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Vatican - Konstantin Apartment
숙박 가능인원5
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면적85 m²
Floor No.5(with elevator)
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|Via Costantino Morin, 00195 Roma, 이탈리아
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This 5th floor flat is about 85 square meters fully furnished and fully equipped and it accommodates up to 4 people.
It is divided in: 2 bedrooms, one with double bed and the other one with 2 single beds, an hallway with a large living room with tiled floors and access to a private balcony, a dining room, a kitchen and a bathroom with en-suite shower complete with all toiletries.
The kitchen is equipped with fridge, freezer, iron, microwave, dishes, coffee maker and microwave.
Available for our guest a lovely private balcony, air conditioning, central heating, free Wi-Fi connection and satellite TV
- Additional costs: Euro 3,50 city tax a person a night.
- Additional costs: Euro 50 cleaning fee.
- Please note that the check-in and key-collection take place at: Via Costantino Morin 27, Roma
- Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in.
- Please inform Vatican - Konstantin Apartment in advance of your expected arrival time.
- A shuttle service can be organized on request.
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Perfect location and excellent facilities. Sabrina was very helpful indeed with logistics. All that we wanted to do -- visiting, shopping, sight-seeing, restaurants -- were all within easy walking distance. Quiet in the evening. We would stay at this location again.
Me ha gustado muchísimo el apartamento de la Calle Konstantino Morini en el Vaticano. Limpio, amplio, cómodo, con una bonita decoración, tranquilo, bien comunicado, al lado de la Basílica del Vaticano y de los Museos.
Die perfekte Wohnung im Zentrum Rom.
Wir hatten einen freundlichen, pünktichen Empfang.In den gut renovierten Adelspalast war alles wie beschreiben. Sabrina war sogar behilflich das Gepäck bis zu unserer Abfahrt zu verstauen.
Das Bad hat keine Fenster und dashalb Luftungsprobleme,gut erträgliche bei der Lage.
small but cosy appartment. Very clean and the location is perfect.
Great service, all very helpful, efficient and friendly. Apartment in great location, very easy access to lots of sites on foot and good area for restaurants with some nice bars and caffes too. apartment building very Roman, apartment surprisingly quiet, a little dark but that was no problem in what was essentially a base. I would happily use it again.
We stayed 4 days in apartment Victoria with 4 adults. Wonderful location (300m from Angels' Castle and 8 min walking from Piazza Navona) and wonderful apartment. We are very thankful to Sabrina to make it possible for us to check in earlier and leave our luggage longer (fortunately there were no other gusts arriving that evening). The apartment has everything you need during your stay. Vary comfortable beds! All was clean and tidy! We surely come bed!
Great place to stay . Nice appartment and terrace.
Very well situated in Trastevere . Close to the animated part ofthis Roman quarter and in a quiet street at the same time.
Appartment was perfect.
Some Pluses and Minuses:
+ Nice appartment, enough space
+ Great terrace on the roof. (shared, but nobody seen here)
+ In the middle of Trastavere, good place for sightseeing in Rome.
- The neighbor below the appartment was listining very loud talkTV / Radio. we did not sleep 2 of the 5 nights.
- We were 15 mins over 9pm in the appartment and we did get the full charge of late check in. (the bus that was advised did not show up)
- There was a melon with mold in the fridge.
Cedro 3 was tidy, with a kitchen allowing for breakfasts, snacks and simple meals. It provided an excellent base for Rome walkabouts and perfectly situated in the heart of charming, and relatively calm Trastevere. No exchange of towels or necessities such as toilet paper, but wahsing machine in the room and convenience stores on nearby Via G Garibaldi, just three blocks or so away.
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Have you seen how the waves seem to search for each other? How they move respecting the balance of the unseen depths? How they finally melt and flow in a courtship dance until they rest on the shores?
We're like two waves rushing on the surface of the ocean: one rising, roaring, dashing with all its might in an illusory battle; the other one gently embracing its fury and waiting for it to melt in that embrace. For when one rises, the other one loses strength, when one perishes on the shore, the other one fades in the sorrowful waters.
We're like two waves searching for each other, struggling to find the hidden hands that push us to the surface. We force the currents, we struggle through the storms, we keep our crests high out of fear not to fall prey to oblivion, or the ocean to erase the foamy traces of our existence.
We're like two waves that live the life a wave should lead keeping with the norms and rules of the blue unknown. But the core of our strength resides in the rebellious wish to find each other. Oh, what a blunder would that be: two waves together, one day, can grow mightier than the plain, fearful ocean.
Or is the ocean the one that feeds our hunger for each other?
Imagine this: we cannot stay in the middle of the ocean forever! One day, we'll meet on the shore, and the grains of sand will absorb and remember our sensuous dance under the moonlit skies. There's nothing to be feared in this surrender.
Love, Searching, Balance…
We consider ourselves tall waves of an ocean. We rush and struggle through life, we try to reach higher and higher as if wanting to touch the sky, we're searching never pleased with what we're finding. We forget that what we're really searching for is Love! We're like the ocean, and Love is the ocean!
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The Federation of Community Legal Centres Victoria is the peak body for 51 community legal centres across Victoria. The Federation leads and supports community legal centres to pursue social equity and challenge injustice.
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The Federation does not employ practising legal staff as such, however, a law degree or experience in practise is an advantage for policy and project development positions.
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Do you have a graduate clerkship program? (involving practical legal training and admission to practise)
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The Scheme sponsors fees for the successful candidate's practical legal training, and then offers a 12 month contract with three placements in Victorian CLCs, one of which is a rural and regional CLC (with housing assistance). Toward the end of the 12 month period, the Federation works with the graduate to identify ongoing employment opportunities within CLCs.
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We are PhysSoc - The University of Nottingham's physics society. We're one of the largest and most active societies at UoN and the biggest and most active physics society in the UK. We aim to make sure your time here in Nottingham is the best it can possibly be by running a huge range of events, projects (like the recent launch of our space-balloon), trips (local and international), skills sessions, socials, rocket building and launching, sports teams, telescope training sessions, public outreach, careers & employability events, and more.
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More info about all events can be found on the PhysSoc Nottingham facebook page. To make sure you're always invited to our events add the PhysSoc nottingham account as a friend.
PhysSoc will give you the opportunity to visit some of the most interesting physics projects and facilities around the world. We will be continuing to run our award winning annual 3-day trip to CERN in Geneva at Easter.
During the CERN trip we will spend one day spent visiting one of the most talked about places in the world of physics and another day looking around one of Europe's most beautiful cities. After being voted Best University Trip by the Students Union in 2009, it's definitely a trip not to miss out on!
PhysSoc will also be running a number of day and weekend trips throughout the year.
Sport has been one of the society's greatest successes in recent years and we hope this year won't be any different. We will be running football, hockey and rugby again as they have proved to be hugely popular among our members in the past two years, but we will also be participating in netball this year in order to get more members involved in sport. If none of those sports take your fancy, feel free to suggest to the committee any sports you'd like to see the society do and we will try and generate enough interest in order to start up a team. Everyone is welcome to join us regardless of their level of interest and ability. To find out more about sports check out our sports facebook page:
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I have a 1971 Spring Special coupe Mustang. It has been painted and the drivetrain has been rebuilt. I am 6'7" and hate the straight back, non-reclining seats.
I have seen the black leather seats in the new 2005+ Mustangs and think they would look GREAT in my car. How hard/how many problems do you think I would have with the tracks, etc? Thanks!
Width wise, I don't think you should have too many problems. The issue that you are going to have using new style seats in a 1971 Mustang, is going to be the same in any 1971-73 or 1965 to 1970 Mustang, and that's the seat platform.
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Artist: From Exile (http://www.myspace.com/fromexile)
Album: Crushing Reality
Rating: 8.5/10
Recommended Tracks: Cataclysm, Soliloquy of Death, Crushing Reality
To start this review, I'll let you in on a little secret of what part of the glamourous position of college radio metal show host entails: we have to listen to a lot of crap. And by crap I mean every single god-awful cringe-inducing metalcore band churned off the Generic Metal Band 101 assembly line touted by the record labels as the next At The Gates that turn out to be the audio equivalent of your toilet bowl if you forced yourself to eat Taco Bell from a dumpster for a month straight. So, on the rare days we get stuff sent to us that actually passes for listenable, it makes us Wrekage hosts sit up and take notice. Furthermore, if we get an actual good release from a local band it's like getting a double whammy of unexpected goodness. Enter Atlanta's own From Exile's debut full-length album Crushing Reality, which shone like a beacon of bright light amongst all the bullshit Bullet For My Dozen Avenged Autumn Shadows As They Lay Dying bands yours truly's ears have been punished by lately. How refreshing it was to listen to metal that seems to have been composed with the expectation that the listener actually has half a brain instead of having sing-songy choruses and hooks thrown their way in radio friendly 4-minute blocks.
Crushing Reality is leaps and bounds better than any of the band's previous material, which came dangerously close at times to treading the waters of the generic metalcore previously mentioned. Instead, this album delivers solid performance after solid performance that at times simultaneously recalls the glory days of old In Flames, the first two Opeth albums, and Powerslave-era Iron Maiden to name a few. It's like there's a 1996 Swedish melodic death metal revival party in your ears, and everyone's invited. Guitarists Eric Guenther and Ben Wetzelberger effortlessly bounce sweeping and soaring guitar harmonies off each other over the course of the album, anchored by Beau Mackinlay's bass work (which you can actually hear thumping away in the mix - a rarity in metal albums these days), and a monster performance behind the kit by Vince Jarocki, who handles the complicated blending of genres throughout the course of the album with ease. Beau's vocals are also a strong point of focus over the entirety of the album, as he manages to pull off a mid-range throaty rasp/growl that sounds like a blend between Ihsahn and Steve Austin of Today Is The Day (though with much less of a venomous tone than either one), which compliments the music rather than overshadowing it.
The band describes their sound as progressive thrash, and that's a very accurate description given how each song on the album ranges from all out balls to the wall thrash to a full on melodic death shredding assault to deep, introspective, moody passages and back again, often within minutes of the same song. Most non-instrumental tracks clock in at well over the 5 minute mark, including the 8-minute title track and the epic, sprawling 11 minute album finale, fittingly titled "Finale". The clear album highlight is the Opethian 12-minute plus track called "Soliloquy of Death", which opens with a rapid-fire galloping head nodding fist pumping riff and features several Jester Race-era In Flames-style acoustic guitar breaks, a mixture of death and clean vocals, and a complete blend of pretty much every style of metal short of hardcore and grindcore you can think of. Off the top of your head try to think of a band out right now that can pull all that off, that can pull off that many seamless style changes in just one song as opposed to one album, much less stretch that kind of vibe out over the course of 12 and a half minutes yet never sound boring or repetitive the whole time. Once you're done drawing a blank, from now on you can make From Exile the answer to that question.
I was very surprised at how excellent this album is, given my only prior knowledge of the band was their older, more generic demo stuff I'd heard. What we have on Crushing Reality is a band serving notice to not only the Atlanta metal community but to the world that they are a serious force to be reckoned with, a band ready to take the next step and become leaders in the (hopefully) impending musical revolution against the wave of cookie cutter medio-core bands glutting the scene right now. If you are looking for a band that combines the sickly sweet guitar artistry of pre-Colony In Flames or pre-Angela Arch Enemy, coupled with the musical fearlessness and experimentalism of an Opeth or an Enslaved, then prepare to have what you know as your current musical reality crushed by Crushing Reality.
- Greg
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'Later he proved of great use. He could handle the boat. After we rowed away from the ship, we learned that he was in the boat and asked him if we hurt him when we walked over him. He said, "No, still living." The boat had but one sailor in it and this man came in very useful in helping us work the boat. He did good work … Two men floated by us. Both of them had life preservers. One of them drooped low in the water.
He did not call. The other called to us: "Take me on." It was almost an impossibility to do anything. Our boat barely floated. "Goodbye," the man in the water called. Then his head went down a little later. He disappeared out of sight. That was the case with many others. It was [a] terrible sight to witness. It cannot be forgotten. The sight of men in the sea was awful.'
From the lifeboat, Nora saw the Titanic go down. 'The ship seemed to go down forward and raise to an awful height, all at once. There was a roar and a deafening sound. The cries and moans of those passengers and crew in the water were awful. Very soon there was nothing seen or heard. The ship went down about 100 yards from where our boat was. Bodies drifted past us. Pieces of the wreck were around.
'And that band played, I don't know how the men did it, while we were getting on the boats. It played when we drifted away. Men jumped into the sea but the band played.
Some of them must have stood in water that was then over that part of the deck while they played, for we were on nearly the same level with the deck then.
'They played Nearer My God to Thee till the ship rose and they went out of sight. They must have been playing when it went down,' said Nora. Nora and the 704 other survivors were picked up by the Carpathia about daybreak. And it was The Patriot which told her brothers in Harrisburg that she was safe, having previously reported their anxiety about her. At 9.15 a.m. on 18 April, the Carpathia docked in New York where Nora was met by her brothers, Dennis, William, Patrick and John Keane.
Nora then returned to Harrisburg where she had made her home with another brother, Michael, who had a hotel there.
(The Patriot, 20 April 1912)
The same newspaper the day before quoted Nora, in an account dictated to her brother Dennis, as saying that 'some shots were fired on the ship. People said men had been shot. I don't know who they were … it is so awful I cannot think of all that happened.'
Nora, who discreetly carved eleven years off her age when signing aboard the Titanic, had been born in 1866 to John Keane (1819–1885) and his wife Nora Fee (d. 1916) of Gardenhill, Castleconnell, Limerick. Nora later bought and managed a pub in Harrisburg, using money she received from an inheritance. The American Red Cross assisted her to the tune of $100.
Nora told her family back in Ireland little about the disaster. She said the other women in her cabin were woken up by stewards and told to leave the ship immediately. She was in the lifeboat all night, dressed only in her nightgown – sans corset of course – and strictly enjoined her nephews and nieces in later life: 'When they tell you to get off the boat, do what they say!'
She eventually returned to Ireland and died on 20 December 1944, at the County Infirmary in Limerick, aged 78. The cause of death was complications from a broken leg.
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Tim McGraw: Behind the Scenes of "Truck Yeah"
The superstar rides high with "Truck Yeah" video.
Tim McGraw is riding high with his new single, "Truck Yeah," a shout-out to the small-town country lifestyle. When the "Truck Yeah" video made its premiere, it was no surprise that it featured plenty of trucking action and freewheeling fun. Garrett Hedlund, who starred with Tim in the movies Friday Night Lights and Country Strong, makes an appearance in the video, which features a number of buff guys having a good time just trucking around.
Tim and crew filmed the clip in Chattanooga, Tenn., at the former U.S. Pipe and Foundry factory. And the star raves that the video captures the energy and essence of the song. "The theme of this song is pretty straightforward," Tim noted in a statement. "It's for guys and girls who love jacked-up trucks. It's a culture, and you don't have to be from the sticks and only listen to country music to want to drive a truck. That's why I love the reference to [rap artist ] Lil Wayne in the lyrics."
Tim obviously enjoyed being on the video set and messing around with a truck himself. "We had a blast making it!" he says.
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Recording Artists Are Storytellers
By Stephanie Ciccarelli
August 22, 2011
When does a story truly begin to be told?
Xavier Paul shares his perspective regarding how stories can be told and realities created using only the human voice when voice artists realize the author's intent using clues supplied in the script and through characterization.
Learn more in today's VOX Daily.
Acting in Voiceover?
By Xavier Paul
The top narrators understand the importance of storytelling. To make the script come alive is the goal. Before the narrator begins to read the first word there is no character, point of view or reality built into the words. Even the producer's direction does not automatically infuse the script with a reality. It is only through the performer's creativity thru specific character, spatial and emotional choices that any script will begin to take on the characteristics of a story.
From a recording artists point of view (any person who works with the recorded sound is a recording artist including voiceover artists) a "story" can really be of any length, any context. The actual circumstances regarding time, place, persons, things etc may vary or not be readily included in the script. Or the details may be not fully formed. The recording artist's job is fundamentally to be a storyteller with the recorded sound; to create realities with the recorded sound. For the voiceover artist, it is to tell stories and create realities with the voice only. This may be done thru embellishing the already established story/character or adding character to a story or story to a character. Sometimes a line on the page with no context must be given an emotional context, story context. For this, an understanding of characterization is necessary.
Characterization in Voiceover Work
The art and task of building a "character" in voiceover work is similar to building characters in other media with the exception that there is very limited time to prepare and rehearse. The nature of voiceover is such that the immediate needs of the producers require the voice performer have an intimate understanding of their voice and a strong ability to implement technique. The ability to make choices quickly and dynamically is a competitive skill regardless of if its in the audition room or the recording studio. Of course practice on a regular basis allows the talent to make more effective choices when under pressure. With practice the talent learns to function effectively under pressure.
How To Bring "Reality Context" to Voiceover Scripts
Read the script fully: Many times voiceover talent only read their parts, the announcer lines and omit studying how the other parts of the script relate to and apply to the part that they will be reading.
Establish to mood: Since we're human, we come into the world each day with a particular mood. It's the voice actors job to determine what the mood, emotion and feeling that the script is looking to convey in the viewer or listener. Then, once established, to deliver that mood with their voice.
Make an active choice: If you're in a different mood than what the script calls for then make an active choice to get into that mood and then deliver the lines. This will dramatically improve your performance.
Use deductive reasoning: Since there are so many ways to go about delivering a voiceover script, it's important to pick the best emotional portrayal for the script. Practice with a good voiceover coach to improve your ability to do this.
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©iStockphoto.com/Xavier ArnauRelated Topics: characterization, how to, ISDN, narration, radio, reading, Storytelling, voice acting, Xavier Paul
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I think this article helps people realize the talent that really is evident for a voice talent. I have had many say, I could do that! I should try to get into the business! But there is so much more to voicing with depth, perception, creativity and soul!
To quote a wonderful talent, Janet Suzman: "Life and art get mixed up sometimes - it's what actors draw on."Posted by:
This was a very interesing article. As indicated by Howard Ellison, "Life and art get mixed up sometimes - it's what actors draw on." Something that I have done as an actor in the past.
I look forward to finding out more. :-)Posted by:
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Voice Over is an incredibly specific art, and most people take that to mean power and clarity in terms of sound production, diction, and vocal quality. But what we're actually selling is what we're being, not what we're saying, and I love the value of your tips on how to get us there. Thank you so much Xavier, perfect!Posted by:


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An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies facedown in a shallow grave on a golf course.
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Sue Lowe lights a candle during the Tanner Street Church of God Maundy Thursday Service. The day commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his apostles, as Christians prepare for Easter.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:28 am
Post subject: 4 weeks pregnant...its gonna take forever!!!!!
hi ladies hope your all feeling well today.
ive just found out im pregnant. 4 weeks today, i cant help but think its gonna take such a long time!!!
i was 17 weeks pregnant with my first before i even found out so it went really fast.
with second i was just over 4 weeks then m/c at 5.
so i cant wait to hopefully get out of the "critical" stage
even to get to 6/7 weeks feels like forever away!!
do any others feel the same??
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:35 am
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Hiya - I felt exactly the same - this is my first pregnancy and when I found out I was 4 weeks and 1 day - it seems like it's taken ages to get this far but it hasn't really.
Hope you have a H & H 9 months and I'll be seeing you on the forums xx
Take care, cheers, C xx
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:47 pm
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I seem to be wishing the time away already! It just seems that you have the elation of finding out your BFP then nothing happens for weeks until you get the midwife appointment!!
I guess I should appreciate and be grateful for everyday really and enjoy it before the morning sickness gets underway!!!!
Congrats again hun. xx
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Hi ineedbabydust
I didn't find out I was pregnant with my forst son till I was 17 wks either!!!!! Had a scan on my overies to check they were working - and there was my baby!!!! After 2yrs of trying!!! I was then 11 wks pregnant when I found out with my second, so again a short pregnancy and over the 1st worrying 12wks!!!
I'm due 30th June but every sight I go on tells me I'm either less preg or more preg - so confused!!!! Guess only the scan will tell me and thats ages away!!!!!
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:32 pm
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hi,congratulations on your pregnancy, i found out over this pregnancy at 3+3 and was the same as you can't believe i'm over 9wks now, like you i also m/c last time at 5wks so i couldn't wait to pass that stage, i have my scan in less than 2 wks now can't wait but still think its gone quick x
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Hi Ineedbabydust
I agree totally with you. I think I'm about 5 weeks and I m/c my first pregnancy at 8 weeks and I'm wishing the next 49 days away to get out of the critical stage. I so want to enjoy being pg but so worried too.
I'm sure you will be fine - good luck with everything


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OAKLAND -- A veteran Alameda County prosecutor has been placed on administrative leave for violating a defendant's attorney-client privilege, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office said this week.
Deputy district attorney Danielle London, a roughly 10-year member of the office, was placed on leave last week immediately after it was revealed in court that she ordered the recording in jail of a conversation between a murder defendant and a defense-hired expert.
Teresa Drenick, a spokeswoman for the office, confirmed the suspension this week but would not name London as the prosecutor, saying the case is a personnel matter. But court records show and a defense attorney confirmed that London was the deputy district attorney suspended.
Drenick said the prosecutor will remain on leave pending the results of an ongoing, "thorough" investigation into her conduct.
The revelation that a prosecutor was able to order sheriff's deputies to secretly and illegally record a privileged conversation raised concerns throughout the county's defense attorney community about whether other conversations have been recorded illegally.
"This incident has placed the Public Defender's Office on red alert," said Diane Bellas, the county's public defender. "It is a felony to record the conversation between an inmate and her attorney or others who are presumed to maintain confidentiality on the inmate's behalf.
"Effective representation under these conditions is not just difficult, it is impossible," Bellas added.
The county's two jails, Santa Rita and North County, are equipped with a host of recording equipment that can capture conversations inmates have on the telephones and during visits with family and friends. Inmates are notified that their conversations can be recorded both by signs posted in visiting rooms and by a recording that is played before a call is made from jail.
In fact, prosecutors routinely use those recorded conversations in trial as evidence against defendants.
But, the jail is not supposed to record conversations between inmates and their attorneys or anyone representing an attorney, such as a private investigator or hired expert.
"A prosecutor's intrusion into a defense preparation in this way severely undermines the right to counsel and the ability of a defendant to investigate a case" said Charles Weisselberg, a professor of law at UC Berkeley's Boalt Law School. "It's pretty egregious and striking."
The seriousness of the misconduct was not lost on District Attorney Nancy O'Malley, who immediately suspended the deputy who has handled many high-profile cases, including a case this year in which London won a murder conviction against a man accused of killing his girlfriend even though her body was never found.
"Any actions that impinge on a defendant's rights will never be tolerated by this office," O'Malley said in a statement. "I want to state loud and clear that I do not believe nor do I want the actions of a few to be representative of the ethical standards that each of us practice as members of this office."
Jo Ann Kingston, the defense attorney representing the defendant who had her conversation recorded illegally, called for an independent investigation into both the conduct of London and of the county's Sheriff's Office, which agreed to record the privileged conversation.
"It's so blatantly illegal it's beyond the pale," Kingston said. "I feel strongly that there should be an independent investigation done."
Kingston said she does not believe London's actions are emblematic of a problem in the District Attorney's Office nor does she think that London purposely violated the law in an attempt to gain an advantage during the trial.
"In her own mind, I think, she believed she did not do anything illegal," Kingston said. "If somebody was going to do something surreptitiously, and wanted to be evil about it, I would have never found out there was a recording."
Yet, Kingston said an independent investigation should be conducted to find out what safeguards are in place to ensure that both deputy district attorneys and jail guards know the law and are not secretly recording privileged conversations.
Kingston said that even if London requested the conversation be recorded, sheriff's deputies at the jail should have known that it was illegal.
"Their response should have been, no, you can't do that in my jail," she said.
J.D. Nelson, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, said he did not know the details of the incident but assumes sheriff's deputies simply listened to a district attorney, who should know the law.
London, a graduate of the University of California's Hastings Law School and a 12-year member of the state bar, revealed the recording last week just as a murder case against Marrisa Manning was scheduled to begin. Manning, 24, is accused of stabbing to death her husband, Jonathan Bennett, 24, during a fight in East Oakland.
Kingston was preparing to argue that the killing was done in self-defense, prompted, in part, by years of physical abuse suffered by Manning at the hands of Bennett.
The expert who was illegally recorded interviewing Manning was preparing a report to show that Manning suffered from "intimate partner syndrome," which is new terminology for "battered wife" syndrome.
When the illegal recording was revealed, Kingston immediately demanded a dismissal of the case. That motion was pending when the District Attorney's Office assigned a new prosecutor to the case who had no knowledge of the contents of the recording.
Soon after, Manning was offered a plea deal, which she accepted. She agreed to plead no contest to a charge of voluntary manslaughter in exchange for a seven-year prison term. Manning faced as much as 16 years to life in prison if a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder.
Kingston said her client took the deal because it was likely the case would have proceeded with the new prosecutor and her client did not want to risk having to spend the rest of her life in prison.
"I don't think the case would have been dismissed at this level, and the risks of it being a second-degree murder were always there," Kingston said. "It was my client's decision to (take the deal) and it's not my right to say, 'Hey, hang out for five years an maybe we will get this dismissed.' "
Drenick declined to comment about future actions that will be taken against London or whether the prosecutor will eventually be fired or charged criminally for committing a felony.
But in a prepared statement, O'Malley said that London's actions "trampled on the defendant's constitutional rights."


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The state Senate ethics committee has considered a punch that ended the last session of the Legislature, but committee members say they need another meeting next week to reach a decision.
The committee met in private for about an hour Wednesday to discuss the blow that state Senator Charles Bishop of Jasper landed to the head of state Senator Lowell Barron of Fyffe last June.
Committee members said afterwards they plan to meet again January 31 and are committed to make a decision before the next legislative session starts February 5.
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"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - Winston Churchill
The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, a "war to end all wars" that killed some 20 million people and fundamentally transformed the international order in Europe and beyond.
"The question we face today," asked Joseph Nye, one of America's leading strategic thinkers and the University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, is "whether it could happen again."
Quite possibly, says Margaret MacMillan, professor of international history at Oxford University and author of "The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914." "We are witnessing," writes Professor MacMillan, "as much as the world of 1914, shifts in the international power structure, with emerging powers challenging the established ones. Just as national rivalries led to mutual suspicions between Britain and the newly ascendant Germany before 1914, the same is happening between the U.S. and China now, and also between China and Japan."
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has amplified Professor MacMillan's warning. "Mr. Abe made his remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland," reports the London-based Economist, "Talking - on the record - to a group of journalists, Mr. Abe said that China and Japan are in 'a similar situation' to that of Germany and Britain a century ago. In a year that marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of that war, Mr. Abe is neither the first nor will he be the last to draw parallels. But as the leader of a country that would be on the front line of a renewed conflict, his words weigh more heavily than those of academics or journalists."
Abe's Davos warning, an Economist analysis points out, "was not so much about growing military rivalry and naval competition - though of course, with the tense dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, that is also a factor. Rather he was making a commonly made salutary argument: that those who think war is impossible between China and Japan because they are so intertwined economically overlook the way a previous wave of fast-growing trade and globalization ended - in a cataclysmic war."
Are Japan and China on course to military conflict?
At least one Chinese speaker at Davos thought so. As Henry Blodget of Business Insider reports, "The influential Chinese professional does not seem so much worried about a military conflict as convinced that one is inevitable. And not because of any strategic value of the islands themselves, but because China and Japan increasingly hate each other. Then he stated that many in China believe that China can accomplish its goals - smacking down Japan, demonstrating its military superiority in the region, and establishing full control over the symbolic islands - with a surgical invasion."
It is hard to imagine that leaders in Beijing may be seriously considering such a risky adventure. "But the risk of an accidental collision or clash," according to the Economist, "between Chinese and Japanese boats or airplanes around the islands does make armed conflict a real possibility - even a probability."
And since the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan clearly covers the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, the risk of a China-Japan clash is indeed of a global conflict.
In a year-end lead editorial entitled "Look back with angst," the Economist concludes with the following remarks, "A century on, there are uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the outbreak of the World War I. Humanity can learn from its mistakes. ... The memory of the horrors unleashed a century ago makes leaders less likely to stumble into war today. So does the explosive power of a modern conflagration: the threat of a nuclear holocaust is a powerful brake on the reckless escalation. Yet the parallels remain troubling. The parallels are not exact, but they are close enough for the world to be on its guard. Which, by and large, it is not. The most troubling similarity between 1914 and now is complacency."
Dr. Xiaoxiong Yi is the director of Marietta College's China Program.


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It has been quite the day for Barnes & Noble related leaks. First we learned of some upcoming price cuts for the Nook Simple Touch and the Nook Color, and now it looks like Barnes & Noble will be expanding the Nook device lineup to include a Nook Tablet. This new tablet is expected to drop on November 16th with a $249 price tag. And as one can see from the above image — the device is going to look rather similar to the Nook Color. Well, the Nook Color that has been given a slight exterior makeover in the form of a new lighter color. Otherwise, the Nook Tablet is expected to bring features such as a 7 inch (1024 x 600) VividView IPS display, dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP processor, 16GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and a potential battery life of up to 4 hours for video playback and up to 8 hours of general use (with the Wi-Fi turned off). Otherwise, it was noted that the Nook Tablet will arrive a bit thinner and a bit lighter as compared to the current Nook Color. And trust us, we do mean a bit — the thickness going from 0.5 inches down to 0.48 inches and the weight going from 15.8 ounces down to 14.1 ounces. That said, it looks like November 16th is going to be a big day in terms of Barnes & Noble Nook news.
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Baegunsan Recreational Forest (백운산자연휴양림) has Baegunsan Mountain that rises 1,218ms high above the sea level as the highest peak in the forest. Its artificial an...
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Only recently discovered by the public, Eochi Valley (어치계곡) is the deepest and most picturesque valley of Baegunsan Mountain's four valleys. There are many wate...
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Any breed of dog can potentially produce a good hearing dog. However, most hearing dogs are mixed-breed dogs selected for higher than average energy level and a weight of 30 to 40 pounds.
A "hearing ear dog," more commonly referred to as a "hearing dog" is specially trained to assist people who are deaf by signaling them of the presence of common sounds that require attention. Each dog is individually trained to their specific handler's needs. For example, if the handler has an infant, she would want her dog trained to alert her when the baby cries.
Hearing dogs are commonly trained to respond to the following sounds:
a doorbell or knock on a door
a telephone ringing
smoke/fire alarm
tornado siren
alarm clock
the sound of the handler's name being spoken
an oven or microwave timer
Upon hearing a sound the dog is trained to recognize as important, the hearing dog signals his handler, usually by poking or pawing at their leg, then either turns to look in the direction of the noise, or runs back and forth between the source of the noise and the handler to indicate where the noise is.


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Ichetucknee Springs
Ichetucknee Springs is an illustration of a large artesian spring group and of the geologic history of the Floridian aquifer from which Florida's great springs emanate. Located within Ichetucknee Springs State Park, the site contains abandoned relict channels ancestral to the present underground solution channels. The artesian outflow aggregates 250 to 470 cubic feet per second, making it the third largest spring group in Florida.
Location: Columbia County, FL ; Suwannee County, FL
Year designated: 1971
Acres: 1,800
Ownership: State
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Why are we drawn to films about people with horrible afflictions? Is it sympathy, or merely relief? Better your incurable illness, your pitiable paralysis, than mine? Does a hero suffering from a disfiguring disease not upend our well-known preference for movies with happy endings?
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" raises those questions, but then transcends them, as it does the pictures in whose invisible footsteps it seems to follow: inspiring, sometimes mawkishly told tales of triumph over physical and mental hardship such as "The Elephant Man," "Mask," "Shine" and "My Left Foot."
The film, which was scheduled to open in the South Bay today, will not open until later this month.
When Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) awakens from a coma at the outset of "Diving Bell," a doctor asks him to speak. And though he can hear his voice ricocheting around inside his head, nothing comes out of Bauby's mouth. That grim rictus - once used to enchant the most beautiful women in France - now looks like a puddle of melted candle wax dripping down Bauby's chin.
A neurologist explains that he's had a stroke and suffers from "locked-in syndrome," a rare condition that has left Bauby's mind entombed in his body, his consciousness trapped like a dog in a car with the windows rolled up. "This is life?" wonders Bauby, who has known so much of it as the editor of one of the world's top fashion magazines.
Left with only two portals to the outside world - his terrified eyes - Bauby is spared any glimpse of himself until after a harrowing scene in which one of those windows is sewed shut to prevent infection. Seeing what is left of him, Bauby thinks, "I look like I came out of a vat of formaldehyde."
The movie has been going on for at least half an hour before we see Bauby fully for the first time, but this isn't a big "aha!" moment, as when we see John Merrick's disfigurement in "The Elephant Man." Director Julian Schnabel uses his skill as a painter to assemble a collage of fantastical images - including icebergs calving from glaciers, Napoleon's wife and the ballet dancer Nijinsky leaping down a hospital corridor - to reveal the exquisite physical wreck that Bauby has become.
What the real Bauby accomplished was so unlikely that it must have seemed a hoax when "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" was published in 1997. To "dictate" that memoir about the aftermath of his stroke - one letter at a time, each word slowly assembled by blinking as someone sitting at his bedside scrolled through the alphabet - surely was equal to any escape imagined by Bauby's literary hero, the Count of Monte Cristo.
Describing himself in the memoir as "a castaway on the shores of loneliness," Bauby relies upon a retinue of women to give him speech, and thus release him from his confinement. Even though he is no longer editor of the French fashion magazine Elle, he earns the devotion of his speech therapist, Henriette (Marie-Josée Croze), then the beautiful eye-blink stenographer, Claude (Anne Consigny).
There's a remarkable scene in which Croze's character becomes infuriated with Bauby and storms out of the room. Moments later she returns, apparently unexpectedly, but because Schnabel often keeps the camera running to allow the actors room to think in character and improvise, he catches Henriette's extraordinary speech - none of which was scripted.
Bauby's dispatches from the lee shore of the life he once knew don't sound self-pitying, just acutely aware of the meaning of what is left to him. Schnabel and screenwriter Ronald Harwood turn that into a compelling exploration of being and consciousness.
But if it helps to make "Diving Bell" sound less like a high-minded art film, think of it as a French version of the hit TV show "Lost," in which the castaway's predicament is established, then we see flashbacks from the life that brought him to the coast of loneliness.
At one point, his 92-year-old father (Max von Sydow), an invalid likewise marooned in his distant apartment, calls on the speakerphone at his son's bedside. Confounded by the rapid recitation of letters of the alphabet that makes conversation nearly impossible, the old man cries out that they should become captives together, the two of them imprisoned in his flat, where they could at least see each other until their lives are ended. And suddenly you realize what it's like to be beyond words, incapable of speech. And all you can do is blink.
'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'
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Rated: PG-13 (nudity, sexual content and some profanity)
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Director: Julian Schnabel
Writer: Ronald Harwood (based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby)
Running time: 1 hour, 52 minutes
In French with English subtitles.
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In a letter of Oct. 8, the letter writer uses the familiar Tea Party tripe about the United States' founding as a "Christian nation" as the launching for his bizarre rant. For as much as they profess to revere the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, Tea Partiers seem to understand neither. More on that in a moment.
Part of the problem is a misuse of the word "nation." Too many Americans conflate "nation" with "state," despite the fact that the two words have different meanings. A "state" is a political entity, while a "nation" is more of an ethnic or tribal one. This is the origin of the phrase "nation-state." While I know the Tea Party loathe anything European, the concept is best illustrated by examining European history and the birth of countries like Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria from the ashes of three empires.
Under this definition, one might be tempted to stipulate that the U.S. began as a Christian "nation." However, the truth is that the Founding Fathers were collectively ambivalent about religion generally and Christianity specifically. Some were mainline Christians, some were Unitarians, and some were Deists.
In The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine wrote, "Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity."
In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin wrote of having received several anti-Deist books that had the opposite effect of convincing him of the Deism's validity.
Certainly, though, much of the populace was Christian. Even still, they belonged to a variety of denominations. It may also be worth noting that the largest non-Christian inhabitants of the early United States, African slaves (who followed Islam and animistic religions prior to conversion) and Native Americans (who followed indigenous animistic religions), were explicitly excluded from society.
Nonetheless, it is clear that the United States is not, nor has it ever been, a Christian "state."
Article XI of the Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by the Senate and signed and promulgated by President John Adams, states, "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution states that elected officials "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
Finally, Amendment I of the U.S. Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."
The letter writer may wish to read that twice, and he should have a dictionary handy so that he can look up the word "establishment."
Steven Cook
Cuyahoga Falls


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Hey Jalopnik: This Is A Donk
(Our friends at RIDES have responded to our Donk Guide. Here's their take, and our response. — Ed.)
(Our friends at RIDES have responded to our Donk Guide. Here's their take, and our response. — Ed.)
For today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe we're going to the Land of the Midnight Sun — Sweden to be exact — for a blown Saab that might just blow your mind. That is of course, if its price doesn't simply blow.
What is this huge old car with giant wheels and a Spongebob paint job? That's what we call a donk, the most hated kind of car in the world right now. Why do people hate them so much? Allow me to explain.[jump]
Many years back, I had, for a brief time, an ill-fated turbo'd 240sx. It attracted a lot of attention, as a very obviously tuned car. I constantly had people trying to get me to street race — not my thing, thank you. Most of them were from the usual suspects, like Civics, Mustangs, etc.
Ever wondered what the automotive version of Siamese twins would look like? Wonder no more – here's a pair of Jeep Wranglers welded together, and it's real.
John the Baptist, Ann Boleyn, Goliath's biblical coup de grâce - head-chopping has been a popular form of punishment for millennia. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Datsun 510 has been so chopped, but will his asking price also mean heads should roll?
The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Westfalia Syncro is serious about its price. With a flat six out of a Subaru SVX, the Vanagon itself is pretty serious, but is that price really a joke?
You wouldn't think that foxes and ponies would go together so well, but the Fox-platform Mustang is that marque's longest-lived edition. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '82 GT puts more horse in the corral, but does its price mean the seller is also crazy like a fox?
Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lincoln Mark V Coloma custom will help you cart home in style all your holiday swag, but will its price require carting too much cash?
If you wanted your own red sleigh for the holidays you could do worse than today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda FD as instead of eight tiny reindeer it comes with eight big pots. Will its price however make you dash away, dash away, dash away all?
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In West Side Story, the Jets and the Sharks, two Upper West Side gangs, rumble and explode in violent dance, while two doomed lovers try to get busy in the middle of it all. Some car makers have had similar rivalries, but as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Nissan-powered Toyota proves, hatchets can be buried.
Ford applied the Probe name to a series of aerodynamic studies and one production series. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Probe is an odd combination of the two, but is its price more of a study in error-dynamics?
While there's nothing more American than a Jeep, diesel engines seem more the predilection of our funny talkin' friends overseas. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Wrangler attempts to link those worlds, but is its price a bridge too far?
The fact that today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chevy S-10 has a 500 CID Caddy V8 in back means that the only thing it'll haul is ass. Does its price however, mean a buyer would also be taking it, well, you know where?
The compound word Prototype comes from the Greek prototypon which means primitive form. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Alfa GTV is described as such a proto type, but is its price far from either pro or typical?
This is a rendering of the retro Ferrari 770 Daytona, designed for exotic car tuning house Milano Torino. Despite the appearance of the official Photoshop, it will not be built off an F12berlinetta. It might not be built off of anything.
Many lament that the Lincoln of today does not reflect the luxury and ostentation of the brand's great products of years past. To rectify this, perhaps the marque should look no further than today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom '78, that is of course, if its price is not equally lamentable.
When a tractor trailer blew up in his town, Dj Buttchug, of a href="http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=271400">r3vlimited forum fame, wrote it off as another meth lab explosion. But a month later he noticed there was something different about that particular supposed meth lab: Its flames had torched a…
If your DVD collection includes Clueless, Mean Girls, and all seven seasons of the Gilmore Girls, then you will Ell-Oh-Vee-Eee, love today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Rabbit convertible. And even if you don't, you still might like this custom Vee Dub's price.


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shadow clone trooper 01 by yume-ninjaWatch
©2011-2016 yume-ninja
shot of my new costume work in progress
imperial shadow clone trooper pilot...not sure on what to call it yet
imperial shadow clone trooper pilot...not sure on what to call it yet
That's pretty cool.
ale fajne
Epic cosplay!
great outfit
Amazing start, can't wait to see it finished
thanks bro ^^ me too,sadly its on hold till summer,but when i do get it finished im sure you will see a picture or two of it on here~
looks like an Imperial TIE-pilot!
true dat,at first i didnt feel comfortable calling him as such...but now i guess the most logical timeline for this trooper would be like one of the first Imperial TIE-pilots or something like that since he has a clone helmet


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An Ideal Husband
by Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband Power Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue.
Quote #7
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything. (2.37)
As Sir Robert recalls his misdeed, his condemnation of the act falters. Suddenly, it seems like the right and necessary thing to have done. Because of the impact Sir Robert has made, the Baron actually facilitated a lot of good in the end.
Quote #8
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. She must have had some curious hold over Baron Arnheim. I wonder what it was.
LORD GORING. [Smiling.] I wonder. (2.191-192)
We know what you're thinking: it's about sex. Lord Goring is acknowledging that age-old source of power.


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verb[with object]
- They shot at anything and everything, except the clays, which were often collected up unscathed and reused.
- This post collects a number of these political discussions.
- We're collecting emergency numbers from the workers today.
- Hollin has collected together a range of individuals and collaborators to provide a concise but comprehensive overview of the principles and premises inherent in this area.
- It defines the word assembly as a company of persons collected together in one place usually for a common purpose.
- Since the particles start with zero energy, this means that by the time they have collected together to form a star or a planet they have negative energy.
- He doesn't have any hobbies - doesn't collect anything or travel anywhere; doesn't read or listen to music.
- Her newest hobby is collecting each of the new Euro coins from each country.
- Mr. G. Sethuraman, an active philatelist who has been collecting stamps since 1974, says this hobby has a high knowledge-gaining potential.
- To counter the drain on scarce water supplies, rainwater will be collected in underground tanks and a new breed of wildlife-rich village pond.
- At present rain water is being collected in large storage dams and reticulated to the end consumer via a network of pipes, pumps and treatment plant to ensure drinking water quality.
- Rainwater can be collected in plenty during rainy seasons, but we waste it by allowing it to flow into the sea.
- Swinford players will be collected up at the Gateway Hotel, Swinford at 8.15 am.
- Meet your coach, collect the right number of departing guests from their hotels and get them to the airport - then do the same in reverse for the arrivals.
- If you want to be one of the DJ's, you need to arrive at the venue at 7: 00 pm to collect your number (more details to follow).
- Fakhruz Zaman approached Shemon Miah when he called at the Saffron Spice restaurant in Peatmoor on behalf of his father to collect a bill payment from the owner, Swindon Crown Court was told.
- She's moved a few miles away from my patch and asked if I would still collect her payments, because she was used to me calling.
- A few days later he delivers them and collects the payment.
- The 72 year old was in town to collect an honorary ACTRA award.
- Battier's varied gifts as a player make him the favorite to claim all the awards Martin collected this season.
- The 54-year-old actress is speaking to me at the America Film Festival in Deauville, where she is collecting a lifetime achievement award.
- The funeral took place this morning at St Peter's Church in Mill Hill where donations were collected for MacMillan Nurses.
- Thankfully a large sum of money has been collected for the Irish Wheelchair Association.
- A nice website has been established in her memory and a charitable trust is collecting donations to support the kinds of causes for which she gave her life.
- Cougre took the hint and collected herself, regaining her calm.
- Everybody nearly jumped out of their skin as the voice suddenly spat out at us, and it took us a great while to collect ourselves from the shock.
- He was silent for a short while, trying to regain his composure and collect himself.
- I was met with great compassion and it was suggested that I go to my room, collect my thoughts and let them know what I wanted to do.
- This is an easy way to encourage the horse to collect as he halts which will be a paramount balance skill later on.
- 'I began learning our pocket going around barrels and how to rate and collect him, and he caught on fast' says Harmon.
adverb& adjectiveNorth American
- And Mother's Day is the second highest day for collect calls.
- I cannot imagine the mindset of a man who thinks that a sex worker is going to take a collect call from anyone - let alone someone who's in jail.
- Bart must apologize to Australia after he tricks a boy from down under into accepting an expensive collect call.
nounAustralian /NZ informal
- But on a win basis Lonhro bombed out, she also would not have given you a collect on the quinella, trifecta or exacta.
- You can pick it on jockeys, trainers, form and even a dart at the board at you have just as good a chance as getting a collect.
- While I was away I have had two collects, not big ones, but collects just the same.
Late Middle English: from Old French collecter or medieval Latin collectare, from Latin collect- 'gathered together', from the verb colligere, from col- 'together' + legere 'choose or collect'.
This comes from the Latin verb colligere, from col- 'together' and legere 'choose or collect'. The collect meaning 'prayer' (Middle English) is from Latin collecta 'a gathering together'—an obsolete use of collect was as a term for 'a gathering' for an act of worship. Recollect (early 16th century) is literally 'to collect again'. Coil (early 16th century) is less obviously from the Latin. Something coiled up is gathered in a specific way.
Words that rhyme with collectaffect, bisect, bull-necked, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht
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- However, a new type of short full anthem, often a setting of one of the seasonal collects, gained in popularity after about 1800.
- This kind of evangelism is far more persuasive than simply publishing the world's best book of new collects, calls to worship, or Eucharistic prayers.
- The Australian Prayer Book has a somewhat revised version of the collect found in the ASB 1980.
Middle English: from Old French collecte, from Latin collecta 'gathering', feminine past participle of colligere 'gather together' (see collect1).
This comes from the Latin verb colligere, from col- 'together' and legere 'choose or collect'. The collect meaning 'prayer' (Middle English) is from Latin collecta 'a gathering together'—an obsolete use of collect was as a term for 'a gathering' for an act of worship. Recollect (early 16th century) is literally 'to collect again'. Coil (early 16th century) is less obviously from the Latin. Something coiled up is gathered in a specific way.
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The Canadian loonie is increasingly being viewed globally as a safe haven, backed by one of the world's strongest banking systems, a federal government with at least nearly balanced books and a generally healthy economy that's by no means overleveraged.
— Roger Conrad, Canadian Edge
Late Friday (Aug. 5th) after the market close, Standard and Poor's did what was unthinkable just a few months ago: it downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the United States from its highest rating of triple-A (AAA) to its second-highest rating of double A-plus (AA+). There are now 15 countries with the top AAA rating and the U.S. is no longer one of them. I briefly mentioned the S&P downgrade in my Friday article entitled Market Crash Optimism, saying that it was "expected," but the stock market this morning is taking the news hard with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 350 points.
I say the downgrade was expected because S&P expressly stated back in July that — to avoid a downgrade — the U.S. needed to reduce its budget deficit by at least $4 trillion over the next ten years (i.e., by 2021). The August 2nd debt-ceiling deal struck in Washington only reduced the deficit by somewhere between $2.1 trillion and $2.4 trillion. So why are investors surprised? Did they think S&P was just bluffing? Don't expect S&P to give the U.S. back its triple-A rating anytime soon, either. John Chambers, chairman of S&P's sovereign-ratings committee, stated that only five governments have ever regained a triple-A rating after losing it, and the earliest any of them got it back was nine years. Adding insult to injury, S&P said that there was a 1-in-3 chance it would downgrade the U.S. again to double-A (AA) over the next six months to two years. Ouch.
Predictably, the Obama administration took the downgrade badly, choosing to shoot the messenger instead of calming the markets by promising to reduce budget deficits further. I'm not surprised, given Obama's complete disregard of the U.S. Debt Commission's recommendations in December 2010 that resulted in him sending a spendthrift budget to Congress that was rejected 97-0 by the U.S. Senate. And, of course, nobody can forget Obama's healthcare "reform" that will add trillions of dollars to the U.S. budget deficit.
Anyway, the U.S. Treasury released a statement attacking S&P's debt calculations, arguing that S&P had overestimated the U.S. budget deficit in 2021 by $2 trillion. The result is that S&P erroneously calculated the U.S. debt burden in 2021 as 93% of GDP instead of 85% of GDP. According to the Treasury department, an 85% debt-to-GDP ratio doesn't warrant a debt downgrade. S&P shot back that its downgrade was based on a 3-to-5 year time horizon, not a 10-year horizon, and the "trajectory" of debt rather than an absolute debt-to-GDP ratio. Bottom line: the initial miscalculation of the 10-year debt-to-GDP ratio did not change the basis of the downgrade decision:
The primary focus remained on the current level of debt, the trajectory of debt as a share of the economy, and the lack of apparent willingness of elected officials as a group to deal with the U.S. medium term fiscal outlook. None of these key factors was meaningfully affected by the assumption revisions to the assumed growth of discretionary outlays and thus had no impact on the rating decision.
Interestingly, S&P admits that the 2015 debt-to-GDP ratio of France will be higher than that of the U.S. (83% vs. 79%), and yet it downgraded the U.S. and left France at triple-A. The reason: "In contrast with the U.S., we project that the net public debt burdens of these other sovereigns will begin to decline, either before or by 2015."
The S&P Downgrade of the U.S. is Not Based on Financial Ability
The credit default swap (CDS) market – which I discussed in my article entitled New Sovereigns — doesn't agree with S&P's downgrade. As of this weekend, the annual cost to insure against a U.S. five-year bond default was only 58 basis points, lower than that of triple-A credits Australia (69), Germany (74), United Kingdom (77), and France (144).
Warren Buffett also disagrees with S&P, saying the downgrade "doesn't make sense" and that he would personally give the U.S. a "quadruple-A" rating if one existed. Buffett also makes a good point in noting that the U.S. is the world's reserve currency and that provides advantages no other country has:
Think about it. The U.S., to my knowledge owes no money in currency other than the U.S. dollar, which it can print at will. Now if you're talking about inflation, that's a different question.
Buffett's point about inflation is that the ability of the U.S. to print U.S. dollars ensures that creditors will get paid back in full, but it doesn't ensure that the payment will be composed of a strong currency. Getting repaid in a depreciated currency may severely hurt a creditor's wealth, but that is different from a default. Regular U.S. Treasuries do not include an inflation-adjustment clause, so there is no obligation on the part of the U.S. to compensate creditors for a depreciated currency.
Political Dysfunction is the Real Reason for S&P's Downgrade
Okay, since a U.S. default won't happen, how can S&P justify downgrading the country with the world's reserve currency? While S&P concedes that "the role of the U.S. dollar as the key reserve currency confers a government funding advantage that could change only slowly over time," it curiously fails to explain why the U.S. status as a reserve currency is insufficient to keep the U.S. at triple-A. In contrast, Fitch emphasized the U.S. dollar's role as the world's reserve currency when it affirmed the U.S. rating at triple-A on August 2nd.
The only explanation I can think of is that S&P was completely freaked out by the political brinkmanship Washington politicians demonstrated during the debt-ceiling debate. The fact that 161 members of the House of Representatives and 26 members of the Senate were willing to vote against the last-minute deal and accept a U.S. default is truly frightening. Granted some of the members that voted "no" only did so after they had been assured that the deal would pass, but others are extremists like Tea Party House Republicans Jim Jordan of Ohio and Michele Bachmann of Minnesota who are on record stating that a U.S. default would be "acceptable" if it were to lead to additional spending cuts.
In conclusion, S&P's downgrade had everything to do with its assessment of the U.S. government's future will to avoid default and nothing to do with its assessment of the U.S. government's future ability to avoid default:
The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics any time soon.
And on that point, I must agree with S&P. The U.S. government has become completely dysfunctional, something that I never thought would happen. Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that this dysfunction is going to change anytime soon. Get ready for another nauseating U.S. debt-ceiling dispute full of default brinkmanship soon after the 2012 presidential election.
Find the Best Canadian Stocks with the Help of Canadian Edge
According to Standard and Poor's, of the four triple-A rated countries (Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K.) that constitute the most relevant peers to the U.S., Canada stands out as the one with the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio both currently and in 2015:
Including the U.S., we estimate that these five sovereigns will have net general government debt to GDP ratios this year ranging from 34% (Canada) to 80% (the U.K.), with the U.S. debt burden at 74%. By 2015, we project that their net public debt to GDP ratios will range between 30% (lowest, Canada) and 83% (highest, France), with the U.S. debt burden at 79%.
Why waste time investing solely in the U.S. when you can invest in dividend-paying companies located in Canada, the country with the world's soundest banking system and the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio among the United States' triple-A rated peers?
Roger Conrad, editor of the market-beating Canadian Edge investment service, has uncovered not only the highest-yielding Canadian stocks, but those with the strongest business fundamentals to sustain their dividends and grow them further. Not only is the Canadian economy growing, but its currency is also set to appreciate further against the U.S. dollar:
As we've pointed out here many times, the loonie is strong for many reasons. For one thing, it's tended to follow oil prices, which have been in a bull market since early in the last decade. The loonie itself has been in a bull market for a decade as well.
Canada is an economic oasis of peace and prosperity. To find out the names of the Canadian high-income stocks Roger likes best right now, give Canadian Edge a try today!
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