
Stockland, Australia's biggest listed home builder, is giving rebates and gift cards of as much as $30,000 at projects in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales states. Devine is matching deposits in South Australia and taking over mortgage payments for as long as a year in Melbourne. Peet has been offering discounts of as much as $50,000 in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria.
Reserve Bank interest rate cuts of 1.75 percentage points since November 2011 have failed to spur housing demand amid slowing job growth. New home sales in December were 6.6 per cent below the level of a year earlier, and loan approvals to build or buy new homes the same month were 31 per cent below an October 2009 peak.
"The discounts this time 'round are bigger than we've seen before because the response we've seen to rate cuts has been far more muted," said Stuart Cartledge, managing director of Melbourne-based Phoenix Portfolios, part-owned by Cromwell Property Group. "Affordability based on mortgage costs has improved, but people are worried about losing their jobs. House buyer confidence isn't there."
Falling Prices
Developers, including Stockland and Peet, have said they're facing the worst housing market conditions in 20 years and expect little change in 2013. Stockland, Mirvac Group and Australand Property Group may report "negative earnings surprises" in the fiscal year ending in June, John Kim, Sydney-based head of Australian property research at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, said in a report Jan. 29. Kim expects Stockland's shares to underperform peers, while he gives an outperform rating to Australand and Mirvac. Both benefit from non- residential revenue sources.
Australian home-building approvals unexpectedly declined for the second time in three months in December. The number of permits granted to build or renovate houses and apartments fell 4.4 per cent from November, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney yesterday.
Building approvals in December advanced 9.3 per cent from a year earlier, yesterday's report showed. That compares with economists' forecast for a 14.9 per cent rise year-over-year.
Housing companies' shares are likely to have the worst performance of all property groups, Tony Sherlock, Sydney-based head of property research at Morningstar Australasia, said in a telephone interview. "Pure play" residential groups such as Peet, Devine and Sunland Group will struggle, he said.
Home prices fell 0.4 per cent across Australia's eight major cities in 2012, to an average of $483,000, after dropping 3.8 per cent the previous year, according to the RP Data-Rismark home value index. The biggest decline in 2012 was in Melbourne, where prices fell 2.9 per cent.
Prices in Sydney in New South Wales and Perth in Western Australia, both of which are seeing growing populations amid a shortage of homes, rose 1.5 per cent and 0.8 per cent respectively.
However, in other figures published by the Bureau of Statistics today, capital city house prices rose 1.6 per cent in the December quarter and 2.1 per cent in the year to December.
Sales of new homes fell to 5,875 in December, compared with 6,287 a year earlier, figures from the Housing Industry Association show. The number of loans to build or buy new homes fell to a seasonally adjusted 7,189 in November, from the previous high of 10,457 in October 2009, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Two Speed
Australia's two-speed economy -- where mining regions like Western Australia thrive while manufacturers, retailers and builders in the south and east struggle -- has created disparities in the housing market. Prices may jump as much as 7 per cent in Perth, remain unchanged in Adelaide, in South Australia, and rise a maximum 3 per cent in Melbourne this year, Sydney-based researcher Australian Property Monitors said.
Melbourne, Victoria's state capital, is facing a "looming oversupply" of new apartments, APM said. The city has the nation's most over-supplied housing market after a building boom driven by forecasts for higher demand that didn't materialize as population growth slowed.
"We're still getting new supply coming through in Melbourne and we have a flat market in terms of buyer demand," Andrew Wilson, senior economist at APM, said in a telephone interview. "This means developers are competing amongst each other for a smaller pool of buyers."
Value Adding
Stockland reported a 35 per cent drop in profit in the year ended June 30. It said in December that earnings for this fiscal year will be at the lower end of its previous guidance of 10 per cent to 15 per cent below fiscal year 2012 because of challenging conditions in Victoria. The shares rose 11 per cent last year, trailing the 15 per cent gain in the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index.
"Rather than reduce the price, developers offer incentives as a value add," said David Milton, Sydney-based managing director for residential projects at broker CBRE Group Inc. "Where the incentives make good financial sense, they have a very positive effect."
Stockland is offering $10,000 cash rebates on house-and-land packages at suburban Melbourne projects, as much as $30,000 in New South Wales, and gift cards worth as much as $15,000.
The company offers incentives throughout the year and special marketing campaigns during the spring and summer peak selling seasons, Mark Hunter, chief executive officer for residential at Stockland, said in an e-mailed response to questions.
Landscaping Offers
Perth-based Peet has landscaping offers as well as discounts starting at $10,000. Peet reported a 76 per cent slump in net income in the year ended June 30, citing deteriorating market conditions and said it didn't expect much improvement in the following year.
The incentives "are designed to boost affordability and encourage homebuyers to explore property ownership at a time when lower interest rates alone have not been enough to raise consumer confidence," Brendan Gore, chief executive officer of Peet, said in an e-mailed response to questions.
The offers add to efforts by state governments and the Reserve Bank of Australia to stimulate demand. Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia are paying $15,000 to buyers of lower-end new homes, according to state announcements made in 2012. New South Wales and South Australia are also offering additional refunds on newly built homes and land.


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Nature's soul food
A sanctuary for the body and soul is provided within one of the world's finest remaining examples of old growth temperate rainforests.
In a country that is so well endowed with natural features, amazing experiences and stunning landscapes, it is difficult to find one area that warrants true distinction.
But such a special place exists and it's one that is easily accessed from two of the North Island's primary visitor destinations, Rotorua and Taupo.
Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tane Conservation Park in itself is a destination. Its 60,000 hectares - the size of nearby Lake Taupo to the west or the island of Singapore much further distant - host one of the most significant temperate rainforests left on this Planet.
Whirinaki was the site of New Zealand's first major conservation battle - an international bid to stop the logging of the old-growth species that had previously survived there for centuries - and has status globally as a site of significance, being one of the few native forests still in existence with canopy showing such completeness.
Maori are kaitiaki (guardians) of Whirinaki and there are many traditional nga mahinga kai, or food gathering places, and other culturally significant sites, within its boundaries.
The entire area of Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tane Conservation Park is of cultural significance to those who affiliate with the local iwi, Ngati Whare and Ngati Manawa, whose founding ancestors came to the region in the early 1600s, originally from the southern Waikato via the East Coast.
A small number of commercial operators offer single day and multi day guided experiences within Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tane Conservation Park, the longest established being the specialist walk company Whirinaki Rainforest Experiences.
This long serving company - it was founded in 1994 and is now in its 21st year of operations at Whirinaki - provides guides who offer rich interpretation of how this stunning temperate rainforest was crucial to, and used by by the descendents of those who originally undertook epic ocean voyages around the South Pacific and settled in Aotearoa New Zealand.
These professional guides share themselves with manuhiri - visitors to this vast wooded land who find their way to this very special place from the four corners of the world.
Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tane Conservation Park provides a stunning location for such experiences and soul food for those who want time out from the hurly burly of the pressure-cooker life that is a reality for most in the 21st century.
Haere mai. Haere mai. Haere mai. Welcome once. Welcome twice. Welcome three times. This is the greeting visitors to Whirinaki will receive on arrival at a place where lifetime memories are made.