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The small and unspoiled island province of Camiguin in Northern Mindanao boasts white beaches, diving spots, mountain trekking, volcano tours and a few waterfalls. Camiguin is a paradise for both tourists looking for tranquility or thrill-seekers hungry for adventure. Perhaps one of the most photographed destinations in the region, this island off the northern tip of the province is the must-visit place when in Camiguin.
via Cagayan de Oro
- Book a flight to Laguindingan Airport. This is the main city airport of CDO located between the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines have direct flights to Laguindingan from Manila and Cebu.
- From the airport, take a shuttle to CDO City Proper. We took the LAX Shuttle which has stops at Centrio Ayala Mall and Agora Integrated Bus Terminal. Drop off at Agora Eastbound Integrated Bus Terminal. Travel time is 1 hr.
- From Agora Bus Terminal, ride a bus bound to Butuan. Drop off at Balingoan Port, an hour or two from CDO.
- Walk from Balingoan Bus Terminal to Balingoan Port. The port is just 2-3 minute walk from the bus terminal.
- Ride a ferry going to Benoni Port. Travel time takes a maximum of 2 hours.
- From Benoni Port, ride a jeep or shuttle van outside the port going to Mambajao. Travel time is around 30-45 minutes.
- Once in Mambajao, you may ride a rela (a local and bigger tricycle) or habal-habal going to Paras Beach Resort. Tell the driver you're off to White Island and he'll drop you off exactly at the docking area going to the island.
We entered Mindanao via CDO as part of our 9-day Mindanao adventure to Davao Oriental, Surigao del Sur, Butuan, CDO, Iligan and Camiguin. CDO is the nearest entry point coming from Manila. However, there are direct once-a-day Cebu-Camiguin flights via Cebu Pacific. We read that there's a direct ferry from CDO to Camiguin but as of January 2016, Paras Sea Cat from Macabalan Port in CDO to Camiguin has been discontinued.
There's a variety of resorts and inns in Camiguin, most of which are located in the northern tip of the island facing the picturesque White Island. We stayed at Paguia's Cottages where we got a spacious cottage for 4 for only P800/night (which we had to bargain). Paguia's Cottage is in front of the more popular Paras Beach Resort. Here's an extensive list of hotels in Camiguin.
There are also restaurants along Camiguin Circumferential Road near Paguia's Cottages. Our favorite is the cozy Italian restaurant Luna, which serves brick-oven pizza and a whole range of flavorful pasta.
White Island is on top of our list in Camiguin. We'd skip the hot and cold springs, the falls and even Mantigue Island; White Island is our foremost destination in Camiguin.
We decided to go to the island at 3PM. 1) To avoid the scorching afternoon sun and 2) so we'll have enough time to spend in the island and go back by sunset. The island is right in front of Paras Beach Resort, which is beside the terminal for ferry boats. One can underestimate the distance from the shore but it's farther than you think. The boats are small and waves can get rough. The boatride lasts for 20-30 minutes.
The glistening blue water make the literally white island standout. As you get nearer, the water gets clearer and the shades of blue are more apparent. There's a sari-sari store in deserted island which also serves as a landmark. The boat dock near the sari-sari store, where you can buy food, chips and drinks. You can also rent umbrellas here. We've read that during peak season, more stores set-up in the island.
The island stretches for about 80-100 meters depending on the tide, with the picture-perfect Mt. Hibok-hibok and Old Vulcan serving as its background. The water around the island is shallow, perfect for swimming and wading. The sand is a mixture of fine crushed corals and dead white corals washed to the shore.
- Transportation:
- Aircon bus to Balingoan Port from Agora Bus Terminal in CDO – P148
- Ferry from Balingoan Port to Benoni Port in Camiguin – P170
- Terminal fee P15 and environmental fee P2
- Jeepney from Benoni Port to Mambajao – P30
- Rela from Mambajao to the docking area to White Island – P15
- Pump boat to White Island – P450, good for 1-6 passengers
- Entrance fee – P20
- Go to the island from 6-10AM or 4-6PM. Avoid the afternoon sun at all costs. Best to watch the sunrise and sunset in the island.
- Check the weather before going to White Island. Our boatman had a hard time navigating our way back because of the rough waves. It's probably worse during rainy season.
- The small island get crowded during summer.
- If you're going to swim or snorkel, best to use sunscreen that is 'reef safe'. There's an abundant and diverse marine life around White Island that we should protect from bleaching.


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Mark Byrnes
Mark Byrnes is a former senior associate editor at CityLab who writes about design and architecture.
Shortly after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside his motel room in Memphis on April 4, 1968, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller issued a public statement. A true memorial to King, he said, "cannot be made of stone, it must be made of action."
Five days later, the governor was in Atlanta to attend the civil rights leader's funeral, and he expected to go to sleep that night having followed through on his statement.
Rockefeller had been elected governor in 1958; he'd already left his mark on the state, reinvigorating its public university system, creating the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (and taking significant planning power away from Robert Moses), and forming a State Council on the Arts, which later became the model for the National Endowment for the Arts. One particular idea, however, was a little too big. Rockefeller wanted to create a superagency that could plan and design cultural centers, stadiums, factories, parking garages, and—most controversially—tens of thousands of affordable housing units, from Niagara Falls to Montauk. And he understood that the fraught days after the King assassination would be his best hope to get enough votes to jam such legislation through.
It worked: Rockefeller's New York State Urban Development Corporation was born on April 9. From 1968 through 1975, the UDC went for broke, building 33,000 housing units for 100,000 people in 110 developments until it ran out of money and political protection. High-rises, low-rises, urban, suburban, Brutalist, Postmodern; each existed so that non-wealthy New Yorkers could live a better life, whether in a struggling city or a thriving suburb.
Half a century later, the UDC projects that remain speak to the essential service they provide. The ones that no longer exist shed light on the realities that make it so hard to build and maintain high-quality affordable housing to this day.
The UDC was given the kind of sweeping powers that the NIMBYs and YIMBYS now going toe-to-toe over affordable housing construction might find hard to imagine. Its leaders could ignore all local zoning and planning restrictions wherever it went. Its money would come from selling bonds, collecting appropriations, and gathering subsidies. Unlike private developers, the UDC would have all of the financing it needed for a project starting on day one. The idea was that by making all of the funds for a project available in the beginning, planning and design wouldn't have to be subjected to value engineering. After their work was finished, construction, ownership, and management would be undertaken by private companies.
And it would be run by Edward J. Logue.
A city planner who "roared up and down the East Coast from the 1950's to the 1980's like an urban renewal whirlwind," as The New York Times memorably described him in its obituary in 2000, Logue got his start in New Haven, where, in the 1950s, he brought in the most federal urban renewal funds per capita of any city. He also committed many of the same mistakes other U.S. planners made at the time—misguided neighborhood clearance, an expressway that divided the city, and downtown renewal that favored large-scale projects that catered to suburbanites. In 1961, he was put in charge of the powerful Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). Under his watch, the agency added 20,000 new housing units and rehabilitated more than 35,000.
But urban advocates and academics familiar with both cities at the time had no lack of criticism for his work and methods. In a 1970 Times feature on Logue, a Harvard urbanist recalled shoddy construction and tenant complaints in Washington Park; when it came to slum renewal in Boston, the planner "set the middle‐class blacks against the poor blacks," an MIT sociologist said. "If you want to know what he does, ask the rioters in New Haven," Jane Jacobs told the Times. "The poor were rooted out, and many of their businesses were destroyed or relocated out in the country in order simply to give the city a better image."
In 1966, New York Mayor John Lindsay asked Logue to help him reconsider the way the city did housing and development. After Logue suggested merging the city's planning and development functions, Lindsay backed off bringing in the master builder out of fear he'd merely become the next Robert Moses.
At the invitation of Rockefeller in January 1968, Logue—fresh off of an unsuccessful campaign to be Boston's next mayor—examined a draft of the UDC charter and helped the governor, a fierce rival of Lindsay, beef it up into something no mayor could stifle. "Logue remembered every trick in the book that he'd run up against and we'd load that into the bill," Robert Douglass, an adviser to the governor, recalled in Richard Norton Smith's Rockefeller biography, On His Own Terms. "By the time they were through, it felt like we were presiding over local plumbing codes."
Not surprisingly, the UDC's disregard for home rule would make it impossible to pass under nearly any circumstances. But using King's assassination, the ensuing riots, and a sense that government would now have to make some meaningful progress towards addressing King's civil rights goals, Rockefeller would find a way.
On April 9, he called in from Atlanta for an update on a vote he was assured would pass. Rockefeller found out that while the senate fell in line, the assembly did not. As retold in On His Own Terms, Rockefeller ordered the state police to launch a dragnet to round up wayward legislators, who "were tracked to theaters, restaurants, and other favorite haunts." As Smith writes, "one by one, the dissidents were brought to the second-floor office, where Douglass served as Rockefeller's chief enforcer."
Douglass told one Rockland County legislator, "I know you don't like the bill, but you're on the list of guys who are going to vote for it." He also threatened to have an Air Force base runway extended through the legislator's district (or house, depending on who's retelling the story) if he didn't change his mind.
Just before midnight, the assembly vote had been reversed in favor of the UDC. Quietly, it turned out, the governor also approved a new pension plan that allowed lawmakers and staff to retire at half pay after 20 years of employment.
The agency established a "70-20-10" housing formula: 70 percent middle income units, 20 percent low income, 10 percent elderly. But funding was not as easy as the UDC hoped for. It could sell bonds to secure local property tax exemptions, but that would still not be enough to subsidize low-income units. Luckily, the U.S. Housing Act of 1968 passed that August, establishing a new federal rental housing subsidy program that the UDC would lean on heavily.
Letters from mayors across the state arrived at Logue's desk in 1968, expressing enthusiasm for the new agency and an eagerness to get going on already selected sites targeted for infill and redevelopment. Mayor Lindsay in New York was not nearly as thrilled, but he eventually assigned eight projects to the UDC, seven of which were understood to be on topographically difficult sites. Logue accepted these less-than-ideal sites for the prize of Roosevelt Island. There, he would build a car-restricted, dense, and modern "New Town" geared to serve working families.
In suburbs across the state, the agency was met with deep mistrust and suspicion—particularly in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst and in Lysander, outside Syracuse, where the agency wanted to build New Towns. A year after the UDC's creation with little to show, WCBS-TV in New York City ran a station op-ed in 1969 challenging its lack of results. It referred to the UDC as a "reluctant giant" facing heavy resistance from affluent suburbs and questioned Logue's conciliatory approach at the time. Never known for being passive or cautious, Logue said to BusinessWeek about the criticism, "I think I'm going to enjoy that one for a while."
As confident as Logue always seemed, there was already a sense that the agency would be neutered or killed off by Albany before it could fulfill its ambitions. Bills to limit the UDC's powers had been introduced at every single legislative session since it went into law—held off only by Rockefeller's political maneuverings.
In 1970, the UDC rolled out its biggest ideas for a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, "Another Chance For Cities." The show catalogue declared that by the end of the decade, "135,000 new residential units will be needed annually in New York State. Without new approaches it seems likely that 45,000 of these will not be built. The UDC expects to try to fill over half of this gap."
As the Whitney show demonstrated, the ambitions of the UDC were not limited to the volume of units it promised to build. Its projects also emphasized design. Logue's work in New Haven and Boston showed a bias towards post-Miesian design, embracing brick and concrete over glass curtain walls and exposed steel. (A 1986 WGBH tour of Boston with Logue best demonstrates his disdain for glass buildings.) Throughout his time at the UDC he kept clippings of Ada Louise Huxtable's architecture columns for the New York Times to help keep up with the design discourse, and his agency hired a wide range of talented architects in age and style.
This was apparent in "Another Chance For Cities." There was Davis, Brody and Associates's Harlem River Park project, which demonstrated a much needed twist on the brick towers that were ubiquitous in New York City's public housing. James Polshek, Richard Meier, and Giovanni Pasanella did the same in their Twin Parks housing projects for the Bronx. Upstate, Paul Rudolph used varied scale and setbacks to create Shoreline apartments, a humane and textural project in Buffalo surrounded by a busy commercial street and elevated highway. Werner Seligmann and Associates, meanwhile, would design modern apartments to blend into the hills outside of Ithaca that would not look out of place in Switzerland.
Architect Ted Liebman, now a principal at Perkins Eastman, joined the UDC in 1970 as its Chief of Architecture. "Every 10 minutes," he recalled, "there would be a groundbreaking and Ed Logue would say, 'Why aren't we doing more? We don't need housing anymore?'"
High-rise construction had become the de facto solution for affordable housing in urban America, and the UDC didn't shy away from it either. That didn't sit right with Liebman. "I was upset with a high-rise that was being built and thought that we should be building very dense low-rise housing," he told CityLab. "Conceptually, Ed liked the idea but he said, 'I'm not ready to fight the world on high rises.'"
Liebman visited 80 housing projects in Europe and returned with a "Low Rise High Density" prototype that he thought would work in New York City. Logue was enamored with idea that Liebman had lived in these European projects he visited, so they created a "live-in program" in which UDC employees and their families would spend one or two weeks living in a low-income housing project. They also started a design program exploring factory-built modular housing and hired an environmental psychologist who would conduct a "design for living" assessment of each project. "Logue didn't want us to lose sight of why we were working for the UDC," recalls Liebman.
The agency teamed up with the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies to debut its Low Rise High Density concept applied to an urban and suburban site for the 1972 MoMA show, "Another Chance For Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives." Its urban model for the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn would eventually be built, but the suburban model for Fox Hills in Staten Island would not.
Most cities across New York were generally enthusiastic for the UDC's arrival. But in the suburbs, it was a different story. Articles in local newspapers—even in towns where the UDC had no concrete plans—showed intense local mistrust towards the agency from the day it was formed.
Images of Ed Logue using eminent domain in any suburb would have turned the agency into something beyond unpalatable throughout the state, so the UDC's greatest power was only to be used as a negotiation chip. In many cases, the agency would even increase its lowest rent levels at individual projects to satisfy locals and fill budget gaps.
Contentious welcomes in Westchester, where the UDC wanted to build dozens of units in each of the county's nine towns, made it clear that top-down planning to avoid haphazard, isolating, and inequitable sprawl would be a challenge. "He felt the only real solution to creating more equity and addressing the deep problems of low-income urban residents was to find housing options for them outside of the city," Lizabeth Cohen, author of an upcoming book on Logue, told CityLab last year.
"We didn't try to rock the boat, but when we did it was because we wanted the architecture to be good and the programs to be more than minimal," Liebman said. "I had five years of going into the poorest neighborhoods [in New York City], and people from community meetings would walk me to the subway and watch me get on train to make sure I got through all right. When I went with Logue to Bedford [an affluent town in Westchester], we came with a guy with a gun in his pocket, because Ed's life was threatened."
As the decade wore on, the political currents shifted against the UDC. In January of 1973, President Richard Nixon settled into his second term and ordered a moratorium on all new commitments under existing housing subsidy programs. This included Section 236 subsidies, which covered up to 90 percent of housing costs. HUD money was the lifeblood of the UDC's low income housing plans and it had made significant financial commitments to projects it would no longer have enough money for. Four months later, Albany passed a bill that allowed towns and villages to reject the UDC's low‐ and moderate‐income housing projects. As a trade-off, the agency was able to increase its bonding, but it was a strong message from the state's suburbs.
The political freefall was well underway. Rockefeller left office in December 1973, leaving his successors to rein in a spiraling budget. In 1974, New York repealed bond covenants that had restricted involvement in mass transit by the Port Authority, a move that upset investors. In 1975, just after Logue's departure, state legislators refused to appropriate more than $100 million to repay UDC bond anticipation notes. The agency defaulted. Logue would later explain that the banks decided to teach the state a lesson by letting the UDC default. His agency, he said, was "picked, singled out, and used as a whipping boy" as revenge by the private financial community.
Logue was called into Moreland Act Commission hearings centered around the financial collapse of the agency he oversaw. Brought as evidence in one hearing, a December 1971 memo spoke to Logue's cavalier attitude towards money. According to an October 1975 New York Times report, after being informed by the UDC treasurer that his borrowing plan for 1973 would be unfeasible, Logue responded:
"I do not believe there is any evidence to support your conclusion, and I do not propose to go looking for any. We are going to build as much as we can. The need is here now. When, having prudently managed our affair, we have gone as far as we can go and we can't borrow any more, that is another day . . . In other words, that is my problem."
Stephen Lefkowitz, who wrote the UDC charter, recalled Logue's manipulation of the agency's selling point—its ability to finance projects in their entirety from the start. As told to Richard Norton Smith:
[W]e didn't finance one by one. What we did—instead of 20 bond issues for 20 projects, each having sufficient funds to complete its particular project—we issued basically nonspecific, nonproject bonds. We started, say, 20 projects and the bond issue would contain, say, 10 percent of the funds required for each of those projects. This was an imaginative approach to the problem… the problem, of course, came when we couldn't borrow the rest of the money."
This did not surprise critics like Jane Jacobs, who said to the Times five years before the agency's collapse, "[he's] magnificent at taking the glory and leaving the pieces for someone else to pick up… By the time the UDC is obviously failing and the state sees it has a mess on its hands, he will have left—he has a great capacity for moving on at just the right moment."
After the default in 1975, Richard Ravitch was appointed to take over the agency and straighten out its finances. It wrapped up work on the remaining housing units and turned into little more than an economic development arm of the state.
Logue made a brief, humble return to New York in the 1980s to build affordable homes in the South Bronx for Mayor Ed Koch. He died in 2000. Five years later, worried that the agency's history would be forgotten, Liebman and his wife put together whatever materials they had from his time at the UDC for an exhibition at the Graduate Center CUNY. To this day, he takes great pride in the work he and his colleagues did for New York State. "We had the brightest people I've ever worked with in my entire life," says Liebman.
And they had to be. "Ed Logue had it in the UDC legislation that he could fire people. He didn't want anyone staying a day longer than they were working hard. But he didn't have to fire people, because everyone was so excited to be there. The ones are still living I still know; we're like a small club."
However diluted or flawed some may be, the communities built by the UDC—done by an impressive collection of architects and planners—only exist because of the shrewd maneuverings of one politician during one of America's grimmest weeks. "We wouldn't have had the UDC if King wasn't assassinated," says Liebman. "We wouldn't have had it if Rockefeller didn't call every legislator and twist their arm to get those votes."
There is little in the way of money, political enthusiasm, or general goodwill towards an agency like the UDC or a figure like Logue today. But their mission was noble, and their work is well worth remembering. CityLab has selected 12 projects that show a range of ideas—high and low rises, suburban and urban, failures and successes—that best exemplify the agency's abilities as well as the economic and political realities then and today:
As highlighted in the Graduate Center CUNY show, three projects by Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen show an adaptable "kit of parts" design formula for elderly housing repeated at three sites. Carousel Park in Tonawanda is anchored by a brick tower, a community center, and a shared outdoor space. A three-floor section stretches out from it and integrates itself into the street grid—a similar layout exists in Rome's Madison Park complex. In a busy mixed-use corridor just north of downtown Buffalo, the formula is adapted to a high-rise with first floor retail. Each remains successful to this day.
In the name of urban renewal, Buffalo wiped out a vibrant, working-class neighborhood just behind its city hall in the 1960s and built a highway through it, expecting new investment. When that investment failed to materialize, it turned to the UDC to bring the area back to life. Logue tapped Paul Rudolph, of whom he grew fond during his time in Boston, for the job. The architect's vision included low rises, high rises, a community center, a school, public space, and retail. But as Rudolph tinkered with the design and the state faced construction delays, time and money started running out. Very little of the project was realized, and its current ownership has decided to demolish the most visible and dense section of it. It currently sits in squalor; left wide open and completely ransacked along a prominent city street next to the developer's new builds for its tenants.
River Park Commons, with over 400 units, was one of the UDC's earliest projects. It did not age well. Gruzen and Partners's four long low-rise units along Mt. Hope Avenue were demolished and replaced by new ownership in 2009. The new project is the opposite of what it replaced—colorful and with an emphasis on separation between units to create a sense of variety. But a facelifted version of the original high rise still stands; while locals make fun of its new look, the renovation earned an "Upstate Project of the Year presented by the New York State Association for Affordable Housing" and an "Outstanding Rehabilitation Design Award from New York State Homes and Community Renewal" in 2012. The high rise and low rise are branded and priced separately ("The Hamilton" high rise is 100 percent affordable, the "Erie Harbor" townhomes 20 percent), and both still provide immediate access to park space right up against the Genesee River.
The Pines of Perinton's 506 income-restricted units give residents of this quaint and walkable small town access to superior public schools, transit, and a historic town center along the Erie Canal. Designed by Gwathmey Siegel, the sprawling site blends into the wooded and hilly landscape. A vast maze of white rectangular units cleverly open into courtyards, green space, and small sections of surface parking, creating an "eyes on the street" environment with spontaneous interactions. Some units are elevated with covered parking underneath. Despite wear and tear, Pines of Perinton still functions as an important gateway for the region's immigrants, elderly, and disabled to the jobs and services this affluent suburb just outside Rochester offers.
Completed in 1974, Kennedy Square and its 409-units were defined by two 8-story concrete and brick towers surrounded by low-rise residential buildings and green space. Taking up just over 10 acres of land just outside downtown Syracuse, it began to deteriorate in the 1990s and was eventually demolished, starting in 2009. The state then transferred it to Upstate Medical University, which teamed up with local developers COR on a deal that has long been seen as suspiciously favorable. Since the plan was announced, two of COR's top officials have been accused of bribing a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo for other local projects. If Kennedy Square is ever fully redeveloped, it will be known as Loguen Crossing—named after Reverend Jermain Loguen, who lived nearby and whose home was part of the Underground Railroad.
Werner Seligmann and Associates's design for what's now known as West Village brought Modernism from Europe's mountain towns to Ithaca. On this deeply inclined site in a quiet neighborhood, one wide structure at the top of the site anchors a series of more intimate ones down the hill, connected by steps and corridors. But the isolated location has arguably exacerbated its problems. Residents without vehicles are too far away from jobs and services, and the complex has been plagued by crime. The property was sold in 2008 and has abandoned the 70-20-10 UDC pricing model for Section 8 vouchers only. As part of the sale, new ownership replaced the complex's white walls which were accented by blue, yellow, green, red, and orange sections. Now, beige and green vinyl siding define the site. If the new aesthetic is meant to imply that things are safe and familiarly suburban, the inescapable presence of security cameras scattered throughout says something else.
Ely Park was designed by The Architects Collaborative, created by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, among others. Now known as "Legacy Bay," it abandoned a low- and moderate-pricing model when new ownership took over in 2008 and now provides market-rate rents for its 414 units. Its one of the UDC's most suburban designs—a remote location and sprawling layout, sprinkled along a winding road that reaches a dead end. Yet it still provides easy access to transit, educational services, and urban amenities.
For a model of the Low Rise High Density project in Brownsville on display at the 1972 MoMA show, Logue wrote, "If [Brownsville] is to be rebuilt successfully, the new low-rise prototype, both as a unit and an aggregate whole, must afford not only a sense of individual identity but also a sense of community." Marcus Garvey Park Village, according to Urban Omnibus, has more units per acre than NYCHA's Van Dyke housing towers next door. Unlike typical brick public housing towers, the design by Ted Liebman and Kenneth Frampton's includes internal courtyards and pedestrian streets, forming an urban scene that balances a traditional layout with a modern design. The project is not spared from the neighborhood's ongoing struggle with poverty, drug use, and crime, but it stands out to this day as an exceptional approach to urban housing.
The UDC's most equitable and urban New Town is Roosevelt Island, which continues to evolve its Philip Johnson and John Burgee 1969 master plan. Its pedestrian and transit-oriented layout makes for a uniquely calm New York City experience. Tourists can enjoy a tram ride in from Manhattan (built because its subway station opened far later than originally planned) and visit the recently completed FDR Memorial. A new generation of tech entrepreneurs and students are getting familiar with the island thanks to the Cornell Tech campus, which opened last fall. Despite additional high-end housing construction in recent years, the UDC's vision for the site—where people of all ages and incomes share the same library, post office, and grocery store—can still be felt walking up and down Main Street.
With Twin Parks, the agency designed for sloped sites formed by blast rock while the city worked on the flatter sites on the same project—a deal Logue gladly accepted from Mayor Lindsay in exchange for the chance to develop Roosevelt Island. The dynamic tower designs and thoughtful public spaces receive mostly praise to this day, but maintenance issues and the borough's continued struggle to provide quality services and employment for its residents are a reminder—timely still—that architecture alone will not solve the root issues of a marginalized community.
Architects and planners have an obligation to protect health, safety and welfare through the spaces we design. As the George Floyd protests reveal, we've failed.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
Often ranked as one of the deadliest cities in America, Camden, New Jersey, ended 2017 with its lowest homicide rate since the 1980s.
U.S. cities are now seeing the critical role that public space plays during a crisis. But severe budget cuts are looming. Can investing in parks be part of the urban recovery?
A new report fleshes out the controversial demand to cut police department budgets and reallocate those funds into healthcare, housing, jobs, and schools. Will that make communities of color safer?

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How informed are you on voltage optimisation and how to benefit from it? Jim McIlfatrick has the answers.
Today, companies are increasingly coming under pressure to demonstrate their green credentials to both customers and the Government. And with the introduction of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, this pressure has become all the more pronounced. In the current economic climate, however, organisations need to look towards environmentally friendly solutions that also deliver a real and concrete return on investment.
As a result, voltage optimisation has become increasingly popular as a simple and practical way to address both financial and environmental concerns. Delivering energy savings of up to 25%, the technology reduces carbon footprint whilst cutting electricity bills and prolonging equipment life.
But with the marketplace saturated with 'green' energy-management products touting their emissions-saving potential, those thinking of investing in a voltage optimisation solution want to know what they are signing up for.
So, what is voltage optimisation and how does it work?
Although the National Grid typically supplies electricity at more than 240 V, most electrical equipment is designed to accept a range of voltages, with 240 V near the upper end of that range. For example, a 230 V linear appliance operating at 240 V will consume about 9% more energy than necessary.
Voltage optimisation helps mitigate this excess, adjusting the output voltage from the mains so that equipment receives only the necessary power to operate. Voltage optimisation reduces the input mains voltage, balances the phase voltage and regulates the output so that equipment does not consume more power than necessary.
By reducing supply voltage to a controlled, minimum level, voltage optimisation allows equipment to operate at optimum efficiency. This results in lower energy bills, longer-lasting equipment and reduced carbon footprint.
But does it really deliver a return on investment?
The answer is yes, and rapidly. Take for example, UK vegetable-box scheme, Riverford Organic Vegetables. After observing rising electricity costs with trepidation, Riverford wanted a money-saving solution that would fit in with their environmentally friendly ethos.
Following the installation of voltage-optimisation technology, initial site surveys have indicated a reduction in energy consumption of 11%, saving around £8000 annually.
As well as saving money, such an energy-management strategy is an easy step change for organisations with Carbon Reduction Commitments (CRC) as it is so simple to measure.
Qualifying organisations for the CRC have to monitor energy consumption and purchase allowances from the Government for each tonne of carbon dioxide they anticipate emitting in the upcoming year. As every kilowatt hour of electricity is equivalent to 0.54 kg of CO2, using voltage optimisation means emissions can be effortlessly calculated to assess carbon-credit requirements.
However, there are considerations to keep in mind before investing. Those in the building-services industry should be aware that there is more than one type of equipment that bills itself as 'voltage-optimisation' technology. In most cases this is a misnomer. Most products on the market are simply voltage-reduction devices — essentially fixed-ratio transformers that reduce the supply voltage by a fixed percentage. These devices can achieve useful savings if the site's voltage is stable and the phases are always balanced, but for the vast majority of sites this is not the case, and equipment often ends up receiving too much or too little power.
Most sites require true, dynamic voltage optimisation to maximise energy savings and carbon reduction. This breed of equipment has a so-called 'regulator' or 'stabiliser' function that continuously and automatically adjusts the amount by which the voltage is reduced.
Regulator technology facilitates a controlled environment similar to that achieved with air conditioning or a compressed-air system. It ensures that electrical equipment never receives more or less than the required minimum voltage for correct operation — important during the power dips and surges that can occur regularly. It also constantly balances the three output voltages, providing better operation of 3-phase loads. With this technology, savings are greater than with a simple fixed-ratio transformer, and electrical equipment lifetimes are maximised. As a result, equipment operates as efficiently as possible at all times, and running costs and carbon emissions are minimised.
Once you have ensured that the equipment you are looking at provides the right kind of true, dynamic voltage optimisation, the next step is setting aside the funds to invest in the technology.
However, despite knowing the long-term financial and environmental benefits of voltage optimisation, many companies put off purchasing. This is often due to short-term cash flow restrictions.
A number of finance solutions are available to businesses seeking to become more environmentally sound. For example, The Carbon Trust has recently introduced a new Energy Efficiency Financing Scheme. Through this, companies seeking to reduce their energy use with voltage optimisation can take out leases, fixed-rate loans and other financial options. Repayments will usually be made to match or exceed a customer's anticipated energy savings and can be arranged over terms from one to seven years, or for even longer periods in selected cases.
Such finance, along with the rate on return achieved through the technology itself, means energy efficiency can be easy for companies which want to be green but are nervous about putting down the capital.
Jim McIlfatrick is managing director of Claude Lyons


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"Mumbai is infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else." -Yash Chopra.
I find this quote very true!
It connects to all the Mumbaikars out there.
From being the habitat of the most expensive residential property of the world, Antilia, to being the hub of unbelievably cozy places, Mumbai has it all.
Well, I would say living in Mumbai is adventurous and transforming.
Trust me, Mumbai is sorcerous.
Getting to the point here,
This article is targeted for the people who are looking forward to investing in Mumbai's real estate anytime in the future.
And, even if you haven't thought about it, you still can evaluate the pros and cons.
So, here we go…
Mumbai is one place which still has a huge influx of people from across the country. Hence, prices increase constantly every year.
Not so much. But, still.
Therefore, if you plan to make an investment, do that in Mumbai.
The rental rates are high, plus, after 3 years you can sell the property of and get great benefits.
Mumbai is the best city in India for commercial real estate investment, with returns of 12-19 per cent likely in the next five years, followed by Bengaluru and Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR).
Recommended post: Reasons to buy a property before 2017 ends.
When the talent is driven into the city from across the country, there is indeed, huge exposure.
With the establishment of IT industry, and being a Bollywood hub, Mumbai became a magnet attracting thousands of people every year.
Whilst, the city is rather safe, one of the reasons is the great police and even, there is great awareness among people. Moreover, the city never sleeps!
Mumbai shows 17% of vacancies approximately in office market according to a survey.
And, the city is well connected as well.
In terms of both commercial and residential properties, Mumbai is the best.
Having to be stuffed with opportunities and talent, the city can bring great boons.
Mumbai is one of the biggest hospitality markets in India.
Well, it is expensive.
You can say a lot.
But, I believe it gives the person many opportunities to carve a decent living.
The average cost of living in Mumbai ranges from 23000 INR to 50000 INR.
Traffic, pollution, and population are some interconnected problems in the place.
However, this is an issue with every place of this country. Whilst, Mumbai being the city of dreams makes people addicted to it.
Pollution index of the city is 86.70% according to a survey.
Must Read: Reasons for not purchasing a property.
Because, of the Indian ocean, Mumbai has a weird climatic condition. Wikipedia has provided a detailed description of the weather of the city, Mumbai.
Some people find it difficult to adapt it.
In my opinion, there are cons to everything.
Wherever you establish a life in, you definitely need to make some adjustments.
To improve your odds, you can rather make that huge investment worthy. Focus on what matters and your personal priorities!
Subscribe for more such articles, on real estate investments and updates. You wouldn't be disappointed for sure.


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Which Finger to wear Engagement Ring?sparklesindiaadmin
The story of engagement ring dates from long back. It is said that the first story of wearing ring in left ring finger came from Egypt. Egyptians believed that the veins in the ring finger of our left hand are directly connected to one's heart- Vein Amoris or the 'vein of love'.
This story found a lot of leverage in the world outside as the story of romance was popularised as the physical bonding of two souls rendering heart to heart connection. However, modern day understanding of biology disregards such an idea and proves that all fingers are connected to the heart.
This story however runs as a phantom concept still- The power of solidifying romance!
The dilemma remains the same- Which finger to wear engagement ring?
Increasing popularity of Engagement rings
There are different ideations on marriage all over the world. In Western Culture, it became a norm that the man shall propose marriage to the lady by presenting a ring to her. The increased popularity of expensive engagement rings directly correlates to human sexuality and the women's marriage prospects.
The question of love has no answer, it has a step ahead in the name of marriage and an engagement ring is one sort of a signature indication of that silently shouts "I am hitched!".
Engagement is a truly desired event before any marriage
Marriage, a word that condiments so many different aspects of our life. A necessary tandem that has become an integral part of our lives. Marriage is an institution created to regard companionship, love and trust. There are so many stages to a marriage, there is knowing, falling, engaging and acquiring!
In all the classic lists of events, engagement seeks one of the top benches!
When you learn that your friend has gotten engaged, how high do you jump? Well, that is how it goes. Marriage is a very big deal all over the world, engagement is the beginning of such a lovely companionship everybody is crazy about. It has to be special and coefficient for both the bride and the groom.
Why engagement ring on ring finger?
The very concept of Engagement rings began on papers and was popularised by Henry Swinburne in his "A treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts (1686) from an ancient Roman book called 'Attic Nights' by Aulus Gellies. The concept of presenting a ring to the bride was originally a prerequisite of the bride price custom.
Later in the Middle Ages, the ring was presented as pledge. A bride pledged her goodwill and fidelity to her husband in all mights. The concept curled after the discovery of diamonds in 1866 and popularised in the 1867.
The mines were formalised in Africa and diamond became the most precious stone out there which was monopolised by the elite culture. For a long time nobility and the aristocracy had control over the diamond reserves until the corporate structure claimed it to raise marketing trends.
Tiffany & Co. created the benchmark in Diamond ring collections. They came up with their signature 'Solitaire Prong Setting' that sees dream ring catalogue till date. Breakfast at Tiffany's being one of the most acclaimed movies of all times!
The major marketing strategy of popularising expensive rings began with summing up "provide one month of your salary equivalence for an engagement ring" which moved on to "Two months income" until it became a must need richness.
Diamond a Natural choice for Engagement rings
Diamond is associated with the biggest event of a person's life, an event of his/her choice (as said)- Marriage. A big gift for the biggest event.
For this ideal match between diamond and marriage, legal ownership of the ring retained with the man in early times. Engagement rings now are part of 'conditional gifts' which delude the prospect of asking back of the ring in broken situations.
Engagement Ring Finger
The Tradition of Presenting Ring as a symbol of Love is popular all over the world now. This custom of ring presenting is one of those universal concepts of indication of engagement.
In western Cultures, the engagement ring is presented in the left hand (running from the Egyptian love vein concept) of the to-be bride. The engagement ring is worn on the left hand until there is the marriage ring that takes over the spot.
Anglo Saxon communities wear it on the left hand. Certain African tribes wear a neck-piece as an indication of marriage.
Engagement Rings culture in India
The ring culture has taken over India as well, there is a compulsory ring ceremony or 'sagaai' in every wedding. It is more embedded as a culture mark than it is as a borrowed cultural mark.
In Indian Culture, there are different ways to show that you are married, the most common being Mangalsutra in North India, bichiya (toe-rings) in Eastern states of India. In West Bengal, brides get to wear a iron bangle bracelet when they get married. It is supposed to keep away bad omens from the married life.
Ring Ceremony celebration in India is an outset of public announcement of marriage. The customary gifts pop from both sides of the engagement party includes rings for both bride bride and groom.
The ring that is presented is often a symbol of love from both sides of family, so in India the ceremony does not confine to the love of the couple only. It is also a gift and blessing from both irrespective families. Wear it on right, that makes it right!
The coming of the culture of engagement diamond rings is widely accepted in India now, it is a beautification of the marriage ritual process. Anything that acquires relevance in the structure of matrimony is considered important and consequential in our Hindu Culture.
An engagement is the notion that denotes an internal soulful connection between to people. It is a celebration of love, togetherness and a decision to partner in all joys and sorrows in life. These customs have a very important place in our culture and there is reason of emotional connect behind this.
Engagement ring finger for female in India
In India however, left hand is considered 'ashudha' or unclean and sinister. Nothing holy and sacramental could be endorsed through the left hand and so the ring is presented in the right hand of the woman.
Engagement ring finger for male in India
The man, however wears it on the right. The toil behind this concept is (vaguely, not sociologically proved) that the man of the house usually goes out and works in not so homely environments and they can easily handle the sinister environs.
As the case for is for the woman, she is the epitome of goddess Laxmi in her home, she is pure and serene and nothing unclean should touch her or have an impact on her.
Types of Engagement Rings
There are many types of engagement rings, the most popular being-
- Solitaire Prong Setting Rings: which has one diamond in the middle held by 6 hands prongs.
- Trinity Rings that denote the past, present and future of the couple.
- Trio Ring Set that contains of the men's ring, women's engagement ring and women's marriage ring.
The problem of stacking
Now, women are wearing so many rings that it is presenting a problem of stacking for women. There are easy solutions for this:
- Weld your engagement and wedding rings into one.
- Let go of the engagement ring
- Wear them in both hands, left for wedding and right for engagement (if you aren't a follower of the Hindu tradition, if you are make it the other way round)
Be traditional or make your own tradition!
It is only a recommended prerequisite of following the customs made prior to our existence even. It is not mandatory to follow these norms and customs, they made sense in earlier times when much was not discovered.
Today, you have a sense of freedom in the institution of marriage. Why not choose your own finger for that shine?
The Ring finger gets its name because of the immensely romantic story that Egyptians take pride at. It doesn't really matter which finger you wear it on, what matters is the relevance that it holds in your and your spouse's life. You guys are in for the best, with our best!


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You will spend 6 days skiing both on and off piste with expert instructors from the British Alpine Ski School (BASS). This holiday is aimed at Intermediate (Silver) and Advanced (Purple) level off piste skiers who are looking to further develop their skills across the whole mountain. Groups will be organised based on ski standard. If you are unsure of your level please see our Ski Profile Page. At the end of the week you will receive an updated grading from your Ski Club Rep.
You will be staying in your own single occupancy room in the Chalethotel Tarentaise on a chalet board basis. Chalet board includes breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner. This accommodation is operated by Mark Warner, with ski-in ski-out access and a central location in the town. The property has a great communal atmosphere, with a large central fireplace, comfortable seating as well as games options including a pool table for the evenings.
This holiday includes both your flights and transfers. We are currently waiting for details to come through from Mark Warner and we'll update you once we have the finalised options.
The coach transfer will be organised by our Mark Warner hosts, please look out for them in the arrivals hall of the airport. The coach transfer through to resort will take approximately 2 and a half hours.
Staying in the middle of the Three Valleys allows for easy access to the entire area, and Méribel's continued development of their lift system means that it's never been quicker to reach every corner of the piste map. With so much terrain on offer, it's no surprise that skiers return to Les Trois Vallées season after season, especially when you throw in lively après ski, great restaurants and a fantastic selection of mountain restaurants. For more information on Méribel, please visit the Méribel Resort Page.
If you need to hire skis and/or boots in resort the Skiset shop nearest the chalet hotel is Alp Altitude. A Skiset discount is available to our members via our website. Please search for Méribel Mottaret and then Alp Attitude.


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From WGIL radio:
Knox College has promoted five faculty members to the rank of full professor. Knox College President Roger Taylor announced this month the promotions of Caesar Akuetey, professor of modern languages; Neil Blackadder, professor of theatre; John Dooley, professor of computer science; Lori Haslem, professor of English; and Michael Schneider, professor of history.
The five faculty members have combined experience of more than a half-century of teaching and conducting research at Knox.


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KUWAIT CITY, June 18: Director of the Public Authority for Manpower Ahmad Al- Mousa disclosed that the authority has activated a decision concerning new fees for bringing in laborers, and steps to ease the completion of transactions.
Beginning next week, payment of visa fees could be made via K-net through machines placed at the premises of companies to facilitate transactions without necessarily visiting the Public Authority for Manpower, he stressed.
Concerning labor reforms which the Cabinet approved last week, Al-Mousa said it toughens penalties against violators as per Article 57 of the law regarding the transfer of workers salaries to banks within Kuwait, which also allows the Cabinet to exempt some salary transfer activities.
He pointed out that Article 57 requires an employer who hires more than five workers to transfer their salaries through the bank, adding the Public Authority for Manpower has the right to ask for the list of transferred salaries.
The Cabinet issued the decision, as per request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of Finance to specify the rules of accounts in the financial institutions and other relevant regulations for organizing the sector, and modified Articles (138), (140), (142) and (146) of the law.
Article (138) stipulates tougher penalties against any employer who violates the second item of the 10th article, indicating the violator will serve a minimum of three years imprisonment, fine of KD 2,000 to KD 10,000 or bear one of the two penalties.
In case an employer sends his employee to work for another employer, the latter will be subjected to the above-mentioned punishment, Al-Mousa stressed, explaining that penalties do not include the right of the authority to deport an employee who violates the law.
He pointed to Article (140) which stipulates fine of KD 500 as a minimum and not exceeding KD 1000 against any person who prevents employees designated by a minister to perform their tasks, according to Article (133) and (134) of Labor Law, and the penalty will doubled with the repetition of violation.
Concerning Article (146) of Law No. 6/ 2010, Al-Mousa pointed to the inclusion of an item that requires an employer to add one percent of an employee's salary for each month the salary delays, if a court discovers that the company holds back the transfer of salaries. This does not include the employee's right to demand any other compensation, according to Article (145).
By Fares Al-Abadan Al-Seyassah Staff
© Copyright 2016, Arab Times Kuwait


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I've been walking three to four miles along the river. Some days I just want to run, flap my arms and fly above the rushing Sacramento. There is freedom in hovering over the deep green waters flanked by yellow poppies and purple wildflowers.
I waited too long and hit an all-time high in weight. At one time I wondered if that was some type of achievement by itself, but in reality it only makes you big and tired.
It has been twenty-four months since being able to look at a paycheck and the freedom to go to the pharmacy without reviewing our bank account before making the plunge. It's funny how I like to use months and not years for the length of time; like no one will know. Much too long for a vacation, the longest I've ever taken was two weeks. I think of it as retirement and not being unemployed. It's really a form of economic purgatory.
At the half-way point I can only see the rustle of plastic around the garbage can and half of a body, feet planted flat on the ground. Head to waste digging deep for plastic and aluminum treasures. Same dirty, sun bleached black shirt and pants with tattered shoes and no socks that I saw the day before.
The walks allow me to hit the replay button. I review the past 276 resumes sent looking for new opportunities. I define the level my competence during four phone interviews and one face-to-face. Gee they seem to have gone well?
First to emerge from the garbage can is a dirty hand grasping tightly to a plastic water bottle. Dirt caked thick silver hair, my color, and a strong face. It was the sun's Etch A Sketch, no softness to the eyes as he looked through me.
"Hi, how are you doing?" I greeted with a warm smile. How fucking lame I thought to myself. How and the hell you think he feels digging in public garbage for survival?
There was no reply as he mounted the bike and arranged the black and white plastic bags on the handlebars. His look was empty and lifeless as he pedaled down the asphalt path.
I wanted to offer half what I had in my wallet. "Here you can have the five and I'll keep the four." Even that was a lie I had thirty hidden in the pocket. The words wouldn't come out!
Does karma repay you kindly for a lie with good intentions?
If you have to worry about the amount of kindness, is it still kindness?
I was scared; the line runs too thin between what's hidden in your wallet and no pocket to put a wallet in.
I just wanted to run again, I just wanted to fly!


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The death of Verne Troyer has been ruled death by suicide.
According to the Los Angeles County coroner, the actor died in April of "sequelae of alcohol intoxication" or alcohol abuse. Sequelae refers to a condition that was the consequence of a previous disease or injury.
Troyer, best known for playing the role of Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, was taken from his home to the hospital for reported alcohol intoxication on April 3.
READ MORE: Verne Troyer dead — Austin Powers star dies aged 49
He was pronounced dead on April 21, three weeks later.
A statement released by Troyer's family following his death said that Troyer had been battling a "time of adversity," and had recently been baptized.
"Verne was also a fighter when it came to his own battles. Over the years he's struggled and won, struggled and won, struggled and fought some more, but unfortunately, this time was too much."
The statement added: "Depression and Suicide are very serious issues. You never know what kind of battle someone is going through inside. Be kind to one another. And always know, it's never too late to reach out to someone for help."
READ MORE: 'Austin Powers' star Verne Troyer hospitalized for alcohol addiction
The actor's death came a year after he announced that he was being treated for alcohol addiction.
Troyer's battle with alcohol had been ongoing. The actor checked into rehab numerous times over the years.
In 2002, Troyer nearly died from alcohol poisoning after going on a bender following his split from wife Genevieve Gallen after she decided to end their marriage of two months.
READ MORE: Cameron Monaghan, Ian Gallagher on 'Shameless,' says he's leaving series
Troyer addressed his current situation at the time in an Instagram post, writing "I'd like to address a very personal situation."
"As you know, I've battled alcohol addiction in the past and while it's not been an easy fight, I'm willing to continue my fight day by day. I've been receiving treatment for the last week, and I am voluntarily checking into a treatment centre later this week to continue to get the help I need … with your support, I got this," he wrote.
If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help, resources are available. In case of an emergency, please call 911 for immediate help.
The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, Depression Hurts and Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 all offer ways of getting help if you, or someone you know, may be suffering from mental health issues.Follow @KatieScottNews
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With respect to the aging process, many Georgia residents may find it difficult knowing when to let go and cede the authority of making decisions on their behalf to someone else, even if that person is a concerned and loving family member. It may be necessary for someone to step in, in order to ensure the health and welfare of his or her loved one is being maintained.
As an attorney who has experience with a wide range of guardianship and elder law issues, Ophelia Chan at the Chan Law Firm LLC is uniquely qualified to work with families in order to ensure the well-being of their parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle who can no longer provide care for himself or herself. It can be a great comfort to a family to be able to take a more active role in the decisions that affect its vulnerable loved ones.
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A guardian has the ability to oversee major decisions in a person's life such as where he or she lives and if he or she should be placed in a nursing home or other care facility. These decisions are not ones that are to be taken lightly, so having an experienced Metro Atlanta guardianship lawyer to guide you can be extremely beneficial.
While guardianships are often sought for elderly individuals (such as aging parents) who have become mentally incapacitated, they are also sought for children with special needs who have reached the age of majority (usually age 18). As a parent, you may need to continue making decisions for your son or daughter even after he or she reaches adulthood. In order to do this, you must usually petition the court for more decision-making authority through a guardianship.
If someone is primarily concerned with an elderly person's ability to make financial decisions, then a conservatorship might be more appropriate. Ms. Chan can help concerned family members determine the most prudent steps to take on behalf of their loved ones.
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Gronza is a high ranking leader in the Gateway Resistance, third in the chain of command, under Marc Sekler and Dyson Fleck. Gronza is a Chameloid, having the ability to change/morph into other creatures and objects.
Notes of Interest
Gronza's first apperance was in Star Trek: The Infinite as a character from an alternate universe. He was a Lieutenant in Starfleet and served directly under ^Admiral Neilan Loran, who later became the Progenitor Symbiont.
Gronza is burly and strong. He's aggressive when needed, but manages to keep a level head most of the time. However, when seriously provoked or in grave danger, he becomes more primal in nature (a race trait), savagely attacking said provoker/threat.
He is generally grumpy and negative, but not to a point where it interferes in his day-to-day work goals.


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Everywhere he goes, Sugata tests childrens' limits with one aim in mind: to show there are really no limits on what they can achieve.
On his recent trip to Argentina, he put 6th grade students to the test at School 20 in the Barracas area to see if they could answer questions years ahead of their time. Similar challenges are being replicated all over the world, including at Greenfields SOLE lab in the UK last month.
SOLE Argentina has been piloting the SOLE approach at this location for just over four months, with the support of Buenos Aires' Ministry of Education. So far, they have worked mainly on Big Questions linked into the curriculum.
On this occasion, Sugata took them to the next level by giving the children a question five or six years ahead of their time, similar to those required for university entrance courses.
This was the question: What is Fordism? Talk about this system and explain the causes of its decline.
No sugar-coating, no simplification of the language, no indication of any sources they should consult. And of course, Sugata's standard tease: "This question is generally answered by 18-year-olds. Do you think you can answer it too?" Naturally, students are up for this new intellectual adventure.
With just five small netbooks to share among 18 children, the magic of collective knowledge construction begins. Students move around their desks, talk to each other and work hard for half an hour. When they encounter a problem, they turn to co-ordinator 'Professor Rodrigo' who was appointed to the role by his own classmates.
"Educational authorities present are a bit scared it won't work, that students won't understand the texts they encountered, but children prove otherwise when it's their turn to speak and defend what they have learnt," explains SOLE Argentina's international relations director Mabel Quiroga.
"When it comes to feedback time some read from their notes in a loud voice, others are shy and let their group partners speak up but they all come up to the front of the class – it's only fair that they share the credit of this big success."
The 11 and 12-year-olds present concepts and central ideas one after the other with confidence and not a hint of pretension: assembly line, mass production, specialization, Toyotism…
George Aguado, from the Ministry of Education, was watching the process intently. He decided to find out the answer to what decision makers and educators in educational systems consider to be the most important question: "Have they really understood?" He asked two boys what they had really learned.
Their one simple and deep statement in response convinced him and all the people around:
"Ford's system treated workers like slaves – it could never last," they said. "It got replaced by a gentler Japanese-Korean system."
George turned to Mariano, their teacher. "They have understood," he said, awed. Watching learning emerge at the edge of chaos is indeed an awesome sight.


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Tantalize your tastebuds
This club is the Xylem's playhouse. This is where you find the crazy one-offs, the barrel aged, the terpenes, the things you didn't even know cider could be. Our club is a way to support creativity, ingenuity; and have a great time drinking.
Full Case**
Monthly Payment ($30/mo.) – 4 bottles per month, dispersed in one case per quarter. Two standard bottles and two exclusive club bottles and 30% off our bottle list plus an exclusive tour and complimentary flight or pint.
Access to rare and select bottles only available to top tier members.
Half Case**
Monthly Payment ($15/mo.) – 2 bottles per month, dispersed in one half-case per quarter. One standard bottles and one exclusive club bottle and 30% off our bottle list plus an exclusive tour and complimentary flight or pint.
- Bottle purchase option, including members-only releases and many public releases
- Free flight or pint with any visit
- Storage of member goods and online bottle purchases for a 3-month window
- First right to renew for the following years membership
Full Case = 48 Bottles of Cider/year
Half Case = 24 Bottles of Cider/year
Xylem will guarantee at least half of the bottles will be exclusive to the subscription club. We will not commit to specific cider releases, or a specific release schedule. Membership bottles may be released at any point during the membership year.
Purchase for Member-Exclusive Bottles
In addition to the exclusive included with your membership, Xylem may release other limited ciders that will be exclusive to Cider Club members. These will not be covered as part of your membership fee, but will be available for members to purchase on a first come/first served basis, while supplies last.
Membership Goods & Bottle Storage
(Three Month Pick up Windows)
Members are offered the convenience of us securely storing their membership bottles and goods for up to three months starting on the release of a membership cider.
Example: pick up window (not an actual release date)
A membership cider case is released January 1st. Members will have three months from that date to pick up the included membership case. Any online purchases may be consolidated with that membership bottle. The last day for pick up of this cider would be March 31st. Any online purchases made after that membership bottle pick up will be available for pick up at any time or will be consolidated with the next membership release.
Bottle Sales
Members will have the option to purchase a limited number of non-membership bottles prior to public sales and during a set window of time. All bottles purchased by members may be stored at Xylem from the time of purchase through the end of the current pick up window. Please note, while all Cider Club members will have first access to these allocations, some releases will be limited in quantity. All bottles are sold on a first come basis, and may sell out. These bottles will also be available in our tasting room.
How To Get Your Cider
Pick Up In Person – Keepers may retrieve orders and goods at the Tasting Room during normal Tasting Room hours with an email notice at least 24 hours prior.
Exclusive Tour and Tasting
Members will be offered a guided tasting of some of our favorite ciders and a cidery tour for themselves and one guest. These will consist of a small group tour with other members at our facility and a private tasting with a brewer. Members will have the ability to reserve their two spaces once per membership year during set days and times. Specific dates and times will be offered to members with a minimum 3-month notice for reservations.
Any membership bottles or purchases not picked up by the end of each pick up window will be forfeited.
First Right of Renewal for following years Membership
Cider Club members will have the first right of renewal for the 2018/19 membership. We reserve the right to cancel the membership at the end of any membership year(s).
Additional Terms
An individual is allowed one membership. If a member is found to have multiple memberships, we reserve the right to cancel all memberships purchased by the member without refund.
All cider purchased and/or obtained through your Keepers membership is for your own consumption. We reserve the right to cancel any membership without refund in the event of a member selling cider purchased or received as part of the membership.
We reserve the right to offer all cider, including membership bottles, on draft or by the bottle for consumption in our tasting room.


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Maddie's Internships
The University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program and Dane County Humane Society offer a one year long University of Wisconsin-Dane County Humane Society Maddie's Shelter Medicine Internship for graduate veterinarians in Madison, WI.
Two internship positions are available annually. The position is designed to provide veterinary interns with a well-rounded experience including the practice of clinical shelter medicine and surgery as well as a foundation in bigger picture Shelter Medicine concepts. Clinical training is supplemented with participation in the UW Shelter Medicine Program rounds, research projects, presentations, and shelter consultations.
We are currently recruiting for two Maddie's Shelter Medicine interns to start in June 2020 through VIRMP!
Join us for a live webinar on Thursday November 21st to meet our Clinical Instructor Dr. Uri Donnett, current interns Drs. Emily Pellatt and Christina Barrett, and learn more about our Maddie's Shelter Medicine Internship!
University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program is a proud recipient of funding for our internship program from Maddie's Fund®, helping to achieve a no-kill nation #ThanksToMaddie.
2018/2019 Maddie's Shelter Medicine Interns
Dr. Melissa Gall
Melissa was born and raised in West Allis, Wisconsin. She received her BS in Biology from Carroll University in Waukesha and attended UW-Madison for veterinary school. She is very interested in the population and herd health management aspects of shelter medicine. In her free time, Melissa enjoys rock climbing, board games, and aerial dance. She lives with three mischievous cats, an adorable Pomeranian mix, and the sweetest Pitbull in the world.
Dr. Bridget Holck
Dr. Bridget Holck grew up in northwestern Illinois and attended Carthage College in Kenosha, WI, where she graduated with a degree in Biology. She worked for 3 years as a kennel technician and veterinary assistant in a municipal animal control and adoption center before earning her DVM at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Her professional interests include: helping animal shelters provide quality physical and emotional care even with limited resources, and providing low cost veterinary care to communities of financial hardship. When she isn't pursuing her passion for shelter medicine, Bridget enjoys spending time outside, playing games, or spending time with family, friends and her 2 cats.
2017/2018 Maddie's Shelter Medicine Interns
Dr. Olivia Swailes
Dr. Swailes is a proud Michigander and earned her B.S. in Animal Science at Michigan State University in 2014. She graduated from the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine with her DVM in 2017. Dr. Swailes first became interested in shelter medicine after volunteering in local shelters throughout her undergraduate years, and spent many hours volunteering in the medical department of the humane society during veterinary school. Her other interests, aside from shelter medicine, include large animal medicine, infectious disease outbreak investigation, clinical research, and wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. Outside of veterinary medicine, Dr. Swailes enjoys spending time with family, friends, and her rescue Labradors, Ruby and Hazel.
Dr. Deb Yannessa
Dr. Yannessa grew up in South Jersey and completed her BS in Biology at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. She received her DVM from NC State in 2017, and has a strong interest in shelter medicine and in animal welfare in general. Outside of veterinary medicine, her interests/hobbies include running and racing distances up to the marathon, as well as cooking, reading, and listening to podcasts. She currently has one pet - a rabbit named Wilfred.


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- 5 medium carrots (about 12 ounces total), scrubbed, thinly sliced on a bias with a mandoline
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 2 teaspoons Aleppo-style pepper, divided
- Kosher salt
- 12 boquerones (marinated white anchovies)
- 4 ounces feta, crumbled
- ¼ cup parsley leaves with tender stems
Recipe Preparation
Toss carrots with lemon juice, 2 Tbsp. oil, and 1 tsp. Aleppo-style pepper in a medium bowl; generously season with salt. Massage carrots with your hands until softened. Taste and season with more salt if needed.
Transfer carrots and any accumulated juices to a platter and top with boquerones and feta. Drizzle with remaining 2 Tbsp. oil and scatter parsley and remaining 1 tsp. Aleppo-style pepper over.


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As the gun control debate heats up in Washington, advocates for reform now face a new challenge as 3D printing becomes a more affordable hobby. This is because 3D printers are now capable of making firearms – including the infamous AR-15 semi-automatic rifle – for any consumer willing to spend a few hundred bucks on a modern three-dimensional printer.
For those not familiar with this engineering revolution, 3D printing is the art of turning digital models into real objects. The process today is now simplified with open-sourced schematics that are available online for free, which includes hundreds of thousands of objects that range from shoes to clocks.
After downloading one of these objects' blueprints, a person only needs to add raw materials into a 3D printer (like plastic resin or aluminum dust) and click 'print'. Depending on the quality of the printer and complexity of the item, what you see on the computer screen could become a tangible reality within minutes.
Proving, however, that printing a functional, plastic AR-15 isn't a work of science fiction, the non-profit group Defense Distributed has published videos online to show otherwise.
In a video from December, the group printed and tested an AR-15 receiver (the main body and federal definition of this gun), which fired several shots before having problems. Last month, Defense Distributed unveiled the "Cuomo", a 30-round AR-15 magazine named after outspoken gun control advocate and current Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
The 3D printed magazine demonstrated that it could fire hundreds of bullets without fail, leading to its blueprints being downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by people all across the world.
According to Defense Distributed's website, the goal of the organization is to continue designing components and prototypes under what they call the "Wiki Weapon Project." The project has raised tens of thousands of dollars in donations and has had companies publicly offer 3D printing equipment and space for testing future 'wiki weapon' guns.
The success and popularity of 3D printing guns and components has drawn some concern from gun control supporters in Washington, particularly from Representative Steve Israel (D-NY). Following the "Cuomo" magazine test video – posted on YouTube in January – Rep. Israel responded by saying:
"Background checks and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print high-capacity magazines at home. 3D printing is a new technology that shows great promise, but also requires new guidelines. Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search."
In order to halt future production of 3D printed guns and magazines, Rep. Israel is seeking to renew the Undetectable Firearms Act, the federal ban on plastic guns that is set to expire at the end of the year. He also supports Senator Dianne Feinstein's gun control bill, which bans the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
While the advent of 3D printing technology is scary, especially the thought of criminals making guns in their living rooms, it is important to understand its limits.
Most 3D printers for home use are limited to using plastic as its polymer, thus making 3D printed guns and components terribly impractical for customary use. This is highlighted in one of Defense Distributed's videos, which shows the AR-15 break in half after shooting six rounds.
Of course, with any emerging technology, there is a double-edged sword to progress: a maxim that is undoubtedly applicable to the revolution of 3D printing.
What computers and the Internet have done for this generation, 3D printing will do for the next; inspiring innovation and creating jobs in vital fields such as medicine, science, logistics, education, and engineering.
Yet, just like we see with today's technological cornerstones, 3D printing will provoke fear and trepidation. The good news, however, is that this trend seems to be working, at least for technologies similar to 3D printing such as robotics and synthetic biology.
So, if history is any indicator, we should continue to foster this innovative technology while addressing the inherent concerns with 3D printing guns.


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"With Isagenix I have the energy to get on the floor and play with my daughter. I feel like I'm a much more present mother now." Katie Hill Wife, Mother, and Teacher
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Eyeshield 21 episodes 93-94 review
The Devil Bats easily defeat the representative of Africa by a score of 28-0, with great touchdowns by Sena and Monta. Interestingly, those two are the only two players on the team who ever score touchdowns. You'd think other teams would have an easy time shutting them down if all they've got is two star players.
They then meet up with Panther's pals and play some football with them. But Apollo, their coach, has still given up. Obviously, it's up to Sena and the Devil Bats to get him to start liking football again.
So now it's the championship between the Devil Bats and the Blizzards, the Russian team with Morgan as their coach. The Devil Bats take a 17-0 lead at the half, with one particular play that intrigued me. They are the first team in the history of football to pull off a "play-action field goal." Hiruma fakes a handoff to Sena, then holds the football for a field goal by Musashi. The 50-yard kick is good, but never in the history of football has a team ever faked an offensive play and kicked a field goal. That's something you'd see in rugby, but not American football.
In any case, early in the second half, the Blizzards have a new strategy: injure Sena. They hit him hard and give him a concussion. See, Eyeshield 21 is so relevant! Just like real life. But now, what do the Devil Bats do with one of their players injured?
Episode 93 rating (out of four stars): ***
Episode 94 rating: ***


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Don't know what to get your wife for her birthday? Then don't worry, because we've got the perfect solution. Well, we don't, but one smart guy from Westfield, New Jersey has.
His name is Jordan Lebeau and he's been secretly following his wife TyAnna's Pinterest account for years. He started the dummy account back in 2014 when he and TyAnna – then his girlfriend – first started dating.
He'd been trying to score a date with her for ages, but when she finally said yes for Valentine's Day of their senior year, Jordan had no idea what gift to buy her until a friend of his suggested taking a look at her Pinterest page.
Since then he's been secretly checking her account for gift ideas, and over the years he's wowed her with various perfect presents including lip gloss, earrings, and a sapphire nose ring.
He recently revealed his genius hack to the world on Twitter, and since then his tweet has been shared almost 80k times and liked by over 318k people who can't believe they never thought of this trick themselves.
So if you're tired of disappointing your significant other with crappy gifts, maybe it's time you started a covert Pinterest account.
This guy came up with a genius way to buy his wife the perfect gifts
He secretly follows her Pinterest page with a fake account he made!
He's been following her since their first date on Valentine's Day back in 2014
Jordan had no idea what to buy her until a friend suggested checking out her Pinterest page
Since then he's wowed her with various perfect presents including lip gloss, earrings, and a sapphire nose ring
Jordan totally won the internet when he tweeted his trick to the world
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Serving more commercial clients every year, each requiring specific shots, locations or unique models for their pet-related products and brands, we have often called upon past clients and their animals for modeling work. However, with demand increasing for commercial photography work, along with other agencies contacting scruffy dog seeking models, a database is required to assist these clients in choosing their prospective models.
Does your dog or cat have what it takes to be a supermodel?
Please read all of the info below, as well as the HOW TO APPLY.
NOTE: We are NOT an agency. We cannot represent you and your animal to other companies, although we occasionally receive inquiries from agencies seeking models. We do NOT shoot commercials; this is photography for commercial purposes.
Commercial sessions run differently than a private shoot. With commercial, it's not always about what the pet gives us, but rather, what we need from the pet, while still working within that animal's natural abilities, drives and tolerances. As such, it is vital that you are 100% honest in your assessment of your pet and their abilities.
To be an "Endorsed" model, your pet must meet all of the following qualifications.
DOGS … any breed, mix, size, age!
- must have a higher than average level of training – "down", "stand", "sit", "wait/stay" and more – all with owner at least 20′ out, and with a moderate level of distractions;
- must be relatively trustworthy off-leash, but 100% is not necessary;
- must have a reliable recall;
- must be comfortable in new surroundings and new situations;
- must possess leash-respect – i.e. little or no pulling;
- must be healthy;
- must possess some kind of a 'working/directable' drive – ball, frisbee, treats, owner, etc.;
- must live in Southwestern Ontario and Greater Toronto Area, particularly KW and GTA, and must be available for travel to sessions across Ontario.
CATS … any breed, mix, size, age!
- must be outgoing and friendly;
- must be comfortable with new people coming into their space/home (since we are typically needing to shoot in their own home where they are most comfortable);
- must be playful or at least somewhat lure-able with food/treats;
- can be any color, breed, hair-length, etc.;
- must live in Southwestern Ontario and Greater Toronto Area, particularly KW and GTA, and must be available for travel to sessions across Ontario.
If your pet meets all of the above requirements then being a scruffy model might just be for you!
BUT WAIT! There's more! What if your dog doesn't meet all of the above qualifications but they are an extremely unique-looking dog (i.e. unique cross-breed, color or coat) or a rare breed?
We want rare and unique cross-breeds as well!
We are opening up a small section of the database to rare breeds and unique cross-breeds, making them available to commercial clients even though they might not be the most highly-trained specimens in all of dogdom. These dogs can certainly be upgraded to the status of a fully "Endorsed" model with some training, but in the meantime, they can reside in the special section on the database, at the ready for any commercial clients who are after those diamonds in the ruff!
… and if your scruffy doesn't meet any of the above requirements, hey, we still love them!
If you are interested in the opportunities associated with being a scruffy dog commercial model AND if you live in Ontario:
- drop us a line
- PLEASE indicate that you are inquiring about modeling possibilities
- do NOT send photos … your email being deleted
We will send you the full information package detailing the full scope of requirements, what is involved, the perks and benefits, application form, and more!
Former clients: you've already got one foot in the door with your scruffy in that he/she has already met the SDP cameras. If your dog/cat meets the requirements, PLEASE, we definitely want to hear from you!
We look forward to hearing from you and to the many exciting possibilities!
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