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Business as usual in Washington just isn't working. The rhetoric and entrenched positions are not serving the citizens the United States or the people of the 6th congressional district in Wisconsin. Mark Harris vows to break that mold. Mark knows that tackling tough issues isn't always easy but by working with all members of congress and by putting people before politics collaborative solutions can be found.
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When students transfer from a community colleges to four-year institutions, they typically have to retake a few classes because their new school refuses to accept credits from their old one.
But under legislation signed this morning by Gov. Jon S. Corzine, New Jersey's colleges and universities are compelled to recognize credits earned at the state's 19 county colleges.
"Often transfer students are forced to pay for the same college course, adding unnecessary costs and time to earn their degree. This partnership will eliminate that burden," Corzine said.
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Shared pain: Sandy Grazioso, somehow keeping her dignity while wearing a cardboard-and-plastic birthday crown, looks around the crowded table at Applebee's in Livingston and declares: "Thank you, God."
She holds up a porcelain statuette of a cherub, a gift from one of her friends. The six women, strangers before Sept. 11, 2001, meet once a month at the restaurant to help ease their grief.
They all shared the same unspeakable horror -- the loss of a young son.
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- They came to Pompton Lakes for garage sale bargains and ended up facing a costly day in court -- courtesy of a retired cop who took the law into his own hands, according to a report in The Record of Bergen County.
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- A dog run in Leonia has prompted a bevy of signs on the laws of homeowners who complain that the frolicking pooches are too noisy, according to a report in The Record of Bergen County. They include: "Have Pity on Us, Stop the Barking," "Com'on, Please Stop" and "Let's Make a Deal: We Won't Bark in Front of Your Houses if You Won't Bark in Front of Ours."
- A former Verona High School football player who transferred to DePaul Catholic High School after being charged with assault cannot take to the gridiron until Oct. 1, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association will rule today.
- A revised policy at Rutgers University allows students to drink alcohol in the privacy of their dormitory rooms, provided they are of legal age, according to a report in The Daily Targum.
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From left to right: Susan Bernofsky, Natasha Wimmer, and Chris Andrews
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Last night in a meeting that was hosted by Susan Bernofsky, and convened at Columbia University's Dodge Hall, Roberto Bolaño's two celebrated translators Chris Andrews and Natasha Wimmer met for the first time. Their panel discussion on the process of translating the famed Chilean writer's work was exceptionally interesting.
The evening began with Andrews reading a paper on key elements of Bolaño's "fiction-making system." "What is this system?" Andrews said: "How does it work? Bolaño's fiction invites us to read it genetically, looking for traces of method in the finished work," Andrews said. "[There are] three procedures that can be discerned by genetic reading: expansion, meta-representation, and the circulation of characters." These methods are not new literary devices, but are utilized brilliantly by Bolaño. For example, Andrews compared Bolaño reccuring characters to a technique used by Balzac and even James Fenimore Cooper. Regarding Bolano's use of story expansion, Andrews noted that "Bolaño himself explains in a preface to Distant Star that he blew up the final chapter of Nazi Literature in the Americas because he 'would have preferred a longer story that, rather than mirroring or exploding others, was, in itself, a mirror and an explosion.'" Andrews concluded his portion of the evening by talking about Bolano's naturalness, or his "impression of ease" (a phrase he borrows from Nora Catelli). "Bolaño seemed to have been a compulsive storyteller," said Andrews, "and where other Spanish writers seem to struggle with placing a philosphy or idea within plot, Bolaño was able to do this without much seeming effort."
The discussion was then handed to Wimmer, who gave a fascinating talk about her translation process. She begins, she says, with a literal translation and then works from that to obtain a true translation. She brought up many conundrums a translator faces, such as the struggle to give lift to even the most banal sentences; when to break run-on sentences; how to find voices within Bolaño's work; and how to translate slang. "Spanish," Wimmer said, "maintains steady rhythm in its syntax, whereas English comes off as free-jazz." She mentioned that the most difficult part of 2666 to translate was in "The Part about Fate," Seaman's long, folksy monologue about the Black Panthers and cookbook recipes.
The discussion was followed by a Q&A in which an audience of MFA students asked the two esteemed translators about translating Spanish into different kinds of English (American vs. British, for example); the number of drafts a translator goes through in making a manuscript; the editing process for translations; and how the two translators view each other's work. For an interesting comparison of their work, we recommend reading the slightly different versions of "Jim," a story that was published in Andrews's translation in The Insufferable Gaucho, and as an essay in Wimmer's translation in Between Parentheses.


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Morehouse's class of 2013 has to be an example of the leadership young men – especially black men – must contribute to society, President Barack Obama said during the rain-drenched 129th Commencement ceremony.
"There are some things as black men we can only do for ourselves," President Obama said as a wet, but appreciative crowd cheered and snapped photos. "There are some things as Morehouse Men that you are obliged to do for those left behind.
"You wield something even more powerful than the diploma you are about to collect, and that's the power of your example. So what I ask for you today is the same thing that I ask of every graduating class that I speak to: use that power for something larger than yourself. Live up to President [Benjamin E.] Mays' challenge. Be sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings and injustices of society and be willing to accept responsibility for correcting those wills."
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Chicano Latino Studies Sponsors Caribbean Music Workshop
[ March 25, 2014; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] On March 25, the Department of Chicano Latino Studies, Dr. Enrique Ellis-Rios from USC, and CSULB's Dr. Victor Rodriguez will be sponsoring a Caribbean Music Workshop. As part of the activities, a number of musicians will discuss and perform the Rumba, Guaguanco, Merengue, Bomba, Plena, Cumbia, and other rhythms.
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Given Name: Matthew Vincent LaPorta
Born: Port Charlotte, FL, USA, in 1985
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Solia 1875W Thermal Ionic Hair DryerAnonymousCaliIt's OkayI decided to purchase the Solia 1875W hair dryer after YEARS of using a Conair drugstore model (its still going after 10 years). The drugstore model left my ears ringing, so it was important to me to find a hair dryer that was quiet, light, and dried quickly.The Solia is not light; it weighs quite a bit, particularly if you have a lot of hair to dry. It dried my hair quicker than my trusty Conair, but I expected so s it is a new dryer with more wattage.As for it being "whisper quiet," it is not. This was the most disappointing aspect of the item. It does makes a lower-toned "whoosh" sound rather than the higher pitched sound my old dryer made (that left my ears ringing and had me searching for a quiet dryer). The Solia dryer wakes up my husband in the morning, but at least he can go back to sleep; the lower pitched sound is not as irritating, but it still does make noise.I cant attest to my hair being healthier or more manageable after using the Solia. It gets my hair dried, but it is nothing fantastic. I think that one could spend half the price and find something comprable from a drugstore.posted Nov 4, 2007Link to this post
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KDE Kiosk Mode
One of the more powerful aspects of the KDE desktop is the ability to customize the user experience completely. Most KDE programs use core features and plugins provided by the desktop system, creating a consistent user interface and easy-to-access configuration setup. One popular extension to this interface, known as KDE's Kiosk Mode, allows a system administrator to configure all aspects of the desktop for an end user and optionally prevent the end user from making modifications to the provided setup.
KDE applications utilize a configuration framework similar to Microsoft Windows INI files. One benefit of this file type is the ease of direct manual editing of the configuration file by an administrator or user. The INI file format is an ordinary text file that is divided into smaller named sections, each section having one or more key/value pairs. These values are used and stored directly by the applications:
... [GroupName] key=value key2=value2 ...
Configuration files are located in a number of places, largely based on which distribution is being used. When an application attempts to find its configuration, it scans according to a predefined search order. The list of directories that are searched for config files is seen by using the command kde-config --path config. The directories shown actually are searched in the reverse order in which they are listed. This search order is put together by the following set of rules:
/etc/kderc: a search path of directories can be specified within this file.
KDEDIRS: a standard environment variable that is set to point KDE applications to the installation directories of KDE libraries and applications. It most likely already is set at login time. The installation directory of KDE automatically is appended to this list if it is not already present.
KDEDIR: an older environment variable now considered deprecated in favor of KDEDIRS. If KDEDIRS is set, this variable is ignored for configuration.
The directory of the executable file being run.
KDEHOME or KDEROOTHOME: usually set to ~/.kde. The former is for all users, and the latter is for root.
Configuration files are stored in directory trees that end in /share/config, so an environment variable directory like KDEHOME has a /share/config appended to it to make the configuration file directory name.
When an application requests its configuration information, KDE searches all of the above directories for the files that go with the application and merges them together into one configuration object for the program. Information is combined on a key-by-key basis—any conflicts receive the value that was read latest in the chain. Because KDEHOME files always are read last, any local user changes made to the file always override values in other configuration files. This is the reason the output directories of the kde-config command are shown in reverse order—they are listed based on the precedence of the config files contained within.
Because the configuration file values cascade downstream, system administrators can preset certain configuration values in an upper-level directory to be used as the default for all users, or at least until those users make any changes. For example, if the system administrator wanted to set a default wallpaper for all users, until those users made custom changes, a simple edit of the kdesktoprc file in an upper-level configuration directory would provide this feature:
[Desktop0] ... Wallpaper=/usr/kde/3.3/share/wallpapers/custompaper.jpg ...
One of the features of KDE's Kiosk Mode is the ability to lock values read from configuration files earlier in the chain so that values read later cannot override them. This utility not only allows system administrators to preset certain configuration items, but it also lets the administrators lock those configuration items down so that end users cannot make custom changes. Locking configuration values in this fashion is easy.
Assume an administrator wants to lock the Konqueror configuration down so that the navigation toolbar always is presented in text form. A simple scan of the $KDEHOME/share/config/konquerorrc file shows the following information:
... [KonqMainWindow Toolbar mainToolBar] IconText=TextOnly ...
This configuration item specifies that Konqueror use Text instead of Icons in the Main Toolbar. Changing this value in Konqueror is easy—right-click on a Konqueror toolbar and select Text Position to change between settings. Figures 1 and 2 show the difference in toolbars with text and icons.
To lock this value for users, the administrator simply can create or edit konquerorrc in a higher-level configuration directory. To make this value unchangeable, simply edit the file as shown:
[KonqMainWindow Toolbar mainToolBar] IconText[$i]=TextOnly
The above [$i] specifies that this configuration value is immutable, meaning Konqueror should use this configuration value and not merge in any values in lower-level directories that normally would override this setting. Any configuration files farther down the configuration directory structure containing [KonqMainWindow Toolbar mainToolBar] group cannot override the IconText value.
Once this file is saved and Konqueror is restarted, any changes to the navigation toolbar's Text Position are not saved between Konqueror restarts. This is because the value was locked in an upper-level configuration directory, so it cannot be overwritten in a lower-level directory.
On a larger scale, whole groups of configurations can be specified as immutable. Setting the group as immutable makes all values in that group immutable as well. For example, in KCalc's configuration file, kcalcrc:
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Taking, processing, and marketing of fish and other seafood from oceans, rivers, and lakes. Fishing is one of the primary forms of food production; it ranks with farming and probably predates it. The fishing industry employs more than 5 million people worldwide. The major countries engaged in marine fishing are Japan, China, the U.S., Chile, Peru, India, South Korea, Thailand, and the countries of northern Europe. The aquatic life harvested includes both marine and freshwater species of fish, shellfish, mammals, and seaweed. They are processed into food for human consumption, animal feeds, fertilizers, and ingredients for use in other commercial commodities.
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Sport of catching fish—freshwater or saltwater—typically with rod, line, and hook. Fishing is as old as the human ability to use tools to capture prey. The first significant modern innovations, including use of a reel, a rod with line guides, and a hook with an offset point, came in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Horsehair was used as line until the mid 19th century, when it was replaced by textile materials; these in turn were replaced by nylon in the 1930s. Wood and bamboo rods yielded to rods of fibreglass and other synthetic materials. Forms of sport fishing practiced today include fly fishing (freshwater), in which a fly-like hook is repeatedly cast upon the water surface to attract biting fish; bait fishing (fresh- and saltwater), in which live or artificial bait is set or drawn below the surface; and big-game fishing (saltwater), in which heavy-duty tackle is used to land large marine species (including tuna, marlin, and swordfish) from a motorized boat.
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Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water behind a moving boat. Trolling is used to catch pelagic fish such as mackerel and kingfish.
Trolling can be contrasted with trawling, where a net (trawl) is drawn through the water instead of lines. Trolling is used both for recreational and commercial fishing whereas trawling is used mainly for commercial fishing.
Trolling from a moving boat is a technique of big-game fishing and is used when fishing from boats to catch large open-water species such as tuna and marlin. Trolling is also a freshwater angling technique.
Trolling involves moving a boat quite slowly through the water; this may be accomplished by use of a special trolling motor.
From the Boy's Own Book of Outdoor Sports (early 1900s):
One of the branches of angling which is generally practiced at mid-water or thereabouts, and includes spinning with a live, a dead, or an artificial bait, with a small fish generally, or its representative. When neither fly fishing nor bottom fishing can be practiced, in consequence of certain forbidding circumstances of water and season, trolling can be resorted to as an excellent substitute. The fish most commonly taken by any sort of trolling in our rivers are pike, perch and trout. Trolling is divided into three parts, viz: sinking and roving, trolling with gauge and snap-hooks and spinning. Sinking and roving is practiced with a live bait; a minnow or a loach for the common trout or perch; bleak, gudgeon, dace or roach for pike or large trout. The best general bait for all sorts of trolling is the gudgeon. The rod used should be a long bottom one, with a good winch, and prepared plaited silk trolling line. For foot-line, about a yard and a half of the best gut. The link to which the hook is tied, should be of fine gimp, if pike are sought fore; but gut, or three-twisted hairs, will do for trout and perch. The baits must be strong and lively, and placed on the hooks with as little injury to them as possible. Allow the bait to swim, here and there, generally at mid-water, but in deep places, deeper, drawing it up gently to the surface now and then, letting it sink again and guiding it to the best looking spots of the locality. Snap-baits are mostly used at seasons when pike do not feed with sufficient voracity to pouch their baits promptly. Their merit lies in allowing the troller to strike quickly, before the fastidious fish suspecting something wrong, has time to eject the bait from his mouth. The rod used must be short and stiff; that known as the punt barbel rod being the best. Snap-baits are two-fold - one, which does not spring when you stroke the fish, and the other which does.The first-named consists of three hooks - two large ones, tied back to back, with their barbs pointing different ways and one smaller hook tied on at the top of the shanks of the others, and pointing straight out from them. The spring-snap is generally used with dead bait; it requires deep insertion in the bait to allow the spring to act, which it will not do without some considerable resistance. Spinning is a dashing, killing method of angling, and the practice of it requires considerable muscular exertion. The best spinning rod is made of a single piece of East India mottled cane, fourteen or sixteen feet long, well ringed, with a screw winch, requiring no winch fittings. With a rod of this description, salmon and large trout can be trolled for in the deepest and widest waters. In narrow streams, the angler can spin with a very small portion of line out and almost avoid casting, the length of the rod allowing the bait to be dropped noiselessly wherever it is wished, and to spin it accordingly. The baits used in spinning should be of the most brilliant colors; the brightest minnows, gudgeons, you can procure. The hooks used in spinning should be of the bright steel color of the wire, no changed to the ordinary blue line of hooks; and they should be whipped on with light-colored silk, waxed with white wax. Artificial spinning baits are sold at the various tackle stores. They all kill fish more or less successfully; but the majority of them are inferior to the natural bait. A small sail boat, or skiff is used, with an attendant to manage the boat as you direct. You can sue the live bait, or an artificial bait, as most convenient. Some sportsmen are very fortunate with the artificial bait. A stiff rod and reel, with the same tackle as before described, and no sinker - is all that is requisite. The boat should move gently, and let your line drag far in the rear. With artificial bait the fish is hooked almost instantly. If you use live bait, be exceedingly careful in determining when the fish has gorged it. You should give him several minutes after he has seized it, for this purpose. On seeing the bait, the pickerel will generally run off with it, and will then stop to gorge it, but does not always do so. The sign that he has swallowed it, is a peculiar slackening of the line, which experienced anglers can easily understand. But if he has gorged the bait, he will soon start off a second time, and sometimes will stop and start off the third time. In these cases, you should never be in a hurry. When you are convinced that he has taken down the bait, draw a tight line, and strike for your fish. If he is large, you should play with him until he is quite exhausted, or you may lose him in the attempt to land. The difficulty of taking a pickerel from the hook may be obviated in a measure by gagging. For this purpose some anglers provide themselves with prepared sticks of various lengths. If the hook is completely swallowed, as is frequently the case, open the stomach in the middle, cut away the hook, and unslipping the knot that holds the gimp, draw it out that way rather than through the mouth.


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Quarterback Matt Johnson and receiver Hasan Hopper found each other early and often Friday night at Maiden. Hopper caught six of Johnson's first 10 complete passes for 84 yards and a touchdown.
The two connected for a 36-yard touchdown pass one play after Maiden's Dakata Painter stripped Bandys' quarterback on a sack in the second quarter.
"We were hoping to take the air out of their sails," said Maiden coach Brian Brown. "They had some life, and it was hard for them to overcome that."
Newton-Conover scored 22 unanswered points in the first quarter to build a lead that proved insurmountable for Bunker Hill.
The Red Devils fought to a 65-32 victory in a game that was filled with enough sloppy play and penalties that Newton-Conover Coach Nick Bazzle wasn't entirely pleased with the outcome.
"I'm just glad it is over with," he said adding he doesn't like to be part of a game with so many penalties. "We've got some work to do, but overall it was a good win against a good football team."
HICKORY (AP) — The father of a missing 10-year-old said Friday that he is still not sure whether his wife was involved in the girl's disappearance.
Baker said he just wants to find Zahra Clare Baker and take her back to the family's native Australia if she wants to go. Police believe the girl is dead.
Baker and his wife Elisa, the girl's stepmother, reported her missing Oct. 9. They said they had last seen Zahra — who used hearing aids and a prosthetic leg because of bone cancer — in her bed at their home in Hickory, about 50 miles northwest of Charlotte. But police don't believe them.
What happened to Zahra Clare Baker? Police continue to put together a timeline regarding, what many fear, were the last weeks of the 10-year-old's life.
North Carolina officials believe Newton's central business district is among the nation's historic areas, and that could be good news for downtown property owners. "I think this is a benefit not only from the cultural aspect of historic preservation of buildings," said Rob Powell, Newton's commercial development coordinator, "but with the tax credits … if you do a project that meets federal guidelines you can basically get federal and state tax credits for completing renovations."
Less than one year after its opening, a Newton business is giving back to the community that helps keep it in business. 2 Pink Magnolias in Newton, in conjunction with The Newton-Conover Women's Club, will hold a Wine and Charity event to benefit a service of the Family Guidance Center. Mother and daughter team Becky and Jennifer Stiver are co-owners of 2 Pink Magnolias, and ever since their store opened in February.
Disturbing reports of violence and mistreatment surfaced this week during the investigation of missing 10-year-old Zahra Clare Baker. Could those acts of violence have been stopped if someone knew what to watch for? Area child abuse prevention adovocates say people shouldn't wait to act if they suspect violence against a child. Possible indicators of physical child abuse include welts, unexplained burns, bald spots and unexplained bruises, said Adrienne Opdyke, victim advocate for the Children's Advocacy Center.
Erwin Henry Kump, 87, of Hickory, died Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, at his residence. Services will be held privately at the family's request.
Vernon "Tater" Lee Sigmon, 73, of Newton, passed away Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, at Lutheran Home-Hickory West. Burke Mortuary in Newton is serving the Sigmon family.
The Newton-Conover Red Devils started their title defense as Catawba Valley 2-A conference tournament champions in convincing fashion. The Red Devils swept the West Caldwell Warriors 3-0 at Newton-Conover and earned their 15th win this season against a conference opponent.
The Red Devils defeated the Warriors 25-9, 25-12, 25-8. Newton-Conover rested key players Isabella Zaliagiris and Paris Wicklin on Thursday against West Caldwell, and Corbin Evans and head coach Linda Richards were not at the match.


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Take a look at our historic silhouette website, 'Profiles of the Past' and our house history website 'MyHouseMyStreet'
The Regency Town House is a grade I Listed terraced home of the mid-1820s being developed as a heritage centre and museum to focus on the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between the 1780s and 1840s.
At this time in history, broadly defined as the Regency period, Brighton enjoyed an unrivalled status as the provincial capital of fashionable British society and was, perhaps, Europe's foremost seaside spa. A legacy that is, today, reflected in the city's rich architectural heritage of grand Regency terraces and elegant back streets.
Regular tours of the House are offered throughout the warmer months of the year and by arrangement during the winter period. All visits must be pre-booked.
We have populated The Regency Town House with characters, some invented and some based on a real person who had history in common with our character. Read their letters and journals here.
Mrs Simpson's journal, 5th August 1831: Murder Most Foul.
If you are interested in the history of your house and street, the MyHouseMyStreet project is for you. Explore the project further at MyHouseMyStreet or contact us directly to see how you can get involved.
Take a look at our collection of transcribed letters, written from 1824 to 1870, which provide us with an insight into general family life during the late-Regency period.
Brighton and Hove were not always the large towns that we see today. Wander through the past by browsing our local history section


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Implementing affordable rent
As the Localism Bill returns to parliament, Samantha Hall examines some of the problems facing landlords seeking to introduce fixed term tenancies
The development of thinking around the government's proposed affordable rent tenancies continues – with the generally accepted fixed term structure giving rise to some serious practical concerns.
To date most have assumed – following the lead given by the government's consultation Local decisions: a fairer future for social housing and the Localism Bill – that the new affordable rent tenancies would be fixed term tenancies. The National Housing Federation published its model assured shorthold fixed term tenancy agreement along these lines in April 2011.
A significant drawback with fixed term tenancies is that if they are for a duration of three years or more, they need to be executed by deed. Execution by deed is not practical in day to day housing management. Most housing officers undertaking tenant sign-ups would not have landlord authority to execute by deed and so would find themselves unable to complete tenancy agreements. These issues can be overcome, but it does not make for straightforward or smooth housing management.
A three year plus fixed term tenancy executed under hand rather than by deed, would take effect as an equitable tenancy. There is probably no significant legal detriment in this to either the tenant or the landlord – however social landlords will not want to explain to tenants what exactly the differences are in the two forms – and so again the fixed term model leaves landlords with practical difficulties.
The difficulties multiply with tenancies for fixed periods of seven years or more. As well as being executed by deed, these documents must be registered at the Land Registry, with all the administrative burdens this entails – and the longer the fixed term period, the greater the risk of being caught by SDLT thresholds and the tenancy becoming stampable.
There is a possibility of registered social housing providers avoiding these problems however. The publication of the Tenant Services Authority's decision instrument Revision to the tenancy standard: affordable rent showed that the TSA is not being prescriptive in relation to tenancy form. This allows landlords to consider alternatives to the fixed term tenancy – for example periodic tenancies with a contractual fetter on possession.
This is a useful flexibility, and one which could allow housing officers to continue tenancy sign-ups free from unnecessary legal and governance complications.
The periodic tenancy would need to be carefully drafted – using an existing assured shorthold agreement for the affordable rent regime would be inadvisable, as the tenancy document would not meet the regulatory requirements.
In addition to the tenancy drafting, there are other significant matters to be worked through by a landlord seeking to introduce an affordable rent tenancy. These include potential impacts on charitable status and existing nominations agreements and whether any covenants affecting the land or in existing loan agreements are breached by the use of the new tenancy.
Notwithstanding these additional considerations however, the TSA's decision instrument and its opening up of the possibility of using periodic tenancies at least means that social landlords considering adopting affordable rents tenancies are not limited to the fixed tenancy option.
Samantha Hall is solicitor at Trowers & Hamlins
Readers' comments (5)
Seeing the extensive potential administrative burden and considerable areas for legal dispute, is there anyone out there who can put an estimated cost to the changes Shapps has staked his reputation on, and so establish if the insecure unaffordable tenancies beloved by the Tory are value for money?
Is the AR product linked to FTTs? That's not how I've read it and following advice from the CLG and CIH I've been informed that AR doesn't require a FTT.
Can anyone provide some clarity on this?Chris:
Affordable tenancies will provide value for money for the taxpayer because the level of grant funding will be much lower. Housing benefit payments will increase initially, but once the universal payment kicks in, this should be capped (assuming the Govt have the balls to keep control of benefit payments).
As for the legal disputes, I'm sure that there will be a vast number of 'bleeding heart' human rights lawyers rubbing their hands at the thought of lining their own pockets with yet another scheme to fleece hard-working taxpayers.
The Govt MUST put a stop to that by legislating to limit their payments, or by simply legislating to stop whatever it is they will argue about in order to rack up payments that they can then channel into the socialist movement to enable unions to cause misery for millions of people across the country.
The previous system where grant funding was spiralling out of control was unsustainable. It's always difficult to implement a new system, but I guarantee that the vast majority of RSL's will make this work, and the vast majority of tenants will carry on with their lives with very little impact.
I also guarantee that the NHF, Old Labour, Looney Lefties, Inside Housing, and several who post on here will moan and complain whatever the outcome. The first time a tenant complains, they will hold that one complaint as definitive "proof" that affordable tenancies don't work even though the vast majority of tenants will not give a monkeys.
I don't think that AR's require a FTT, but the intention was that the two would go hand-in-hand so that those in most need would not be disadvantaged by those who simply choose to live in social housing, but could afford to rent on the open market, such as Bob SIX FIGURE SALARY man of the people Crow.SHW - if the answer to the growing legal costs is to cap the amount lawyers charge why is it so wrong to suggest that the answer to the growing benefit cost is to cap the amount landlords charge?
The government line supported maintain that benefit caps are the only way, when logic says reducing the price reduces the cost.
Affordable tenancies are more expensive. Lower paid people will not be able to afford them and so will not be able to live in the areas they chose, for instance, so that they can work. How is that value for money for the taxpayer?
SHW - the policies you are supporting are the wrong medicine for the diagnosis, and definately not being done out of love.These AR tenancies will end up being let in many different ways in accordance with varying LA policies and allocations strategies causing disparity across the country... some will let to the applicants who 'float to the top' in CBL needs based systems irrespective of affordability, in fact RPs may well prefer those on full HB to be in situ with HB paid directly to them if still allowed and may even require that to satisfy the requirements of their commercial lenders in order to finance the stuff in the first place. LAs that impose 'have to be in work' allocations conditions will be criticised for creating social stratification - the remaining social lets for the poor and unemployed?
It is going to make it even harder to achieve thriving sustainable communities - the worthy mantra and aspiration of many LAs - with such division. In the area in which I work 80% of market rent is not affordable without HB even to households with average incomes! Applicants will end up being allocated AR homes on s106 developments in upmarket areas with very high rents (even where eventually capped at LHA)
I am surprised there is not more discussion about what is really meant by the word AFFORDABLE... surely 'affordable' means affordable WITHOUT the need for assistance from HB...?? 35 - 40% net disposable income to affordably go to meet base housing costs tagged to 30th percentile earnings would mean something and could be used to demonsrtrate to developers what they are expected to contribute in order to achieve that where planning obligations require provision.... in the same way that there is a methodology we use to assess affordability for aspiring homeowners taking on mortgage, residual rent or equity loan costs where 45% net disposable income is deemed affordable. Lets get our collective heads around this one. Just because it is described as affordable does not mean it is!
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A little something different from me here.
Back in 2006, after longing to learn how to do photo manipulation for quite some time, my husband lovingly encouraged me and bought me PS CS2 and a pen and tablet. First it took some getting used to the whole pen and tablet, funny that now I can't stand to use anything but. Then, learning PS. I tried and tried and would always end up getting frustrated and walking away. Still trying over the years, along the way I became quite good at "make overs". If only I could show you what the original of what THIS looks like. Perhaps another example of my attempt at photo manipulation is THIS and THIS. All 3 of these are from my older account at ~CindeeRoo. Still, more like make overs. I've been okay with that as I feel like I learned a lot and became quite good at it.
So, recently my son's friend, Ian, allowed me to "play" with a few of her own pictures. I stumbled upon a tutorial by *B-r-a-c-i-a-t-a and decided to give it a whirl. This is my result. and I'm quite proud of it. I know that I need to practice more on hair ... that was always my downfall and shading/lighting, but non-the-less I am so excited with my results, as is Ian. She's been a great muse for me and I am grateful to her for allowing me the honor of "using her"
Before and After found HERE
BTW ... the title comes from THIS SONG. It seems to fit the image and is one of Ian's favorites
I just love all the fun you put into your comments with many cute emotes you know ... and you know so many
Well, M'Lady ... you're fun, spunk, wit and sweetness always show with their help and your great memory


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Tracking the NFL's best CBs
02 Oct 14The Island Week 4: Tracking the NFL's top cornerbacks
We're tracking and ranking the NFL's best corners each and every week. This week: Richard Sherman, Patrick Peterson, and Joe Haden were on bye, so we look back at their seasons to date. And Darrelle Revis was one of the few Patriots ready to play in Week 4.


text: Cruise to the Lesser AntillesMarch 1-9, 2014 Sail to the Lesser Antilles, the arc of spectacular volcanic islands in the heart of the Caribbean Sea, during this exceptional opportunity to elude the depths of winter 2014. Discover the historic towns and harbors favored by yachtsmen, the unique cultures of neighboring enclaves and the tropical charm of island life. Explore the rich culture and beautiful natural features of the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles. Cruising from San Juan, call at Gustavia, St. Barts, dotted with traditional Swedish architecture; enjoy Roseau, the picturesque Victorian capital of Dominica known for its volcanic topography; visit Bridgetown, Barbados the most British of the Caribbean isles; be on deck as you approach St. Lucia for a picturesque glimpse of the Gros and Petit Pitons, twin mountain peaks and UNESCO World Heritage site; learn about the English history of St. John's, Antigua; and simply enjoy the spectacular scenery of the British Virgin Islands Please contact the Alumni Travel office at 1-800-886-9895 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com for more details. |


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625 Esplanade
(near Bidwell Mansion)
Chico CA
Mailing Address:
College of Natural Sci.
CSU, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0545
Class Field Trips Summer 2013
Summer field trips begin Thursday, June 6, 2013 and run through Friday, August 22, 2013. Field trips are only available on Thursdays and Fridays from 10:30am to 11:50am. There is room for 2 classes each day.
Secrets of Circles: Circles are pretty amazing shapes. If you look around, you'll see that they are everywhere: the wheels of a car, the clock on the wall, the tortillas on your table, and the Frisbees, tops and balls you play with. This highly interactive exhibition from the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose features 18 trilingual (English, Spanish and Vietnamese) exhibits designed to inspire visitors to ask questions and investigate the answers as they explore the math, science, and engineering of circles. Teacher guides for second grade and for K-3rd are available.
OPEN FIELD TRIPS: The museum is open exclusively for class visits of all grades. Docents will provide a brief introduction to the museum and then will be available to answer any questions, allowing for free discovery and inquiry.
Dates | Field trips are available on Thursdays and Fridays from June 6 through August 22, 2013. |
Time | 10:30am - 11:50am. There is room for two (2) classes per time slot. |
Cost | $60 per class (maximum 30 students per class). NOTE: Classes with more than 30 students require special arrangements and will incur an additional cost. Payment MUST be received 2 weeks prior to field trip date to avoid cancellation. Chaperone entry is included in field trip cost. |
Attendance Requirements | Each class must have one adult chaperone per 5 students. Chaperones MUST remain with children in galleries to guide them in appropriate behavior and safety. It is expected that the chaperones be active participants in the students' learning opportunity. |
Location: Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade Avenue, Chico (next to Bidwell Mansion). Please note that parking is limited and purchase of a parking permit is required. Parking permits can be purchased at the kiosk in front of the museum using coins, cash, or credit card. Parking is $1 per hour.
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Fall 2014 Production: Godspell |
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The Neumann University Players, formerly known as the Theater Ensemble, is a company of students, faculty, staff, and alumni under the artistic direction of faculty member Terence Gleeson, who founded the group in 1984. The University Players produce two or more fully-staged plays annually selected from a wide range of drama, including Shakespeare, musicals, and contemporary plays. Students have the opportunity to perform in, manage, design, market, or be part of the tech crew for these productions, and can earn credit for their participation.
"Urinetown" - Bobby Strong (played by Michael Conover) stirs the people to revolt against Urine Good Company, which controls access to all "public amenities" in the town.
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So as some of you may know, I have a band with my coworkers called The Saboteurs. We performed an unplugged set about a month ago for our office's post-Valentine's event (see previous post)… I'm really proud of our performance back then, that I decided to compile the audio from that particular set and turn it into an EP. Why "Invitation Only" for the title? First, it's a line from Stolen, our last song in the set. Second, it was an office-only event. So there.
- Yellow (Coldplay cover)
- My Hero (Foo Fighters cover)
- Stolen (Dashboard Confessional cover)
DOWNLOAD: Cloud (free) / BandCamp (free or name your price)
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Global integrated campaign that signals the loud and proud first whistle for the adidas World Cup onslaught and their new pay-off: all in or nothing. The Samba Pack is four different coloured boots representing four styles of play inspired by the high energy and colour of Brazil. adidas Football's mission is to push the limits of the game forward, driving the performances of Messi, Dani Alves, Oscar dos Santos, Lucas Moura, Hernanes, Lavezzi, Cavani, Torres, Ozil and Bale.
The campaign hero film moves high speed to the genre twisting beats of ghetto techno group Buraka Som Sistema as we see the Brazilian four, moving like you've never seen them before in preparation for 2014: It's all in or nothing if you want to go all the way to World Cup level of play.
As well as the film, the campaign embraces retail, out of home and the adidas.com digital platform. The soundtrack, made especially for the film, is released by Buraka as their latest single and was available on SoundCloud as of launch day.
Agency: United State of Fans / TBWA
Role: Creative Director / Art Director
Director: Paul Geusebroek
Team: Fabio Costa + Ben Hartman + Kari Shaw + Enric Soldevila
We also developed a product porn site that shows the skills of each boot. You can only improve your game through hard work and consistent practice – going "all in". Only through repetition can you improve. For this reason we used the gif effect in the digital experience to reflect the Samba Collection idea. These gifs appear above the boots and when you hover over them, they reveal their special benefits.
Development of the global strategy and the digital platform for Nissan to communicate the new sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League. This partnership introduces new ways to enrich the UCL experience, proving what Nissan does best; create innovation that excites. It focuses on the game changers, the engineers of football, the #genius - a moment of pure brilliance that makes you leap off your seat and embrace strangers, all while screaming uncontrollably.
Agency: United State of Fans / TBWA
Role: Strategy / Concept / Art Direction
Digital Development: Kevin Yaun + Mark Van de Vis + DigitasLBi
Team: Ben Hartman + Kari Shaw + Enric Soldevila
To find the real #genius of the UEFA Champions League we created a digital platform based on a complex algorithm that calculates the excitement, the tension and the difficulty of the goals. From this the #genius of the week is chosen. The site is being translated into more than 48 languages.
You can also experience it for yourself by clicking here.
The algorithm applied to different goals at the same time.
At the end of the season we use the statistics to choose the #genius of the year, and award them the trophy.
TV and Print campaign for Nike to launch the Just Do It concept in Spain. In recent years sports in Spain have had great "momentum". We launched this campaign so that future generations will continue to make history, where the best athletes in Spain challenged Spaniards to work hard regardless of their their discipline.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Art Direction
Director: Nacho Gayan
Illustration: Alex Trochut / David Foldvari
Photo: JM Ferrater
Team: Oriol Villar + Fernando Codina + Tuning + Enric Soldevila
Headline: Being Spanish is no longer an excuse, it's a responsibility.
Vitesse is a Dutch football club and one of the oldest in Europe. At the beginning of the 13/14 season we were tasked with changing their communication to create much needed excitement and emotion around the club, and to encourage the fans believe in their colours. We developed a series of 15 unique art posters to achieve this, one for each match played at home. In the near future an exhibition to feature all the posters will be arranged. This exhibition will be unique in that the football players themselves will manually print each poster using serigraph.
Agency: United State of Fans / TBWA
Role: Creative Direction / Concept / Art Direction
Design: United State of Fans / TBWA
Team: Ben Hartman + Kari Shaw + Enric Soldevila
Vitesse fans are very conservative and were slow to adopt the new image. But eventually, match by match, they began collecting them. The more extreme fans even had the iconic eagle tattooed on their bodies.
Special action, Event and Print for the new Estrella Damm sponsorship of FCNàstic soccer team .
To celebrate the promotion to first division of the FCNastic and advertise sponsorship by Estrella Damm, we had a promotion where 15 labels of Estrella Damn would get you a scarf. We had 38,000 scarves for the entire promotion, times 1.5 meters each, we ended up with 57 kilometers of cloth and beat the World Guinness Record.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Art Direction
Team: Oriol Villar + Marta Quirant + Enric Soldevila
Global TV and Print campaign for Nike to introduce Cristiano Ronaldo CR7 arrives to Spain.
With the signing by Real Madrid of one of the best players in the history of football Real Madrid (adidas), Nike launched a campaign to position their most important celebrity as part of the brand. After being elected best player of the Premiere League and Golden Shoe he can only look up to himself.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Art Direction
Director: Felix Fernandez de Castro
Photo: Rafa Gallar
Team: Oriol Villar + Tuning + Enric Soldevila
The Portuguese National team needed to win in order to classify for World Cup 2010, but CR7, their best player, couldn't play because he was injured. This print ad was a way to say that his presence would be felt in the match even if he wasn't there physically. Indestructible spirit.
Photo: Jean-Louis Wolf
South European TV campaign (Italy, France, Portugal, Spain) for the launch of the new Honda Civic.
The new Honda Civic with a more sensitive driving system makes the city feel different.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Art Direction
Director: Nacho Gayan
Team: Oriol Villar + Fernando Codina + Tuning + Enric Soldevila
Print campaign to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Honda Hybrid.
For 30 years the great dream of Honda has been to evolve so that someday we can again see our world as it remains in the memory of many.
Illustration: Brosmind
Headline: We have not been dreaming about changing the world for 30 years but about leaving it as it was.
Online and TV campaign for the spanish beer company Estrella Damm.
Mediterraneanly is a lifestyle, a way of living. You can swim in incredible beaches, meet fantastic people, eat at the best restaurant in the world 'El Bulli' or sip an Estrella Damm, the beer of the Mediterranean.
3 years after launching the initial campaign, we have managed to transform the Damm Summer commercial into the most awaited advertisement of the year. For over 15 weeks the soundtrack is one of the top ten downloads, with over 8 million views on YouTube, making Estrella Damm the third most mentioned brand in Spain.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Art Direction
Director: Fran Torres / Isabel Coixet
Team: Oriol Villar + Tuning + Enric Soldevila
TV and Print for the launch of the Barcelona World Race.
3 months, non-stop, 2 crew members, extreme navigation in the worst ocean currents. Considered the hardest race that exists.
The Paris/Dakar of the sea.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Art Direction
Photographer: Adam Hinton
Team: Oriol Villar + Tuning + Enric Soldevila
TV and Online campaign to relaunch the spanish drink Kas (PepsiCo).
Taking advantage of the purchase of KAS by PepsiCo after years of little activity by one of the best known Spanish companies from the 1980s, we were commissioned to relaunch the legendary brand.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Head of Art
Director: Igor Fioravanti
Team: Jon Lavín + Enric Soldevila
TV commercial for the Estrella Damm sponsorship of FC Barcelona.
Passion and dedication are characteristic of the people of the Mediterranean.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Concept / Art Direction
Director: Augusto de Fraga
Team: Oriol Villar + Tuning + Enric Soldevila
Print and Online campaign for the CNB, Barcelona swimming Club.
The CNB is a club with one of the longest histories in Barcelona. Some of the best waterpolo players and several Olympic Gold winning Spanish swimmers started there. It is impossible to achieve great results without the support of family. In this case the partners.
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Head of Art / Art Direction
Director: JM Ferrater
Photo: JM Ferrater
Team: Oriol Villar + Tuning + Enric Soldevila
The spring of Veri is situated in the Pyrenees some 1235 metres above sea level. No other water in Spain comes from such a high source. To celebrate this pureness we use true stories like 'the purest wedding' or 'Kilian Jornet's mum' (World Championship of Skyrunning).
Agency: Villar-Rosas
Role: Art Direction
Director: Augusto de Fraga / Adria Lopez
Team: Jon Lavín + Enric Soldevila


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Time to sack performance reviews?
PUBLISHED: 20 Mar 2012 00:08:42 | UPDATED: 20 Mar 2012 03:40:50PUBLISHED: 20 Mar 2012 PRINT EDITION: 20 Mar 2012Alec Bashinsky of Deloitte: "We spend a lot of time on training, and it is absolutely to our advantage to help employees improve and develop." Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui
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Joris Luijke of Atlassian . . . Under the new system, staff and managers now meet eight times a year for "lightweight feedback conversations". Photo: Louis Kennerley
For most people, the annual performance review is a gut-wrenching, angst-ridden time. It is a process designed to improve performance but often achieves the exact opposite.
For many, their bonuses are pegged to their manager's assessment. Others struggling to keep up could find their job is on the line. It is a process that generally starts with the best intentions but is often fumbled.
Some high-performance organisations invest much time and money in getting it right, others have given it away.
Professional services group Deloitte Australia puts great stock in its performance review process.
Its chief executive, Giam Swiegers, recently created waves when he told The Australian Financial Review his firm was more adept at "weeding out" underperforming staff than rivals.
"The word 'execute' has two meanings in Deloitte: you execute or you're executed," he said.
A spokeswoman for a rival professional services firm, when asked how the culture differs between the firms, volunteers that Deloitte is seen as more innovative but is also regarded as more "ruthless" with staff.
The partner of people and performance at Deloitte, Alec Bashinsky, bristles a little at this suggestion. He says his performance review process is fair, transparent and encourages coaching and support, rather than an arbitrary axing of the worst performers.
"We do not do forced ranking or stacked ranking," he says, referring to the process made famous at General Electric where the bottom 10 per cent of performers were "let go" each year. Widely used in the US 10 years ago, it has declined in popularity because of its tendency to pit people against each other and to rely on subjective assessment.
Nevertheless, Deloitte's 6000 people in Australia are expected to keep to their agreed standards of work. "What we basically say to our people is, 'Do what you say you are going to do'," Bashinsky says.
At Deloitte, people and their managers have quarterly meetings to discuss how things are going. The annual performance review meeting, due next month, is where they agree on objectives, give two-way feedback, and agree on a rating between one and five.
The ratings are plotted onto a normal distribution (bell) curve, with most people falling between one and three, Bashinsky says.
Then a panel debates the ratings for each person to make sure they are fair. The number of high ratings each group is allowed to award will depend on the group's overall performance.
Remuneration is linked to the performance review process, but is discussed at another meeting later in the year.
"It is a very comprehensive performance review process. We spend a lot of time trying to build a performance management culture," Bashinsky says.
He says the strength of the process is that it is "transparent". Because of the frequent feedback, there should be no surprises when the performance review takes place.
If performance is below par, the employee and manager will go into a "remedial and development process".
"Organisations like ours spend a lot of time, energy and investment to recruit the right people. We spend a lot of time on training, and it is absolutely to our advantage to help employees improve and develop," Bashinsky says.
Solving a performance problem may involve moving someone to a different role. Otherwise, there is a counselling process and a series of deadlines for improvement. After three or four warnings, a person may be dismissed.
But this is not common, Bashinsky says. "There is a very small percentage that are not performing. [Staff] turnover is the lowest it has ever been".
Engagement levels have also risen from 63 per cent to 74 per cent over the last two years.
"I can tell you, our turnover is half what it was five years ago and it is lower than the professional services benchmark by 30 per cent."
Atlassian, a much smaller business with about 500 employees, takes a very different approach. It has sacked the performance review.
Vice-president of human resources at the global software company Joris Luijke argues that rather than improving performance, the review process damages it.
Atlassian held reviews twice a year, before giving it away 18 months ago.
"You are trying to achieve more motivated staff and a higher level of performance. But what comes out of performance reviews – and I have talked to many companies about it – is de-motivation and anxiety, and a huge amount of time involvement. So it basically does the opposite of what we are trying to accomplish."
Atlassian's process involved 360-degree feedback (where people are rated by their direct reports, colleagues and managers), an assessment of strengths and weaknesses, conversation about career development and discussion of the ratings.
"We started asking our managers how much time they spent on all these things," Luijke says. Most of their time went on ratings and people's weaknesses. "Eighty per cent of the conversation concentrates on people's weaknesses.
"I'm not saying there shouldn't be an honest evaluation of people's performances, but they should be stimulating, positive and encouraging. There is a discrepancy between what people feel they should be getting and what managers give them."
This difference of opinion arises because humans tend to overestimate their abilities and managers are forced into defending their ratings.
"The average person thinks they are in the 75 percentile [of performance]. They think they are better than 75 per cent of people in their organisation," Luijke says.
But the bell curve ensures most will be rated as average.
Under Atlassian's new system, staff and managers now meet eight times a year for "lightweight feedback conversations". These include coaching conversations, 360-degree feedback, bottom-up reviews (which allow staff to review their managers) and "snappy biannual check-ins" which replace the performance reviews.
Staff are asked to divulge what it is about their job that they love, and what they loathe. Then they work with their manager to find ways to increase the amount of time they spend on their "loves" for at least two hours per week, and reduce time spent on their "loathes" by the same amount.
People who do not come up to expectations are given coaching conversations and are "managed out", just as they are across town at Deloitte.
Scrapping the performance review was not the only big change at Atlassian – it also canned personal bonuses.
All staff were given an 8 per cent increase in pay to replace their 8 per cent "on target bonus" plus stock options. A further 8 per cent company-wide bonus remains for a healthy annual performance.
"We were already a good payer; now we are a more fantastic payer," Luijke says.
"People saw that 8 per cent on-target bonus almost as an entitlement. People thought they should be getting more, and it generated that discussion."
Luijke says there hasn't been a single complaint about the disappearing bonus, which appears to prove that software engineers are not motivated by financial "carrots".
People who are "awesome" are not motivated by money, he says, but by their own achievement. "People like a stable base salary."
The fact that performance discussions are no longer linked to their bonus means discussions have become more honest, Luijke says.
The changes have not dented the traditionally high staff engagement scores, which range from 83 per cent to 87 per cent.
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Bing Crosby
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Academy Awards
1944: Best Actor
Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way
- Charles Boyer as Gregory Anton in Gaslight
- Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way
- Cary Grant as Ernie Mott in None but the Lonely Heart
- Alexander Knox as Woodrow Wilson in Wilson
In Going My Way (AA) Father O'Malley, a young priest with modern ideas about reaching his inner-city parishioners, clashes with stubborn Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald, AA). Crosby was director Leo McCarey's (AA) third choice for the role of Father Chuck O'Malley, after Spencer Tracy and James Cagney turned it down. Upon Crosby's acceptance the semidramatic role was tailored to his easy-going image, even allowing for the inclusion of a couple of songs. Though natural and charming in the role, Crosby was essentially playing a variation of the relaxed, genial character he portrayed in countless lesser films. His Oscar win was something of an upset. Both Charles Boyer and Cary Grant were nominated for roles in which they had been cast against type, Boyer as a diabolical murderer in Gaslight and Grant as a Cockney drifter in None but the Lonely Heart, and were considered the favorites.
Bing Crosby (b. May 3, 1903, Tacoma, Wash., U.S.—d. Oct. 14, 1977, near Madrid, Spain)


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It is difficult to see how negative inflation could be positive for the economy as a whole.
In the most recent recession, lenders were only giving mortgages to the most qualified borrowers.
Yes, interest rates were low and home prices were low, as well, but that did not matter much when so few loans were available to buy them.
That phenomenon needed to correct itself before consumers had the confidence to and were able to purchase homes again, albeit at increased prices.