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Strictly theme helps R3 annual dinner raise £3,000
The Southern Committee of R3 took to the dance floor during its annual dinner for the Southern region, raising £3,000 for the Stroke Unit at Southampton General Hospital in the process.
The committee, which brings together insolvency practitioners from local accountancy, legal and recovery firms, held its dinner at St Mary's Stadium last week (12 November).
The Stroke Unit at Southampton General Hospital provides high quality patient care and rapid assessment 24 hours a day. They cater to every part of a patient's journey from the diagnosis stage through to the rehabilitation stage. R3 raised money for the Southampton Hospital Charity by holding a Strictly Come Dancing style dance competition, where the audience could buy votes for their favourite dancer. Raffle tickets were also available.
Four brave members of the local insolvency community trained for months to become part of the entertainment on the night, which they then performed in front of judges at the dinner. Winner Tracey Bevis of Benson Consulting, whose Samba wowed the judges was also on hand to present the cheque.
Andrew Watling, chairman of the Southern Committee of R3 and a partner at Quantuma in Southampton, and who boosted the fund by taking part in this year's Great South Run, said: "This year's annual dinner was a huge success, made even better by the amount of money we managed to raise for such an excellent cause. Our volunteer dancers were all fantastic sports and should be proud of the amount of money that they raised. The stroke unit at Southampton General Hospital is close to many of our hearts and we were delighted to present a cheque to them."
Suzie Simmons, fundraising manager for Southampton Hospital Charity, says, "We are thrilled to have benefitted from an amazing event like this, and the Strictly Come Dancing theme was really exciting. Everyone has put in a lot of time, effort, and money, so thank you.
"Donations and fundraising events like this mean that we can provide added benefits for our stroke patients and their relatives to improve the patient environment and rehabilitation services."
R3 hosts quarterly meetings throughout the year where members and other professionals can meet and learn more about insolvency and related topics. Events are open to everyone and details can be found on the organisation's website.


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CS&P 2011 Proceedings
The proceedings of International Workshop on Concurrency, Specification and Programming - CS&P 2011, are published in the electronic form.
The proceedings volume should be referred to as:
Marcin Szczuka, Ludwik Czaja, Andrzej Skowron, Magdalena Kacprzak -
Concurrency, Specification and Programming. Proceedings of International Workshop CS&P 2011
28 -30 September 2011, Pułtusk, Poland
Published by: Białystok University of Technology
A BibTeX version of bibliographic note.
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"To be in line with reason and scientific practice; Not to contradict the common sense"
If Gabriel said to your prophet "Read in the name of the God who created", you cannot start using the printing press 200 years later than Europe. There must be something in writing to read. What will you read or else?
If your ancestors said "Cleanliness comes from your faith in God", you cannot keep the VAT on all the cleaning products like soap, shampoo, toilet paper for years. I have to buy only clothes, medication, book and food to get the VAT back. Don't buy any soaps to clean your hands so that you will not be in loss of VAT at the end of the year!. Eventually by introducing the "Minimum Subsistence Allowance" was introduced in the payroll and eliminated that mistake.
We should ask just then "Does the process leads to a result or the result leads to a process?".
When a university is built in the US, they put stones on the places where the students walk most to make pathways. This way the pathways are not contradictory to the common sense. They become something usable in short. But we always build the pathways where the students never pass denying all the logic and common sense. They don't use the pathways as a result.
It is the same irrational perception of us that we think that an internet project is about building a web page only. Go open a restaurant without a toilet in the US. Build an Olympic stadium without a leading road. Open 8 drugstores across a hospital. See if you can do?
Does America distribute the virtual POS like business cards? Or you think they ask:
My friend, Does the warehouse of this sales webpage follows this and that standards?
Let me see a sample box to understand how you ship your deliveries?
In how many days are you saying to your customer that you deliver the cargo?
Examples of delivery notes and invoices please?
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the understanding never asked such questions had the right to kill all that internet projects by bringing ignorant people on the projects that they spent lots of money.
In our country, you can go to get your motorbike driving licence with your Vespa and the next day you can die when driving a Honda CBR 1000 RR. And then our elders say that: "motorbikes are dangerous". It is the same reason with why they say "I don't give my credit card on the internet, it is not safe". The reason why they talk like that there is no process management. Non-existent processes create non-existent results. In other words you get no results.
"I care about the result. I don't care if he studied and learned or not; I just look if he could enter a university or not" .Saying this means that you did not get what the Gabriel said.
I want an understanding that does not care about the results but the processes now. Yes I have a dream!
I dream of people who accurately determine the processes before bringing their internet projects into life.
I dream of finding the visionaries that do not care about the profits only, that they can see other things too.


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dbvrep> LIST TRANSACTIONS
This commands shows the Transaction ID of the SQL that is uncommitted on APPLY.
The transaction list will also include internal non committed transaction not related to the replication.
Run the list transaction command repeatedly with about 1-2 seconds apart. Only if the same transactions ID stays after repeatedly running this command, then this is worthy of investigation.
The Transaction ID is the hex value of the combined columns XIDUSN, XIDSLOT, XIDSQN from v$transaction on the source database. The Transaction ID is also set in columns MODULE and ACTION from V$SESSION on the target database.
To find the actual SQL statement run the following query and match the Transaction ID (run on source database):
SQL> select inst_id, to_char(XIDUSN, 'xxxxxxxx'), to_char(XIDSLOT,'xxxxxxxx'), to_char(XIDSQN,'xxxxxxxx') from gv$transaction;
Use v$transaction on Non RAC systems instead of gv$transaction
If this above transaction does not return any rows, then look into v$session on target database to find the Transaction ID in columns MODULE and ACTION
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The one who needs rescuing isn't always the one in the tower.
Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry.
Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village farmer asks for Rapunzel's hand in marriage, Mother decides to move them once again—this time, to the large city of Hagenheim.
The journey proves treacherous, and after being rescued by a knight—Sir Gerek—Rapunzel, in turn, rescues him farther down the road. As a result, Sir Gerek agrees to repay his debt to Rapunzel by teaching her to read. Could there be more to him than his arrogance and desire to marry for riches and position?
As Rapunzel acclimates to life in a new city, she uncovers a mystery that will forever change her life. In this Rapunzel story unlike any other, a world of secrets and treachery are about to be revealed after seventeen years. How will Rapunzel finally take control of her own destiny? And who will prove faithful to a lowly peasant girl with no one to turn to?
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THE GOLDEN BRAID is a truly enchanting medieval retelling of the classic fairy tale!
After yet another young man proposes to Rapunzel, she and her mother have been in Ottelfelt for only 6 months, but they will be moving again, this time to the larger town of Hagenheim. Rapunzel doesn't want to move, however this time, she might be able to realise her dream: learning to read. On their way, they are attacked by brigands, and Sir Gerek, a knight who was passing by, hears their cries for help, and rescues them. Later on, it's Rapunzel's turn to rescue Gerek with her skilful use of a knife. But Gerek is injured, and they stop at a monastery until he heals, where, albeit reluctantly at first, Gerek teaches Rapunzel to read.
THE GOLDEN BRAID is worth reading if only for its remarkable historical accuracy; I often avoid medieval historical romances because they are often the author's interpretation of the Middle Ages, but it's not the case here. Ms. Dickerson paints a vivid portrait of ordinary life in 1413 Germany. There is no sex, and there are references to God, and again I must praise Ms. Dickerson for remaining faithful to the era's mores. On the other hand, what you have is great storytelling, wonderful period details, and enticing and complex characters. Rapunzel is brave, resourceful, and clever, and Gerek is a noble knight. He takes a bit longer to warm up to, but with good reason. The romance builds slowly, but very convincingly, there is political intrigue, and quite a bit of action. I also loved how the author preserves the medieval tone in the dialogues, never reverting to modern speech but still never making it sound stilted or stiff. Melanie Dickerson was a new author to me, and I will be looking forward to reading more of her stories!
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Landscapes of Jewish Experience
131 pp. 82 color illus.
Landscapes of Jewish Experience
Samuel Bak, paintings: Lawrence L. Langer, essay and commentary
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My South Seas Sleeping Beauty (我思念的長眠中的南國公主) marks the English-language debut of Taiwan-Malaysian novelist Zhang Guixing (張貴興). It goes, as it were, directly to the Number One slot, appearing in Columbia's Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series, currently 14 titles strong. In Valerie Jaffee's superb translation into idiomatic yet eloquent English, this colorful and intriguing novel effortlessly justifies its new-found status.
The book was published in Chinese in 2001, and like most of Zhang's novels is set in Malaysia's North Borneo, formerly Sarawak, where the author was born in 1956. It's an ultra-exotic world of crocodiles with wrist-watches in their bellies, giant bats, hot-air balloons, owls knocking wine-glasses from the hands of party-goers, dogfights that are a cover for orgies with pubescent Dayak girls, and vegetation and weather that are replete with luxuriant sexual imagery whatever the El Nino-twisted season.
Everyone writing about Zhang invokes the South American magic realism of Garcia Marquez. Magic realism arguably stems from increasing globalization and the decline of local individuality. With belief in spirits declining (though not in Taiwan) and endangered species drifting towards extinction (tragically still the case here), it re-ignites the world of the exotic and the strange. What may no longer be there in life is alive and well in the imagination, as indeed it has always been.
The narrator, Su Qi, is the young son of affluent Chinese settlers. The family lives within sight of the river dividing Malaysia and Brunei, something the boy watches though binoculars from his tree-house. He sees a lot else as well — tigers in the grass, Communist insurgents, and most notably the infatuation of both his parents with non-Chinese locals. His mother bears a son by a Dayak lover, while his father is enchanted by a woman in white sent by the forest-based Communists to extort money from the Chinese bourgeoisie.
Central to the story is a garden, lovingly tended by Su's mother but in reality little different from the riotous jungle that surrounds it. It quickly becomes a version of the Garden of Eden, and a place that tempts a guilt-free sexuality to flourish. The Bible-gripping mother and the shot-gun-toting father — together with a pipe-smoking neighbor adept with an electric cattle-prod with which he herds 14-year-old Dayak girls who he persuades to act as "maids" — are all trying, and failing, to resist the lure of the primitive and the unrestrained. Sex is everywhere in nature, including their own human nature, and as they try to fight it with violence and recriminations, these in reality alternate with wild parties attended both by a Brunei prince in disguise and Communist insurgents posing as government ministers.
Storms and fires inevitably erupt, mocking the strutting and moralizing humans, while tigers roar in the overgrown garden and bees assault the drunken revelers.
But this extraordinary world alternates with a sedate version of 1970s Taipei where the narrator goes (following in the novelist's own footsteps) to study European literature. There he meets a beautiful folk-singer and fellow student from Tainan called Keyi. She's had an abused childhood, attracting the attentions of both men and women, something that both parallels and contrasts with the freewheeling world Su Qi has known. And Taipei too is presented in marked contrast to Borneo. There is almost no local detail offered, just the narrator's daily travels from home to coffee shops, and to clubs where Keyi is singing.


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The girls in the Chi Omega sorority at Penn State are in a little bit of trouble for posting a racist photo on the internet.
The racist sorority photo, which was apparently taken on Halloween, features several girls dressed up in sombreros and ponchos for a Mexican-themed party. The costumes would probably be enough to get the girls in trouble on their own but a few sorority members are also holding up drug related signs. One reads"Will mow lawn for weed + beer" and the other says "I don't cut grass I smoke it."
Jessica Riccardi, the president of the Nu Gamma chapter of Chi Omega, said that the photo was under investigation.
Riccardi told told the Daily Collegian:
"Our chapter of Chi Omega sincerely apologizes for portraying inappropriate and untrue stereotypes. The picture in question does not support any of Chi Omega's values or reflect what the organization aspires to be."
Director of Penn State's Public Information, Lisa Powers, said that the photo was protected by the girls' First Amendment rights but added that she was extremely disappointed that they chose to have a racist party.
Powers said:
"This photo has been brought to our attention and we have looked into the issue. The students in the photo are within their First Amendment rights to express themselves in this way, although we are certainly appalled that they would display this level of insensitivity and lack of judgment. These costumes and this group do not represent fraternity and sorority life at Penn State, nor the 95,000 students who attend our University. The Chi Omega sorority sisters have expressed deep remorse over this incident."
The Penn State sorority isn't the only group of college girls to post a racist photo to the internet. Shortly after Halloween, the official Duke website featured a photo that showed a women's lacrosse player wearing blackface.
Do you think the Chi Omega sorority should face any sort of punishment for the racist photo?


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Conor McGregor is an Irish mixed martial artist and UFC fighter. He is the most celebrated UFC lightweight champion and ex-UFC featherweight champion.
Not long past, the UFC fighter made a lot of waves, increased his wealth and fame – thanks to his highly popularized bout with Floyd Mayweather.
Conor McGregor Bio – Early Life and Carrer Beginning
Born on July 14, 1988, in Dublin, Ireland, Conor McGregor was raised in Crumlin. He had his primary and secondary at both Gaelscoil and Gaelcholaiste. During his secondary school, he developed passions for sport venturing into association football. As years passed, he acquired training that paved ways for his career.
McGregor's MMA career first rolled out in 2008 which was his first professional MMA fight. The bout was against Gary Morris, defeating him in second round TKO. He later attended the UFC 93 in 2009 and indicated interest in pursuing a career in the UFA. He trained under John Kavanagh and joined his team at SBG Ireland to start his fighting career. McGregor has also trained for Tae Kwon Do, Karate, and Kickboxing, which gives him an additional advantage in the ring against his opponents.
As time passed, the fighter began making name for himself maintaining an undefeated streak in 2011 with 13 wins. As a result, some of his fights were named the fastest recorded knockouts in MMA, ending in only 4 seconds. He then went on to win the CWFC Featherweight and Lightweight Championship making him the first ever Irish to hold titles in three divisions
McGregor climbed to European ranking in no time and signed multi-fight contracts for UFC in 2013. His first fight ended in a win via TKO in just a minute in the first round. He fought in UFA Fight Night 26, UFC Fight Night 46 and more, without losing a match against fighters like Cole Miller, Dustin Poirier, Dennis Siver, etc.
Conor McGregor's Net Worth
Currently, Conor McGregor has a cash flow of around $64 million. The Irishman fighter has won first the featherweight, and then lightweight titles. Currently, he is known as the highest-paid athlete in the UFC. Just months ago, he headlined two of the three best-selling UFC fights ever on pay-per-view. The fights include UFC 202, and UFC 205. He won Nate Diaz and Eddie Alvarez in the two matches respectively.
The former bout had a record of 1.6 million buys while the later had 1.3 million buys. McGregor also featured in the second and fifth best-selling fights of all-time. The champion bagged $27 million from the two fights which took place in second half of 2016. However, he made a mammoth cash from the boxing match with Floyd Mayweather.
His fight with Mayweather, which sets him against one of the best boxers of all time, gathered a huge attention of fight fans across the world. It is arguably the richest bout ever, seemingly upstaging Mayweather's victory over Manny Pacquiao in 2015.
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Having made $27 million, McGregor was 24th on the Forbes list of highest paid athletes for 2016/17. Additionally, his wealth grew by $7m from deals and endorsements. The increase placed his cash flow at $34m before the big fight with Mayweather. It was expected that the match with Floyd Mayweather could attract three million or more PPV buys. Based on that, the martial artist was expected to earn $75 million if the fight with Mayweather took place. And yes, it did took place and was successful. But the martial artist reportedly earned a minimum of $30million while Mayweather bagged $100m.
If you throw in the $30million he earned from this defeat to his net worth, it will definitely be on the rise. This means that Conor McGregor is worth approximately $64million (€53.6m)
Conor McGregor has won around $700 thousand until 2015 in prize money through his fight in the UFC. He also earns from his own business – You Inc. Also, he signed new marketing pacts with Anheuser-Busch and Beats by Dre in the spring of 2017.
Wife or Girlfriend, Is Conor Married?
McGregor has a girlfriend, Dee Devlin but they are not yet married. The pair has been together for the past nine years and has been together through thick and thin. McGregor has always attributed his successes to his secret weapon Dee Devlin.
Earlier this year the pair welcomed their first baby McGregor Jnr. A recent report has it that the duo is set to be working down the aisle next summer in Dublin. It will be the biggest wedding Dublin has ever seen because McGregor doesn't know how to do things by halves.
The couple is well celebrated in Ireland and currently lives a decent life. The flashy Dubliner is generally known for his expensive tastes and he often takes to Instagram to show off his extravagant purchases.
Height and Tattoos
Conor towers 5 ft 9 inches and weighs 155 lb (70 kg). His body measurement shows he is a really strong and built man. McGregor has a lot of tattoos which mean different things to him. You can see the tattoos and their positions below:
1. Arabic writing on the back of his left heel
2. He also has a winged crucifix on his neck.
3. At his back from the base of the crucifix, he has a helix of thorns running down his spine.
4. His chest has silverback gorilla wearing a crown and holding a heart in its mouth.
5. The front of his left forearm is covered in a rose bush with a clock showing 3.35pm and a large dagger through a separate rose on the inside and small stick figure in a boxing pose on his elbow.
6. Just above the roses the motto "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" is inscribed
7. On his abdomen, he has a tattoo showing a tiger on a whim. He also has a stencilled writing above and below the tiger – it says his name, McGregor, and his nickname, Notorious.
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His Quotes
McGregor is a champion, even though many are not too fond of his mannerisms at times, he is someone who embodies hard work, dedication, discipline, and the relentless pursuit to be the best at his craft. His quotes are quite inspirational:
1. All that matters is how you see yourself. If you see yourself as the king, with all the belts and everything, and no matter what no one else says, as long as you see that and really believe in it, then that's what's going to happen.
2. Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision.
3. Excellence is not a skill. Excellence is an attitude.
4. Keep believing in your ability; believe in your shot, believe in your move and show up at the gym. It is a recipe for success that cannot be stopped.
5. There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.
Quick Facts about Notorious McGregor
Full Name: Conor McGregor
Profession: MMA/UFC fighter
Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight: 145 lb (66 kgs)
Ethnicity: Irish
Nationality: Ireland
Date of Birth: July 14, 1988
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Marital status: Dating (Dee Devlin)
Astrological sign: Cancer
Conor McGregor earnings: $64million


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- The World Economy
- Policies and Activities of the Fund
- toggleAppendices
- Appendix I International Reserves
- Appendix II Operations and Financial Transactions of the Fund
- Appendix III Technical Assistance and Training, Relations with Other International Organizations, and External Relations
- Appendix IV Principal Policy Decisions of the Executive Board
- Appendix V Press Communiqués of the Interim Committee and the Development Committee
- Appendix VI Executive Directors and Voting Power on April 30, 1992
- Appendix VII Changes in Membership of Executive Board
- Appendix VIII Administrative and Capital Budgets
- Appendix IX Financial Statements
Front Matter
- International Monetary Fund
- Published Date:
- January 1992
Annual Report, 1992
International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 0250-7498
Annual Report of the Executive Board for the Financial Year Ended April 30, 1992
Washington, D.C.
- Letter of Transmittal
- Toward A Global Monetary System
- The World Economy
- 1. Overview
- 2. Economic Developments and Policies
- Policies and Activities of the Fund
- 1. Surveillance
- Analytical Framework
- Article IV Consultations
- The Fund and the States of the Former U.S.S.R
- World Economic Outlook
- External Debt Situation and Strategy
- Evolution of the Monetary System
- 2. Fund Financial Support of Member Countries
- 3. Technical Assistance and Training
- 4. Trade Policy Issues
- 5. The Fund's Financial Operations and Policies
- Membership
- Ninth and Tenth General Reviews of Quotas
- Fund Liquidity and Borrowing
- Financial Operations
- Stand-By and Extended Arrangements
- Special Facilities
- SAF and ESAF
- Charges, Fund Income, and Burden Sharing
- Overdue Financial Obligations
- SDR Department
- Boxes
- 1. The IMF Executive Board, Interim Committee, and Development Committee
- 2. Chronology of the Fund's Relations with the Former U.S.S.R
- 3. Report of Working Party on Measurement of International Capital Flows
- 4. Monetary Unions and Common Currency Areas
- 5. The Maastricht Agreement on Economic and Monetary Union in the European Community
- 6. Fund Facilities and Policies
- 7. The General Arrangements to Borrow
- 8. The Fund and the Environment
- 9. The Distinct Roles of the IMF and the World Bank
- 10. Expansion of ESAF Eligibility
- 11. Obligations of Article VIII
- 12. The Uruguay Round
- 13. The Operational Budget
- Charts
- 1. Inflation Indicators
- 2. Major Industrial Countries: Output Gaps
- 3. Industrial Countries: Consumer Price Indices
- 4. Developing Countries and Regions: Real GDP
- 5. Developing Countries and Regions: Consumer Prices
- 6. Developing Countries, Eastern Europe, and the Former U.S.S.R.: External Debt and Debt Service
- 7. General Resources: Purchases and Repurchases, Financial Years Ended April 30, 1980-92
- 8. Total Fund Credit Outstanding to Members (Including Trust Fund, SAF, and ESAF), Financial Years Ended April 30,1980-92
- Tables
- 1. Overview of the World Economy, 1988-91
- 2. Quotas of the Fifteen States of the Former U.S.S.R. Under the Eighth and Ninth Reviews
- 3. Selected Financial Indicators, 1985-92
- 4. Arrears to the Fund of Members with Obligations Overdue by Six Months or More, 1987-92
- 5. Arrears to the Fund of Members with Obligations Overdue by Six Months or More, by Type and Duration, as of April 30,1992
- 6. SDR Valuation
- 7. Transfers of SDRs, January 1,1970-April 30,1992
- Appendices
- I. International Reserves
- II. Operations and Financial Transactions of the Fund
- III. Technical Assistance and Training, Relations with Other International Organizations, and External Relations
- IV. Principal Policy Decisions of the Executive Board
- V. Press Communiques of the Interim Committee and the Development Committee
- VI. Executive Directors and Voting Power on April 30, 1992
- VII. Changes in Membership of Executive Board
- VIII. Administrative and Capital Budgets
- IX. Financial Statements
The following symbols have been used in this Report:
- … To indicate that data are not available:
- — To indicate that the figure is zero or less than half the final digit shown, or that the item does not exist;
- - between years or months (e.g., 1991-92 or January-June) to indicate the years or months covered, including the beginning and ending years or months;
- / between years (e.g., 1991/92) to indicate a crop or fiscal (financial) year.
- "Billion" means a thousand million.
- Minor discrepancies between constituent figures and totals are due to rounding.
- All references to dollars are to U.S. dollars unless noted otherwise.
International Monetary Fund
Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board
Michel Camdessus
Deputy Managing Director
Richard D. Erb
|Executive Directors
|Executive Directors
|Thomas C.Dawson II
|Quincy M.Krosby
|David Peretz
|Paul Wright
|Bernd Goos
|Bernd Esdar
|Jean-Pierre Landau
|Isabelle Martel
|Hiroo Fukui
|Naoki Tabata
|Muhammad Al-Jasser
|Abdulrahman Al-Tuwauri
|Jacques de Groote
|Johann Prader
|Renato Filosa
|Ioannis papadakis
|Angel Torres
|Roberto Marino
|Zarko Trbojevic
|Mohamed Finaish
|Azizali F.Mohammed
|C.Scott Clark
|Gabriel C.Noonan
|R.Lindsay Knight
|Ingimundur Fridriksson
|Jon A.Solheim
|G.k. Arora
|L.Eustace N.Fernando
|Alexandre Kafka
|Juan Carlos Jaramillo
|Tanya Sirivedhin
|CHE Peiqin
|WEI Benhua
|Alejandro Végh
|A.Guillermo Zoccali
|Abbas Mirakhor
|Omar Kabbaj
|Corentino V.Santos
|Yves-Marie T.Koissy
Senior Officers
Sterie T.Beza*
Michael Mussa*
Economic Counsellor
Mamoudou Tbure*
Leo Van Houtven*
Graeme F. Rea
Administration Department
Mamoudou TourÉ
African Department
Hubert Neiss
Central Asian Department
Massimo Russo
European I Department
John Odling-Smee
European II Department
Shailendra J.Anjaria
External Relations Department
Vito Tanzi
Fiscal Affairs Department
Patrick B.de Fontenay
IMF Institute
Francois P.Gianviti
General Counsel
Legal Department
A.Shakour Shaalan
Middle Eastern Department
Monetary and Exchange
Affairs Department
John T.Boorman
Policy Development and Review Department
Michael Mussa
Research Department
Leo Van Houtven
Secretary's Department
kunio saito
Southeast Asia and Pacific Department
John B.Mclenaghan
Statistics Department
David Williams
Treasurer's Department
Sterie T.Beza
Western Hemisphere Department
Warren N.Minami
Bureau of Computing Services
Patrick Delannoy
In Charge
Bureau of Language Services
Andrew J.Beith
Office in Europe (Paris)
Helen B.Junz
Director and Special Trade
Office in Geneva
Alain Coune
Acting Director
Office of Internal Audit and Review
Ian S.McDonald
Chief Editor
*Alphabetical Listing
August 7,1992
Letter of Transmittal to the Board of Governors
August 5,1992
Dear Mr. Chairman:
I have the honor to present to the Board of Governors the Annual Report of the Executive Board for the financial year ended April 30,1992, in accordance with Article XII, Section 7(a) of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund and Section 10 of the Fund's By-Laws. In accordance with Section 20 of the By-Laws, the administrative and capital budgets of the Fund approved by the Executive Board for the financial year ending April 30,1993 are presented in Appendix VIII. The audited financial statements for the year ended April 30,1992 of the General Department, the SDR Department, accounts administered by the Fund, the Staff Retirement Plan, and the Supplemental Retirement Plan, together with reports of the External Audit Committee thereon, are presented in Appendix IX.
Yours sincerely,
Michel Camdessus
Chairman of the Executive Board
Chairman of the Board of Governors
International Monetary Fund
Toward a Global Monetary System
The global economic environment changed dramatically during 1991/92, creating challenges and opportunities for the world's policymakers. Many countries around the world, including those of Eastern Europe and the states of the former U.S.S.R., launched, or were following, policies to build market-based economies and to integrate them into the global economic system. This transformation is vital for the economic well-being of the countries themselves and for the rest of the world, since in an interdependent world, all countries gain if these countries become positive contributors to world economic growth.
Many industrial countries had to grapple with the effects of recession and sought to promote recovery in ways compatible with medium-term noninflationary growth. At the same time, many developing countries pursued, with Fund support, macro-economic and structural policies aimed at restoring balance of payments viability and noninflationary growth.
The Fund was at the center of many of these changes during the financial year. In particular, it was deeply involved in international efforts to support the transformation of the previously centrally planned economies of the former U.S.S.R. and in Eastern Europe. A major part of the Fund's work was devoted to helping the formerly centrally planned economies put in place their own strategies—suited to their special circumstances—to develop market-based systems. The Fund's support of these efforts required a major redeployment of staff—as well as the hiring of additional staff and the creation of a new department to work with the states of the former U.S.S.R. It also required a temporary modification to the normal scheduling of Article IV consultations with member countries and the postponement of analysis, and Executive Board discussion, of some other broad policy issues.
The Fund established relations with the former U.S.S.R. in October 1991, with the signing of a Special Association agreement between the Fund and the then-Soviet Union. The agreement opened the way for Fund policy advice and technical assistance to be made available immediately; following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, such advice and assistance was provided to the individual states. This was followed by pre-membership reviews of each of the states of the former U.S.S.R. and the determination of quotas for these states.
By May 4,1992, the Board of Governors of the Fund had adopted membership resolutions for all 15 states of the former U.S.S.R.; as of June 1, seven former Soviet states—Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrghyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia—had joined the Fund. Upon membership, they were entitled to Fund policy advice on a regular basis, technical assistance, and balance of payments financing in support of macroeconomic and structural reform programs.
Albania joined the Fund in October 1991 and Lithuania in April 1992. During May 1992, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Switzerland became members of the Fund. With the prospective membership of the remaining states of the former U.S.S.R., together with the prospective membership of the Republics of Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Hercegovina, the Federated States of Micronesia, and San Marino, the Fund is moving toward universal membership.


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Ladies, pay attention: If it�s too good to be true, it probably is - especially when it comes to purchasing those designer handbags at bargain-basement prices.
A sting operation Monday unveiled a scheme that involved promises of Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Coach and Dooney & Burke handbags ranging from $15 to $160.
The purses were sold on a Web site, www.shannasstuff.com.
Police arrested Shanna Sandoval, 24, of Stephenville Monday and charged her with trademark counterfeiting, authorities said.
Sandoval was allegedly operating the counterfeit handbag business out of an apartment at Royal Manor Apartments, where she lived.
Det. Sgt. Russell Ford said the Stephenville Police Department was asked to assist in the investigation by Joel Voyles, an investigator who works for a company that specializes in investigating counterfeit schemes.
Ford said companies like Chanel and Dooney & Burke hire investigation companies to break up these types of schemes.
�It is against the law to sell imitation handbags with designer names on them,� Ford said.
Sandoval was allegedly selling the handbags under the premise that they were imitation, but also claimed she could get the �real thing,� Ford said.
Sandoval was arrested after Voyles and another investigator purchased two handbags from her on Monday morning. Inside the apartment, authorities seized numerous handbags valued at an estimated $1,500.
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Noisily 2018Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th July 2018
Coney Woods, Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire, LE7 9EH, England MAP
currently £155
Noisily Festival returns for a 6th year to Coney Woods at Noseley Hall, in Leicestershire, and the dates are from Thursday 5th until Sunday 8th July 2018.
Confirmed acts include:- Patrice Baumel, Roni Size, Tristan, Oliver Koletski, Quivver, Perfect Stranger, Rinkadink, Stanton Warriors, Hatzler, Grouch, Black Sun Empire, Avalon, Sensient, Nanoplex, Logistics, and many more.
For the full line-up so far including stage splits please see the line-up page.
Tickets are on sale, operating on a tiered system, currently priced at £155 for the weekend.
Forest theme
In keeping with the site, structures will be made out of materials found in the forest, so the festival fits into the landscape rather than sits on it. Carpenters are already busy designing the woodland furniture and The Treehouse stage, while a decor team hope to ensure that the whole forest will be visually stunning. Music stages are licensed until 6am all weekend with bars licensed until 5am.
Over 18s only
Noisily is an entirely over 18 event, no children will be admitted. All attendees will be ID'd on entry so please don't forget it, and anyone under 18 will be refused entry so please do not attempt to buy tickets if you are underage, you will not be refunded.
Booze limit
Each person is usually limited to 8 beers or a bottle of wine. This will be for consumption in the campsite and no alcohol will be allowed into the main arena. No glass will be allowed onto site and bags will be searched on entry and excess alcohol and glassware will be confiscated.
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Set in a woodland playground in the rolling Leicestershire countryside less than one hour from Kings Cross, Noisily is billed as "a fully immersive environment, allowing 2,000 attendees to truly let themselves go for an entire weekend of unrestrained hedonism."
Noisily is also a place of artwork, performance and participation. Attendees are invited to get involved and be a part of Noisily, whether it be just by dazzling the crowds with dance moves or designing and building an interactive art installation.
New this year there will be a yoga flow workshop, a vegan sushi class, drum circles and a sound meditation workshop
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Noisily 2018Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th July 2018
Coney Woods, Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire, LE7 9EH, England MAP
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So... To recap I have had an X10 for a year, and an X-E1 for a few months and am very happy with both. A month or so ago I scored an almost unused X100 black set on eBay. I have just returned from a trip to Canterbury and Whitstable, taking the X-E1 and the X100. I am just not getting on with the X100. This is not the first time I have found this - I had the same experience when I took the same pair to Portsmouth. I am dissatisfied with my results and I don't really like the handling. It just isn't engaging me.
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Pets Best Insurance Launches in Japan
Posted on January 31, 2008 under Industry News
Pets Best Insurance Client Advocate, Torrey Stephens, takes a last minute look at the pet insurance agreement. As Masahiro Aruga, Business Development, Donald Dietrich, Administrator, Iwao Nonaga, Dr. Jack Stephens, Dale Peterson, Executive Director, and Greg McDonald, sign.
January 31, 2008, (Boise, ID) Today Pets Best Insurance hosted a delegation of business leaders anddignitaries from Japan and the state of Idaho to announce the launch of their brand of pet insurance inJapan. Pets Best founders, Jack Stephens DVM, and Greg McDonald, along with Pets Best Japan founderMr. Iwao Nonaga were on hand to meet with local Boise media about this historic expansion of pet healthinsurance from the United States to Japan.
Although several European pet insurance companies have expanded outside their countries' borders, thismarks a first for a leading pet insurance provider in the United States to expand its technology, businessprocesses and brand outside the United States and the first pet insurance company in Japan.
With a declining human birth rate in Japan, pets are becoming an integral part of the family. There are over25 million dogs and cats in Japan. Pets, according to a survey of Japanese pet owners, are consideredfriends and provide spiritual support. Just as in the United States and Europe, the rise in stature of petsincreases the utilization of veterinary care, resulting in greater need for pet insurance. Pets once consideredonly objects, were changed by legislation in 2004 as objects with life, an important distinction in Japaneseculture. Pets fulfill a needed role in Japanese society, just as in the United States by reducing stress,providing companionship, improving "good feeling" hormones and bringing joy to families.
The founder of Pets Best Japan spent several years doing an analysis of pet insurance in North America andEurope, focusing on products and systems. After an exhaustive search, the principals decided that PetsBest had the best product and proprietary software system for pet insurance. Mr. Iwao Nonaga, the founderof Pets Best Japan said, "After dealing with many companies in North America and Europe, we found thatDr. Jack Stephens, the founder of pet insurance in the United States, was by far the person with the mostknowledge and insight to provide us with a model for success. Our goal was to have a highly automated,streamlined system from which to operate and the best product to market to a highly discerning market inJapan."
The multi year agreement provides for all current and future automated underwriting and claims systems tobe utilized in Japan. In addition certain proprietary and patent pending processes and procedures of PetsBest will be utilized by Pets Best Japan in exchange for an upfront fee and ongoing royalties based onsales. In addition, Dr. Stephens will serve on the Pets Best Japan board of directors and be a senior advisorto the company. "The diligence and planning of Mr. Nonaga and his team was superlative and in greatdepth." Said Dr. Stephens. "In all my years I never experienced such due diligence and all of us at PetsBest are extremely proud that we were chosen over all other pet insurers in the world for this agreement."
Pets Best Insurance reimburses pet owners for services from the veterinarian they choose, with noschedules or fee restrictions, truly establishing it as "Pet insurance that really pays!" Pets Best Insurancewas founded by Dr. Jack Stephens, the pioneer of pet insurance with over 25 years in the pet insuranceindustry. Dr. Stephens is also an accomplished veterinarian and avid pet enthusiast. Pets Best includes achoice of four affordable coverage plans with a straightforward 80:20 claims reimbursement structure andNO benefit schedules. The Pets Best Insurance team is a highly skilled and professional group of pet loverswho have developed products based on innovation and insight into veterinary care. Visit Pets BestInsurance at www.petsbest.com or phone Pets Best Insurance at 877-PetsBest (738-7237). Pets Best,Simply the Best Pet Insurance.


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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito plan to use money in bank accounts that have been left untouched for 10 years or longer to support public interest activities, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
These so-called dormant accounts total 85 billion yen ($812 million) annually, and the account holders cannot be contacted. While their respective financial institutions currently record the money in dormant accounts as part of their own profits, account holders can still withdraw the money after accounts have been deemed dormant if they bring their passbook or seals to the bank.
If the plan is realized, money from dormant accounts is likely to be used to support social welfare or educational activities by private organizations, potentially as early as 2015, according to sources.
The two parties reportedly aim to submit a relevant bill to the ordinary Diet session to be convened later this month, with the sponsorship of a suprapartisan group of lawmakers, including the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan.
Under the plan, the money in dormant accounts will be transferred to the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, established by the government, the Bank of Japan and member financial institutions. A newly established body will then distribute the funds as subsidies or loans to individuals or corporate bodies who are engaged in public interest activities. The Cabinet Office or a third-party panel will review whether the money is distributed appropriately, the sources said.
The LDP and New Komeito are currently making final arrangement with the Financial Services Agency and the Cabinet Office, according to the sources.
The plan targets only accounts that are deemed dormant following the enactment of the bill, the sources said. As in the past, depositors will be permitted to withdraw the money even after an account has been left unattended for 10 years or longer.
Currently, money in dormant accounts at banks and other financial institutions is automatically recorded as profit. Some lawmakers have indicated at the Diet that it is unfair for banks to make profits without making any effort. In many countries, including Britain, Ireland and South Korea, dormant account money is used for social welfare or education.
Financial circles in Japan had been reluctant about the plan, which would lead to a decline in their profits. Furthermore, transferring the funds to the DIC will impose a significant burden on financial institutions.
However, as the latest plan by the ruling parties does not include accounts that have already been deemed dormant, the burden of these transfers will likely be reduced, which led some to make an about-face, the sources said.
While the LDP, Komeito and the DPJ are now working to submit a bill sponsored by a suprapartisan group of lawmakers, the ruling parties will submit the bill on their own if they encounter too many obstacles in reaching agreement with the DPJ on issues like selecting recipients of the funds. (The Japan News)


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What will the state of commercial real estate be in 2032?
What if someone had asked you the same question back in1992? What will be the state of commercial real estate in 2012? What would your answer have been?
Business Evolution Occurs Over Time………Maybe Not Anymore!
Commercial Real Estate 2032. The Reality.
Brokerage as we no it no longer exists. The corporate and legal style business models now rule. Building their base thru the bust and accelerating thru the booms to dominate.Survival of the fittest and clinging to the survival of an outdated industry.
Data is a simple commodity.The big data for pay model seems like asking someone to carry a land line phone around and plug it in to send and receive calls.
Data standards are recognized as the norm and are the same for every commercial property in the world.
Geolocating and BIM are the standard data set and the updating of that data by the nano second is the real commodity.
The data created buy commercial real estate is now more valuable than the actual structures themselves. Reread that.
The patent lawsuits are old news and the curators no longer rule. The patent of commercial real estate data to a specific brand saved many a corporate brand.
The dollars generated from enterprise and consumer apps has evloved to more of collaboration and sharing model for the corporate real estate brands.
The public and corporate side of what they use to call the "cloud" is now a battle ground of failing and antiquated services.The need to hold onto these services are irrelevant.
Machine learning is not only a given it is mainstream and threatens to take over the structure of commercial real estate.Damn I should have bought IBM stock!
Tablets,Location,NFC,Verbal and Immersive UX gone. Human Interaction,Authorization and Engagement is Commercial Real Estate.
Personal Mobile Computers (PMC) are like fashion accessories and the peripherals help create the experience for commercial real estate.Look thru your glasses and the restaurant glows blue. That's a positive sign from previous patrons and for commercial real estate.
Personal Reality(total immersion) replaces Augmented Reality.The experience is the reality.
Moore's Law. Dead on still.
Remember Google,Apple,R.I.M.,Nokia HP,Microsoft? I don't either. Remember the Pad thing Apple use to sell? Kodak was one of the most admired and profitable companies. I've heard the museum they have is nice.
The "community" of commercial real estate touches all things business.Helping create a transaction has no value. Creating "community" is the only value.
Commercial Real Estate 2012-2032
I will be around in 2032. Who will hold me accountable for these predictions? Who thinks there is no chance in hell these will even remotely become reality? Your 25-30-35-40 years old. Go ahead and take that chance and be very very wrong! Thoughts?


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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Genre: YA Dystopian / Science Fiction
Released: June 5th 2012
by Broadway Books
Source: Purchased
Rating: ★★★★
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It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. we've wrecked the climate. famine, poverty and disease are widespread.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours in the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. and like most of humanity, wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS – and his massive fortune – will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based on Halliday's obsession with 80s pop culture. and then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions – and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.
I love video games. I also really love reading (duh). So a book about a giant video game just seemed far too good to be true to me. At first, Ready Player One was a little too good to be true to the point that I was a little intimidated at first for two reasons: the first one being that the world-building had to be freaking huge, the second being that I know very little of 70s and 80s pop culture. I'm a product of the 90s, so I don't know much about entertainment from a little before my time. Thankfully, I was able to push past this intimidation and was able to really enjoy the book.
The story of Ready Player One revolves around a worldwide virtual easter egg hunt within a virtual-reality software called the OASIS. This egg hunt was set in motion by the OASIS's creator as a part of his will, with the prize being his entire fortune and the OASIS itself. Naturally, everyone wants to win the hunt but it has proven to be just a bit too difficult to crack and is left for five years, until one teenage boy cracks the first clue to finding the egg. I really enjoyed the story, but it actually took me two tries to fully get into the book because the beginning few chapters of the book were pretty hard-going for me to get through. We have four chapters of meaty world-building and backstories and then we're thrust into the story and it felt a bit jarring but I managed to push through and fully enjoy the story. I liked how exciting the book was for the most part, but there were some moments where the story moved particularly slow compared to other moments.
I think the best part of Ready Player One is definitely the characters, especially Wade himself. Wade isn't like most guys in YA fiction, he's not the one that you're meant to fall for and he most definitely is not the kind of guy that you'd swoon over. I think the fact that he's a realistic character makes him that much more likeable. He does have a sort of cynical view on everything that isn't the hunt, but at the same time it's a realistic view: the world as he knows it does suck and the only way to escape his crappy life is to go into the OASIS for hours on end and find the egg. I really liked Wade as a MC, and I enjoyed reading the story through his point of view.
Most of the action in Ready Player One takes place within the OASIS, and I really liked how much of a good image I had of how the various 'planets' within the VR would have looked. I had a bit of a doubt as to how this virtual world would be pulled off and I am glad to say that that doubt was completely smashed to smithereens thanks to how realistic it was described and written. In fact, I ended up preferring the virtual world to the book's 'real' world because that was where all the good stuff was happening.
I found Ready Player One to be very different to most dystopian novels, which is a much needed different. I enjoyed the world-building, even though it was a bit tough to chew at first, the characters and the way that the story played out. I would definitely recommend this book, even if you've grown tired of dystopians.


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Twenty-five Pounds
Twenty-five pounds is the amount of money that Agnes is paid to teach the Bloomfield children.
Mansion of Wellwood
The mansion of Wellwood is the house in which the Bloomfields live.
A Well
It is in this forbidden well that the children are playing when Agnes first meets Mr. Bloomfield.
A Nest of Baby Birds
Tom and his uncle Robson find these baby birds in the woods. Tom intends to torture the birds but Agnes drops a stone on them and kills them to keep him from doing so.
Horton Lodge
Horton Lodge is the name of the house where the second family for which Agnes works as governess lives.
Seventy Miles
Seventy miles is the distance that the Murray's home is from Agnes' home.
Valpy's Delectus
Valpy's Delectus is a book of Latin written by Richard Valpy. This is one thing that Mrs. Murray wants...
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text: KDDI Labs. By reducing the amount of characteristics required to map a sound field, KDDI has made it possible to fry your eardrums three dimensionally on a smartphone. Since the virtual sound is recorded with multiple mics, users can move around the gig in real-time to hear music from any angle. Using the software, (and hopefully soon, a web-based app), virtual concert goers can cut out certain vocals or instruments, making it perfect for a mobile karaoke inferno. Rock out to the video after the break.


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How do you create a truly unique digital product that has potential to disrupt the market? Or one that serves as a much better alternative to current solutions? This collection of chapters from several published and forthcoming books in the O'Reilly Design Library focuses on a project's critical early phase, when you and your team are defining a product strategy for delivering real value to users and stakeholders alike.
With excerpts from books on lean methodology and UX strategy, this free Design sampler explains several methods for creating a cohesive plan based on deep understanding of your customers and business model. You'll also get advice for building in-house digital/experience design teams. Discover how the O'Reilly Design Library delivers knowledge and advice you need to expand your skillset and stay current with best practices in UX design.
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Corn and Black Bean Salad
This colorful salad looks great on the table. It can be made in advance to save you time on prep!
TOTAL TIME:20 minutes
- 2 cans (15 oz. each) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 2 cups corn kernels
- Âľ cup red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- Âľ cup orange bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- Âľ cup white sweet onion, finely chopped
- 1 large tomato, chopped
- 2 small jalapeno peppers, seeded and finely minced
- ½ cup fresh cilantro or parsley, finely chopped
- ÂĽ cup fresh lime juice
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- ½ tsp. ground cumin
- ½ tsp. ground coriander
- ÂĽ cup olive oil
Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Fold gently to mix well. Chill and serve.
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DJ Trivia at Spare Time Greenville
Come out every Monday night to Spare Time Greenville on Congaree Rd for DJ Trivia. We are in the bar with a FUN, an entertaining atmosphere with great food, cold drinks and the Hottest Game in the Upstate. Science, History, Current Events, Movies, Music are just a few of the topics we cover in this 20 question 4 round game. Leagues are available with nightly prizes for 1st 2nd & 3rd place. Registration begins at 6:30 with the game starting around 7. FREE to play and open for individuals and teams.


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After ashort civil ceremony at the Ca'Farsetti palace in northern Venice, George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin officially became a family under the Italian law. They came to the municipal building by their boat, called 'Amore' at 1:25 p.m. local time today, on Monday.
Both of them greeted the fans before entering the hall. Clooney was wearing a gray suit and a tie, while the beautiful Alamuddin had a stylish cream pantsuitt with a black waistband and and elegant and matching hat. The civil ceremony took about 10 minutes, after which they appeared outside again. They left after boarding their romantic boat.
The ceremony today made their marriage official after their beautiful wedding on Saturday, which was made again in the romantic Venice. Then,the actor and the guests were escorted by a dozen water taxis to the luxurious Hotel Aman, where the futureMrs. Clooney had spent the night, waiting for the arrival of her groom. The wedding guests, of course, matched the spectacular ceremony –Bono, Bill Murray, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin, Emily Blunt, Anna Wintour, John Krasinski and so on.
Soon after the civil ceremony today, Clooney and his bride – the human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin, were spotted at the Venice airport.


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Flying aerobatic maneuvers is exciting and part of radio control flying! In this RC hobby video, Bob Snyder teaches some basic maneuvers that you will want to learn before you begin to fly. Watch as he demonstrates the loop, aileron roll and inverted flight maneuvers.
How to Land an RC Plane
Bob Snyder teaches you how to land an RC plane safely and efficiently. Landing your plane is something that needs to be done and in this featured video, Bob provides helpful tips and techniques for making the landing process much easier. Find out how the weather conditions play a role in the landing process and
Using a Table Saw Jig to Rip Skinny Pieces of Wood
For whatever reason, you may want to make skinny pieces of wood even skinnier, but the fence on your table saw doesn't typically allow you to do so, until now. George Vondriska developed a simple sled jig that you can create using a 10″ board and an old push pad to provide greater control over
Cut Dovetail Sockets with a Shop Made Table Saw Dovetail Jig
Learn a new method of cutting dovetail sockets that utilizes a shop-made table saw jig. Everyone loves the look of dovetails, and they deliver unquestionable strength and durability as a woodworking joint. The approach described by George in this video is a simple, flexible means of producing high quality dovetails using a table saw dovetail
Using Horizontal Raised Panel Router Bits
Master the process of building stylish cabinet doors using horizontal raised panel router bits. Raised panel doors contribute an air of distinction to a cabinet, but many woodworkers admit that they are intimidated by the process of building them. Like any process in woodworking, this one can be learned and mastered by following a set
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In this woodworking project demonstration, George Vondriska teaches you how to build a long-lasting end-grain cutting board that will look and work great in your kitchen. He walks through the cutting board plans step-by-step for building the board from scratch, including wood and pattern selection, initial layout, cut mechanics and finishing.
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You'll learn about some of the available charging options for your RC model's battery pack. No matter what type of battery you choose to use on your model, there is a charging system that is ideal for the type of flying you plan to do. We warn against making changes to your aircraft's electronics with
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Here's a great solution if you've been struggling with a resaw fence for your bandsaw. The solution for this problem is probably already in your shop. In this woodworking video, we'll show you how to make your own bandsaw fence. You'll find that it's easy to position and easy to adjust for drift compensation. It