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Health Care Global Enterprises Ltd Bangalore
ESMO Designated Centre of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care
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8 P Kalinga Rao Road
Bangalore 560027
|Phone: +91-80-40206000 - naveensalins(at)hcgoncology(dot)com
|Health Care Global Enterprises Ltd Bangalore
Centre history
HealthCare Global (HCG) was initially founded as Bangalore Institute of Oncology in 1989 and later transformed into HCG which is now a private cancer care network with more than 26 centres in India and overseas. HCG cancer care network has 400+ dedicated oncologists, 1000+ dedicated cancer care beds and 40,000+ new cancer patients per year. Each day the network performs 800+ radiation treatments, 120 cancer surgeries and 500 chemotherapy infusions. HCG network is the first and only oncology care network in India to have a carefully developed hub and spoke model. It has one central hub (HCG Enterprises Ltd Bangalore), two regional hubs and 23 spokes. Over the last five years HCG has been actively contributing to the future of cancer care in India by designing, building and managing cancer centres across the nation with a steadfast vision to provide cancer care using competency, cutting edge technology, affordability and accessibility as its mantra.
HCG Enterprises Ltd Bangalore being the headquarters and centre of excellence has state-of-the-art facilities to provide tertiary care oncology services in the Medical, Radiation, Nuclear Medicine, Surgical disciplines, Palliative Care and other ancillary services with 250 inpatient beds. The centre is accredited with NABH (National Accreditation Board for the Hospitals & Healthcare Providers) for the hospital, NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing & Calibrating Laboratories) and CAP (College of American Pathologists) for its state of the art Clinical Laboratory.
Department Profile
HCG Bangalore is a 250-bed dedicated cancer hospital with 100+ doctors (both consultants, junior doctors and doctors in training), around 350 nurses, 20 nurse practitioners, 40 social workers, 40 medical transcriptionists, 30 pharmacists (oncopharmacists + general), 15 physicists, 40 technicians (Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and OT), around 150 administrative staff including front office and IT, 200 + housekeeping staff and general workers, 10 members in quality control and around 15 members in R&D department.
The hospital has 10 regular oncology wards, one hematology ward, one nuclear medicine ward, one surgical ward, one pediatric oncology ward, a bone marrow transplant unit, an Intensive care unit, a high dependency unit and two day care chemotherapy centres. Out of 250 beds, 150 are single occupancy rooms, 20 are double occupancy, 30 are triplex and the remaining 50 are general ward beds (6-8 patients per large room adequately seperated ensuring privacy).
Areas of specialisation
The hospital has following specialities:
- Medical and Hemato-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
- Paediatric Oncology
- Radiation Oncology with advanced 3D CRT techniques and brachytherapy
- Region specific surgical oncology units
- Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care
- General Radiology and Interventional Radiology
- Diagnostic and therapeutic Nuclear Medicine
- Anaesthesia and acute pain services
- General and paediatric intensive care
- Interventional Pain Management
- Psycho-oncology
- Complimentary and alternative medicine and Yoga
Palliative and supportive care
The department of Integrative Oncology and Palliative Care at HCG Bangalore comprises one full-time consultant, two part-time consultants, one nurse practitioner, two complimentary and alternative medicine doctors, of which one is a yoga therapist, a full-time psycho-oncologist and a medical social worker.
The department provides comprehensive multimodal multidisiplinary care and has inpatient, outpatient, hospice and community palliative care services. The services of the department includes pain and symptom control, supportive care including co-morbidty and complication management, end of life care, home based palliative care, interventional pain management, psycho-social care and distress management, bereavement care and has active support groups.
On average the department sees 300 outpatients, 550 inpatients and 75 new cases per month and around 60-80 homevisits per month. The department is actively involved in inhouse and external education and is the regional centre for conducting IAPC certificate course in essentials of palliative care and IOPT certificate programme in integrated oncology. it is involved in clinical research and in the last two years the department has eight publications of which four are original articles published in pubmed indexed journals.
In the last two years the department has conducted four CMEs and was institutional partner for two international conferences. The department has two major in-hospital collaborations: PEDISCOPE(pediatric integrated supportive care oncology program and education) and HSCT-INT Onco (Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplant and Integrated Oncology, and multiple external collaborations.


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The Euro/USD changed direction and rallied over the Fed and five other Central Banks' ease in US dollar based loans to EU banks. Most other currencies also appreciated against the US dollar such as the Canadian Dollar and Australian dollar. Here is a summary of the price movements of major exchange rates for November 30th:
Forex Market:
The Euros to USD exchange rate inclined by 0.97% to reach 1.3446; during November, the EUROS/USD fell by 3.0%. Furthermore, the Australian Dollar to US Dollar inclined by 2.82% yesterday and reached 1.0283. The GBP to USD exchange rate also rose by 0.68% to reach 1.5704; during November, the GBP to USD shed 2.4% off its value.
The US dollar to Canadian exchange rate sharply fell by 1.43% on Wednesday to 1.0173. During November the USD/CAD exchange rate inclined by 1.6%.
Finally, the US Dollar depreciated against the Yen by 0.39% yesterday and reached 77.6200.
Commodities Market:
Gold price sharply inclined on Wednesday by 1.83% to $1,750.30. During November, gold price slightly inclined by 1.5%.
WTI spot oil price also slightly increased by 0.57% and reached $100.36 per barrel; during November the WTI spot oil price added 7.7% to its value.
A Summary of Yesterday's Exchange Rate Forex Changes:
The table below includes: closing prices, daily percent change, and change in prices and indexes:
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The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) is an organization of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. It is commissioned to promote the country's tourism industry.[1]
The KTO was established in 1962 as a government-invested corporation responsible for the South Korean tourism industry according to the International Tourism Corporation Act.[2] The organization promotes Korea as a tourist destination to attract foreign tourists. Starting in the 1980s, domestic tourism promotion also became a function of the KTO.
Inbound visitors totaled over 6 million in 2006[3] and the tourism industry is said to be one of the factors that has some influence on the Korean economy.[4]
- 1961: The Tourism Promotion Law is enacted.
- 1962: The International Tourism Corporation (ITC) is established to promote South Korea's tourism industry through the management of major hotels, taxis and the Korea Travel Bureau, as well as by training human resources to support the travel trade.
- 1968: The number of foreign visitors passes 100,000.
- 1969: The Hotel Institute is opened. The first overseas office opens in Tokyo.
- 1971: Development of Bomun Lake Resort in Gyeongju begins.
- 1977: London office opens in the UK.
- 1978: Korea attracts over one million foreign visitors.
- 1982: The International Tourism Corporation is renamed the Korea National Tourism Corporation (KNTC).
- 1988: The number of foreign visitors surpasses two million.
- 1991: The number of foreign visitors passes three million.
- 1996: The company's name is changed from Korea National Tourism Corporation to Korea National Tourism Organization.
- 1998: Kumgangsan Diamond Mountains tour begins.
- 2000: Korea attracts five million foreign visitors.
- 2003: Kumgangsan Diamond Mountains land route tour begins. Hallyu (Korea Wave) becomes the major theme of the KTO's overseas marketing. United States branch offices issue newsletter bulletins;[5] offices are in Los Angeles and New York City.[6]
- 2005: KTO reshuffles its organizational structure into six divisions. KTO introduces its new corporate identity. Korea attracts 6.5 million visitors from abroad.
- Promotions to attract inbound tourists.
- Research and develop tourism technology to nurture the tourism industry.
- Cooperation with local government and the tourism industries.
- Resort development and consulting.
- 2009: Lee Joon-gi[7]
- 2011: Park Si-hoo and Jung Ryeo-won[8]
- 2012: Kim Soo-hyun [9]
- 2016: Song Joong Ki
See also[edit]
- ^ National Archives of Korea
- ^ "The Foundation of Korea Tourism Organization". National Archives of Korea. 2006-12-01.
- ^ Gupta, Satish (2007-01-30). "Korea targets 10 million inbound visitors by 2010". eTN Asia.
- ^ Oh, Jee-chul (2009-03-03). "Tourism to Power Korea's Economy". The Korea Times.
- ^ "USA What's Happening". Korea Tourism Organization. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
- ^ "About USA Branch Offices". Korea Tourism Organization. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
- ^ "Lee Jun-ki Picked to Promote Korean Tourism". Chosun Ilbo. 6 August 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Jung Ryeo-won, Park Si-hoo to Promote Nation". Chosun Ilbo. 10 November 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Kim Soo-hyun elected tourism ambassador". Yahoo News. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
External links[edit]
- VisitKorea (KTO) homepage (English)
- KTO homepage (Korean)
- GoKorea (KTO London) homepage (English)


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Risk On: Was 2008 Just a Bad Dream?by
The ghosts of 2008 linger. They haunt an economy that's slowly and unevenly recovering from its worst shock since the heyday of bread lines and Hoovervilles. The financial crisis taught us that long-held assumptions and complacencies can and will fall apart in a subprime minute. Markets tanked. Credit dried up and marginally financed companies went under. Banks failed. Even today, whole subdivisions of newish homes remain abandoned, their copper pipes ripped out and their pools sporting a phosphorescent, almost otherworldly, shade of green.
Point is, the concept of risk is not to be underestimated. In mere months, American household wealth took a brutal, $14 trillion hit. That's more than $120,000 per household. And lest you thought a snapback in 2009 and 2010 made things perfect once again, Europe's fiddling last year while Rome (and Athens and Lisbon) burned sent volatility soaring and markets tanking all over again. Some economists swear we are only in the middle innings of a potentially decade-long financial crisis.
So how is it that risk concerns suddenly feel so fuddy-duddy? Small- and medium-capitalization stocks are up about 12 percent so far this year, as measured by the S&P 1000 index, and are about to cross an all-time high. Junk bonds are all the rage. These are issued by companies that have far less financial self-determination than such blue-chip, dividend-paying stalwarts as Johnson & Johnson and Intel. The giants' universe, the mega-cap S&P 100, is up only 8 percent year-to-date. The tech-laden Nasdaq composite, meanwhile, is up 14 percent.
And surely you've heard that a bunch of petulant millennials are about to hit IPO pay dirt. Jealous? Me? You bet. This guy was my pal in B-school. (He dropped out to found Yelp.)
In trader parlance, the mass flocking to lower-quality assets is called "risk-on," perhaps as homage to revered sensei/mentor Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid. Consider that large companies are trading at a 21 percent discount to small-capitalization companies, according to the Leuthold Group. Mega-caps are even cheaper, changing hands for less than 11 times estimated 2012 earnings, compared with a multiple of 16 for the small fries. Big, stable and cash-rich gets you so little respect these days. Even with bonds and certificates of deposits yielding next to bupkis, you can hardly give away a safe and chunky dividend.
Investors have been lulled by a drop in volatility, which, as measured by the VIX index (chart above), has plummeted 65 percent from its highs in August. Then, fear and loathing about a European contagion was in full bloom. Today, the VIX is back at levels it enjoyed in the last complacent months of mid-2007. You know, back when buyout firms believed they could take a three-legged ox private—and at a multiple of eight times cash flow.
Maybe, just maybe, we're completely out of the woods and 2008 will turn out to have been one brutal aberration. Homes could fill up. Banks could lend with abandon, as the Dow zooms up to 20,000 and unemployment falls back under 6 percent. "Now we're getting a resumption of the economic growth that seemed to have faded in the second half of 2011," says "Downtown" Josh Brown, a New York wealth manager who blogs as the Reformed Broker. "So people are venturing away from the defensives and consumer staples and the utilities that kept them safe and now they want to play."
Or perhaps the "risk-on" zeitgeist of early 2012 will prove to be short-lived and will give way to another round of "risk-off" fear, a la much of 2011 and 2008. Last summer's global flight to safety gave U.S. Treasuries some of their best returns in history—debt downgrade be damned—and sent the market into a full-blown correction.
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NZIER quarterly survey of business paints picture of robust economic conditions and rising interest rates.
A recovery growing stronger and broader, but accompanied by inflation pressures, is the picture painted by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's latest quarterly survey of business opinion (QSBO).
The QSBO is the longest-running and most comprehensive survey of business sentiment. The March survey found a net 52 per cent of firms expect the general business situation to improve over the coming year, unchanged from December which was a 20-year high.
Companies' own trading activity, which more closely mirrors economic growth, picked up to its highest level since December 2003 when gross domestic product growth was around 4.5 per cent.
But NZIER principal economist Shamubeel Eaqub does not expect growth to reach that rate this time, pointing to credit expanding at only half the pace it was then.
The net 25 per cent positive reading for trading activity nationwide reflects the levels in Auckland and Canterbury, but is exceeded in Nelson/Marlborough and Southland at 44 per cent and 33 per cent respectively, while Otago, Hawke's Bay, Northland and Bay of Plenty are languishing by this measure.
Investment intentions are strong. A net 20 per cent of firms expect to increase investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead - the most since 1994 - while building investment intentions are the highest since 1975.
"Hiring intentions eased a touch but remain consistent with robust employment growth," Eaqub said.
A net 16 per cent of firms raised their prices over the past three months and a net 37 per cent expect to do so over the next three months, up from a net 23 per cent.
Westpac economist Michael Gordon said the lift in the pricing measures was the most substantial change since the previous QSBO and provided further backing for the Reserve Bank's decision to start lifting interest rates now in order to head off inflation pressures over the next couple of years.
"Even so, we are wary of overstating their significance; reported price increases, while rising, are still well below boom-time levels," he said.
Deutsche Bank chief economist Darren Gibbs noted that among retailers the pricing gauges were more subdued, with a net 6 per cent of firms raising prices in the March quarter and a net 16 per cent expecting to in the June quarter - around average levels for these indicators.
"Whilst we doubt that the Reserve Bank will be surprised at the activity indicators in this survey, we think that the pick-up in pricing pressures outside of the retail sector will be noted with some concern.
"We expect the bank will view the survey as a green light for a further 25 basis point rate hike on April 24," Gibbs said.
Eaqub said that with pricing pressure widening beyond Canterbury and the construction sector, interest rates would continue to rise, with floating mortgage rates getting to 7.5 per cent over the next year.
The number of firms saying a lack of sales is the main factor preventing them from increasing production continues to decline while labour and capacity constraints are increasingly cited.
But while skilled workers are becoming harder to find, it is no more so than in recent quarters, and reported capacity utilisation actually fell to below-average levels, led by manufacturers and exporters.
"There's no sense that this spare capacity is the result of a drop-off in production by manufacturers," Gordon said.
"In fact quite the opposite. So it may be that firms have made some much-needed investment in new capacity - only three quarters ago, manufacturers' capacity utilisation was approaching record highs. That bodes well for the economy's ability to grow at the sort of rates that the headline confidence measures imply."
• A net 52% of firms expect the general business situation to improve over the coming year.
• A net 20% of firms expect to increase investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead.
• A net 37% expect to raise their prices over the next three months.


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Sunday Spin, 30 September 2012 (Dominic Gill, Take A Seat)
02 October 2012 , 11:10 AM by peter scott
Just the one cycling story this week on Sunday Spin, but what a cracker it was!
Dominic Gill, from the UK, decided to get off the merry-go-round of life for a while and ride a bike from Alaska to Argentina. He travelled by himself, but he took a tandem bike. Two hundred and seventy people joined him on the two year trip that changed his life.
The documentary about the trip is called Take A Seat and Dom shared his story with me during a skype call.
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|Reviews for Fashioned in Gold
| hetaliagir998 chapter 3 . 4/5
Heartbreaking, beautiful, and a haunting story I must say.
| F8 chapter 3 . 8/7/2011
Wow, this is great! I think Gray should just tell Claire what happened to him and Mary before Claire arrived and the two of them should make peace with Mary once and for all so that all misunderstandings will be understood not hide it to themselves?
Mary & Gray are so complicated they hide all they're feelings inside and feel guilty about it forever. And Mary, after all those years she just stayed there in her library and let herself be hurt every single day? Now that's just unthinkable, she would've just left mineral town and find love someplace else...
Anyways & Anyhows this is still one of the best Harvest Moon Stories ever! i like it :3
| SweetieLove chapter 3 . 8/13/2010
Very sad :O ...but good sad... Too bad Mary had to end that way... ...and again, your writing is flawless! XD
| Katie chapter 3 . 7/30/2010
Ahh, I love this. There's too much hate between Graire and Grary, when really, they're both amazingly sweet. I love how in this story, no-one's the bad guy and Mary does end up with her own sort-of happy ending. Beautifully written.
| ShadX - Shadow Elf chapter 3 . 3/6/2009
This is so sweet... I love this story!
| Sam the ham sandwich chapter 3 . 1/23/2009
That was beautiful...
I love it
Reading Mary was so sad because it someone reminds me of me
Never crying
Letting my emotions out on words
I really love that chapter
Keep Writing :D
| twilight guardian chapter 3 . 6/16/2008
Beautiful. I enjoyed both Claire and Mary's chapters. I was happy that Mary had found a way to move on - even happier when I read about Claire and Gray's daughter visiting her.
| Squishie-twin chapter 3 . 6/11/2008
The Loved: I was grinning the whole time I read it. I loved the way Claire acted toward Gray! :)
The Lover: This one made me sad. Poor Gray had to live with such guilt. When I got to the end, I realized that Mary was next, and I was seriously beginning to dread it.
The Loveless: I wanted to cry! DX Poor Mary, losing her only love the the Farmer down the lane. I love the fact that their daughter comes in to read and write and inspires Mary to write again.
Overall: Great story! You write really well, the story was amazing, and I hope to read more amazing stories from you!
| Alumia chapter 3 . 4/6/2008
That was just beautiful.
I can't really think of anything else to say.
| Englasu chapter 3 . 4/3/2008
I really enjoyed the three parts It ended with a complete feeling, gave a little bit more information with each chapter, and I think it developed the characters quite nicely.
Good work. )
| MistressLeia24 chapter 3 . 2/8/2008
Wow. You have AMAZING talent. The way you went through each character that was really affected by it was just beautiful. Mary's part especially made me cry. ;_; I'm a sucker for angst and drama. But seriously thsi is amazing. I thought that you did the fluffly part of Graire very nicely. Not a lot of fics get him in character enough.
| Purple Froggie chapter 3 . 2/5/2008
Damn. That was just...almost poetic, you know? Really makes you think about Gray x Claire and all the baggage that goes with it. It can be beautiful, but it can also be sad. Excellent stuff right here.
| wikipedias chapter 3 . 2/3/2008
Die, Mary, die!
Heh heh.
Really hate Mary.
Use of present tense. ;]
| wikipedias chapter 2 . 2/3/2008
Poor Gray.
Loved the Mary-crying part, though.
Heh heh.
| wikipedias chapter 1 . 2/3/2008
Love, love, love it!
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by JPostSam, Mar 16, 2013.
This obsession with finding the next Welker needs to be buried and vaulted.
If he bulks up, he COULD be dynamic. He was hard to bring down for a small guy, lots of wiggle, almost always made the first man miss, and got up the field in a hurry. Rarely drops the rock.
I'm not sold on using him more but I definitely think Harris should be uses much more. He showed he has hands, quicks and can be used all over the field.
I don't think any of you maroons who are whining about him being a quitter have any part of a clue of what he actually left for.
The dude seems like anything but a quitter.. to be 5'8 and scrawny and make it all the way to the NFL im thinking "quitter" is the last word i'd use to describe the guy.
I remember how many people used to call Anthony Spencer a "quitter" too because he said he wasn't going 100 percent in practice sometimes and felt that was affecting his play on gameday. Now look how many people have come around in his corner. Some of you really need to get a grip.
..and for the record, body type has nothing to do with racism. He has the same build as Wes Welker. They are both pocket sized but very quick out of the slot which allows them the ability to get open alot and not get murdered over the middle despite their small size. Again, get a grip..
Does it? A great slot receiver can do wonders for an offense.. so why give up on the search for the prototypical slot man?
Im still rueing letting Amendola go.. that was such a dumb decision.
Wes Welker
Height: 5086
Weight: 195
Cole Beasley
Height: 5077
Weight: 175
Danny Amendola
Height: 5104
Weight: 183
You are rueing it so much that you forget the important detail that he walked away from the Cowboys on his own. Dallas didn't let him go. They asked him to stay on, but he chose to leave.
Romo's QBR was dreadful when targetting Beasley so maybe Dallas shouldn't throw at him more.
Yeah he was forced into a big role in the Washington game after Ogletree and Austin went down, and it wasn't pretty. Washington basically forced Dallas to throw to him, and the results weren't pretty. He barely converting 50% of his 13 targets in the game, and they were low impact/high percentage short to intermediate dink and dunk targets. As a slot safety blanket WR you either got to provide your QB a large catch radius or get separation to provide your QB an outlet on a snap decision, and Beasley was doing neither in that game getting blanketed by nickel backs and even linebackers. Just because you "look" like Welker doesn't mean you are. I realize secondary WRs are low on the priority list of a team who can't even field a pair of starting safeties currently, but it's an area of the team that scares me given Austin/Dez issues.
Huh? He was cut..
This isn't surprising. Maybe Beasley will grow into the role, but he was an undrafted free agent. There was no reason to expect him to do better than he did in his brief appearances last year. Welker and Amendola looked pretty much the same their first couple of years in the league, too. Amendola kind of still does. His career average of 8.8 yards per catch is less than pedestrian. Hopefully Beasley or whomever else takes on that slot role or 3rd wide receiver role steps up and provides more efficient production for Dallas.


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Weird Twilight Zone Power Oddity!
Hey Gang. (1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee 2WD, in-line 6 cyc.) Last night, I drove a few miles to the local gas station/food store. I killed the engine as normal. Upon returning, I inserted the key and turned it to start. Nothing happened. No dash lights, no engine turnover; nothing, so I turned off to try again. That's when all the analog gauges started spinning around with seemingly no power with the dash lights blinking strangely, so I dropped the shifter down to 'N' and tried to start. Again, all the analog gauges started spinning wildly, but this time when I turned the key off, I could hear a 'clicking' sound coming from the drivers side that seemed to have a pattern to it, so I popped the hood to check. The hood lite was dim, but was working, so I wiggled the positive wire bundle and the hood lite got brighter and that clicking sound stopped. I got back in and this time, the dash lights lit up, but then they went dim and then gone! As I turned the key to off and on, the dash lights tried to work, and then I dropped the shifter down to 'N' thinking the safety switch had gone bad, but power was at first restored, but the gauges started spinning around again! The 2nd attempt allowed the engine to start. The trip meter, radio stations memory and all other pre-sets were zeroed or back to blank with the clock at 12:00. I let the engine run for a few minutes and then I had a feeling to kill the engine and try to start it normally. It did, with everything working except the trip meter and other pre-sets, but the programmed radio stations were restored! Gads man, this was weirdness! * So today, I want to clean the battery terminals and wire brush the holders, although I steam clean the engine 2 or 3 times a year and keep the battery terminals cleaned with NO corrosion. Q.: is there a 'reset button' if the battery is changed or if the terminals are taken apart and cleaned? The battery is almost 2 years old being a 5 year premium battery and otherwise is a good battery. What the hell was all that about? It was like nothing I had ever witnessed in my over 50 years of driving and shade-tree repair work. Any answers or ideas? PLEASE HELP! :eek:
Re: Weird Twilight Zone Power Oddity!
You have a poor connection somewhere. The clicking you heard was a relay not getting enough power to work properly. Check your wiring and connections.
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Agreed! The battery post connections are VERY common failures on the WJ... Make sure they are both clean and tight.
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Ecology and Sustainability at Café Glyptoteket
It is with a focus on ecology and sustainability that restaurateur Stéphanie Michaud and Peter Stub have taken over Café Glyptoteket.
After 16 years with Mette Blomsterberg behind the counter Café Glyptoteket was taken over this summer by the experienced restaurateur couple Stéphanie Michaud and Peter Stub. The café is located in the museum's Winter Garden with a prospect of palm trees and Kai Nielsen's "Water Mother". Here it is possible, henceforth, to enjoy home-made lunch dishes and desserts made of what are primarily ecological and sustainable ingredients.
Peter Stub was formerly chef at Restaurant Kanalen in Copenhagen's Christianshavn, and he brings both French and classic Danish cuisine with him to Café Glyptoteket. Try, for instance, the home-made chicken salad combined with an ecological schnaps, and, for dessert, lemon meringue pie.
Stéphanie Michaud's French background is also in evidence on the menu, which offers ecological French wines and macaroon cakes. She quickly fell in love with the atmosphere at the Glyptotek.
"The café has fantastic surroundings, while at the same time there is something quite special about the atmosphere in a museum. Patrons are more relaxed and enjoy themselves," says Stéphanie Michaud.
Café Glyptoteket
Dantes Plads 7
1556 København V
Opening hours:
The café observes the same hours as the museum: Tuesday-Sunday 11.00 – 5.00 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
Table reservation by phone: 33 41 81 28
Lunch dishes at prices between 95 to around 200 kr.
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Last night, Berkley's nerd-hop group Why? wrapped up this year's musical showcases for Northside Festival at Europa in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. With support from Sarah Jaffe, the show was a reminder of how many genres of music one line-up can span.
Although falling under the singer-songwriter category, Sarah Jaffe's live music is better suited for those drawn to the garage rock aesthetic. During the soundcheck, Jaffe repeatedly asked for more reverb, foreshadowing the raw, aggressive style that was about to permeate her set. The singer's voice, reminiscent of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O, perfectly complemented the extensive range of styles present in her songs. Jaffe's set took the audience on a roller coaster ride of emotions, journeying from soft-romantic and lulling melodies to distortion-saturated power chords. Although a majority of the audience remained stone-faced for the duration of the set, sudden cheers and shouts for more revealed the crowd's satisfaction with Jaffe's move into garage territory.
Before Why? could follow suit, they faced technical difficulties as a result of beer spilled on top of their sound system. For a little over an hour, the crowd attempted to console their impatience with the imminence of the tongue-in-cheek humor of Why?'s lyrics. Why? took the stage after midnight, silencing the few angry hollers demanding the group begin its set. Frontman Yoni Wolf, clad in his signature trucker hat, moved to the center of the stage in a hunched over, comedic manner, appearing slightly disengaged as he thanked the crowd for its "patience." As soon as Why? began its set, all was forgiven.
Amidst the clanky xylophone and keyboard riffs, Wolf's demeanor and mannerisms onstage, as well as the child-like, schoolboy humor in the song lyrics, it was hard to imagine anyone at the show being over the age of 25. The crowd relished Wolf's mannerisms and wordplay technique, responding to the vocalist by rapping with him and imitating his movements. Many were bent over, bursting with laughter at Wolf's antics, like his awkward semi-jerk dancing and rhymes akin to "I'm not a ladies man, I'm a landmine/Filming my own fake death/Under an '88 Cavalier I go" from "The Vowels, Pt. 2."
The real magic of the show seemed to lie in the performance ritual between Why?'s two percussionists. Keeping in time with a drummer is hard enough, but blocking two drummers together seems like a catastrophic idea. Nonetheless, with two trapsets and various percussion instruments, the fast-paced flailing of wooden drum sticks provided a engaging sight alongside Why?'s melodic rhythms.
Although the fans appeared increasingly exhausted as the night progressed, their dedication gave them the energy for a much-deserved encore. Having left the stage and main room of Europa, Why? swiftly returned to grace the audience with one last, gut-busting jam: "Good Friday." Wolf spat his lines about "White boys/Who only look at black and Puerto Rican porno." Seeing Wolf and his creeping demeanor one final time was all that was needed to top off a remarkable show.
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Kelly Osbourne has sprained her ankle after
getting her foot stuck in a drain in a public toilet.
The star opted to inflict a serious injury on herself rather than risk "eating the toilet" in the germ-filled public convenience.
Kelly tweeted: "Got my shoe stuck in a bathroom drain. I was faced w/
spraining my ankle or eating the toilet! Guess what I picked?"
She added: "just could not bare the thought of my face landing in a public toilet! However I'm now questioning my decision due to the pain!!!!!"
The purple-haired star's boyfriend, chef Matthew Mosshart, has been at hand to cheer her up and came to her rescue with a special tool to help her scratch her leg underneath her itchy plaster.
Kelly, 28, gushed: "I have the worlds best BF He just went out at 11pm to get me this extendable leggy scratcher It even matches my hair."
The presenter and Matthew met at Kate Moss and Jamie Hince's wedding in July 2011 and went public with their romance five months later.
Kelly recently denied rumours the pair had got engaged just before Christmas, but hinted she sees herself walking down the aisle with Matthew in the future.
She said: "Isn't that on every girl's radar? You're born, and you're like 'I want to get married.' Honestly, when it happens, it happens, and if I'm lucky enough, maybe you actually won't see me single."
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Name ONE GOOD REASON WHY anybody needs an "assault" rifle!
Ahhhh....Hummmm??? Lemme think....:confused:~~~>To protect themselves and their families from crazed, homicidal, child murdering anti-gun advocates.
To be fair I've heard some pretty violent wishes voiced at Walmart around the ammo shelf about Obama and his family. Its not just the left who does it. Got so bad I walked out without buying anything because one of the guys saying it was working there. I don't care who it is or how much you disagree politically you don't threaten kids.
I wonder if the NRA President and members of his family, or even other members of NRA administration has bodyguards. I'm sure they all carry, but do they have bodyguards? Interesting.
If I received a death threat I would file a complaint with the police and seek to have the perpetrators arrested.
How could you hate firearms so much that you'd threaten to kill someone who opposes your view? What is it about these tools that incites such maniacal anger? I don't get it.
I don't like hybrid vehicles but I would never insult let alone threaten someone who drives one. These people are like overgrown toddlers.
Corner a radical hippie, peace loving liberal, then you'll find out what hate and violence actually looks like. Took me decades to figure that one out. I finally stepped back and saw the pattern. I used to keep my mouth shut and stay friends with people like that until I discovered they are basically the enemy within. On the other hand friends and people I meet within shooting sports and gun circles are the most peaceful harmless and caring folks on the planet. Odd how the media and idiots spin lies though. These peace and love SOB's will be the very ones using the government to blow your brains into a trench before you fall in there.
I like what the guy from Arizona posted in the comments section. "My front door is not there for my protection, it's there for yours.
Maybe he can borrow some of Bloombergs security detail...
Same thing happened to our Gov. Scott Walker, he had death threats for his wife and kids. Funny how on sided it can be at times. They need to take the threats serious.


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Statistical Preview: Nottinghamshire v Durham
Featured News | 24th May 2014
Nottinghamshire return to LV= county championship action on Sunday when they host Durham in a First Division match at Trent Bridge (11am start).
Notts currently lie fifth in the table, with their northeast opponents sitting in seventh spot. Both have played five matches to date with Notts (64 points) having beaten Lancashire and Northants, drawn with Somerset and lost to both Middlesex and Warwickshire.
Durham (45 points) are still looking for their first win of the campaign, although they have only played one match at home so far. They have drawn with Somerset (home), Northants, Sussex and Yorkshire, before losing to Somerset in the match that finished at Taunton on Thursday.
Head To Head
Durham only joined the county championship in 1992 and Notts have faced them on 28 occasions since then, winning 9, losing 10 and drawing 8 of the fixtures, with the 2008 clash in the north east being abandoned without a ball being bowled.
At Trent Bridge the results have been equally shared, with each county winning four matches, with six other games ending all-square.
Last Meeting
Durham inflicted home and away defeats upon Nottinghamshire last season, on their way to lifting their third county championship title in six years.
The match at Trent Bridge was played between 29 April and 2 May and featured s
ome traditional four-day fare, topped off by a run-chase that came straight out of the t20 handbook. Notts made 320 on the first day, after winning the toss. The highlights were contrasting innings between James Taylor, who made 97 from 189 balls faced in 247 minutes, and Steven Mullaney – more hare than tortoise, who raced to 80 from 100 balls in 102 minutes, aided by a brace of sixes from consecutive Gareth Breese deliveries.
The pair added 111 together for the fifth wicket, Stuart Broad scored 46 and Ed Cowan had earlier compiled 40.
Durham were able to gain an advantage of 151, with former Outlaw Will Smith scoring 153 in an innings of 471 that hurt the home side right up until the bitter end.
Apart from Smith's ton, the other ten batsmen all got into double figures with the major supporting roles coming in the bottom half. Paul Collingwood made 64, Mark Wood a career-best 58 not out, Gareth Breese 44 and Graham Onions 26.
Last pair Wood and Onions added 70 so Notts were suitably demoralised ahead of their second dig and immediately lost Alex Hales for 0.
Michael Lumb found form at the right time and was 77 not out at the end of day three but at 145-5, Notts were still half a dozen behind.
Durham would have gone to bed sensing victory – but barely had their heads hit the pillows than a fire alarm had them all evacuating their hotel.
The next few hours gave the visiting players and support staff an insight into life on Nottingham's streets at night, as their hotel was sealed off with the fire brigade on the scene to attend to a burning area of their accommodation.
Understandably tired, Durham nevertheless began the final day as overwhelming favourites, unless Lumb and co could bat for two sessions and build up enough of a lead.
That seemed to have been achieved as Notts reached 333. Lumb made 123 before another sizeable last wicket stand held up the bowlers.
Graeme Swann, with 57 and last man Ajmal Shahzad, 17 not out, added 75 in 22.3 overs to stretch the innings to tea-time.
A target of 183 in 23 overs appeared out of reach. Surely a five o'clock handshake was inevitable? Durham's openers had other ideas and Notts were unable to keep the run-rate in check. Mark Stoneman raced to his fifty in just 24 deliveries, the quickest in Durham's history and then Phil Mustard got there from just 30.
Graeme Swann dismissed them both, and also accounted for Ben Stokes (12) and Dale Benkenstein (9) but the damage had already been done, allowing Gareth Breese (18 not out) to score the winning runs to pull off a 6-wicket win with 16 balls to spare.
The return last September, at the Emirates Durham ICG, was even more humbling. Notts were bowled out for 78 on the opening day on their way to a crushing 8-wicket defeat inside 3 days, enabling the north east county to pop open the champagne and celebrate their title success.
In 1992 Durham first entered the county championship, becoming the 18th first class county. The first time they played against Nottinghamshire was at Trent Bridge, in July of that year. The match ended in a draw after Notts began with 431-6, with Tim Robinson scoring an undefeated 164 and Chris Lewis adding 107. Ian Botham took 3-104 for the visitors who were bowled out for just 147 but in a rain-affected contest they fared much better after being asked to follow-on and were 265-3 at stumps, with captain Dean Jones unbeaten on 154, having scored his county's first hundred at Trent Bridge.
Teams for that first meeting
Notts: Crawley, Pollard, Robinson, Johnson, Randall, Lewis, Cairns, Evans, French, Field-Buss, Pennett
Durham: Larkins, Parker, Jones, Briers, Botham, Henderson, Glendenen, Scott, Hughes, McEwan, Brown
In September 1993 the sides met for the only first-class match to be played at Ropery Lane, Chester-le-Street, a venue that certainly met with the approval of Chris Lewis and Bruce French who both made the best scores of their careers. The Nottinghamshire duo set a new seventh-wicket record for the county as Durham subsided to defeat by an innings and 157 runs. Having been 4-2 at one stage, Notts turned it round to reach 629, with 130 from Paul Johnson, followed by 247 from Lewis and 123 from French, who combined in a stand of 301.
The highest score by a Nottinghamshire player on debut for the county
is the 133 scored by the Australian batsman Greg Blewett against Durham at Trent Bridge in April 2001. Since then, only David Hussey, Steven Mullaney and James Taylor have scored hundreds on their debuts for the county.
Unusually, both of Nottinghamshire's opening batsmen for the county championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street in 2011 were making their first-class debuts. Sam Kelsall, an 18-year-old right-hander who had been born in Stoke-on-Trent, made scores of 11 and 4, whilst his partner Karl Turner reached 9 and 40. The left-handed Turner, 23, hailed from Durham and had been released by his home county without making an appearance.
In the Trent Bridge fixture of 2012 Durham were permitted to make an official change to their starting eleven after Graham Onions had been omitted from an England Test at Lord's. Onions arrived at Trent Bridge at lunch on the second day just as Notts were about to begin their first innings. Replacing the unlucky Mitch Claydon, Onions proceeded to dismantle the home side with figures of 9-67 and only had himself to blame for not getting all ten wickets as it was his direct throw that ran out the other batsman, Luke Fletcher.
Played For Them Both
Five cricketers have played in first class matches for both Nottinghamshire and Durham. The first to do so was wicketkeeper Chris Scott, who played 63 times for Notts between 1981-1991, then moved north to join Durham for their debut season in the county championship.
Others to have represented the two counties include: Mark Saxelby, Nathan Astle, John Morris and Will Smith.
Stats for Notts v Durham at Trent Bridge
Highest Team Total
Notts – 559-8dec (2010)
Durham – 455 (1996)
Lowest Team Total at Trent Bridge
Notts – 83 (2009)
Durham – 132 (2002) Biggest Margin of Victory Notts – Innings and 62 runs (2010)
Durham – Inns and 102 runs (2009)
Highest Individual Innings at Trent Bridge
Notts – 184 RT Robinson (1984)
Durham – 154* DM Jones (1992)
Best Bowling (Innings)
Notts – 6-81 S MacGill (2004)
Durham 9-67 G Onions (2012)
Best Bowling (Match)
Notts – JA Afford 7-110 (1994)
Durham 10-125 G Onions (2012)
There hasn't been a hat-trick taken in any first class match between Notts and Durham.
County Championship Debuts
Notts – CMW Read (1998), KP Pietersen (2001), GJ Smith (2001)
Durham – MA Wood (2011)
Did You Know?
Amongst the quaint-sounding villages local to Durham's home ground at Chester-le-Street are the wonderfully-named 'No Place' and 'Pity Me'.
Phil Jaques has scored 15,490 first class runs and Steven Mullaney has scored 2,965 runs.
Samit Patel has scored 6977 first class runs for Nottinghamshire and is 45th on the list of leading run scorers for the county. 44th in the standings is Garfield Sobers, who scored 7,041. Patel has now taken 192 first class wickets.
James Taylor has scored 1,928 first class runs for Notts.
Luke Fletcher has scored 985 first class runs and has taken 95 wickets at Trent Bridge.
Stuart Broad has taken 447 first class wickets.
Ajmal Shahzad has taken 191 first class wickets.
Tickets may be purchased from the gate at a cost of £14 for Adults, £10 for Senior Citizens and Under 21s and £7 for Juniors.
BBC Radio Nottingham will be providing ball-by-ball on-line commentary, via the BBC Sport website.
Dave Bracegirdle will provide live ball-by-ball commentary through all of Nottinghamshire's LV= County Championship matches this season on behalf of BBC Radio Nottingham. Follow him on Twitter @bracecricket


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Mark Cuban was the guest host for Monday Night Raw, which took place in Cuban's playground, in Dallas. Plenty of jesting took place regarding the Mavericks and their playoff shortcomings, but Cuban remained confident, asserting that the Mavericks will win the NBA Finals right there in Dallas.
Even Massachusetts' own (WWE Champion) John Cena received a show of respect, as Cuban called him "my main man." With the Celtics doing so well, Cuban serves his purpose well to endear himself to Boston like that; especially with a Celtics/Mavs Finals definitely possible. He even brought security over personally to block Cena's next challenger Sheamus from interfering in Cena's defeat of Carlito.
Cuban's night was not over, as Randy Orton (along with minions Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase) taunted Cuban about being attacked from behind by Orton at 2003's Survivor Series, in an effort to intimidate Cuban into making Orton #1 Contender for the WWE Title. It backfired, as Rhodes and Dibiase were put into a match against Primo and Evan Bourne, won, and were ejected from the arena.
Cuban also made himself guest referee for Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston, and got revenge on Orton by making a fast count in Kingston's favor. He even turned the rivalry up a notch by making a rematch between the two for TLC. Orton was beside himself as Cuban celebrated with Kingston.
And finally, Cuban hosted a discussion between Cena and Sheamus to end the night, asking them about their upcoming title match. It quickly came to blows, of course, with both Cena and Cuban getting knocked over. Cuban shoved Sheamus back, but was thrown through a table for his troubles. At least he had some Maverick cohorts ringside to chase Sheamus off before things got too bad for him.
And so another night came to an inauspicious close for a guest host of Raw. Cuban took a hard blow through the table, which as a Celtics fan was fun to watch. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to do the same thing to the Mavericks' hopes of a championship.
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There have been weeks when The Glass House has been the ABC's most complained-about program. It's a fact the show wears as a badge of honour, although regulars Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes and Corinne Grant probably would not like to admit some of the letters complaining about their comedy are arguably funnier than some of their jokes.
This publication also receives regular correspondence from fans and appalled viewers of the show.
Witness this: "It's what we heard that amazed us - and troubled us that the ABC had sunk so low. There was repartee about baby's poop, bloodstained menstrual pads, mens' cocks, a remark about snot with skin like an onion. At that point we went to bed."
Sex, bodily emissions, John Howard's take on refugees, Mark Latham's man boobs - they're all grist to the mill of a program that reviews the events of the week from a satirical standpoint. With three stand-up comics at the helm, it is no wonder sections of the ABC's core (senior) audience can feel offended.
While politics remains at the centre of the program, the show has changed a lot since its inception, says executive producer Ted Robinson.
"We tend to do less of the satire these days, it's perhaps evolved its own persona that's less satirical than it was. More often than not we end up talking about Wil, Corinne and Dave's sex lives. It doesn't matter what topic we start out on, we always end up back at the same place," Robinson says.
"We still do things that are satirical but it's become more of a general chat, and often our chats start off with a topic but we often end up light years away from the thing we thought we'd be discussing."
Nevertheless, coming up to its 100th episode tomorrow night, The Glass House remains the only program currently on television taking regular pot shots at politicians and events with political currency.
Speaking early last week, as photographs of Prime Minister John Howard's surprise trip to Baghdad were splashed across the front pages, Anderson can barely contain himself. With so much to say about those images, he's practically booming down the phone from the ABC's Sydney offices, where he has just knocked off from his breakfast shift at Triple J.
"I was just reading all the press about that and I did notice - he's coming back. Surely he's got to stay there until the job's done. I can't believe that, he's there, he's got the helmet on and suddenly, he's back before Christmas," Anderson hoots.
"Wasn't it ironic that (the trip) came off the back of where they were accusing Latham of being a plagiarist? I think what Howard did was pretty much copied straight from the George Bush school of manuscripts. But it was a great picture of him in the helmet, it was hilarious, he really did look like somebody from Dad's Army. So, yes, I imagine we will probably talk about that this week."
In some ways it is a surprise the program has made it this far. Initially Robinson was commissioned at short notice to fill a 13-week hole in the ABC's schedule. Now in its fourth year, if the letters pages and enthusiastic audiences at two recent tapings during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are anything to go by, it is still attracting attention.
Robinson puts the longevity down in large part to the talent of the three stars. When he was casting the program, his first preference, he says, was for these three. Each did guest stints on his previous program, Good News Week, and Robinson has watched them grow as performers. He's a huge rap for them all - describing Anderson and Hughes as "the two most talented stand-ups in Australia".
Sitting in the audience at a comedy festival taping, it is interesting to see how the monologues at the start of the program work. Anderson and Grant do the first bits, each reading gags from an autocue. Then Hughes enters and talks, apparently off the cuff.
Robinson is vaguely defensive at the observation, explaining that Anderson and Grant co-write their openings, then ad lib their way through the rest of the program.
"Everything Dave says is ad lib because I doubt he could remember a script if we actually wrote one for him," Robinson says.
"We don't know what Dave is going to say until he sits down and says it."
Grant comes across as the least boisterous of the three. While the guys build on each other's humour, you get the feeling she sometimes battles to get a word in.
Her role, says Anderson, as much as to be funny is to centre the program, to pull him back whenever he waltzes too close to the comedy abyss of extreme bad taste.
"She enables us to be as bratty and stupid and all those things that we want to be, and give the show a real centre," Anderson says.
"I never wanted to host the show, my natural style is for someone else to be holding a show together and me trying to f--- it up, that's what I enjoy doing . . . I said to Ted, 'if I'm going to host, I want to be able to go too far, but who's going to pull me back?' It's no fun going too far unless someone's offended, because otherwise how do you know? So without Corinne I couldn't do that."
The Glass House screens on Fridays at 10.30pm on the ABC.
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New York, NY —
Hundreds of Brooklynites are expected to voice their opposition to the Atlantic Yards project at a public hearing this afternoon. As, WNYC's Elaine Rivera reports, it's the one chance for people to speak on the mega project's environmental impact.
Brooklyn residents will be lining up outside Klitgord Auditorium where they will be given three minutes to give their thoughts on developer Bruce Ratner's proposal. They will respond to the environmental impact statement which got preliminary approval from the Empire State Development Corporation last month. The 4,000-page report stated that the 16 high rises and a Nets arena in downtown Brooklyn would only have a negligible impact on the environment or city services.
But challengers say they don't believe it. They want to try to force the state agency to draft another statement. They also want to push for an extension for written statements, which are due at the end of next month.
The meeting, which starts at 4:30, is expected to go through the evening. For WNYC, I'm Elaine Rivera
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Driving off we hoped that Kuang Si waterfalls would be worth the effort since we were shoe-horning the visit in on a flying day.
Having been told that the waterfalls didn't cost anything to get in, when we arrived it was going to cost 20,000 kip each to get in, but by the time we saw the fee paying sign we had already walked through unnoticed and with funds being critical we didn't choose the high road that day.
Taking a woodland path to the right we came across a bear 'sanctuary' with a very small enclosure soon after, here we stopped only long enough to take pictures of ourselves with some plastic replica bear species in a 'Usual Suspects' style line up (with a touch of gay paw YMCA thrown in). Moving swiftly on we came across the first aqua pool, furthest away from the falls, and Paula went for a dip, allowing Vikki to capture a variety of blackmail photo's of bellies, chins and tangerine dreams. Every pool of water we came across beyond that point moved us closer to the main falls, and each pool, or group of pools, got more beautiful as we hiked our way closer.
Arriving at the main falls we saw the reason for its recommendation to us; we had reached the pinnacle of the cascading water and marvelled at the height and power of the waterfall and the torrent as it hit the upper pool. Without hesitation we climbed the rocks, stripped our kit off, and plunged into the dark, bubbling, FFRRREEEEEEZING pool, feeling all of our extremeties instantly go into shock. We paddled around for a bit trying to be brave but very shortly, after a must have photo opportunity we clambered out, red of skin and goosebumps everywhere to dry off and get our clothes back on so that other peoples photos weren't ruined
When we got back to exit of the park we popped into a nearby restaurant for BBQ fish and papaya salad before making our way to see Tampon and his minivan that subsequenty escorted us to Luang Prabang airport. Not knowing what to expect of the airport we were greeted with a small construction site with an airport building and outdoor airport 'lounge'. With 10,000 kip to our name ($2) Paula had resigned herself to another sober flight, and we'd clocked on to the twin propella aeroplane over the other side of some barb wire. We limbo'd under some construction tape to the shop across the way and questioned the cashier about how much varioous items cost, finally we bought a small bottle of cold water and twenty really cheap cigarettes, appropriately named '999'.
Boarded to our flight to Hanoi, Vietnam which given its one hour duration was preferable to a 24-36 hour bus ride across the most difficult land border crossing we wouled if we'd have encountered if we had not flown. It also allowed us to obtain a fast track e-Visa online just days before - job done! Plane meals came around and Paula found a small spider in her tuna sandwich packaging, other than that we landed in a safe and controlled manner.
At Hanoi airport we were accosted by an airport taxi tout who acted like he was high on something, he had an inability to concentrate or hold our eye contact, and with the revelation from a German man in our hotel the night before saying that about 80% of Hanoi men being heroin addicts, we were feeling a little tense about the city. Sometimes in life we know that the alam bells are sounding but through convenience or necessity we ignore them
Tickets bought, beers drank under the observation of what felt like a million pairs of eyes, we headed across the tracks to our platform and boarding the local sleeper carriage and were pleasantly surprised at the adequacy of the facilities. Two top bunks for us and two Asians below it wasn't the party carriage we'd dreamed of but we watched a movie, drank our beers, listened to the lady snoring and the man on his phone and eventually fell asleep until we were rudely awoken by the Vietnamese version of chinese water torture....


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PASADENA - The city is close to an agreement with the owner on a purchase price for the historic YWCA building, and is prepared to kick in an additional $2 million to the $6.4 million already set aside, Mayor Bill Bogaard said Tuesday.
"The court ruling, which will be issued shortly, involved a compromise on the amount the city had offered and the seller had demanded," Bogaard said of the agreement, which precluded the scheduled Feb. 22 trial to settle the value.
"The result is that the city will be called upon to increase its purchase price ... over the amount placed in escrow," Bogaard said.
The city's set-aside of $6.4 million for the sale was challenged as insufficient by the owner, businesswoman Angela Chen-Sabella of Trove Investments Corp., after the city took the dilapidated, long-empty property by eminent domain in December.
The extra money will come from development funds available from "business transactions that have occurred in recent times," Bogaard said. "I am excited about the city's successful acquisition of this important historic property, and am delighted that the city will be able to shape its restoration and its reuse going forward."
Designed by pioneering architect Julia Morgan, the elegant block-long building in the Civic Center has been the center of a 16-year saga since the Young Women's Christian Association sold it for about $1 million in 1996.
"Kudos to the city for pursuing this endangered building, and creating an opportunity for the real possibility of a future," said Sue Mossman, executive director of Pasadena Heritage, which has had the 91-year-old building at 28 N. Marengo Ave. on its "Most Endangered" list for years.
The city took possession by eminent domain in December, 2010, citing the owner's "demolition by neglect" of a building on the National Register of Historic Places.
That's when $6.4 million in city redevelopment funds were transferred into a court account to compensate Chen-Sabella.
But, after unsuccessfully challenging the city's eminent domain action in court last year, the owner rejected the purchase offer and asked for almost twice the amount, City Attorney Michele Beal Bagneris said in December.
Bogaard said there is "still work to be done in formulating the project."
Various development proposals along the way for the building, including a boutique hotel, never materialized; among likely future scenarios are the city seeking a partner to develop the building, or even selling it to an approved developer.
"I believe the city will seek a private company to partner with, to provide funding and design and construction management," Bogaard said.
Mossman said people in Pasadena "clearly love this building, and care about its future, and will want to get behind the right collaboration to bring it back."
She predicted "a series of trade-offs on cost versus return versus the the amount of change, versus restoration."
"There's going to be a lot of factors to weigh and balance," she said. "We hope to have some sort of workshop early on to get ideas fleshed out a little bit on the way to an optimum solution."
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom HTML version
Chapter 36
He Is Smitten With The Charms Of A Female Adventurer, Whose Allurements
Subject Him To A New Vicissitude Of Fortune.
Among those who were distinguished by his gallantry was the young wife of an
old citizen of London, who had granted her permission to reside at the hot well
for the benefit of her health, under the eye and inspection of his own sister, who
was a maiden of fifty years. The pupil, whose name was Mrs. Trapwell, though
low in stature, was finely shaped, her countenance engaging, though her
complexion was brown, her hair in colour rivalled the raven's back, and her eyes
emulated the lustre of the diamond. Fathom had been struck with her first
appearance; but found it impracticable to elude the vigilance of her duenna, so
as to make a declaration of his flame; until she herself, guessing the situation of
his thoughts, and not displeased with the discovery, thought proper to furnish him
with the opportunity he wanted, by counterfeiting an indisposition, for the cure of
which she knew his advice would be implored. This was the beginning of an
acquaintance, which was soon improved to his wish; and so well did she manage
her attractions, as in some measure to fix the inconstancy of his disposition; for,
at the end of the season, his passion was not sated; and they concerted the
means of continuing their commerce, even after their return to London.
This intercourse effectually answered the purpose of the husband, who had been
decoyed into matrimony by the cunning of his spouse, whom he had privately
kept as a concubine before marriage. Conscious of her own precarious situation,
she had resolved to impose upon the infirmities of Trapwell, and, feigning herself
pregnant, gave him to understand she could no longer conceal her condition from
the knowledge of her brother, who was an officer in the army, and of such violent
passions, that, should he once discover her backsliding, he would undoubtedly
wipe away the stains of his family dishonour with her own blood, as well as that
of her keeper. The citizen, to prevent such a catastrophe, took her to wife; but
soon after perceiving the trick which had been played upon him, set his invention
at work, and at length contrived a scheme which he thought would enable him,
not only to retrieve his liberty, but also indemnify himself for the mortification he
had undergone.
Far from creating any domestic disturbance, by upbraiding her with her finesse,
he seemed perfectly well pleased with his acquisition; and, as he knew her void
of any principle, and extremely addicted to pleasure, he chose proper occasions
to insinuate, that she might gratify her own inclination, and at the same time turn
her beauty to good account. She joyfully listened to these remonstrances, and, in
consequence of their mutual agreement, she repaired to Bristol Spring, on
pretence of an ill state of health, accompanied by her sister-in-law, whom they
did not think proper to intrust with the real motive of her journey. Fathom's person
was agreeable, and his finances supposed to be in flourishing order; therefore,
she selected him from the herd of gallants, as a proper sacrifice to the powers
which she adored; and, on her arrival in London, made her husband acquainted
with the importance of her conquest.


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Here's a new track I found via the ole Facebook feed. It's by L.A. singer by way of Texas, Chelsea Lankes, and is a fit for your late night cruising playlist. Especially if you're either with your boo or up for an adventure. Cool, indie-pop vibes as I suspected when it was presented to me. And here it is for you:


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Sox's Blount, Cubs' Soto suspended
Chicago prospects to sit out first 50 games of 2014 season
By Danny Wild / MiLB.com | November 1, 2013 9:15 AM ET
White Sox right-hander Nick Blount and Cubs shortstop Elliot Soto were handed 50-game suspensions on Friday after their violations of the Minor League drug program.
Blount, a 23-year-old out of Southern Polytechnic State, received a 50-game suspension without pay after testing positive for an Amphetamine. Soto, 24, was cited for a second violation for a drug of abuse.
Both will begin serving their bans at the start of next season.
Blount went 4-4 with a 3.18 ERA in 16 games, including nine starts, over 51 innings with Rookie-level Great Falls in the Pioneer League this past season. The 6-foot-6 righty was selected in the ninth round of the 2013 Draft by Chicago a year after he was kicked off his college team at Tennessee for an undisclosed violation of team rules. He transferred to Southern Polytechnic State and went 2-4 with a 2.74 ERA with a team-leading eight saves in 20 games.
Soto was the Cubs' 15th-round pick in 2010 out of Creighton University -- he was originally selected by the Twins in the 13th round of the 2006 Draft but did not sign. A 2011 Midwest League All-Star, Soto split the 2013 season between Class A Advanced Daytona and Double-A Tennessee, hitting .219 with two homers, 24 RBIs, three stolen bases, 10 doubles and a .303 on-base percentage in 84 games.
In his career over four seasons, the Illinois native owns a .248 average with two home runs and 91 RBIs in 342 Minor League games.
With the suspensions of Soto and Blount, Major League Baseball has banned 59 Minor Leaguers in 2013 for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Suspensions are down considerably from last year -- through Nov. 1, 2012, the Commissioner's Office had suspended 97 players.
Danny Wild is an editor for MiLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Update the data source in an ArcMap project using python, arcpy.mapping
Need to update a path in your ArcMap project to reflect the new location? Here's how...
There are several methods for updating data sources using arcpy.mapping, check out this help topic from ESRI. The example listed below is just one of several methods.
Attach the following python code to a script in the toolbox of the mxd you wish to update. This will allow you to update the directory the data layer is referencing, but will NOT allow you to change the data layer source name itself. To change the data layer source name use the 'replaceDataSource' method instead.
import arcpy
mapdoc = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
mapdoc.findAndReplaceWorkspacePaths("<the directory you are changing from>" , "<the directory you are changing to>")
del mapdoc
TIPS / Notes:
--You could get fancy and set the 'directory you are changing from' and the 'directory you are changing to' to input arguments. Then, the script could be used for resetting any project.
--If you don't know the directories your data are referencing you can insert print lyr.dataSource. This will return a list of data sources used in the mxd.
--If you know you have broken links in your mxd, here's how to get a list printed to the python shell window.
import arcpy
mapdoc = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
brokenlist = arcpy.mapping.ListBrokenDataSources(mapdoc)
for lyr in brokenlist:
print lyr.name
del mapdoc
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Penn State is now offering Open Education Resources for a number of their departments including Geography that hosts coursework for a number of GIS and remote sensing related classes offered at the university. The bonus is, you are allowed to use and re-use materials you find on this website.
From the website:
GIS & Remote Sensing coursework currently up on their website:
Take a look: http://open.ems.psu.edu/courseware
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A front page story in today's Guardian reports that the Church of England and the Church in Wales have expressed their "complete shock" at the government's proposal to create a 'quadruple lock' which legally excludes them from being able to solemnize same-sex marriages in church. Both Churches claim they were not consulted over the introduction of this element in the proposed legislation, which would make them the only religious organisations to be legally barred from conducting the ceremonies.
The introduction of a ban on same-sex marriage applying only to the two Anglican churches was apparently greeted with dismay by senior figures in both churches, who said they knew nothing of the legal plans until Miller made her statement to the Commons.
The Rt Revd Tim Stephens, bishop of Leicester, was highly critical of the proposals when he spoke in the House of Lords on Tuesday, a speech which Changing Attitude criticised as being shockingly inaccurate.
Bishop Tim has now apparently told a closed meeting of bishops, Lords and MPs that the government had not consulted the church on the proposal and said that the church had never sought the government's so-called "quadruple lock" on gay marriage. This is another astonishing development.
A Church of England spokesman confirmed to the Guardian that the church had not been consulted over the government's plans, saying: "Bishop Tim is correct that the first mention of a 'quadruple lock' came when the secretary of state announced it in the Commons. We had not been privately informed of this prior to the announcement."
Apparently there is astonishment within the church that it was not told about the final proposals. That is presumably astonishment in Church House and among some bishops. Changing Attitude is also astonished at this revelation which adds to the confusion about the Church of England's stance.
A spokeswoman for Dr Barry Morgan, the archbishop of Wales and patron of Changing Attitude, confirmed that the Church in Wales had not been consulted over the "quadruple lock" either. The spokesman said it had come "completely out of the blue" and had left the church "completely shocked. We feel it's a step too far and we weren't consulted and we're now looking into what we can do. We will be pushing to have it amended, I would imagine."
"At that time, we thought that the government were saying that this law would be one that all churches would be able to opt into, so we were keen at that time to have sufficient legal safeguards around us to ensure that none of our clergy – or the church – would be prosecuted under equal opportunities [legislation]," she said. "But we had no idea that we would be completely exempt. There was no indication at all that, as a church, we would be completely exempt and it makes us look like we're exclusive and we're different to the other churches."
The fourth element of the Government's so-called quadruple lock, and the one which Changing Attitude totally opposes, would ensure that the canon law of the Churches of England and Wales would remain unaffected, requiring further legislation, so we thought. According to this guarantee, if either church wished to conduct a same-sex marriage, changes would be needed to both canon law and primary legislation.
In her statement to MPs, Miller said: "Because the Church of England and Wales have explicitly stated that they do not wish to conduct same-sex marriages, the legislation will explicitly state that it would be illegal for the Churches of England and Wales to marry same-sex couples.
"This provision recognises and protects the unique and established nature of these churches. The church's canon law will also continue to ban the marriage of same-sex couples. Therefore, even if these institutions wanted to conduct same-sex marriage, it would require a change to primary legislation at a later date and a change to canon law. Additional protection that cannot be breached."
The Church of England's submission to the government's consultation in June stressed that "the Canons of the Church of England define marriage, in accordance with Christ's teaching and the doctrine of the Church, as being between a man and a woman."
The Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, who met the Director and two trustees of Changing Attitude on Wednesday last week and who was at the Lords meeting, said Stevens' revelation that the church had not been informed had drawn "audible gasps" from members of all parties.
Ben said: "It's absolutely extraordinary. The government gave the clear impression that this had been done at the request of the Church of England … but the bishop of Leicester said: 'We didn't ask for it' … and was very upset about it because it gave the impression that the Church of England were unfriendly towards gays."
Asked why the government had chosen to propose the "quadruple-lock" guarantee, Bradshaw said: "The only explanation I can think of was that they thought it would help placate some of their homophobic backbenchers. But it seems to have backfired massively because the rightwing homophobes were out in force anyway and the Church of England now appears to be extremely upset that not only was it not asked, but it's added to [the] general misery over women bishops and now this. It makes the Church of England look much more reactionary and unreasonable than it actually is."


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Audiences may be ga-ga over WALL•E these days, but as far as space-faring animation for the family goes, Space Chimps is a respectable also-ran. It packs a lot into a brief sojourn, from high-flying circus high jinks to wormholes and numerically anal NASA geeks; there's even romance. Ham (voiced by Andy Samberg), the narcissistic circus chimp of note, is also the progeny of the first simian in space and is thus (reluctantly) enlisted as part of an all-primate crew to retrieve a space probe that's gone off course. The flight takes the chimps to a far planet inhabited by technologically inept hobgoblins, one of whom, Zartog (Jeff Daniels), has used the probe to become a tyrannical overlord. The alien world, which includes gummy-bear beings and neon-headed humanoids, is ingeniously conceived, and that, along with director Kirk De Micco's sprightly pacing and some witty dialogue, enables Chimps to shoot for the stars. 81 Minutes | Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Circle/Chestnut Hill + Suburbs
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