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One of the blends I'll be using is a special release from Bootleg Biology called Saison Parfait: New World Saison Blend. I really love the description on the website of this one. It sounds like the perfect Saison blend to me as I love the classic peppery esters from the DuPont strains on the market, but I also love the fruity aspects of some other strains like 3726. It also says this blend will leave a little body and good mouthfeel in the beer. That's something I really enjoyed when using ECY08 in the beers that I've brewed with that. At first I wasn't a fan, but after doing these beers for a while now, the added body actually helps give the beers some heft and adds to the drinkablity. When they end up so dry as mine typically do, if there isn't any body the beers will feel astringent and can actually be a chore to drink at times.
The other blend I'll be fermenting half of this brew with is the Saison Blend II from The Yeast Bay. I have been eying this one since it was released a while back and just never took the plunge to use it as I had so many things to use on hand.
"Close your eyes while drinking a beer fermented with this blend, and you'll feel like you're laying on freshly turned earth in an old citrus grove."
Doesn't that sound awesome? I can't wait to see how this blend works out. As I stated before, I enjoy a combination of peppery earthiness and some fruity qualities in my Saisons. I often rely on strains of brettanomyces or new world hops to get the fruity qualities so it will be nice to see what both of these blends will do.
|Starters I made a few days before brew day.
Recipe: Kathleen
Brewer: Gus
Date: 4-19-17
Batch Size: 11.00 gal (I use 11 gallons to account for loss in the tubing, heat exchanger and any other places in the system)
Boil Size: 13.33 gal
Post Boil Volume: 11.46 gal
Estimated OG: 1.044 (Actual was 1.048. Efficiency was better than I assumed)
Estimated Color: 2.5 SRM
Estimated IBU: 29.4 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 74.6 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 74.6 %
Boil Time: 75 Minute
72.6% Pilsner Malt (Weyermann BARKE)
10.0% Spelt Malt
10.0% Raw Wheat
7.4% Malted Oats (Thomas Fawcett)
17.5 IBUs of EKG (or whatever I have on hand now) @ 60 min
7.4 IBUs of Amarillo @ 15 min
1.7 IBUs of EKG @ 5 min
2.7 IBUs of Amarillo @ 5 min
Dry hop with Amarillo and Hallertau Blanc (this may change depending on the beers)
Bootleg Biology Saison Parfait: New World Saison Blend
The Yeast Bay Saison Blend II
Mash Schedule:
Temperature mash of 149F for 75 min with no mashout.
You may notice I have slightly modified the recipe to lower the OG. I am wanting to get Kathleen even more drinkable and shooting for slightly less ABV with this batch. Hop amounts changed just a bit due to what I had on hand at the time.
|Like them thicky-thicks.
After the mash I began lautering and pulled the 13.3 gallons I needed for the boil. My preboil gravity was a little higher (1.040) than my target (1.036) but instead of adding water to bring it down, I just went with it. I boiled for 75 minutes and added my hops per the schedule above. The SG after the boil was 1.048. Right around where my original recipe was so I'll have to make a few changes to the grist if I want it to be lower. My efficiency is getting better with every brew day. Even this large 10 gallon batch I was better than my target.
|Full boil kettle on this batch.
I ran wort through the chiller and divided the 10 gallons the best I could between the two FerMonster XLs. These are quickly becoming some of my favorite fermentation vessels. I love my Speidel still but these have a smaller footprint. Also, you can almost get two of the FerMonsters for the price of one of the Speidels.
|The Yeast Bay Saison Blend II on the left and Bootleg Biology Saison Parfait on the right. This pic was 6-7 hours after pitching.
Both blends will be fermented "semi-open" at room temperature in my dining room. Right now the area is sitting around 72-74F and should be perfect to test out what these will do.
I pitched the yeast blends from the starters and covered the opening with sanitized tin foil. I press the tin foil around the top but I don't actually make an effort to seal the lid. I usually leave the tin foil on the top for 5-7 days or until fermentation signs start to fade. I've really enjoyed the results the semi-open fermentations. I do them now with pretty much all my Saison ferments as well as my British ale ferments.
I will more than likely dry hop each of these and then package the beer. Some I'll bottle fresh and unblended so I can see how the yeast blend turns out. The rest will either be blended with mature beer or maybe even blended together. I'll see what the beer tells me.
4-20-17: 6:00AM active fermentation showing on the Saison II Blend. About 20 minutes layer, visible activity with the Saison Parfait.
4-24-17: 6:00AM activity has slowed down and the krausen is falling on both beers. I removed the tin foil and added the cap and airlock.
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The elderly parents of the man who caused the Berkshire rail crash were said last night to be baffled and heartbroken by their son's role in the disaster.
The elderly parents of the man who caused the Berkshire rail crash were said last night to be baffled and heartbroken by their son's role in the disaster.
The couple said that they could not believe that the high-speed train had been derailed in a deliberate act by Bryan Drysdale. Police continued yesterday to investigate his life for clues to the crash.
Henrietta, known as Etta, and Keith Drysdale told friends that their son seemed fine when they saw him a couple of weeks ago and that they were "absolutely heartbroken" by the crash at Ufton Nervet in Berkshire that killed their son and six others on Saturday.
"They can't believe what's happened and they are just in shock," said Dayline Vickers, a family friend who described the pair as a "golden couple" who are both in their 70s and have another son, Ronnie, and a daughter, Carol. Mrs Vickers said after visiting the couple that they had told her there was "no way that Brian would do that if he thought it would kill all those people".
Detectives said that they were checking Mr Drysdale's past but refused to comment on reports that he was gay and had had an argument with his partner shortly before the crash. They also declined to comment on reports that he was sitting naked in his Mazda 323 on the track. Mr Drysdale, 48, who lived in the Cemetery Junction area of east Reading, had had numerous jobs in and around the town as a chef.
Adam Terry, a sous chef who worked with Mr Drysdale at the Hanover International Hotel seven years ago and more recently with him at the nearby Wokefield Park conference centre described him as irascible. "He was strange and was always having arguments with staff," he said.
Mr Terry, who worked in a separate kitchen at Wokefield, added: "He would always come over here and start an argument. He didn't seem all there. He would get on the telephone and harangue other people."
However, detectives who interviewed other colleagues said that there had been nothing untoward about his behaviour at work in the kitchen on the day of the crash.
"We believe that this is his normal route to and from his place of work and that's where we are working closely with Thames Valley Police to try and ascertain the lifestyle and movements of Mr Drysdale prior to the incident taking place," said Superintendent Andy Ball of British Transport Police.
Suicide remains the main focus of the inquiry although police have not ruled out mechanical failure and are checking the car. The key to the inquiry continues to be records of a final call made from Mr Drysdale's mobile phone, which was found at the scene.
More details emerged yesterday of the six other victims - Leslie Matthews, 72, Emily Webster, 14, Barry Strevens, 55, Stanley Martin, 54, Anganette Rossi, 38, and her daughter Louella Main, nine.
Mr Matthews had been on his way home from watching his team Reading beat Stoke. He was to join a family firework party with his wife, Jean, and the families of their two children, including his four grandchildren. When he died on Sunday afternoon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, his wife and children were with him.
The wife of Mr Strevens, from Wells in Somerset, described him as a "wonderfully kind, generous and gentle man".
Jacqueline Strevens, the mother of the couple's two young sons, Ollie, two, and Toby, five months, said: "His sparkling personality radiated warmth and love and made a positive impact on everyone he came into contact with. It has been a wonderful privilege to know him."
Mr Strevens, a management consultant, also had two grown-up daughters from a previous relationship.
Peter and Anna Webster, the parents of Emily, travelled to Berkshire from their family home in the hamlet of Doccombe near Moretonhampstead on Dartmoor, Devon.
Deborah Martin, the wife of the train driver, Stanley Martin, from Torquay, Devon, described her husband as a "one in a million".
She said: "Stan was a dedicated family man, who loved his family as they loved him. He will be irreplaceable as a husband and a father.''
She added: "I could never imagine anything as devastating as this happening. Stan was an exceptional man who I shall never forget.
"His patience, love and understanding can never be replaced. He was one in a million and will always be in my heart."
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Seven billion. Next week the world's population will, according the UN, reach seven billion and a baby born somewhere in the world will be designated the seven billionth baby – just as Adnan Nevic, now a healthy 11-year-old living in Bosnia, became the six billionth when he was born just after midnight on 11 October, 1999.
There is, of course, a spurious precision about this. We may have passed seven billion already – there are some suggestions we got there three months ago – or if the US Census Bureau is right, it will not happen until next March. But the detail does not matter.
What matters is that we are adding more than the population of Britain to the world every year and, while the rate of growth is slowing somewhat, it seems likely that eight billion will be reached sometime in the 2020s.
This is such a huge subject that anyone commenting on it can do little more than set out a check-list, a template into which people can fit their own information and ideas. But that surely is useful if only because it helps to clarify people's ideas.
The starting point must be to look at where this growth occurs. It is entirely a phenomenon of the emerging world. Not a single developed country has a fertility rate above the replacement rate of 2.1 babies per mother. A few, notably the US but also the UK, are experiencing population growth, but that is the result of net migration. Most of Europe, plus Russia and Japan, face population decline. It may seem harsh but what we think, do or say about population growth is not important. Asia and Africa will determine what happens.
The two Asian giants, China and India, have different profiles. China's one-child policy has brought fertility rates down to developed country levels and, in some places, below them. Shanghai's rate of 0.8 babies per mother is the lowest of any large city in the world. China is currently at a growth "sweet spot" with a large working population relative to its children and old people and, for purely demographic reasons, its present growth rate will slow in the years ahead.
India's fertility rates are falling too but more slowly, with the result that India will pass China in population within a generation, though in terms of income per head it is likely to lag well behind.
In Africa the fall in fertility rates has been much slower, with, for example, Nigerian mothers estimated to have on average 5.4 babies. The growth of the population in Africa will inevitably give the continent a larger place in every debate about the future of humankind, with the obvious challenge of how to give them an improving standard of living and acceptable quality of life.
There are other parts of the world where population is rising very rapidly, much of the Middle East for example, but Africa's sheer numbers make its future hugely important to the future of the world as a whole.
Population change affects economic size which in turn affects power. As a result, Europe and the US's relative power will inevitably decline. Most predictions have China as the world's largest economy and India the third largest (with the US as number two) within 20 years.
We have to accept that. But developed countries can retain relevance in many ways. One is to cope as well as possible with our own demographic challenges, by, for example, making sure that our young people are well-educated, that older workers are used wisely, that we set aside resources to care for retirees and so on. Another is to develop technologies that enable a larger world population to improve living standards without placing too great a burden on the planet's resources.
Still another is to apply our science towards improving crop yields so that we can feed people better. In short, we retain relevance not by what we say, but what we do – but please, don't let's kid ourselves that what we think matters much.
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The week's principal domestic economic story is the inflation figures. September's numbers matter particularly, because they are the base for pensions, benefits and other index-linked government disbursements. But the worries are far deeper than that.
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One reason why the economy is growing so slowly is that we have let inflation run much faster than in the US or Europe.
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The most important thing I've learned about internal communication
Career, Comms, Internal Comms, Rachel
The most important thing I've learned about internal communication
This article is my contribution to a request from the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC) for IC pros to document the most important thing they have learned about IC. See the foot of the page for information about how you can get involved.
The most important thing I've learned about internal communication is: Who you know is as important as what you know.
I'm a strong advocate for raising professional standards in internal communication – part of the 'what you know' side to this equation, but I am going to focus on the 'who' for the purpose of this article.
There have been many moments in my career to date that I'm proud of. But underpinning everything I do is my network and contacts, and I'm going to explain why.
I began working in IC in 2003 straight from being a journalist. This meant I was used to building contacts, because without them I wouldn't have been able to do my job, blank newspaper pages don't make for a good read!
The advice and guidance shared by my team in my first internal comms role demonstrated I had made a smart move. Their enthusiasm not only for the subject matter but profession made a lasting impression on me.
On my first day, my boss and I went on the perfunctory walk around Head Office to introduce me to my business partners. I remember being impressed that she knew everyone. Not only the CEO and Executive team, but the security guards and restaurant workers too.
I regularly spent time in one of our German offices as my role covered Europe and South America, and on my first visit my boss accompanied me. I observed that the same rules applied – she knew everyone there too, both in the office and factories, either by name or to nod to.
I quickly realised the importance and value of having a strong network within the business. We talk all the time in IC about having 'eyes and ears' groups of employees to know the true picture of what is happening in your company.
Bursting out of the comms bubble
I think this is vital for IC pros, particularly when communicating bad news. I've found it essential to have a group of employees I trust and can have confidential conversations with. It's very easy to get caught up in the 'comms bubble' and the dose of reality people around you give has paid dividends in my career.
Don't just choose your friends – ensure you know people who challenge the status quo and will push your thinking, at every level of your company. Being able to communicate well yourself is crucial in order to be effective in your job. A smile doesn't hurt anyone!
I've found my working life enriched by the people I have met; it makes life a lot sweeter and enjoyable and I've learned a lot from them. I've extended that principle over the years and ensured I've got to know external comms colleagues, shareholders, stakeholders and union officials too.
What struck me on my first day is still relevant today – it is crucial to understand and know the people in your organisation. I have applied the same principle outside of my workplace and value the people I know and connect with. With ever-decreasing teams, knowing you have people you can ask for advice, bounce ideas off and talk about all things internal communication is priceless.
Now I have my own IC business, it's a pleasure and privilege to work alongside comms teams to help them develop themselves personally and professionally. One of the first questions I ask is about their internal connections.
Sharing knowledge
Around 80 IC pros have written guest articles for my blog because I'm keen to encourage people to build their networks and share knowledge, particularly in-house to in-house. I certainly learn from peers, and feedback from my readers demonstrates this works well for them too. It's that dynamic combination of who and what you know.
When working in-house in the internal comms team at Visa in 2006 I asked my boss' boss, Jeremy Reynolds, to mentor me. He has been a guiding force in my career, particularly through his searing honesty and encouragement. He's certainly been a fantastic person to know.
I am in regular contact with many people I've worked with over the years and recognise the importance of having a strong network, both of people in and outside of comms – avoiding the bubble I mentioned earlier.
Last year I set up The IC Crowd network with my friends and fellow comms pros Jenni Wheller and Dana Leeson (pictured). Transforming your contacts from names on LinkedIn and Twitter to meeting face-to-face (such as the big yak unconference we ran recently with 130 IC pros) is incredibly rewarding.
There are a lot of smart people working in internal communication and I'm proud to be in contact with a lot of them.
Post author: Rachel Miller
Want to connect? Do say hello below, Tweet me @AllthingsIC or find me on LinkedIn and let me know your thoughts on this article. I've listed upcoming opportunities for you to meet with other IC pros below.
Have your say
What's the most important thing you've learned about internal communication? Over the next few months the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC) will be publishing articles from IC professionals featuring their most important thing – keep an eye on their LinkedIn group to read through them, check out the hashtag #ioicgems on Twitter and take part too. You can see some from today below:
#ioicgems never forget the importance of having stakeholders on your level. Senior stakeholder management is the easy part.
— Jade Eva (@MiniComms) July 3, 2013
IC is an enabler for business success, not an end in itself. #ioicgems
— Mark Shanahan (@LeapfrogMark) July 3, 2013
Great IC can transform the relationship between staff and the organisation they work for by facilitating two-way conversations #ioicgems
— Daniel Arda (@DanielArda) July 3, 2013
#ioicgems if you don't understand who you're talking to nothing will get through! learn, build rapport and tailor solutions to engage
— Selina Thompson (@selinathompson) July 3, 2013
#ioicgems – the most important thing I've learned about IC is the importance of great networks, both within your organisation and externally
— Sarah Hodges (@hodgessarah) July 3, 2013
#ioicgems effective communication needs to be a two-way conversation. Gone are the days when 'if you tell, they will listen'… @ioicnews
— Dawn Robinson (@DawniesKitchen) July 3, 2013
Further reading
My blog: How can IC pros be sociable? – overview of event I presented at last week for IC pros in Milton Keynes, UK (pictured top)
My blog: Guest archive featuring articles by 80 internal communication professionals
Opportunities to meet other IC pros:
Comms calendar from @theICcrowd
Measurement summit from CIPR Inside – early bird tickets now available
I'm leading a Social Summer event on 18 July
CIPR Inside internal communication conference in September at Kia Oval, London
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Bernie Charland
- 10 July 2013 at 7:50 pm
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Andrew Cuomo Apologist Fred Dicker Rushes To Defend Gov's Flack's "File" On "Snarky" Reporter; Calls the Voice "Nasty"
Governor Andrew Cuomo's PR flack is under fire for a "file" he kept on a reporter who's often critical of Cuomo -- and now the gov's PR squad is running damage control.
First stop -- as always -- Andrew Cuomo apologist/New York Post state capitol bureau chief Fred Dicker's radio show.
It should be noted that we contacted the governor's office last night asking for an explanation of the "file." Like many other media outlets that publish less-than-flattering commentary on the governor, we were ignored.
Dicker -- who currently is in the process of writing a biography on Cuomo (natch) -- had Cuomo Press Secretary Josh Vlasto on his show this morning to discuss the "file" kept on Albany reporter Elizabeth Benjamin by Cuomo Communications Director Richard Bamberger regarding the "generally snarky" blog posts she's written about the governor.
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Vlasto -- who took time away from his vacation to chat with Cuomo's pal Dicker -- claims the "file" isn't nearly as sinister, or "Nixon-esque" as certain members of the media are making it out to be.
An "unfortunate episode" is how Vlasto describes the "file" on Benjamin, claiming that it's nothing of any substance -- just a collection of blog posts with a few notes from Bamberger (read it for yourself here).
He blames the spread of the leaked "file" on the fast-paced nature of Internet journalism -- specifically blogs that can be particularly "snarky."
Dicker, obviously, agreed with Vlasto's assessment of how insignificant the information contained in the "file" is -- with no mention of what the "file" represents: how paranoid the governor's office is with Cuomo's media image, and how Cuomo's PR people pick and choose which media outlets will have access to the governor based on how favorable their coverage will be. For example, the governor has appeared on Benjamin's public affairs television show, Capitol Tonight, a grand total of once. Dicker, on the other hand, frequently has Cuomo as a guest on his radio show, and currently is writing a biography of the governor, for which he's been assured he'll have Cuomo's "cooperation."
Dicker, obviously, is at the top of the list when it comes to Cuomo-approved reporters, so the governor's office's paranoia with the media doesn't impact him. The rest of us aren't as lucky/don't treat the governor like he's royalty -- in the past two months, the governor's office has only once responded to our request for comment...on anything.
Dicker went so far as to suggest that there might be some sort of "espionage" going on on the second floor of the state capitol, and that reporters might be picking through the governor's trash looking for "exclusive" documents, like the "file" on Benjamin.
Dicker further blamed the distribution of the "file" compiled by Bamberger -- who Dicker apparently adores -- to the "snarky" nature of the blogosphere, noting that "snarky" is just a modern-day term for "nasty." He illustrated his point by saying how "nasty" the Village Voice has been with him the past "several weeks."
Keep in mind, this is the same Fred Dicker who's alleged to have sent photographers to the home of former gubernatorial candidate/Cuomo opponent Carl Paladino to take pictures of his daughter.
We sent Dicker an email asking if he really didn't see anything wrong with the gov's office keeping a "file" on a reporter. We'll let you know if he gets back to us.
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By Mark K. Anderson
Monday, August 12, 2002
In some fields, getting a blank stare means you're on the right track.
When they invented the Internet, blank stares were commonplace. And now
Vinton Cerf (co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol upon which the Internet is
built) and Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the Worldwide Web) are each
generating the now-familiar quizzical expressions as they promote their
latest vision of tomorrow's computer networks.
One is currently mapping out plans for an Interplanetary Internet; the other
is drawing upon the Web's potential as a worldwide data bank for intelligent
Both men were honorees at this year's Telluride Tech Festival in Colorado,
which ended Sunday. Both are innovators whose contributions to society will
be greater still if their current vision pans out.
Given their track record, it probably will. Telluride, home to the world's
first commercial alternating current (AC) power plant in 1891, has a
tradition of hearing out such visionaries as Berners-Lee and Cerf -- a
tradition the festival's organizers proudly proclaim.
Cerf, who spelled out the latest developments in a new-generation Internet
that would stretch deep into the Solar System, said that an interplanetary
network would not be relevant just for space exploration.
Consider the time lag problem, for instance. Transmissions from Mars can
take as much as 20 minutes to reach Earth. And if the antenna is on the far
side of Mars, it can take hours or days before the planet -- or the orbiter
-- brings the antenna around into a line-of-sight with the Earth.
In such an environment, the Internet as it's now conceived would shut down.
Servers would time out long before any packets of data could be exchanged.
"The system has to be capable of dealing with delay and frequent
disconnection," Cerf said. "As a result, we've now concluded that the
interplanetary network is an example of a much more general concept we call
delay-tolerant networks.
"Some of the ideas we're pursuing will have utility on Earth in the mobile
environment, where connectivity is often episodic and the data rates are
often low and sometimes asymmetric."
Trent Hein, CEO of the network consulting company Applied Trust, said he's
confident that Cerf's vision will once again become universally implemented
"It's evolving a lot like the way that the early Internet did," he said. "In
the '70s, the Internet existed -- but not a lot of people used it or knew
about it. They were using extremely slow hardware and only had a few nodes.
But you just have to start with ideas and tweak them and then grow it into
something big."
Cerf said that the Interplanetary Protocols -- "very much like e-mail, a
store-and-forward design" -- just completed their third iteration last
month. (The current Internet protocols had four iterations before they were
standardized in 1978.)
The design team is now angling to use next year's launch of two Mars rovers
as a testbed for the Interplanetary Internet. And somewhere between 2005 and
2007, a Mars observing satellite is scheduled to launch -- which Cerf hopes
will also be a new node in what they call the "InterPlaNet."
John Perry Barlow, vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said
the conceptual boundaries the Interplanetary Internet breaks are important
"Probably the best thing is it makes you think big," Barlow said. "I think
it's pretty unlikely that we're going to be getting e-mail from Mars in the
near future."
Back on Earth, Berners-Lee has no less ambitious designs for the future of
the Worldwide -- and someday, Solar System-wide -- Web.
His vision of what he calls the Semantic Web is of an Internet full of data
meaningful to computers as well as to humans.
So instead of Vinny's Florists having a Web page that simply lists the
store's hours, its contact info and the floral arrangements it sells --
comprehensible only to the humans who visit it -- Vinny's Semantic website
would also contain metadata that search engines could understand specifying
that the business is a florist and its hours are X, its location is Y and
the products it sells are Z.
This way precise searches fulfilling precise needs could be done that are
now impossible.
"You'll tell a search engine, 'Find me someplace where the weather is
currently rainy and it's within a hundred miles of such and such a city,'"
Berners-Lee told the Boston Globe in June.
"Today a search engine can go and find you pages with those words on them,
but with the Semantic Web, it will come back and say, 'Look, I found this
place and I can prove to you why I know that it's raining and why I know
it's within a hundred miles of this place.' So you'll be dealing with much
firmer information."
Barlow said Berners-Lee's Semantic Web makes an appealing next-generation
"Part of what Tim is trying to do is open the Internet up to different forms
of human communication that are much less constrained," he said.
Barlow also lauded both Cerf and Berners-Lee for developing an Internet
whose social value endures, even as its commercial value ebbs and flows.
"We're really lucky that the folks that happened to be in that highly
pivotal position were also socially very aware and men of good conscience,"
Barlow said. "Tim, for instance, is one of the sweetest human beings I've
ever met. His essential good-heartedness has been embedded in the culture of
the Internet."
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The spacious living / dining room has sofas, an ornamental fireplace and bookshelves. The adjoining dining area comfortably seats 4 to 6 guests. A sofa bed for an additional guest is located in the LIVING/DINING room or LOUNGE.
Inside stairs lead to a TV sitting-room located between the bedrooms - so giving them total privacy.
There are two bedrooms, each bedroom has a King size bed ; 1 bedroom has a full en-suite bathroom with a bathtub / shower and a toilet.
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Shares of City of London, the investment and public relations group, have had their most volatile six months since the company arrived on the stock market a decade ago.
Shares of City of London, the investment and public relations group, have had their most volatile six months since the company arrived on the stock market a decade ago.
For most of the 10 years the price stuck below 100p. Then, as the hi-tech stampede strained reason, investors became aware of the group's investments in fledgling internet operations.
Suddenly City of London was no longer a boring old investment and PR company going nowhere fast. Overnight it became a new economy wonder stock, quickly soaring to 937.5p. Of course, the shares melted in the subsequent high-tech burnout. They are now down to 290p, which represents about a 190p gain for long-standing shareholders or, for anybody who moved in at the peak, a horrendous loss.
I'm afraid I had something to do with City of London's rollercoaster display. I tipped the shares at 117.5p, pointing out they offered the unusual combination of internet potential and, from its investment portfolio and PR side, profits and dividends.
The ultra-smart investor would have sold at the top. Certainly, when the price was around its high point there was a strong case for taking some profits, leaving the residue of the stake cost-free. But bells do not ring to indicate peaks or, indeed, troughs and I suspect many investors who moved after my recommendation are still sitting on the shares.
If they are, I suggest they continue to do so. The recent modest revival in hi-tech shares should not have come as a surprise. There are many potentially highly rewarding investments among the telecom and World Wide Web players. Unfortunately, there are also seemingly hopelessly over-hyped and still over-priced shares. I believe City of London is one of those to back.
Chairman John Greenhalgh, betraying his training as a successful Fleet Street hack, says in a statement with the yearly figures: "The emphasis has moved away for the moment from the core PR operating business serving the hard-pressed mining industry for the brave new world of the internet. We believe there will be many fallers in this Grand National of investments but our own 'naps' will get past the finishing post - and maybe in some style."
The group's profits, for an internet player, were outstanding. They were expected to be lower and came out at £707,000 before tax, against a re-stated £961,000. There was also a dividend - increased by 5 per cent.
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Anyhow, Miller Lite is trying to climb out of its slump, so the company is testing a "home draft system," a.k.a. beer in a box. A spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that beer in a box is best for when "you just got back from work and want to reward yourself."
The box contains 1.5 gallons of beer, and stays fresh for 30 days. It costs about 15 percent more than the equal amount of beer in cans, which calls into question whether or not it's really a stellar recession idea. Then again, you can drink as much as you want, without those pesky cans trumpeting the fact that you've had five beers.
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Born in Eindhoven, our goalkeeping coach joined his home-town team PSV in 1983.
Twenty years on, Hans will face his first professional team in our friendly against the Dutch champions on August 3.
Inspired by the likes of Johan Cruyff, Ruud Krol, Johnny Rep, Johan Neeskens and the van der Kerkhof brothers Holland were runners-up in the World Cups of 1974 and 1978.
"For me, to join PSV Eindhoven was a dream come true," recalled Hans. "At that time they were one of the top clubs in Holland - they still are, of course - but to get in the squad was very tough because they were full of top, international players like Willy and Rene van der Kerkhof.
"When I signed that contract, my first contract, it was very special. I also came from Eindhoven, so it was a big thing for me. I had a great time and when I look back, I have great memories.
"Football in Holland at the time was buzzing. The national team finished runners-up twice in the World Cup and our clubs did very well in European competition.
"In fact, I made my debut in Europe. It was a very good time to be there."
Hans moved to Nottingham Forest in 1984 before an eight-year stint at Wimbledon and eventually onto coaching duties at Spurs in 1998.
But PSV were never far from his thoughts - no wonder then that he's looking forward to our White Hart Lane date.
"In the last few years when I was playing if I had a break, I would always go back to PSV for some training sessions," he said. "It is my club in Holland.
"PSV always brings back good memories for me even though you're talking 25 years ago for me.
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Women's suffrage in Kuwait
After Kuwait gained independence in 1961, the Kuwaiti parliament passed new laws that limited voting to those who were male, over the age of 21, and had family living in Kuwait since before 1920. Women from the first graduating class at various universities across Kuwait banded together to create the Women's Cultural and Social Society in 1963. Their goals were to raise awareness of women's issues, but more importantly, to boost Kuwaiti women up and give them the opportunities to succeed. Kuwaiti women did have many more freedoms in comparison to their close neighboring countries, such as access to a higher education.[1] Although a higher education was easily available, there was still gender separation until 2013. Now males and females can be in the same classroom, but must still be separated within the classroom.[2]
Women's Suffrage Movement[edit]
In 1973, parliament looked over a bill which would have given women the right to vote and run for elected office, which was ultimately overturned due to pressure from conservatives all over. Over 10 years later in 1984, the movement seemed to have gained some support when the current emir (Jaber Sabah) and the prime minister (Crown Prince Saad Sabah) announced that they were in favor of a women's suffrage bill, which in turn offered some false hope. Different bills continued to be denied through 1985 and 1986 respectively, and until this changed, the highest position in government a Kuwaiti woman could hold was that of assistant secretary. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, Kuwait then became heavily involved in the Iraq-Iran war. With the involvement in the war, it became vital for women to become hospital volunteers and even push the boundaries to smuggle in food and necessary items for their families. Since women took the initiative, they also demanded acknowledgment and recognition for their efforts. The parliament agreed and the first woman was finally appointed as the ambassador of the Persian Gulf in 1993. In May 1999, the current emir issued a decree that allowed women the right to vote and run for office, however, under the Kuwaiti Constitution, Parliament was allowed to reject and overrule the emir, and it did. However, for a period of 6 months, women had the right to vote. Unfortunately, there were no elections heard during this time before the emir was overruled.[3]
The movement began to gain speed after this, and the first non-violent demonstration kicked off in 1996 when 500 women stopped working for an hour to show solidarity in their right for suffrage. Small demonstrations continued throughout the next 6 years and in 2002 a few Kuwaiti women decided to protest outside of voter registration centers. Things continued to escalate and in the 2003 election, women created mock ballots that "allowed hundreds of women to cast symbolic votes for real candidates."[4] In March 2005, 1,000 people surrounded the Kuwaiti parliament to reinforce their need for suffrage. On May 17, 2005 a bill was passed 37 votes for and 21 votes against women's suffrage, granting Kuwaiti women the right to vote and run for an elected office.[1]
Four years later, in May 2009, four female candidates won parliamentary seats in a general election out of fifty available seats.[5][6] Although this was 8% of parliament, by the 2013 election, no women had been elected in to the current parliament and the last woman elected resigned in May 2014. In order to press change, it is necessary to implement the adoption of quotas or by enforcing non-compliance sanctions.[7]
Noureya Al-Saddani: An author, historian, broadcaster, and director, Al-Saddani started the first women's organization in Kuwait. In 1971 she proposed to the National Assembly to grant women's political rights[8]
Lulwa Almulla: worked around the globe and in her home country of Kuwait as well for the past 26 years, attempting to gain suffrage for women in her home. Although she helps run the family business, her true passion was in volunteering. She claims that women's suffrage does not end there and now women must be empowered to hold places in parliament.[9]
"The Criminal Court today sentenced Rana al-Sadoun to three years with hard labour in the case of her repeating a speech by Musallam al-Barrak."[10]
Kuwait and the ICCPR[edit]
Kuwait first ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1994 and 2 years later ratified the ICCPR, or the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in 1996. In the year 2000, the Kuwaiti government has done little to modify its legislation that discriminates on the basis of gender.[11]
Objections under the ICCPR[edit]
"Although the Government of Kuwait endorses the worthy principles embodied in these two articles as consistent with the provisions of the Kuwait Constitution in general and of its article 29 in particular, the rights to which the articles refer must be exercised within the limits set by Kuwaiti law."[12]
In the area of nationality, Kuwaiti women do not have the right to give their children Kuwaiti citizenship if they marry non-Kuwaiti men. Kuwaiti women cannot receive residential care and other rights that men can have if they marry non-Kuwaiti women. If a person is born in or outside of Kuwait and their father is a Kuwaiti national, they are automatically a national themselves.[13]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Kuwaiti women struggle for suffrage (Blue Revolution), 2002–2005 | Global Nonviolent Action Database". nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ "Kuwait agrees to scrap segregation in education". Arabian Business. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ Wills, Emily (2012). "Democratic Paradoxes: Women's Rights and Democratization in Kuwait". The Middle East Journal. 67: 173–184 – via ProQuest.
- ^ PeaceVoice (2016-05-11). "Blue Revolution – Kuwaiti Women Gain Suffrage". PeaceVoice. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ "Four Kuwaiti Women Become First to Win Seats in Parliament | NDI". www.ndi.org. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ Shalaby, Marwa. "Women's Political Representation in Kuwait: An Untold Story" (PDF). Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
- ^ "الأستاذة نورية السداني - تاريخ الكويت". www.kuwait-history.net. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ Kmietowicz, Zosia (2006). "Victory for women's rights in Kuwait reawakens hope". British Medical Journal. 333.
- ^ "Kuwait activist sentenced for insulting emir". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ "Kuwait: Promises Betrayed - Discrimination Against Women". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ "United Nations Treaty Collection". Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Nationality Law, 1959". Refworld. Retrieved 2016-12-08.


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Day 1 – Join 13 million others and watch @kellymcgonigal in her TED talk "how to make stress your friend".
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Day 8 – remember the rhythms of the year
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Day 10 – get involved with a week of well-being chat with the Chartered College.
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Day 18 sign up or make your own version of #teacher5adaybuddybox from @mrshumanities
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Can vengeance be pursued further than death? That was the questionposed by the globally acclaimed writer of all times, WilliamShakespeare, in his masterpiece drama, Romeo and Juliet. It is aquestion that aptly captures the situation Nigeria's former PresidentGoodluck Jonathan has found himself right now.
The former president lost the March 2015 presidential election andpeacefully handed over to the winner, President Muhammadu Buhari onMay 29, 2015. He retired to his village home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, perhaps to rue the loss and put his life together once again. Someeven say that his retirement would afford him the opportunity ofpossibly returning to his first love of carrying out zoologicalresearches into Niger Delta biodiversity.
But the manner in which he handed over power caught the world'sattention and the man, in a way is fast becoming the poster boy ofpeaceful transition across Africa. Twice the world has called on himas leader of election delegations to transiting African countries. Hehas also been invited to talks in Europe and America. The point ofattraction for the world is that Jonathan handed over power in Nigeriapeacefully. He conducted a fiercely contested election thatpractically divided Nigeria along sharp and dangerous lines. Theelection was conducted against the backdrop of an American predictionthat claimed Nigeria would cease to be a nation from 2015 as a resultof the fall outs of the year's election.
Everything pointed to a Nigeria at the precipice. Some citizensrelocated to their ancestral homes, abandoning their voters' registerfor fear of violence. But even in the heat of the elections, the man Jonathan continued to repeat that his ambition was not worth the bloodof any Nigerian.
Largely due to Jonathan's personal disposition, Nigeria went throughthe 2015 election without bloodshed. The only people that died did sowhile celebrating. He even put a call through to his main challengermidway into the collation of results to congratulate the winner. Fromthat point, the election conduct became Jonathan's selling point. Andnotwithstanding what anyone would say, the world is not likely to losesight of that. Right now, the man appears to be enjoying the fruits ofthat disposition but it appears he has to contend with revisionists.
On Thursday, Jonathan's office issued a statement to debunk mediareports which linked him to the formation of Niger Delta Avengers(NDA), a group of militants whose activities have crippled thenation's oil production in recent months. The media reports, took acue from a similar allegation by a member of the group that calleditself Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, but this time, there werereferences to some "intelligence reports."
It is difficult to believe that the man who left power willingly, tothe acknowledged surprise of his opponent, the man who handed overeven when he had opportunity to negatively affect the system and cause confusion using state power; the man who refused the advice ofhis inner core to tinker with the leadership of INEC when his mensmelt danger; the man whose five year reign recorded no political killing or political prisoner, will suddenly resort to sponsoringviolence when he no longer possess state power. And especially, whenthe world is already appreciating his peaceful statesmanlike conduct.
Further to that, one would want to agree with the Former President'soffice when it said in a statement on Thursday: "There is no doubtthat there exist such people who may have scores tosettle with the former President but are now feeling frustrated by thefact that his national and international profile has continued torise, despite their recourse to endless muck-raking characterassassination. Such people will stop at nothing to continue to throwobstacles, albeit futilely, on his path."
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The same way we have to give Jonathan credit for what he achievedwhile in office. His refrain was "My political ambition is not worththe blood of any Nigerian," and he acted that practically. He ensured that there were reforms at the electoral front and gave freedom toINEC to the extent that the Commission became a government to itselfin contract awards. I guess there is nothing that would deny Jonathanas a man of peace. Many of his allies would say that he demonstratedthat to a fault and that his undoing was failing to smell danger atcertain stages. He stuck to his belief in the conduct of free and fair election and he accepted the bitter outcome. Rather than rack upunsubstantiated claims against the former President, critics need toplay fair. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's, so says the Holy book. Even in conventional war, you don't hit your opponent below the belt.


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