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As we transition to our new site, you'll still find some Stats NZ information here on this archive site.
Land Cover Database
Land Use Map
Land Environments New Zealand
River Environment Classification
Marine Environment Classification
The Ministry for the Environment is a government department that aims to promote environmental stewardship for a prosperous New Zealand. The Ministry maintains a number of datasets, maps and environmental classifications which can help inform the earthquake recovery by providing information on pre-earthquake environments and baseline information.
The Land Cover database is a digital map of the land cover of New Zealand. It provides information on changes in land use and land cover over time, and can be used with other geographic information.
The dataset contains information on New Zealand land cover in 1996 and in 2001.
Approximately five yearly, currently contains information on 1996 and 2001.
The geographic coverage is national, including the Chatham Islands.
Images are collected via satellite image classification.
Target classification accuracy is 90%. The accuracy assessments are not able to confirm the actual accuracy.
The Land Cover database is available from Koordinates.
For more information on the Land Cover database see the Ministry for the Environment's Land Cover web page.
The Land Use map is a part of the Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS), with the Land Use map being used to assess carbon stocks for Kyoto Protocol reporting.
The dataset contains information on New Zealand land use in 1990 and 2008. The land use information is contained in a spatial vector data layer.
Approximately five yearly, currently contains information on 1990 (the reference year) and 2008. The next mapping year will be 2012.
The geographic coverage is national.
Images are collected from satellite images, with a minimum mapping unit of 1 ha.
There are a limited number of classes suitable for international comparison.
2008 Land Use Map on the Ministry for the Environment website.
The Land Use map is also available from Koordinates.
For more information on the Land Use map see the Ministry for the Environment's Land Use web page.
Land Environments New Zealand (LENZ) is used to define and map bio-geographic land environments across New Zealand. LENZ is used primarily for environmental management.
LENZ maps New Zealand's landscapes at four different levels using 20 (Level I), 100 (Level II), 200 (Level III) or 500 (Level IV) environments.
LENZ contains information on
The land use information is contained in spatial vector data layers. The layers include classification data layers and another layer of the underlying environmental variables.
One off project completed in late 2002.
The geographic coverage is national, including offshore islands.
A potential weakness is that information is from derived and modelled data.
The LENZ classification layers are available from Koordinates.
The underlying environmental variables layer is available from LandCare Research's LENZ web page.
For more information on LENZ see the Ministry for the Environment's LENZ web page.
The River Environment Classification (REC) is used for national reporting on the state of freshwater in New Zealand. It is a spatial framework for water information, organising information on the physical characteristics of rivers, and it is used primarily for environmental management.
The River Environment classification contains information on river networks, catchments and watersheds.
The information is contained in spatial vector data layers.
One off project.
A weakness is that the REC is a synthetic river network derived from a hydrologically correct Digital Elevation Model (DEM). This means that the REC is not topographically correct as it does not faithfully follow the physical path of the rivers. The Digital Elevation Model (DEM) used is also low-resolution.
The REC river networks, catchments and watersheds layers are available from Koordinates.
For more information on LENZ see the Ministry for the Environment's REC web page.
The Marine Environment Classification (MEC) is used to define natural bio-geographic marine environments, and it was designed for marine management purposes. The MEC was developed by NIWA and the Ministry for the Environment with support from the Department of Conservation and the Ministry of Fisheries.
MEC maps New Zealand's marine environments into different number of classes. A 5-level class map divides the marine landscape into five different classes based on environmental or biological similarity, not geographic location. The marine environment is available at 5-level, 10-level, 20-level and 40-level classes.
MEC contains information on
The geographic coverage is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
For more information on MEC see NIWA's MEC web page.


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I finally have time to update you guys (whoever is out there in time and space who actually cares about my blog, I LOVE YOU) on my life and what I've been up to. Enzo, my lil munchkin is asleep right now and it is so hard to do anything while he's awake because he's a little 1 year and 3 month year old monkey who likes to run around and twirl around and climb on things and do a lot of naughty things when I'm not looking so I always have to keep my eyes on him!!
We recently moved into our new home and it is amazinggggggggggggggggggggggg and we love it so much!! It's a cute little green house in a really cute neighborhood that's nestled right in between my parents and my husband's parents' houses. There's a nice little backyard for Enzo to play in and everything is just perfect. I've been trying to look for awesome stuff to decorate our place with. I don't want it looking like some plain old suburban home with brown furnishing everywhere :-((( (sorry, Mom). So I got this really unique looking skull from Etsy and it hasn't shipped yet but I plan on putting it in the middle of our living room as a center piece.
Alsoooooooooooooo I'm planning on either making a blog post or posting a Youtube video of our house fully decorated when I'm done with everything so look out for that! I have so many plans and so much stuff going on in my mind at one go. I literally have more than 30 tabs open right now and it's so hard to organize and prioritize everything but I'm doing the best I can!! Sometimes it's so hard having to do adult things and I want to just break down and cry but I always try to tell myself that I can't be superwoman! I'm just! Human! You're just human too! Whoever out there is reading this right now, YOU ARE JUST HUMAN!!! DON'T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF! TAKE BREAKS! READ A BOOK! LAY ON A HAMMOCK! CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR A SECOND! Life passes by so so quickly. I can't believe I'm turning 20 this year. BUT I CAN'T WAIT TO TURN 21 THOUGH!! Ughhhhhhhhhhh I was so mad because lots of the SXSW shows that went on last week were mostly 21+ and so many amazing artists came so all we did was go to a fish taco shop downtown and meet up with my friend from Mexico @gy.borg which was nice but stilll!
You guys should check out her store http://www.onlinebymissmess.com !!!! IT IS THE BOMB.COM!!!! It literally oozes cyber girl.
Do you guys ever feel like the internet has limited your vocabulary? I feel like ever since I started owning a phone and stopped reading books, I started talking differently and writing differently. I used to speak more eloquently but now I feel like I just keep saying literally and like like like. I need to start reading again!!! I just bought some fashion and photography books but hopefully those will help. Life has changed so much for me in just a few short years. Now I'm a mom and I own my own online store and I've been trying to reach out to all these people in the fashion industry. Next year, I'd love to participate in Austin Fashion Week as a stylist but I still have lots of work to do. Oh, and also to join a trade show to sell my merch! That would be so great! I'm also married now but I feel like I've been married to Edgar ever since I met him. He's my soulmate (eventhough he pisses me off sometimes but like I said, WE'RE ALL HUMAN).
Anyways, I have to get back to doing mom stuff and cleaning up the house but don't worry I'll be back before you know it!! I'll try my best to update and post as much as I can :-)
p.s WE GOT A GUINEA PIG AND HER NAME IS PEANUT BUTTER

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Here, have some more of my unfiltered giblets. See the first post of this nature here.
Even nothingness needs something to experience it.
I'm pretty depressed so my poetry should be better, and I only know it's winter cause of the beer bottles littered around my room and all this rain that makes me swell with joy, and the USPS is lying to me about delivering my package so I'm sure glad I pay my taxes, futility is being sent pictures of myself they year my roommate and I starved ourselves to afford weed and wondering if I could get back to that, I want to get back to that, and simultaneously I don't care, I can't care look at all this fucking hair, look at the constant bags under my eyes, so why do the online tests only ever grant me mild depression, I self harm just not with blades, it's a long con, that's how I'll kill this sack that carries me, see im gonna milk my sorrow as long as I can, get me back in college man, do the work do do do the work yet I'm so lethargic and so middle, so bland, I want to simmer this fat and let it sauté onions to perfect brown, I want to dance on a grave to see if I feel bad, I want a fucking meaningful text back, I want less of these fucking breakup songs on my shuffle, I want to wake up three years from now and I don't want tomorrow, I should meditate again, I should masterbate again, I should talk to more people who hate me, I should figure out if I actually love anyone, ever loved anyone, how can you know if you actually felt love(?), how can we drop the cliches, how can I further wrestle my hypocrisy and air my dirty laundry, how does this help, how can I help, everything I do is for change and all that does is isolate me, as I transition to smoke, transition to shadow and dirt and no new form relieves the hurt, and I'm making myself cry from the honesty, Jesus how long since you've been honest with me, everything I do to numb the pain is just vacuous now, recyclable me with recyclable vices and all the false nices, and I'm pretty depressed so why the fuck isn't my Poetry better…
Everyone always covers their cameras on their devices, I don't know why. Comfort in the notion that some cares enough to watch à la Truman Show, comfort in letting someone else document this moment and preserve it forever, me with a hat and hoodie indoors, drinking whiskey and reading The Waste Land outloud again while Sylvan Esso and The Velvet Underground and all that shit I collect to remind my emotions they aren't unique crowds the airwaves, the disappointment in my eyes as I read my old annotations and realize I'm not that smart anymore, comfort in the fact that no matter how small we all are, they still have deemed us worthy of study and shots, comfort in the fact that eventually there will be a documentary about me.


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Half of Americans also say that using marijuana is not a moral issue, versus 12 percent who say it is morally acceptable and 32 percent who say it is morally wrong. Just 38 percent of respondents agree that "for most people the use of marijuana leads to the use of hard drugs," down from six out of every 10 Americans in 1977.
Americans are particularly sour on government attempts to enforce the marijuana prohibition, with 72 percent saying they believe the drug war costs more than its worth. Six in 10 voters say the federal government should not enforce its laws in states like Colorado and Washington that have approved possession and use of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use.
There is a partisan divide, however. While six in 10 Democrats and independents agree pot should be legal, six in 10 Republicans prefer maintaining the status quo. Still, Republicans agree that the federal government should allow states to legalize use and that government efforts to enforce the ban cost more than they are worth.


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Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > Are there any examples of "infinitely zoomable" designs > similar to this of which list members are aware ? Sadly > not even the beautiful "CSS Zen Garden" can cope with > more than four levels of zoom before it starts to break > up ... > I just finished a template for such a site. I don't claim to be a graphic artist, so please be kind in your criticism: http://www.alma.edu/michiganacademy Some major problems were pixel rounding (which still isn't perfectly fixed), and the lack of a max-width attribute in IE6, which I circumvented with the use of javascript to create resolution-defendant layout (a technique which I pilfered from The Man In Blue <http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/09/21/>). I also fixed the two-column float problem by hiding a print-only image (width="0" height="0" without CSS) that clears both floating columns, pulling the container's background with it. -- Ryan Cannon Instructional Technology Web Design RyanCannon.com <http://ryancannon.com/?refer=email> (989) 463-7060Received on Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:56:34 UTC
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DURHAM, N.C. (Mar. 13) --- Duke senior forward Shane Battier (Birmingham, Mich.) was named the Verizon Academic All-America Team Member of the Year earlier today. Battier was also named first team Academic All-America for the second consecutive season. He joined Eric Channing of New Mexico State, Nathan Jameson of UNC Greensboro, Joseph Lumpkin of Charleston and Brandon Wolfram of UTEP as first team Verizon Academic All-Americas in 2001.
Battier became the fourth Duke player to be named Academic All-America two or more times (Bob Fleischer in 1974-75, Mike Gminski 1978-80 and Jim Spanarkel in 1978-79 were the others).
To be eligible for the Academic All-America, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher.
Battier, who maintains a 3.4 grade point average as a Religion major, had his number 31 retired in a pregame ceremony on Feb. 21. He continues to climb several of Duke's career leader boards. In 33 games, he leads Duke in rebounding (6.8), three-point field goals made (109-tie) and attempted (254), blocked shots (72), steals (70) and charges taken (21). Battier also ranks second on the team in scoring with 19.5 points per game. Battier's 109 three-point attempts rank second behind only Trajan Langdon (112 in 1999) and his 254 three-point attempts are tied with Langdon (254 in 1999) for first on Duke's single season charts. His 72 blocks are the sixth-highest single season total in school history and his 70 steals are 10th.
Off the court, Battier is involved in several activities, including being president of the Student Basketball Council, a committee of basketball players concerned about the welfare of the game.


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Hong Kong continues to be the world's most "connected" population in 2016
Singapore and Australia maintain their second and third ranking in the Asia Pacific region
Singapore, May 10, 2016 – The new GfK Connected Consumer Index is a ranking of 78 countries and eight world regions that provides fast and direct comparison of how highly connected each population is.
The index shows which countries have the world's most connected consumers, both overall and in detail across each of eleven different device types (smartphone, tablet, mobile PC, desktop PC, wearables, smart TV, TV set-top box, videogame console, e-reader, connected car and smart home), together with trends over the last five years.
It allows businesses to compare how connected the individual countries and regions are, in order to spot market opportunities across a range of industries. This includes areas stretching from digiital device sales and content consumption to expansion of traditional technology into health and media and beyond.
Top ten most "connected" populations in the world
Looking at the GfK Connected Consumer Index ranking for the last two years, Hong Kong and North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) hold steady as having the world's top two most highly connected populations.
However, people in the United Arab Emirates are fast closing in on that lead, jumping from eighth place in 2015 to a forecasted third place this year. Similarly, Switzerland has overtaken Denmark and Sweden to move up from tenth place last year to a forecasted eighth place this year.
GfK Connected Consumer Index
Index Index
2015 2016 score score
ranking ranking 2015 2016
1 1 Hong Kong 1,430 1,486
2 2 America 952 1,062
3 4 Norway 939 988
4 5 Germany 873 940
6 6 Saudi Arabia 836 935
5 7 Great Britain 856 916
10 8 Switzerland 801 914
7 9 Denmark 835 906
9 10 Sweden 807 875
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Things You Need To Know Before Sell My House Fast Richmond
Would i be able to offer my home quick?. All things considered, since the immense slide of free economy began in mid-2007, most likely the most noticeably awful since the Great Depression, daily paper features have been loaded with words like "joblessness," "retreat," "repossessions," "credit crunch," "bankrupt," and the preferences. Just as of late, "twofold plunge" is exchanged words everywhere. The Sunday Times announced that forecasters expect that activity misfortunes and the possibility of new property assessments may undermine a financial recuperation. Likewise as indicated by the report, Morgan Stanley predicts a 7 percent fall in house costs before one year from now's over, however said they can slide to as much as 18 percent. Deutsche Bank expects a 5 percent plunge, while Capital Economics puts it at 10 percent.
Property examiner Hometrack likewise detailed the greatest value fall in houses since April 2009, when things appeared to have at long last been turning upward. "The lodging market is currently a humble re-valuing that is probably going to keep running for the following six to a year. This takes after a time of year and a half finished which house costs have solidified quickly on the back of a powerful blend of rising interest and an interminable absence of lodging available to be purchased," Richard Donnell, executive of research at Hometrack, was cited as saying on Cliff D' Arcy's section on Lovemoney.com. Be that as it may, a kindred reporter of Arcy's on Lovemoney.com, Christina Jordan, does not believe it's all fate and anguish. In a current section, she expounds on why regardless of all the awful news, there is a brilliant side.Feel free to find more information at sell my house fast.
- Loaning stable
Truly contract loaning has dropped contrasted with when the property advertise was blasting only 10 years back. It's additionally obvious that home loan loaning is down 3 percent in July contrasted with a similar period a year ago. However, as per figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, loaning was up in July from what it was in June, which was up from May, which was likewise superior to the earlier month. These increments must be uplifting news. Despite the fact that Jordan recognizes that the market will back off for the rest of the year, she says it is "accurately what's normal," given that we are at a time when the market is customarily slower.
- House value reports not all terrible
Each one of those features about "twofold plunge" in the lodging business sector may have terrified the damnation out of you. Affirm, so Hometrack revealed a 0.3 percent tumble from July to August, and Nationwide said it was 0.5 percent in July, however that was after it announced back to back ascents in four earlier months. In a similar report, Nationwide likewise noticed that house costs ascended by very nearly 2 percent in the second quarter of this current year, contrasted with the main quarter. Furthermore, Halifax really had really had clashing figures,reporting an ascent of 0.6 percent in house costs in July. Mulling over everything, house costs are still altogether higher than they were a year prior. Jordan says signs of an abating market are there, however she supposes "it's too early to call an inescapable drop in house costs."
- Base rate set to remain low
Most financial experts expect the Bank of England Base Rate to remain at its present level of 0.5 percent for whatever is left of the year and even until right on time one year from now. A Reuters survey of driving financial specialists demonstrate that expectations for a top notch rise will likely not be until the center of 2011, and the ascent won't surpass 1.5 percent before the finish of 2011. This is uplifting news for the individuals who are on flexible rate contracts as their reimbursements are not going to soar at any point in the near future.
- Home loan rates at seven year low
As indicated by monetary data supplier Moneyfacts, settled rates are at the most reduced levels in seven years – as low as under four percent for a long time that is. On the off chance that you need to go for a variable rate, there is an approach to slice your home loan rate to simply over two percent, punishment free.
- You don't need to depend on a domain operator to have the capacity to offer your home.
When you consider offering a house, the principal thing that presumably springs to mind is to discover a bequest specialist to help you. It is, in all commonsense sense, the approach in the event that you have the advantage of sitting tight for the correct purchaser who can best match your asking cost. In any case, in case you're attempting to pay off your home loan, or are experiencing divorce, confronting repossession, or need to move earnestly for a vocation, at that point chances are you have to offer house rapidly. In which case, there is next to no a bequest operator, regardless of how experienced, can do to help. You will need to pitch your home to a money home purchaser. Why? Money home purchasers, as the term proposes, have money stores accessible to make an immediate and quick buy. There are no outsiders included and no renegotiating whatsoever, so the deal procedure goes substantially speedier, smoother, and tranquil. What's more, since there is no mediator, the vender saves money on home operator, legitimate, and different expenses. You don't need to settle anything in the house; they can and will get it as seems to be.


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An event that presents comparability strategies from leaders in the field for a range of therapeutic proteins with a strong emphasis on providing suitable data to the regulatory authorities to reduce difficulties and delays and to ensure safety and efficacy with every batch of drug. Industry case studies from various types of change implementation at different stages of development will be presented together with regulatory advice and plenty of opportunity for discussion.
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Tuesday, April 5
4:30 pm Registration for Part Two
5:00 – 6:00 Welcome Reception
Wednesday, April 6
8:00 am Registration and Morning Coffee
Pat Cash, Ph.D., Senior Director, Analytical Biochemistry, MedImmune, Inc.
8:25 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
8:30 Assessing and Managing Drug Substance Manufacturing Changes in the Post Pivotal Arena
R. Graham McCartney, Ph.D., Technical Lead, Biotechnology, Eli Lilly
A robust comparability strategy is necessary to ensure that data from previous studies undertaken during drug development remain applicable as the programme moves forward to commercialization. The presentation will provide examples of tools used to assess the impact of Drug Substance manufacturing change and subsequent work establishing comparability in post pivotal scenarios. Careful consideration will be given to the evaluation of the risk associated with the change, with particular focus on the potential to impact CQAs.
9:00 Process Lifecycle Management: To Change or Not to Change?
Alain Bernard, Ph.D., Vice President, Pharmaceutical Process Sciences, UCB Group
This presentation addresses the basic question of whether process changes are absolutely necessary or not, and when a change is implemented, which strategies should be elaborated as early as possible in development to mitigate risk of changes later in the development or once on the market.
9:30 Analytical Lifecycle Management for Licensed / Legacy Products
John T. Stults, Ph.D., Director, Protein Analytical Chemistry-2, Genentech, Inc., a member of the Roche Group
In the years following the initial market approval for a product, the understanding of product quality attributes will evolve: improved analytical techniques and strategies are developed, a manufacturing history is generated, and new biological understanding may be discovered. This presentation discusses the analytical lifecycle management for licensed biologics, including evaluation and updates to molecule characterization, comparability plans, and control systems.
10:00 Sponsored Presentation (Opportunity Available)
10:20 Networking Coffee Break with Exhibit and Poster Viewing
11:00 Roller Bottles to Bioreactors: Comparability Testing Using Bioassays on a b/h PIV3/RSV F2 Candidate Vaccine
Alfred Pan, Ph.D., Associate Director, Analytical and Process Technologies, MedImmune, LLC
MEDI-534 (bovine /human parainfluenza type 3 / respiratory syncytial virus F2) (b/HPIV3/RSV F protein) is a live, attenuated intranasal vaccine, under development, for the prevention of lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV or HPIV3 in young infants. This chimeric vaccine expresses the human PIV3 fusion protein and hemagglutinin-neuraminidase in a bovine PIV3 viral backbone. As part of process improvement and scale up, the original roller bottle process will be replaced with a bioreactor process. A case study will be presented using bioassays to compare the vaccine produced with the two processes.
11:30 Working with CMOs: Practical Experiences with Analytical Method Transfer
Stacey Traviglia, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Analytical Technology, Biogen Idec, Inc.
When working with CMOs, planning, time and resource allocation are critical, and initial discussions on training and equipment requirements can save valuable time. Important features include: understanding the robustness of the methods and sources of variance; employing validation and assay control to set acceptance criteria and foresee potential failures, and selection of appropriate statistical analyses. These aspects will be discussed in conjunction with relevant case studies.
12:00 pm Limiting Risks Associated with the Presence of Protein Aggregates in Biologics
Ewa Marszal, Ph.D., Chemist, Laboratory of Plasma Derivatives, Division of Hematology, CBER, FDA
Protein aggregation potential is an inherent property of many protein products. Limited understanding of their interaction with our immune system usually precludes accurate predictions of their impact on drug safety and efficacy, which should be assessed on a case-to-case basis. Prerequisites increasing assurance of high product quality such as understanding molecular mechanisms of aggregation, understanding processes inducing aggregation, optimized formulation, and detailed characterization of the product, as well as evaluation and control of associated risks will be discussed.
12:30 Luncheon Presentation (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) or Lunch on Your Own
1:55 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Nadine M. Ritter, Ph.D., Senior CMC Consultant, Biologics Consulting Group, Inc.
2:00 New Ways of Measuring Visible and Sub-Visible Particles
Particles are sometimes observed in protein solutions, particularly in high concentration formulations. Protein particles may vary greatly in visibility and size from invisible (sub-micron) to visible (millimeter). Biopharmaceutical companies are required to monitor and minimize the presence of visible and sub-visible particles in their products. A new, semi-quantitative method for assessing visible particles will be presented, along with new analytical techniques for sub-visible particle detection and characterization.
2:30 Host Cell Protein Assays – Common Mistakes and Misconceptions
With both commercial and custom-developed HCP assays, there are a few critical issues that can have major impact on the accuracy of results. Failure to recognize and resolve these issues can substantially impact project timelines and the ability to establish reliable HCP specifications. This presentation will provide an overview of HCP assays and discuss how to successfully address the major issues to avoid critical technical and regulatory mistakes.
3:00 Application of PAT and Near Infra-Red Technology for Process Characterization for the Production of Live-Attenuated Vaccines (LAIV)
Misa Sugui, Associate Scientist, Cell Culture & Process Development, MedImmune Vaccines
3:30 Networking Refreshment Break with Exhibit and Poster Viewing
4:00 Change Implementation: A Tiered Comparability Approach
Paul J. Gil, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Global Regulatory Affairs, Bayer HealthCare
Comparability strategies for licensed biologic product changes may extend beyond the analytical phase. When is the next step toward clinical studies necessary? What are the Regulatory Authority expectations? A recent case study will be analyzed - from strategy to outcome.
4:30 Regulatory Authority Feedback on Comparability Studies Performed in Relation to a Process Optimisation
Kirstin Bislev Hansen, M.SC., Senior Regulatory Project Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Marketed Products, Novo Nordisk A/S
This presentation will describe the response given by regulatory authorities for approval of a second-generation process of recombinant insulin utilising a new expression system. Additionally, the fermentation, recovery and purification process was changed and the site of manufacture.
5:00 – 6:00 Breakout Discussions
These are interactive moderated discussions on topics of interest in the field of comparability for change implementation and biosimilars
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This week on A Chef's Story, Dorothy Cann Hamilton is Joined by Jonathan and Justin Fox, owners of Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q in Atlanta. After growing up with Texas barbecue, the Fox brothers were underwhelmed by the Atlantan barbecue after moving there in 1998. So they decided to take matters into their own hands and learn to cook barbecue themselves. In 2007, they opened the Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q restaurant. Now they are incredibly successful and are cooking up to 3000 lbs of meat in their kitchen at any given time. On today's show, the Fox Bros. discuss what inspired them to learn to cook barbecue, how they choose what meats to cook in their restaurant, and the cooking process that makes their meat delicious enough to make them runners up for the title "Best Overall Bar-B-Q" In Atlanta.
"There's not a lot of secrets to what we do, it's just a long process." [13:00]
"[Brisket usually has] more fat and connected tissue. And when you slow cook it for long periods of time it's usually going to make it a lot more tender." [21:00]
"We want to make sure that when you come in at dinner, you're getting the fresh stuff. And when you come in at lunch, you're getting the fresh stuff." [23:00]
–Fox Bros. on A Chef's Story


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Tip End Shoe Horn
Before the invention of plastics, natural horn was a very important material, and the mediaeval Worshipful Company of Horners prospered in their trade.
In today's world, natural horn is still the "real thing" and a hand crafted shoe horn is a pleasure to have in daily use.
A Foster natural shoehorn makes a very welcome gift,
is essential for the proper care of your shoes,
and the longer ones are a blessing to those whose feet
seem to get further away as the years go by!
Available in sizes from 8" to 24"
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GHC News Flash: Global Health Roundup – 11/20/2017
Driving Home the Importance of Safe Sanitation
On November 15, USAID and the U.S. Department of State released the whole-of-government Global Water Strategy required by the Water for the World Act. While Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is one of the four strategic objectives outlined, the strategy also addresses global health issues such as under-5 mortality from diarrhea and morbidity and mortality resulting from Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The Strategy's release coincides with World Toilet Day (November 19). On this day, PATH's Defeat DD campaign, "Toilet Talks," welcomed global health advocates, including Loyce Pace, President and Executive Director of GHC, who stressed the importance of curbing the spread of diarrhea. Promote PATH'sDefeat DD report on social media with the hashtag #DefeatDD.
Special WHO Executive Board (EB) Session Highlights the Draft Thirteenth General Programme of Work
On November 22 – 23, WHO will host the 4th WHO Executive Board Special Session in Geneva, Switzerland. The session will focus on the draft thirteenth general programme of work 2019 – 2023. This document, along with the session's provisional agenda, live webcast link, and other supporting materials can be found on WHO's website. A number of organizations have commented on both the concept note and subsequent draft programme of work. Moreover, GHC has met with U.S. officials to offer our input in advance of the EB session. We will continue to track this process and offer feedback to leaders at WHO. If you are a GHC member and will like to share additional feedback, please email us.
NCD Alliance Seeking Civil Society Assistance to Develop Priorities for the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)
The third UN HLM will take place in September 2018, and NCD Alliance is reaching out to civil society to gather feedback in advance of the meeting. To do this, they have initiated a broad consultation process with a survey that aims to understand how NCD progress has been viewed since 2014. Survey answers will inform advocacy priorities for the outcome of the 2018 UN HLM. The initial advocacy priorities will be shared at the 2nd Global NCD Alliance Forum held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from December 9 – 11, 2017. The deadline to complete the survey is November 24.
1) November 7: NCDFREE's Feast Of Ideas campaign, focusing this year on alcohol's health and social harms, encourages friends and family members to address this issue by sharing ideas and solutions via their website or on social media using the hashtags #feastofideas or #FOI17.
2) November 13: Last week (November 13 – 19) was World Antibiotic Awareness Week and WHO, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), released aninteractive platform to help raise awareness on curbing the spread of antibiotic resistance.
3) November 15: The 2018 Malaria Operational Plans (MOPs), which outlines the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI)'s support for national malaria control program strategic priorities, are now available on the PMI website.
4) November 17: Johnson and Johnson (J&J) commemorated World Prematurity Day by releasing a new infographic highlighting the five ways the company works to bring babies into a safe and healthy world.


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Asparagus with Blood Oranges & Nicoise Olives
- Serves 4-6
- Brian Streeter
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- Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley
In Spring, asparagus and blood oranges arrive in full abundance. Chef Brian Streeter presents a simple, elegant, tasty and tangy springtime salad, Asparagus with Blood Oranges & Nicoise Olives. Share with our Cakebread Cellars Sauvignon Blanc.
2 bunches large asparagus
2 blood oranges
1 shallot, minced
1 T. red wine vinegar
1 tsp. dijon mustard
1/2 c. extra virgin olive oil
1/2 c. nicoise olives, pitted
1 radish, sliced thin
1/2 tsp. fresh thyme, picked
salt & pepper
Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Trim the ends off the asparagus and cook for approximately two minutes or until tender. Remove and place in a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking. Drain and refrigerate until ready to serve.
To make the vinaigrette, squeeze the juice from one of the oranges and combine with the red wine vinegar, shallots and mustard in a stainless steel bowl. Add the zest from the other orange and whisk in the olive oil.
Cut the top and bottom off of the remaining orange. Trim the white rind off and cut in half. Slice each half into thin slices. Toss the asparagus with the vinaigrette and arrange on cold plates. Top with the orange slices, olives, and radish. Sprinkle with the fresh thyme and serve.


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Migraine is a common, chronic, intermittent, painful, disabling disease causing many neurological and autonomic symptoms. Migraineurs often have severe, unilateral throbbing headaches, lasting over 12 hours, associated with nausea, vomiting, sonophobia, phonophobia and sometimes various auras. Auras usually precede the pain and are usually visual but can be sensory or speech arrest. Some patients have vertigo during the attack or interictally. Migraine affects about 12% of western populations, three times more in women than men. It causes much disability measured in pain and suffering as well as money. It is estimated that migraine costs 30 billion dollars per year, more in indirect employment lost labor costs than in direct costs of physicians, drugs and hospital care.


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Jalisco Tequila Help
I am looking for any advice on visiting Jalisco and doing a few Tequila tours. I prefer a private tour and something that will actually provide a good way to see several distilleries , learn about Tequila, the making as we'll as have the opportunity for tastings. My husband is a Tequila connoisseur with a collection of higher end Tequilas and I am looking to find something that he will enjoy.
I have found a few companies who offer tours but most seem to be in very large groups and several reviews have been mediocre. While some enjoy the tours other claim most take you to distilleries that offer cheap tequila that does not taste good .
Any advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I would also like to know if the recommendation is to make Jalisco a day trip or stay in town and if so how many days. Then while not staying in Jalsico would it be best to make Guadalajara the base.


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While the standards like Instagram and Twitter can be great for finding new makeup ideas to try out, there are actually lots of specialised beauty apps out there that will help you to up your game significantly. I've put together this small list of my favourites for you to try out!
When you're looking for an app with everything from reviews to tutorials and shopping, all tied up in one neat package, there really isn't anywhere better to go than Beautylish. The best thing about the app is that the tutorials and shopping feature are tied together, making it even easier to pick up some new makeup when you see something that you like the look of.
Plum Perfect
If you've ever been stuck when you're looking for something new to try out that matches your skin tone and colouring, then Plum Perfect is the app for you. After you upload a picture of yourself to the app in good lighting, it will give you recommendations for products and styles to suit your look. You can even set it to recommend you different makeup for different occasions like a night out or a day at work -how neat is that.
While Beautylish is certainly the best all-purpose app, Bellashoot is the undisputed queen of tutorials and beauty advice. If you want a hand with part of your beauty regimen, then there is no need to look any further than Bellashoot.
Style My Hair
Making the decision to dye your hair can be pretty difficult. You have to trust to your imagination to see yourself with your new hair colour and it can be hard to tell how much difference a change in hair colour can make to your entire appearance. Well, those days are long gone when you use Style My Hair. This app lets you apply a colour to your hair in real-time using your device's forward-facing camera, letting you see just how you will look with your new colour.
YouCam Makeup
YouCam Makeup is pretty much the same deal as Steal My Hair, except for makeup. You can apply accessories and makeup to yourself to see how they look before taking the plunge and picking them up for real. The app will also look at different details in your pictures, like blemishes, and keeps a diary, letting you know when you're prone to breakouts and how to cover them best. What more could you really want?


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Project in the Citrus Grove at Taliesin-West, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2011
During an artist residency in Scottsdale, AZ I was fascinated to find a citrus grove full of ripe fruit. While enjoying the fruit I also questioned their suitability for an arid region – and ultimately their water consumption to grow these juicy fruits. To my surprise I found out that the ancient Hohokam tribes once home in this region also grew crops that relied on irrigation.
I created labels for the fruits – to put them into context with the greater Phoenix environment, and to inspire thought and creativity. The oranges bear spiral-shaped excerpts from Pima Indian mythology. The grapefruits bear a Hohokam labyrinth. I attached the labels to the fruits in a ceremonial act, and after their harvest distributed them amongst the Taliesin community.Project Page
Paradise Tree, Southern Spain, September 2008
My visit to coastal Southern Spain brought up childhood imaginations of biblical stories, set in a land of eternal sun, full of ripe, exotic fruits that I could only romanticize about as a Northern European child. Medieval paintings of paradise come to mind; Adam and Eve in the foreground and terraced landscapes towering behind them, barren at times, and yet mysteriously bearing delicious crops. I tried to find words reflecting what I saw, heard, smelled and experienced. I embroidered these words onto the leaves of a fig tree. The slow, meditative act of embroidering became a performance, commemorating myths of Moorish times telling of beautiful young women who, while being kept at home, were dreaming of passion and adventure. The embroidering process was documented on video. While the leaves would fall to the ground and decay in fall, the piece remains as an installation with 50 photo prints (13"x18") and video.Project Page
Sun/Moon Symbol, Wyoming 2008
Sun/Moon Symbol was created during a performance/ritual in the Northern Wyoming prairie. Using my step's length for measurement I laid out a circle and filled out its perimeter with rooks. Its 2 main axis points in the 4 cardinal directions, the intermediates are marked in between them. The symbol resembles ancient sun symbols, as they appeared in very similar ways in indigenous cultures throughout world. In many cases the same symbol simultaneously represented the moon.
I coated the rocks with phosphorescent paint, so that they would glow for several hours after sunset and created a counterpart to the stars in a deep black Wyoming night. The absence of the moon caused the earth to "disappear" from vision, so that the symbol appeared to be hovering.Project Page
Floating Dreams, Healdsburg, CA, 2018
I sealed handwritten dreams from an eventful life chapter in small bottles and floated them on a water collection pond. Visitors were invited to catch the dream bottles and bring them ashore with the help of a "dream catching tool". They had the choice to keep their dream sealed or open the seal and take them out of the bottle to read them.Project Page


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Art Exhibit �What Matters� Through Aug. 22. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St., Worcester. Admission is free for members; nonmembers, $10; seniors and college students with ID, $8; children 17 and younger and free. 10 a.m.-noon Saturdays. Gallery Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and Sunday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. (508) 799-4406 or email@example.com.
�The Taming of the Shrew� 6 p.m. Aug. 11, 12, 14 and 19. Matinee: 3 p.m. Aug. 1. $20; seniors, $15; children 12 and younger, free. Memorial Grove Amphitheatre, Green Hill Park, Skyline Drive, Worcester. (508) 793-3490. Special performance: 7 p.m. Aug. 21 at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester with ticket prices of $25; seniors, $20; children 12 and younger, free. (877) 571-7469 or www.thehanovertheatre.org
Poets� Asylum Open mike featuring Dave Keali�i, 6 p.m. Aug. 1. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St., Worcester. www.poetsasylum.org.
Reggae Music with DJ Nick, 10 p.m. Sundays. Fusion, 109 Water St., Worcester.
Music Charlie Dee, 7 p.m. Aug. 1. Greendale�s Pub, 404 West Boylston St., Worcester.
Music Jon Short, 5 p.m. Sundays. Vincent�s, 49 Suffolk St., Worcester. (508) 752-9439.
A Broadway Salute Summer Concert Quabbin Community Band, 6 p.m. Aug. 1. Free. Harding Allen Bandstand, On the Common, Barre. (978) 355-9879. Rain location: Barre Town Hall.
Farmer�s Market 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays. Daniels Farmstead, 286 Mendon St., Blackstone. (508) 278-5739.
Blues Jam 4-8 p.m. Sundays. Dunny�s Tavern, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield. (774) 449-8012.
Ballroom Dancing at the Hilltop 4-7 p.m. Aug. 1. $10. Prindle Pond Conference Center, Hilltop Lodge, Nature�s Classroom, 19 Harrington Road, Charlton. (508) 868-2942.
Exhibit The Museum is extending the exhibition: Grand Discovery, Icons from Private European Collections through Aug. 14. The exhibition showcases ten significant Russian icons acquired from prominent private collections in Germany and Holland. Museum of Russian Icons, 203 Union St., Clinton. (978) 598-5000. www.museumofrussianicons.org. $5; voluntary donation, seniors 59 and older; free, students and children 16 and younger. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.
Music Chet Williamson, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 1. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner.
Grafton Flea Market Open indoors and outdoors, 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays. Route 140 at the Grafton-Upton town line. (508) 839-2217 or www.graftonflea.com.
Farmers Market 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays. On the Common, Hardwick. (413) 477-6525 or www.hardwickfarmersmarket.net.
Gallery Talk and Tour with 21st century bird artist Barry Van Dusen and viewing of paintings in the �Flights of Discovery� exhibit, 1 p.m. Aug. 1. $12; seniors and students, $10; children 5-13, $5; members and children 4 and younger, free. Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard. (978) 456-3924.
Peace Poetry Festival Poems, songs and prayers for peace, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 1. Bring chairs or blankets. Adin Ballou Park, Hopedale Street, Hopedale. (508) 478-0977 or www.adinballou.org.
Music The Joe Brindisi All Star Jazz Quartet, 3-7 p.m. Aug. 1 (rain or shine). The Castle Restaurant, 1230 Main St., Leicester. (508) 892-9090.
Swing Dance Beginner group swing dance lesson, 6:30 p.m.; swing dance, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1. Eight To The Bar. $12. Elks Lodge, 134 North Main St., Leominster. (978) 263-7220 or www.dance2swing.com.
Heritage Farmers Market noon-3 p.m. every Sunday. Community Plaza, Alternatives� Whitin Mill, 50 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. Rain location is Singh Performance Center.
Polish Picnic Music by John Sabola and the Coalition, Polish food, dancing and more, noon-6 p.m. Aug. 1. Otter River Sportsman�s Club, Lord Road, Otter River. (978) 939-4824.
Concert Jackie Lee Williams, 4:30 p.m. Aug. 1. Free. Bring lawn chairs or blanket. Oxford Bandstand, Main Street, Oxford.
Bike Ride Meet at 9 a.m. Aug. 1 at Naquag Elementary School, Route 122A, Rutland, for a 60-mile bicycle ride with the Seven Hills Wheelmen. Helmets required. www.sevenhillswheelmen.org.
�Felix and Oscar�the Updated Odd Couple� 8 p.m. Aug. 6 and 7; 2 p.m. Aug. 1 and 8. $16; $14, seniors 65 and older; $8, students younger than 14. Stageloft Repertory Theater, 450A Main St., Sturbridge. (508) 347-9005.
Discovery Packs and Scavenger Hunts Stop by the pavilion and check out a discovery pack filled with great tools, field guides and activity suggestions. Hit the trail and have fun exploring, learning and sharing your discoveries, noon-2 p.m. Aug. 1. Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, 198 Purgatory Road, Sutton. (508) 234-3733 or email@example.com.
Tour West Hill Dam 2 p.m. Aug. 1. Junior Ranger Level 2 � earn credit. West Hill Dam, 518 East Hartford Ave., Uxbridge. (508) 278-2511.
Canal Walk Meet 1-2 p.m. Sundays at the River Bend Farm Visitors Center, 287 Oak St., Uxbridge. (508) 278-7604.
New England Country Music Jamboree Potluck dinner, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Music by Ken Law & The Lawmen, 1-5 p.m. Contribute a dish, $3; noncontributing members, $5; nonmembers, $6. VFW, 13 Cross Road, Uxbridge. (401) 766-0514 or (508) 278-6644.
Tanya Tucker 2 p.m. Aug. 1. $22.50-$40. Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Road, Webster. (508) 943-3871 or www.indianranch.com.
Concert The Point and Swing Big Band. 6-8 p.m. Aug. 1. Free. West Boylston Bandstand, Route 12, West Boylston. (508) 612-4711.
Michael Gould Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser Softball Game 1:30 p.m. Aug. 1. $10; children 12 and younger are admitted free. Raffle tickets are $1 and $5. Live music. Robert E. Melican Middle School, Lincoln Street, Northboro. (508) 395-8538. Donations may also be made to: Michael Gould Memorial Scholarship, c/o Westboro Savings Bank-Main St., Northboro.


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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
So many things
Then I got an email from a foster volunteer-person had left a message with her. Someone they know has some kittens they are willing to house until we find a home for them.
Then another email from another person who knows a guy who has some kittens that need to be re-homed. He'll keep the mom, but the kittens need to go.
I barely had a cup and a half of coffee before I found that grounds had gotten into the pot. (hate when that happens.)
Then yesterday I came to work, the 2-4 cashier hadn't shown up.
2 foster kittens need a new foster home.
I do have some good/cool news. I found out this weekend I can get my insurance premiums reimbursed to me. So, since I hardly use much of my HRA, this is a great way I can get some of my 373 dollars back! (so I'm getting several months of insurance back. I might not be able to do every month, just depending on medical bills, etc. but as long as I do not have many-why the heck not?)
I'm finishing up my Christmas shopping (and actually getting a couple items for the kitty kids now. Small items. Sparkle pompoms and the little mice I get from the vet clinic-online tho...and 20 for 7 bucks is MUCH better price-wise.
I'm entertained, we're having some snowflakes right now. Phoebe is fascinated with them. I think she was found in the winter time last year-so I'm assuming she's seen snow. I think she might be happier to see it from inside tho. Figgy is seeing snow for his first time!
I'm trying to get in touch with another cat call this a.m.
Found out that Harry had full anal glands.
Still can't get in touch with the lady from yesterday that was passed on to me.
Now Figgy thinks I'm a giant cat toy.
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Within the proceeding saga of the Corleone crime circle of relatives, a tender Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. Within the 1950s, Michael Corleone makes an attempt to amplify the circle of relatives trade into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Priest Resigns Over Secret Family
If only all Catholic sex scandals were this benign. A 60-year-old auxiliary bishop resigned from the Catholic Church on Wednesday after telling the Los Angeles Archdiocese in December that he had secretly fathered two children. Gabino Zavala resigned under canonical law that allows bishops to retire before the age of 75 for medical reasons or other circumstances that make them unfit to hold their positions. His two teenage sons live out of state with their mother.


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Pattern Play with the Fat Quarter Shop
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December 11, 2012
NYU President May Face a No-Confidence Vote
New York University's president, John E. Sexton, attended a groundbreaking ceremony for NYU's new center in Shanghai last year. International programs are a key priority for Mr. Sexton, but the president's critics say he has developed large-scale plans with little faculty input.
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For all of the criticism he has taken in recent months, John E. Sexton can hardly be accused of thinking too small.
The New York University president sees the entire globe as ripe for campus expansion, establishing branch operations in Abu Dhabiand Shanghai in recent years.
But it is Mr. Sexton's domestic agenda, the centerpiece of which is a six-million-square-foot expansion across New York City, that may finally test the limits of the president's ambitions.


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It's been the talk of the team for more than a year now but it looks like the potential new South Bay stadium for the San Francisco 49ers will have to be set back another year.
In a statement posted on the team's website Wednesday, National Football League and 49ers officials said that until the league and the players' unions reach an agreement on a new contract, the team will not be able to secure financing from the league and other investors for the project.
That means the anticipated 2014 opening date could be delayed for a year so that a financing plan can be established, officials said.
"The 49ers and the NFL cannot make a major investment in a new stadium at this time," team officials said in the statement. "We are hopeful that an agreement can be reached with the union as soon as possible to facilitate the investment needed to move forward with this project."
Voters last June passed a ballot measure to relocate the team to Santa Clara with a new $937 million, 68,500-seat stadium next to the Great America theme park. The team and the NFL have agreed to contribute nearly $500 million to the project, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority and the city of Santa Clara will foot the rest of the bill.
A new stadium in Santa Clara would replace Candlestick Park, located in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood, as the team's home venue.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom addressed the stadium issue Thursday and encouraged the team's president, Jed York, to stay in the City.
"If he's going to remain here for the next five years, why doesn't he just continue the legacy of the DeBartolo family, his uncle, and continue to commit to the city and county of San Francisco?" Newsom said, adding that the City is "ready with open arms" to start helping with construction of a new stadium.
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International Tabletop Day at A Muse N Games will be a free event with special extras and cheats to raise money alongside Extra Life for the Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. You can donate money to guarantee a spot at a table (link below) but there will be free games all day and you can show up day of at no charge.
Firefly (up to 4 players) at 12:00 pm
Mice & Mystics (up to 4 players) at 12:00 pm
Pathfinder Society Intro Table (up to 6 players) at 1:00 pm
Masmora (up to 4 players) at 1:00 pm
Fantasy Age – Prelude to Krull (a Gencon exclusive adventure – up to 6 players) run by Doc Wilson at 3:00 pm
Celestia (up to 6 players) at 1:30 pm & 5:00 pm
Pandemic Cthulhu (up to 3 players) at 4:00 pm
New Angeles (up to 5 players) at 6:00 pm
7 Wonders (up to 6 players) at 7:00 pm
More events and games to be announced as we get closer to the day.
If you are interested in running something please email scotia(at)amusengames.ca to confirm time and game slots available.
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Dear Readers and Friends,
I'm trying a lighter tone with this post, and have included lots of pictures for your consumption…
In mid – March, Peaceworkers from London, Geneva and Brussels gathered in the Belgian Abbey at Kortenberg for a weekend seminar to reflect on this mid-point in the year.
For two days, we shared the highlights and challenges that we face in our work; explored the Quaker aspects of our work; and looked at what the next 6 months and beyond might bring. The workshop was a really useful platform to get together, and I think we all valued having the opportunity to spend some time with others in the same position as us. It turns out that Kortenberg is a tiny town a bit in the middle of no-where, so we stayed mostly within the quiet grounds of the Abbey – a perfect space to reflect. Although the trip would have been a bit of a hoick for the Burundi workers, we did manage to Skype with Edith on Saturday, which was certainly a highlight. Edith, it was so great to see your glowing face and hear all about your adventures and joys you are finding in your work!
Thank you to Michael Eccles at Woodbrooke and Helen Bradford at Friends House for facilitating the weekend.
Waving Alissa goodbye on Sunday afternoon, Owen, Ellie, Haifa and myself continued the fun for two days afterwards as we all stayed on at 'Maison Quaker' in Brussels with the QCEA workers. We spent our time playing backgammon; learning lines; making a short film (the fruits of which will be showcased shortly!); writing letters; sharing lunches and seeing the sights:
It would be untrue of me not to mention the major activity that we took part in: tasting all the delights that Brussels has to offer; waffles, beer, frites, and mussels of course. They have a great rule in Brussels where you can buy frites from a friterie on the street, and take them into a local bar to eat them with your favourite pint:
We made a point of tasting as many different beers as possible in the evenings, and I personally fought to get as many toppings on my waffle as physically possible before the poor waffle collapsed:
Mussels are served in cauldron-like vats, and again served with frites. All in all, we had a lovely time together, and it was a welcome chance to have a little break, relax some, and catch up properly with eachother.
On behalf of the others, I'd like to extend a big thanks to Imogen, Chris and Beth for their warm hospitality!
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We used to burn books. Modern censorship is more sophisticated—and more pervasive.
A Virtue Betrayed[br /]A review of [em]Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue[/em] by Eric Felten
This article appears in the Spring 2012 edition of the Intercollegiate Review. See the issue's Table of Contents Since loyalty has in recent decades lost something of its luster, Eric Felten invites us to "consider how much we loathe its antithesis," betrayal. The sting of betrayal—disloyalty—reminds us that loyalty really is a virtue. Reading a tell-all memoir makes betrayal momentarily sexy, but we never laugh at betrayals of ourselves. Accused of disloyalty, we would probably appeal to higher loyalties. Yet "loyal" itself has faded as a term of praise. To speak of a "loyal wife" or a "loyal friend" has a faintly antique ring, even though marriage and friendship assume loyalty today, as always. Felten aims to give loyalty the refurbishing it needs for an audience outside the academy but attuned to the doubts of intellectuals. Loyalty is "the vexing virtue." The other virtues vex, too, but loyalty's vexations make us doubt it's really a virtue.
To look at loyalty properly, it must be seen in all its circumstances, each of them partisan and involving one's own. "What makes my family an object of loyal commitment," says Felten, "is that it is my family." It is strange that we live in an age honoring choice and preference—that is, my choice and my preference—while inclining toward a cosmopolitanism that considers loyalty dangerous. Loyalty conflicts with the prerogative of changing our preferences, since from the standpoint of loyalty, changing preferences is a sign of inconstancy. Blaming betrayal without praising loyalty, we want to be free from loyalty without suffering from its absence. Instead we find ourselves caught by loyalty unintentionally, as in a romance born of passion but quickly dependent on loyalty and trust; or in war, suddenly needing our comrades' devotion. "We don't need anything quite so newfangled as neurobiology or evolutionary psychology," says Felten, to explain the benefits of loyalty in love and friendship. Rather than viewing loyalty as oxytocin's revenge, binding us by a tie we never intended, Felten recommends loyalty as the only path to the "runner's high" of lasting love, the only solace in many a bad situation. Felten wants to make us realize that we have never stopped expecting loyalty as a part of love and friendship. And although many loyalties are not of our own choosing, we will exercise more discretion in the choice of spouse, of friends, and of career if we know what loyalty will soon demand of us.
The flexible meaning of loyalty doesn't make this any easier. The loyal deeds of a loyal father are quite different from his expressions of civic loyalty. Although we call the one "being a good father" and the other "being a good citizen," we rightly think of loyalty as an element of both. Loyalty wants to break out of its circumstances and be praised like any other virtue. But since fatherhood and citizenship often collide, just as patriotism and religion can, those who praise loyalty usually have some specific loyalty in mind. Even in the best case, the praiser of loyalty is suspiciously partisan. But since tyrants' praise of loyalty has so often brought loyalty into disrepute, political loyalty looks especially suspect. Cosmopolitan political theorists may dismiss loyalty's irrationality, but one doubts that the wives and girlfriends of cosmopolitan thinkers are quite so eager to hear their love called irrational. Yet since loyalty, like love, is always exclusive, we expect too much of loyalty when we desire its nonpartisan praise. Felten defends loyalty as a partisan virtue by showing that loyalty can make virtuous use of partisanship.
Leaving aside conflicting loyalties, Felten shows the moral dangers to which each particular loyalty exposes us. Consider friendship. Aristotle's advice, which Felten seconds, was to stick by friends till they show an "excess of wickedness": in other words, be willing to tolerate a little wrongdoing. "When we commit to friendship," Felten says, "there's no escaping the possibility that we will be roped into wrongs, big or small." Friendship involves loyalty by definition, and Felten wants to defend it from the accusations of intellectuals who complain that loyalty requires "bad epistemic conduct" in looking past our friends' mistakes. Sometimes we cannot even see our friends' flaws, and when their faults glare, we look past them for the sake of friendship. We tolerate their minor lapses, and then lie to defend them before others.
Perseverance is a chief aspect of loyalty in Felten's presentation, and perseverance assumes adversity. Adversity is in fact so necessary to his picture of loyalty that he scorns one spurious sort of loyalty that breaks down in even the mildest adversity: the shallow phenomenon of "customer loyalty," one of loyalty's last bastions in everyday speech. It is not that customers should have no loyalty but that "customer loyalty" is a product of its own—manufactured, sold, and traded, a marketing slogan born in the 1980s. Loyalty programs draw on our pride in being loyal customers and encourage the consumer to define himself "in part by the products to which he is loyal." But whereas the loyalty of spouses, friends, and citizens shines in adverse situations, adversity doesn't cause customer loyalty to burn all the brighter. In fact, some marketers try to use customer loyalty for every possible advantage, hoping that loyalty to a brand will outlast an adulterated product.
Felten stops short of saying whether loyalty is uniquely endangered in our time. He inclines to the view that loyalty has always been under pressure. He mentions a tendency within Christianity and especially Islam to discount political loyalty, but he does not contrast that tendency with the political religions of the ancient world, and he doesn't find Christian otherworldliness to be a current danger. He looks to Kant for an attack on particular loyalties, to Tolstoy and Shaw for an attack on the irrationality of patriotism; for inspiration he loyally recalls his teacher Judith Shklar. Though he writes his book to revive loyalty in our liberal, technological society, Felten doesn't bring out just how modern politics has made the old loyalties especially difficult.
The logic of consumption has now spread far beyond the market in material goods. Today even spouses bargain and trade up, religions advertise, and statesmen become salesmen. Consumer society is not confined but everywhere, and so too is consumer society's understanding of the virtues: customer loyalty is now the model of all loyalty. Breakable without prompting shame, customer loyalty aims to dissolve all of loyalty's vexations in the direction of autonomy. The fact that real loyalty nevertheless continues to vex us indicates that we find ourselves in situations where customer loyalty isn't enough. Our glib theoretical model runs up against a wall. What Eric Felten shows is that loyalty is a symptom of human nature caught in imperfection—a human nature not changed but obscured. In accepting loyalty's vexations, we accept the reality of human nature and its limitations.
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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
DescriptionThe long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body.
From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.
Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?
Praise for Lincoln in the Bardo
"A luminous feat of generosity and humanism."—Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review
"A masterpiece."—Zadie Smith
"Ingenious . . . Saunders—well on his way toward becoming a twenty-first-century Twain—crafts an American patchwork of love and loss, giving shape to our foundational sorrows."—Vogue
"Saunders is the most humane American writer working today."—Harper's Magazine
"The novel beats with a present-day urgency—a nation at war with itself, the unbearable grief of a father who has lost a child, and a howling congregation of ghosts, as divided in death as in life, unwilling to move on."—Vanity Fair
"A brilliant, Buddhist reimagining of an American story of great loss and great love."—Elle
"Wildly imaginative"—Marie Claire
"Mesmerizing . . . Dantesque . . . A haunting American ballad."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Exhilarating . . . Ruthless and relentless in its evocation not only of Lincoln and his quandary, but also of the tenuous existential state shared by all of us." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"It's unlike anything you've ever read, except that the grotesque humor, pathos, and, ultimately, human kindness at its core mark it as a work that could come only from Saunders."—The National
Editoral Review
An Amazon Best Book of February 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo is hilariously funny, horribly sad, and utterly surprising. If you can fight past an initial uncertainty about the identity of its narrators, you may find that it's the best thing you've read in years. This first novel by acclaimed short-story-writer and essayist George Saunders (Tenth of December, The Brain-Dead Megaphone) will upend your expectations of what a novel should be. Saunders has said that "Lincoln in the Bardo" began as a play, and that sense of a drama gradually revealing itself through disparate voices remains in the work's final form.
The year is 1862. President Lincoln, already tormented by the knowledge that he's responsible for the deaths of thousands of young men on the battlefields of the Civil War, loses his beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, to typhoid. The plot begins after Willie is laid to rest in a cemetery near the White House, where, invisible to the living, ghosts linger, unwilling to relinquish this world for the next. Their bantering conversation, much of it concerned with earthly -- and earthy – pleasures, counterbalances Lincoln's abject sorrow.Saunders takes huge risks in this novel, and they pay off. His writing is virtuosic – and best of all, its highs and lows are profoundly entertaining. You may hear echoes of Thornton Wilder, Beckett and even a little Chaucer, but Lincoln in the Bardo is peculiar and perfect unto itself. Some advice: don't try to read this one in a library. You'll be hooting with laughter when you aren't wiping away your tears. --Sarah Harrison Smith, The Amazon Book Review
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Love your Glove - Chanel A/W 2011 Object Fetish now online!
Karl Lagerfeld has described his approach to design as 'vampiristic' - and few designs suck quite as much as his creations for Chanel (meant in the best possible fashion, of course). For Autumn/Winter 2011, Lagerfeld glanced back to a founding principle of Mademoiselle Gabrielle's house: that of luxe pauvre. The luxurious poverty of Chanel's jersey dresses (previously a fabric only used for men's undergarment) was reflected in Lagerfeld's deluxe reinterpretations of working wear. Chantilly lace overalls, anyone? Or how about fingerless mittens adorned with Goossens bijouterie, coincidentally the latest fashion pieces to fixate on in our Object Fetish 2011 series of fashion films, created by Nick Knight and starring Raquel Zimmermann.


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It's been a while since I posted, and admittedly that began because I was busy. Then I was lazy. And then when I was ready to blog about stuff my computer died!
So now I'm computer shopping, which is a real hassle to do from your phone. I'm mulling over converting to Apple, altho I don't think it's really worth the money, or just building a computer. I'm also considering if it's time to buy a desktop (which is so much nicer for desktop publishing). Decisions decisions!
Hopefully I have a new machine soon, over which I will geek out. Until then, here's an adorable photo of Wally. :)


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Confirming what we reported earlier today, ABC News has admitted that it knows nothing about the origins of the "GOP talking points" memo that it first published. An ABC source writes:
the memo discussed a republican bill and was distributed to repulbican senators. That's what we reported. we are obviously not going to divulge our multiple sources. I appeciate your questions, but believe you are approaching this from the wrong end.


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Posted on May 09, 1994 in Washington Watch
The euphoria that surrounded the White House signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles was nowhere in evidence last week in Cairo at the signing of the Gaza-Jericho interim agreement.
There was a heavy dose of realism in the air, a clear and unequivocal sense that the Israelis had squeezed too hard, that the Palestinians had been forced to give up too much, and that the agreement, while still workable, left the Palestinians in an extremely weak position.
Critics are noting that `Arafat did not achieve what Mandela won in South Africa. Such comparisons are a historic to the point of being absurd. The campaign to make South Africa a unified democratic state had strong U.S., European and Soviet support for decades. An effective international sanctions regime, operating with the full support of the United States, was one of Mandela's most effective weapons.
Over the past 20 years Arafat has had, at best, the passive support of Europe. Most of that time, he found the full power and authority of the United States, the world's greatest power, aligned against his movement and its aspirations. To a great extent, the problems that complicate the implementation of the Israel-PLO peace agreement stem from malformations in Israeli and Arab politics during the past 25 years of struggle.
The Israel-PLO conflict became part of the larger East-West struggle. The Israelis, especially during the Reagan years, received a green light to pursue the goals of expansion into the West Bank and Gaza, annexation of East Jerusalem and the eradication of the Palestinian national movement.
This systematic and sustained campaign weakened the leadership of the Palestinian national movement and created conditions ripe for the emergence of regional extremist and rejectionist movements that now threaten the chances of peace. Likewise, the Israeli government is confronted by extremist forces (including the former Likud government) that have enjoyed significant U.S. support and now operate as a law unto itself in Israeli society and in the occupied territories.
It is within this historical context that one can justify the current agreement.
I could agree in the abstract with the position espoused by, for example, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine that the best solution is a comprehensive peace based upon Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 (and other relevant resolutions) which call for full and unconditional Israeli withdrawal and the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with its capital in East Jerusalem – but would Israel ever agree to that formula, and which U.S. Administration or European government would force such a solution?
Dreams can be entertaining and even sustaining, but politics is the art of what is possible, not what is, in the best case, desirable. Substituting our dreams for reality is a recipe for unmitigated disaster.
The critics aside, reality – as somber as it is – dictates that we understand the circumstances on the ground before defining our goals and outlining a realistic plan to achieve them.
In this sense, the fears of the Israeli right wing are the hope of the Palestinian people. The Gaza-Jericho accord can be (and I believe that it is) the first step toward an independent Palestinian state. The path is neither neat nor quick – the details left unresolved in the accord ensure as much – but avenue for achieving more is there, as the Likud and their allies can plainly see.
There is the possibility that Palestinian critics of the accord could also be right and that the accord merely lays the groundwork for a continuing and grim occupation. What the critics fail to see, unfortunately, is that they and other Palestinians will be the force that decides when and how the process ends. The Palestinian people and their leadership have the opportunity, if they grasp it, to control their own fate.
The delay in implementation, the apparent fuzziness of the accord and the absence of euphoria in Palestinian society are not necessarily bad. Too much euphoria would lead to expectations that would place an undue burden on the Palestinian authority. One of the greatest dangers facing any transition government is the failure to meet unrealistically high expectations (witness, for example, the difficulties in Russia and Poland). Low expectations, on the other hand, actually give the Palestinian authority some needed breathing space.
But sooner or later, real change must occur. The national authority must be in a position to deliver services and create economic growth if it is to win support and expand its popular mandate. An effort must be made to mobilize Palestinian talent and resources toward the task of nation-building.
Chairman Arafat has often proudly referred to Palestinians as the state-builders of the Middle East. He notes the role that Palestinian entrepreneurs, administrators and civil servants have played in building several Arab nations. The question remains whether these talented and creative Palestinians have been adequately consulted or utilized in drawing up plans for administering the Gaza-Jericho areas. Something akin to a Palestinian peace corps should be created to recruit Diaspora Palestinians and bring them to work in Gaza and the West Bank, even if only for a year at a time. In this way, they can share their experience and their insights in the nation-building experiment.
Palestinian and Arab capital also must find its way to the territories. This will not happen unless a climate suitable for such investment is created.
To create a free-market economy that will spur rapid economic growth will require an economic plan that fosters private sector development. Tax-free enterprise zones must be created, and other incentives provided to lure investors to the newly autonomous areas. Ultimately, the big dream of an independent and thriving Palestinian economy will be achieved only if the small dreams of private investors and entrepreneurs also have the chance to come true. An economic commission should be instituted to promote investment and to help foster and expand industrial and commercial activity in the territories.
A great deal more could also be said about what needs to be done toward institutionalizing Palestinian democracy (which must extend beyond tolerance of free speech) and using non-violent direct action to expand Palestinian rights and ultimately win a total end of the occupation. However, one step that would significantly advance the Palestinian cause is upgrading the Palestinian mission to Washington. The Palestinians have lacked a serious voice in Washington for too long. It is now more critical than ever to find a seasoned and respected diplomat who is capable of shaping the policy debate in Washington and also winning support in key sectors of American society for Palestinian aspirations.
Now is the time to take seriously the need to provide both leadership and a strategy aimed at winning U.S. support for Palestinians rights.
A note:
I was in Cairo as part of a U.S. Presidential delegation invited by the White House to represent our government at the recent signing ceremony.
I and Mel Levine, a former Congressman from California, as co-Presidents of Builders for Peace, were asked by the Administration to assemble Board members of Builders for Peace to largely comprise this U.S. Presidential delegation.
The group was divided evenly among Arab Americans and American Jews, and included some of this country's most prominent leaders in both communities.
We flew on Air Force 2, and during our 17 hours on the ground in Cairo we met with U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, the Israeli Minister of Security Amnon Shahak, PLO Chairman Yasir `Arafat and chief PLO negotiator Nabeel Shaath.
As a group the U.S. delegation was impressed with the historical significance of the event and the urgency to commit energy and resources to make the accord work. Especially those who were leaders in the U.S. business community – both Palestinian Americans and Jewish Americans – saw the need and opportunity to help grow the Palestinian economy. They are ready and able to participate in investment opportunities in the West Bank and Gaza. They asked hard questions of Chairman `Arafat during the long session with him, and received positive responses to their concerns. Now is the time, all agree, to get to work to expand the accords and to build a real peace.
Some will continue to mouth slogans of the past, but the wall has fallen and there is no going back. Now is not the time for old slogans and old dreams: it is the time to build institutions and create real facts on the ground in Palestine. Or, to paraphrase Marx, as I have before, this is not the time to criticize reality, but to develop and use the power to change it.
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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 7/15/2001 13:00 (Entered as : 07/15/2001 13:00)
Reported: 10/20/2005 6:03:38 PM 18:03
Posted: 11/3/2005
Location: Pickerington, OH
Shape: Cone
Duration:10 sec
|Small cone shape like tip of ink pin,silver with no sound hit me in chest and then disappeared.
It was a hot day and i was mowing my yard without a shirt on. I bent over to pick up a toy and felt an old back pain coming on, so i strighted right up.
Then something hit me in the right chest. It felt like a bug bite. When i looked at it,it was something that looked like the tip of an ink pin. Silver and very small just like the tip of a pin.
When i went to reach for it, about half way there with my left hand, it was just gone. Didn't see it fall or fly backwards, it was just not there.
It left a very small red mark on me, but no blood. It made no sound.
I told my wife about it at the time, but no one else. I did look for it in the grass where i was standing, but didn't find it. Could it be flying that fast and stop almost on a dime and fly away in a blink of the eye? PLus be so small? Has anybody ever hear about something like this?


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- 1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 4 tablespoons tahini
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 lemon (freshly juiced)
- 5 roasted garlic cloves
- Salt & pepper, to taste
1. Roasted garlic cloves: Peel 5 large garlic cloves, wrap with aluminum foil and roast in oven at temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes. Set aside.
2. Place all the ingredients in a food processor or high speed blender and pulse for about 1 minute. Stop to stir a couple times as it gets very creamy and hard to mix. Make sure all ingredients have been mashed.
3. To serve, sprinkle olive oil and a handful of pumpkin seeds. Serve it with your favorite veggies.


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"It's been eight years since Boardseeker.com was launched. At first it was purely an equipment directory of classified adverts, but with time has developed into the popular Online Magazine that we produce today.
When we started as a magazine (nearly 5 years ago now), the format was a monthly magazine publication and could include only a tiny bit of video as most consumers were still on a dial-up connection.
In a period of just 5 years, technology has developed at an astounding rate. We can now stream full-screen movies, provide brands with movie commercials, update news stories through a phone from a remote beach and have Podcasts viewed by thousands of viewers through applications such as i-Tunes and Mpora. It's anyones guess where we will be in another 5 years!
Whilst it is an ideal situation to have a business based around your hobby, it is still a massive amount of work. Particularly in a niche sport like windsurfing where budgets have to remain very tight. Our team have worked extremely hard over the years, with many, many unsociable hours spent ensuring deadlines are met and content is as high quality as possible. It is however a massive undertaking for such a small team to stay at the front of the game and keep evolving the product as new technologies emerge.
The acquisition of Boardseeker by Factory Media is a move that will allow us to develop the site, content and testing to levels that we just wouldn\'t be able to manage without their involvement.
Some of you may worry that this acquisition will be a backwards step for Boardseeker and that it may lose its identity. Having put my heart and soul into this business for the past 8 years, it was also a serious concern of mine.
I have had many discussions now with the Factory team and I am absolutely confident that this will not be the case. The team at Factory very much respect the qualities that have made Boardseeker successful and have every intention of continuing with them, but at the same time bringing in extra resources and their own expertise. This will indeed be a very positive step for boardseeker and one that will benefit everyone who visits the site.
Whilst no longer the owner, I will remain very much involved with the management of the site and the testing. As a reader you can still expect the same daily news stories, podcasts, regular features and comprehensive test reports, but over the course of the next 12 months will hopefully also see the benefits that the backing of a company like Factory Media can offer.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to post them on our forum and I will do my best to answer them.
I would like to thank you for the support that you have given the site over the years under my ownership. It's been very much appreciated and I look forward to continuing to provide the same service for you under the new ownership."


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David Young wasn't even one of the original candidates in Iowa's Third District race. For a brief time, the little-known Republican was a candidate for the U.S. Senate after longtime Democrat Tom Harkin announced he would retire. But after longtime Republican Tom Latham announced he would also retire, Young switched races.
Young finished fifth in the 3rd District's six-man primary on June 3rd. But Saturday at a convention held at Des Moines Christian in Urbandale, he shocked many Republicans by finishing first.
The convention meant 513 delegates would decide a winner, since no candidate finished with the necessary minimum 35% support on primary night June 3rd.
Candidates gave a speech and then the delegates voted. The candidate with the least support got eliminated in each round until someone earned the majority of delegates.
Here are the round-by-round results:
Round 1
Robert Cramer--75 votes
Joe Grandanette--7
Matt Schultz--95
Monte Shaw--118
David Young--86
Brad Zaun--130
(Per pre-determined rules for this convention, no candidate was eliminated).
Round 2
Robert Cramer--60
Joe Grandanette--2
Matt Schultz--88
Monte Shaw--122
David Young--81
Brad Zaun--157
(Grandanette eliminated).
Round 3
Matt Schultz--85
Monte Shaw--126
David Young--102
Brad Zaun--188
(Cramer dropped out on his own before the voting for this round began. Schultz eliminated after the voting and endorsed Young.)
Round 4
Monte Shaw--120
David Young--171
Brad Zaun--206
(Shaw eliminated).
Round 5
David Young--276
Brad Zaun--221
(Zaun eliminated).
Young's campaign had featured two ads the past few months using magic to make his argument to voters.
His final remarks to delegates Saturday played off that magic theme. Young said, "Somebody asked me right before I got on stage, David, is this one of your magic tricks again? I said, no, but I have one trick left. And that's to make Staci Appel disappear in November.
Appel, the former Democratic state senator from Ackworth, is her party's nominee.


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Caribbean Premier League (CPL T20) twenty20 cricket tournament is close to the final and fans are waiting to watch to best XI of this tournament. CPL final qualification procedure is little bit different then other tournament. Here, top point collected team will directly play the final. 3rd and 4th team will play 1st semi final between them. Winner of this match will play against 2nd position team and finally qualify one of them for final.
However, the team of Chris Gayle Jamaica Tallawahs and the team of Dwayne Bravo Trinidad & Tobago Red steel qualified as the 3rd and 4th team of Caribbean Premier League. If one of them want to win the trophy, must need three back to back straight win in next 3 matches.
This 1st Semifinal of Trinidad Tobago Red Steel Vs Jamaica Tallawahs will live telecast by Premier Sports, Sony Six, Fox Sports and most other TV channel. You can also watch this match between Jamaica Tallawahs Vs Trinidad Tobago Red Steel CPL T20 cricket match live streaming online here on sportsmaza.com in time.
Match between – Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel Vs Jamaica Tallawahs
Stage – Semifinal
Tournament – Caribbean Premier League (CPL T20)
Time – 22:00 GMT/18:00 Local time
Stadium – Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad
Date – 23 July, 2015 (Friday)
Broadcaster list – Premier Sports, Sony Six, Fox Sports, SRN
Barbados Tridents directly qualify for final which is definitely a great achievement for them and make the trophy winning easy. On the other hand, 1st semifinalists are three step far from the trophy. Guyana Amazon Warriors also keep them little bit safe zone where they need to play one semifinal and need to make opportunity to play the final. As T20 is a unfortunate game, Barbados Tridents have more chance to win this trophy.
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