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By: Susan Pigg Business Reporter, Published on Wed Feb 05 2014
January is always a volatile month for home sales, and there's no doubt the unrelenting cold and snow of the polar vortex had an added impact.
In fact, new listings plunged almost in line with the weather — down 16.6 per cent, year over year, with just 8,822 new For Sale signs staked in front lawns across the GTA, driving up competition, fuelling bidding wars and, with them, prices.
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The average sale price of a home in January was $526,528, up more than 9 per cent from $482,080 in January of 2013, says TREB.
Even resale condos saw price spikes averaging 8.7 per cent across the GTA, with prices up a surprising 11.2 per cent in the 905 area (to an average of $299,118) and 7.6 per cent in the 416 region (to $366,020), which has typically seen the biggest price gains in the past.
Sales were up 1.6 per cent and 7.4 per cent, respectively.
"Looking forward, it is possible that strong price growth, and therefore an increase in home equity, will act as a trigger for more households to list their homes for sale," said TREB president Dianne Usher in a statement.
But realtors remain concerned that the GTA market, and the City of Toronto in particular, is being almost paralyzed by a number of factors: the fact more homeowners are opting to renovate rather than move because the costs can hit $100,000 or more when you factor in realty fees and Toronto's double land-transfer tax; baby boomers are staying put longer than expected despite the fact their kids have moved on; and high demand even for fixer-uppers, which is driving up prices of what used to be affordable housing stock.
Yet they are seeing pent-up demand, particularly from young buyers who have sat on the sidelines much of the last two years, anticipating — as did many market watchers — that prices would take a tumble in the wake of tougher mortgage lending rules and a slight bump up in interest rates.
Now, with some indications that rates may be headed down again — some lenders appear to be testing the market with 2.99 per cent mortgage rates — there are concerns that competition will further pick up and continue to far outpace new listings that should come on the market in the lead-up to the peak March-April-May spring home-buying spree.
Already in early 2014, there has been an outbreak of almost irrational bidding wars, with a Perth Ave. end row house going last month for $210,000 over asking in a flurry of 32 bids.
And realtors are seeing a perplexing trend really taking hold now: buyers who don't have the confidence to bid on a place unless they know others are, too. That means solid properties that aren't HGTV showcases can languish on the market for weeks, while a crowd lines up to bid on super-staged properties that end up selling for far beyond their real market value, further driving up prices.
For the month of January:
- Sales of detached homes were down 4.3 per cent in Toronto and 6.5 per cent in the suburbs, in large part reflecting the shortage of those most sought-after properties for sale.
- The average sale price of a detached house in Toronto hit $888,210, up almost 15 per cent, according to TREB. That compares to a 10.5 per cent price jump to an average sale price of $620,654 for a detached home in the suburbs.
- Semi-detached sales were down 5 per cent in the 416 region and almost 9 per cent in the 905 area, with average sale prices up 6.1 per cent (to $622,319) in Toronto and 6.3 per cent (to $416,441) in the suburbs.
- Townhouse sales were up 7.4 per cent in the 416 and flatlined in the 905, with prices up 4.6 per cent (to an average $439,401) and 10.4 per cent (to $396,320), respectively.
- Active listings also plummeted by 16.4 per cent, down to 11,903 properties still for sale across the GTA in January, compared to 14,231.


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There, it's posted and I don't need to look at that page any more.
Posted @ October 3rd, 2009, 11:48 pm
Reader Comments:
Panel four is pretty damn horrifying. Poor Paul. I hope you're happy, Susan. >>
Posted @ October 3rd, 2009, 11:54 pm
I know its horrible and everything, but I still feel bad for susan, in a way. If they paid heed to susan, it might make her stop, like how criminals want to change if you treat them like someone who might change.
Posted @ October 4th, 2009, 5:10 am
Hot damn he's dead D= The poor man! I mean I get Susan's point but cripes... This does not bode well.
Posted @ October 4th, 2009, 8:18 am
Oh man, this page practically gave me nightmares last night...
Posted @ October 4th, 2009, 8:52 am
Aw poor Paul.
Posted @ October 4th, 2009, 3:26 pm
i feel so bad for Susan. she is so misunderstood. i think Paul totally deserved what he got.
Posted @ October 4th, 2009, 4:16 pm
adjfhak.dnfskdmhfaksdjfa DDDDDDD8 So sad!!!!! I liked him. D8
Posted @ October 4th, 2009, 11:37 pm
CRAP. o_o
Posted @ October 4th, 2009, 11:41 pm
The bulging eyes in last panel look so realistic! I love how they seem to float to the top of his head like dead fish!
Posted @ December 14th, 2009, 9:22 am
Aye me. Susan? What have you done.
Posted @ June 5th, 2010, 10:12 pm
Those eyes.
Posted @ September 21st, 2014, 10:05 am
Oh man, this is intense!
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With its rolling hills, forests, and vistas of ocean blue, Denmark is truly a spectacular place to host a wedding. So I was very excited when Justin and Hannah announced that we'd be travelling south for their big day, to be held on the grounds of The Lake House in the hills just out of town.
And I was even more excited to discover that Hannah was adapting her Mum's wedding gown into her own, especially given I had photographed her Mum in it 8 years previously. And then, as if that wasn't enough to get me pumped, I discovered that she'd be arriving in her Dad's HK Holden, and the jokes were on - being a fellow HK owner, I was warned not to take too many photos of the car (unless the B&G were also featured!). So I behaved myself as best I could, but I did manage to sneak this first shot in, because, well, who can resist a Holden parked under a date palm beside a farm shed?!
So many highlights from this special day, and even though I'm still buried in editing, I thought I'd share some of them with you now, because let's face it, we all love to see pretty pics in the days following a beautiful wedding.
All cred to the following vendors for helping make it what it was. The Lake House (venue), Anna Jane Celebrant (celebrant), Albany Event Hire (marquee), Starfish Lane (invitations), The Floral Folk Co (flowers), Entice Food Co (cake), Kate Samiotis Hair (hair), Makeup By Carissa R (makeup), Elvi Design (dressmaker), and Ferrari Formal & Bridal (suits).
Congratulations Justin and Hannah, and thank you so much for asking me to share your beautiful day with you.


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Victoza (liraglutide) was approved by the FDA in 2010 as a new drug to treat type-2
diabetes. Like some other drugs used in the treatment of type-2 diabetes, Victoza
works by mimicking a naturally-occurring hormone in the body known as GLP-1 (glucagon-like
peptide 1). GLP-1 stimulates the pancreas, causing it to release insulin into the
bloodstream and triggering cells to absorb sugar from the bloodstream. Victoza,
manufactured by Novo Nordisk is known as an incretin mimetic—it mimics the actions
of incretin hormones in the body, increasing insulin production in response to meals
and decreasing the production of glucose from the liver.
Victoza has also been found to slow the emptying of food from the stomach, thereby
decreasing the amount of food eaten and causing weight loss in a significant number
of patients. Victoza comes in a pre-filled, multi-dose pen and is injected once
daily unlike some similar drugs which are injected before breakfast and before dinner.
Victoza is not insulin, and when used in combination with insulin, metformin (Glucophage),
pioglitazone (Actos), or rosiglitazone (Avandia) can increase the risk of low blood
sugar or hypoglycemia.
Drugs like Victoza which mimic GLP-1 have been found to cause sudden inflammation
in the pancreas among some patients. This inflammation can, in turn, lead to acute
pancreatitis which is a risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer. A study published
in the journal Diabetes in May, 2012, found that Victoza may stimulate the production
of precancerous cells. The theory is that those who have developed abnormalities
of the pancreas (such as the precancerous cells) are then more likely to develop
pancreatic cancer.
Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, found 28 reports of pancreatic cancer
among those taking Victoza—as opposed to only one case of pancreatic cancer among
the other group taking a diabetic drug which did not mimic GLP-1. While it would
appear that these reports—later submitted to the FDA database—indicate Victoza may
increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, without adequately controlled studies, there
is no way to know for sure. The manufacturer of Victoza is conducting a 9,000 patient
study regarding the safety of the drug as required by the FDA, however this study
may not be large enough to determine the actual risk of pancreatic cancer from Victoza.
Even though a Washington D.C. advocacy group asked the FDA for an immediate ban
of Victoza—citing such safety concerns as an increased risk of thyroid cancer, acute
pancreatitis, kidney failure and allergic reactions—the manufacture of Victoza has
rejected arguments demanding a recall of one of their top-selling drugs. Novo Nordisk
indicated they expect no action from the FDA regarding the Public Citizen's petition
and stated physicians and consumers should be confident in the safety of Victoza.
Even though Victoza has been on the market less than three years, it is one of Novo
Nordisk's best selling drugs with sales over $350 million dollars per quarter.
Animal studies regarding Victoza showed a higher rate of thyroid tumors, many of
which were cancerous. Among human patients, the small number of studies showed that
the risk of pancreatitis was greater among patients taking Victoza than those taking
other diabetes drugs. This higher risk of pancreatitis also leads to an increased
risk of pancreatic cancer which is one of the more deadly forms of cancer. When
the FDA approved Victoza they asked that the manufacturer conduct an additional
study to test Victoza safety among those patients with a high risk of heart problems.
The FDA further required Novo Nordisk to establish a cancer registry to monitor
the rate of thyroid cancer for the next fifteen years and to conduct a five-year
study which will test the risk of thyroid and pancreatic cancers as well as allergic
reactions among Victoza users.
Should you experience any sign of allergic reaction (hives, difficulty breathing,
swelling of lips, tongue, face or throat) when taking Victoza you are likely having
a severe allergic reaction and should seek emergency medical help immediately. Other
serious side effects include any sign of infection such as fever, chills, sore throat
or flu-like symptoms, bruising or bleeding more easily than normal, a swelling or
lump in the throat area, shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, hoarseness
when speaking and symptoms of pancreatitis—severe pain in the upper stomach which
spreads to the back, vomiting or nausea, increased heart rate or appetite loss.
There are less serious side effects which may or may not decrease with time. These
side effects include: dizziness, headache, nausea or upset stomach, diarrhea or
constipation, symptoms of a cold, back pain, fatigue, a mild skin rash or redness
at the injection site.
An article in the November 2012 issue of The Annals of Pharmacotherapy reviewed
the evidence surrounding an association between Victoza and pancreatitis. One study
detailed eleven cases of pancreatitis among those taking Victoza, nine of which
were classified as acute pancreatitis while the remaining two were classified as
chronic pancreatitis. One of the eleven patients died from acute pancreatitis. There
is some controversy, however, over whether the underlying medical condition (diabetes)
is responsible for causing pancreatitis or whether the diabetes drug—which has been
shown to cause inflammation in the pancreas—is responsible.
High Wire, a Stanford University publication, printed an article regarding liraglutide-associated
acute pancreatitis in 2012. One specific case highlighted a 53-year old man with
type-2 diabetes who arrived at the emergency room with symptoms of acute pancreatitis.
Two months prior his dosage of Victoza had been increased from 0.6 to 1.2 mg daily.
After ruling out elevated triglycerides the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis was
made and Victoza discontinued. All symptoms ceased within eight days; the patient
was released and prescribed a different type of diabetes drug. Ehealthme.com reported
on April 15, 2013 that 11,308 people reported significant side effects while taking
Victoza, with 83 of those developing pancreatic cancer.
Lawyers and Settlement reported that on April 19, 2012, Public Citizen cited the
risk of thyroid cancer as well as pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer stemming from
Victoza. When Victoza was approved in 2010, the FDA noted animal data suggested
a rare type of thyroid cancer—medullary thyroid cancer—was linked to the use of
Victoza. Studies in mice indicated Victoza was linked to thyroid gland tumors, particularly
at higher dosages. Even though the FDA concluded Victoza could increase the risk
of thyroid cancer, the drug was approved due to the fact researchers were statistically
unable to show significant risk to humans. During clinical trials, four patients
developed thyroid cancer, however rather than ban the drug the FDA chose to require
Novo Nordisk to include a black box warning label cautioning those with a family
history of thyroid cancer not to take Victoza.
It is likely that ensuing lawsuits against Novo Nordisk will allege a failure to
warn. In fact, one Louisiana woman filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of
Victoza, as well as the manufacturers of Janumet and Byetta on March 20, 2013. Rosalie
Duhon filed her complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
California, claiming she developed pancreatic cancer as a result of these type-2
diabetic drugs. Earlier in March the FDA announced they were investigating a potential
link between pancreatic cancer and incretin mimetics—the class of drugs Victoza
belongs to. Duhon's claim states that had she been properly warned regarding the
increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer from Victoza, Byetta and Janumet
she would not have taken the drugs. In addition to failure to warn, the manufacturers
are accused of designing defective drugs, breach of warranty, fraudulent concealment,
negligence and negligent misrepresentation.
Even though advocacy groups have called for a recall of Victoza, the drug has not
been recalled as the manufacturer continues to assert its safety to consumers. It
is believed by many that a recall of Victoza is almost inevitable—the only question
is when the recall will take place, and how many people will suffer significant
harm prior to that recall.
Any consumer who has been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes and prescribed Victoza
then suffered serious side effects may have a case against Novo Nordisk. After seeking
medical help, it is important to consult an attorney regarding the damages you have
suffered from taking Victoza. The attorneys of Sullo & Sullo are highly experienced
in product liability cases and can discuss your case with you to determine whether
a lawsuit is appropriate for your specific circumstances. Our attorneys will be
personally involved in your case and will go the extra mile to protect your rights.
Most states—including Texas—have a two year statute of limitations although some
other states may have a one, three, four or five year statute, so be sure to mention
to your Sullo & Sullo Victoza Attorney where you reside.
The likelihood of a Victoza settlement may depend in part on whether a recall is
issued and how many lawsuits are eventually filed against the manufacturer. Whether
a Victoza class action suit will be filed remains to be seen. If the progression
of the Victoza lawsuits follow that of Januvia and Byetta, we will likely see some
cases combined in MDL's or mass torts. Our Sullo & Sullo attorneys believe that
drug companies should pay when they are proven to have been irresponsible and unconcerned
about the safety of consumers. We offer aggressive representation, compassion for
your situation and will always be concerned about your future.
The specific Victoza damages will, of course, depend on the severity of the harm
you have suffered as a result of taking Victoza. Our attorneys will never suggest
you file a lawsuit unless they feel it is in your best interests to do so. Should
our Sullo & Sullo attorneys believe you have a solid Victoza case, they will work
zealously to recover medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering for you.
We have the necessary experience and knowledge to help you through this difficult
time—call Sullo & Sullo today!


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Provider is a body that offers domain name dispute resolution services in accordance with the MYDRP Policy and Rules.
A Provider will manage the entire domain name dispute resolution process, including receiving all relevant documents from the Complainant and Respondent, appointing the persons (Panellists) who will make the decision in respect of a Complaint, communicating with the Complainant, Respondent, Panellists and MYNIC Berhad.
For .my domain name disputes, the Provider is the Regional Centre For Arbitration Kuala Lumpur (www.aiac.world). They can be reached at tel: 2271 1000, fax: 2271 1010 and e-mail: email@example.com.
MYNIC does not play a role in the dispute resolution process other than to enforce the decisions passed to MYNIC by the Provider in accordance with the MYDRP Policy and Rules.
The Complainant initiates a Proceeding by submitting a complaint in respect of the Respondent's registration and/or use of a domain name to the Provider. The Complainant then pays the Provider the fees, following which the Provider sends the complaint to the Respondent.
The Respondent in turn submits a response to the Provider. The response must specify why the Respondent should be allowed to keep the registration and use of the domain name(s). The Complainant may reply to the response, after which a Panel will be appointed by the Provider to decide the Proceeding.
When the Provider finds a complaint incomplete or not in compliance with the MYDRP Policy and Rules, the Provider will notify the Complainant accordingly. A Complainant has 5 working days to make the necessary corrections and resubmit the complaint to the Provider.
Proceedings are conducted in either Bahasa Melayu or English. The Panel however, will accept evidence in languages other than the above, as long as it is accompanied by a duly certified translation of the evidence in either Bahasa Melayu or English.
We encourage the Complainant and Respondent to attempt to resolve the dispute among themselves before commencing a Proceeding. In cases where the Complainant and Respondent fail to do so and do not want to resolve the dispute by way of a Proceeding, the domain name dispute can be resolved by proceedings before a Malaysian Court, arbitration or through any other dispute resolution process agreed to by the Complainant and Respondent.. These alternatives may be sought at any time, regardless of whether the Proceeding has commenced, concluded or otherwise.
No. The Respondent cannot transfer the registration of a domain name to any third party during the Proceeding and 15 working days after conclusion of the same (Please refer to paragraph 17 of MYDRP Policy for further details).
If the Complainant and Respondent agree on a settlement, they must immediately inform the Provider and/or the Panel as provided in the MYDRP Rules (please refer to rule 19.1), so long as it is before a decision is made by the Panel. The Complainant and Respondent must supply the Panel and/or Provider with a written and signed agreement of the settlement. Once the Panel and/or Provider receive the agreement, the Proceeding will be terminated.
Certainly. Our MYDRP Policy and Rules necessitate that Providers maintain and publish a list of its Panellists on its web site. The list must specify Panellists' qualifications and contact details.
Either one or three Panellists will conduct a Proceeding. The Complainant has a choice of having the Proceeding decided by either a single-member or three-member Panel. Additionally, where the Complainant has chosen a single-member Panel, the Respondent may choose to have the Proceeding decided by a three-member Panel, subject to the Respondent paying for half of the Fees for the three-member Panel.
The Panel decides a Proceeding upon reviewing the documents and evidence submitted by the Parties, the MYDRP Policy and Rules as well as any other rules and principles of the relevant applicable law. The Panel is not bound by previous decisions of other Panels.
Each Panellist is required to supply the Provider with a Declaration of Impartiality and Independence. This Declaration will be evidence of the Panellist's impartiality and independence in deciding a Proceeding.
Examples of in-person hearings are telephone, video or web conferences. In-person hearings are generally disallowed during a Proceeding, except in exceptional circumstances. In such cases, the Panel will decide if it's necessary to conduct in-person hearings, and even then only when both Parties are present.
The Panel will forward its decision to the Provider within 14 working days after it has received the file containing the Complaint, Response and/or Reply from the Provider. The Provider will then inform the Parties and MYNIC Berhad Panel's of the decision for its further action. The decision will then be published in full over the Internet by the Provider.
In such an event, the Respondent may commence court action or any alternative dispute resolution process against the Complainant with respect to the subject matter of the Proceeding. This must be done within 10 working days from the date the Provider informs MYNIC Berhad of the Panel's decision, failing which, MYNIC Berhad will proceed to implement the decision of the Panel.
No. Any claim for damages or compensation must be made through either court action or arbitration proceedings as the Panel has no power to make such awards.
In the context of a Proceeding, the only remedies available to the Complainant are the transfer of the registration of the domain name to the Complainant or deletion of the registration of the domain name.
The transfer process begins with the generation of a Domain Name Registration Form to the Complainant via e-mail. The Registrant must have a local presence and comply with existing rules and regulations.
Once the Registration Form is completed and returned to MYNIC Berhad, a Confirmation Form is sent via e-mail to the administrative and technical contacts appointed by the Complainant. Supporting documents (please refer to Supporting Documents for type of documents needed) are also required with the submission of the completed Confirmation Form.
The whole process should not take more than 10 working days.
MYNIC will send a notice to notify the administrative and technical contacts appointed by the Complainant on the expiry of the transfer process. The domain name will then be released to the public.


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Security Awareness & First Aid (SAFA) Training UK
Who Are ILS?
ILS is a well-established and highly respected provider of safety and security solutions to the not for profit sector – acting as preferred provider to some of the biggest, and some of the smallest, NGOs in the world. All of ILS' instructor team have extensive humanitarian and development backgrounds; they understand the humanitarian imperative and the critical role in security of personal and organisational Acceptance
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Security Awareness and First Aid Training, or SAFA, is a giant leap forward in terms of hostile environment awareness training. Over three days and two nights SAFA courses offer participants an immersive, cost effective, risk appropriate and in depth learning experience which prepares them for the realities of living and working in hazardous, emergency or 'deep field' locations.
Course delegates are taught in three strands, which interlink throughout the course;
- Human Security – as well as understanding the operating space within which they will operate, delegates are taught about the human factors that affect their safety and security. Our team help the delegates to understanding the 'drivers' to violence, their own attitudes and appetites to it and will come away able to exert influence within the context of interpersonal violence.
- Hard Security – delegates will learn how to reduce their personal and team vulnerabilities to a range of threats, from Abduction to Blast Threats, from Vehicle Checkpoints to Weapon Threats, the team focus on current tactics and techniques employed by armed groups to ensure the learning is up to date and appropriate. Delegates will spend time with a former hostage who spent 15 months in captivity.
- First Aid in the Field – this portion of the course is taught in terms of delivering first aid in remote locations. Delegates are taught by international search and rescue medics who will teach the fundamentals of Basic Life Support; primary and secondary survey, managing traumatic injury and sustaining life when definitive care is not immediately available. The First Aid element of the course is a core component of the training and is mainstreamed throughout, not taught in isolation.
Specific Modules covered in our monthly courses are:
- Operating Space Update
- Personal Situational Awareness
- Security and Contingency Planning
- Communicating in an emergency
- Vehicle Checkpoint Negotiation
- Field Health and Wellness
- Weapons Effects
- Crowd Safety
- First Aid
- Inter-Personal Aggression
- Kidnap Avoidance and Survival
- Blast Threats
- Journey Plans and Vehicle Safety
- Road Traffic Accidents
- Field Resilience
- Sexual Violence
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Incident Reporting
Is SAFA for me?
If you are travelling to a very remote area, a humanitarian emergency or medium to high security risk settings, then yes, this is the course for you. SAFA training will give you the skills to avoid some of the key threats you will face, and the tools to cope if things do go wrong. Whether the threat be kidnapping, militancy or simply road traffic accidents, SAFA training has it covered, in a pragmatic and approachable way.
How can I book?
For more information or to book a place please email Rachel Felton on firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com or call +44 (0) 1273 833070
The programme runs regularly in the UK, Kenya, Senegal and in the USA. We also offer an alternative, field level SAFA for national staff.
To view our full course calendar please visit http://www.locationsafety.com/training


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On a daily basis Wags and Walks saves all sizes, shapes, and colors of mutts - from pitbull mixes to toy poodle mixes. We thought we'd seen it all, but then we found this article on the Huffington Post, with some of the most unexpected and adorable combinations we've ever seen.
What do you get when you mix a Pitbull and a Huskey? How about a Corgi and a Poodle?
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Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSE:ACB) (NYSE:ACB) announced Monday that it has completed its first commercial export of medical cannabis oil to the United Kingdom from a certified pharmacy.
The Canadian company, which is currently enhancing its UK operations to ensure that patients there have access to a range of Aurora cannabis-based medicines, said the product has been successfully dispensed from Canada under a new legal framework that came into effect Nov. 1, 2018.
"Being one of the first Canadian companies to commercially supply cannabis-based medicines into the UK under the new legal framework reflects Aurora's ability to do business in international markets that have complex and evolving regulatory systems," said Neil Belot, chief global business development officer, in a company statement. "Aurora continues to grow its international footprint, which now includes the UK, a country with a population of approximately 66 million people."
READ: Aurora Cannabis's extraction partner Radient Technologies wins key license from Health Canada
Authorities in the UK granted regulatory approval of the new framework last year.
Under the new UK framework, specialist doctors can legally issue prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines when they agree that their patients could benefit from this treatment, according to the company's statement.
"We are thrilled to have successfully navigated the complexities of the UK's new regulatory framework to be able to supply high quality, pharmaceutical grade cannabis-based medicines into the UK from one of our EU-GMP certified facilities in Canada," said Dr. Shane Morris, senior vice president of product development and regulatory affairs for Aurora.
Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Aurora is one of the world's largest cannabis producers and has a funded capacity in excess of 500,000 kilograms a year and sales and operations in 22 countries across five continents. It has 15 wholly owned subsidiary companies.
Aurora is a vertically integrated company, meaning it handles all aspects of cannabis production, from facility engineering and design to cannabis breeding and genetics research to home cultivation, wholesale and retail distribution.
To facilitate its growth, the company has invested in and established strategic partnerships with a range of leading innovators, including: Radient Technologies Inc. CVEV:RTI), Hempco Food and Fiber Inc. (CVE:HEMP), and CTT Pharmaceuticals (OTMKTSLCTTH).
Shares of Aurora Cannabis Inc (NYSE:ACB) (TSE:ABC) dropped Monday on news of its first UK export, to $7.21 per share in the US, down from Friday's market close of $7.54 per share, a decrease of 3.4%.
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Happy Friday, everyone, and sorry this is so late!
I have to be honest, this week has been a roller coaster of emotions.
Before I share some of my bliss, this week I lost a job due to lack of available work. While I know my pain and fear will be temporary, it still totally stinks.
Also, a big project I've been working on (and will announce to everyone in a month or two!) lost some support this week. So, overall, it's been a weird, happy-sad-happy week. Onward and upward, right!?!
Especially when I experience these funny weeks, it's good to focus on the positive, so here goes:
1. You know how I've been in voice over booth, a lot?
Well, I booked a job! I got an awesome Minnesota Lottery commercial and one of the coolest parts is — it is my first TV spot! WOOHOO!!!!
I will share the commercial when it comes on air!
2. I may have found a long lost twin
Do you ever connect with someone and you realize you have soooo much in common??
This week, I reconnected with a friend from high school and found out we…drive the same car, live half a mile away from each other, her sister and I were a part of the same sorority, and sport nearly matching personalities.
Love love love!
3. Starting some creative fires on PicMonkey
Do you miss Picnik? Check out PicMonkey!
It has awesome photo editing capabilities and there are lots of fun ways to customize your pictures.
In light of my weird week, I made this:
Feel free to pass it on, it is not only for me, but maybe you too. I always need this reminder!
Lots of love to you all this weekend — get out there and enjoy it!
{Don't forget to share your bliss! Scatter your joy in a comment below or link up at LivLane.com!}


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This month over at BakeBakeBake the challenge is British. Frankly, my experience with British food is very small. All I can think of is fish and chips. But a baked British dish? Google was required to find something to meet the challenge! Fish pie is a pie made with white fish. It is a traditional British dish. Upon googling I found Jamie Oliver's Fish Pie recipe, using a combination of fish, shrimp, carrots, celery, lemon, tomato, spinach, and mashed potatoes.
I was skeptical, but clearly I had no reason to be. This dish was time consuming (until it went into the oven) but came out perfectly with a beautiful crispy potato topping.
Fish Pie
2 lbs white potatoes, cut into pieces
1 carrot, shredded
2 sticks celery, shredded
5 oz Cheddar cheese, shredded
1 lemon
2 1/4 lbs tilapia, cut into pieces
4 oz shrimp, cleaned and peeled
olive oil
1 handful baby spinach
2 tomatoes, quartered
1. Preheat oven to 400. Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Add the potatoes and cook for 12 minutes. Once the potatoes are tender, mash together with several glugs of olive oil.
2. Place the grated carrot, celery, and cheese together in a baking dish. Zest the lemon into the baking dish. Cut the tilapia into bite size pieces. Mix the tilapia, shrimp, spinach, and tomatoes in with the grated vegetables.
3. Spread the mashed potatoes on top of the dish. Bake for 40 minutes.
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WWE and WCW Legend, Sting recently sat down with Orlando Sentinel's Brian Fritz and spoke on who he'd like to face at Wrestlemania if The Undertaker is not an option.
"I do believe I have enough left in my tank for one more match and I would love for that match to be against Taker. If that can't happen, Triple H, I think. I just would like to have one more match. I would love to say I had one match under the WWE banner and, of course, WrestleMania. Who wouldn't want to say that they wrestled at WrestleMania at least one time?"
Former WWE World Heavyweight Champion and the last man to win the coveted Royal Rumble is rumored to be distancing himself more than what was originally planned from wrestling.
Batista had major success in playing Drax The Destroyer in Marvel's latest box office smash hit "Guardians of the Galaxy" and Hollywood big-wigs are seeing his performance in that particular movie as a major stepping stone for the former full time professional wrestler.
The idea is if he went back to wrestle full time then he would jeopardize his acting career and risk losing all he's worked for in that field based on succumbing to an injury in the ring.
Dean Ambrose has just started to dabble in acting and has recently been written off televised WWE events after his most recent adversary, Seth Rollins utilized his patented "Curb Stomp" finishing maneuver on the face of Dean into a pile of cinder blocks.
These events took place so that Ambrose could begin filming scenes on a WWE Studios movie under the working name of "Lockdown"
The film is scheduled to shoot all the way until September 20th so it is more than likely that the "lunatice fringe" Dean Ambrose won't return before that period of time.


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This is the Flash Step Dance Crew, performing a killer Studio Ghibli homage at Anime Boston last month.
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Luke Plunkett is a Senior Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs cosplay.kotaku.com.


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Maybe all of you have already heard about the Erasmus Programme for student exchange in Europe and maybe many of you already done a term abroad with this programme. I've studied abroad, but at the same place. When I turn back, I'm really happy with what I've studied and how I managed my studies. And I'm definitely not happy with the German university education system and with the Technical University of Darmstadt were I've studied. There is a whole film about the studies at the TU Darmstadt – 13 Semester. (in German). It's actually a really good university with great research, one of the best in Germany, but the teaching is miserable and not to talk about the bureaucracy. However there is only one thing I really miss in my studies: I didn't make an Erasmus term abroad.
As a "normal", not Erasmus, student you have always some problems to find a place to live, to find a job in order to finance your life and studies and so on. And you have always little time for going out, travelling and hobbies. At least I've managed to travel a lot in Germany and to obtain a deeply knowledge in the German culture and social system. But I was always a little jealous of the Erasmus students. They usually obtain some money, a place to live and are not really supposed to learn, but to have fun and experience the education system and culture of the guest country. Or they come to learn the language. And most of them do nothing but having fun, parties and travelling around. That's not bad. It's totally nice. And if you even manage to get some credit point for your studies than it is even better. But you can do more than that. You can even get some job and learn about the job market and habits in the country. You can get a good overview of the social and cultural traditions.
But there are some students who have even more creativity and do really the best of an Erasmus term abroad. I've recently met a young Bulgarian entrepreneur who was on an Erasmus in Germany. He had a really exact vision of what he wants to achieve with this term. He not only managed to get a lot of credit points, but he got a deep experience in the German society. He studied how the university and schools function, how Germany creates innovation and how the society works. He inspired me a lot with his point of view and what he managed to see and do in such a short period. He inspired me also to write a short article about alternative schools, which will follow in shortly.


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• Extra 125g unsalted butter, melted
• 3 eggs
• 200ml milk
• 225g self-raising flour
• 500g caster sugar
• 175g desiccated coconut
• Finely grated zest and juice of 6 limes
• 1 cup coconut flakes, toasted, to decorate
• Whipped cream, to serve
Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease base and side of a 24cm round cake tin with melted butter, then line with baking paper. Put extra melted butter in a large bowl and whisk in eggs and milk.
Combine flour, 360g of the caster sugar, coconut and zest in a second large bowl, then stir in butter mixture. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Spoon into prepared tin and bake for 50 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer.
Meanwhile, put lime juice and remaining sugar in a small saucepan over a mediumhigh heat and bring to the boil. Cook for 10 minutes or until slightly thickened.
Pierce surface of warm cake repeatedly with a skewer, then pour over 1/2 of the lime syrup. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto a serving platter, then pour over remaining syrup. Decorate top with coconut flakes and serve with whipped cream on the side.


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If you are dreaming of living in a city where you can find a perfect job and that is capable of providing everything that you need, then New York is probably the best place to move. When you hear any story about the life in NYC you can be sure that it has a happy ending because in NY everyone is satisfied with their lifestyle. Of course, you can find some similar cities to move, but NYC has some really nice furnished homes for sale. However, if you never been to NYC before, you might need some help from an expert to guide you through this process. NY is a huge city that offers a chance for everyone. if you are an upcoming artist, then NY is the city you must visit because you will find many opportunities to make it as a performer. Here are some tips on finding a perfect home.
When buying a home, you need to take any advantage and benefit that you can have because you will need it, especially when you are moving to a huge city as New York. The first tip that we will share with you is about how to avoid a lot of responsibilities. We are talking about finding and buying completely furnished homes because this way you will not need to go out and spend more money on purchasing new furniture for your home. furniture is really expensive, if you never purchased any, then you most likely don't have a clue how much a table can cost. Of course, you can furnish your home for cheap, but it will not look pleasing to people.
If you buy a home in NYC that is completely furnished, then you don't need to worry about purchasing anything else because you will already have everything in place. The advantage of having a furnished home is that you don't need to carry all of the furniture inside of the home because it will already be inside. That way you will save a lot of time and money, also you will not have to stress about the overall look because everything will be done.
The second tip that is very important if you want to get a good deal when buying a home in NYC is to have some expert on your side who knows about the prices. The best option that you have is to hire a real estate agent because they have the most experience and their job is to get you the best deal possible. Therefore, they will give you their personal and professional advice on which homes to look at. We suggest that you always listen to your real estate agent because he knows for sure whether it is worth to purchase a home or not. Having professional help with anything in life is always a benefit on its own. However, if you get to avoid mistakes and save money with them, then it is an advantage that you must have.


text: It has been awhile since I have snapped any pictures of Lucy Mae with my big camera. Yesterday we went out to my parents house and took a few. She is not as into photo shoots as her momma would like her to be, but I got a few shots of her just being an adventurous one year old who is always on the go (and always has a serious face ha).


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Franziska Puhan-Schulz. Museen und Stadtimagebildung: Amsterdam - Frankfurt/Main - Prag - Ein Vergleich. Bielefeld: Transcript - Verlag für Kommunikation, Kultur und soziale Praxis, 2005. 340 pp. ISBN 978-3-89942-360-0.
Reviewed by Henriette Steiner (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
Published on H-Urban (December, 2010)
Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Museums as Urban Image-Builders – Building the Future by Exhibiting the Past
In the foreword to Museen und Stadtimagebildung: Amsterdam-Frankfurt/Main-Prag – Ein Vergleich, Franziska Puhan-Schulz claims that her book can serve the function of a handbook or manual directed at decision-makers in urban planning. Her study is meant as a tool to help avoid mistakes during the process of planning new museums. In order to accomplish this aim, Puhan presents a comparative study of larger museum projects, mainly from the 1990s, in three European cities: Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main, and Prague. The study is preceded by a succinct overview of the relation between urban and cultural politics in Europe in the post-World-War II period. The book is clearly structured and well written in a straightforward German, which makes it easy to read also for non-native speakers. The lack of any information in English, such as a summary, however, does obstruct the possibility that a cross-European study such as this one can be absorbed by the pan-European audience it seeks to address. Nevertheless, the book's topic is well framed and relevant. Puhan-Schulz touches on themes that are debated in several academic disciplines, including cultural studies and architecture, as well as relevant to a circle of decision-makers concerned with the building of new museums in cities. All in all, this makes for a stimulating read.
The book opens with a discussion of the boom in museum-building, which has been witnessed in many European cities since the 1980s. This building boom is tied to a desire to put art and culture high on the agenda of urban developers, who believe that by establishing a strong cultural profile, a city can "get on the map" and create a more potent urban image, which politicians, planners, and even interest organizations often agree will give rise to better life quality and, most importantly, economic growth. Focus in the study is on the way in which cities have, particularly in the last decades, begun to use the building of spectacular museums or museum districts as part of a strategy of urban revitalization. While Bilbao is mentioned, the rather colloquial term "Bilbao effect" is not explicitly discussed. This term was coined to refer to the building of a museum by "starchitect" Frank Gehry in the industrial Spanish city of Bilbao in 1997, an undertaking that has brought with it a heightened influx of, for example, tourist capital. The construction of this museum has completely changed the general perception of this city, its image, and given it a positive direction.
This may not always be the case, however. That the attempt at image-building using cultural institutions may go terribly wrong was recently witnessed in the German city of Duisburg. Here, the organization of a mass cultural event, a festival for electronic music, the Loveparade, which has drawn over one million visitors in the past, was seen as part of the greater urban cultural revitalization strategy of the former coal-mining region. The mass stampede that occurred at this event in July 2010 turned the festive image into one of tragedy, greed, and mayhem. As these two recent examples suggest, Puhan-Schulz is analyzing instances of an important contemporary trend that is highly significant for the ways European cities have changed and been understood over the last decades and for the ways in which cultural events and institutions are playing an ever greater role in the deep-reaching processes of transformation that cities are still undergoing.
In an introductory chapter, Puhan-Schulz discusses the building of new museums from an economic perspective. She captures this potential on four levels. Firstly, she focuses on the tourist sector. Tourists may in very direct ways--by visiting the museums and paying entrance fees--fuel a museum economy. Considering the many free museums in London, for example, this is only part of the economic capacity of tourists, of course, since tourists often come to a place with a significant willingness to spend money. Secondly, museums are an economic factor in their own right, for example when it comes to the people they employ. Thirdly, museums offer a possible economic benefit in more indirect terms in that they can fuel a kind of prestige economy. This not only has to do with the spending power of the aforementioned tourists; a strong cultural scene supposedly also adds to the capacity of a place to attract well-educated people and strong, innovative companies, new industries, etc. Finally, Puhan-Schulz touches on how museums tie into contemporary lifestyles and have become a means for cities to take part in and compete within a globalized economy. What we are dealing with is thus the question of how one cultural institution has, at least since the 1980s, become a means for urban planners to incorporate elements of a kind of "image planning" of a city on a global scale.
Puhan-Schulz studies three instances of large constructions of museums or museum districts as part of a general plan concerning urban revitalization. In particular, she focuses on the decision-making process and addresses questions such as who initiated the projects? Were opinions raised against them? What were the guiding principles in terms of how the projects were meant to tie into the urban metabolism? And, finally, which ideas were put into practice and with what results? In Amsterdam, Puhan-Schulz investigates the process leading up to the establishment of the Museumplein, the museum plaza or square--a decision to revamp an area in close proximity to the medieval center of the city which already housed the city's main art museums. The area contains a mixture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural institutions situated around a small public park--the Rijksmuseum (1885), the Concertgebouw (1888), the Stedelijk Museum (1895), and the Van Gogh Museum (1973). The idea was to bring in a landscape architect to create a more coherent public space linking together these institutions, but also to make possible architectural extensions of some of the existing buildings. In 1992, the landscape architect Sven-Ingvar Andersson, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, was given the task of making a new master plan for the area. The main idea was to keep the area as a green space that would allow outdoor public activities and events to take place, while minimizing traffic to pedestrians and cyclists. Cars and buses would be then be served by the construction of an underground car park. This area was supposed to be attractive to tourists, maintain its high-cultural flair, and develop into a place where, regardless of the time of year, local citizens would meet, hang out, and engage in activities. That is, the Museumsplein was conceptualized as a public space par excellence.
According to Puhan-Schulz this latter aim was only achieved in part. While she regards the accommodation of public opinion in the decision-making process as adding to it a positive element, particular issues remain unresolved. An example is the way in which the intended mixed-use of the area--which, on occasions, would be used for larger public events--would destroy the grass and make the place a lot less accommodating, particularly in the summer. She further situates the green character of the plan as part of a more widespread discourse in the 1990s in which gardens were used to create public spaces in urban areas. But, as she concludes, this green aestheticization of the area, which is of course largely directed at tourists who are supposed to be confronted with a clean, leisurely image of Amsterdam, in fact contributes to a reduction of the possibilities for a varied and rich public life.
In Frankfurt am Main, the Museumsufer (museum quay), was an idea that developed in the late 1970s. It originated in the city administration and was seen as a way of aesthetically tying together already existing museums along the quay in the city center and accommodating the building of new ones. In contrast to the predominantly historicist backdrop of the Museumsplein, however, in Frankfurt existing museums were extended and several new museums were built in the period between 1980 and 1990 by architects embracing the postmodernist architectural style. While, in the years to come, important architects would be given the task of designing new museums for the area, the master plan from 1981 included new regulation of automobile traffic away from the quays, the construction of a pedestrian bridge crossing the river, and the development of a promenade area complete with new street lighting and a park-like ambience. As in Amsterdam, the plan rested on a dual argument. On the one hand, the area was established as a cultural center for the inhabitants of Frankfurt, who were suffering from the lack of urban spaces due to the high public building activity in the city around this time. On the other hand, however, the project was conceptualized as a way of rescuing Frankfurt's high-cultural identity from the profit-oriented image hovering above the city, an image that was, in those very years, being fueled by the expansion of the banking sector and corporate undertakings. The establishment of the Museumsufer was thus meant both as an urban revitalization project locally and as an image-building endeavor externally.
Puhan-Schulz concludes that while public opinion did not necessarily embrace the plans, at the end criticism was silenced. She believes this is tied to the fact that the project may in part be seen as salvaging historic building structures in the inner city from the fast-paced development of Frankfurt's high-rise skyline. As a consequence of the postmodernist credo and the rather scattered architectural development, at least the façades of several older buildings were left intact. Nevertheless, Puhan-Schulz finds that the planning of walkways and promenades rather moves the area in the direction of a cool and controlled institutionalization of public space.
The final case study concerns Prague. This material differs from the two other case studies insofar as the Prague case predominantly concerns one museum, the national gallery as part of a dense structure of existing museums, rather than the master planning of a larger public space. Puhan-Schultz describes the history of the collections up to their current placing in the Veletržní palác, a former fair trade palace, a functionalist building from the mid 1920s. The building was destroyed by fire in 1974, and, shortly thereafter, it was suggested as an appropriate site for the modern art collection of the city. This partly rested on the belief that, during the years of communism, it would be difficult to get funding to build a new museum. Money for reconstruction of the destroyed building might, however, be available. While the building project started during communist rule, it was not finished until 1995. The museum is thus not a purpose-built architectural structure, but uses the functionalist fair trade palace as a shell. This makes it similar to other recent prestige projects such as the Tate Modern in London. Nevertheless, larger concerns about the inclusion of public life in the project were incorporated and the building came to contain a large space for performances and part of the building serves corporate functions. The original idea was to create a zone of transition between the public space and the museum; this plan was, however, only executed in a very reduced sense. As a consequence, the project was highly criticized for its lack of interest in serving the public, for example with cafes or other facilities. Still today, Puhan-Schulz concludes, the place is practically empty of life and contributes only little to the life of the city. This again demonstrates, perhaps more clearly than the two other analyzed examples, the lack of success in bringing new life to public areas through the building of museums.
Through the comparative study of Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main and Prague, the book successfully brings to our attention significant moments in the relation between the possibilities and capabilities of urban planners when they turn to culture in order to develop a particular image of a city and to allow museums to become part of a larger urban revitalization scheme. This specifically has to do with the question of how art in general and modern art in particular is used in this context as a supposedly positive factor. The study is convincingly carried out mainly through a social scientific, anthropological approach, relying on qualitative interviews, as well as through analysis of the relevant official documents. At the outset of the study, a general critical point is established. Puhan-Schulz puts forward a hypothesis that indicates a certain critical distance from the very way of thinking which forms the core material of her study. In fact, she questions the very premise that the construction of new museums as part of an image-building or revitalization strategy of a given place or city actually serves the urban realm to which it relates. She suggests that through manipulation of public space and institutions, the public spaces of the city are not necessarily changed for the better. People visiting these urban sites have, in fact, witnessed a reduction in possibilities for their use of these particular spaces.
What Puhan-Schulz learns through her comparative study thus not only has to do with factual knowledge concerning different ways in which museums can become operational as part of a urban revitalization strategy. Rather, it allows her to illuminate issues of general relevance: the extent to which this so-called image-building is a useful tool and the potential negative forces it may bring along. In the analyzed material, economic benefits can be found and in this way her book may very well serve as a kind of handbook or manual for urban planners. Nevertheless, the kind of urban space that comes out of these collective efforts may, in fact, not necessarily serve the public who is represented by the administration and planners. While this thesis is emphasized again at the end of the study, these implications are not picked up on in any extensive way. This critical evaluation of the projects makes it difficult to see how the book could be used as a manual except by very self-conscious planners and politicians. At the same time, though, the scholarly reader craves a more nuanced interpretation of this critical point. If the analyzed cases show evidence of much larger European developments, this observation raises serious doubts with respect to the general positive evaluation of the use of museums to revitalize a place--when it comes to issues other than the aforementioned economic factors. We might have to do with a potentially unfortunate instrumentalization of the institution of the museum, institutions that are often placed at key urban sites. The recent museum boom may therefore have counterproductive side effects that still need to be understood in depth. This opens room for questions that unfortunately remain unanswered at the end of the book. Is the idea of an "image of a place" at all useful and valid for public officials to pursue--and what alternative strategies may be developed out of the lessons learned from this study? One may therefore wish that such important questions be addressed in further research.
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Henriette Steiner. Review of Puhan-Schulz, Franziska, Museen und Stadtimagebildung: Amsterdam - Frankfurt/Main - Prag - Ein Vergleich.
H-Urban, H-Net Reviews.
December, 2010.
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Sheffield Wednesday have today confirmed chief executive Paul Aldridge will leave the Championship club at the end of the 2015/16 season.
Aldridge, who has previously worked at West Ham, Leicester City and Manchester City, joined the club as vice chairman and CEO in January 2011, succeeding Nick Parker.
Having spoken with Wednesday chairman Dejphon Chansiri, Aldridge feels it is the "right time" to make this decision.
"I have had a tremendous time at the club and look forward to playing my part next season in what I hope will be a very successful campaign," he said.
"I am sure by giving the chairman sufficient time to consider who is the right person to lead the club into its 150th anniversary, he will appoint the most suitable successor.
"I know I have a very busy summer ahead, we have at least two major projects starting later this month. Supporters will notice a big difference when they come back at the start of next season and see the new pitch and giant screen.
"I am also hoping to be very busy playing my part in the overhaul of the playing squad, the chairman has made it quite clear he wants to be challenging from the start of the new season.
"Mr Chansiri is extremely ambitious and I am sure that Sheffield Wednesday will flourish under his leadership, it is the right for the club that he can build his management team for the long term and I am very confident that the both the club and our supporters have a very exciting future to look forward to."
Thai businessman Chansiri, who completed his £37.5m takeover of the Owls last month, said: "I am grateful for all the help Paul gave to me prior to and during the takeover process and, of course, he has a very important role to play.
"This decision will allow me the time to begin the process of identifying his successor. I am very confident that whilst we will miss Paul, this will give me the opportunity to further strengthen the executive management team for the future."
Aldridge's decision to leave completes 24 hours of major change behind the scenes at Hillsborough. The club brought in Adam Pearson and Glenn Roeder yesterday to work alongside head coach Stuart Gray as part of a new "three-man sporting director by committee".
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Alhasoun, Fahad, et al. "The City Browser: Utilizing Massive Call Data to Infer City Mobility Dynamics." 3rd International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2014). UrbComp: New York, NY. 2014.
Alhasoun, Fahad, et al. "The City Browser: Utilizing Massive Call Data to Infer City Mobility Dynamics." 3rd International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2014). UrbComp: New York, NY. 2014.
This paper presents the City Browser, a tool developed to analyze the complexities underlying human mobility at the city scale. The tool uses data generated from mobile phones as a proxy to provide several insights with regards to the commuting patterns of the population within the bounds of a city. The three major components of the browser are the data warehouse, modules and algorithm, and the visualization interface. The modules and algorithm component utilizes Call Detail Records (CDRs) stored within the data warehouse to infer mobility patterns that are then communicated through the visualization interface. The modules and algorithm component consists of four modules: the spatial-temporal decomposition module, the home/work capturing module, the community detection module, and the flow estimation module. The visualization interface manages the output of each module to provide a comprehensive view of a city's mobility dynamics over varying time scales. A case study is presented on the city of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, where the browser was developed to better understand city mobility patterns.
Aleissa, Faisal, et al. "Wired to connect: analyzing human communication and information sharing behavior during extreme events." Proceedings of the 2014 KDD Workshop on Learning about Emergencies from Social Information (KDD-LESI 2014). 2014.
Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "A malicious activity detection system utilizing predictive modeling in complex environments." 2014 IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). IEEE, 2014. APA
Almaatouq, Abdullah, Erez Shmueli, Mariam Nouh, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, Vivek K. Singh, Mansour Alsaleh, Abdulrahman Alarifi, and Anas Alfaris. "If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts." International Journal of Information Security 15, no. 5 (2016): 475-491.


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Well, I don't know about you, but I can see the end of winter from here. It hasn't been as long as some, with us skiing every weekend. Its given you and I something to look forward to other than not having to go to school and work respectively. Your Mom has even gotten involved, and she's come with us to the hill every weekend, to watch as you progress. You've gotten really good this year!
We also went skating, albeit only the one time. You really haven't been that into it, but we had a nice clear cold Sunday recently, so we hit the rink, and you had a good time, once it came back to you.
We also managed to make it ice fishing, albeit only once this season. Its a long way out on the lake to where your Grandpa puts his ice hut, and we don't have a snow machine, so we only usually go when we can drive out. For that to happen, there needs to be a lot of ice, and not a lot of snow, so we can take our 4 wheel drive vehicle out. We did make it though, and we had a good day of it. You helped catch the fish, but you empathized a lot with them, and weren't too keen on us bringing them home to eat. So you and I ended up chasing each other in the snow a fair bit.
We did end up going to Science North and the planetarium as we'd been planning. The planetarium was a bit of a bust. The video that preceded the walkthrough of our local stars was aimed at an audience a little younger than you, so you didn't love that. I thought it was cool, but that's me. But when the video was over and the presenter launched into how to find our local stars, how the constellations were named, and how to find them, we all got right into that. There's talk of us getting a telescope again, and having summer star watching parties. I'll be happy if we get a telescope. You had a lot of fun at Science North though. You watched from a distant while a tarantula crawled all over my hand and arm, and you got your hand into a lot of the interactive stuff; building your own electric car and test driving it was probably the thing you enjoyed most.
We've made some fun plans for the upcoming March break. A few times over the last few years, I've gone on my own to attend events for fans of comics, scifi, fantasy, (Comicon and Fan Expo). The last time I went you let me know that you were upset that you didn't get to check it out, as you are into reading kids comics yourself and loved the idea of there being a big event for like minded people. And I had told you that some people do bring their kids, and they seemed to love it. So, over March break, we will be going to the Comicon event in Toronto. You're excited, but you've already hit a snag: You want to try this cosplay thing, but can't decide which superhero costume you'll be wearing. It'll be fun to see how it shakes out.
Talk to you next month.


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Mike Wilkins, a local St Albans District Resident didn't know what was ahead of him when planning to attend the 2015 global Climate Change talks in Paris – he was going in his capacity as the head of environmental and climate research at credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
In April this year the ambitious Sustainable St Albans Week tean decided to ask over 2,000 local residents, adults and children, to write their own message to Amber Rudd MP, the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change – they saw it as a way of linking the local week's events, on environmental sustainability, directly to the global Climate Change talks.
'We thought that it might help raise awareness of climate change issues, and give a voice to local young people at these important talks" said Amanda Yorwerth, local Friends of the Earth organiser and member of Sustainable St Albans team. But the big question was, how would they get the cards delivered?
This weekend, with the help of his family, Mike, who was friendly with one of the Sustainable St Albans team, has taken over 2,000 'Postcards to Paris' in his luggage, and is preparing to hand them over personally to the UK representative at the climate change talks. Over 1800 of these cards are messages written individually by children from 5 – 18 years old; the children have also drawn their own images representing their views on climate change.
From Paris this weekend, Mike commented: "Climate change is a multi-generational issue. It's a privilege to be able to handover the hopes and aspirations of so many St Albans schoolchildren represented in these postcards."
With few resources to build the week, the initiative was brought to life by Clare Henry, a local ex-school teacher who worked on a lesson plan for schoolchildren on the Paris talks. Clare used her contacts to work with over 30 schools who helped pupils consider the messages they wanted to send.
This weekend, the Wilkins' family arrived in Paris ahead of the talks, and have successfully transported the cards. Mike will be handing the cards over on 8th December to a representative from DECC, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, at an event organised by them at The Grand Palais in Paris.
Images of the cards and the messages sent by children can be seen on the Sustainable St Albans Week photo gallery click here. Sustainable St Albans Week was the first ever week about environmental sustainability in the district with over 100 events run by local groups and was funded by The Big Lottery, with additional support from county councillors, and local businesses.


text: 1. Why can't the platform download site be hosted on www.haskell.org instead of hackage.haskell.org? I see that there's a redirect, but (imho) it would be ideal to have www.haskell.org/platform be the standard URL in my browser. It is easier to remember (for typing) and more obvious (for appearances). 2. What is the difference between "Haskell" and the "Haskell Platform"? I see one or the other in various places. To get from www.haskell.org to downloading the Mac software, I go through "Download Haskell," "Get the Haskell Platform > Mac," and "Download Haskell for Mac OS X (intel)." 3. By looking at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html , I have no idea what I'm going to get when I click the "Download Haskell for Mac OS X (intel)" link. It would be nice to know what I'm getting myself into before I commit to waiting for this 137.9 MB file. Thanks to the wonder of deep links, one can also not be expected to traverse the path that I did in #2. Similarly, if I come to this link directly, I have no easy way of navigating to try to figure out what "Haskell" or "GHC" is. 4. The current link for the Mac image points to http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.1.0.0/haskell-platform-2010.1.0.1-i386.dmg. Note the inconsistency between the version in the directory and file names. 5. The directions on http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html say: After downloading: * Open the .dmg file * Follow the install instructions I see no "install instructions" in the .dmg file. I only see the following files: * GHC-6.12.1-i386.pkg * Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.1.pkg * Uninstall GHC 6. Since there are no "install instructions," I am not sure which .pkg to install first. Of course, fix #3 and you hopefully fix this one. 7. Why can't I have a single .pkg file? Why do I have an "Uninstall GHC" and not an "Uninstall Haskell Platform"? -- I don't expect all of the above to necessarily have a direct solution. They are just my observations to share. Some of them are from the point of view of a newcomer, and some are from a perfectionist. Regards, Sean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20100406/1a287dbd/attachment.html


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|He is abusive...and I need help to leave:( I am 30 and "engaged" we have been together off and on for over 3 years. After seeing my parents who I had not seen in 6 months the signs started to come together about the abuse (no contact with friends or family, breaking into my email/facebook accounts, limiting my activities, belittling me, commenting on what is appropriate to wear, breaking my cell phone, making me change my phone number several times, choking me, telling where I am allowed to go, questioning if I was unfaithful, terrible moods from him all the time, telling me where I can work, telling me not to go back to college, not wanting me to have my own car, making me get rid of my dog and cat, giving up my own apartment but not giving me keys after I moved into his and not allowing me to use this as my address)...literally I could go on and on.
So now what? We have split many times due to either his drug use or his lack of respect by contacting his ex-girlfriend when I mention how disrespected I felt, and every time it it is the same senerio-he threatens me and tells me just to leave without so much as letting me grab clothes or a toothbrush. I have a lot of stuff I want and worked hard for. He also told me that he would not allow anyone that I chose in to grab my belongings, which makes it impossible for me to get them because I cant carry furniture alone. I did manage to make a set of keys because I knew I may need them for this reason.
I am scared to leave him because of some of the horrible things he has mentioned to do to me if I do. He also has some illegal hobbies which when I mentioned once that I could have a police escort to move out made him extremely angry and very threatening. I have my parents that suggest I move to their house but I dont know how to formulate a plan to get from A to B. He does not work so there are few and far between opportunities to move out when he is not there. I know that having to have my stuff sounds petty, but I worked hard for those things and they remind my of where I was in life before all of this. Letting him win for his demands even in leaving him is like he still won...so I refuse. I need help. Please.
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Another day another poll! Bear with me as this one has something of interest to say to anyone interested in gender equality and equal pay.
Late last year the Chartered Management Institute polled 38,843 executives and came up with this little story:
If you (a woman) and a man started your careers in the same job, in the same company, on the same day, achieved the same level of seniority and retired at exactly the same time, you, the woman, would be £423, 390 worse off than the man.
The more senior the role the bigger the disparity.
Despite this it seems there has been some progress towards meeting the government targets of getting to at least 25% representation of women on boards (although presumably they are being paid less) by 2015. Currently 17.7% of FTSE board directors are women, according to a recent report from Professional Boards Forum's Board Watch (try saying that out loud!)
Out of the UK's top 100 private companies only 64 actually publish the composition of their boards. Of those 73% have all male teams of executive directors and 565 possess all male boards.
Among the large private companies with zero female boardroom representation are the betting group Gala Coral, whose bingo customers are overwhelmingly female, and the gym group Fitness First, which operates several women only gyms. Virgin trains come into this category too, which is surprising as Richard Branson is on the record as supporting mandatory quotas for numbers of women on boards.
Will Boardroom Quotas for Women Undermine Their Credibility?
Why Women on Boards? The Evidence
Quotas for Women on Boards? Yes, Yes, and YES!
If you'd like to read more on this there is an excellent article on The Observer website by Simon Goodley
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Taiwan Edition: FINALLY Here
After months of anticipation, we are finally here. Even though it was a 14 hour flight from Vienna, it wasn't nearly as tiring as flying from the east coast of the U.S. So far, the jet lag hasn't been bad either. Hubs and I have been spending our first few days with family and some much need retail therapy (mostly for my benefit). I will update occasionally on our adventures with more Taiwan Edition series.


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Slush, Snow, and Sleet - An Option To Protect Your Feet
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NEOS overboots are currently on sale at Allen Edmonds for $59.99.


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We just came back from ten days in Italy, mostly spent in Venice hanging out with my mom and childhood friends. But my husband and kids had never been to Florence, and I decided to treat them to a couple of days in the cradle of the Italian Renaissance. The highlight of our stay was a lunch at our friends Alberto and Giordana's apartment, with a breathtaking view of Fiesole and the Tuscan hills; followed by rides on the carousel in Piazza della Repubblica for our two kids! The food in Florence and in all of Tuscany is fantastic, simple and elegant, and justly famous. If you are not planning a trip any time soon, why not try this easy and delicious soup in your own kitchen? Pappa col Pomodoro is a perfect example of Italian "comfort food", and of Tuscan peasant cooking. Bread soups were born of necessity: people could not afford to throw away stale bread, and devised ways to make it not only edible, but wonderfully tasty. Be warned that American-style soft sliced bread would just turn into a slimy and sticky mess: you will need artisanal bread with a firm, rough crust. The best types are Tuscan or Pugliese loaves. I live in Manhattan, and love Tribeca Oven.
For tons of authentic Tuscan recipes, and cooking classes in Tuscany (with vegetarian options), visit Giulia at http://en.julskitchen.com/
For kosher cooking classes in Florence, email my friend Chiara at email@example.com
- 2 tablespoons cold pressed extra-virgine olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 2 large cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 large can (12 oz.) peeled whole tomatoes (I like Italian tomatoes, San Marzano type)
- ½ medium loaf, or 1/3 large loaf of Italian-style bread, 2-day old
- 1 cup water or vegetable stock
- Salt and pepper to taste
- A pinch of sugar
- 10 to 15 fresh basil leaves
Slice the bread. In a heavy pot, heat the 2 tablespoons of olive oil and add the garlic.
After a couple of minutes discard the garlic, and add the can of tomatoes, breaking them with your hands into the pot.
Add salt, pepper, sugar and water, and stir with a wooden spoon.
Shred the bread into bite-sized chunks with your hands (if it's too hard/dry cut it into cubes with a bread knife), and add them to the pot.
Do not stir too aggressively, because you don't want the bread to melt into the water completely: the texture should be somewhat chunky.
You should stir gently using an upward motion, and not too long.
Cook on low heat for about 30 to 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Shred the basil leaves and add them to the soup; drizzle with more olive oil (about 1 tablespoon per person), lightly toss, serve.
This soup tastes even better reheated: it will be so thick that you will be able to eat it with a fork. Enjoy!