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Rainbow Sandland is a classic, easy-to-do activity that will appeal to both big and little crafters. The play and educational value of this complete set will exceed parents expectations.
Here are some of the benefits of creating with sand art by simply layering the vibrant colors, using the design tool, decorating and playing with the friendly unicorn:
Encourages creativity and imagination
Enhances color recognition and hand-eye coordination
Increases fine motor skills
Involves thinking and reasoning skills by planning and decision making
Boosts confidence, promotes individuality and independence - allowing little artists to make choices
Rainbow Sandland is not only a fun tactile and sensory experience, the finished activity doubles as room decor!


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We should start figuring out a time to head up to Alan's to strip that 62 down. It's mainly up to our host Alan, but we can eitehr do it by appointment or make it a club event. Doesn't matter to me either way. Evenings during the week or Sundays are best for me. let me know what y'all think!

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Relax at our Punta del Este spa
Treat yourself to a visit to our premiere Punta del Este spa, where our state-of-the-art technology and expert staff will melt away your stress and leave you feeling rejuvenated.
Golden Beach Spa features the largest heated indoor pool in the city, complete with an elegant cascading waterfall and exquisite décor. Lounge poolside or soak in the soothing waters, while tranquil music plays overhead.
After drying off in the sauna, you may want to go for a workout in our fitness center, hydro-gym or sign up for one of our staff-led exercise classes. From manicures to massages, our trained spa staff will know exactly how to serve you best. Be sure to ask about our current specials to make the most of your first-rate Punta del Este spa experience.
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your daily dose of me stating the obvious
Tue 2019-04-02 23:58:42 (in context)
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I am contemplating a short story rewrite.
I originally wrote the story in response to a specific prompt in the submission guidelines of a themed quarterly publication. I submitted it; they rejected it; we move on. I rewrote it before submitting it elsewhere so that it wouldn't look so obviously like a story written to some other publication's prompt and theme, but, looking at it now, I'm forced to admit, the thing's still pretty darn skeletal. And incoherent. And obviously written to a prompt.
(I feel like a lot of things I write these days are skeletal. It's like I suddenly don't have the stamina needed for writing the actual story, so instead I write a really verbose story outline and call it a story. I'm a little worried about this.)
So I need to revise the story again. But I hardly know where to start. I've been staring at the draft and jotting down questions to myself in the margins: "Does this scene really serve the story? How?" "What's this story really about?" and "How does the homing device/angels/aliens thing interact with the lives-you-wished-you'd-lived theme?"
I have not jotted down any answers yet. I've taken fountain pen and spiral notebook and babbled out a series of possible directions in which I might choose to take the story. I have yet failed to choose any of them. I kind of suck at making decisions sometimes.
So... yeah. Short story rewrites are hard. In other news, water is wet and ice is cold. Good night.


text: The artistic residencies No Entulho are aimed at research, artistic production and sharing of the respective work developed in the Artworks facilities, within the Ecosteel production space that brings together different manufacturing sectors and where the Much More Than a Window frame systems are produced. The artists will be called upon to think, intervene, create or modify the materials that are unusable in the industry, provided by the organization of the residence. It is intended that these materials – waste and materials specific to industry – should be used as a privileged means of these residences. In this context, it is also intended to provide unique studio conditions, combining two times of production – the artistic and the manufacturing – driving the experience of a place that is characterized by its rurality and the different industries. The realization of these residencies aims to strengthen the participation of the workers' community in the elaboration of projects of an artistic nature, promoting the sharing of empirical, artistic and other experiences. There is thus an operational dynamic, with defined agendas and schedules, which the artists will have to enter. A fundamental part of the residences results from this symbiosis between these two worlds, which for a certain period of time will share the same space and will use the same means of production and the same materials, although with different intentions, vocations and purposes.


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Outsourcing production print jobs to an outside production company can certainly come in handy for organizations with low-volume demands. Still, what happens when your demands increase? In this piece, we're going to look at some of the advantages of in-house production.
Anytime you grant outside entities access to company files, you put your organization at risk. Even if the integrity of the third-party is not in question, their own cybersecurity standards may not match your own. When you're sharing data from one side of the company to another for an in-house production print job, there is considerably less risk of malicious activity or data loss.
Quick Turnarounds
Let's say that transferring data to a third-party production print company is relatively safe, this still comes with considerable lag from the time a job is requested to delivery of the finished product. Products may have to be picked up, delivered, or shipped. When production print jobs are handled in-house, turnaround times are usually considerably shorter — possibly even ready that same day.
Print Product Uniformity
As was said in 1984's sci-fi favorite Dune, "He who controls the spice controls the universe." Well, in this case, change out "spice" for "colors." When you manage your own ink or toner colors and use the same production model, this produces an unmatched level of uniformity in the finished. Using the same print materials and devices for different products virtually eliminates inconsistency in the finished product — order after order or year after year.
When utilizing a third-party production company, you're not only paying for the finished product, but you're also paying for the overhead of the company. When utilizing an in-house production facility, this can offer tremendous savings. If your production print volume needs are high enough, the math will likely pan out in your favor.
Client Trust
Noting to clients that you have your own in-house production company not only increases trust in delivering the finished product, but it's downright impressive. Having in-house production capabilities also provides another service offering and therefore a value proposition that gives your organization a competitive edge. The more you can serve your clients, the more competitive you will be across the board.


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CLARKSVILLE — The grand opening of 3C Pizza & More/Sunoco is Saturday, Sept. 15. There will be an open house from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. with a ribbon-cutting in conjunction with the Wilmington-Clinton County Chamber of Commerce at 11 a.m.
3C Pizza & More is located at 383 W.Main St., Clarksville.
3C Pizza & More features beer, soda, diesel, off-road diesel, and a full kitchen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. During the open house hours, they will offer a special of "Buy One Pizza, Get One Half Off."
Don and Shelly Fueston of Clarksville are the owners along with son Adam Coffman. Don and Shelly have been in the convenience store business for 14 years, and Adam has been involved with the family business for the past 12.
They recently sold their most recent store and purchased this property to turn it into a convenience store/restaurant, which they felt that the local residents would want and need.
Don, Shelly, Adam, and their staff aim to serve every customer helpfully and respectfully with a smiling face. They look forward to meeting and serving more community members, and appreciate the community support that they have already received!
3C Pizza & More is open Mondays through Fridays from 5A a.m.-10 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays 7 a.m.-9 p.m. (the kitchen closes at 9 p.m. Saturday and at 8 p.m. Sunday).
Learn more by contacting 3C Pizza & More at 937-289-1395 or following them on Facebook @3Cpizzaandmore/sunoco.


text: Airs Thursday, January 11, 2018, at 11 a.m. Bill Beckett spoke with directors Robert Alford II and Angelique Feaster Evans, who joined us in our Noel Foundation Studios to discuss the hit gospel musical "CROWNS," a play with music by Regina Taylor. The Mahogany Ensemble Theatre in partnership with the Shreveport Little Theatre are presenting this production, which opens up tonight at 7:30 at the Shreveport Little Theater, located at 812 Margaret Place in Shreveport. Show times are January 11, 12, and 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, January 14 at 3 p.m. For ticket information call 318-424-4439. That's 318-424-4439 or email email@example.com


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WQAQ is a student-run radio station at Quinnipiac University with a participatory environment of departments in music, production, programming, promotions, and public relations, allowing members to build relationships with its community and grow media literacy skills.
Meet the Managers
Dan Bahl
General Manager
Major – Journalism
Hometown – Suffield, CT
My name is Dan Bahl, and I am the General Manager of WQAQ for the 2019-20 school year. I come into this position having previously served as a Production Manager and Show Programming Manager with the station. I am also the host of a sports talk show, From The Bleachers, every Monday night. I am a hockey broadcaster for ESPN+ and formerly WQUN, and have worked with the Hartford Yard Goats as a radio producer and media assistant for the past three summers.
Kate Fitzgerald
Events Manager
Major – FTM
Hometown – Worcester, MA
I'm going to be an upcoming sophomore at Quinnipiac studying film and advertising. I am apart of the yearbook staff and WQAQ staff! My hobbies include waterskiing, wake surfing, binge watching Netflix shows, and making short films.
My goals for WQAQ events are to get more involvement from the Quinnipiac students. One event I hope to do is a live broadcasting show on the quad to show other students what we are all about at WQAQ!
Tyler Main
Audio Production Manager
Major – FTM
Hometown – Fiskdale, MA
I think that audio is one of the most powerful and yet underutilized story telling mediums. My interests include music (playing, composing, listening) and outdoor activities such as hiking/kayaking. A fun fact about me is that I love Pokémon despite being an adult and Gordon Ramsay follows me on Twitter.
My biggest goal for my department this year is to prepare the next generation of WQAQ production members. I will be focusing on teaching audio production skills that members can utilize to independently and creatively create content for our station. I want to help WQAQ to sounds more professional in anyway I can.
Maggie Smith
Video Production Manager
Major – FTM
Hometown – Long Island, NY
My name is Maggie Smith and I am WQAQ's video production manager. I am from Long Island, New York and am going into my third year at Quinnipiac as a film major. Joining WQAQ has been one the best choices I've made at QU, and it lead to my internship at SiriusXM in LA this summer. Aside from radio, I am the entertainment director for Quinnipiac television station, Q30, and I love playing intramural sports. I'm looking forward to another successful year and can't wait to see what WQAQ can do!
My goals for the production department include creating fun video content for WQAQ's social media and effectively promoting WQAQ sponsored events (open mics, concerts, etc.).
Dustin Moffre
Music Manager
Major – Marketing
Hometown – Poestenkill, NY
I am a Marketing major and Public Relations minor, from a small town in Upstate New York. I host to one of WQAQ's most popular show's, "The Country Hour." and has interviewed some of Nashville's newest stars. I am an avid concert-goer and has seen country artists from Alan Jackson and George Strait to Eric Church and Cole Swindell, live.
During my time leading the music department, I hope to get members more involved. I hope to encourage members to make the department their own and to help decide which direction it and the station will take in the future.
Brandon Weston
Music Manager
Major – Marketing
Hometown – Westchester, NY
I'm a huge hip hop head but can confidently say I have an appreciation for all genres. I currently work as a College Marketing Representative for Universal Music Group and hope to bring some of the stuff I've learned there into being the music manager here at Quinnipiac.
One of my goals internally for the radio station as a whole is to have every member find a new artist they like that's outside their usual listening habits. Our listeners can look forward to an all around great station that you can leave playing the entire day and never get tired of.
Andrew White
Show Programming Manager
Major – Journalism & Economics
Hometown – Roxbury, NJ
What's Poppin' Squires. I have my own sports' radio show with 3 friends called QU Hot Takes. Shameless plug, It's on at Wednesday's at 7p.m. Aside from my big involvement in WQAQ and my position of guiding any on-air show questions, I am a play-by-play and color commentator for Men's Basketball and Hockey, and Women's Basketball and Volleyball. I have been an Orientation Leader for the past two years and I'm on the Morale Committee for QTHON. I love dancing and playing piano!
Contact me with any questions about your show or how to start one. Also, feel free to sit in on my show too! Our panel loves guests.
Sophia Alfieri
Social Media Manager
Graduate Student
Major – Public Relations
Hometown – Jericho, NY
I have a passion for social media and PR, and hope to watch it grow as I continue my studies at QU. This is my second year on the WQAQ staff, and I couldn't be more excited to see what this year brings!
This year, I'd like to foster more relationships with concert venues throughout Connecticut so we can get more involved with fun giveaways and opportunities.
Jon Surratt
Web Manager
Major – Journalism
Hometown – Elkridge, MD
My name is Jon Surratt. I will be the Web Manager for the 2019-2020 school year. I am very involved outside of WQAQ, as I am a producer for Q30TV and do calls for QBSN. As well, I am always working out or playing basketball, so if I am not in class, catch me at the rec center. I also play piano in my free time.
My goals this year is to make WQAQ have the best website it's ever had. I want the website to look the best and be very easy to navigate through. I also want to be able to show off our radio host's as well as I can. If you have any ideas on how to make the website better as well, contact me.


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MONTREAL – Bombardier Inc. is selling its remaining stake in the A220 jetliner program, a move that signals its exit from the commercial aviation market and positions the company to better deal with its towering debt load.
The plane-and-train maker said Thursday it has signed an agreement with Airbus SE and the Quebec government that hands Airbus a 75 per cent share in the A220 partnership, up from just over 50 per cent, while Quebec's stake rises to 25 per cent, from 16 per cent.
In exchange, Airbus gives Bombardier US$591 million, including US$531 million immediately. The agreement also frees Bombardier from $700 million in upcoming spending on the A220, which it launched as the C Series before selling a majority stake to Europe-based Airbus in 2018.
The news comes as Bombardier reported a loss of US$1.61 billion for 2019 and rumours continue to swirl around the potential sale of one of its two main divisions.
"We are looking at our options. As you can understand, it's very sensitive," chief executive Alain Bellemare said on a conference call with investors Thursday morning.
"The reason why we're looking at strategic options is to accelerate deleveraging of the business," said Bellemare, who took the helm in 2015.
"The strategy was always to exit commercial aircraft," he added.
Bombardier continues to stare down a US$9.32-billion debt load – nearly 60 per cent of it due within five years. The company has ramped up high-margin business jet deliveries, which it expects will drive double-digit revenue growth with 160 aircraft in 2020 amid a $16.3-billion backlog. But delays and "some volatility" continue to plague several "large, challenging" rail contracts, Bellemare noted.
The deal with Airbus offers some relief.
"The important thing was not only the initial payment that they will receive – that is a little bit better that I've would anticipated – but the ability to avoid the $700 million in contributions to the program," said analyst Chris Murray of AltaCorp Capital.
"As we are all aware, there are some cash flow challenges right now at the company."
Three major rating agencies have voiced concerns this year over Bombardier's finances, which acknowledged last month it is looking to lighten its massive debt load.
In 2016 – the year before it sold a controlling stake to Airbus – its commercial aerospace segment lost about US$400 million and sucked up roughly US$1 billion in cash, Bombardier said.
Quebec Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon called the new deal a "win-win" for all partners, while Premier Francois Legault accused the previous Liberal government of careless investment in the C Series – now the A220 – in 2017.
"They made a very bad error financially to put $1.3 billion of our money not into the Bombardier group but only into one division," Legault told reporters. "So today we will have to take a provision for a loss of $600 million. We hope in the future that the program will go well and we will recuperate that."
Under the new deal, work packages for the A220 and A330 single-aisle planes will be transferred to Airbus through the aircraft giant's subsidiary Stelia Aerospace, securing 360 jobs in Quebec, Bombardier said.
David Chartrand, Quebec co-ordinator for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, deemed the deal "the best scenario under the circumstances."
"Bombardier's complete withdrawal from the construction of commercial aircraft represents the end of an era," he said in a statement.
"That said, we already know the intentions of Airbus, which plans to increase their footprint in Quebec. For us, the important thing has always been to preserve jobs, working conditions and our Quebec aerospace ecosystem."
Bombardier, which reports earnings U.S. dollars, saw revenues decline three per cent year over year to US$15.76 billion in 2019, and two per cent to $4.21 billion in the quarter ended Dec. 31.
The company reported a loss of $1.61 billion in 2019 and a loss $1.72 billion last quarter.
"While our financial performance in Q4 was disappointing, we continue to make significant progress addressing our legacy projects," Bellemare said, referring to the rail unit.
Bombardier Transportation revenues dropped seven per cent while Bombardier Aviation's nudged up two per cent last year. The aviation segment took in 47 per cent of 2019 revenues, its highest portion in years.
Profit margins on about 30 per cent of the rail division's US$8.27-billion revenue, meanwhile, was "significantly diluted" due to train defects necessitating repairs and delivery delays, said chief financial officer John Di Bert.
"We've gone through some volatility so it's a bit tough," Di Bert said, citing "margin-neutral" projects.
Bombardier updated its financial guidance Thursday, projecting revenue from continuing operations will grow to about US$15 billion from $13.7 billion. The company also forecasted margins for earnings before interest and taxes of 3.5 per cent. Both figures fell below analyst expectations.
On an adjusted basis, earnings took a loss of 10 cents per share last quarter versus earnings of five cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2018, roughly in line with analyst expectations.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 13, 2020.


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The African Union Commission (AUC) through the Peace Support Operations Division (PSOD) Capacity Development Unit (CDU), supported by its implementing partners ACCORD/TfP, the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) and the Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF) took part in a we for the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) Africa Standby Capacities (ASC) Regional Roster. The Workforce Planning Exercise is in line with capacitating the Regional Economic Communities/Regional Mechanisms (RECs/RMs) in enhancing operationalisation of the African Standby Force (ASF).
The joint team visited the EASF Secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya from 4-8 November 2019 with the objective of conducting a workforce planning and analysis exercise for the EASF ASC Roster. The aim was to review the EASF civilian roster through an assessment of the interview and screening processes, identify areas for improvement and to assist EASF to further develop its population of the roster, management of the rostered experts and make recommendations on how to improve the current status of the roster and help EASF develop a region specific work plan.
The team consulted with the EASF Roster Manager, Head of Civilian Component, Training Officer and Human Resources Officer and developed the recommendations for consideration and implementation by EASF. The recommendations respond to the challenges that the regional ASC officers constantly face in the implementation of their routine ASC tasks.
Participation in activities that focus on peace operations capacity enhancement, is in line with ACCORD/TfP Programme's strategic goal of supporting efforts at strengthening the AUC, RECs/RMs and member states capability to plan, manage and implement and liquidate PSOs on the continent. The support is provided through the enhancement of the operational capacities and capability to ensure effective functioning of organizational systems in the AU/RECs/RMs, member states.
The Training for Peace Programme at ACCORD is an initiative funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


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In Texas alone, there are more than 1,200 licensed tattoo facilities — more if you count edge-dwellers who have gone rogue or aren't licensed. So, in our search for the 20 best shops in the Houston area, we turned to Instagram, which has proven to be one of the fastest and most immediate ways to keep an artist's portfolio up to date. Here are the 20 best local tattoo establishments for 2016, presented in alphabetical order.
3rd Generation Ink
126 Heights Boulevard
Family legacy is important, and perhaps no better example can be found than with 3rd Generation Ink, owned by "let's continue the family tradition" Larry Shaw II. His late grandfather, Bob Shaw, was an innovator in the industry and was inducted into the Tattoo Hall of Fame. 3rd Generation's Instagram page features saturated colors, elegantly shaded 3-D images, "miracle" cover-up tattoos, complex Day of the Dead images and intricate lettering. Shaw says he's got five artists in the shop and, among them, they can pretty much do a little bit of everything, though he personally specializes in Japanese and traditional.
Location: 126 Heights Blvd, Houston, Texas 77007
Phone: (713) 485-5062
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Sacred Geometry, The Platonic Solids, the Merkabah, Metatron's Cube- what could they possibly mean to your life? Much more than you might imagine! As light vehicles, healing tools, protection, and behavior changers, we will delve into the shapes, some history and then show you how to use them to enhance your life! Merkabah translates into Spirit-Light-Body, so there are literally no limits to what these can do! With Archangel Metatron overseeing them, there is only good to come of learning and using these amazing shapes!
2 hour workshop to start with more possible. Stay tuned for dates!
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A coalition of Ontario HIV/AIDS groups has launched a new phase of their campaign to compel the province's attorney general to stop prosecuting HIV-positive Ontarians for nondisclosure.
The new front – a letter-writing campaign – was organized by the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure and marks a ratcheting up of tensions between activists in Ontario's HIV/AIDS community and Queen's Park.
"There's increasing anxiety about the intentions of the attorney general," says AIDS Action Now member Tim McCaskell, who is also with the working group.
Attorney General John Gerretsen is the campaign's main target.
Gerretsen has raised the ire of the HIV/AIDS community because his ministry continues to try to appeal cases involving criminal nondisclosure, especially those where there was no "significant risk" because the positive person had a low viral load or wore a condom.
This comes after signals from the province that legislators were looking to work with AIDS groups to establish guidelines that both sides could live with.
But now the province says it's going ahead with prosecutions and is refusing to meet with any of the groups until the Supreme Court passes down two decisions.
"It would be premature to address prosecutorial guidelines ahead of this ruling," a spokesperson for the Ministry of the Attorney General told Xtra, refusing to comment further.
That, for McCaskell, isn't good enough.
"We're about the law; therefore, we only need to talk to lawyers," McCaskell says, mocking the ministry.
"People are appalled at the lack of responsiveness from the attorney general's office."
The working group argues that if the province isn't interested in sitting down until the Supreme Court renders its verdicts, fine, but it should put a halt on prosecutions at the same time.
The two cases before the Supreme Court could have a major impact on how every province deals with nondisclosure. If Manitoba gets its way in one of the cases, the 1998 establishment of "significant risk" by the Supreme Court could be thrown out the window. That would, legally, justify Ontario's approach.
The working group would much rather see the province adopt a scientific process for qualifying "significant risk" and set up guidelines about how cases of nondisclosure are dealt with.
In July, Xtra reported on the attorney general's "betrayal" of the HIV community, when the province reversed its position on crafting guidelines for prosecution. The province opted for what AIDS groups called a "radical" position of arguing that risk of infection should have no role in criminal cases. That, in essence, meant that the province would push forward in prosecuting HIV-positive people who had sex – even if they wore protection or their viral loads were low, and even if transmission didn't occur.


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Vintage Inns is a service that helps you find and book pubs for your everyday occasions with friends and families. They also offer a chance to win complimentary prizes. All you need to do is go to www.vintageinns-survey.co.uk and fill out the short and easy survey there.
This survey is very important for the people at Vintage Inns because they not only want to provide you with free coupons, but they also want to improve their service. By filling out this survey and providing your valuable feedback, you can help their people improve their quality, services, and even their interactions with customers.
Requirements for filling out the Vintage Inns Survey
To fill out the Vintage Inns Survey, you must have:
- Access to a device that is capable of connecting to the Internet.
- Access to an Internet connection that is smooth and fast.
- A receipt from your last visit to aVintage Inns Store.
The procedure of filling out the Vintage Inns Survey
- On your computer, open up your preferred web browser and in the search tab, type in the following address: http://www.vintageinns-survey.co.uk/
- On the page that loads, read through the Terms and Conditions. Click 'Next'.
- In the space provided, enter in the name of the Pub or the City or Town you visited. Click the 'Next' link.
- Enter in the Date and Time of the last visit. Click 'Next'.
- Over the next few pages, you will be asked a series of questions about your experience at the store and the quality of the product. Answer all questions honestly.
- At the end of the survey you may be asked some demographic based questions such as your age and gender, these help the people analysing to make sense of results.
- You may be asked to provide contact details for yourself so you can be contacted easily if you win.
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Cruise to spy again?
Looks like Tom Cruise is to return to familiar ground in the future, as he is potentially to star in another spy thriller movie. United Artists, the studio he co-owns has got 24 co-creator-exec producer Joel Surnow, Michael Loceff also of 24 and Martin Campbell on board.
According to Variety, the idea is to create another franchise for Tom Cruise, although no one is saying for definite that he will be in it. They are certainly not doing things by half with two of the people responsible for 24, and Campbell who has directed two James Bond films (Golden Eye and Casino Royale) signed up.
I wonder how different it will be to what's already around at the moment though, with 24 still on the go, James Bond going strong and the Bourne series already established. Plus it does seem like he's treading old ground after already being in three Mission Impossible films. But with those people attached to it, and what is sure to be a huge budget, it's sure to be of blockbuster proportions. What do you think, would you be willing to buy into another spy franchise with Cruise?


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monday night c & i made lots and lots and lot of delicious green sugar cookies to celebrate st. patricks day and share with friends!!
my sugar cookies are the best sugar cookies ever made- i would put them head to head against anyone recipe and i know mine would win by a land slide-i welcome the challenge :)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Green Cookies
Posted by Erin Evelyn at 3:37 PM
Labels: baked
4 comments:
- jessica said...
holy crap, do you want to drop like 60 of those off on my porch?
and can i have the recipe?!?
- March 16, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Lucashell said...
Oh my gosh - legz would go crazy for those cookies..
- March 17, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- Spencer and Stephanie Randle said...
Ya sure your cookies are the best? The one thing I can bake are sugar cookies...but that sounds like a lot of work right now :)But those do look very good! We can have a bake off one of these days.
- March 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Lisa Best said...
I have had your sugar cookies, and therefore, MUST agree that they are the BEST!
- March 22, 2010 at 7:29 AM
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Stock and Custom Fitted Table Covers (click pic to see colors)
Please note for returning customer.
After 20+ Years, our Table Cover manufacturer has retired and closed his business. We have are now working with a local manufacturer whom produces an excellent product. The material specs are the same as previous so you should receive very similar product as before. That being said please understand that die lots and material feel may be very close but not exact.
We do have a very small inventory of previous vendors product in some colors, however will not last long. Please email if you are needing previous.
In addition they carry a vast choice of colors that can be used, however we do need approx 1 week for production.
Custom sizes
Custom sizes and Colors are available, e-mail length x width x height for quote


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I had a great time photographing the lovely Emily for her high school senior photos. She arrived ready to go with her outfit choices so we headed out and started shooting. She is a natural in front of the camera and wasn't nervous at all or at least didn't show it! Check out her amazing blue eyes, they just pop for the camera.
Here are some of my favorites from her session. Here's to a great senior year Emily!


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At CoreLogic, we put the sharp minds of more than 5,000 dedicated professionals to work on supplying the constant stream of public and private sector information that flows into our proprietary data library.
Through partnerships and third-party resources, we also draw from leading repositories of other major types of business data, maintaining the highest quality, currency and comprehensiveness of any database available. This translates to a greater ability to overlay information that produces potent business insights such as:
- Matching legal documents and transactions to tax assessor information
- Capturing, overlaying, and parsing multiple names to reveal key characteristics
- Standardizing universal codes across all states, counties and jurisdictions
- Mining multiple databases to unlock hidden facts (e.g. ARM details)
- Refining valuations with overlaid demographics, statistics, etc.
Don't become a casualty of "garbage in, garbage out" mentality. Count on our data integrity when making key business decisions.
Market Advantage
Quantitative and qualitative analysis. The world of market research relies on these two vital information categories to gain effective insights.
At CoreLogic, we bring you both by providing the most comprehensive database coverage in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. In the United States alone, we cover 99 percent of all properties, which equates to 147 million properties and 99.9 percent of the population. With this breadth and depth of data, you can be sure your business decisions are based on a true picture of the market.
What can you expect from our database? Some highlights include:
U.S. real estate transaction assets
- Approximately 4.5 million real estate transactions per month, depending on market volume
- Historical data on 740 million real estate transactions
U.S. property tax databases
- 95 percent of county, municipal and special tax districts
- Tax information on 154+ million parcels
- Tax delinquency records on 25 million properties
U.S. parcel dataset
- 3,046 counties and townships
- 157.6 million parcels
- Full integration with tax databases
U.S. borrower credit access
- 100 percent of borrower credit reports
- 100 percent of borrower census demographics
U.S. mortgage application databases
- 193 million mortgage loan submissions
- 80 percent of mortgage applications
- 85 percent of loan servicing files
- Direct contributions from Fannie and Freddie
New insights reveal strengths, weaknesses, competitive advantages, business opportunities and more. That's the power behind our analytic solutions.
With our rigorous standardization process and wide spectrum of data types, we saw the capability to expand the value of information beyond predictable boundaries. This led us to pioneering "linkable data" – connecting unrelated pieces of information to produce a new generation of algorithmic analytics and predictive modeling.
We're Focused on the Details
In the world of data collection, order is everything. At CoreLogic, we begin by applying strict standardization to all incoming data. Because we gather data from a wide array of sources in numerous formats with all kinds of anomalies, we adhere to a rigorous governance program to create a structural foundation.
Our databases are also dynamically updated 24/7/365, continuously receiving and applying new information as it becomes available to provide you with timely information.
Our Data Assurance Process Includes:
All data checked at aggregate level for inconsistent behaviors and greater-than-expected changes from prior reporting
All data run through automated edit checks to catch anomalies
Irregular data verified against outside sources – or removed.
Normalization and Compliance
Data must make sense, fit your needs and meet specific regulatory standards. To meet those requirements, we normalize our databases by eliminating redundant information and ensuring that dependencies are logical and query efficient. Given the heavily regulated nature of much our data, our cleansing process includes making sure that information complies with appropriate regulatory and client standards.
We protect our data with physical and digital security measures. Our data centers are built on base-isolator shock absorbers so that they can withstand temblors many times the magnitude of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In addition, advanced digital security protects against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption or modification. Ongoing security procedures include security audits, regular system testing, rigorous staff training and continuously updated business-continuity planning.
Some features of our data security include:
- Ongoing assessments to monitor risk and compliance
- Access rights and data-use monitoring to find and fix vulnerabilities
- Close monitoring of sensitive files to identify noncompliance arising from rule changes
- Rigorous adherence to legal, industry and client standards
Property Data
If It's There, It's Here
With more than 300 million people in the United States, the volume of existing property information is vast. Where do you go when you need access to the most comprehensive, current and accurate real estate data available? To the source – CoreLogic.
Our property and homeowner data repository covers 99 percent of the U.S. population. That's more than 147 million properties sourced from relevant industry and government entities.
More than 600,000 users access our homeowner and property database annually, including sales agents, appraisers, brokerages and multiple listing organization. Whether you need data to prepare a presentation, map out an investment proposal, evaluate a property site or launch a lead-generation campaign, we can pinpoint what you need.
- Land and property characteristics
- Property ownership data
- Property tax payment status and history
- Property sales information and history
- Real estate owned (REO) data
- Multiple listing information and history
- Flood hazard information
- Geocoded tax, parcel and hazard data
- Home price indices (HPI)
- Assessor maps and parcel polygons
- Property photos, building sketches
- Legal descriptions
- Involuntary liens and judgments
- Recorded document images
Sometimes, data is all you need. Other times, you need the benefit of data that has been aggregated, synthesized and formatted to provide greater insight. Our property and homeowner information database powers some of the real estate industry's leading research and analytic tools including:
RealQuest Professional
RealQuest® Professional is the nation's largest online property information database, giving real estate professionals instant access to accurate, exportable data on 97 percent of all property transactions in the U.S. It was built for professional organizations requiring flexible search options from more than 90 search criteria, on-the-fly reporting, an all-encompassing array of mortgage analytics, advanced automated valuation solutions, mapping solutions and delivery options.
GeoAVM Cascade Suite
The GeoAVM Cascade Suite derives its name from our geopreferencing sorting system that delivers impartial accuracy by analyzing each AVM's historical performance by location to determine an optimal cascade.
Do more, faster and better than ever before. The productivity tools we offer not only make this goal realistic, they make for an enjoyable business day.
AgentAchieve offers a family of productivity modules that real estate brokerages can use individually or as a companywide productivity system.
Realist seamlessly integrates our public-record database with any web-based multiple listing service (MLS) system, providing MLS users with practical and insightful information.
Marketrac provides lenders, title companies and builders with an interactive, robust means to measure competitive market share and volumes by geographic area, transaction and loan type.
ListSource provides a competitive advantage by combining property information with homeowner demographic, mortgage, and other data elements.
Data Services
We provide you with tools that make data more meaningful, robust and fruitful.
Match & Append Database Services
Match & Append Services link the nation's largest property and ownership databases with the largest network of field researchers, data analysts, and real estate experts to provide a wide range of data enhancement and business process services. Whether you are looking to complete your files or append information and analytics for business analysis, Match & Append Database Services gives you instant access to accurate, complete and timely information.
From Acquisition to Securitization and Every Step In Between
Never before have mortgage industry professionals had a greater need for superior data to help them make business decisions. As the leading provider of end-to-end mortgage lifecycle solutions, we work with you to help solve today's toughest industry challenges. Our advanced technology, data and services help you stay competitive, with comprehensive analytics, risk mitigation, portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions that enable.
With mortgage data that covers the entire life cycle, we work with financial institutions of all types to get the information necessary to mitigate loan risks and build revenues. From application through underwriting, securities issuance, investment and servicing, our data types include:
- Mortgage applications
- Recorded mortgages, including juniors and private-party loans
- Servicing, including delinquencies, pre-payments and performance data
- Mortgage modifications, assignments and satisfactions
- Preforeclosures and foreclosures
- MBS and ABS delinquencies, prepayments and performance
An interesting thing happens when you combine raw data from different sources―new insights appear. At CoreLogic, we provide mortgage information as raw data for analytical tools and as integrated data that powers our many analytic solutions. With analytics, you can pinpoint underlying performance flaws and project future scenarios, both in complex mortgage portfolios and mortgage-backed securities. Enlighten your decisions with integrated mortgage solutions such as:
Project the likely behavior of pools, portfolios and loans with Risk Model.
Leveraging the industry's most comprehensive mortgage databases, RiskModel employs Monte Carlo simulation technology to predict the full range of potential outcomes to specific scenarios.
Real Estate Analytics Suite
Real Estate Analytics Suite offers the most accurate current HPI.
It also forecasts coming HPIs and includes market, valuation, listing, and commercial trend-analysis tools. Real Estate Analytics Suite delivers the only housing price index that's completely rebuilt monthly from new national data.
Commercial Mortgage
Identify commercial properties with maturing mortgages, pierce ownership veils and identify distressed and near-distressed holdings.
Our commercial mortgage data and analytics enable you to do this and more via access to our comprehensive securitized and nonsecuritized databases.
TrueStandings Servicing
TrueStandings Servicing enables risk managers to evaluate and benchmark loan portfolios against competitors and the market as well as identify principal types of risk and their underlying causes.
LoanSafe Fraud Manager
LoanSafe Fraud Manager uses patented predictive-analytics scoring technology and exposes suspicious mortgage loans at the application stage, enabling you to quickly identify each loan's fraud risk prior to funding.
FraudMark UK
Identify UK-specific fraud risk at any stage of the mortgage process. FraudMark UK uses advanced pattern recognition technology and predictive analytics from loan application through portfolio management – providing accurate, automated fraud protection.
Make your time count with productivity solutions from CoreLogic. Our extensive mortgage applications and workflow solutions focus on the growing challenges facing today's mortgage professionals.
IntelliMods™ is a Web-based, loan modification application that automates and streamlines decisioning and document generation to increase pull through rates and provide auditable reporting and tracking
Loan Origination System
Loan Center is a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution that connects applications, data, rules, resources, partners and users on a single networked always-on platform.
Business intelligence can be amplified dramatically by augmenting it with another data source. For example, deepen property and ownership data by combining it with census data. We combine data sources with analytics to create practical, informative tools you can use to improve your business intelligence.
Real Estate Analytics Suite
The Real Estate Analytics Suite is a family of analytics modules that extend monthly CoreLogic HPI data by adding relevant information and modeling the results to reveal current and future trends – translating raw numbers into useful knowledge.
LoanSafe Risk Manager Suite
LoanSafe Risk Manager Suite incorporates pattern-recognition technology to model property, neighborhood, ownership, and consumer data and predicts borrower and mortgage risk related to unusual collateral volatility and popular fraud scenarios.
With advancing technologies and new services constantly emerging, today's rapidly shifting business environment makes due diligence imperative.
Given the need for market transparency – and our unmatched data assets – we rethought the traditional due diligence approach. We call it New Diligence.
A Broader Picture of Consumer Behavior
At CoreLogic, we provide consumer credit and demographic data that extends the value of our real estate, mortgage and securities solutions. By aggregating consumer data from public and proprietary sources along with our real estate and property information databases, we provide the clarity to make sound decisions. In addition, our data resources allow us to bring you products and services that you can offer to your customers.
Consumer Direct
We provide consumers with several ways to take advantage of our data resources.
Designed to augment the existing consumer credit reporting processes, CreditIQ provides supplemental credit data not typically available from the traditional credit repositories. The aggregation of consumer data includes over 700 million records from CoreLogic proprietary databases including: consumer property ownership and mortgage obligation records, property legal filings and tax payment status, rental applications and evictions, and consumer-specific bankruptcies, liens, judgments and child support obligations.
Consumer Disputes Resolution
Credit information from CoreLogic Credco includes free consumer access to our FCRA compliant Consumer Disputes Resolution services, including investigation, consultation and working on behalf of consumer to correct missing or mistaken bureau data.
Consumer Services
ePropertyWatch Pro
ePropertyWatch Pro lets real estate brokers offer their clients free ePropertyWatch subscriptions that automatically alert them by email to changes in the value of their properties, neighborhood sales, nearby foreclosure activities, local housing trends.
ValueMap is an easy-to-use, map-based valuation service that integrates into real estate websites to help consumers determine home values and available equity--delivering detailed property information and a variety of market indicators.
AgentAchieve Broker Website Property Search
One of the modules in the AgentAchieve family of real estate broker productivity and business management tools creates brokerage-branded websites for its agents that feature sophisticated consumer self-serve property searching.
Credco CreditXpert helps counselors identify opportunities to optimize consumer credit scores – including feedback on specific actions they can take to enhance their credit standing and using a simulator to see the impact of such changes in advance.
Consumer Fraud Restoration
Our Consumer Fraud Restoration service helps consumer victims of identity theft – with our experts evaluating the fraud from all sides, providing a detailed recovery action plan, then assisting in dealing with financial institutions and documenting the results.
Inference Engines
We link consumer and property information from disparate databases inside and outside the company using a methodology called "inference". The following breaks down how inference can work:
- Proprietary algorithms – These can infer a match between loan data from our securities or servicing databases and existing property addresses
- Credit provider partners – They enable another proprietary algorithm to connect existing property addresses with consumer public records.
Examples of programs that use inference methodology to enhance loan data include:
Vector Securities
Vector Securities identifies risk in loan portfolios and RMBS by deconstructing them to their underlying loans, updating collateral valuations with HPI and AVM data, and finding actual lien and other obligations using TrueLTV inference-based ownership data.
TrueStandings Servicing
TrueStandings Servicing monitors and evaluates servicing loan portfolios using inference-based borrower performance and delinquency prediction analysis – drawing on ZIP code-level bankruptcy, REO, prepayment, roll-rate, and other diagnostics.
Teletrack Nontraditional Credit Reporting
Teletrack Nontraditional Credit Reporting contains multi-dimensional credit performance information – much of it developed by inference – including credit scores, Social Security validations, open/paid loans, open/paid charge-offs, consumer dispute information.
Instant Merge
Instant Merge incorporates inference-based logic in assembling accurate, balanced borrower credit histories – including current credit scores, up-to-date risk scores from FICO, Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, any history of bankruptcy.
Red Flag Solution
Under the Red Flags Rule, auto dealerships must implement an identity theft prevention program. Our automated Red Flag Solution integrates inference-based credit reporting and identity verification with OFAC screening and compliance reporting.
With advancing technologies and new services constantly emerging, today's rapidly shifting business environment makes due diligence imperative.
Given the need for market transparency – and our unmatched data assets – we rethought the traditional due diligence approach. We call it New Diligence.


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The foreign ministers of the UK, Germany and France along with the European Union's high representative issued a joint statement Tuesday urging Iran to reverse its decision to breach a limit under a 2015 nuclear agreement.
The statement by the European 3 (E3) and the European External Action Service (EEAS) expressed dismay and concern over Iran's decision to exceed the limit set on its low-enriched uranium reserves.
"The Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, the UK, and the High Representative are extremely concerned at Iran's announcement that it has exceeded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action stockpile limit for low enriched uranium. The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed this information," the statement said.
"We have been consistent and clear that our commitment to the nuclear deal depends on full compliance by Iran. We regret this decision by Iran, which calls into question an essential instrument of nuclear non-proliferation."
The E3 and the EEAS urged Iran to refrain from further exceeding the limits on its low-enriched uranium reserves and thus undermining the nuclear deal. The foreign ministries said they are considering the next steps to ensure the agreement does not collapse and are in coordination with their partners.
READ: Israel calls for 'automatic' European sanctions on Iran over uranium breach
On Monday, Iran revealed that it had breached the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium, allowing it to exceed the 300 kilograms agreed under the deal. Iran had warned that it had intended to breach the deal if the EU was not able to bypass US sanctions.
The breach follows the US withdrawal from the deal last year and Tehran's frustration over the EU's failure to counter crippling US sanctions and increase trade with Iran. US sanctions have deterred European businesses from conducting trade with the country.
Prior to the breach, the EU had announced the establishment of a trading mechanism known as Instex that would allow European businesses to trade with Iran without facing US scrutiny.
Under the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA), Iran agreed to destroy its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium and cut its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98%.
The JCPoA was signed by the UK, the US, Russia, China, France, Germany and the EU in 2015.
In October 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the US would no longer be a signatory to the deal and subsequently withdrew from it. Shortly after, the US imposed sanctions on Iran.


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When I bought my first single lens reflex (SLR) camera some years ago, it didn't take me long before I started experimenting with different techniques and settings. One of those techniques I was keen on was taking photos with shallow depth of field.
Here's an example of what a "shallow depth of field" means:
Only the doll on the right side is in focus, and even, if you pay attention, her right eye is in better focus than her own left eye. Almost everything else in the picture is blurry and out of focus. As a photographer I'm really making sure that my audience pays attention to the doll on the right.
My objective today is to explain how depth of field works so you can take more creative control over your photos. If you're new to photography, or you're not quite sure how to achieve this kind of look, read on.
At first, when I was learning my way around photography, it was all mostly by luck and chance. But being the techie that I am, that did not work for me. I needed to know how to consistently replicate what I wanted to achieve. That's when I started reading about how to use the different settings on the camera. Technically this topic could go on for a while as full courses are build around it. But I'll try to keep it to the basics, still with the big picture (pun intended) always in mind.
There are many factors that determine the look of a photo or an exposure. From that plethora of factors there are 2 main ones that determine the amount of light entering the camera (after all, photos are all about light):
For a shallow depth of field we'll be working with the aperture, but before we do that, let me briefly talk about the shutter speed.
See, when you take a photo, the lens will allow light to hit the sensor on the digital camera. That's why photos are also called "exposures"; because the film or sensor is exposed to light while the photo is being taken. So, the shutter speed will determine for how long light will hit the sensor. A fast shutter speed will open the shutters, let an amount of light hit the sensor, and quickly close. A slow shutter speed will stay open for longer, allowing an exposure that takes more time to record.
On the other hand, the aperture determines how big the opening of the shutters will be. In simple terms, how big the hole that will allow light to hit the sensor will be. A larger opening will let more light hit the sensor than a smaller opening at the same shutter speed. And this is where physics get really interesting. If we have a large aperture (a large opening), we will allow the light that hits the sensor to be more dispersed. In a smaller aperture, the light rays are more paralel and less dispersed.
That's it! I just spilled the beans for you! To get the shallower depth of field you want to get as large an aperture as your lens will allow.
Take a look at the following two photos. On the first one the aperture is as wide as that lens can do, letting lots of scattered light enter the camera and hit the sensor. This big aperture creates a fuzzier out-of-focus area or a shallow depth of field. On the second photo, you can clearly see a small aperture created by the shutter blades on the lens.
Ok, enough theory, let's put this to practice.
First, what we'll do is switch our camera to "Aperture Priority". In the case of the Canon cameras, you'll find an "Av" setting in the dial or in the menu. If you have a Nikon camera, look for the capital "A" in the dial. If you have a different kind of camera, search online for "aperture priority" and the brand and/or camera model.
This is the dial of one of my Canon cameras:
In Aperture Priority we'll control the aperture and the camera will calculate the shutter speed based on the lighting situation. I strongly recommend you use a tripod to avoid any camera shake.
Next, let's crank the aperture to the maximum.
Note the "Av" for "Aperture Priority" and "F1.8" indicating the aperture setting.
Here's where many people get confused. Really confused, because camera manufacturers refer to aperture as "f stops" which mean focal _ratios_. The kicker is that it's a ratio between the focal length of the lens and the diameter of actual aperture. So, when you see an aperture of f/1.8 it means that the aperture is roughly half (1/1.8 = 55%) of the focal length. Compare that to an aperture of f/22 which is only about one twentieth of the focal length (1/22 = 4.5%). By the way, I use this numbers because the lens I used has a maximum aperture of f/1.8 or F1.8 as it appears on the display on my camera, and a minimum aperture of f/22 or F22. Depending on the lens the aperture ranges will be different.
Ok, ok, ok'¦ I got a bit too technical here. If you're really interested in the physicality of it all, do a search for "focal length" or "f-number" or "f-stop". But if you're not that curious and still confused simply inverse the numbers. Meaning 1.8 will give you a much _larger_ aperture than 22. So a smaller f stop digit on your camera settings means a larger aperture, which automatically translates to a shallower depth of field.
I recognize that this concept may still be confusing but I hope that the following comparison helps you relate in physical terms to what's going on.
The top row shows two very similar photos. They were taken with the same lens, with the same focus, both set with "Aperture Priority". The one on the left I set the aperture value to be "F1.8" as it reads on the bottom row of the display on my camera. F1.8 is the maximum aperture that lens can do. The photo on the right was then taken with the smallest aperture that the same lens can achieve: "F22" as shown in the camera display. The photo on the left has a very shallow depth of field. Only a few centimeters around the burgundy flower in the middle of the shot are in focus while stuff closer to the camera and further back from the burgundy flower are out of focus. My idea behind that photo is for you to pay attention to that small flower amongst the other pinkish flowers.
On the other hand, the photo on the right has way more flowers in focus. So, even when I was focusing on the burgundy flower, most other pinkish flowers are fairly crisp.
Now, pay attention to the second row of photos. Here I show you the exact same lens I used, with the same aperture used for each of the photos. The one on the left has a very large opening (aperture) and the one on the right shows a tiny hole (aperture).
Something that I must mention is that the camera calculated the shutter speed automatically based on the lighting environment. The photo on the left had the shutter open just for 1/40 of a second while the one on the right had to stay open for a full 4 seconds to capture the same amount of light. Why such a difference? Well, take a look at those apertures. The f/1.8 on the left lets lots of light in, so the shutter didn't have to stay open too long, while the f/22, with its tiny aperture, required a much, much longer exposure.
Just to wrap up, different lenses allow for larger or smaller apertures depending on the lens itself. So, unless you're using a similar lens to the one I used, you most likely will get different maximun and minimum aperture values on your camera display.
For reference, I used an "inexpensive" EF 50mm f/1.8 II fixed or prime lens as pictured below.
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|New Council Leader Stephen Cowan Promises to Deliver Change
Defending Charing Cross Hospital "top of our list of priorities"
As he prepares to take office as the new Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, Stephen Cowan has sent this message to residents on his blog, The Cowan Report.
Having had very little sleep and a maelstrom of activity uring the last week it is beginning to dawn on me that it's true – the residents of Hammersmith and Fulham really did elect my colleagues and me into office on Thursday, 22nd May.
It may be a cliché but it is genuinely humbling to find myself in this position. Thank you.
In the run up to Election Day I lost count of the numbers of people who told me they usually vote Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Green or even don't usually vote but this time were all intending to vote Labour - many for the first time in their lives. I recognise that along with the thousands of Labour voters who always support my party there is an alliance of local people who have come together and hired us to deliver The Change We Need to see in this borough.
My colleagues and I will officially assume office at the council's annual general meeting on 16th June.
Top of our list of priorities is defending Charing Cross Hospital. On 15th May David Cameron came to Hammersmith and Fulham to urge voters to back the Conservatives' awful and dishonest hospitals plan. I understand Mr. Cameron was also telephone canvassing local residents pleading with them to vote to re-elect his favourite council on both the Election Day and the night before. They did the opposite. In fact, over 60% of the residents that voted rejected the Prime Minister's appeals and with 22,163 votes Labour beat the Conservatives in the borough's popular vote for the first time since the 1990s. The people have spoken and if Mr. Cameron is a democrat he needs to back away from these life threatening hospital plans and listen to what the voters have said. If he refuses, I believe the consequences for his reputation, his government and the bureaucrats serving it will be dire.
Shortly after the results were announced on Friday morning I formally sent the Council's Chief Executive our manifesto and instructed him to have his officials start work on its implementation. The due process of its delivery will form the council's programme over the next four years. I will detail more as and when we deliver on our promises.
But we have already set much in play over the last week. That includes establishing a new council Hospital Unit to defend Charing Cross and its A&E, closing down hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of unnecessary council magazines and glossy propaganda that had been planned by the former Conservative administration and banning councillors from taking hospitality from those seeking benefit from their elected positions.
We want this new Labour administration to be one that works with residents so we have set about re-structuring the council's processes to make them more open and democratic.
Prior to the election we carried out an extensive manifesto consultation. Hundreds of people read our manifesto which was emailed out to voters across the borough. That was the only manifesto produced by any political party that had a chance of winning the Hammersmith and Fulham council elections. The Conservatives told me they hadn't produced one because "people know what they'll get" – it turned out they were absolutely right.
June 2, 2014


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PNP names 6-member delegation for national crime strategy meeting
KINGSTON, Jamaica— The People's National Party (PNP) has named a six-member delegation to represent the party at today's anti-crime summit to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.
The party said its team is comprised of shadow ministers from various cabinets.
The members include: Spokesman on national security Fitz Jackson; Spokesman on finance and the public service Mark Golding; General Secretary Julian Robinson, who is also spokesman on labour, information and technology; Dr Morais Guy, spokesman on health and wellness and Leader of Opposition Business in the House; and Mr Michael Vaccianna, the party's Legal Advisor.
Leader of the Opposition Peter Phillips noted that the agreement to host a meeting comes a year after the suggestion was made to the government and 10 months after Prime Minister Andrew Holness withdrew from his previous agreement to meet with stakeholders.
The PNP said it will approach today's meeting as a serious opportunity to arrive at a consensus on Jamaica's most difficult national issue.
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