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Si informa che il Tribunale di Ragusa con sentenza n.24/2018 del 30.05.2018
ha dichiarato il fallimento della Donnafugata Resort S.r.l.
E' stato, pertanto, pubblicato sul portale delle vendite pubbliche
(https://pvp.giustizia.it) l'invito alla presentazione di offerte, scadenti il 25.05.2020,
per la cessione dei beni mobili.
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From the 1st to 3rd: Chiaramonte Gulfi
"Zuppà": three days of events, with games, art, masks and taste.
From the 6th to 18th: Ragusa
"Festiwall", the street art festival of Ragusawith urban art and collective exhibitions that
will bring art into the city.
From the 8th to 11th: Castello di Donnafugata
"Wine Show Festival": history, culture, art and tast in the beautiful location of the Castle of Donnafugata.
On the 10th: Modica
"N puzzuddu": music, comedy, culture, good food and much more.
From the 17th to 18th: Roccazzo (Chiaramonte Gulfi)
The grape festival, a tradition of authenticity that increasing number of visitors year by year. Tasting of the classic flavors of the harvest.
From the 23rd to 25th: Ragusa
Il "Ragusa Beer Festival" takes place in the pleasant scenery of the baroque historical center of Ragusa, with the typical flavors of Northern Europe.
From the 30th September to 2th October: Ragusa
"Fam - Fiera Agroalimentare Mediterranea", theAgribusiness Mediterranean Fair at the Foro Boario in Contrada Nunziata.
17th: Monterosso Almo
The celebration of the Patron "Maria SS. Addolorata" in Monterosso Almo, solemn procession of numerous faithful who make "U votu" barefoot, with candle in hand.
10th: Ragusa
The celebration of "Maria Vergine" of Lourdes in Ragusa and the gastronomic festival " Rassegna dei sapori dell'entroterra ibleo ", in "Contrada Bellocozzo-S.Giacomo", a hamlet of Ragusa.
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Now and then, well very occasionally I get to say 'yeh well I did it with style'. New Years Eve was one of these occasions. Claire and I toasted 2008 on the balcony of View 2 with a bottle of Moet in full length ballgowns at the masked ball.
And then I walked across the Hoe in spike heels through the mud and ripped the hem off my dress. There are bits of my red dress attached to various bits of the West Hoe area, lamp posts and the like. And in the foyer of boy's flat. And the lift. My heels have mud tidemarks. The glamour! Then I sat on a beanbag and drank about a gallon of Dom Perignon or however that is spelled.
The boy told me he loved me and proposed drunkenly several times. I told him to not to say it again until he was sober. He stopped at about 11am this morning!

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Classic car – Jaguar Mk2
Thought for the day…" The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions"
"Happiness is always an inside job".
The GoPro saga continues. Customers can forgive a lot if they see that a company is trying, but when a company tries to avoid admitting an obvious problem, then customers rapidly lose confidence. So far, customer services at GoPro have been far from brilliant and also far from helpful. There are already a lot of unhappy GoPro 4 Hero Black users on the internet, many of whom have had issues with the camera overheating when recording 4K video (which was the sole reason that I bought that particular camera). So what would you or I do if you had a product that you knew had a problem?? Continue to sell it? No. Offer to refund the money? Yes. But so far, GoPro have not offered anything. The user manual acknowledges the problem, and suggests recording only short video clips at 4K. Not practical if you are doing action sports, as you can hardly pause the action just to wait for the camera to cool down. So the emails to GoPro customer service go back and forth. The GoPro camera sits in its case, no longer used due to the overheating issue. I would like very much for GoPro to refund my NZD 732 that I paid for it. My action sports continue, but will be unrecorded !! Come on GoPro. You have admitted in the user manual that there is an issue, now do the right thing.
Two photos of an immaculate 1961 Jaguar Mk2 car, seen here in Alexandra, New Zealand. These cars were built in Coventry, England between 1959 and 1967. Engine sizes ranged between 2.4L and 3.7L, with up to 220 bhp. Top speed for the 3.7L engined version was about 201 km/h, although with a high fuel consumption of around 14L/100 km. The TV detective, Inspector Morse drove a Jaguar Mk 2.
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- Trump clinches crucial swing states and edges towards White House.
- Clinton can still win but faces narrow path to victory.
- Markets tumble on prospect of Trump presidency.
- World awaits final result of US presidential election.
- An interactive look at the campaign.
- Global markets hold their breath.
The Republican party have held onto their Senate majority, as Pat Toomey is re-elected to the upper house in Pennsylvania.
It's a bad indicator for Clinton in the state, which is yet to call its 20 electoral votes.
Clinton crowd shocked and tense as Trump nabs swing states.
|Trump wins!
US election as it happened:
Donald Trump becomes 45th president of the United States
New York — Thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters who flooded the glass-ceilinged Javits Center Tuesday to watch their candidate become the first woman to be elected president Tuesday night were beginning to show sharp signs of concern as they watched Trump pick up several battleground states on the big screen.
The crowd was nearly silent as they listened to MSNBC's Steve Kornacki map out Trump's path to victory — if he takes Michigan and Florida. The Sunshine State has since been called for Trump.
Quickly, the channel cut out and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the stage, saying it's fitting that Clinton will be elected president in New York, "the birthplace of the women's rights movement."
"It's shocking. I can't believe it's this close. I'm shocked," said Terri, a supporter from Washington, D.C., who didn't want to use her last name. She said she had been fielding texts from family and friends all night, asking her how it could be possible that Trump could win.
Guests recite the Pledge of Allegiance during Hillary Clinton's election night rally in the Jacob Javits Center in New York. (Photo: David Goldman/AP)
Another young woman wearing a pantsuit repeatedly refreshed the New York Times on her phone, a stressed expression on her face. Many supporters sat down near the back, their eyes glued on their phones.
Others turned to gallows humor. "The only consolation is Vladimir Putin is thrilled," one supporter said to another.
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Published: 8/9/2010
Points to 40,000 jobs that have been created since January.
In a recent Washington Post article, the Governor of Maryland laid out his plan to help small businesses around the state and highlighted the progress his government has made since the beginning of the year.
Governor Martin O'Malley wrote that since January, 40,000 jobs have been created in the state, and 5,500 of those jobs were in the retail and construction sector. He touted the implementation of the Job Creation and Recovery Tax Credit, which gives small businesses in the state a $5,000 credit for hiring workers who have been unemployed for an extended period of time. He also wrote about investments being made in emerging technologies.
"To strengthen our key growth sectors, we launched BioMaryland 2020, a 10-year, $1.3 billion investment in our life sciences industry, and we expanded the Biotech Tax Credit. Additionally, we launched CyberMaryland, which outlines a strategic plan for making Maryland the nation's epicenter for cybersecurity," O'Malley wrote in the newspaper.
Small business has been a major campaign issue in the 2010 race for Maryland Governor, pitting O'Malley against Republican challenger Bob Ehrlich in a race that has made a lot of news for small business owners. Ehrlich, who also wrote an article in the Post, said that under O'Malley, Maryland had become less business friendly.
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Date of issue: Monday, 2 October 2006
Dear Dr. Golan,
I do not know you, and I definitely do not wish to ever meet you or hear
from you, after reading your disturbing, ill-informed, racist, and
miss-spelt comments about another academic like yourself, which you thought
was reasonably arrested without charge for 23 days, because of his
anti-Zionist activities. Let me tell you that you may pass my details to the
Israeli security services, as I qualify for a much longer arrest under your
mad scheme. I have been an anti-Zionist for 3 decades, and have spoken on
numerous occasions against the continuation of the illegal occupation,
racism in Israel, and especially in Israeli universities, where people like
you are a blot on Jewish history, supporting and abetting the worst
atrocities, out of sheer hate of the Palestinian other. According to you, I
may be eligible for years in jail, for this specific crime: speaking against
the crimes of the Israeli regime. There are many like me, and our number
grows all the time, in direct response to actions such as your own. It
should come to you as no surprise then, that such words as you have written
help us to persuade people everywhere in the need of an academic boycott
against Israeli institutions which continue to support the occupation.
You may indeed, want to reflect about the wisdom of racist utterance: Not
everything which can be said in Israel, in Hebrew, between racists such as
yourself, is right for publication in English! You see, Dr. Golan, not
everyone is to be trusted with your deep racism! Next time, better shut up
and think.
You may not respond to this message, which is sent purely to let you know
that your words will be widely used to illustrate what Palestinians are
facing in Israeli universities, which is similar to what they face
elsewhere, from the checkpoints to the roads, to any contact with Israeli
Thank you for being unwittingly frank,
Haim Bresheeth
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Meet our 2013 "Civic Leaders of the Year"
Mary and Eric Goldthwaite-Gagne
How did you feel or what was running through your head when you and Mary were named "Civic Leaders of the Year?"
Well I had never really won anything before, so that whole experience of anticipation etc. was pretty strange. Also, I never thought that we'd be recognized in this way. Honestly, I feel like what we do is pretty important, but you just get used to music and the arts in general being relegated to the realm of "hobby". What we do is work; the organization and curation is really an art unto itself, so it felt validating for it to be recognized as such.
What were the factors that influenced you to run a business in New Hampshire?
I wouldn't say that we are quite "running a business". We are just getting our 501c3 status, so maybe in a few years, after we've been fundraising and getting grants, we can consider ourselves a business. In the transition from a bunch of scraps of paper to board meetings, we are finally running it like a business, but all we're doing is taking money and turning it into exciting and unique experiences for our audiences.
How does the work you and Mary do both strengthen and bring attention to your community?
We're bringing the outside world into Peterborough in a way. This community in particular of the Monadnock region, is a hamlet. It's fairly large area-wise, but downtown Peterborough is tucked away. Because of that, it is able to retain an old time kind of vibe. That is a valuable thing. The world is accessible to everyone via all of the technology available, but you can't really turn back the clock once things are modernized. That makes preserving the small town extremely important. Cities can be beautiful, and there is obviously such a rich selection of possibilities, but they make me anxious. A small town gives me the space, both physically and mentally, but it can be lacking when it comes to exciting contemporary art. We are lucky to have a lot of great work being done in our area already, but we like to present what is exciting to us in this kind of celebration. Hopefully folks are inspired by our enthusiasm, and enter into the conversation, or begin their own.
What was the muse that brought about the creation of The Thing in the Spring music festival and the Broke: The Affordable Arts Fair?
Mary and I, along with our friend Ryan Wilson, started putting this together because we weren't satisfied with the aesthetic or accessibility of what was going on around us. Sure, there were great things here and there, but we wanted to make it our own, and we wanted to champion these particular artists and musicians by providing them with the proper venue and respect. Ryan and I were interested in the Fillmore, Woodstock, the poster scene, and the curation of these type of events. We wanted to be able to bring a lot of seemingly disparate elements together to present exciting combinations. The art fair works similarly. It's also integral to the attitudes we have about doing this kind of work. So many of us make beautiful things, and we just do it because we have to. Broke offers the opportunity to connect with more folks that feel the same wonderful compulsion to create, as well as providing a venue to get something back for your time.
What advice do you have for other entrepreneurs who are looking to run a successful small business in New Hampshire?
Just make sure it's something that you really love to do. We don't get paid for what we do, and we work all year to make this one weekend happen. It's totally worth it, but if you don't like what you're doing, you'll just get tired and broken down by it.


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Well done to our budding engineers who worked hard over the last couple of months with Mr. Turvey and Mrs. Bruce to design and build electric cars from kits. Every Friday after school the children were engaged in building the go-karts and recording their progress in a workbook. The project ended on Saturday 18th June with the children travelling to Rochester to compete in races against other schools. Not only did the children learn about technology and engineering, but developed their team work skills significantly too.
A big thank you to everyone involved in the project and to all parents involved on race day.
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Looks like Sasha Fierce is more than just a stage persona! In a new radio interview with Power 105.1, rapper 50 Cent recalled a run-in he had with Beyonce at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas where things almost got violent.
"One time [Beyoncé] jumped off of a ledge and came running over cause she thought me and Jay had issues. And I'm like, 'What the f–k? Did she really just jump and run up on me like that?'" 50 told the radio hosts.
Apparently Queen Bey thought there was beef between the "In Da Club" rapper and her hubby Jay Z.
"She jumped out and I was like this, 'What?! That Bonnie and Clyde for real! You try this or what, boy?! I'm here!' She bugged out at me," he said. "I looked and Jay starts laughing. He's like, 'Yo, you know what it is.'"
This story comes after the bombshell surveillance video from a Met Gala afterparty, in which Beyonce's younger sister Solange Knowles was filmed attacking Jay Z in an elevator while Beyonce looked on calmly and passively.
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"Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred," the family said in a statement after the highly-publicized footage leaked. "They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family."
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Did you have a great weekend? We sure did around here as the temperatures got up to almost 60 degrees and it was sunny. Whoo hoo! It's only a matter of time before we're able to get out on the golf course!
Have you heard of this awesome new challenge called "Fusion"? It's the coolest idea ever! It's basically a challenge broken down into three parts (a sketch, an image or combine them both for fusion). You can find all the details here!
I chose to work with the inspirational photo. I just loved the colors and the flower pattern. That is what inspired my card.
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I posted the other day that Adam Lambert's performance was actually kind of boring, nothing new, not really shocking. Of course, I'm not a Real American. Not only that, I'm constantly being crushed under my own massive ennui. So it turns out that some people were pissed at his performance.
ABC's Good Morning America decided to cancel his performance on their show. No word yet on any attempts by ABC to block out sexual straight performers like Britney Spears or the sexually racist Gwen Stefani. This move follows 1500 complaints that people wrote in to complain.
Every time I think that we can't be any more bland, something like this happens to remind me that we're still fringe, that we do still pisses people off, and, if fully-clothed gay sexuality aired at 11pm can still get people to write enough angry letters about the childrenz to shut down a concert, then Americans still have a deep problem with homosexual sex.
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The Revitalization of Downtown Tulsa - next, the parking meters
Although I live on the outskirts of downtown Tulsa, I venture downtown seldom other than to get my hair and nails done at The Salon at Philtower - a business I highly recommend. Owner of the salon, Amanda, has parking spaces available at 5th & Cincinnati for customers, but the last time I was there, no spaces were available and I had to park (parallel park, no less) on the street.
I'm actually SKILLED at parallel parking, but was totally bewildered when I could find no parking meter in which to insert my quarters. I was parked at 5th & Boston and finally discovered a central parking meter in the middle of the block. Once I discovered that, I had to return to my auto to determine in which numbered spot I was parked - then returned to plug the community meter. Nobody wants to pay for a parking ticket, after all!
Today I ran downtown on an errand and noticed individual parking meters on Cincinnati, but observed that those on Boston had been converted to the community versus individual meters.
I couldn't be more pleased about the promising progress of Tulsa's downtown revitalization efforts. I'm sure there will be a day when our Goddaughter pulls up old blog posts I've written, takes a look at the old, individual meters and asks, "what were they thinking?"
The Revitalization of Downtown Tulsa - next, the parking meters
I've ALWAYS loved downtown Tulsa and remember the days when it was full of hustle and bustle. As suburbs became more popular and the public was confused shopping downtown due to the one-way streets and street parking, our beloved downtown businesses struggled.
We're getting back to the days of the hustle and bustle, one parking meter at a time.
In fact, my first job out of college was at the Atlas Life Building at 4th & Boston - we use to park in a lot at 2nd & Boulder and take a trolley to work - a great time to chat with co-workers and get prepared for the grinding day. They're bringing the trolleys back also.
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#Namche Bazaar was buzzing with life tonight as #Sherpa continued to go house-to-house (as they had all day), singing and soliciting funds for local charitable programs. Meanwhile, ethereal clouds, dusted by the filtered light of the moon, danced through the night sky, revealing only bits of the #Kongde Ri massif rising behind town. A magical night in the #Khumbu…Thanks to @wendebvalentine for encouraging me to go out and enjoy it. #liveyouradventure #namchebazaarRead More


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The German surname Hoover (also spelled Hüber and Hueber) is a status name based on the Middle High German word huobe, a measure of land, varying in size at different periods and in different places, but always of considerable extent, appreciably larger than the holding of the average peasant. The surname usually denotes a holder or owner of this amount of land, who would have been a prosperous small farmer and probably one of the leading men of his village. A notable bearer of the name was Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) the 31st President of the United States.


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Pentagon faces questions about results of Afghan campaign
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Afghanistan approaches the three-week mark, the Bush administration is facing more questions about how soon it will show results.
The administration continues to caution against the expectation of a quick victory in the war against the al Qaeda terrorist network and their Taliban backers in Afghanistan. On Friday, President Bush reiterated the theme of patience.
"The American people are going to have to be patient, just like we are. They're going to have to be determined, just like our military is," the president said in a speech to business leaders. "And with that patience and with that determination, we will eventually smoke them out of their holes and get them and bring them to justice."
The Pentagon said strikes made this week included "terrorist and Taliban command-and-control elements in caves and camp complexes." But the Pentagon also has acknowledged the Taliban are hunkering down and beginning to move troops and equipment into residential areas in hopes the U.S. military won't bomb them due the possibility of civilian deaths.
And with the harsh Afghan winter fast approaching, success will require ground assaults more daring than last week's commando raid by U.S. special forces into southern Afghanistan.
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Don Shepperd, a CNN military analyst, said the war is entering a "frustrating phase" in terms of military operations.
"Everybody's wondering why the Taliban don't collapse and why the front lines don't move in Mazar-e Sharif and in Kabul," he said. "And the answer is, it's very, very hard and it takes time to whittle down these forces and change the balance of power."
The airstrikes over the past three weeks have essentially hit all the fixed targets identified by the military, Shepperd said. The military understands that trying to root out the Taliban troops will take longer, he said.
"But digging the soldiers out of the trenches, out of the mountains and out of the caves is going to be prolonged activity because it's very difficult," Shepperd said.
Taliban tougher than expected?
The Pentagon is fighting the perception that the Taliban are turning out to be a tougher-than-expected foe and that the bombing is not achieving the goal of toppling their regime.
Pentagon briefings also have painted different pictures of the effects of the U.S. airstrikes. Ten days ago, a senior Pentagon official told reporters that the airstrikes have "eviscerated" Taliban forces.
On Wednesday, Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem told reporters that he was surprised how "doggedly" the Taliban were hanging onto power.
When asked about these conflicting views in a briefing Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that he and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, do not have time to conduct daily press briefings and said that other officials may use different language to characterize the operations.
"Sometimes they might use a word that I might not, or sometimes they might use a word that they won't again," Rumsfeld said, drawing laughter from the Pentagon press corps.
At the same briefing, Myers also stressed that Operation Enduring Freedom was proceeding according to the military's plan.
"Success is yet to be determined, but we think we're having some success," he said.
And when asked Friday if the United States was getting bogged down in Afghanistan, Stufflebeem used the opportunity to stress that the Afghan conflict is not a conventional war.
"I don't personally believe that we are being bogged down or are getting bogged down," he said. "This is a very complicated operation. This is not traditional force-on-force warfare."
Pressure from allies in region to end bombing
Pentagon officials also have repeatedly said the U.S. military operations will include overt and covert missions by U.S. Special Operations troops, like last week's raid by U.S. Army Rangers in southern Afghanistan.
That point was underscored Friday by Britain's announcement that 200 commandos from the elite Royal Marines, in Oman as part of an exercise, will move to a British aircraft carrier to join U.S. Special Forces already on ships off Pakistan.
The United States also is coming under pressure from regional allies to end the bombing campaign soon. Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, repeated that call Saturday.
"I still maintain that it ought to be short because any prolonging of the operation is not in the interests of anybody, not even the United States," Musharraf said at a news conference. "One can only hope and wish that the military objectives are achieved, and it remains as short as possible."
Asked Friday about the push from U.S. allies to end the campaign soon, Stufflebeem said the United States does not want to do anything to harm its support, but he added that part of the war on terrorism is showing U.S. resolve and strength.
"We're in the right; the terrorists are in the wrong. And therefore, it's important for us to do the right thing and to exercise our right of defending ourselves," he said. "And I think that, as time goes on, however long that may be, those who recognize that will remain and support that."
The Pentagon also has faced criticism from the Northern Alliance, the coalition of Afghan forces that has been fighting against the Taliban since 1996. Northern Alliance foreign ministry sources said Friday that the group's leaders are frustrated, claiming the bombing has been ineffective in destroying Taliban defenses despite the targeting information they have provided.
Stufflebeem said the military will follow its own strategy in the bombing, which may or may not coalesce with the aims of the Northern Alliance.
"And again, where it crosses with wherever the Northern Alliance may have, that's a good thing," he said. "But we are not going to adapt our game plan to theirs necessarily, nor would we expect them to adapt to ours."
CNN Military Affairs Correspondent Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report, which was written by CNN.com writer Douglas S. Wood.
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Woman stabs husband, 4 children to death
A 33-year-old woman, Isabel Martinez, has allegedly stabbed her husband and four of their children in their home
Officers of Gwinnett police station, in Atlanta, USA were called to a Loganville residence at about 11 a.m. on Thursday, when neighbours found the man and the children dead from apparent stab wounds.
Police said the woman was inside the home with the bodies of her husband, Martin Romero, 33, and the remains of the four children: Axel, 2, Dillan, 4, Dacota, 7, and Isabela, 10.
A sixth victim, 9-year-old Diana, was another of the couple's children. She was airlifted to Children's Health Care of Atlanta and was in serious condition.
A Court order was obtained which directed that Martinez be held in police custody without bond after she was quickly charged with five counts of murder, six counts of aggravated assault and five counts of "malice murder."
After taking the mother into custody, the Police said they were not searching for additional suspects.
A motive in the stabbings has not been established, but a neighbour, who spoke under anonymity, told reporters that the mother had been depressed in recent weeks following the death of her father.


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Melissa is from North Carolina and in 2016 move back to her home town after a year long stint of living in Harlem, New York. She attended Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina and majored in mass communications with a public relations track. As a naturalista and a fashionista Melissa is not scared to try fun new looks and just recently big chopped for the 100th time, LOL. Her key to becoming a successful blogger is that she continues to network. She attends events, talks to people, exchanges contacts, hands out business cards.


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For most people, especially borrowers, the ruling factor over locking or floating on a rate is the length of closing. This mainly has to do with the inconsistency of today's rates. For the past several months, rates have been historically low and fluctuations have been slight. There are those weeks, however, where rates have spiked and created hesitation and concern for many borrowers.
There are several different factors to consider when taking into consideration when to lock and when to float.
Lock and Load
Banks can be quite apprehensive when it comes to clients deciding to lock interest rates. It is because the rate upon application would not necessarily apply in time for closing. Banks usually offer higher interest rates and / or higher applicable fees in anticipation of the inconsistencies and instability of the rates. And the borrowers are likely the ones to suffer.
Floating By and By
Asking the rates to float can work for borrowers, as they would not suffer to be locked in a specified interest rate when it goes down in the market. However, if the interest rates rise then clients also have to deal with paying off more than would have had they locked into a rate arrangement.
The Guessing Game
Predicting how the rates will change in the next few days, weeks, months, and years is like playing a guessing game. The best rule of thumb is to talk to a mortgage specialist when rates are at a good point. They can advise you on how to get the best rate for your current mortgage situation and help take out some of the guessing work of the market.
Your Best Option
A lot of people will tell you the best option for a guaranteed low rate is to lock in when the closing is a few days or weeks away from the application. The general idea is to lock interest rates if the closing is up to two months or 60 days, since locking an interest rate works well for a short period.
However, if the closing is past 60 days, it is usually better to your float interest rate. When interest rates do fall, borrowers can enjoy the benefit of being handcuff-free from a specified interest rate and hope it will keep that way or keep falling until the closing period.


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here was more to her than she knew, more to her than she could understand. More to her than she could wrap her mind around. She was something so spectacular wrapped up into a human body against all the laws of nature that were put into place to prevent exactly that. Micayla Andersen existed because her mother and father broke a hundred different rules of the universe itself, and her very existence was ripping apart the very fabric of nature and of human kind.
As long as she didn't know who or what she was, everything was fine. But she started to ask questions about her long missing mother. She began to research things that she had every right to research, but really shouldn't be researching. She slowly began to realize how she existed. She slowly began to understand exactly what she was. And as she did, the world start to dissolve around her. Almost literally.
So, she had to forget. They could do it. Make her forget. Rather easily, actually. It was technology that had existed for a long time, but they had put laws in place to prevent the world from abusing it. But this wasn't the world, and it wasn't abuse of power. This was a twenty-five year old woman, her father, and her two best friends. They made the decision, and they put it all into action. Micayla Andersen couldn't die, but she couldn't continue to exist.
So, she forgot. In that way, she could not exist, and yet not die. In that way, her family, her father, her friends, they could protect her. And in that way, she could protect the world.


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Monday, 10 December 2012
The Owl and the Pussycat - special commission
This is a commission I did recently for a very lovely couple I met at a Showcase event I took part in. It was for an anniversary present and is an illustrated line of poetry from The Owl and The Pussycat. I'm pleased to say the recipient loved it, and I must admit, I really did enjoy the research and doodling I did with the owl and pussycat images, something departing from the 'bird-norm', and a rather refreshing change...
If you would like something like this commissioning for someone you know then please get in touch for a quote. I'll also be taking commissions in February when I will be the Artist in Residence at the very first Nottingham Festival of Words, 16th and 17th February at the Newton Building at Nottingham Trent University. A selection of my word-inspired work and limited edtion prints will also be available so please come and say hello.
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A few months ago, I was faced with a very frustrating phone call. The temp agency I'd been working with had discussed a few potential improvements I could make on my job. One of them had to deal with my attire. As I've always had a difficult time accepting my appearance, this came as a rather difficult piece of information to swallow.
I'll admit: I cried. The day after I received the phone call, I didn't speak to a single person in my office unless spoken to. I stayed in my cubicle and wallowed in my anger.
I knew I couldn't act like that for very long if I wanted to keep my job, so I decided to take some action. I recruited my friend Egan to perform a "What Not To Wear" intervention on my closet. It was one of the hardest, most frustrating experiences I've ever had. I wouldn't recommend having anyone but the closest of friends help you with this. I know I came very near punching her once or twice with some of the insults she threw at my closet. (The episode of "My Boys" a couple weeks ago is a perfect example when Kenny tried to organize P.J.'s closet.)
Since then, I've been looking for "work appropriate" clothing. I bought myself a few shirts that should be better, and I'm making sure not to wear things after they start looking a little raggedy. I started wearing make-up (and have since declined in my usage due to my tendency to be a little later getting around in the morning than I'd like). I take time, however, to look at my hair. If I don't have time to dry it and straighten it, it gets thrown into a bun with chopsticks. I'd prefer those over a ponytail any day.
Shortly after this intervention, however, I went with Ashley and Michelle to have our photos taken. Ashley and I were getting ready together since I was staying at her house. We were trying to go through some clothes and decide what she was going to wear, and in the middle of it, I had an epiphany.
People have told me many times that I look great when I go to Indiana or to friends' houses, but to have this fall on my lap confused me. The one major difference, I realized, is cameras. When I visit friends with new babies or who take many photos (which are most of my friends), I expect to have my photo taken, so I make sure I look nicer. I don't want to be remembered as "Auntie Erin, the scrub", do I?
No. So as Ashley and I concluded, every day you should dress as if you're going to have your photo taken.
Go to work expecting a photographer to show up and use you as a model for cubicle furniture or a printer advertisement. Visit your friend expecting to see yourself in scrapbooks down the line. Always be on guard for that camera.


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So far, we have used only one variable in a for loop; however, more than one variable with different end values and with different modes of increments/decrements may also be used. In a compound for expression, the variables may be separated by a comma as illustrated for i and j below.
for (int i = 0, int j = 0; i <=8, j <=10; i++, j+=2)
Note that in all the three expressions of the for loop, the statements of the two controlling variables are connected by comma operators. The limiting values and the mode of increments may also be different for the two variables. In Program, three variables m, n, and pare included in for loop with differing limiting values and different modes of increment. The control to end the loop rests with the last condition in the middle expression for loop .
Illustrates compound condition in for
void main()
int m ,n,p, Product=0;
printf("m\t n\t p\t Product\n");
for (m=0 ,n=0, p=2 ; m<=4, n<=8, p<9 ; m++, n +=2, p++)
Product = m*n*p;
printf("%d\t %d\t %d\t %d\t\n", m, n, p, Product);
The expected output is given below.
As already described above, the loop terminates with the condition which is last in the middle expression, i.e., p<9 . It does not terminate at m <= 4 or for n<=8. If the same program is run again with the condition for (n=2 ,m=0,p=2 ;p<9, n<=12 ,m<=4 ;n +=2,m++, p++), i.e., interchanging the middle portion of the loop, the loop will run up to m<=4.
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Anxiety doesn't know that the kids are excited for Christmas, and it doesn't give a shit that you have a million things to do. It pops up unexpectedly like a jack in the box without the lyrical cues.
Last night I texted my dad asking what time he and my mom were planning to come over today. It was 9pm, so of course I was texting from bed. I played a few games on my phone, went to turn out the light, and saw the clock–9:40.
No reply.
My dad always replies and he goes to bed later than I do. So I did want any sane person would do. Various scenarios of them dead began to play in my head.
They have been having some remodeling work done on the house, so of course one of the workers broke in, robbed them and bludgeoned them to death in the process. The scene was gruesome. The police came and carted them off to the morgue and I was called to identify them. I would have Bill stay with the kids and tell them I just had to run an errand. I would get there and the drape would be pulled back and I would see their swollen faces.
What would I tell the kids? Not the truth because they would be afraid of the same thing happening at our house. It would have to be an accident of some sort until they could understand when they were older. Would my brother be able to get a flight home? Probably not right away because it would be Christmas Eve.
And we'd have to postpone Christmas. I would have to take weeks off of work for the trial because I would want to know every single detail of the case. Which prosecutor would take the case?
What would happen after? I'm not ready to lose my parents. They are finally enjoying the retirement they worked so hard for. It's so fucking unfair!
Finally, my other brain breaks through.
My conscious self says, This is bullshit. You are tired, stressed and overwhelmed and are vulnerable to this crap.
You need to STOP. Right now.
I take a deep breath. Notice my heart beating visibly through my T-shirt. Feel tears release from the corners of my eyes. Unclench my fists and feel the divots from my fingernails. Ginger stares at me.
I inhale
I remind myself where I am. Concentrate on the weight of the sheets and blankets. The breeze from the fan.
I tell myself they are probably watching a movie. The phone is on vibrate. They are talking to my brother.
Sometimes after an episode, I feel really stupid. Ashamed. Weak.
Sometimes after an episode, I feel confused. Shaken. Weak.
I scooch over to Ginger, pressing my leg against her body and feel calmer.
I look at the clock.
I love the holidays. But sometimes it's hard. And sometimes it's hard for different reasons. I'll have my mental armor on tonight, and will wear it for the next several days.
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'Growing human lungs' a step closer
The prospect of growing human lung parts for transplant has been brought closer by successful tests in mice.
Scientists from Imperial College London, UK, have, for the first time, changed mouse stem cells into a specific type of lung cell.
This means it may one day be possible to regenerate damaged lung tissue.
The team from the Imperial College Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital used stem cells from mouse embryos in their research.
The researchers put the stem cells into a molecular solution called a growth factor, which directed the cells into the kind needed - those which line the part of the lung where oxygen is absorbed and carbon dioxide excreted.
The scientists now plan to design bioactive "scaffolds" on which the cells can grow, and then be transplanted.
At the moment, the only sure way of addressing terminal lung disease is transplantation from another person, which can give patients an extra 10 to 20 years of active life.
But there is a chronic shortage of donor organs and a high risk of rejection after transplantation.
Although the research being carried out at Imperial College is not likely to result in a treatment for around a decade, scientists believe it could eventually address both issues.
Dr Anne Bishop, from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, said: "This research will make it possible eventually to repair lungs that have been damaged by disease, by implanting fully functioning lung cells to repopulate damaged areas.
"Also, unlike transplantation from a donor, the cells can be developed in such a way that the body will not reject them."
She told BBC News Online the discovery could one day benefit people with a range of lung conditions.
"Newborn babies that can't breathe, this will be the cell type they need," she said.
But she said the plan was not just to be able to give patients the cells they needed. "We want to use these cells as a starting block," she said.
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The treatment could also be used for people with cystic fibrosis.
She said it would be possible to take some cells from their skin when they were born, and using growth factor, turn them into lung cells which would be ready by the time the children needed them.
She said it was unlikely whole lungs would be grown, but that it would be possible to grow lobes. Each lung has five lobes.
Professor Julia Polak, Director of the Centre, adds: "This is the first time research of this nature has been carried out, and it has provided us with a crucial building block towards being able to construct lung tissue.
"It could eventually mean the end of extensive transplant waiting lists for critically ill patients."
Dame Helena Shovelton, British Lung Foundation chief executive, said: "This research sounds as if it could literally be a lifeline for the people who need lung transplants amongst the eight million affected by lung disease in the UK.
"There is an increasing demand for lung transplants - but there is a race against time to help those potential transplantees who are slowly deteriorating whilst desperately waiting for donors."
The research is published in Tissue Engineering Journal.
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John Carpenter is the greatest genre filmmaker that ever walked the face of planet earth. There, I said it. I can't help it, I love the man. Even his bad movies are good. While the man was responsible for camp classics like Big Trouble in Little China, he also had several seriously straight up horror movies. In the Mouth of Madness is one such movie. The story follows John Trent, played by Sam Neil, as he embarks on a task to locate cult-like Horror author Sutter Cane, who has gone off the reservation and missed the deadline for his latest book. Trent's journey will take him through literal hell on earth, and blur the line between fiction and reality.
In the Mouth of Madness is one hell of a movie, and made even more so by the career-making performance by Sam Neil. This man can act, and if anyone ever doubts that, just show them this movie. Put anyone else in this role and it becomes a different movie. Everyone does a good job, but Mr. Neil goes above and beyond with his performance. Group that with some spectacular original music, disturbing imagery, practical effects, and and a fascinating story, and you have yourself one certified John Carpenter classic. Movies like this is what earns Carpenter titles such as "Master of Horror." Though he doesn't see himself as just a horror director, and by any stretch of the imagination he is not, he still is a master of the genre, and In the Mouth of Madness proves it.
Scream Factory's Blu-ray release of the film is fantastic. It's a collector's edition with newly commissioned art, and a swath of new extras. It features a nice full HD AVC-encoded 1080p transfer presented in 2.39:1, scanned in 4k from original film elements, and an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track. The extras are listed as new interviews, and that's what's included, but it undersells it. It's basically a retrospective documentary, really good stuff. A full listing of extras can be found below. Scream Factory's Collector's Edition Blu-ray release of John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is highly recommended. This is a horror classic, and it deserves the treatment it was given. You may purchase a copy of your own by visiting the Shout! Factory website.
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DVD ReviewFor some reason, Hollywood is convinced that people don't want to see new stories and characters, they just want to see remakes of formulas that worked in the past. Or that didn't work, in the case of Rollerball. Why we need a remake of THAT is a mystery to me. Needless to say, these remake things don't often turn out too well. The only real successes I can think of are The Thomas Crown Affair and The Addams Family. Oh, and don't forget Lost in Space :::snort:::. So anyway, with that kind of track record, I wasn't expecting the 2000 remake of the blacksploitation classic Shaft to be all that. Lucky for me, I was wrong. Almost. Ok, half wrong. It's all that, but without the chips.
Samuel L. Jackson IS Shaft. Who's Shaft you say? Why, he's the man who'd risk his life for his brother man! Why, that Shaft is one bad mother - Ok, ok, I'll shut my mouth (but I'm just talking about Shaft!) There. Now that I've gotten that out of my system -
Shaft is a cop who is fed up with the corruption of the legal system. After a rich white boy gets away with the murder of a black man simply because he has the cash to weasel his way out of it, Shaft decides to quit the police force and solve the case on his own. That will involve tracking down and protecting the only witness (played by Toni Collette). Of course, he also has to deal with a pesky drug lord (Jeffrey Wright) who would like to see him dead and some less-than-honest cops willing to sell him out to make a buck (No way! A dishonest cop?).
There are some very good things about this remake. The acting is excellent. Samuel L. Jackson IS Shaft. I can't think of a better casting decision in the last 10 years. I think it is safe to say that this remake would not have happened without him. He is like Sean Connery as Bond - he just oozes cool. I was also very impressed by Jeffrey Wright as Peoples Hernandez, especially when I found out that he is not really a Latino. He perfected the accent and mannerisms of the character. Christian Bale plays a slightly less smarmy version of his character in American Psycho, and he does a good job playing the character you love to hate, even if the part is underwritten. The supporting cast was also good, but I could've done without Busta Rhymes. He's bad enough in the Sprite commercials.
Also good: the action! Who would've thought that the guy who made the socially controversial, powerfully moving Boyz n' the Hood could direct some of the most frenetic and thrilling action sequences of the year? This is very violent stuff, with heads getting themselves exploded and blood a-flying, and the camera captures it all without reverting to annoying close-up jerkiness (a la Gladiator) or wannabe Matrix crap (a la Romeo Must Die). It was nice to see something different for a change.
Now the bad: the script. Not so much the dialogue, which was decent and quite funny in parts (they nailed the character of Shaft), but the story feels very tired right from the get-go. A racial crime - how very PC and '90s... or '00s, I guess. And speaking of the—um—last year, this was clearly NOT a film from the '70s. The original Shaft was mostly sex with some violence added in. The remake is all violence (some of it very graphic), but it's OK, because we don't see any (tee hee) naked ladies. But I digress. Again.
The story tries to do too much. I mean, we have the racist killer, the drug dealer, the corrupt cops, Shaft searching for the witness, Shaft struggling to do what is right - yadda yadda. Too much is crammed in and as a result, the story doesn't work as a whole. Subplots are introduced and then ignored for the rest of the film (I am thinking of Christian Bale being recruited by Wright to sell drugs to the upper-class— don't worry, I'm not spoiling anything, since it plays no part anywhere else in the film). Wright made such a great villain that I wish they'd ignored the trite stuff about racism and drugs and just had him be a psycho for two hours. And that ending! Upon reflection, I can't believe I was surprised by what occurred. I guess I just expected that the writers would be able to think of something a bit less cliché. After about 45 minutes, the plot just exists to string along action sequences anyway, so why muck it up with social pretenses on the corruption of the upper class mentality? I mean really, I go to Shaft to see a sex machine who's a hit with all the chicks.
Of course, many will argue that a good plot and realistically drawn characters aren't important in an action film, and I guess they'd be right, to an extent. And if you look at it that way, Shaft does provide just enough plot to push the action and create a somewhat compelling storyline. The character of Shaft is the real star, and Sam Jackson delivers.
Rating for Style: A-
Rating for Substance: C+
Image Transfer
Image Transfer Review: Paramount has done a great job with this transfer. Black levels are excellent throughout. Fine detail looks very good, and the color contrast is sharp. Flesh tones were accurate. I noticed just a bit of edge enhancement in a few places, but nothing major. In fact, the only problem I had was that the transfer seemed a bit dark, but perhaps it was intentional. Right on!
Image Transfer Grade: A
Audio Transfer
Audio Transfer Review: Audio sounds good overall, but I have to say that the mix wasn't quite as aggressive as I had expected. Most of the action takes place in the front soundstage (that isn't to say it sounds front-heavy - the front stage is very wide here). Dialogue is clear and understandable. When surrounds are used (mostly in the latter half of the film, during key action scenes or with the score), they are aggressive, but as I said, they aren't used as much as you'd expect for an action movie. The LFE is well used in the action scenes, particularly with the gunshots. Can 'ya dig it?
Audio Transfer Grade: A
Disc ExtrasAnimated menu with music
Scene Access with 12 cues and remote access
Subtitles/Captions in English with remote access
1 Original Trailer(s)
1 Documentaries
Packaging: Amaray
Picture Disc
1 Disc
1-Sided disc(s)
Layers: dual
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Two featurettes are provided. The first, Still The Man: The Making of Shaft, is your basic studio promo piece. There are interviews with the actors and the crew, but not much beyond just plot description. The disc producers then risked their lives for their brother, um - man, I guess, to provide about 12 minutes of interviews with the cast. All the principals discuss what drew them to the project and how they went about defining their characters. Kind of ho-hum, but worth a look.
The rather nifty theatrical trailer is included (thanks, Paramount, for not forgetting it like you did with M:I 2), as well as two music videos. The first, for Issac Hayes' new version of the Shaft theme, is the better of the two (but maybe that has something to do with the fact that I can't look at R. Kelly without thinking about Space Jam :::shudder:::).
Oh, and I noticed that the packaging lists "dynamic interactive motion menus" as an extra. Well, I don't know about you, but a sparsely animated main menu with static everything else doesn't scream "dynamic" to me.
Extras Grade: C+
Final CommentsJohn Singleton really pumps up the action in Shaft 2000, but the end result was a bit too far from the spirit of the original for my taste. While some sequences reached an almost John Woo-like intensity, the main storyline didn't do it for me either. I didn't care about any of these characters. Still, with the disc, Paramount delivers ten times out of ten, so I have to recommend this to action fans.
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Instituto Bernabeu in Albacete participated in the Gynaecological Ultrasound Scan Workshop organised by the University of Castilla La Mancha within the framework of its Master's Course in Primary Healthcare. María Antonia López Rubio, a doctor at the clinic in Albacete, was responsible for teaching some of the finer details of clinical practice at Instituto Bernabeu to students on the specialist training course.
During her intervention on latest developments in the field of general gynaecology, the gynaecologist also addressed the matter of reproductive health. Instituto Bernabeu collaborates with institutions from the Castilla La Mancha region and has collaboration agreements with the University of Castilla La Mancha. They include managing the Master's Course in Male Infertility at UCLM which is currently in its third edition.
The refresher Master's Course in Primary Healthcare is essentially a practical course aimed at general practitioner activity and it covers leading latest developments in primary healthcare diagnosis and treatment as well as classes on gynaecology.


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