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Facebook and Twitter can play vital role in electricity-natural gas disaster planning
Generating electricity these days will increasingly depend on adequate and affordable supplies of natural gas. That's because electric power generators are using more natural gas then coal. Luckily, the U.S. has plenty of natural gas and most of it is on shore in shale formations. There is also a good network of pipelines to transport the gas where it is needed. That's the good news.
However, severe weather (freeze offs during the winter and hurricanes during the summer) and other problems can affect natural gas production and getting that gas to where it's needed. Federal and State energy officials grappled with this issue at a recent energy conference. Most were not happy with a test drive of their electricity-gas disaster planning efforts. We think U.S. regulators should use social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as part of the solution just as their European counterparts have done.
AOL Energy described some of the problems that Federal and State officials encountered when they ran a desktop test of their disaster plan to cope with electricity and natural gas outages. Most participants thought that the electricity-natural gas plan was severely lacking. Our hats goes off to the participants for running the test, admitting the shortfalls and recognizing the increasing linkages between natural gas and a well run power system.
Previously, we discussed how Facebook and Twitter could stabilize the power grid during disasters adversely impact critical energy infrastructure. Since then the Department of Homeland Security has determined that Twitter and Facebook will be used to alert citizens of Terror Alerts under certain circumstances. We still feel strongly about the role of social media sites in the energy industry. Facebook is approaching 1 billion users and Twitter has about 175 million registered users.
More specific to the electricity-natural gas disaster plan test run, Bloomberg News reported that social media sites were being used to disclose unplanned natural gas production outages aka "we are not producing gas." Bloomberg said that a large natural gas company Total U.K. is going to be using Facebook and Twitter for Energy Market Disclosure. Specifically Total SA, France's biggest oil company, will use social media websites Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to comply with European Union energy market disclosure rules at its U.K. exploration and production unit. Total SA said that "Facebook and Twitter will now be TOTAL E&P U.K.'s principal means of communicating information about unplanned production outages (24/7) under the new REMIT regulations. Total began using that method for communications as of Jan. 30 and hasn't had an outage since then.
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Amazon Produce Network says its West Coast operation, which it opened a year ago, has exceeded expectations.
"We have been able to service a lot of fantastic retail accounts up there, as well as processors that we had even before we started the office out there," said Greg Golden, a partner in the Mullica Hill, N.J.-based mango shipper.
The Los Angeles office, at 1791 Bay St., is subleased from Coast Produce. It was set up as a two-person office, run by industry veteran Salvador Barba, but now it has six employees, Golden said.
"It's an excellent option for our offshore growers to be able to direct fruit to either coast with confidence," Golden said. "We have our own people on-site handling the fruit the proper way. They get the best results for our customers.
Marcelo Gomes joined the West Coast office as quality-control manager in December.
"He had been in Brazil for about a year with one of our major growers in Brazil," Golden said.
Gomes also had participated in Amazon's internship program, which brings in students from Brazil to work as long as 18 months with the company, including six-month stints in Los Angeles.
"We also have a couple of our current interns out there, as well," Golden said. "They're all agronomy students at the technical agriculture university in the Brazilian growing region."
Amazon Produce Network has also added Jonathan Smith to its sales staff.
The company plans to increase its Guatemalan mango deal this year from 1.5 million boxes to 2 million boxes.
Amazon Produce also plans to increase the Guatemalan mango program at its Los Angeles location.
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McAllen, Texas-based Cabello Produce Corp. says its new label, which is launched last year for its Ataulfo mangoes, has been a success.
The label, Emperador, was launched a year ago as a way to help the company's fruit stand out, said Juan Santos, general manager.
The company shipped about 280,000 cases under the label last year and anticipates a similar volume this year, he said.
Emperador replaced the old Marvelous label, he said.
Central American Produce
Pompano Beach, Fla.-based Central American Produce has expanded its tropical fruit line, said Sabine Henry, sales representative.
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Boz Scaggs Concert Review - Stanford 1976
By Lori Engelfried/BAM Magazine
June 1976
Valentina, a curly-haired wonder who must be all of three years old, raised those
big blue eyes to the stage to watch the familiar figure of her uncle Boz. It was a
sunshiny Sunday afternoon in May, and Boz Scaggs and his band were playing before
Frost Amphitheatre's first ever pre-concert sell-out audience.
The timing was perfect. The audience was overjoyed to see him because he hadn't played the Peninsula for some time, and the songs from his new Silk Degrees album were freshin everyone's head.
Although not his usual foppish and fashionable self, Boz was comfortably colorful in
pink slack, blue shirt, and sneakers. The afternoon's performance proved that clothes
don't make the man... Boz Scaggs doesn't need white tie and tails, or even his Panama suit, to have one of the classiest acts to come out of the Bay' Area in a long time.
The hour-long set featured hits from the last eight years of Scaggs' career, as well as
material from the new album. "Lowdown" was the first number, and by the time he got to "You Make It So Hard," the audience was on its feet. Boz smiled tolerantly (though kindly) at this reaction, and recommended that everyone sit down and relax.
"We have a lot of music planned for this afternoon," he promised, and the audience obediently settled back.
Scaggs seems to take pride in his well-bred relationship with his fans. They love him and his music madly, but he never lets them get too close or too excited. He keeps them at a distance with the same competence with which he controls his band. So many of his songs are of the emotional variety that send a shiver of recognition down one's backside, yet the man himself is at all times cool. Still, his music is what is important, and perhaps his fans are able to appreciate it all the more because Scaggs does stand back with his emotions. The man certainly has written a fine bunch of songs.
As Scaggs sang his little heart out (but tastefully, of course) and paced the center of the stage, the band spread out around him. The Scaggs influence was ever present, but he didn't hesitate to let the band have its share of the limelight.
The band consists of eight carefully selected members: David Paich (arranger and keyboards); David Hungate (bass); Jeff Pocaro on drums and his young brother Steve (whom Scaggs referred to as "the old man") on synthesizers and keyboards; Dan Ferguson (guitar); John Madrid (brass); Kevin Calhoun (percussion); and Steve Leeds (reeds and woodwinds). All are tight and tasteful musicians, and they make the music flow along at a very professional pace.
The two backup singers, Rebecca Louis and Phyllis St. James, knew just what to do. The two must have been working together for quite some time. Their voices blend perfectly and they moved their bodies as if to some lovingly remembered Supremes sway and bounce routine.
Scaggs keeps a nice balance between the moods of his songs. The sweet and lovely mush of such romancers as "Georgia" and "Slow Dancer" melted the audience completely, but he got everyone back into the swing of things with "Jump Street" and the mournful new rocker, "It's Over."
Scaggs and Company were called back for two enthusiastic encores (sorry, Boz - the audience just couldn't contain it by then). As a special treat, Boz brought back with him Les Dudek, whose band had preceded Scaggs on the bill.
Dudek is a hot young Southern guitarist, fast becoming a Bay Area favorite. It's not surprising that Scaggs likes to work with the guy and has even toured with him. Dudek sounds a lot like Steve Miller (a.k.a. the Gangster of Love, a.k.a. Space Cowboy, etc. etc.), both in his guitar riffs and in his singing style. Since Boz Scaggs started out with Miller, it is understandable that he likes to occasionally go back home again, or at least, to pretend.
Scaggs refused to do any more encores, and left the crowd eagerly plotting to see him again (he knows how to handle his audience all right). He disappeared into the privacy of a Winnebago with his wife (the beautiful cloud-haired woman from that old Paramount poster) and some other members of the Scaggs clan.
Boz Scaggs keeps his personal life separate from his performing life - and even when he is performing, he doesn't let his emotions get in the way. Yet his songs reveal the feelings that he represses onstage... and somehow you know that whatever Boz Scaggs writes about, well, he's gone through it all himself.
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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author Mwanga, Alifas Yeko email@example.com URN etd-12142006-121528 Document Title Reliability modelling of complex systems Degree PhD (Industrial Systems) Department Industrial and Systems Engineering Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof V S S Yadavalli Keywords
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- maintenance
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Date 2006-09-05 Availability unrestricted Abstract Two well-known methods of improving the reliability of a system are(i) provision of redundant units, and
(ii) repair maintenance.
In a redundant system more units are made available for performing the sys- tem function when fewer are required actually. There are two major of types of redundancy - parallel and standby. In this thesis we are concerned with both these types. Some of the typical assumptions made in the analysis of redundant systems are
1. the life time and the repair time distributions are assumed to be exponential
2. the repair rate is assumed to be constant
3. the repairman is assumed to be perfect, and hence go with only one repairman
4. the repair facility can take up a failed unit for repair at any time, if no other unit is undergoing repair
5. the system under consideration is needed all the time
6. usage of only conventional methods for the analysis of the estimated reliability of systems.
However, we frequently come across systems where one or more of these assumptions have to be dropped. This is the motivation for the detailed study of the models presented in this thesis.
In this thesis we present several models of redundant systems relaxing one or more of these assumptions simultaneously. More specifically it is a study of stochastic models of redundant repairable systems with non-exponential life time and repair times, varying repair rate, different types of repairmen, intermittent use and the use of time series in reliability modelling.
The thesis contains seven chapters. Chapter 1 is introductory in nature and contains a brief description of the mathematical techniques used in the analysis of redundant systems.
In chapter 2 assumption (1) is relaxed while studying two models with the assumption of life times and repair times to follow bivariate exponential distributions. Various operating characteristics have been obtained and the confidence limits have been established analytically for the system measure, availability for both the models.
Reliability analysis of a two unit standby system with varying repair rate is studied in chapter 3, by relaxing the assumption (2). In this chapter a similar study of chapter 2 is studied with assumption that the repair time distribution is generalised Erlangian.
Assumption (3) is relaxed in chapter 4, and we introduced two repairman (one regular repairman and the other expert repairman) to so that the system will be more efficient. The asymptotic confidence limits are obtained for the study state availability of such a system.
A three-unit system in which the "preparation time" is introduced, and hence the assumption (4) is relaxed in this chapter 5. The difference-differential equations for the state probabilities are derived. The confidence limits for the steady state availability are obtained analytically and illustrated numerically.
In chapter 6, assumption (5) is relaxed. An intermittently used k our of n:F system with a single repair facility is condered with the assumption that failures will not be detected during a no need period. Identifying regeneration points expressions are derived for the survivor function of the time to the first disappointment and the mean number of disappointments and the sys- tem recoveries in an interval. Expressions are also deduced for the stationary rate of occurrence of these events.
Chapter 7 presents an unconventional but powerful method for the analysis of the estimated reliability of systems constituted of subsystems (compo- nents) operating in series and/or in parallel under varying operational and environmental conditions. In this chapter assumption (vi) is relaxed. The proposed method construes the estimated reliability data as time series which are analysed using the well-known time series techniques.
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I really liked that one too (IYHW). I still remember the theme song fondly...:yes:
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I really liked that one too (IYHW). I still remember the theme song fondly...:yes:
The Diamond Horseshoe revue
I seem to recall Eastern as well - then again I was pretty young back then (pre-teen).
There are several rides/attractions that I miss: Mission to Mars, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the old Tropical Serenade/Tiki Room (without Iago/Zazu), Star Jets, Skyway, Grand Prix Raceway, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Mickey Mouse Review, Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes, Main Street Electrical Parade, and Alien Encounter.
The good news is that my wife and I went to Disneyland last month and were pleasantly surprised to find that Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, the old Tiki Room (without Iago/Zazu), and the Electrical Parade were still in operation.
First, let me say :balr: Welcome!! :balb: on behalf of everyone here at DWT.com!!
Second - nicely said! I agree about misisng all of the same attractions as you. Now, being older and able to appreciate more, I wis the Skywas open more than ever!! :yes: :(
Yes, it was Eastern; found the answer in Lou's book! :thumbs:Quote:
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Mr. Toad and Alien Encounter.
:bump: Bumping this one back up!!
If You Had Wings was one of my favs too and part of it WAS because it was free so you could ride it over and over. It was like a sweet little bonus. Boy I am glad you do not have to have tickets for individual rides...that was something!
I also miss the original Tikki Room.. the newer edition just does not do it for me. :no:
I originally didn't like the new Tiki Room, partly because I'm a sentimental fool, and don't like the original attractions "updated" (i.e. messed up). However, Iago and Zazu have begun to grow on me (although I can do withour the oh-so-bad hip-hop rap part of the show. Ugh.
I have to admit that I really do love Zazu and Iago...I even have a stuffed Zazu...but still....I am not sure what it is....I miss something but cannot put my finger on it...
:idea: Maybe I need to take a trip down there and figure out what it is!
~Cindy :grin:
I still think that they ruined the Tiki room by adding Zazu and Iago..
They really need to being back the Skyway...anyone know why they took it away? My dad would always tell me what rides we were passing over, and it was cool to see how big the buildings for certain rides are.
The reason why they took the skyway away was to kept a secret but my dad knew. They said it was because of all the deaths surrounding the attraction. They really just needed to make it safer. It was one of the most popular attractions.
The thing I always remember about IYHW was going on it in the middle of the HOT afternoon. My parents wanted a break from the opressive Florida heat so they took us on it. I did like the ride though. But I have to say that Buzz is a good alternative to it.


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3. Darediablo, Feeding Frenzy (Southern)
Sludge-clogged grooves, ham-fisted organ and song with titles like "Behold the Panther Stone"? Sounds like Uriah Heep's proto-metal epic Demons and Wizards. Add a little math rock and subtract the vocals, and you've got Feeding Frenzy, an album for the twelfth-level magic-user in all of us.
4. The Clientele, The Violet Hour (Merge)
This English trio's sophomore effort is just as fey, folky and redolent of incense as Cat Stevens's Teaser and the Firecat. Coincidentally, the Clientele's round-cheeked leader, Alasdair Roberts, bears an eerie resemblance to Bud Cort's Stevens-reciting character in Harold and Maude.
5. The Rapture, Echoes (Universal)
The Rolling Stones' 1980 album Emotional Rescue was a lame, clumsy stab at cashing in on disco. The Rapture, perhaps the most overrated band of the new century, attempts the same with today's dance-punk "craze," making a record just as forced, awkward and ultimately disposable.
6. The Kills, Keep on Your Mean Side (Rough Trade)
Marianne Faithfull's sweet pop voice degenerated into the cracked, husky rasp of Broken English, her 1979 comeback. Ex-Discount singer Alison Mosshart's sweet pop-punk voice has degenerated into the cracked, husky rasp of Keep on Your Mean Side, her foray into lyrical darkness and angst-scorched blues punk.
7. The Twilight Singers, Blackberry Belle (Birdman)
When Greg Dulli left the Afghan Whigs to form the Twilight Singers, it was like Steve Winwood defecting from Spencer Davis to make Traffic's Mr. Fantasy. In both cases, the result was a more sophisticated, if way less fiery, brand of soulful rock. Let's just hope Dulli doesn't go solo; the world would probably do fine without his equivalent of "Higher Love."
8. Neil Michael Hagerty, The Howling Hex (Drag City)
Filing down the scuzzy garage excess of his Royal Trux days, Hagerty unveils a technically dazzling puzzle of mumbled imagery and logic-defying leads. The spirit of Thin Lizzy's overlooked classic, Nightlife, can be spotted haunting the periphery of his odd, compelling vision.
9. Apollo Sunshine, Katonah (SpinArt)
Todd Rundgren's sprawling Todd was a dense tangle of ballads, prog and hard rock anchored to a playful virtuosity. Likewise, Apollo Sunshine dunked Katonah in buckets of candy gloss and studio sparkle while crafting this melody-dappled mélange of vintage pop.
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Vicious Cycle (Sanctuary)
In an ironic kick to the balls, many former stadium rockers are now on lowly indie labels, gasping for air in a market dominated by rap and country. The once-mighty Skynyrd tries brown-nosing both genres on Vicious Cycle by remaking its own 1976 Southern-rock staple "Gimme Back My Bullets" -- only with Kid Rock belching all over the top of it. Even worse is "Red, White and Blue," a cringe-inducing song that out-jingos Toby Keith with the Paleolithic platitudes "My hair's turning white/My neck's always been red/My collar's still blue." Fittingly, the group's new indie imprint, Sanctuary, also boasts such ripe-for-the-glue-factory acts as Sammy Hagar and Meat Loaf. A vicious cycle, indeed.
How Swede It Is
By Andrew Ignatius Vontz
Fuck electroclash. While electronic-music fans in America stopped, dropped and fell in love with the cocaine and leg-warmer-fueled nostalgia of the electroclash scene, the homeboy tribal techno revolution raged globally; a pair of Brits created a Latin Project that inexplicably made my deep-house-hatin' ears perk up; a Scumfrog hopped to the top; and Underworld offered up the best of its best (which is to say, pretty much the best, period) on a two-CD set. Hey now.
1. Swedes
Techno producers in Sweden are sampling, pointing and clicking their way toward a brighter tomorrow for electronic music. If Detroit Techno went to a B-Boy battle, cut the noise on the high end, picked up a djembe, threw in some crazy breakbeats every now and again and did a back flip into a reverb tank, then bam! -- you'd have Swedish techno. Super-clean production, whirling dub effects, hip-hop-style breakbeats mixed in with pounding four-to-the floor madness, tribal hand-percussion polyrhythms and minimal melodies are hallmarks of the Swedish techno production style.
Like their better-known producing peers in America and abroad, the Swedes are building on pre-existing styles, but they're producing future music that will blow your mind. Bj�rn Borg. Ikea. Abba. The Swedes have given us so much. You're about to hear a lot more from them soon. See artists like Robert Leiner and Samuel L Session for examples.
2. Not Swedish, but close
Tony Rohr, an American, and two Brits -- Michaelangelo and Oliver Ho -- have crafted superlative tribal-techno tracks with styles that are distinctly their own, yet evocative of the Swedish techno sound. Unless you're out digging through crates every week or ordering up some platters online, it might be tough to find tracks from these cats. But you can hear some of the tracks on readily available mix CDs from Adam Beyer and John Kelley.
3. The rest of the best
Celebrating ten years of bringing light in, 1992-2002, a two-CD set of electronic perfection from Underworld, has almost everything you need from its oeuvre: "Cowgirl," "Born Slippy," "Two Months Off," "Dark and Long," "Rez" and many more. The live act might be the best there is -- electronic or not -- and the group's artistry is unparalleled. Even without Darren Emerson, it's still banging.


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Do Guys Like Perfume on Girls?Guys love the smell of perfume on a girl, honestly we do.It's the almost an attraction factor. Of course a certain guy might feel an inclination only towards a certain perfume but almost all guys love perfume on girls. There is nothing more heavenly than a beautiful girl wearing an sensuous perfume, its intoxicating to the guy's senses. I can remember the number of crushes I had owning mostly to the perfume the girl was wearing along with the beauty of course. Guys are like dogs when it comes to a sense of smellThey love a good smell and nothing beats the scent of a woman. Some girls have a natural scent to their body and other have a great sense of perfume both of them are bound to enchant guys. No smell is a definite turn off factor. In fact it is always a great idea to have a perfumed bed room works for most of the guys.Have you ever seen the movie "Perfume"?You should if you have not, it will give you an idea about the fatal attraction that a perfume can have on a man. I believe most of the comparisons like "she is as beautiful as a wild rose" come from the fact that roses have a great smell of course it also means she is as attractive as a flower, but have you ever seen a beautiful girl being compared to a flower without a fragrant smell?Girls have known this secret of attraction for a lot timeI believe because the history of mankind would have you known that the princesses used to take bath in rose water well anointed with the perfumes of the musk. I am sure that came in handy while wooing the best looking prince around. Well it's a fatal secret and we guys are helpless. There are certain perfumes which are so intoxicating coming off a girl that guys find it difficult to concentrate on anything beyond being lost in that spell. I personally love being around a flowery smelling girl any scent which reminds me of the wild roses.Should you wear a perfume to bed?No brainier question. Of course you should! We guys love it. In fact as per a research guys spend more time on foreplay when enticed with the perfume of their inclination. In fact I called my girlfriend "jasmine" because she used to smell of jasmines or something just as exotic, she used to deny using any perfume at all and attributed the smell to the perfume soap she was using. So I guess even that works though I don't know much about these toiletries. So as to the answer to what men think about perfumes on girls well we cant think much we just feel so completely enticed. |


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The Temple Gives Back
"Movie Night/Food Drive"
Thank you to everyone who came to Movie Night! We donated close to 200 items to Agape Distribution in Sidney!!
"30 Pieces of Silver"
Last year we collected over $1,000 from this program, which was donated to a Missions program in Chile.This year, as we are focused on our community, we will be donating the proceeds to Big Brother's Big Sister's program.
From coins to dollars, we encourage EVERYONE and ANYONE, member or non to donate! You will receive a donation bag for "30 Pieces of Silver" on March 23rd. Anyone in need of additional donation bags can pick them up at the Welcome Center. The "30 Pieces of Silver" offering will be collected Easter Day, April 20th.
"Helicopter Egg Drop"
We had around 1,000 people that participated in this event! We hope everyone enjoyed their time with us! Keep an eye for this event next year!
What is Big Brother's Big Sister's?
At-risk youth between the ages of 5 and 16 are matched with a positive adult mentor who offers them guidance, support, and friendship and meets with them two times a month. In our community, there has been 48 high school volunteers, serving 55 children considered at-risk or in need of support.
Facts about Big Brother's Big Sister's
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Venice is one of those places that everyone has seen before they visit. The green canals and famous bridges; the warmly coloured palazzo (grand residences) and narrow alleyways; the breathtaking openness of Piazza San Marco, the arched prow of a gondola and the gentle wake behind a vaporetto (waterbus) – all have been immortalised in mediums as classic as Canaletto's paintings and as mainstream as Facebook photos. And for every traveller who has been disappointed in a destination upon arrival, there is a happy visitor in Venice, where the city looks exactly as it is supposed to. Venice is both a well-preserved monument and a living, breathing, sinking city, full of contemporary art, traditional crafts and high culture.
What is it known for?
A Unesco World Heritage Site, Venice is visited by more than 60,000 people every day, many of whom come to experience dreamlike canal settings, peerless Gothic and Renaissance architecture and masterworks by Titian and Tintoretto. La Serenissima (the most serene), as Venice is sometimes called, has been an attraction for centuries, but modern tourism is both the Venetian economy's driving force and the curse that is driving out growing numbers of locals. As cruise ships continue to drop off thousands of day trippers, saving a sinking Venice – from both the rising waters and from becoming a living museum – is the goal of many local and international groups.
The majestic Basilica di San Marco and its grand Campanile bell tower that rises above Piazza San Marco, call to mind the golden age of the Republic of Venice, which ended in the early 18th Century. This was when the city and the Doge ruled the coastlines of the eastern Mediterranean, from Dalmatia to Crete. Visitors will find masterworks from Bellini to Tiepolo housed in museums like the Gallerie dell'Accademia, but today's Venice is also home to a robust contemporary arts scene. The Venice Biennale, one of the world's most important art events for collectors and curators alike, takes place every odd year from June to November, and showcases leading and emerging artists from around the world, complete with celebrities and glamorous parties. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection houses a first-class collection of 20th-century art from Dali to Duchamp in a beautiful white palazzo on the Grand Canal, and the Punta della Dogana, a contemporary art centre at the tip of Dorsoduro, contains the modern art collection of Francois Pinault, the CEO of Kering, which owns labels like Gucci and Saint Laurent. The Ponte della Costituzione, a controversial bridge designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, opened in 2008; the startlingly modern structure of tempered glass and marble swoops across the Grand Canal.
Preserving Venice, which is sinking one to two millimetres each year, has been the city and the Italian government's focus, with the first stages of the MOSE project going into effect in 2013. The 78 floodgates installed in the lagoon will eventually close off the three inlets during high tides, blocking them from swamping the city.
Where do you want to live?
Venice is divided into six sestieri (divisions): San Marco, San Polo, Dorsoduro, Castello, Cannareggio and Santa Croce, all cut through by the Grand Canal and smaller canals. Houses are numbered, but not usually in a straight line or by street, so finding a particular address is not always easy. The most popular sestiere for foreign buyers is San Marco, near famous landmarks such as the Rialto Bridge and Piazza San Marco. "The San Samuele area of San Marco is a central position close to everything," said Claire Hazle, Italian sales agent for Knight Frank. Across the Grand Canal, Dorsoduro is also very popular, with beautiful shops and good restaurants. It is also less frenetic than San Marco. "For quieter living, the Giudecca [part of Dorsoduro] is in demand," Hazle explained. "Boat parking is easier to find here and prices are lower."
The most desirable type of property is a restored, historic, canal-front palazzo with original beams and plasterwork. "Most common to the market are fully restored apartments normally with a terrace or water view," Hazle said. "Apartments in large historic palazzi are also available, and are sometimes unrestored or need a lot of work." A rare property will have a private garden or a water gate, both of which are highly sought after.


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Leadership Edinboro (LE) strives to provide quality leadership training for our student population at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. LE will conduct leadership sessions and provide additional resources to assist students in developing their leadership skills through hands-on training, seminars, webinars, teleconferences and external resources such as the teams kit and the Universal Challenge Course.
Other Benefits to Leadership Edinboro include:
- The Ropes Course - this will be used upon request to increase team building and focus on group leadership
- Website - the website will list all information of upcoming sessions, how to get involved and resources for all students on leadership and individual development.
- Community Service/Service Learning - Leadership Edinboro will offer community service opportunities to enhance your leadership skills while giving back to our community.
- Programming - students will have the ability to plan and implement a leadership programs which allows them the opportunity for experience in programming.
- Student Success and Retention - is has been proven that students who are involved on campus will be the most likely to graduate and will gain the most from their college experience. By providing a program that is so comprehensive and focuses on the functioning principles of the university, students will feel more connected and get more out of their college experience. Students will be more likely to do well academically, socially and stay at Edinboro through graduation.
- Continued measures: The program has the ability to adapt and grow. We hope to include workshops on budgets, officer transition, marketing, parliamentary procedures and electoral processes. Student feedback is encouraged to focus the workshops on topics relevant to the student needs.
For more information on Leadership Edinboro:
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Lachha Chicken | Urdu Recipes – Lachha chicken is crunchy and spicy recipes. After the making of this dish is good taste. People like and try to home with simple method.
Lachha Chicken
- Chicken boneless 1/2 kg
- Salt for taste
- Meshed Ginger 1 tbls
- Onion 2 Pieces
- Medium size tomatoes 3 pieces
- Yougourt 1 cup
- Meshed Red Chillies ( 1tbls)
- Termeric 1tbls
- White Zeera 1tbls
- Dry Milk 1tbls
Washed the chicken and keep it in the freezer for 10 minutes. and then cut into small cubes.Then grind the tomatoes and onions in the chopper. Then shake the yogurt and milk and keep this in the fridge for 10 minutes. Then enter the cooking oil in the pan and stay away for cook for 5 minutes in light flame.
Then placed the Ginger, Garlic and other ingredients in it and fried until the oil is separated. Then enter the Chicken, Red chili, Turmeric and Salt and fried well and then covered this and allow to cook for 15 minutes in very slow flame and then meshed or shacked yogurts enter the pan and then enter the Garam Masala in it and then allow to cooked for 12 to 15 minutes and then serve with hot bread or boiled rice.
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Death of 'Soul of Capitalism': Bogle, Faber, Moore
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20 reasons America has lost its soul and collapse is inevitable
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Jack Bogle published "The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism" four years ago. The battle's over. The sequel should be titled: "Capitalism Died a Lost Soul." Worse, we've lost "America's Soul." And, worldwide, the consequences will be catastrophic.
That's why a man like Hong Kong contrarian economist Marc Faber warns in his Doom, Boom & Gloom Report: "The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today."
Insuring against economic calamity
Gold ETFs are so popular they now hold more of the shiny stuff than most central banks. What will it take to sustain the funds' big gains? Barron's Clare McKeen reports.
No, not just another meltdown, another bear-market recession like the one recently triggered by Wall Street's too-greedy-to-fail banks. Faber is warning that the entire system of capitalism will collapse. Get it? The engine driving the great "American Economic Empire" for 233 years will collapse, a total disaster, a destiny we created.
OK, deny it. But I'll bet you have a nagging feeling that maybe he's right, that the end may be near. I have for a long time: I wrote a column back in 1997: "Battling for the Soul of Wall Street." My interest in "The Soul" — what Jung called the "collective unconscious" — dates back to my Ph.D. dissertation, "Modern Man in Search of His Soul," a title borrowed from Jung's 1933 book, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul." This battle has been on my mind since my days at Morgan Stanley 30 years ago, witnessing the decline.
Has capitalism lost its soul? Guys like Bogle and Faber sense it. Read more about the soul in physicist Gary Zukav's "The Seat of the Soul," Thomas Moore's "Care of the Soul" and sacred texts.
But for Wall Street and American capitalism, use your gut. You know something's very wrong: A year ago, too-greedy-to-fail banks were insolvent, in a near-death experience. Now, magically, they're back to business as usual, arrogant, pocketing outrageous bonuses while Main Street sacrifices, and unemployment and foreclosures continue rising as tight credit, inflation and skyrocketing federal debt are killing taxpayers.
Yes, Wall Street has lost its moral compass. It created the mess, but now, like vultures, Wall Streeters are capitalizing on the carcass. They have lost all sense of fiduciary duty, ethical responsibility and public obligation.
Here are the Top 20 reasons American capitalism has lost its soul:
1. Collapse is now inevitable
Capitalism has been the engine driving America and the global economies for over two centuries. Faber predicts its collapse will trigger global "wars, massive government-debt defaults, and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society." Faber knows that capitalism is not working, capitalism has peaked, and the collapse of capitalism is "inevitable."
When? He hesitates: "But what I don't know is whether this final collapse, which is inevitable, will occur tomorrow, or in five or 10 years, and whether it will occur with the Dow at 100,000 and gold at $50,000 per ounce or even confiscated, or with the Dow at 3,000 and gold at $1,000." But the end is inevitable, a historical imperative.
2. Nobody's planning for a 'Black Swan'
While the timing may be uncertain, the trigger is certain. Societies collapse because they fail to plan ahead, cannot act fast enough when a catastrophic crisis hits. Think "Black Swan" and read evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed."
A crisis hits. We act surprised. Shouldn't. But it's too late: "Civilizations share a sharp curve of decline. Indeed, a society's demise may begin only a decade or two after it reaches its peak population, wealth and power."
Warnings are everywhere. Why not prepare? Why sabotage our power, our future? Why set up an entire nation to fail? Diamond says: Unfortunately "one of the choices has depended on the courage to practice long-term thinking, and to make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they reach crisis proportions."
Sound familiar? "This type of decision-making is the opposite of the short-term reactive decision-making that too often characterizes our elected politicians," thus setting up the "inevitable" collapse. Remember, Greenspan, Bernanke, Bush, Paulson all missed the 2007-8 meltdown: It will happen again, in a bigger crisis.
3. Wall Street sacked Washington
Bogle warned of a growing three-part threat — a "happy conspiracy" — in "The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism:" "The business and ethical standards of corporate America, of investment America, and of mutual fund America have been gravely compromised."
But since his book, "Wall Street America" went over to the dark side, got mega-greedy and took control of "Washington America." Their spoils of war included bailouts, bankruptcies, stimulus, nationalizations and $23.7 trillion new debt off-loaded to the Treasury, Fed and American people.
Who's in power? Irrelevant. The "happy conspiracy" controls both parties, writes the laws to suit its needs, with absolute control of America's fiscal and monetary policies. Sorry Jack, but the "Battle for the Soul of Capitalism" really was lost.
4. When greed was legalized
Go see Michael Moore's documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story." "Disaster Capitalism" author Naomi Klein recently interviewed Moore in The Nation magazine: "Capitalism is the legalization of this greed. Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call the dark side, and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control."
Greed's OK, within limits, like the 10 Commandments. Yes, the soul can thrive around greed, if there are structures and restrictions to keep it from going out of control. But Moore warns: "Capitalism does the opposite of that. It not only doesn't really put any structure or restrictions on it. It encourages it, it rewards" greed, creating bigger, more frequent bubble/bust cycles.
It happens because capitalism is now in "the hands of people whose only concern is their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders or to their own pockets." Yes, greed was legalized in America, with Wall Street running Washington.
5. Triggering the end of our 'life cycle'
Like Diamond, Faber also sees the historical imperative: "Every successful society" grows "out of some kind of challenge." Today, the "life cycle" of capitalism is on the decline.
He asks himself: "How are you so sure about this final collapse?" The answer: "Of all the questions I have about the future, this is the easiest one to answer. Once a society becomes successful it becomes arrogant, righteous, overconfident, corrupt, and decadent … overspends … costly wars … wealth inequity and social tensions increase; and society enters a secular decline." Success makes us our own worst enemy.
Quoting 18th century Scottish historian Alexander Fraser Tytler: "The average life span of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years" progressing from "bondage to spiritual faith … to great courage … to liberty … to abundance … to selfishness … to complacency … to apathy … to dependence and … back into bondage!"
Where is America in the cycle? "It is most unlikely that Western societies, and especially the U.S., will be an exception to this typical 'society cycle.' … The U.S. is somewhere between the phase where it moves 'from complacency to apathy' and 'from apathy to dependence.'"
In short, America is a grumpy old man with hardening of the arteries. Our capitalism is near the tipping point, unprepared for a catastrophe, set up for collapse and rapid decline.
15 more clues capitalism lost its soul … is a disaster waiting to happen
Much more evidence litters the battlefield:
1. Wall Street wealth now calls the shots in Congress, the White House
2. America's top 1% own more than 90% of America's wealth
3. The average worker's income has declined in three decades while CEO compensation exploded over ten times
4. The Fed is now the 'fourth branch of government' operating autonomously, secretly printing money at will
5. Since Goldman and Morgan became bank holding companies, all banks are back gambling with taxpayer bailout money plus retail customer deposits
6. Bill Gross warns of a "new normal" with slow growth, low earnings and stock prices
7. While the White House's chief economist retorts with hype of a recovery unimpeded by the "new normal"
8. Wall Street's high-frequency junkies make billions trading zombie stocks like AIG, FNMA, FMAC that have no fundamental value beyond a Treasury guarantee
9. 401(k)s have lost 26.7% of their value in the past decade
10. Oil and energy costs will skyrocket
11. Foreign nations and sovereign funds have started dumping dollars, signaling the end of the dollar as the world's reserve currency
12. In two years federal debt exploded from $11.2 to $23.7 trillion
13. New financial reforms will do little to prevent the next meltdown
14. The "forever war" between Western and Islamic fundamentalists will widen
15. As will environmental threats and unfunded entitlements
"America Capitalism" is a "Lost Soul" … we've lost our moral compass … the coming collapse is the end of an "inevitable" historical cycle stalking all great empires to their graves. Downsize your lifestyle expectations, trust no one, not even media.
Faber is uncertain about timing, we are not. There is a high probability of a crisis and collapse by 2012. The "Great Depression 2" is dead ahead. Unfortunately, there's absolutely nothing you can do to hide from this unfolding reality or prevent the rush of the historical imperative.
Canada: Sharia ETF Poised for Launch
June 18, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Proposed ETF from Islamic firm UM Financial and Jovian Capital could be a Canadian first
By Shirley Won, Funds Reporter, Globe and Mail
Islamic financial services company UM Financial Inc. has teamed up with Jovian Capital Corp. JOV-T in a bid to list Canada's first sharia-compliant exchange-traded fund (ETF).
On Wednesday, Standard & Poor's launched the S&P/TSX 60 Shariah Index. In compliance with Islamic law, the index avoids firms involved in financial services, alcohol, gambling and pork products.
The proposed product from UM and Jovian would be based on the S&P/TSX 60 Shariah Index so the two firms are in discussions with Standard & Poor's to get a licence for the new index to start the Islamic ETF later this year. Eventually, "the goal is to launch a family of ETFs," UM chief executive officer Omar Kalair said yesterday.
The sharia ETF would target Canada's Muslim population (which numbers about one million), as well as foreign investors, Mr. Kalair said in an interview.
Jovian's BetaPro Management unit is a provider of leveraged and other ETFs, while its AphaPro Management unit has actively managed ETFs. "Any product launched would come from BetaPro," Mr. Kalair said.
In recent years, sharia-compliant ETFs have popped up in various countries including Britain, India, Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia and South Africa. In March, a sharia gold ETF was launched in Dubai.
Barclays Canada, which administers the iShares ETFs and is the largest ETF provider in the country, "has no plans to go down this route," said Oliver McMahon, its director of product development. "It's not in our existing product pipeline."
Jasmit Bhandal, a spokeswoman for Standard & Poor's in Canada, said there have been talks with ETF, mutual fund and structured products providers for use of the S&P/TSX 60 Shariah Index, but nothing is final. But a licence with an ETF provider is typically an exclusive one, she said.
A couple of sharia-compliant mutual funds are sold in Canada, but both have less than $2-million in assets.
A Toronto-based investment firm, frontierAlt Management Ltd., launched Canada's first sharia-compliant mutual fund, frontierAlt Oasis Canada, in 2007. The firm also later started sharia-compliant funds frontierAlt Oasis World and frontierAlt Global Income funds, but these were closed last fall because it was no longer cost effective to run them, said Taras Hucal, president of frontierAlt Management.
The two Oasis stock funds invested in firms in the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes. The income fund invested in sukuk, which is similar to conventional bonds, but pays out a share of revenue from a designated pool of assets or services rather than interest. Islamic principles prohibit receiving interest income.
A problem with selling the Oasis funds is the fact they are no-load funds; they do not pay financial advisers a commission, but rather a 1-per-cent annual trailer fee as long as investors hold them, Mr. Hucal said.
"There has also been a lack of awareness" about products in this niche, and the steep market collapse didn't help sales, he said.
The frontierAlt Oasis Canada Fund suffered a 42-per-cent loss for the year ended April 30, and an average annual loss of 23 per cent over two years. Funds need a solid three-year return number to attract inflows of money, Mr. Hucal said.
In March, Global Prosperata Funds Inc. launched the sharia-compliant Global Prosperata Iman, a global stock fund that is sold with front- and back-end load commissions. It now has $1.5-million in assets.
"We are expecting another $1-million to $2-million from a number of different investors in the next 30 to 60 days," said Glenn Moore, vice-president of Toronto-based Prosperata Funds. "There is a lot of pent-up demand."


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In his ambitious adult debut, Fabry, the author of more than 50 novels for children and young adults, offers an unusual and occasionally confusing story with a twist. In Dogwood, W.Va., wise spiritual sage Ruthie Bowles wants to help prison inmate Will Hatfield and his old flame Karin resolve their tragic pasts. Karin, introduced as a pastor's wife and mother of three, feels she has settled for a "safe" man "faithful as an old dog but better smelling," rather than Will, who she believes was the passionate love of her life. She struggles to resolve the lingering regrets that have poisoned her soul. From another point of view, we learn that Danny Boyd survived a horrific accident that took the lives of his little sisters. He blames himself and can't move forward. The novel starts slowly as readers juggle several points of view, flashbacks and characters, but once the story starts cooking, it's difficult to put down what with Fabry's surprising plot resolution and themes of forgiveness, sacrificial love and suffering. (Aug.)
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Okay, so I haven't blogged in a couple months….I know, bad Holly!! It's been crazy around here, but in a good way. Mimi's Dollhouse has been growing and growing fast. I spent a little time focusing on some new designs and some other businessy stuff…but I'm back to blogging…promise!!! My Radio Flyer Party has gotten a little press lately….
{NEW IN SHOP} Radio Flyer Party
So call it my last ditch effort to hold onto a little bit of summer…or maybe it really is all about fall and I'm living in denial:) Introducing the newest Mimi's Dollhouse party line, Radio Flyer. This party is perfect for the nostalgic child in us all…it combines the classic red wagon feel with the fun firefighter-esque Dalmatian print. I paired the red and black and white with some burlap and wooden crates for an outdoorsy, old fashioned feel… I {Read More}


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I wish the cruises I went on did this!
Beginning January 3, 2005, a new service will be available to our guests visiting our Theme Parks. This new service for digital cameras will allow Guests to download their images and other media information from a digital media card to a CD.
Each of the camera centers in the four Theme Parks have been equipped with this new technology. In addition, this technology will be deployed in the Disney Resort properties over the next few months.
Due to the increase in digital camera usage during recent years, Guest demand for our on-property film processing services has decreased. As a result,film processing will no longer be available at the four Theme Parks or the Walt Disney World® resorts effective January 3, 2005.
Lou Mongello
Host, Author & Site Owner
I wish the cruises I went on did this!
Ana The Librarian
MomtoMandJ in the box
That's a really awesome idea! Do we know how much this will cost us yet?
"What ARRRRGH you doing?"
"What are you doing?"
"No, What ARRRRGH you doing?"Cap'n Jack lives again!"I'll try anything once or twice, that's the kind of mouse I am"
Thanx Lou for the update. I was wondering how long it would be until Disney/Kodak (lost billions by refusing to promote digital cameras as Fuji was rolling in the dough) got on the digital bandwagon. However, 35mm and APS formats are still alive, OK on life support, but there will always be some purists out there who will hang on for years to come. Look at the popularity of B&W film among the younger generation as an example.
I have been a serious amateur photog since 1963, but only reluctantly got my first digital camera two years ago; now I have three.
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Probably a fortune...Originally Posted by 4Mickey
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I don't know why they waited so long to adapt to digital cameras - you have to wonder the same thing about the Bell telephone companies - don't they see that cellphones are successful and that most of the younger generation is only using cellphones rather that having a "home phone"? You would think companies would notice that society has changed and that they need to change too to survive.Originally Posted by Jiminy Cricket
Disney and Kodak... the fun is just starting. You can expect many changes in the near future if you are staying on property. Don't want to wait till you get home to check your PhotoPass? No problem. Just check it on your TV when you get back to your room. Even order and have it ready for pick up at your resort gift shop.
Yeah, it's taken them long enough
One of the things that I'm glad that I found for my Digital Camera is the ImageTank. It's a small hand-held device that has an internal hard drive (mine's 40Gb), and it has a simple user interface for copying/erasing images from camera CF media cards. My camera is a Sony with a memory stick, so I had to get a $20 adapter... But all-in-all it cost less than $300 and saves me from needing to pack a laptop on my trips.
I have a similar interface for my iPod from Belkin. Drop in the CF card and it copies all images to my iPod's HD. Couple that witht he backup to laptop and I'm pretty happy. But to be able to dump to a CD which could be mailed home separately - that's nice (in case bags get lost etc)
Those are both pretty awesome ideas! I am a picture taking crazy woman & this will be my first trip w/ my digital camera! Boy will I have a ball (& I'll finally have some pics to contribute to the site!!!)
"What ARRRRGH you doing?"
"What are you doing?"
"No, What ARRRRGH you doing?"Cap'n Jack lives again!"I'll try anything once or twice, that's the kind of mouse I am"
My family visited WDW last May and I took over 1000 pics using my digital camera. Several times I took my memory cards to the Kodak store in MGM Studios and had them copy my pictures to CD.
Here are so glitches though. Each CD can only hold 70mb (approx. 25 3meg pictures) so it takes 2 cds to download 1 -128mb memory card. The second gotcha is that each cd costs $10.99 and includes a full color index card of your pictures so you know what is on each CD.
As you can imagine this can become pretty expensive quickly. FYI, you can also have your digital video camera tapes copied to DVD also! If I remember correctly the price was somewhere around $25.
CDs should hold 700 MB.... Is WDW limiting space?
The DVD thing is cool - hadn't heard about that!
I was just online today looking at the ipod photo, they look like they were made for replacing my laptop on vacations. They have an add on called the camera connector.Originally Posted by Sam I Am


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