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When it comes to celebrity weddings, we have seen numerous extravagant affairs in the past few months- from Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh to the freshest addition- Sharad Malhotra-Ripci Malhotra. However, no matter how grand these weddings looked, the one family who has set the bar rather high is the Ambani family. The Ambanis know how to do it classy and with panache. The Ambanis have had two weddings till now- Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani's darling daughter, Isha Ambani's wedding with Anand Piramal, followed by their eldest son, Akash Ambani's wedding with Shloka Mehta. (Don't Miss: Deepika Padukone Performs A Wedding Ritual With Married Ladies On Her Cousin's Wedding [Pictures])
The next-in-line to take the nuptial plunge is the youngest in the Ambani echelon, Anant Ambani. Anant Ambani is dating Radhika Merchant, daughter of Viren Merchant, the CEO and Vice Chairman of Encore Healthcare. We would refrain from stamping Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's chemistry as an 'alleged affair'. After all, the soon-to-be Ambani bahu is spotted everywhere with the Ambanis.
Radhika Merchant has soared up and is one of the trendiest celebs on social media these days. Needless to state the reasons behind the same, right? If you are dating Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani's youngest son, paparazzi and shutterbugs would readily follow you all the time. The same is the case with Radhika Merchant, and no, her latest video on social media is not about her usual outing. In fact, it's winning hearts all over the internet. When shutterbugs were snapping her, she was seen heading towards her car, and soon, she saw a needy old woman standing in front of her. And guess what? Radhika quickly took out some money from her purse and gave it to the old lady. Radhika's generosity will definitely bring a smile to your face. Take a look at Radhika Merchant helping the needy old woman:
Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani's love-life came under the limelight when their lovey-dovey dreamy pictures went viral on social media last year. Soon, speculations churned the media mills that Anant and Radhika are already engaged. However, a Reliance spokesperson soon rubbished their engagement rumours and had shared with the Business Today, "Anant Ambani is not engaged yet." (Must Read: Anushka Sharma Shoots Her Hubby, Virat Kohli With A Laser Tag And His Reaction Is Unmissable [VIDEO])
When the reports of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani dating each other were rife, Nita Ambani had come out in the open and said that she and her husband, Mukesh Ambani have given enough freedom to their children to get married to whoever they want. Nita Ambani had shared, "Mukesh and I as parents have given our children the freedom to choose their life partners. When my son decides to get married, to whoever it is, we are going to welcome him and wish him all the happiness in the world."
Coming back to Radhika Merchant, she has a graduate degree from the New York University, in Politics and Economics. After completing her graduation, Radhika Merchant came back to India and worked as a Sales Executive in 2017 at Isprava, a real estate firm that 'creates dream holiday homes for those with the finest tastes'.
Talking about her professional life and her inclination towards the luxury space, Radhika was once quoted as saying, "I had never given much thought to the concept of luxury while growing up. However, after joining Isprava, my idea of luxury has evolved. Earlier I was put off by the mentality behind luxury because I equated it with a large logo on a handbag or a specific pattern on a piece of fabric but after joining Isprava and understanding the brand's idea of luxury I have learnt to appreciate it. To us, luxury is the seamless process of buying a home and a hassle-free holiday experience." (You May Like: Newly-Weds Sharad Malhotra And Ripci Malhotra's First Look Post-Wedding Is Out, Picture Inside)
Are you also smitten by Radhika Merchant's generous gesture of helping a needy old woman? Share your thoughts!
If extravaganza had a face, it would look like the Ambanis! The things which you might not have even imagined for your wedding and will actually have to search the web for ideas, the Ambanis have made it happen. How would you otherwise explain Hollywood superstars Beyonce and Coldplay performing at theirRead More


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The recent snow and ice from Jonas served as a reminder that it is, indeed, winter! Thankfully, we did not experience blizzard conditions, nor did the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man make an appearance as with 2014's "snowpocalypse."
Many did lose power, however, and road conditions were quite hazardous due to the ice. Today's blog photo depicts just how icy it was in my backyard. Fortunately, the ice didn't stick around too long as temperatures surged in the days following the storm.
Some City services were limited during the event, but our offices remained open for business. In an effort to keep our customers informed, we posted on Twitter and sent inclement weather alerts to our subscribers explaining what to do if your meter box was damaged and instructions for scheduling emergency electrical inspections.Add a comment
The Development Services Department wishes you and yours a very Happy New Year!Add a comment
If you missed last week's DSinsider, you may want to take a moment to read it because it provides several important updates, including a new submittal requirement for Concurrent Review and Infrastructure Construction Plans (this goes into effect on January 1). It also includes links to updated quarterly performance and building permit reports, as well as information about a recently-approved text change and changes to the N.C. Building Code.
Now, on to the subject at hand! A few times a year, Paul Kallam, our Public Works Engineering Manager, coordinates a tour of a building that recently completed the plan review process. After spending months looking at the plans on paper, the tours provide a unique opportunity for staff to see the finished product in person. Because the tour highlights many facets of the development, our intake and review staff gain a better understanding of the entire process, making it possible to better serve our customers.Add a comment
Our offices will be closed Thursday, 11/26 and Friday, 11/27 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. I'll be back next week with a new blog post about the newly adopted UDO zoning map. Until then, have a wonderful holiday! I hope you enjoy all the simple pleasures this beautiful season has to offer.
The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John F. Kennedy
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma BombeckAdd a comment
As we near the end of our #WhyRaleigh social media campaign, I wanted to acknowledge what a great job our intern, Jillian Lundy, has done with it. She has spent the last two months getting acquainted with "City" life and launched the #WhyRaleigh campaign which helped us gain momentum on Instagram.
Raleigh is frequently rated as a great place to raise a family, go to school, start a business, or further a career. But we really wanted to know what YOU love about Raleigh. So for the #WhyRaleigh campaign, we asked you to submit photos of anything in Raleigh that represents what you love about living here.
To date, we have received 228 photo submissions via Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. We were blown away by the participation and want to express sincere appreciation to all who contributed. Through your photos, we were able to showcase some of Raleigh's greatest assets and characteristics. And it was fun to hear your stories explaining your love of this great city.
I asked Jillian what her favorite image was so I could use it for this blog post. There were so many great photos to choose from, but she was able to pick one that seemed to stand out in her mind as a great representation of Raleigh's charm (it was also one of the most popular amongst our followers). The photo shown above, submitted by North Carolina native Anthony (@McLeod919), is a birds-eye view of a concert at Red Hat Amphitheater.
The photo campaign has been a success, but it is winding down. You still have time to submit your favorite photo through Friday, July 31. Simply visit our Instagram page @RaleighPlanning and post a picture using the hashtag #WhyRaleigh. Be creative and we'll repost and retweet the best images for everyone to see!
Staying up to date with what is going on in Development Services has never been easier, thanks to this blog and our social media efforts. Our summer intern, Jillian, has been busy updating our Twitter and Facebook pages. She also wrote this weeks blog as she will be spearheading an exciting new Instagram campaign. Here is her article!
As many of you know, Raleigh has remained one of the fastest growing cities in the country for a while now. But have you ever wondered why so many people have decided to call Raleigh home? Through the lens, our photographers have captured some beautiful images of Raleigh. These images, including historical sites, public parks, modern museums, and fun-filled events help illustrate why Raleigh is such a great place to live.Add a comment

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Eduardo Salas, professor and chair of psychological sciences, is among both the 100 most influential human resource management authors and the 100 most influential organizational behavior authors, according to a forthcoming article from the Academy of Management Learning and Education.
Leah Binkovitz, senior editor at Rice's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, was named one of Planetizen's top local journalists who keep city planning in the news.
Brielle Bryan, an assistant professor of sociology, won the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of the Family Section for her Demography article, "Paternal Incarceration and Adolescent Social Network Disadvantage."
Rick Wilson, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Political Science and a professor of statistics and psychology, authored "Climate Change: Dialing Down the Temperature" for the journal Nature.


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Rollie Atkinson
Rollie Atkinson is the publisher Sonoma West Publishers' four community newspapers. He started his journalism career in 1974 at his hometown newspaper in Frederick, Md. He continued his career at The Healdsburg Tribune after moving to Healdsburg in 1981. His newsroom assignments have included big and small stories that took him to state houses and U.S. Congress, steelworkers strikes, CIA investigations, presidential political campaigns, cub scout pancake breakfasts, numerous centenarian birthdays, river floods, high school sports action, wine industry milestones and many other places.
Atkinson has marked his journalism career with two guiding principles: to protect and defend the First Amendment and the public's right to know, and by his understanding of the high honor bestowed to him by his readers and local community members that continue to allow him to tell their story.
Atkinson, 68, also considers it a privilege to work alongside his much younger but equally devoted Sonoma West Publishers journalists.
Heather Bailey
Heather Bailey grew up in Sonoma County and graduated from Ursuline High School in 1991. She was a dedicated competitor in the sport of three-day eventing, an Olympic equestrian discipline and represented California at the junior Olympic level. She moved to the east coast in 1995, and graduated from George Mason University in 1998 with a degree in communications. Her initial work in journalism was as a writer for The Chronicle of the Horse, the nation's oldest, weekly horse sports magazine, where she covered Olympics and World Championships, as well as national competitions and wrte feature stories.
She has worked professionally as a horse trainer and riding instructor, in addition to her work as a writer. She currently lives with her husband and son on a farm, where her husband trains horses and riders, and they raise Nigerian Dwarf goats and various breeds of chickens.
She is also the president of the board of directors of the Sonoma County CHANGE program, a local nonprofit that provides rescue, foster, rehabilitation and adoption services for equines taken into custody by Sonoma County Animal Services. She also runs their field operations, driving their trailer to pick up equines that are loose, abandoned or being seized by law enforcement. She also provides services during emergencies and natural disasters and operates a foster facility for the serious neglect and abuse cases.
She has won various awards for her writing, including from the International Association of Equine Journalists, the California Newspaper Association, the California School Board Association and the National Newspaper Association.
In her spare time, such as it is, she likes to read and watch movies.
Greg Clementi
Greg Clementi has patrolled the sidelines as sports editor for Sonoma West Publishers for nearly 17 years, covering five high schools in north and west Sonoma County with a genuine love and admiration for coaches, student athletes and youth sports. Greg began his career as a writer and co-publisher of Sporting Edge Magazine in 1982, covering the Marin County boxing scene. He was a regular contributor for Petaluma Magazine and a prolific freelance writer focusing on running and fishing before joining the Sonoma West team in 2002. Under Greg's watch, Sonoma West Publishers was recognized by the California Prep Sports Writer's Association for providing the best high school sports coverage in the entire state, regardless of newspaper circulation size.
A native of Wisconsin, Greg is an avid fisherman, car enthusiast and a two-time finisher of the Boston Marathon. He's been married to his wife Ann for 35 years and they have five daughters and five grandchildren.
Katherine Minkiewicz
Social/digital media manager and staff writer Katherine Minkiewicz grew up in Marin County, where she set her sights on being a journalist when she joined her high school's newspaper, the San Marin Pony Express. She attended San Francisco State University, where she received her bachelor's degree in print and online journalism with a minor in English literature. During her years in college, she worked on crafting her skill, grit and love of coffee as a staff writer, and later as a managing editor with the Golden Gate Xpress (Go Gators!).
After college she started her local newspaper career at The Community Voice in Rohnert Park as a writer/editor. She covered city council, the school board and everything else in between. A year later she joined the Sonoma West family where she enjoys working with the talented, kind and funny crew of dogged journalists, some of whom also share her enthusiasm for burritos and more coffee.
Her favorite part about her role is keeping social media up to date on all the latest news and chasing down SoCurious-powered stories. Particularly, she enjoys writing about city developments, housing, crime, and community events.
In her spare time, Katherine likes spending time hiking at Helen Putnam Regional Park in Petaluma, eating Thai noodles and binge watching "Doctor Who" with her fiancée. She also enjoys visiting her family dog Teddy, who lives with her parents in Novato.
Frank Robertson
Frank Robertson has written about west Sonoma County since the 1980s when he moved to the Russian River from San Francisco.
"I was drawn by the natural beauty," he said. "I liked how it was kind of wild, unplanned and affordable."
He's been an editor at the Russian River News, the Sebastopol Times and The Paper (now the North Bay Bohemian). After Rollie Atkinson acquired the Sebastopol Times and the Russian River News and combined them into Sonoma West Times & News, Robertson covered Sebastopol and chronicled the lower river's evolution from a seasonal playground to a year-round population comprising a vividly eccentric diversity.
"For a writer, the river seemed like a lucky gift," said Robertson. "I felt like a baseball batter might feel when looking at a hanging curveball."
Robertson's work has earned a Sonoma State University Lincoln Steffens Journalism Award for stories on the transformation of rural Windsor into a modern suburbia.
He still lives in Guerneville with his wife, Mary Robertson, an artist known for her Russian River paintings. They live in a summer cabin and may rescue another dog some day, maybe two dogs.
Laura Hagar Rush
Laura Hagar Rush has been a journalist for more than 30 years. After leaving UC Berkeley with a degree in English, she became editor of the Sierra Club's Bay Area newspaper, then worked as a reporter and columnist for the East Bay Express in Berkeley for 15 years, covering the environment, education, the university and pretty much anything else that struck her fancy.
In the early aughts, she started StreamingManiac, the first blog and web guide to university lectures online. After moving to west Sonoma County in 2002, she joined North Bay biz magazine as managing editor, then, entranced by the digital world, retrained as a web designer, working for KRCB Northern California Public Media.
Because this is wine country, she founded a winery, Sonoma Aperitif, making vermouth and wine-based aperitifs. She began working for Sonoma West Publishers as a webmaster in 2016, but couldn't resist the siren call of print journalism, becoming editor of Sonoma West Times & News in August of 2018. She lives with her family and an amusing bunch of 20-somethings in Forestville.
Zoë Strickland
Zoë Strickland is the editor of the Cloverdale Reveille. Hired in July 2018, Zoë has a passion for small towns and writing articles about the people who live in them. Zoë was born and raised in southern Sonoma County, but moved to Oregon in 2014 to pursue a bachelor of arts in English literature. Four years and one degree later, she moved back to Sonoma County.
Before working at the Reveille, Zoë spent two years as the editor-in-chief of a literary magazine, three years in various positions at her weekly college newspaper, four years as the editorial director of an editing company and had a brief stint as a radio DJ. When she's not reporting, Zoë has a passion for baking, taking care of plants, finding the best coffee shops and hanging out with her dogs.


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NewsMarch 6, 2002 - Updated on January 20, 2016
Journalist killed
RSF expressed its great concern over the 1 February 2002 assassination of Julio Samuel Morales Ferrón, a journalist from the daily "El Sol de Medio Día" (published in Mexico).
In a letter to Interior Minister Santiago Creel Miranda, RSF expressed its great concern over the 1 February 2002 assassination of Julio Samuel Morales Ferrón, a journalist from the daily "El Sol de Medio Día" (published in Mexico). "We are calling for an in-depth investigation, so that light is shed on the motive for this crime and the assassins are identified," stated RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard. "After the 18 January 2002 assassination of Félix Alonso Fernández García, Julio Samuel Morales Ferrón is the second Mexican journalist to have been killed in the last two weeks," Ménard lamented. RSF also asked the minister for measures aimed at protecting journalists. According to information collected by RSF, Morales Ferrón was assassinated on 1 February in the offices of the Mexican Radio and Television Association (Asociación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión), of which he was president. The 79-year-old journalist was a columnist for "El Sol de Medio Día" and contributed to a number of other media outlets. Morales Ferrón, whose articles appeared under the byline Severo Mirón (Tough Onlooker), had his throat slit. Investigators have found signs of a struggle at the scene of the crime. Mexico City Prosecutor Bernardo Bátiz has dismissed hypotheses that this was a robbery or a politically motivated crime. The journalist mainly wrote on arts and politics. According to Humberto Hernández, "El Sol de Medio Día" editor, at the time of his death, Morales Ferrón was not carrying out an investigation and his criticisms were not polemic. "We do not know if this was a reprisal for something he wrote. We cannot explain who could have done something like this," stated Martha, one of the journalist's daughters. RSF recalls that Fernández García, editor of the weekly "Nueva Opción", distributed in Tamaulipas State (north-eastern Mexico), was shot to death on 18 January, in the city of Miguel Alemán. Shortly before his death, the journalist had condemned the alleged relationship between the city's former mayor and drug traffickers.


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Forte Belanger named Preferred Caterer at four popular Metro Detroit event venues
Forte Belanger, Michigan's leading special event design and catering firm, has been named a Preferred Caterer by the Cranbrook School of Education in Bloomfield Hills, 30 North in Pontiac, the College of Creative Studies' Benson and Edith Ford Conference Center, located within the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education in Detroit and the Virgil H. Carr Cultural Center in Detroit.
Forte Belanger is immediately available to prospective corporations, event planning agencies, professional groups and families that are considering hosting an event at any one of these unique venues.
According to John Forte, President of Forte Belanger, each venue provides a unique event atmosphere and event experience. "We are continuously approached by our clients to find new and diverse venues to host their annual events," Forte Said. "We are honored to be selected as a preferred caterer at these distinctive establishments and venues. This further expands our ability to match our client's event concept with the right surroundings to ensure an unforgettable experience."
"We believe that our ability to deliver precision service, inventive solutions, and creative cuisine sets us apart from all others in the marketplace and allows us to stage truly remarkable events at these new venues."


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Moon moves into Libra today, adding beauty and balance to any communications. Writing done before the afternoon will flow easily and come out beautifully. This is an especially good day to write romance or poetry. This afternoon Moon quincunx Neptune will cause static between you and the muse. Take a break for supper. The static only lasts a few hours. Then get back to the keyboard this evening.
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July 3
Moon in Virgo deals with details today, but you need to be fast to catch them. In the morning, ideas will pop up from nowhere and if you're not ready, you'll miss them. Early in the afternoon, you may just give up and socialize. By evening, there's a nice sextile between the Moon and Jupiter in Cancer. Great for comedy writers! Your words and feelings go dancing together tonight!
July 2
Mercury stationed yesterday and is now moving fully direct. This helps words flow. Yet with Venus square Moon and Neptune, don't try to polish your words today. Instead, just write anything! Positive aspects favor taking a practical approach today. Just get your bum in the seat, and crank out the word count. You'll find that what you write today will come out better the less you think about it. Just type!
July 1
There will be a big shift between this morning and this evening. As the Moon moves into Virgo, the afternoon will be productive for writing. But Moon squares Mars this afternoon and others may demand your attention. This can leave you frustrated tonight at the lack of accomplished work. Don't sweat it. Tomorrow is another day.
June 30
You want to be expressive and wildly individualistic in your writing today. Maybe even eccentric and unusual. But a developing yod between the Moon, Mars and Chiron forces you to go deeper and see where your strangeness can help others open their minds. What started as a fun writing romp, could end the day as a profound communication.
June 29
With the Moon moving into Leo, you'll want to show off your work today. You'll be extra expressive and dramatic. With Sun trine Neptune, watch that you don't outshine all sublety and fall into melodrama. Get your work done early in the day. Some hard aspects this afternoon and evening will make it harder to access the muse.


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A blog about one man trying to Drink beers from every country(disputed territories included). Obviously some countries don't brew beer for religious reasons, or they have insufficient land for the brewing facilities. I have identified 182 so far. If you have a beer from a country i havent tried, you should get in touch, I am comfortable making deals and paying well for my stock
Monday, March 14, 2011
Quilmes Cristal Cerveza - Argentina 14-3-11
It's Fizzy, oh god is it fizzy, and refreshing. The brown bottle lulled me into a lageresque sense of security, but this is a propper crisp and dry style beer.
Only the tinniest hint of malt and bitterness, the overwhelming flavour is an incredibly mild hop. The nice dry finish means it leaves you thirsty for more. Good thing I bought 6.
The packaging is lazy and the packaging matches the price, at 17 dollars for a 6 pack, $2.85 is the price it looks, not the price it tastes.
Nothing to see here. except cristal WHAT IS THAT?
Refreshment: 8/10
Very very refreshing, like putting you face into a waterfall for exactly as long as a mouthfull lasts.
Flavour 6/10:
The Flavour is mild, but diverse.
Alcohol Content: 6/10
4.9%. Stronger than it tastes, and that's good enough.
Price: 8/10
$2.85. A Litte more than the other 6 packs I ordered this week. but worth it.
Total: 32/50
A pretty good representation from Argentina. The name is weird, but the beer is tasty enough. I can vouch for the fact that it's delicious with chicken and roasti.
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Please can you confirm that there is this hadith ( ≈ wording)?
Someone who lives 40 * in a country / among a people will be like them.
* this was unspecified, could be 40 months / years?
ma`a salam
Alaykum Salam,
I am not aware of any such hadith. There are several hadiths generally prohibiting residence among non-Muslims but they are not time-specific, such as:
من جامع المشرك وسكن معه فهو مثله
Whoever lives in harmony with pagans and dwells with them is certainly identical to them.
أنا بريء من كل مسلم يقيم بين أظهر المشركين
I am innocent of every Muslim who lives among the idolaters.
من كثّر سواد قوم فهو منهم
Whoever contributes to the aggregate of a people is certainly one of them.
Of note is the related scholarly rule in hadith science:
وَالنِّسْبَة إِلَى المولد حَقِيقَة، وَإِلَى المنشأ والتوطن مجَاز. (ابْن الْمُبَارك) : أَقَله أَربع سِنِين.
which means: "One's affiliation is literally to the place of birth and figuratively to the place of rearing and immigration. Ibn al-Mubarak said: 'The latter is four years minimum.'"
See al-Ja`bari in Rusum al-Tahdith fi `Ulum al-Hadith, al-Nawawi in al-Taqrib wal-Taysir, al-Tibi in al-Khulasa fi `Ulum al-Hadith, Ibn Jama`a in al-Manhal al-Rawiy fi Mukhtasar `Ulum al-Hadith, Ibn al-Mulaqqin in al-Muqni` fi `Ulum al-Hadith, al-Sakhawi in Fath al-Mughith, al-Suyuti in Tadrib al-Rawi and others.
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Title of statistical activity: Quarterly statistics of livestock farming (until 2015)
Code of statistical activity: 21204
- Contact
- Metadata update
- Statistical presentation
- Unit of measure
- Reference period
- Institutional mandate
- Confidentiality
- Release policy
- Frequency of dissemination
- Accessibility and clarity
- Quality management
- Relevance
- Accuracy and reliability
- Timeliness and punctuality
- Coherence and comparability
- Cost and burden
- Data revision
- Statistical processing
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1. Contact Individual or organisational contact points for the data or metadata, including information on how to reach the contact points.
1.1. Contact organisation The name of the organisation of the contact points for the data or metadata.
Statistics Estonia
1.2. Contact organisation unit An addressable subdivision of an organisation.
Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department
1.3. Contact name The name of the contact points for the data or metadata.
Aili Maanso
1.4. Contact person function The area of technical responsibility of the contact, such as "methodology", "database management" or "dissemination".
Leading Statistician
1.5. Contact mail address The postal address of the contact points for the data or metadata.
51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia
1.6. Contact email address E-mail address of the contact points for the data or metadata.
1.7. Contact phone number The telephone number of the contact points for the data or metadata.
+372 625 9236
2. Metadata update The date on which the metadata element was inserted or modified in the database.
2.1. Metadata last certified Date of the latest certification provided by the domain manager to confirm that the metadata posted are still up-to-date, even if the content has not been amended.
2.2. Metadata last update Date of last update of the content of the metadata.
3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description Main characteristics of the data set described in an easily understandable manner, referring to the data and indicators disseminated.
Number of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry; production of meat, milk and eggs.
Number of livestock as at the last day of the quarter.
Births and slaughterings of livestock in the quarter.
3.2. Classification system Arrangement or division of objects into groups based on characteristics which the objects have in common.
Estonian Classifcation of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2
Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK)
3.3. Sector coverage Main economic or other sectors covered by the statistics.
Agricultural holdings, agricultural small units
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions Statistical characteristics of statistical observations.
Agricultural holding – a single unit both technically and economically, which has single management and which produces agricultural products or maintains its land which is no longer used for production purposes in good agricultural and environmental condition, where:
- there is at least one hectare of utilised agricultural land or
- there is less than one hectare of utilised agricultural land but agricultural products are produced mainly for sale.
Units where agricultural products are not produced but only land is maintained in good agricultural and environmental condition are included from 2007.
Agricultural small unit – unit, which has less than one hectare of utilised agricultural land, but at least 50 m² vegetable area or three fruit trees or six berry bushes or ten rabbits or ten domestic fowls or other agricultural animals or three beehives and agricultural products are produced mainly for own consumption.
3.5. Statistical unit Entity for which information is sought and for which statistics are ultimately compiled.
Agricultural holding
3.6. Statistical population The total membership or population or "universe" of a defined class of people, objects or events.
Agricultural holdings who have farm animals
Quarterly pig and poultry surveys will cover only the most important and largest enterprises as the production in these fields is very concentrated, the production of smaller holdings is not characterized by high seasonality as in case of larger holdings and data delivery is a high burden for smaller holdings. For estimating the egg production the use of data from packaging centres will be investigated.
List of agricultural holdings who have pigs and poultry. The list is generated from the statistical register of agricultural holdings.
3.7. Reference area The country or geographic area to which the measured statistical phenomenon relates.
Estonia as a whole
3.8. Time coverage The length of time for which data are available.
3.9. Base period The period of time used as the base of an index number, or to which a constant series refers.
Not applicable.
4. Unit of measure The unit in which the data values are measured.
Number of animals and poultry at the end of the quarter
Births of animals – number
Number of animals and poultry sold for slaughter and slaughtered other than in slaughterhouses
Production of eggs – thousand pieces
Slaughter weight of animals and poultry sold to slaughterhouses and slaughtered other than in slaughterhouses – ton
5. Reference period The period of time or point in time to which the measured observation is intended to refer.
6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements Legal acts or other formal or informal agreements that assign responsibility as well as the authority to an agency for the collection, processing, and dissemination of statistics.
Not available.
Official Statistics Act
Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (Text with EEA relevance)
Not available.
7. Confidentiality A property of data indicating the extent to which their unauthorised disclosure could be prejudicial or harmful to the interest of the source or other relevant parties.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy Legislative measures or other formal procedures which prevent unauthorised disclosure of data that identify a person or economic entity either directly or indirectly.
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34 and § 35 of the Official Statistics Act.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment Rules applied for treating the data set to ensure statistical confidentiality and prevent unauthorised disclosure.
The treatment of confidential data is regulated by the Procedure for Protection of Data Collected and Processed by Statistics Estonia: https://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/19410.
8. Release policy Rules for disseminating statistical data to interested parties.
8.1. Release calendar The schedule of statistical release dates.
Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. On 1 October each year, the release times of the Statistical Database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications are announced in the release calendar (in case of publications – the release month).
8.2. Release calendar access Access to the release calendar information.
8.3. User access The policy for release of the data to users, the scope of dissemination (e.g. to the public, to selected users), how users are informed that the data are being released, and whether the policy determines the dissemination of statistical data to all users.
All users have been granted an equal access to official statistics: this means that the dissemination dates of official statistics have to be announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) can have access to the official statistics (results of official statistical surveys) before other users. Statistical information is first published in the Statistical Database. In case a news release is published based on the same data, the information provided in the relevant news release is simultaneously published in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calender.
9. Frequency of dissemination The time interval at which the statistics are disseminated over a given time period.
10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release Regular or ad-hoc press releases linked to the data.
Not published.
10.2. Publications Regular or ad-hoc publications in which the data are made available to the public.
Not published.
10.3. Online database Information about on-line databases in which the disseminated data can be accessed.
Data are published under the heading "Economy/ Agriculture" in the Statistical Database in http://pub.stat.ee.
10.4. Microdata access Information on whether micro-data are also disseminated.
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34, § 35, § 36, § 37, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to micro-data and anonymisation of micro-data are regulated by Statistics Estonia's "Procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes": https://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/51669.
10.5. Other References to the most important other data dissemination done.
Data serve as input for statistical activities 21207 "Economic accounts for agriculture", 21209 "Handling statistical farm register" and 50101 "Estonian regional development".
10.6. Documentation on methodology Descriptive text and references to methodological documents available.
Not available
10.7. Quality documentation Documentation on procedures applied for quality management and quality assessment.
Not available.
11. Quality management Systems and frameworks in place within an organisation to manage the quality of statistical products and processes.
11.1. Quality assurance All systematic activities implemented that can be demonstrated to provide confidence that the processes will fulfil the requirements for the statistical output.
To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for in § 7. "Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics" of the Official Statistics Act.
11.2. Quality assessment Overall assessment of data quality, based on standard quality criteria.
Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process (this information includes, among other things, feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees). This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.
12. Relevance The degree to which statistical information meet current and potential needs of the users.
12.1. User needs Description of users and their respective needs with respect to the statistical data.
Ministry of Agriculture
Users' suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the SE website https://www.stat.ee/statistikatood.
12.2. User satisfaction Measures to determine user satisfaction.
Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys.
All results are available on the website https://www.stat.ee/user-surveys.
12.3. Completeness The extent to which all statistics that are needed are available.
Not applicable.
13. Accuracy and reliability Accuracy: closeness of computations or estimates to the exact or true values that the statistics were intended to measure.
13.1. Overall accuracy Assessment of accuracy, linked to a certain data set or domain, which is summarising the various components.
The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.
13.2. Sampling error That part of the difference between a population value and an estimate thereof, derived from a random sample, which is due to the fact that only a subset of the population is enumerated.
The sampling error is not estimated.
13.3. Non-sampling error Error in survey estimates which cannot be attributed to sampling fluctuations.
We try to reduce non-sampling errors through continous methodological improvements and survey process improvements, incl. through minimizing under- and overcoverage of the frame.
14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness Length of time between data availability and the event or phenomenon they describe.
The data are released 35 days upon the end of the reference quarter (T+35).
14.2. Punctuality Time lag between the actual delivery of the data and the target date when it should have been delivered.
The data have been published at the time announced in the release calender.
15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability - geographical The extent to which statistics are comparable between geographical areas.
The data are geographically comparable.
15.2. Comparability - over time The extent to which statistics are comparable or reconcilable over time.
The data are comparable since 1980.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain The extent to which statistics are reconcilable with those obtained through other data sources or statistical domains.
Data are closely related to other agricultural statistics.
15.4. Coherence - internal The extent to which statistics are consistent within a given data set.
The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.
16. Cost and burden Cost associated with the collection and production of a statistical product and burden on respondents.
Total time of filling in reports of statistical actions, working days: 51,3
Average time of filling in the reports, hours per report:
Loomakasvatus. Linnud: 0,4
Loomakasvatus. Sead: 0,2
17. Data revision Any change in a value of a statistic released to the public.
17.1. Data revision - policy Policy aimed at ensuring the transparency of disseminated data, whereby preliminary data are compiled that are later revised.
The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the dissemination policy of Statistics Estonia https://www.stat.ee/dissemination-policy.
17.2. Data revision - practice Information on the data revision practice.
The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, if errors are discovered, if new or better data become available.
18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data Characteristics and components of the raw statistical data used for compiling statistical aggregates.
Total population involves 15,800 objects. The sample size and design for 2015 is under decision.
The data on the number and slaughterings of cattle, sheep and goats are received from the Estonian Agricultural Registers and Information Board (PRIA).
The data on milk production is received from Estonian Animal Recording Centre.
Data from statistical activity 21216 "Survey of agricultural household plots" are used.
18.2. Frequency of data collection Frequency with which the source data are collected.
18.3. Data collection Systematic process of gathering data for official statistics.
Data are collected through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission) and from administrative data sources. eSTAT is also used to monitor the completion of questionnaires. The questionnaires have been designed for completion in eSTAT by the respondents themselves and they include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on Statistics Estonia's website at https://www.stat.ee/andmete-esitamine (in Estonian). Data are collected with the quarterly statistical questionnaires "Loomakasvatus. Linnud" ja "Loomakasvatus. Sead".
18.4. Data validation Process of monitoring the results of data compilation and ensuring the quality of statistical results.
Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with the data of previous periods or other surveys and with administrative data sources.
18.5. Data compilation Operations performed on data to derive new information according to a given set of rules.
The data on cattle, sheep and goats are collected by the Estonian Agricultural Registers and Information Board in the Register of Agricultural Animals. The data on milk production are collected by the Animal Recording Centre. The data on pigs and poultry are collected from agricultural holdings.
Weights are calculated for the statistical units which are used to expand the data of the sample survey to the population. For estimating population totals, the sample data on agricultural holdings are grossed up separately in each stratum. The expansion factor is the ratio of each subpopulation to the number of respondents in that stratum. In case of missing or unreliable data, the estimates are imputed according to the relevant guidelines. To compensate for non-response among agricultural holdings in the completely enumerated part of the population, the data are replaced with administrative data, the data for the previous period or the data for similar holdings. The data of agricultural small units are estimated. National aggregates are calculated by adding up the data of agricultural holdings and agricultural small units. The variables which were not collected directly but are required for output generation are calculated. In order to calculate new variables, mathematical expressions are applied to existing variables. The process may be repeated, i.e. a derived variable may be based on other derived new variables.
Microdata are aggregated before analysis. This covers data summarisation according to the classification and the calculation of various statistical indicators (e.g. mean). The indicators to be published are calculated on the basis of the collected data.
18.6. Adjustment The set of procedures employed to modify statistical data to enable it to conform to national or international standards or to address data quality differences when compiling specific data sets.
Not applied.
19. Comments Supplementary descriptive text which can be attached to data or metadata.
Not available.


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– Accounts Payable & Receivable
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– Communication with your committee and members
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– OH&S Compliance
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– Building and Fire Code Laws
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– Making sure that occupiers abide by the Model Rules
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– Completion of Owners Corporation Certificates with needed paperwork attached.
– On-site evaluation of home with Owners Corporation supervisor.
– Affixing of Owners Corporation Management Sign.
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– [Announcer] Dogumentary TV,
producing the best breed
documentaries on YouTube.
(dog barking)
(slow jazzy music)
– My name is Gerald Antoine,
I'm from Jackson, Mississippi.
I've been living in
California since 1994 now,
ever since I got out of college.
And I always wanted an animal.
And my mom always told
me I couldn't have a dog
because she had enough
two-legged dogs in the house.
So when I decided to get on
my own and have place to live,
I decided I wanted to get an animal
and my first dog was a Doberman.
I wanted something with size,
but I didn't want nothing
that shed a lot of hair.
I wanted something that
was low maintenance.
And I started doing my
research about the Doberman
and it was the ideal pet.
They're part Greyhound,
I used to like to run,
and they're very athletic.
I didn't start with the
European Doberman at first.
It was a trial and error thing,
I didn't know what I
was exactly looking for.
So I started with one dog that
I got from a local breeder,
paid minimal amount,
and the dog didn't work.
I wanted something to be active,
he wanted to be a lap dog
and I didn't need a Labrador.
So I gave him to somebody
who had a better use for him
'cause I wanted something
that had some activity to him.
So I went to another breeder
in the Southern California area
and I was impressed with the size,
the size and the darkness.
The dog was part Euro, part American.
Didn't know any better to
check back two more generations
versus just looking at the sire only.
You have to look at both
the sire and the dam
and then that pedigree.
He was about 32 inches to
the whither, 100 pounds,
but he had no drive.
But he was pretty.
And so I donated him, I
gave him to another person
who had a better use for him.
That dog is now in Arizona.
Then I started doing more
research, I said I'm not gonna go
for the banana in the
tail pipe twice, alright?
So I did more research, and it seemed like
some of the best breeders
were in Eastern Europe.
So I did my research.
My first dog, of course,
Alonzo, the big chocolate male,
I made a choice, I said
you know I did a lot
of black and tans with no luck.
So I wanted to do something different
'cause I always liked
the chocolate Labrador,
let me get a chocolate Doberman,
'cause he's a little bit darker than most.
My breeder, her name is
Andrea, Andrea out of Hungary.
So it's King of Darkness,
where I got Alonzo from,
she was very interactive in 2010.
Where versus going off of pictures,
they would post a video.
So now I could see live video,
the maturation process,
when they're eating,
when they're playing, who's the bully.
When she throws a bottle
with rocks inside of them,
who's jumping away and who's going to it.
And I saw them bring her dog's pedigree
and it had all these IPO2s, IPO3s.
My firs trainer was Lewis
Williams of Black Mass,
great trainer.
He introduced me to the
things that you had to do
to stimualte the dog, you know,
the ball work, the rag work.
Throwing things out at
him, water, you know,
shooting out water bottles,
distractions, to see the dog's
temperament so I learned
how to pick out dogs.
At that point I said, you know what?
I still like the black and tans.
Alonzo was by that time three years old,
I had already put and IPO1 on him.
He's got a CGC, a CGCA um, he's got a BH
and he recently completed
his Bravet in ring sport.
And he's almost seven in October.
So I said, I still wanted a black and tan,
you know, and I got Brodey.
The breeder was not as
communicative on the internet,
you emailed her, she
emailed you back four days,
you send the money, you
don't know if it went to her
or she took it and
dashed so that's the risk
you take when you're buying
dogs and animals over seas
unless you've got a great rapport.
Needless to say, fastforward,
Brodey was a great pet,
Alonzo took him out on
his wings, how to show him
how to be an alpha male.
Right now we're working on an IPO3.
All his health tests came
back, hips are great.
He's three years old, still working.
But the point of it was
that I had to get…
The reason why I got
European Dobermans versus
the American breed is because
for the past 30, 40 years
the American Doberman has
become watered down pets
where the drive has been
taken away, you know.
Sweet temperament but,
again, they're working dogs.
So I noticed that there are
very, very tangible differences
between the two.
Number one, the size is different.
The bone structure is different.
The European line has
bigger bone structure.
They have versus tan markings,
they're called mahogany.
Alonzo's marks you can't
really even see them
because he's almost as
dark as his markings are.
And I like the size of their head
and they have boxy muzzles.
With all the tangibles I was
also wanting the intangible.
The temperament, the willingness to work.
That part Greyhound so they
never really walked no where,
they run everywhere.
They never said Doberman
walk unless you're walking
with them.
So with these things I knew
that in order if I wanted to be
into a sport where my second trainer,
Albin Waylos, great trainer here in L.A.,
he told me that there are certain things
that you have to focus on,
some of the dog's strengths,
some of the dog's weaknesses.
They both love me
unconditionally and I can't
even go to the restroom
if they're in the house.
But the one thing that I also
revered about the Doberman
as far as the breed and the breeders
is the purposefully intent health testings
because the Doberman,
every canine species,
every dog species, has a genetic issue.
The Doberman has a, they're
known for having VWD,
DCM, DMC1 and you have to get annual tests
to make sure your dog is at
the health that he needs to be
in order to have a longevity life.
The lifespan is probably 10 to 12 years,
if I get 12 years out of
my dogs I'm doing good.
In regards to the size,
the American standard is,
if I'm not mistaken, for a male is at
29, 28 inches to the wither.
Well, the European line, my
dog is at about 29 and 1/2.
And I deliberately don't
want to oversize dogs
because an oversize dog ends
up having health issues,
hip issues, they tend to
have probably health issues.
A good height for me is 29 and 1/2 inches,
that's my max I like.
And I like them to be no
more than 90, 91 pounds.
I want to see the last two ribs,
a V-shape and that shows
me that he's in good shape
as far as symmetry.
I feed him, after the year
I'll only feed him probably
one big meal a day at the end of the day
between four and five o'clock,
no need to feed them twice a
day if they're not training.
When I was a police officer back in uh,
in my later, later, earlier years,
a lot of the guys, still
now, they deal with Malinois
and Sables.
They work real hard.
But it's hard to find a pretty one.
A couple of guys now, an
officer in Menlow Park
that I talked to, he's got
a Doberman as a working dog,
he's in the K9 unit and
so now they're becoming
more popular.
I would say that I'm not a trailblazer
but I'm an avid fan,
I love the breed.
You ask me anything about
particular bloodlines,
90% of the time I could tell you,
depending on what you're looking for,
if it's a good one or not.
Some breeders here in
the United States who are
100% European breeders,
they tend to breed more for
the look if their dogs don't
have any working titles
and extensive screening.
A lot of people get dead spin on the fact
that they're selling point
is well, this dog right here
is the great grandson
of Maxim di Altobello,
which is a great dog.
But that's three generations,
two or three generations back.
I say "Well, my great, great
grandfather was a Frenchman,
"I don't look like him".
So we can't go by what my
great, great grandfather,
we go by what the parents
are, what they look like.
That's why when I went,
that's why when people ask me
how to pick out puppies I
say "Go see both parents"
just don't get caught up on
seeing what the pop look like.
Cause I've seen a lot of
times where the puppies
actually come out looking like the mom.
– Hey, this is Khary Lee, I'm
out here again checking out
the difference between the
Europeans and the Americans.
The difference I'm seeing
that I noticed between
the American and the
European Dobbies is about
eight to ten pounds and
that eight to ten pounds
makes a big difference
when it's coming at you
about 20-25 miles an hour.
Their strength is a little more intense.
Their bite is almost
the same but pretty much
the dog's structure is different.
The European's bone structure
is a lot more heavier,
a lot more man-stopping weight
than the American Dobermans.
He's done a very good
job with the foundation
and the training that
the dog's have received
from Brodey with the
Schutzhund and the IPO
and Alonzo with the French Ring.
They both grabbed superior
foundational training.
– If a person is into the sport,
whether it's Mondio, French Ring, PSA,
IPO, or personal protection,
they have to be able to
look for dogs that have
workability, see both parents work,
because it's in their DNA.
Either a dog gonna have it
or he ain't gonna have it.
He either gonna ball or fall.
One or the other, right?
So, when you're looking for a working dog,
look at the working, make
sure they have pedigree
that goes back two generations at least.
And make sure they have
some kind of working titles.
Or demonstration of working titles.
Or demonstrations of even working.
But we're in America and
it's all about image first.
It's all about what the dog looks like.
A lot of people buy
animals off of pictures.
You take the right picture
at the right angle,
that dog gonna look big.
He's gonna look great.
They got photoshop for a reason.
Alonzo and Brodey has
had litters in the past.
And what I try to tell people is,
if you're looking for a
dog to be a house dog,
somebody that'd be a great
pet who's going to be
with you by your side,
this dog may not be for you.
The number one complaints
with Brodey and Alonzo's
off-springs are these dogs
are tearing up my yard,
they biting everything, they want to run
and play all the time.
I say "That's what they were bred for".
So understand what you get.
And these particular
European working bloodlines
deserve households with active parents.
It's just, you gotta do it.
Or you're going to do
the dog a disservice.
At the end of the day, my
animals, for me itself,
like I said, again,
for me this is a hobby.
They keep me very active
outdoors, I go hiking with them.
I go bike riding with
them, they keep me active
and I get more out of it
than I would if I was to,
in my previous hobby, collect cars.
My dogs will always love
me no matter what type
of day it was, rainy,
sunshine, bad day, broke day,
rich day, payday.
And so, with that being
said, you get as much out
as you put in.
But in regards for me, for
me, I like the 100% working
European line, health tested,
and my slogan always will be
"If you don't have any working
line, you wasting your time".


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U.S. FDA's aptitude questioned
An opinion piece published in The Hill poses and answers the question: How much does the US Food and Drug Administration do to promote public health?
Lindsey Stroud, a state government relations manager at The Heartland Institute, a non-profit group aimed at promoting limited government, describes how, in recent years, the FDA has become increasingly more involved in 'protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security' of numerous products, including prescription medications, tobacco, and food and cosmetic products.
'In many cases, the agency has proven itself to be exceptionally biased against harm reduction devices and services, while at other times, FDA has failed to protect the public from potentially dangerous substances,' Stroud writes.
'Such is the case with OxyContin, one of the most important contributors to America's current opioid epidemic.
'In countless instances, FDA has been too stringent and inflexible. In others, it has seemingly been ignorant of the dangers of particular drugs, leading many (this writer included) to wonder: Does FDA have any clue what it's doing?'
Later in her piece, Stroud says that it is important to note that, while the FDA has shown it is willing to allow powerful prescription painkillers to become one of the few relief methods available for chronic pain, it has at the same time applied a narrow standard to other products that could save lives.
'For instance, FDA has yet to allow many e-cigarette, heat-not-burn, and snus products to be marketed as less harmful alternatives to combustible cigarettes – even though ample evidence shows they are,' she writes.
Stroud's piece is at: http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/384407-how-much-does-the-fda-really-do-to-promote-public-health.


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Freaky Friday Audition Sign-Ups Now Live!
Freaky Friday Audition Sign-Ups Now Live!
Audition sign-ups are now live for Freaky Friday, SCP's highly anticipated winter junior production! Open auditions will take place on Monday, November 18 and Tuesday, November 19 in one-hour blocks between 7:00pm and 10:00pm at the Sunnyvale Theatre (550 E. Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087). You must reserve an audition slot in order to participate in this production. Walk-ins may be taken on a first-come-first-served basis but are not guaranteed. Please arrive 20 minutes prior to your scheduled audition appointment.
What do you need to do to sign up? It's easy:
- Go to our sign-up page and reserve your slot.
- Fill out our online registration form.
- Download and complete the Audition Form and Conflict Calendar and bring them with you to auditions.
Audition Preparation
Prepare 1 minute of a song to sing for your vocal audition. A piano accompanist will be provided. You are strongly encouraged to bring sheet music and sing to the piano accompaniment as this is the process of a professional musical theatre audition. However, if you are unable to acquire sheet music, you may bring an instrumental/karaoke track on an MP3 player or CD and we will provide a sound system to play your music. If your music is on an MP3 player (such as a smart phone), it is important for you to know that there is not reliable Wi-Fi at the theater, and therefore, you must have the song downloaded to your device player to successfully play it at auditions. Streaming the music from the Internet will not work. In addition, you must have your song pulled up on your player with your phone case removed and lock screen turned off before entering the audition room.
You will not need to prepare a monologue for these auditions.
Character descriptions and production information is provided below. More information about auditions and how best to prepare will be provided to you during your online registration process. Be sure to sign up early because audition slots will go quickly for this highly-anticipated production!
About Freaky Friday
The new musical, Freaky Friday, based on the beloved 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers and the hit Disney films, features a book by Bridget Carpenter—the co-executive producer and writer on the beloved TV hits, Friday Night Lights and Parenthood—and music and lyrics by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey—the Pulitzer Prize-winning composers of Next to Normal and If/Then.
When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again. Freaky Friday is a heartfelt, comedic, and unexpectedly emotional update on an American classic. By spending a day in each other's shoes, Katherine and Ellie come to appreciate one another's struggles, learn self-acceptance, and realize the immeasurable love and mutual respect that bond a mother and daughter.
Book by Bridget Carpenter
Music by Tom Kitt
Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Based on the Novel Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers and the Disney films.
Directors: Aaron and Cindy Weisberg
Choreographers: Marcie Shapiro and Jen Tipton
Music Directors: Kevin Surace and Joe Kelly
Vocal Director: Gaby Catipon
Producers: Steve Shapiro, Ramesh Krishnan, and Emily Oberheim
Stage Manager: Sam Saunders
Performances run February 21 – March 8, 2020
Fridays: 7:30 p.m
Saturdays: 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m
Sundays: 2:30 p.m.
Character Descriptions
Katherine – Leading role. Singer with strong belt and vocal range. Mother of Ellie and Fletcher. As Katherine: decisive, smart, perfectionist. As Ellie in Katherine's body: Awkward, brash, and funny, cracking jokes and trying to stay cool, has a bit of a temper. She thought being an adult would be easier than this. Vocal range: E3-A5
Ellie – Leading role. Singer with strong belt and vocal range. As Ellie: smart, funny, and a bit sloppy – still adjusting to the loss of her dad. As Katherine in Ellie's body: confident at first, she becomes overwhelmed by the intense social and physical demands of being a teen again. Vocal range: G3-G5
Fletcher – (Ten years old) Ellie's younger brother, eccentric, naive. Makes funny voices for his two hand-puppet friends. Small solos in several songs. Vocal range: B3-G4
Mike – Katherine's fiancee, Ellie's future step-dad. Kind, funny, and understanding. Strong actor, sings "Vows" and is heavily featured in other songs and scenes. Vocal range: A2-A4
Some roles may be combined
Adam – Ellie's crush. Both adorable and cool. Adam is in charge of the Hunt, the social event of the year. He likes Ellie but hasn't confessed. Strong singer and smooth mover. Soloist for "Women and Sandwiches", "Go", featured in other songs. Vocal range: F3-B4
Savannah – Ellie's school rival, has an over-the-top attitude and always gets her way. Soloist in multiple numbers, strong mover/dancer type. Vocal range: B3-D5
Hannah – Ellie's best friend – eccentric, lacks self-confidence. Featured actor/soloist. Vocal range: A3-C5
Gretchen – Also Ellie's best friend – hacker-geek, self-described nerd. Featured actor/soloist. Vocal range: F3-D5
Parker, Wells, Lauren – Friends of Ellie and Adam, featured heavily in school scenes and songs. Vocal range: E3-A4
Some roles may be combined
Torrey – Katherine's assistant, neurotic and high-strung, with a quirky comedic style. Significant solo singing including "Just One Day," "What You Got," and "I'm Not Myself Today." Vocal range: C4-A5
Danielle, Louis – Journalist and photographer featured in interview scenes and "What You Got"
Officer Sitz, Officer Kowolski – classic comic duo. Featured in "Bring My Baby (Brother) Home." Vocal range: E3-F5
Ms. Myers – Gym teacher, extremely intense! Lead singer in "Watch Your Back!" Vocal range: E3-F5
Mrs. Luckenbill – English teacher, empathetic. Soloist in "Take the Blame." Vocal range: A3-D5
Señor O'Brien – Spanish teacher, argumentative. Soloist in "Take the Blame." Vocal range: B3-A4
Dr. Ehrin – School counselor, overworked. Soloist in "Take the Blame." Vocal range: B3-E5
Mr. Blumen – Biology teacher, sarcastic speaking-role. Vocal range: B3-A4
Mrs. Time, Grandma Helene, Grandpa Gordon, Pastor Bruno – Comedic acting roles
…and MANY MORE ROLES including more parents, teachers, students, waiters, etc. with lines, singing solos, and incredible choreography!
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As a leading supplier of more than 40 product and service areas, from catering to interiors and office essentials, Anglo transforms London organisations with a truly 'one source' solution. Our clients benefit from a single point of contact, which saves time, trouble and multiple pieces of paperwork. It also means that we are able to optimise consolidated deliveries using zero emission vehicles.
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text: Steph Marhle-Mishra of Good Karma Dog Training demonstrates with a six-month-old, white boxer, puppy, how the "place" command, "heel" command, command can be trained and reinforced to allow this puppy to be included in his family's life. This male boxer dog was behaving badly by jumping on people, growling, and nipping, stealing things and playing keep away, as well as counter surfing when he first arrived for a board and train with Good Karma Training. Using a balanced dog training method, in conjunction with the training tools (a Herm Sprenger prong collar, slip leash, aka slip lead, and an e-collar from E-collar Technologies) the dog's behavior markedly improved in just five days of his board and train. If you are interested in training your dog to behave as a calm family dog, consider using a balanced dog training method and check out the other available dog training videos from Good Karma Training. The "place" command can be used in the home to prevent bad behaviors such as excited rushing at the door, barking, biting, jumping, counter surfing, freely roaming the home, and getting into things like the trash, or chewing on furniture. Training your dog to calmly behave in your home and follow the "place" command consistently, will eliminate the occurrence of bad behavior both inside and outside of your home. Dog training is a process. It is not always pretty. It is absolutely NOT perfect. Dog training is not about perfection. It is about calm persistence. Watch right here, how Steph teaches this puppy how to behave more calmly and obediently, both in the home, and out of the home at the Farmer's Market, and in the car. For more information on Good Karma Dog Training, http://goodkarmatraining.com Good Karma Training is owned and operated by Steph Mahrle-Mishra, a licensed New York State dog trainer that offers both in-home, and board and train services for obedience training and dog behavior modification. Steph confidently resolves a host of dog behavioral issues which is not limited to aggression, anxiety, and fear. Steph teaches basic dog obedience, such as proper leash walking, "sit", "down", and "come" to puppies and adult dog's alike. She also trains off leash advanced obedience with modern low level remote collar training. Good Karma Training services the Northern New Jersey area (including Newark, Bayonne, Jersey City, Hoboken, Elizabeth, Livingston, Clifton, Montclair, Nutley, Short Hills, Chatham, Millburn, Berkeley Heights). Steph's proven method of balanced dog training brings peace and harmony into the lives of her committed clients who recognize that real change is possible when balanced training is consistently applied. Steph Mahrle-Mishra is looking forward to bringing peace into your life! For more information, as well as free dog training tutorial videos, please see the following resources: Website: https://www.goodkarmatraining.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodKarmaTraining YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/goodkarmatraining Instagram: http://instagram.com/goodkarmatraining/


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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Sighting errors
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2019 Jan 7, 18:08 -0500
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2019 Jan 7, 18:08 -0500
Do not discount any of the other advice given. It may not be the leveling process.
Please post the sensitivity of your Starrett 98. Peter's point is spot on.
Another item that occurred to me is where you are placing the AH. It needs to be on a very stable, secure platform. It cannot be on a deck or porch, because as you move away for a low angle observation, your mass deflects the deck differently.
May I also suggest you post your step by step process of sight reduction. There may be a procedural error in your reduction.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 5:32 PM Joel Lynn <email@example.com wrote:
Thanks for your advice. The cutting board is a 1/2 in. piece of high density polyethlene. The level was placed on the front surface of the mirror, which is 6 in. in diameter. Unfortunately, I have only one Starrett level, but am open to the purchase of a second one.


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See the most expensive Berkshire homes sold in August
There have been a number of £2 million plus homes sold but there is hope for those who aren't millionaires as we also reveal the cheapest homes sold across the county
Some of the most expensive homes sold in August.Credit:Rightmove
The scorching weather seen over the summer clearly had an impact on deep pocketed housebuyers as the August market went crazy, with seven homes going for more than £2 million.
Estate agents across Berkshire will have been rubbing their hands with glee as the huge properties were snapped up.
For the first time, getreading has included figures from the house price titan that is the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, where six of the seven £2 million plus sales took place.
There were also 10 £1 million plus sales in the affluent boroughs, which include pricey areas like Sunninghill, Bray and Cookham.
There were plenty of million pound plus sales in Wokingham and West Berkshire too, with a home in Remenham selling for £2.4 million.
Buyers who aren't highly paid hedge fund managers or footballers will be encouraged to know they can still get properties for under £200,000.
They're likely to be leaseholds on flats, but you can still get on the ladder in Reading, Berkshire.
For example, the lease on a flat in Russell Street sold for just £106,000, and another in Sun Street was £136,000.
Despite the huge prices in Maidenhead and Windsor, Berkshire, it is still possible to get property comparatively cheaply, with the lease on a flat in Sunninghill High Street going for £200,000.
Nationally, as per normal, the most expensive home sold was in London.
Although this time, it wasn't in Kensington and Chelsea or Westminster, but Camden.
The beautiful six bed sold for £11.45 million.
Clearly illustrating the enormous disparity in prices, the cheapest home sold was in Sildon in County Durham for £21,000.
Across England and Wales, there were 26,953 sales in August, of which 556 were £1 million or more.
There were 95 sales of £2 million or more.
Most Expensive
Bracknell Forest
Forest Road, Warfield: £885,000
Jigs Lane South, Warfield: £780,000
Pinehill Road, Crowthorne: £735,000
Grosvenor Road, Caversham: £795,000
Tilehurst Road: £755,000
Hamilton Road, East Reading: £740,000
West Berkshire
Basingstoke Road, Greenham: £1.52 million
The Avenue, Bucklebury: £1.435 million
Flowers Hill, Pangbourne: £1.190 million
Windsor and Maidenhead
Monks Drive, Ascot: £2.785 million
Twyford Road, Waltham St Lawrence: £2.3 million
Hockett Lane, Cookham, Maidenhead: £2.25 million
Wargrave Road, Remenham: £2.4 million
Wellingtonia Avenue, Crowthorne: £1.875 million
Holmemoor Drive, Sonning: £1.5 million
Least Expensive
Bracknell Forest
Blatchly House, Roebuck Estate, Binfield: £120,000
Barn Owl Drive, Bracknell: £168,750
Kelvin Gate, Bracknell: £185,000
Russell Street, Reading: £106,000
Sydenham House, Sun Street: £115,456
Admirals Court, Reading, Reading: £136,000
West Berkshire
St Michaels Close, Lambourn: £163,000
Caistor Close, Calcot, Reading:£165,000
Stroud Green, Newbury: £170,000
Windsor and Maidenhead
The Meads, Green Lane, Windsor: £160,000
Temple Gate, Windsor: £187,500
High Street, Sunninghill: £200,000
Downham Court, Shinfield Road: £185,000
Magnolia Court, Headley Road East, Woodley: £205,000
Fleetham Gardens, Lower Earley: £210,000


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"At this writing," Stephen King said of "The Monk," "the book is over two hundred years old and still explosive."
Explosive in the terms of lurid and grotesque content, certainly. Matthew Lewis's first novel, published in 1796 when its author was only 19, "The Monk" is the dynamitic spawn of two romances: one, classical medieval while the other, a modern classic.
Even today, the novel, while a delight to read, still inspires an attitude in the reader that the content is dangerously smutty; a fact that, if anything, attests further to the novel's timelessness. The plot, if not already known by those who might have seen just one of the numerous, pitiful movie adaptions, concerns a Spanish monk, Ambrosio: a cloistered, vain fellow whose inspiring sermons have nevertheless earned him the loaded epithet that he "must have fallen from Heaven."
Enjoying his status as the toast of Madrid, Ambrosio entertains few sinful longings or desires to escape his cell—that is, until a novice monk named Rosario inspires in him a deep friendship, unquestionably homoerotic, and reveals, shortly thereafter, that he is actually an enticing she, named Matilda. Despite, or because of his new, lustful feelings, Ambrosio determines that Rosario neé Matilda must quit the abbey post-haste. Though she agrees to his wishes, she does not obey them, and following a lengthy dramatic scene involving a snakebite and gradually developing feelings of lust, the two become—shockingly—lovers.
Add to that another story, that of the gallant Don Raymond and his relationship with Agnes, the sister of his friend, the Don Christoval. It's a telling pseudo-tragedy, involving a scorned love affair (the results of which place Agnes in a nunnery), and the chilling folkstory of a bleeding nun.
Lewis is considered by many to be the father of the modern Gothic horror story who, alongside the mother of the genre, Ann Radcliffe, is responsible for giving us the modern ghost story and the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing villain motif. Bad guys prior to the time of Lewis were easily recognized by social status, manner of occupation, clothing choices, etc. Their grimaces, alongside the helpful hints of the all-seeing narrator, were enough to alert the reader that he should keep a keen eye for malicious behavior.
Not so with "The Monk." At least, not immediately so. Ambrosio is the harsh and unsparing model of Catholic purity, who dreams and supplicates to the Madonna (67) and holds a bitter disregard for the sins of the world outside. His salacious fall caused an uproar when the book was published.
Even so, Lewis's novel is admirable in it's pushing of moral boundaries. Ambrosio sins within the first one hundred pages, though this is proven later to be only the first testing of the waters. The initial sin, Lewis suggests, is like the stone thrown into the lake whose graduating ripples constitute the aftermath. Though one cannot mediate the affect of the first stone, one may allow the affects to dissipate without further hindrance. Ambrosio however fails to regard his first sin as anything but eternally mortal: it is this attitude which preponderates the first act, turning lust into greed into gluttony into wrath into envy and even into the highest blasphemies.
Such is the excellent pacing that Lewis manages through "The Monk." However, the novel is not without its faults. Ambrosio is a monk in name only, his virtue like a noise whose echo is heard from other characters but whose source is never delivered. Lewis does not bother to develop the character either, preferring to concentrate his energies on examining the monk's primary sin of pride (ironically, in his own purported freedom from sin).
Contemporary horror fans have delighted in Lewis's novel and will continue to do so despite the book's shortcomings. To read "The Monk" is to experience the unfettered delights of a young writer, conscious of his own invention, who knows the controversy he is sure to inspire and sallies on despite, or perhaps because of, his knowledge.


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HERMES Award 2018 - LOYTEC among TOP 3 companies
LOYTEC electronics GmbH was honored in the international category and achieved a place among the top 3. The HERMES Business Award is organized by the initiators - the Federal Ministry for Digitization and Business Location, the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, leading companies Austria and Kurier. The award intends to honor outstanding achievements of Austrian companies.
"These are top companies that go out into the world with innovations, courage, risk and motivated employees and achieve successes. What distinguishes these companies is creativity, innovation and high quality products. " Margarete Schramböck, Federal Minister for Digitization and Business Location.


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Club Individual guests and celebrities including Phillip Schofield, Ricky Wilson, Emma Bunton and Leigh Francis descended on Manchester on Friday March 16 for an exclusive party hosted by Gino D'Acampo.
The private, star-studded event took place at the Italian chef's My Pizza & Prosecco Bar, in the refurbished flagship store of fashion retailer Next at Manchester Arndale and saw 200 guests party until the early hours of the morning.
Speaking on what makes Gino's restaurants different to any other Italian eatery Phillip Schofield said: "What I love about Gino's restaurants is that people get what they see on the telly, it's more than just food, it's fun, you can play pool or table football, it's a proper family experience. He cooks so many meals, they're all great products and made with love."
Former Spice Girl & founder of children's brand Kit & Kin, Emma Bunton added: "I've been to Gino's with my kids a couple of times now. The kids love it because they get to make their own pizzas. There's always a fussy one and it's amazing because they'll make whatever they fancy. There's cones and ice cream, everything kids adore.My eighteen year old niece had her birthday party at Gino's too and loved it just as much."
Speaking on the night Gino said: "What's the point of owning a restaurant if you can't share it with your family and friends? It's amazing to have everyone here in Manchester, I absolutely love this city."


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Discover first-hand what is at the heart of the lean business model through a series of Gemba walks, talks, and peer networking. You will be able to see the tools and systems of operational excellence in action. The various companies and manufacturers we visit will demonstrate fundamental practices such as 5S, visual management, problem solving, standardized work, quality at the source, safety, continuous flow, intelligent automation, and much more.
Lean expert and co-author of Toyota Culture, Mike Hoseus will be joining us this year to lead the group on Gemba walks and discussions about how to implement what we see in the factory floors into our own companies back home.
UPS World Port* - UPS' all-points international air hub processes freight and air cargo shipments
Safran Landing Systems - a world leader in aircraft landing and braking systems
BOSCH- provides cutting-edge technologies for cars, homes and businesses
Dorman Products - supplier of original equipment dealer "exclusive" automotive replacement parts
Hyster-Yale - designs and sells a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts
Bluegrass Community and Technical College - partners with Toyota's Advanced Manufacturing Technician Program
Toyota - America's first and largest Toyota manufacturing facility
Woodford Reserve - award-winning craft bourbon from one of Kentucky's oldest and smallest distilleries
Nashville Wire - manufactures industrial storage solutions
LINAK - manufactures electric linear actuator technology systems for movement
Amazon Fulfillment Center* - Amazon is an innovative online shopping site
As always, space is limited so reserve your spot soon! Tours are subject to change.
*Limited capacity.
Evening Speaker Cheryl Jones
"Cheryl has experience in both manufacturing and administration within Toyota having served as vice president of Toyota Engineering and Manufacturing of America (TEMA). She began her career as an assembly manufacturing supervisor, eventually achieving vice president of Manufacturing during her 22 years with the company. Cheryl retired in 2009.
Her extensive knowledge of the Toyota Production System knowledge encompasses final vehicle assembly, robotic processes using solvent borne and waterborne paints, and parts delivery from supplier to vehicle assembly. She also served as vice president of Powertrain, Production Control, Building Facilities, diversity advisor, and senior advisor to the Women's Leadership Network Organization and Operations Development Group." More on Cheryl.
Cost: $2,200 Attendees must arrange and pay for their own airfare and hotel rooms will be offered at a group rate.
For questions please contact Don Cuperus OR Jackie Runge. Hotel room block information is detailed in the email confirmation to follow. Please reserve your hotel room before Friday, September 20th!
Main Office: 2329 N Career Ave, Ste. 243, Sioux Falls SD
Phone: 605-367-5757 | www.SDManufacturing.com