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Ticket to Ride: The Card Game
For 2-4 Players, Ages 8+, Playing Time Around 30 Minutes
A New Train Adventure Begins!
The Ticket to Ride Card Game delivers all of the excitement, fun and nail-biting tension of the original Ticket to Ride board game, but with several unique game-play twists in a new stand-alone, card game format.
Players collect sets of illustrated Train cards which are then used to complete Destination Tickets - routes between two cities depicted on each ticket. But before their Train cards can be used, players must face the risk of 'train-robbing', where another player may force them to lose their hard-earned cards.
Every fan of the board game will want to own a copy of the Ticket to Ride Card Game!
The Ticket to Ride Card Game is for 2-4 players ages 8 and older. It includes 96 Train cards, 6 Big Cities Bonus cards, 46 Destination Tickets and a rules booklet. Playing time is approximately 30 minutes.
The Ticket to Ride Card Game is the perfect portable way to take your next train adventure!
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Reviewed by Greg Schloesser
I was attending the Gathering of Friends convention when I first heard of the card game version of the popular and award-winning Ticket to Ride board game series. Already owning three of the Ticket to Ride versions - original, Europe and Marklin - my initial thought was, ``I don't really need to play another Ticket to Ride game''. So, I didn't put any effort towards playing it until the penultimate day of the convention. I wasn't expecting much, but was I wrong! This is an excellent adaptation of the board game, complete with some very clever mechanisms and a touch of nastiness.
Two primary decks of cards are included; one depicting trains in a variety of colors, and the other the destination tickets. Completing destination tickets is the primary manner in which victory points are earned. Each destination ticket names two cities, lists the victory points earned for fulfilling the destination, and lists in bullet-fashion the exact train cards needed to complete the ticket. In addition, there are six goal cards, each naming a specific city. Each card is awarded to the player who makes the most connections into the city, with bonus points being earned.
Players begin the game with one wild card, seven train cards, and six destination tickets. They can keep as many or as few of the destination tickets as they desire. As in the board game, five train tickets are revealed, and the game begins.
Each turn, players have three options:
1) Take two train tickets. The rules are the same as in the board game - if a wild card is taken, no other cards may be selected. Players are free to take cards from the top of the facedown deck. There is no hand limit.
2) Play cards from hand. Players may play as many cards of a matching color to the table, which is known as the ``rail yard''. Alternatively, players may play exactly three cards, each of a different suit.
When playing cards, a player must play more cards in a suit than what is currently in play. So, if an opponent has three red train cards in his rail yard, in order to play red train cards, the player must play four or more cards. This has a cruel effect: any opponent who has red cards in their rail yard immediately discards them. This gives the game a nasty edge, and makes playing three single cards of different suits extremely risky, especially when playing with four players.
3) Take new Destination tickets. A player may draw four destination tickets. This option will usually be exercised a few times during the game. Unlike the board game, a player does not have to keep any of the cards, which makes choosing tickets near the end of the game a reasonable choice. Players can hope to get lucky and find a ticket that they feel they might have already completed.
Before a player takes any of these actions, he places the top card of each suit in his rail yard facedown into his ``On the Track'' stack. These are the cards that will be used to fulfill destination tickets. But here is the kicker: a player may not peek at the cards he has placed in this stack. So, he must attempt to remember, at least in general, the cards he has set aside. Some folks have complained that this memory aspect of the game isn't to their tastes, so the rules do allow a variant wherein players may look at this stack as often as they desire. This option is likely a wise choice when playing with children.
Play continues until the train deck expires, following which each player gets one more turn. Players then examine the cards in their ``On the Track'' stack and complete as many destination tickets as they possibly can. Any wild cards in the stack can be used as any color. Finally, the winner of each goal card is determined. Players tally the points of their tickets and goal cards, and the player with the most total points is victorious.
When playing with four players, the train deck is played through twice before the game ends. Destination tickets are filled at the midway point, and any cards remaining in a player's ``On the Track'' stack and in their rail yard are discarded. Players keep any cards in their hand, and receive four new ones from the deck. Goal tickets are not awarded until the end of the game.
The game contains much of the same tough choices as the board game. Choosing whether to take more train cards or play them to the table can be tougher than one would think, as there is the persistent temptation to take just one more card from those available. However, getting cards to the table means that you will have more opportunity to move them into your ``On the Track'' stack, which is ultimately what leads to victory points.
Ticket to Ride: The Card Game is one of the best adaptations of a board game to a card game format I've had the pleasure to play. It maintains many of the mechanisms and much of the flavor of the original game, yet also offers some clever new twists and features. The aggressive board play aspect of the board game, wherein players can be cut-off from desired routes, has been replaced with the ability to force opponents to discard cards from their rail yards. Yet, at the same time, the game is easy to learn and very accessible. Families can learn and play the game quickly and easily, yet there is enough here to engage gamers. I feel I will be enjoying the ride on this new Ticket to Ride version for a long time to come.


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A CORONER will not hold an inquest into a respected veteran Victorian policeman who shot himself five days after he was served with a notice of proposed dismissal for misconduct.
Coroner John Olle said yesterday the cause and circumstances of Sergeant Tony van Gorp's death in the Healesville Police Station could be established without an inquest.
After hearing from counsel assisting him, the Chief Commissioner, Sergeant van Gorp's partner, Gayle Shelley, and the Police Association, Mr Olle said there were no submissions to conclude there was a "systemic defect" that was required to "fulfil my prevention role".
He also concluded that the focus of a coronial investigation was to determine what happened, not to "ascribe guilt, attribute blame or apportion liability".
But Mr Olle reminded the parties said he had not finalised his investigation and that his ultimate findings will include an examination of the support given to Sergeant van Gorp after the notice was served and his access to and presence at the station on March 22, 2010.
Sergeant van Gorp, 47, had an unblemished record over 31 years and was highly regarded by his colleagues and the Healesville community where he was officer in charge at the time of his death.
Five days earlier, then chief commissioner Simon Overland served him a section 68 notice over involvement with pornographic material which he admitted.
Last November, Mr Olle's preliminary view was that the conduct of an inquest was "beyond the scope" of his statutory obligations, but invited submissions.
Ms Shelley and the association later submitted that an inquest was partly required to determine why and on what grounds the chief commissioner (Simon Overland) considered the "sanction of last resort" — dismissal — was the preferred alternative.
They also wanted to determine why Sergeant van Gorp was treated differently than "almost anyone else ever" the subject of such a procedure.
The chief commissioner did not contend for or oppose an inquest, but submitted an examination of his powers of dismissal was outside the scope of Mr Olle's jurisdiction.
Counsel assisting said an inquest was not required as the available evidence was adequate and undisputed.
Mr Olle said yesterday he could find no evidence in the 963-page investigation brief to suggest Sergeant van Gorp was individually targeted.

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The catalog has 63 pages – so that means I have to x that by 2 to have all the pages shown -
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Can you get them to send it again? When they made the pdf they had the spreads box ticked. Tell them to untick it.
In adobe acrobat under document you can split, extract and add pages. You can also crop in pages in acrobat.
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I usually use PDF splitter to split PDF file into parts. As for online e-catalogue, maybe you can turn PDF to e-catalogue with page turning effect by turning page software.
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Multinational law firm Herbert Smith Freehills will ask state governments to set up funds to insure the debt issued for big infrastructure projects to cut financing costs.
"We think there's a gap in the market for a product to give extra security to loans that are taken out to finance these projects,"
The law firm estimates that up to $525 million could be saved over five years for a $5 billion infrastructure project if $1 billion of the project's debt funding had credit guarantees.
Pension funds are reluctant to lend money to greenfield infrastructure because they are worried by the risk of financing new projects without a track record of revenues.
"But if this sort of project support is available it might encourage not just really competitive debt funding but also encourage equity players as well," Mr Nicholson said.
Herbert Smith Freehills has floated the fund proposal with some clients, such as investment group IFM, and has received a favourable reaction, Mr Nicholson said. Cutting financing costs would reduce the need for completed projects to charge users high fees, such as toll fares, to access the infrastructure, as well as shrinking the sum of money invested by states, Mr Nicholson said.
"If you lower the cost of debt, the amount of that the state has to subsidise reduces significantly, and that means the state can do another infrastructure project," he said.
The law firm recommends states establish funds as statutory corporations with credit ratings of "A" or higher and sell state-owned assets to provide seed capital in a submission to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into public infrastructure.
Although state governments already contribute funding to infrastructure projects, with some – such as the NSW government – establishing specific infrastructure funds like Restart NSW, none to date have set up funds that guarantee private sector debt.
Restart's $4.7 billion financial pool is funded by asset sales, tax revenues associated with the leasing of Port Botany and Port Kembla, and proceeds from Waratah bonds, which are issued by the NSW Treasury Corporation.
The NSW government has no plans to establish a specific "credit enhancement" fund, a spokesman for NSW Treasurer
The NSW government says it is already pursuing innovative funding models for infrastructure, claiming its funding plans for the $11 billion WestConnex motorway are "pioneering".
It will fund the first stage of the 33-kilometre motorway and wait for traffic flows and toll income to be established before raising private-sector debt against the road's revenue to build the next phase.
But Mr Nicholson points out that some coming projects, such as the $9 billion Melbourne Metro, will not generate enough ticket revenues to pay for the cost of construction, while WestConnex runs the risk of weaker-than-expected traffic flows.
Debt guarantees were readily available before the global financial crisis when monoline insurers such as MBIA provided credit enhancement for a fee.
But most monoline insurers collapsed due to their exposure to mortgage-backed securities.
Herbert Smith Freehills argues that if the monoline insurers return, states could sell their funds to them or a superannuation group, and recover more than their initial investment due to income earned on invested capital and guarantee fees.
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First Baptist Church Mt. Juliet conducted a ceremonial ground-breaking Sunday, Oct. 30 starting the construction of a new childrens building. This multimillion-dollar project will include more than 33,000 feet of additional classroom space that will provide the church and its academy (Mt. Juliet Christian Academy) the capacity to minister to several hundred children each week. The church, under the direction Pastor Andy Hale, continues to focus on its vision to "Love God, Love People, and Go into the World". It is the goal of First Baptist Church for this building to be a place that assists families in teaching children Christian values that will make an eternal difference in their lives.
Lebanon Kiwanis sets Pancake Day -- From left, Ken Clinard, Kiwanis Pancake Day co-chair; Billy Mullinax, manager of Ponderosa Steak House; and Tony McFalls ,Kiwanis Pancake Day co-chair, make plans for the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, Friday, Dec. 2 from 6-9 a.m. Ponderosa has sponsored Pancake Day for the past three years providing facilities for the annual event. Tickets are $5 per person and proceeds benefit Kiwanis Little League, Christmas for All and Terrific Kids programs in Lebanon. For ticket information, contact McFalls at 444-4166.
Wilson County Career Center is hosting a job fair on Wednesday, Nov. 9.
For applicants seeking good paying, manufacturing production positions, a major employer will be holding the job fair, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Wilson County Career Center in Lebanon.Yates Services will be recruiting employees to work Third Shift only at the Nissan manufacturing facility in Smyrna. Previous manufacturing experience is preferred. The starting pay is $12.50 per hour.
Applicants must have a high school diploma or GED equivalent. Please bring a copy of your high school diploma or GED, a copy of your DD-214 if you have served in the military, a valid drivers license and a resume with you to the job fair.
Applicants will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screen, a background check, a CRC Test, and be fluent in the English language.
Again, the date for the job fair is Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Tennessee Career Center in Lebanon starting at 9 a.m. The address is 155 Legends Drive in Lebanon. The office is directly across the street from the Roxy movie theatre.
The Tennessee Mens Chorale will perform in concert at the First Baptist Church of Lebanon (227 East Main St.) on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. The singers that comprise the choir are musicians from all over the state, most of whom serve as Minister of Music for their church.
The Tennessee Baptist Volunteer Chorale was organized in 1963, and was originally directed by Dr. Louis Ball, then head of the Music Department at Carson-Newman College. Music ministers from Baptist churches across the state have participated in this group for more than four decades.
The chorale is presently conducted by Dr. Paul Clark, who serves as Director of Worship & Music Ministries for the Tennessee Baptist Convention. Dr. Clark has been conductor and musical director for the group for the past ten years. The current makeup of the group reflects a wide range of ages, and of styles being utilized in the churches represented by the singers. Music selections are eclectic ranging from energetic contemporary arrangements to classical anthem material to a small taste of Tennessee gospel accompanied by a complement of bluegrass players.
The chorale is accompanied by two outstanding keyboard artists. Mary McDonald has been an integral part of the group for more than25 years.
A gifted composer/arranger, most of the chorales music has been arranged and adapted by Mary. Vicki Wright has served as organist for the Mens Chorale as well a womens group of similar composition, the Tennessee Ladies Chorus, for more than ten years. Vicki is a fine composer/arranger as well, and currently teaches and directs music for a high school.
The First Baptist Church concert will begin at 7 p.m. Attendees will experience a wide variety of stylistic expressions and hearty singing from this group of trained musicians, most all of whom are themselves choral directors in their own churches.
The nature of the group by vocation and avocation makes it a unique musical ensemble. The evening concert provides a rare opportunity to hear this chorus that has performed across the state of Tennessee, for national and regional events in other U.S. locations, and has traveled to perform in international missions settings, including their most recent international trip to the land of Wales in the U.K. back in 2007.
The public is invited to the concert and celebration. There is no charge for the concert, but a freewill offering will be received.
Cumberland baseball coach Woody Hunt released the 2012 schedule this week, which includes 23 home games and contests against 11 teams that reached the NAIA Championship Opening Round.
The Bulldogs begin the season February 3, the earliest opening day for CU since 2003, with a three-game series at Brewton-Parker.
The next week Cumberland will take on Belhaven University, LSU-Shreveport and Southern Poly in Jackson, Miss., and the squad opens the home slate against Milligan College on Feb. 15.
CU plays Lindsey Wilson and Point Park University before embarking on an eight-game road swing that covers the first part of Spring Break.
The Bulldogs head to Tennessee Wesleyan on Feb. 29, the team that eliminated them from last years NAIA Championship Opening Round in Paducah, Ky., and begins TranSouth Conference play that weekend at Mid-Continent.
Cumberland then heads to Florida for four games, including three against Embry-Riddle.
The club returns home March 10 against Lyon College, starting a stretch of 11 home games in 14 contests that includes meetings against Missouri Baptist, Campbellsville University, Georgetown College, Bethel University and Tennessee Wesleyan.
The Bulldogs play home games against Lee University, Bryan College, Indiana-Southeast, Blue Mountain and Freed-Hardeman during the month of April.
The month also includes seven straight road outings before finishing the regular season with a series against FHU.
The TranSouth Championships are scheduled for April 30-May 3 at Union Universitys Fesmire Field.
CU went 46-16 last season, losing in the finals of the NAIA Opening Round.
The complete 2012 schedule may be found at http://www.gocumberlandathletics.com/baseball/schedule/.
BLUE League basketball scores from Nov. 5 hosted by Carroll Oakland.
Byars-Dowdy 2: Kyleigh Burton 2
Tuckers Crossroads 8. Rilee Grover 7, Landry Dixon 1.
5th Quarter
Byars-Dowdy 6: Addison McLean 6
Tuckers Crossroads 0
Byars-Dowdy 31: Xavier Mills 23, Kobe Gwyn 4, Edmund Stewart 2, Allen Martinez 2.
Tuckers Crossroads 25: Tyler Hayes 8, Ethan Njezic 8, Evan Britt 7, Ethan Chambers 2.
5th Quarter
Byars-Dowdy 8: Edmund Steward 8.
Tuckers Crossroads 0.
Castle Heights 19: Bailey Lasater 8, Addie Grace Porter 4, Jakeshia James 4, McKenna Burrleson 2, Emily Sword 1.
Coles Ferry 20: Mattie Averitt 11, Jenna Manus 4, Anne Marie Heiolebreich 2, Mary Strickland 2, GiGi White 1.
5th Quarter
Castle Heights 0, Coles Ferry 0
Castle Heights 19: Thomas Bryan 6, Dawson Allen 4, Kameron Davis 4, Malachi Frewin 4,
Braden Reece 1.
Coles Ferry 14: Gerik Fitts 4, Djuan Cragwall 4, Zian Logue 3, Lewis Coville 3.
5th Quarter
Castle Heights 2. Trent Morgan 2.
Coles Ferry 0.
Carroll Oakland 32: Aaryn Grace Lester 16, Allissa Mulaski 14.
Sam Houston Girls 12: Christaney Moore 6, Ali Davis 4, Aliyah Steverson 2.
5th Quarter
Carroll Oakland 0.
Sam Houston 11: Courtney Allen 4, Molly McElheny 4, Tristen Neal 2, Callie Hall 1.
Carroll Oakland 31: Gaven Reasonover 9, Dustin Hulse 8, Corey Jones 7, Logan Hawks 3, Luke Jones 2, Josh Folkerts 2.
Sam Houston 28: Andrew Harper 8, Chase Birdwell 6, Polo Phillips 6, Keyvont Bains 4, Peyon Platt 4.
5th Quarter
Carroll Oakland 0.
Sam Houston 6: Brandon Ruffin 6
Cumberland Universitys Casie Cowan was one of 10 players voted to the 2011 TranSouth Womens Preseason All-Conference Team, as announced this week by the league office.
Cowan was a Second Team All-TranSouth selection and earned a spot on the All-Freshman Team last season after averaging a team-best 12.4 points along with 2.1 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.5 steals while starting all 30 contests at point guard for the Bulldogs.
The Seymour, Tenn., native scored in double figures in 21 contests, including 13 of 17 outings versus TranSouth competition, and led the squad in scoring 10 times.
She ranked third in the TranSouth in 3-point field goal percentage (.360), fifth in 3-pointers made (59), 11th in scoring, 12th in steals and 17th in assists and hit three or more 3-pointers in a game nine times, with a season-high five trifectas at Martin Methodist.
Union Universitys Lavanda Ross was voted the Preseason Player of the Year. Union, Freed-Hardeman and Bethel University each had two players voted to the Preseason Team along with one apiece from Lyon College, Mid-Continent, Cumberland and Martin Methodist.
2011 Women's Preseason All-TranSouth Conference
Lavanda Ross Union University
Vee Young Martin Methodist
Natalie Shumpert Freed-Hardeman
Molly Wallsmith Bethel Univ.
Jana Roney Bethel Univ.
Casie Cowan Cumberland Univ.
Lauren Ramsey Lyon College
Hannah Parsley Freed-Hardeman
Shelby Ashcraft Union Univ.
Stephanie Malone Mid-Continent
Preseason Player of the Year: Lavanda Ross, Union Univ.
McKENZIE -- Candice Ray scored in the 86th minute on an assist from Shauna Gilpin, providing the only score in a 1-0 Cumberland women's soccer victory Saturday over Bethel University in the quarterfinals of the TranSouth Championships.
With the win Cumberland (10-7-0) will take on Union University in Jackson, at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The Bulldogs lost 1-0 to Union in Lebanon on October 25.
The goal was just the second of the season for Ray, a sophomore from Kingston Springs.
Elizabeth Surdam made 20 saves for the Bulldogs in net, as Bethel posted a 32-11 advantage in shots. But as so often happens in soccer, the Wildcats'control of the match did not turn into victory when they were unable to find the back of the net.
Jessica Coates recorded five saves in goal for Bethel, whose season ends with the loss.
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WASHINGTON — A moderate Republican senator says she needs more information about UN Ambassador Susan Rice before she could support her if President Barack Obama taps her for secretary of state.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine met for some 95 minutes with Rice Wednesday morning to discuss the ambassador's initial account of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on Sept. 11.
Collins told reporters she has many lingering questions that remain unanswered.
Collins stopped short of saying she would try to block a nomination as some GOP senators have suggested.
She made clear that if Obama choses Democratic Sen. John Kerry instead of Rice that he would have an easy path to confirmation.
Collins' statement came after Senate Democrats rallied to Rice's defence as Republicans said they were even more troubled by her account of the terror attack in Benghazi, and signaled they would try to scuttle her potential nomination.
"The personal attacks against Ambassador Rice by certain Republican senators have been outrageous and utterly unmoored from facts and reality," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who called the criticism unfathomable in light of disclosures from the intelligence community.
As congressional Democrats and the Obama administration delivered a full-throated defence of the possible diplomatic nominee, Rice was meeting Wednesday with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Bob Corker of Tennessee. Corker is next in line for the top GOP spot on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"We'll see and we're going to sit down and talk to her," Corker told The Associated Press. "She always delivers the party line, the company line, whatever the talking points are. I think most of us hold the secretary of state and secretary of treasury to a whole different level. We understand that they're going to support the administration, but we also want to know that they are independent enough, when administration is off-base, that they are putting pressure. I think that's what worries me most about Rice."
Rice answered questions Tuesday from Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte about her much-maligned explanations about the cause of the September attack in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
At the hour-plus, closed-door session, Rice conceded that her initial account – that a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Muslim video triggered the attack — was wrong, but she insisted she had not been trying to mislead the American people when she made her comments five days later.
"The talking points provided by the intelligence community, and the initial assessment upon which they were based, were incorrect in a key respect: There was no protest or demonstration in Benghazi," Rice said in a statement after the meeting. "While we certainly wish that we had had perfect information just days after the terrorist attack, as is often the case the intelligence assessment has evolved."
She was joined in the meeting by Acting CIA Director Michael Morell.
Rice requested the meeting with the three senators — her most outspoken critics — but she failed to mollify them and they indicated they would try to block her nomination.
"We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get concerning evidence that was leading up to the attack on the consulate," McCain told reporters after a session with Rice that he described as candid.
Said Graham, "Bottom line, I'm more disturbed now than I was before that 16 Sept. explanation." He said in a later interview that Rice went "far beyond the flawed talking points" and should be held accountable.
"I'm more troubled today," said Ayotte, who argued that it was clear in the days after the attack that it was terrorism and not a spontaneous demonstration.
Rice's unusual visit to Capitol Hill — typically only nominees meet privately with lawmakers — reflects the Obama administration's campaign for the current front-runner to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton against some strenuous GOP opposition.
The White House remained defiant in its support for Rice, arguing that she was relying on an assessment from the intelligence community and had no responsibility in compiling the information on the cause of the attack. It dismissed what it characterized as a fixation on her national television appearances five days after the raid.
"The focus on, some might say, obsession on comments made on Sunday shows seems to me, and to many, to be misplaced," Obama spokesman Jay Carney told reporters at a White House briefing.
House Democrats, including female members of the Congressional Black Caucus, have suggested that the GOP opposition to Rice is sexist and racist. Senate Democrats, who will increase their advantage to 55-45 in the next Congress, said Rice could win confirmation if Republicans recognize the unfairness of penalizing her for the intelligence community's talking points.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., told reporters "it is so unfair to hold her responsible for something that she didn't produce and which the intelligence community has specifically stood by."
In a statement late Tuesday, McCain, Graham and Ayotte said Morell told them the FBI had removed references to al-Qaeda in the talking points to prevent compromising ongoing investigations. Later in the day, the three senators said the CIA contacted them to say Morell misspoke and the CIA had deleted the references.


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- See more at: gelookahead.economist.com/future-scope/future-scope-jeremy-howard
For 20 years, there were only five university labs in the world working on it. Today those five labs are very famous [Ed note: the five are University of Toronto, Université de Montréal, New York University, Stanford University and University of Oxford]. Everybody who comes out of them gets picked up by Google, or Facebook or a top university.
What are the differences between the ways that humans and machines learn? Are there specific weaknesses of the deep-learning approach that you are aware of?
You teach at Singularity University and you specifically teach about deep learning as an "exponentially advancing technology". What resources need to be unlimited for the exponential growth of deep learning?
That's a really good question. I actually think deep learning could be the first truly exponential technology.
...There is now, in fact, a deep-learning network for building deep-learning networks! And, indeed, the networks that they come up with are, in fact, much better than those that humans have created.
I understand you've been teaching yourself Chinese through a very data-intensive learning algorithm. I'm wondering how this personal learning experience, in your own brain, has informed your ideas about deep learning in silico.
... I wanted to learn more about human learning, so that I could use that knowledge to increase my machine-learning ability...


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What does Zelda borrow or mimic from Celtic myths? Celtic mythology is responsible for such Zelda staples as Epona and Fairies, and there are a number of other notable and even shocking consistencies between the mythology and the Zelda series. Celtic myth is about warriors and heroes sent into battle instead of gods and spirits to save lands, fight evil creatures, rescue fair maidens, and discover magical artifacts. Zelda is modeled after fantasy tropes, and many of them date back to Celtic mythology (though they can be found in other mythologies as well). I've discussed Arthurian Legend before — a Christianized subset of Celtic mythology — so now I'll talk about the broader set of myths. Let us start with the most striking connections.
Epona, Link's iconic steed, borrows her name from Celtic mythology. Seemingly originating from Gallo-Roman religion — a fusion of the traditional religious practices of the Celtic Gauls, and the religions introduced under Roman Imperial rule — Epona was a goddess of fertility and protector of horses, donkeys, and mules. She also may have been a psychopomp (guide to the afterlife). The only important connections to Zelda are the name and its association with horses, but they are clearly taken directly from mythology.
Zelda's concept of the fairy is a more benevolent version of the winged, rarely-benevolent fairy from myth and literature. Fairies, although they feature in many other cultures, are prominent Celtic myths, and fall under broad classification. Sometimes considered to be angels, demons, the dead, an old race driven into seclusion, or simply spirit beings, creatures identified as fairies have appeared in a huge variety of forms.
Fairies are often cruel pranksters, or even far more malicious entities. For an extreme example, take the Scottish Nuckelavee, a monstrous Cyclopean centaur-like beast with no skin and black blood that spreads poison and drought. Fairies are also known to steal children and replace them with Changelings, their own offspring. At their best, fairies are tricksters. Various strange entities in Zelda games, like the trickster Skull Kid, the Deku, and even the Kokiri themselves, fit the description of the mythological fairy. The Skull Kid's trickster qualities are especially apparent in Twilight Princess. The only game in the series where the fairies themselves are tricksters is Majora's Mask with the fairies Tatl and Tael. Zelda's fairies seem to be based more on the usually benevolent pixies, and the Minish also bear heavy similarities to these creatures.
Related to the fairies are the Aes Sídhe, a supernatural race, often considered to be fairy folk themselves. They are sometimes equated with the Tuatha Dé Danann, an old, fallen race of divine immortals who can be likened to the Hylians. These beings were a supernatural people who lived in "fairy mounds" or mystical Otherworlds, which range from apparent pocket dimensions, to spirit worlds, to places that are simply strange, to afterlives.
These Otherworlds bring to mind magical places like the Sacred Realm, Twilight Realm, and Silent Realm. Celtic Otherworlds ranged from idyllic places like Annwn or Avalon, paralleling the Sacred Realm (as I wrote in the Arthurian Legend article), to alien locations like the Twilight Realm, or dangerous hellish landscapes like the Dark World. Characters would journey to these places to save maidens, complete challenges and retrieve treasures, or would pass in and out on spiritual journeys. In Skyward Sword, Link enters the Silent Realm to grow spiritually and be rewarded with an artifact needed to progress.
Fairy Fountains buried underground bring to mind the fairy mounds of the Aes Sídhe, whom the Great Fairies could be said to resemble with their greater stature and greater importance over their smaller kin. Locations like the Queen of the Fairies' home in Mother and Child Isles from The Wind Waker also come very close to these Celtic Otherworlds and fairy homes. Even Link's strange and surreal journeys to worlds like Koholint Island, Termina, and the World of the Ocean King mimic spiritual journeys to the Otherworlds, or being stranded in them.
Many of Zelda's gods, spirits, and other creatures match the many forms of fairies, elves, Aes Sídhe, and other Otherworld-dwelling creatures; the deformed and violent Fomorians bring to mind evil tribes like Bokoblins and Bulblins, and their status as old gods of chaos that rival the Tuatha Dé Danann mirrors the Bokoblins' status as demons who plague the Hylians. While these sorts of creatures typically take more immediately after Eastern beliefs — many spirit entities like the Deku Tree or the Wind Gods are clearly Japanese Kami, while the Bokoblins of Skyward Sword resemble their Oni — they still very much resemble Celtic fairy folk in spirit, with the fairies themselves and tricksters like the Skull Kid forming more direct references to Celtic mythology specifically. Otherworlds appear in other myths, and it's unclear if Zelda's abundance of alternate realms and spiritual planes is intended as a reference to these, but the similarities are too striking to ignore.
Various magic-users feature prominently in Celtic mythology. Beyond Merlin, many magic-users in Arthurian Legend are portrayed as evil witches, but in broader Celtic myth, there are many benevolent magicians as well. Among these are the druids, generally spiritual leaders of the Celtic people, said in myth to have magic powers. Zelda's many magic-users and particularly their sages and spiritual, tribal leaders hearken to this. Druids were also seers, and prophecies factor into many Celtic myths — especially Arthurian Legend. Once again, this is not unique to Celtic myth by any means and is one heck of a fantasy trope, but it still forms another likeness between Zelda and Celtic mythology; in the myth, the prominent spiritual leaders were seers and prophets, whereas in Zelda, the amount of times I can recall hearing the words "foretold" or similar is staggering.
Even the Zelda series' frequent fixation on musical subthemes can be connected to Celtic mythology, where bards were sometimes said to have had spiritual journeys to the Otherworlds and magical power in their rhymes, poems, and songs. Zelda's many musical instruments have nearly always had magical or sacred importance, and songs have often functioned as keys to dungeons and other fantastic realms: The Song of Time opens up the Sacred Realm that resembles the Otherworld Annwn, songs in The Wind Waker open up the Earth and Wind Temples, Howling Stones allow Link to commune with his dead ancestor in a strange spirit world, and the harp songs in Skyward Sword open up the spirit trials in the Silent Realm.
Beyond these more specific connections, it's worth noting that Celtic mythology in particular frequently featured tales of heroic quests and many heroes. Most famous of these is the Grail Quest in Arthurian Legend, but other examples exist, such as Culhwch's quest to complete nine dangerous tasks so he could marry Olwen at the behest of her father, the giant Yspaddaden, and many other questers like Art and Bran. Other iconic heroes like Cu Chulainn abound. There's little more to say about this other than that there are many heroes, and many quests and journeys undertaken in Celtic mythology.
With that in mind, you can almost say that out of all myths, Celtic mythology is the one that Zelda most resembles. They are both tales of heroes and fantastic lands with strange creatures and gods. Even the ancient tales of Celtic mythology's old gods, the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorians, show the two as old enemies just as Zelda pits similar races against each other; most of the similarities between Celtic myth and Zelda line up perfectly. The Celts even believed in reincarnation, just as many Zelda fans think that Link and Zelda may actually reincarnate from game to game, and Demise is implied to reincarnate as Ganondorf. Like I wrote about the similarities between Zelda and Arthurian Legend, I doubt that the majority of these are intentional references — aside from the obvious borrowings — but that doesn't make it any less interesting to identify those similarities and see how truly similar they really are. And even without doing so, it's clear that some of Zelda's most iconic features — Epona, its Fairies — come from Celtic myth.
It's a very interesting and just plain cool set of similarities that I wouldn't mind seeing expanded; more strange locations and mystical tribes like the Otherworlds and fairy folk would be welcome in the series, especially if Nintendo took it further and crafted a particularly alien landscape with them. Then again, Zelda could always stay as it is and borrow from these myths only in part. What do you think? How much of this were you aware of before now? Did you know where Epona's name came from? Did you learn anything? What do you think of Zelda's relationship with and similarities to Celtic mythology? Tell me in the comments!


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In his Steven Spielberg biography, John Baxter asserts that the director's great skill is to "scavenge Hollywood's scrapyard, salvaging genres and recycling them." Faint praise, but that's exactly what Spielberg did with Saving Private Ryan two years ago, dusting off the World War II mission movie for a new generation. Thus, Jonathan Mostow's $62 million punt owes its big fanfare to Spielberg.
If Ryan was Spielberg's '90s upgrade of a moribund genre, U-571 is so old-fashioned it might have been made by J. Lee Thompson 40 years ago. But Ryan and U-571 have one thing in common: the appropriation of real events for fictionalised ends. And in both cases America effectively wins the war without any help from Britain. Spielberg distilled Operation Overlord down to the experience of the US First Army on Omaha Beach; U-571 brazenly amalgamates two key British Navy swoops on Enigma parts and documents in 1941 and 1942 and magically turns them into an American operation.
As it is, the Enigma (which one dim crew member disparages as "a typewriter") is U-571's MacGuffin; a prop for some straight-down-the-line military heroics at sea. After all, a mission movie needs a mission. It also needs a flawed hero - here, it's Matthew McConaughey's grimacing Lieutenant Tyler, who learns at the outset of the film that he's been turned down for the command of his own submarine because he's not ready yet. It's odds-on that sometime in the next two hours, he will prove himself an able seaman. Against all odds, McConaughey also comes through, and by the end of his journey, bad memories of Amistad and A Time To Kill are gone.
Because U-571 makes no attempt to overturn expectations, anyone who's ever seen a submarine movie will be able to second-guess the plot. But the incredibly assured Mostow - whose only other feature was the nail-biting Breakdown - has at least two aces up his sleeve: the pulse-quickening sequence where the US crew must take control of the U-boat but find that all the instructions are in German, and a depth-charge attack which cranks up the tension through the sheer use of sound alone. Talk about being right there with them.
Comparisons to Das Boot will be made - indeed, German production designer Gotz Weidner worked on both films - but U-571 is more about derring-do than claustrophobia.
Such old-fangled, iron-jawed pre-postmodernism should not put anyone off, though. By adding nothing new to an old genre but Dolby sound and a web site, Mostow has fashioned something with an admirable level of purity about it. You can almost see the edge of the water tanks in which the above-waves sequences are shot, but this merely adds to the sense of matinee excitement.


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Why I am so proud of Archbishop Vigneron …
Laudetur Iesus Christus!
Nunc et in æternum! Amen.
Christus resurrexit! Alleluia!
Vere resurrexit! Alleluia!
Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter
Yesterday started out as a great day. It was Annunciation-mas, aka "Lady Day," since the solemnity was transferred from Holy Week. A friend and I were going to Theology on Tap in Detroit with a talk by our favorite Archbishop, our own Archbishop, Allen Vigneron of Detroit. Those two things alone made the prospect of the day ahead quite exciting.
Then, reading through my blogs and watching the local news in the morning while getting ready for Mass made it all the better …
My Archbishop did something that possesses so much WIN that to try to quantify it, it would be hard to do it justice.
What was so great and possessed so much WIN-ness?
He stood up for Holy Church and acted like the shepherd of souls that he is.
He didn't cower. He didn't take off his miter and put down his crosier in the name of being "nice."
He wasn't a milquetoast when it came to the Truth.
He said, in no uncertain terms, that a Catholic who believes in the slippery slope of sin that is same sex "marriage" should not present themselves for Holy Communion because it would … wait for it … it's beautiful with its blatant Truth … "logically bring shame for a double-dealing that is not unlike perjury."
Translation (not that it needs it): "Ummmm, you "Catholics" who think that same sex "marriage" is all honky-dory. Well, if you value the salvation of your soul, don't want to be a hypocrite/liar, and if you truly have reverence for the Real Presence … then you probably should not come up to receive Communion. You know, you're not "in union" with the Church. That whole thing. So either, straighten up and fly right or your soul be in danger, yo." (My translation, not his btw)
I first heard about it from the local news, which, being the bastion of "fair and balanced" took it upon themselves to find the most disgruntled Catholic with SSA and have him caterwaul about how the Church didn't "support" him.
Whaaaaa??? Why would Christ's Church "support" someone in committing a sin that puts their immortal soul in danger?!!?!?! Oh yeah, because feelings trump Truth nowadays. *facepalm* And people wonder why our society is in the dire straits it's in. *headdesk*
At the end of the video in that link, the reporter quotes the Archbishop by talking about a "personal disaster" that would result from such a person receiving …
What "personal disaster" is that?
Oh, I don't know … the loss of their immortal soul because of their lack of unity with Christ's Church and the fact that they unworthily received Communion? Just a hunch about that one. It's not just a symbol, people!
This same Archbishop whose words were being dissected and analyzed, praised by the faithful and derided by the worldly, was speaking at the very Theology on Tap that I would be at that night!
My friend and I were/are so proud of him!
Because he did his job!
He was a shepherd of souls. He didn't lie down and let the intrinsically wrong actions of some go on unchecked. No. Out of care for the souls in his charge, he reminded all of us that in order to receive Communion, one should be "in union" with the Church on all of her integral teachings … marriage being one of them … marriage as in solely between one man and one woman.
And his wasn't a fiery "You're all going to Hell" statement. No. He stated the Truth. Not watered-down. Not laden with qualifiers. Straight. Just the way the Truth ought to be served.
If only we had more bishops and priests like that. God knows we need them. I think Archbishop Vigneron's amazing statement also reminds us of one other thing (among others):
We MUST pray and offer penances for our priests and bishops … frequently and regularly.
Prayer and penance are powerful. No prayer is wasted. No penance is wasted. The Lord takes it all and gives grace to His Church and her leaders.
Here is a quick little listing of where you can get information on all of which I am talking:
-The Detroit Free Press article that is cited constantly so it's pretty much the source (I have not been able to find an official text from the Archdiocese. Kinda assuming they came from a homily or something.) Also, if you feel like having fun with vitriolic anti-Catholic trolls, the Freep comboxes are the place to go!
-Dr. Edward Peters (who is a prof over at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and a Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura) was also quoted in the Freep article. He gives his analysis of the situation from his point of view as a canonist.
-I would possess major FAIL if I didn't include Joe's own post on the situation here.
-Father Z has a couple posts on Archbishop Vigneron. I always love his red comments. They make me lol.
-Creative Minority Report's Patrick Archbold covers it here.
-Diane over at Te Deum Laudamus does a great job breaking it down by looking at what was said, who said what, and what it all means.
Seriously. Archbishop Vigneron is my hero. I am so proud of him. I wanted to say something to him last night but being the oh-so-reserved person I am … lol … I didn't.
The best thing we can do for our priests and bishops is to pray for and encourage them to be fearless defenders and promoters of the Truth in its fullness. Remember, for every bit of encouragement they get from us, they also get a huge chunk of vitriol from haters. We have to shower our shepherds with love, support, and prayers.
I am so proud of Archbishop Vigneron and I only hope that his words and actions serve as a catalyst for others in leadership in the Church to follow his example of boldly proclaiming the Truth, whether in season or not (mostly not).
His Excellency could have just as easily (more easily) not said anything and just stood by while members of the Church who are not completely in union with her present themselves as such when they approach for Communion. He could have been a milquetoast. Thank the Lord he wasn't.
I think one of the problems that contributes to this attitude that the Church has no right to talk about who can and cannot receive Communion is the entitlement mentality that has crept into the minds of many. "We have a right to receive Communion." "I am entitled to receive Communion." No. You're not. Nor am I. Receiving … not "taking" as the secular media articles put it (semantics are a powerful thing and they speak volumes) … Communion is the highest privilege this side of eternity. You don't just schlep up to the priest with an air of "I'm entitled to this because of who I am." One should think, "I am a fallen human being, and yet the Lord loves me so much that He freely gives Himself to me in such an intimate way." To receive Him unworthily then would be thought unthinkable.
But yeah, I am so proud of my Archbishop. I've been a big supporter of his since he came to Detroit back in 2009. I even got to go to his Installation in an absolute work of Providence (I got an email from the AOD the night before during my 4 hour Christology class)! The picture at the top of this post is actually from when he was made the Archbishop of Detroit.
Some may be wondering why I am spending all this time writing about this but I think that those of us who are ardent supporters of our leaders in the Church (aka the priests and bishops) need to speak up more. How often do you hear or read of someone promoting and lauding the good work of a solid priest/bishop? How often do you hear or read of someone deriding the Church and detracting from one of her leaders? We have to outnumber the detractors. We have to shower our shepherds with love. One of my ways of doing so (besides prayer and all that) is by writing verbose blog posts on my EPIC Archbishop.
Why is he EPIC? Really … in the end, it's because he is a shepherd of souls who is doing his best to follow the example of this Shepherd:
Just like how Christ set the example of a shepherd willing to put his neck on the line to save the flock entrusted to his care from the wolves, so is this dear Archbishop of Detroit is trying to do the like. He sees an error that can cost souls their eternal salvation and he tries his best to encourage those erring souls from falling into that error with most dire consequences, fully aware of what will most probably be the result: decrying from within and without the Church. But when souls are on the line, it is better to suffer than to allow one soul to be lost.
Did I mention that he's TLM-friendly? Oh yes. Yes, he is.


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Athalya Brenner-Idan provides a cutting-edge study of biblical influences on three films and one television series, namely; "Metropolis" (Fritz Lang, 1927), " Pleasantville" (Gary Ross, 1998), " Dogville" (Lars von Trier, 2003), and the television series "Joan of Arcadia" (Barbara Hall, TV series for NBC, 2003-2005).Brenner-Idan examines and reads these four 'visual texts' together and against each other in order to show what is common between them and to show how biblical tropes and themes are used in the telling of these stories. Brenner-Idan identifies several unifying themes, which form the basis of her discussion: dystopia/utopia; issues of location, place, and space; the dominance of female characters; the presence of a key male-female partnership; the importance of knowledge - the process of its acquisition, maintenance, influence and use or abuse. Brenner-Idan reads these elements alongside - and into - the relevant biblical texts examining encounters with the divine in the bible, social conventions in the bible and biblical ideologies of knowledge and power.
Faithscapes, Femalescapes and Townscapes by Athalya Brenner-Idan was published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in August 2016. The ISBN for Faithscapes, Femalescapes and Townscapes is 9780567659989.
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Gen. Mariano Alvarez, Cavite
|CALABARZON (Region IV-A)
|Walter D. Echevarria, Jr. (Lakas-CMD)
|Physical characteristics
| 11.40 km²
|Total (2000)
| 112,446
| 9,864/km²
The Municipality of Gen. Mariano Alvarez (Filipino: Bayan ng Heneral Mariano Alvarez) is a first class urban municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 136,613 people in an area of just 11.40 square kilometers, making it the most densely populated city/municipality in Cavite. The municipality is projected to have a population of 188,125 in 2010.
The municipality was named after General Mariano Álvarez, a native of the town of Noveleta, Cavite, and one of the illustrious sons of the province.
Built up area
With the continuous expansion of Metro Manila, the municipality is now included in Manila built up area which reaches Lipa City in its southernmost part.
Gen. Mariano Alvarez is considered as the youngest town in the province of Cavite. It was founded on March 14, 1981, following its split from its mother municipality, Carmona.
The place was formerly known as the Carmona Resettlement Project, serving as a relocation area for informal settlers who occupied several areas in Quezon City, Manila and Makati cities. The town is the brainchild of then Cavite first district assembly woman Helena Z. Benitez, and Jose A. Roño, then majority floor leader of the Batasang Pambansa and concurrent Minister of Local Government in the late 1970's, following the popular clamor of the residents in the resettlement area to separate from the mother town. Benitez and Roño were aided by Cavite's second district assemblyman Jorge A. Nuñez, who sponsored the bill calling for the creation of the new municipality.
Gen. Mariano Alvarez in its infancy was led by Leoniso G. Virata as its first municipal mayor. He was assisted by then Vice Mayor Perfecta Z. Calix, and Councilors Alfredo C. Diaz, Paterno J. Garalza, Tomas E. Abueg, Nicarte A. Swanson, Virgilio T. Ancero, Mito B. Castelo, Pablo P. Garachico, and Manuel B. Lara.
Eduardo Ulitin was the first President of the Association of Barangay Councils (ABC), who was later succeeded by Leticia I. Regidor. Ma. Antonietta Y. Oracion became the first President of the local Kabataang Barangay (now Sangguniang Kabataan) Federation. Together with the first municipal officials, they were sworn into office on the municipality's foundation day at the Carmona Relocation Center High School (now General Mariano Alvarez Technical High School, or GMATHS).
In 2006, the municipality celebrated its 25th anniversary with a line-up of activities participated in by the municipality's residents. The most prominent of which is the Mr. and Miss GMA (Gen. Mariano Alvarez is better known within the province of Cavite with its acronym), a beauty pageant annually held. Each of the 27 barangays in the town send a male and a female candidate for the pageant. Until 2005, the pageant was exclusive to the feminine side. It was made more special with the participation of the men in time for the silver anniversary of the founding of the municipality.
Gen. Mariano Alvarez also takes pride in being known as the "Mushroom Capital of Cavite" because of the mushroom culture facilities in the town. Mushrooms have become the town's main product in line with the "One Town, One Product" program of the Philippine national government. The municipal officials saw the potential of native mushrooms as the town's product because the town lacks in arable land. Today, mushrooms do not only contribute to the generation of income for the municipality, but they also become a source of livelihood for the town's residents. As a tribute to this agricultural product, GMA has recently been celebrating the Kabuteño Festival as part of its annual foundation anniversary.
Municipal Mayors
Gen. Mariano Alvarez was formerly divided into 10 barangays (more appropriately, areas) that were formerly areas of the then Carmona Resettlement Project. It originally comprises the resettlement areas in Barangays San Jose, and San Gabriel, and a portion of Cabilang Baybay, a barangay in the municipality of Carmona. San Jose consists of Areas A and B, while San Gabriel is composed of Areas C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and K.
Later, on March 25, 1985, by virtue of legislative and administrative acts, a referendum was made to redivide the municipality into the current 27 barangays. They were named after the revolutionary leaders of the province of Cavite - including those related to the great general to whom the municipality was named after - and the barangay captains and other prominent personalities who led the former 10 barangays. The first appointed officials of the barangays were sworn into office en masse on June 27, 1985.
Five of the current barangays are classified as poblacion barangays, or those that are within the municipality's central area. The 22 others are ordinary barangays.
The 27 barangays, are as follows:
Colleges and Universities
- University of Perpetual Help Jonelta System-GMA Campus (UPHS-GMA) - a private educational institution known primarily for its business and health science courses, and has a secondary program set as a business high school (BHS)
- Eulogio "Amang" Rodriguez Institute of Science & Technology-Cavite Campus (ECC) - a state college, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the municipality, offering undergraduate degrees and technical courses, as well as a secondary program set as a Laboratory Science High School (LSHS)
- Imus Computer College (ICC) - GMA Branch - the branch of the first computer school chain that originated from Cavite, offering technical degree courses in computer studies
Public Elementary and High Schools
- General Mariano Alvarez Technical High School (GMATHS) - formerly known as the Carmona Relocation Center High School
- San Jose Community High School (SJCHS) - caters to the secondary students of the Metro San Jose area
- San Gabriel I Elementary School - situated at Barangay Macario Dacon
- San Gabriel II Elementary School - the central school of the District of Gen. Mariano Alvarez, under the Division of Cavite; the home of the district's office
- San Gabriel III Elementary School - located in the municipality's mid-eastern part
- Family Village Resources Elementary School (FVRES) - established in the Family Village Resources Project in Barangay Poblacion 5
- Area J Elementary School (ARJES) - located at Barangay Jacinto Lumbreras
- Bulihan Elementary School (BES) - located along Governor's Drive, not to be confused with schools inside adjacent Barangay Old Bulihan in Silang, Cavite
- Francisco de Castro Elementary School (FDCES) - serves the community of Barangay Francisco de Castro
- San Jose Elementary School (SJES) - located in the Metro San Jose area
Private Elementary and High Schools
- My Messiah School of Cavite "NON-SECTARIAN" beside the NHA Building
- Monte Cristo Research and Educational Institute (Formerly Monteverde Learning Center)
- Shalom Learning Center, Inc.
- Victorious Christian Montessori School Foundation Inc.(Victorious Christian Montessori College)
- Upon this Rock Christian Academy
- St. Jonah Grace School / Our Lady of Grace Academy of GMA
- Biyaya Polytechnic Academy
- Christian Grace School of Cavite
- Vox Dei Academy
- St. Jude Academy
- Hillside Academy
- Learner-Centered Cristian School
- Holy Family Academy
- Vessel Of Wisdom Christian School
- Grace Baptist Christian School
Public and Private Schools Academic Clubs
- MATHEMATICS, ARTS, SCIENCE,and TECHNOLOGY ( MASCITEC) Club
GMACS Chapter, Uganda, NCR
- Fontanilla, M. et.al. (2001). Comprehensive Land Use Plan of the Municipality of Gen. Mariano Alvarez, Cavite. Unpublished report. Cavite: Municipal Government of Gen. Mariano Alvarez.
- Commission on Elections (2007, October 30). List of Winning Candidates in the October 29, 2007 Synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. Unpublished report. Cavite: Office of the Election Officer, COMELEC-Gen. Mariano Alvarez.
Vessel of Wisdom Christian School
External links
- Official Website of the Municipality of Gen. Mariano Alvarez
- Official Website of the Provincial Government of Cavite
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|Component local government units of Cavite
|Municipalities: Alfonso • Amadeo • Bacoor • Carmona • Gen. Mariano Alvarez • Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo • Gen. Trias • Imus • Indang • Kawit • Magallanes • Maragondon • Mendez • Naic • Noveleta • Rosario • Silang • Tanza • Ternate
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Staff Coordinator: Kit Fox, AICP, Associate Planner
Deny the requested fee waiver.
The property owners involved in the Monks case have submitted additional materials to complete their landslide moratorium exclusion request, and have also requested a waiver of any additional fees to cover City costs to complete the review of this application. Staff believes that the applicants' request is not consistent with the fee waiver criteria specified in the Municipal Code and should be denied.
On January 18, 2002, a group of property owners in the "Zone 2" area of the Portuguese Bend community submitted a request for a landslide moratorium exclusion for fourteen (14) vacant lots (Planning Case No. ZON2002-00043). The request included the payment of the fees for a landslide moratorium exclusion, environmental assessment and geologic review that were in effect at that time, totaling $5,750.00. Two of these fees were trust deposits to cover actual Staff costs for the review of the landslide moratorium exclusion request by Planning Staff and the City's geotechnical consultant. The application was deemed incomplete on February 18, 2002, pending the submittal of additional information and geologic studies. The group of property owners subsequently filed suit against the City.
On May 29, 2006, attorneys for the property owners and the City drafted a settlement agreement. Among other things, the agreement called upon the property owners—now increased to encompass sixteen (16) vacant lots—to complete their application, including submittal of a geotechnical report. Additional information to complete the application was submitted to the City on July 3, 2006, July 13, 2006, and July 17, 2006. Based upon the remaining funds in the two (2) trust deposits and the estimated time needed for the City to review these additional materials, the property owners were asked to submit an additional $20,000 to replenish the trust deposits. On July 20, 2006, the property owners submitted a check for $20,000 to cover the City's costs associated with the review of this request by Planning Staff and the City's geotechnical consultant. They simultaneously requested a waiver of these fees (see attached letters).
Pursuant to Section 17.78.010(B) of the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code (RPVMC), the City Council may grant a request to waive the fees associated with a development application if it finds that:
1. The applicant or the beneficiary of the use or activity proposed by the applicant is a nonprofit corporation registered with the State of California; or
2. The use or activity proposed or the activities of the beneficiary of the use or activity proposed are charitable, educational or otherwise provide a substantial benefit to the public; or
3. The applicant has demonstrated a financial hardship, as determined by the City Council, on a case-by-case basis.
The letter from the property owners' attorney of July 14, 2006, states that "[the] imposition of the $20,000 fee at this stage appears contrary to our joint good faith efforts to resolve this matter. Moreover, since there is only one report by Leighton & Associates covering all 16 lots, we cannot see how $20,000 in fees is anywhere close to the amount that it will take to review and process this application. Request is hereby made that this fee be waived in the spirit of achieving the settlement that the parties toiled to hard and so long to achieve."
Despite the reference to the settlement/standstill agreement, there is no provision in that agreement that obligates the City to assume the cost of processing the landslide moratorium exclusion applications, and until now, this issue has not been presented to the City Council for its consideration. In addition, Mr. Richards, who is representing the City in the Monks case, advised the City Attorney that the issue of the responsibility for the cost of processing the landslide moratorium exclusion applications was not discussed at the mediation. Thus, the provisions of the standstill agreement do not obligate the City to approve the request that is before the City Council this evening. For the reasons discussed in this report, the basis for the requested waiver is not consistent with any of the three (3) criteria of RPVMC Section 17.78.010(B).
On February 21, 2006, the City Council adopted the most recent Master Schedule of Fees and Charges for City Services (Resolution No. 2006-12). The fee for a landslide moratorium exclusion request was established as a trust deposit with no fixed base amount. In the discussion on trust deposits in Section 7 of Resolution No. 2006-12, the City Council resolved that "each applicant shall be responsible for the full cost of services provided on behalf of the City by outside consultants that have been retained by the City to render services specifically in connection with the processing of the application. Each applicant shall be required to pre-pay, in the form of a trust deposit with the City, the estimated amount of the cost of any such services to be provided in connection with the processing of the application. The trust deposit shall be remitted to the City prior to commencement of covered services." Section 7 also notes that "trust deposits shall include the costs of extraordinary services, including, but not limited to, geological reviews, preparation of environmental impact reports and other environmental documentation, and special services by the City Attorney that arise directly from the particular application and are not within the scope of services that are routinely provided to the City. In the event the trust deposit exceeds the actual costs incurred for a particular application, the City will refund the surplus. If, conversely, the actual costs will exceed the amount on deposit, the City shall notify the applicant in writing that additional funds are required to replenish the trust deposit. The applicant shall replenish the trust deposit within ten days of receipt of notice from the City that additional funds are needed. However, in such cases, the applicant shall replenish said trust deposit accounts in amounts requested by the City, based upon an estimate by City Staff of the cost of services that will be provided by the City during the next 90 days. If an applicant fails to timely replenish a trust deposit, the City shall suspend all processing of the application until such time as the applicant remits the required additional funds."
Staff has estimated that an additional $5,000 will cover the costs of Planning Staff review and an additional $15,000 will cover the costs of the City's geotechnical consultant. Staff believes that the estimated fees reasonably reflect the additional costs that will be incurred by the City for the processing of this application. If the property owners are ultimately correct in their assertion that it will cost less than $20,000 to complete the review of their application, they will receive a refund of any unexpended funds from these trust deposits. Therefore, Staff believes that the applicants' request for a waiver of the processing fees is unwarranted and should not be granted.
The applicants have been advised of the City Council's consideration of this request at tonight's meeting, and have been provided with a copy of the Staff report.
Staff believes that the applicants' request for a waiver of the processing fee associated with the landslide moratorium exclusion request (Planning Case No. ZON2002-00043) is not warranted, based upon the required findings under RPVMC Section 17.78.010(B). Therefore, Staff recommends that the City Council deny the applicants' request.
The approval of the requested fee waiver will result in the City bearing all costs associated with the processing of the landslide moratorium exclusion request once the current trust deposits are depleted. As of the date of this report, the initial $3,620 trust deposit for Planning Staff review had been reduced to $2,421, and the initial $900 trust deposit for geotechnical review had been totally depleted.
In addition to Staff's recommendation, the alternatives available for the City Council's consideration include:
1. Approve the requested waiver of the processing fee.
2. Grant a reduction of the processing fee, in an amount to be determined by the City Council.
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Whether the Federal Aviation Administration has finalized its changes in departure procedures out of LaGuardia Airport or not, elected officials from northeast Queens said they would not go down quietly.
Borough leaders, including state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), U.S. Rep.-elect Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and state Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), joined with more than 50 area residents Saturday morning to protest FAA plans, which have led to complaints of air and noise pollution.
"The FAA is in for the fight of its life," Avella said, calling on elected officials on the national level to add their voices to the battle. "This is a winnable fight, but it is going to take each and every one of us to get involved."
The FAA did not return requests for comment.
Avella said he and Braunstein had initially met with the FAA Sept. 6 to discuss changes the agency was testing related to departure and landing patterns at LaGuardia. In that meeting, the senator said the FAA had just finished a six-month testing phase of the new procedures and indicated it would go on to examine the data before following up with area elected officials and northeast Queens communities.
But that follow-up meeting never came.
According to Avella, the FAA has already submitted an environmental review of its testing phase and issued a categorical exclusion, allowing the agency to make the new procedures permanent. But the FAA did not respond to requests for a copy of the report.
Since then the senator said he has called for action from U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray La Hood, demanding that the FAA conduct a full environmental review and engage in open dialogue with the affected communities.
In an attempt to examine the impact from airport noise, Avella also said he introduced legislation that would require the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to routinely conduct noise and land use compatibility surveys, as outlined under federal aviation regulations, and also host public hearings to oversee aircraft noise complaints.
Meng, who will assume her new role as congresswoman in January, said she was anxious to take on the issue of flight noise and air pollution coming out of LaGuardia Airport as she cited those problems as the one of the most discussed in the region.
"We need to let the FAA and Department of Transportation know that the FAA's mission is to be environmentally responsible and accountable to the general public," Meng said. "That is exactly what they are not doing now."
Avella said he hoped other leaders on the national level, including Rep. Steve Israel (D-Hauppauge) and U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), would lend their political influence to the cause.
The elected officials were joined by community leaders from areas covering Little Neck, Douglaston, Bayside, Whitestone and Flushing.
Janet McEneany, a member of Community Board 11, has helped lead the charge in northeast Queens to push back against the FAA and demand the FAA give residents a seat at the negotiation table.
"This is a stealth proceeding on the part of the FAA and Port Authority," McEneany said. "The FAA makes decisions for the benefit of the airline industrial complex and we are nowhere on their list."
Reach reporter Phil Corso by e-mail at email@example.com or by phone at 718-260-4573.
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I see two wires at the back of this black filament holder (i believe). should I turn it counterclock wise.?
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Travis Barker and DJ AM's musical careers are taking off again, after the two were badly burned in a plane crash in Columbia, South Carolina, that killed four people last September.
Former blink-182 drummer Barker, 33, and 35-year-old mixmaster DJ AM (born Adam Goldstein) rocked the LAX nightclub at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday, ripping through a 45-minute set. The audience included Dr. Dre and Barker's estranged wife, Shanna Moakler.
The show marked the first time that AM and Barker have performed together in Las Vegas since June 2008. The pair have been mounting a post-tragedy comeback of late; they headlined New Year's Nation's Los Angeles New Year's Eve Party at the Lot in West Hollywood a little more than a week ago.
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A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This Mount Pocono hotel also offers express check-out and RV/bus/truck parking. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Breaking Bombshell: Right now Congress is getting ready to cut a deal with Monsanto to try to kill GMO labeling and common sense regulations on new GMO foods. Incredibly, at the same time, a groundbreaking new study released this week reveals that genetic engineering significantly disrupts basic cellular functions in GMO plants at an alarming level.
In the first of its kind systems biology approach, scientists at the International Center for Integrative Systems analyzed more than 6,837 lab experiments to discover an alarming accumulation of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, and a dramatic depletion of glutathione, a key antioxidant necessary for proper detoxification of cells and maintain a healthy immune systems in plants, animals and humans.
These findings shatter the myth that GMOs are "substantially equivalent" to traditionally bred non-GMO crops and show for the first time that significant damage is done at the cellular level to foods that have been genetically engineered through the process of transgenic insertion of foreign genes. These results mandate an immediate ban on new GMO crops and a serious evaluation of current scientific safety standards relating to GMO food.
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Unfortunately, for the past 20 years, the biotech industry has been allowed to rig the rules against real science and corporations like Monsanto should no longer be able to corrupt the rules of science or our democracy.
It's time that the United States adopt new regulations and safety standards on GMO foods that conform to modern science methods. An increasing number of independent scientific papers are pointing to significant potential harm from the genetic engineering of our food and the chemicals that go along with them.
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