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Hi, I recently installed SQL 2008 R2. My key wasn't working at first so I just installed the "Enterprise Evaluation" figuring I could enter the key later when I get things worked out. The key is for "SQL Server 2008 Standard". According to the below site you can upgrade from "SQL Server 2008 R2 Evaluation" to "SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard", but not from "SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise".
So, which is it, an evaluation I should be able to replace with standard, or enterprise, which requires a re-install? An attempt to enter the key by re-running setup results in the error "the selected SQL Server instance does not meet upgrade matrix requirements".
And do I need an R2 key? Like how server 2003 can't be used for server 2003 R2, or is R2 a gimme in SQL 2008? If it's not a gimme, why on earth would the people who sold me 2008 Standard send me an install disk that would install R2?
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Aug 4, 2010 at 3:01 UTC
Why not just backup the data and reinstall with the right versions, then restore?
I'm surprised that there's even an enterprise evaluation.
Aug 4, 2010 at 3:14 UTC
I may have to resort to that, but I was hoping someone out there knew how to upgrade without all that.
Aug 5, 2010 at 10:44 UTC
If its for development then I would use dev edition, which is the same as enterprise but its not designed for production use.
I don't see a download for the evaluation version that is standard, so I am assuming you can move from eval to standard (I have done this, but I don't know which version of the eval I had exactly, there was only one i believe). I have also done from standard to enterprise. Run the installer and see if it complains, it will detect if there is an issue. You also may have to use some setup command flags for the upgrade, I have had that issue before as well.
Aug 12, 2010 at 10:23 UTC
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If you're database is using any of the SQL evaluation features, you can't move it from SQL Enterprise (incl Eval) to SQL Standard. You'll get an error.
The following SQL shows how to check which enterprise features are being used...
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_persisted_sku_features;
I had to migrate my Team Foundation Server from SQL Server Enterprise Eval 2008 to SQL Server Standard 2008 and wrote up the steps, they may help you...
Aug 17, 2010 at 8:49 UTC
Nice, JPadda!
Aug 17, 2010 at 12:03 UTC
Short Story: Anyone know how to convert a database from 2008 R2 to 2008 R1? I've already tried the export wizard built into SQL.
Long Story: So, starting back at the beginning, when I was first installing SQL 2008 I figured I should download the latest/greatest and so downloaded R2. I then realized after just a window or two of installing R2 that I may not be licenced for R2. So I cancel, load the CD that came with my key. And installed R1, but since the R2 setup was already cached it installed R2. Now I've already attached and used my databases in R2, and uninstalled that in favor of my licenced R1, and it wont let me attach those databases to my R1 installation.
I've installed a trial of R2 on a VM and tried exporting it to R1, but it's not working (says everything worked, but it's missing views). And there isn't a licence to upgrade from R1 to R2, you have to buy R2, and we've already purchased R1.
So, anyone know how to convert a database from 2008 R2 to 2008 R1?
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Valeska Gallagher (3 years)
I am looking for a medium sized (anything under 60 lbs) to rescue. I would prefer that it be anywhere from 4 yrs. old on up to a senior. The last dog I rescued when she was 4 yrs. old, was an abused female black lab mix named "Gracie" . Two weeks ago I had to put her to sleep at 17 yrs. of age.
I live in Angels Camp, CA approx 55 miles NE of Stockton in the Mother Lode Foothills. I rent a house with a fenced in yard with a 77 yr old lady who owns a very sweet and gentle 10-11 yr old female long hair GS mix. Her name is "Lovey" and she is not an alpha. She loves everyone, all dogs and even cats, though we do not own cats. The neighbors cats come in our yard and Lovey and my old girl never reacted. However, the dogs I rescue do not have to like cats, as I am allergic to them and will never own one.
Because of shedding I do not want to adopt a long hair shepherd. Our dogs sleep with us in our separate beds, but if a dog I get is crate trained and prefers that then I will accommodate that as well. My dogs are my life and my priority. I never want to be away from them. I am with my dog almost all of the time. The only time I leave my furry friend at home is in the summer heat when I have to go to the grocery store, a doctor appt. and to Church. In mild weather I bring my dog with me every where.
I have a Subaru Outback and keep the back designated for my friend. I have a memory foam mattress back there with pillows and clean blankets and sheets, a water bowel and always carry food with me in case we are still out at feeding time. When I travel to the coast for a vacation we both sleep in the back of the Subaru! I am retired and disabled with chronic pain, but I do walk and take my dog to the park for exercise. I discovered that my pain is less when I have my own dog so it is a must for me to always have a dog. I also must always have a dog because I love them so much and they are the best companions. I am Widowed, with two grown sons who live and work in So. Calif. I will be 58 in November and have no family left other than my sons who lead their own busy lives.
I feed my dogs Science Diet, maintain a healthy weight, provide toys and play catch if that is what they like. Once they are 7 yrs and older I give them Senior Vitamins and Glucosamine-Chondritin. I wash my dog every night after dinner with a warm wash cloth beginning with the face and ears working my way down to the feet and tail. I began doing this after observing that when there are two or more dogs together they groom each other and since I am their pack leader I began to groom them in this way. My last girl, Gracie loved it and in return she would groom me back by either licking my leg or arm! I do live on a limited income so if the dog you have for me requires expensive ongoing medical care I would need to make sure it is something I could afford first.
If you need a reference for what type of person and dog owner I am I will be happy to give you the name and phone number of my Vet. I hope that you will consider me for one of your dogs that need a calm and loving owner and home.
Thank you,
Valeska Gallagher
Jenifer Recinos (1 year)
We ar elooking to rehome an eldery stray Shepard we have been caring for. The dog is estimated to be between 7-9 years old, we have been calling him Balto, he is male and very large. About 91 LBS.
Balto found his way into our backyard back in December, we had him scanned for a microchip and none have been found.
We cannot keep him inside because of landlord, and living in the desert it is unsafe to keep him outside all the time. Also, do to his reaction to other dogs next door we have to keep him on a long tie so that he doesn't run to the fence and bark and snap at the neighbors dogs.
The dog is not neutered, We just got him to feel comfortable in our car so we finally took him to the vet to get his shots updated (Except rattlesnake.) and no he is not microchipped or tattooed.
He does not like dogs that bark at him, he gets very defensive and territorial. He doesn't like people coming to our yard, but at the park or at the vet he comes up to everyone. He has not been around babies or children since we've had him. And he gets curious when our cats look out the window, but we don't chance letting them get too close just in case.
He is an outside dog, not house broken. He doesn't really care where he is he just goes when ever, the vet said that he may do that just because he may have been an outside dog his whole life before he showed up at our house and so he never had to be told when he can and cannot go.
He knows how to sit when you tell him, and he is getting better at walking on the leash. He likes to try to lead you, but we are working on that. His main problem right now is digging. He turned our backyard into a construction zone, but since we moved him out front to grass he has not dug as much. And he does not jump fences at all. Doesn't even jump on you or go on his hind legs at all because of possible arthritis or hip displacement. He is on joint supplements from the vet to help the possible arthritis.
He is very loveable and sweet once he gets comfortable with you, in the time that we've had him he has gone from a shy whimpering fail skinny dog to an overly attached loving dog that barks even at a leaf floating in the wind. We hate that we have to get rid of him but he needs a better home where he doesn't need to be tied up and can come inside when it is cold or extremely hot, which in boron then it gets ridiculously hot and dry in the summer time, it just isn't safe for a white shephard to be out in the heat like that.
I really hope you can help us out, or at least push us in the right direction.

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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with 2 restaurants and 2 indoor pools
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This family-friendly Ribeauville hotel is located in a rural location, within 1 mi (2 km) of Jean Sipp Winery and Centre de Reintroduction des Cigognes et des Loutres. St. Ulrich Fortress is 2.1 mi (3.5 km) away.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features 2 restaurants, 2 indoor pools, and a full-service spa. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a casino, free water park access, and an outdoor pool are onsite.
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All 56 soundproofed rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and iPod docks. Thoughtful touches include bathrobes and slippers, and guests will also find furnished balconies and flat-screen TVs.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
Hôtel Barrière Ribeauvillé features a full-service spa, a complimentary water park, and 2 indoor swimming pools. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of hotel's 2 bars/lounges. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Event facilities measuring 2690 square feet (250 square meters) include a meeting room. This Art Deco hotel also offers a casino, an outdoor pool, and a sauna. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Hôtel Barrière Ribeauvillé is a smoke-free property.
- Beach sun loungers
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Full-service spa
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 56
- Number of floors - 3
- ATM/banking
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Casino
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Free water park access
- Number of indoor pools - 2
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 250
- Free self parking
- Year Built 2012
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 2690
- Pool sun loungers
- Sauna
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Steam room
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Furnished balcony
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free newspaper
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- Phone
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Shower only
- Rainfall showerhead
- Desk
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- MP3 docking station
- iPod docking station
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
La Brasserie - This brasserie specializes in French cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required. Open select days.
Le Belvedere - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open daily.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
2 indoor swimming pools are on site along with an outdoor pool. Other recreational amenities include a complimentary water park and a sauna.
Guests under 15 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool or spa tub.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Golfing nearby
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, USpa. Services include massages, facials, body scrubs, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a sauna and Turkish bath/hammam.
The spa is open daily. Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 15 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Minimum age to access spa is 15
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Body scrubs
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 15 per pet, per night
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Please note that no swim shorts are allowed on SPA premises. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 20.00 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 15 per pet, per night
Hotel Name
- Resort Barrière Ribeauvillé
- Resort Barrière Ribeauvillé Ribeauville
- Hôtel Barrière Ribeauvillé
- Hôtel Barrière Ribeauvillé Ribeauville
- Barrière Ribeauvillé Ribeauville
- Barrière Ribeauvillé
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
This property has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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Here's the first trailer for Universal and Working Title's Mark Wahlberg-starrer Contraband, an action thriller about a security guard trying to go straight who must return to his old life of high-stakes smuggling to settle a family member's debt with a ruthless former boss. Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale and Ben Foster co-star. The pic, based on the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavic-Rotterdam, is set to be released January 13, 2012. Baltasar Kormakur directed the remake after starring in, producing and co-writing the original. From the looks of it, this one seems right in Wahlberg's wheelhouse.
Hot Trailer: 'Contraband'
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God, Kate Beckinsale is sexy.
I LOVED this script from Aaron guzikowski – this trailer shows the film is going to work – very excited!
I saw this at Nielsen screening a month or so ago and it ROCKED! I hope they don't change much. I'm looking forward to seeing it when it comes out. Fast, smart, action. You can't ask for more! (and no, I didn't have anything to do with the movie – I have a boring day job)
Right. Nothing to do with the movie. Which is why you're the third comment here.
Wow, that looks good.
Movie looks pretty good from the trailer. Not to mention a solid cast
I don't know. Looks kind of lame. I'll probably still end up watching it because I like the type of genre, but honestly I saw shots that were reminiscent of miami vice, inception, training day etc….where'd originality go?
the overall look of the film didn't even look consistent. Like I said, I will probably still end up watching it because of the same reason I saw Killer Elite, because everything else that is out is sh*t and yeah its my escapist fare for the weekend I suppose. We'll see.
Lord God, you're pretentious.
"Say hello to your mother for me."
So Gone in Sixty seconds except with freight containers?
At least Giovanni Ribisi isn't playing the same role.
Great work on the trailer!
Foster = incredibly underrated talent.


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Series: Problem Areas (2 of 5) by Stuart Briscoe
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Part 3: What Is Living by Faith?
Series: Problem Areas
Stuart Briscoe
When Paul said, "The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God" (Galatians 2:20), he outlined a basic principle of Christian experience, which needs to be understood.
I. Faith as a Principle.
A. The natural principle.
1. Creaturely dependence.
2. Creaturely interdependence.
B. The spiritual principle.
1. Faith as the principle of justification. Romans 3:28
a. The impossibility of the alternatives.
b. The possibilities of the reality.
2. Faith as the principle of living.
a. We live by faith. Romans 1:17
b. We walk by faith. 2 Corinthians 5:7
c. We stand by faith. 2 Corinthians 1:24
d. We pray by faith. James 5:15
e. We conquer by faith. 1 John 5:4
Part 4: Handling Temptation
Series: Problem Areas
Stuart Briscoe
Modern man thinks of "temptation" as a "seduction", but the term when used in the Bible means "to put a person to the test", whether benevolently-to show his qualities or malevolently-to expose his weaknesses. We need a biblical view of temptation.
I. Temptation Needs to Be Understood.
A. Its origins.
1. God puts His people to the test.
a. To reveal their true condition. Genesis 22:1-2
b. To purify their faith. 1 Peter 1:6-7
c. To produce character. James 1:2-4
d. To assure them of His love. Romans 5:3ff
2. Satan tempts God's people.
a. By crushing them. Job 1:11ff
b. By encouraging wrong satisfaction of valid desires.
c. By making them complacent and careless. Galatians 6:1
d. By misrepresenting God. Matthew 4:5ff
B. Its potential.
1. Opportunity to go wrong or do right.
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Berber peoples have inhabited Northern Africa approximately since 10,000 BCE. Most of them lived in tribal societies, but some Berber Kingdoms and Empires emerged, too, e.g. the Numidian Kingdoms or the Empire of the Garamants. Along the Mediterranean Coast, they became dominated by foreign powers since the first millennium BCE: first by Phoenicians in the West (Carthage) and Greeks in the East (Cyrene), then by the First Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
In the 1st, 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, as Roman latifundia occupied their traditional agricultural lands and expanded into the hinterland where they had practiced transhumance, Berber resistance flared up repeatedly, but was crushed by Rome`s imperial power, which depended on the wheat and olive oil (and the profits for its elite) from Africa. Not all Berbers were politically and socioeconomically marginalised - some rose to prominence in the Roman military, administration and politics. The vast majority remained miserably poor and marginalised in one of the empire`s richest provinces, though. Under these circumstances, many Berbers converted to Christianity and favoured radical interpretations.
In the 3rd century CE, the sect of the Agonistici became popular among them. Agonistic Christian Berbers were among the strongest forces in the successful Roman Revolution of the 260s, which they had already begun in the 250s as a reaction to Decian persecutions. Africa, Libya and Mauretania were one of the strongholds of the revolution. Here, expropriations, collectivisations and the eliminiation (i.e. killing) of a pagan elite took on more radical forms than elsewhere.
With their implication in the Roman Revolution and their close alliance with Simonist Christian Jews, Egyptian rebels and others, the Berbers within the Roman Empire entered the stage of Mediterranean politics for a good century (250s-350s). Berber delegates were influential in drafting the Constitution of the Second Roman Republic and steered the young republic`s egalitarian policies. They were also influential within the Christian Church.
On all these fronts, their radically egalitarian Agonism and their aggressive and often intentionally suicidal proselytism soon led to their isolation both within the Roman Republic and its Christian Churches, though, and sent them on their own path of development from the 4th century onwards. A Berber-dominated Christian Council of Theveste decided that heretics (especially those who had betrayed their faith during the Decian persecutions, or killed faithful Christians on the orders of their Roman-oligarchic superiors) had to be rebaptised ere they could receive communion. When the bishops of Rome, Alexandria and Antiochia did not accept this decision, staunch Berber Christian communities seceded and formed the autocephalous Communio Sanctorum, an Agonistic Christian church which is out of communion with all other Christian churches.
Politically, too, Agonistic minorities often did not accept the decisions of more moderate comitia civitatum, e.g. concerning individual property rights, and continued, in spite of comparably drastic wealth taxes and relatively egalitarian distribution of land in the African civitates after the revolution, to "redistribute" on their own initiative in a Robin Hood-manner, too, which brought them the epithet "circumcellions" (circum cella euntes = those who walk around the larder). The alliance ("Conventum per Africam et Aegyptum") formed during the revolution between large cosmopolitan coast civitates like Carthage, Oea, Leptis Magna, Cyrene and Alexandria, Egyptian civitates along the Nile and mostly Agonistically dominated Berber civitates in the mountains and oases of the hinterland soon fell apart over socioeconomic, religious and increasingly also matters of foreign policy.
Throughout the last third of the 3rd and the first half of the 4th century, Agonistic Christian Berbers had begun to expand the Roman Republic Southwards:
- They instigated a successful slave rebellion in Garama, which resulted in the extermination of the former Garamantes, whose power had been severely weakened due to water shortages and the absence of Roman demand for their export product no.1 - slaves -, and the incorporation of the new civitas Garama into the Roman Republic as well as into the ecclesiastical realm of the Communitas Sanctorum. Agonstici, among them the new Garamantes, who also called themselves "the Free Men" (Imaziyen), converted other Berbers to their West and East:
- In the West, they converted the Gaetuli who lived on the Southern slopes of the Atlas Mountains and in several oases in the desert.
- In the East, the new Garamant Imaziyen defeated and forcibly converted the Nasamones. In 319, the Conventum Romanum rejected the inclusion of the civitas Augila in 319, doubting the free will of its inhabitants.
Agonistic Berbers were also involved in the downfall of the Meroitic Empire. They conducted a crusade to forcibly convert the Nobatians and Blemmyes, but succeeded only in converting the latter. (The Conventum accepted the accession of the civitas Blemmyorum again in 334 because they controlled an important part of the Red Sea psaage.) Garamants and Blemmyes jointly continued the crusade against the Nobatians and their overlords in Meroe. After Meroe was burnt to the ground, two more independent kingdoms arose in Makuria and Alodia, who sought Aksum`s help against the Agonistic crusaders. The Conventum Romanum maintained friendly relations with Aksum and urged the Agonistici to stop their campaigns. When they repeatedly did not heed the commands from Rome, federal troops intervened and helped Aksum to gain control over Makuria, Alodia and Nobatia, and established a military presence South of Berenike Troglodytica (at the hydreuma of Omichle), which controlled the few remaining Blemmyes.
A group of 72 Agonistici-dominated civitates led by the Synode of the Communio Sanctorum in Theveste, most of them ethnically predominantly Berber / Libyan, reacted with their secession from the Roman Republic in 352. This caused the War of Circumcellion Secession (as the Romans call it) (353-357), in which purportedly 250,000 Berbers and other Agonistics died as martyrs, some far away from their home committing suicide commandos in Alexandria, Rome or Athens.
In 357, the war was ended with a treaty which severed all ties between the Roman Republic and the new Ljama´a (community) of Berber tribes, towns and oases controlled by the Agonistic Synode. In the Roman Republic, the Agonistic faith was the first and only confession to be outlawed by the Conventum Romanum due to the persistent and dangerous violation of "libera concordia" by its members. Over 400,000 (alleged or real) Agonistici were expelled and deported from Roman civitates, almost all of them migrating into the new Berber Ljama`a, where they took the places the martyrs had left behind. In exchange, roughly 100,000 non-Agonistici of Berber, Punic and provincial Roman descent, among them Jews, Manichaeists, Greco-Roman polytheists, moderate Christians and adherents of the Egyptian cult, fled the new theocracy.
The new state was an Agonistic Christian theocracy, its populace a mixture of Romanised Berbers, nomadic berbers and Saharan oasis dwellers. The Roman legacy lived on to some degree in this polity, but the secession also cemented a different path of development. In many ways, the Agonistic Berbers and their new Ljama`a played a similar (albeit geographically more limited) role to that of the Muslims and their Caliphates in OTL: They created a theocratic society where religious and social laws merged, and a slender canon of "Christian law" served as the dogmatic and unalterable fundament of society, which thus needed little statehood and developed little of it, too. Conflicts often took the form of religious schisms, and repeatedly, crusades were undertaken. These were directed towards the South, and in this way, the Imaziyen brought Christianity, horses and camels, their alphabet, a half-Roman concept of statehood and democracy and much more to the nations of the Sahel - from the Soninke in the West to the Sao in the East.
In the decades after the secession, agriculture was completely collectivised, the power of guilds was broken by the erection of "scholae Christianae" and comprehensive public works were undertaken to improve the infrastructure. The Agonistic Christian Church and the new state converged into one. The new society took a few decades to recover from the losses of the war against Rome, but from the 380s onwards, important cultural achievements were made in tinnedam (towns) like Theveste, Capsa and Ammonium-Siwah:
- the Tifinagh script was improved through the addition of signs for vowels (taken from Latin, Greek and Punic),
- the Agonistic canon of the Bible was defined and its books translated (mostly from Greek and Coptic) into a Berber/Libyan variety which was dominant around Theveste, written in Tifinagh. This translation of the Bible caused a slow process of standardisation among the various Berber varieties, with the variety of the Theveste Bible becoming Standard Tamazight.
The social structures of those nomadic tribes who had neither been slaves, nor had held slaves, like several Tubu-speaking tribes and the Hoggar were left relatively unaltered. While culturally and economically, the formerly Roman communities in the North remained dominant, various nomadic groups gained military hegemony in the new state, conducting their own crusades against populations to their South:
- Under the spiritually and politically leading figure of "Queen" Tin Hinan, the Gaetuli converted the inhabitants of various oases all over OTL Mauretania and Northern Mali. They also sent missionaries to the Wagadu Empire, who undermined the rule of the divie kings (ghanas) of the Soninke until a crusade intervened in the self-created turmoil and conquered Koumbi Saleh in 394 and overthrew the divine kingdom there, installing egalitarian communes along the Upper Niger and its hinterland, who received presbyters from Theveste who translated the Bible into Soninke. Dissenting Soninke fled and emigrated to Takrur.
- The Imaziyen of Garama, Ammonium-Siwah and other communes of the East converted many Tubu tribes and the inhabitants of the oases of the Kaouar Valley, undermined and overthrew the Divine Kingdom of the Duguwa in Kanem.
In the 460s, the Supreme Imkama was established as a court of appeal, which contributed to the formalisation of "Christian law". It also made the different traditions in the different regions and landscapes evident and ultimately led to the Schism of 492: a school of theological-juridical scholars who dissented with the majority`s views on what God and Jesus had said about the role of women in society founded their own Imkama in Capsa. This made the establishment of a separate Ljama`a necessary, which also convened in Capsa. After a short war, the Ljama`as of Theveste (in the West) and Capsa (in the East) continued as separate theocratic states.
Mune became a new spiritual centre for the Eastern Imaziyen, who claimed that they had found the Ark of the Covenant. A theological school emerged, where the Bible was translated into a Tubu variety. From here, the Bagirmi and Lisi were proselytised, and to some extent also the Sao. The unifying power of the Mune was carried on from pre-Christian times into the Ljama`a, stripped of its ties with strict social hierarchy - it worked so well that the Imaziyen used it as a model for further expansions. It also greatly increased the role of the Tubu over time, giving the Eastern Imaziyen a distinctly Saharan-speaking streak of identity.
Both Imaziyen states now controlled a Transsaharan passage in its entirety and massively profited from this trade duopoly between the Sahel and the Mediterranean. The Western Imaziyen controlled the Western route from Roman Volubilis to Koumbi Saleh, the Eastern Imaziyen controlled the Eastern route from Leptis Magna through the Kaouar Valley to Lake Chad. Both exported cotton from the Sahel to the Roman Republic, where the world`s largest textile industry developed. The Western Imaziyen also exported gold, while the Eastern Imaziyen exported salt.
All of this brought a level of general welfare to both societies, which, over time, proved even more attractive and influential than their faith. In the 6th, 7th and 8tth century, the Imaziyen-controlled Sahel enjoyed general well-being, prosperity and peace. Horses, glassware and new technologies (especially mills and pumps which saved manpower) were imported and contributed to an economic boom of the communes and cooperatives along the Niger and the Lake Chad as well as the cross-Saharan trading caravans and the Northern Berbers who bought and sold on Roman markets. Communal ownership of most things and efficiently collected sales taxes safeguarded social cohesion and allowed for the improvement of public infrastructure: from roads to ports and bridges on the Niger, and not least extensive public services, which included (religiously biased) free education and (again, religiously misused) police force.
Their Agisymban, Takrurian, Hausa and Banza neighbours soon began to copy this successful model. Most of them did not join the Imaziyen Ljama`a, though; linguistic differences may have played an important role. An exception to this rule was the emergence of the Pulaa nation In the Far West in the 6th century - cattle herders of mixed Serer, Soninke and Western Imaziyen backgrounds -, who at least nominally declared themselves Agonistic Christians, received religious support from Theveste and acted as military allies of the Ljama`a.
Among the Hausa and Banza, the new trends from the North stirred unrest and caused prolonged wars with changing alliances in the 7th and 8th centuries. Similar developments took place among the Asante in the South and the Serer-Horon in the West. Gao, Agisymba and the Sao cities, on the other hand, successfully imitated the Imaziyen model and adapted it to local circumstances, while at the same time retaining their independence.
In the 9th century, this peaceful coexistence broke apart as a modern press and the advent of firearms resulted in renewed crusades by orthodox Berbers against the syncretist South, where Agonistic Christianity was mixed with a belief in ghosts, spirits and the like.
The Masunist Crusades were an utter failure, though. The Sahel had become both powerful and self-confident by now. Religiously united behind a Wangara theologian named Samaila and politically united in a (mostly) democratic federation with its capital in the well-fortified Gao, the Sahel fought back, stopped the crusades and wrestled the Mandé lands out of the hands of the Western Ljama`a and Bornu and other Sao states out of the hands of the Eastern Ljama`a.
Western and Eastern Imaziyen had both lost their control over the Sahel, and the 10th century is generally considered as an era of spiritual, political and socioeconomic crisis, followed by the even greater global crisis of the 11th century. The Ljama`as eroded, more and more groups splintered off, and war was endemic. In the East, land was lost to Aksum, while in the West, the Gao Alliance took control over OTL Senegal and Southern Mauritania, cutting off the Western Imaziyen from Atlantic trade.
In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Celtic and Roman Republics and Aksum stepped in and annexed many of the more urbanised successor states of the Ljama`as. At the beginning of the 14th century, only a handful of nomadic tribes in the arid mountains of the Sahara had retained their independence, but were also completely disconnected from global developments. The 14th to 17th centuries were no quiet time. Socioeconomic and cultural transformations repeatedly caused neo-Agonistic and neo-Imaziyen groups to resurface and fight against the Roman, Celtic or Aksumite state.
But it was not until the advent of a global renaissance of movements for national independence and the reformulation of the Imaziyen culture in the terms of modern anarcho-communism that such movements for independence succeeded. In the 18th century, the Celtic, Roman and Aksumite Empires accepted the independence of the Imaziyen, who forged a loose confederacy of stateless communes - the status quo which continues into the present.
Communes - socio-economic and political structure
The Imaziyen have no formal hierarchies, no institutionalised statehood and no individual property regime. Their supreme social rule, which they see as derived from the Holy Writ, is to contribute with everything ones does to everyone`s (not only one's own) well-being. Since there is no individual property, there is also no economic inequality; no Imaziyen is excluded from accessing any of the resources of the community. Since there is no statehood, nobody is coerced to do anything against their will (if one does not count the omnipresent social pressure to conform to the supreme rule).
Most Imaziyen live in communes of 2000 to 20,000 members. Even their largest, and still in many ways most important town, Tebessa, only has 40,000 inhabitants.
Imaziyen communes attempt to provide as much of what they need by themselves, although they are not entirely autarchical. All the food required for their mostly vegan diet is grown locally in the Northern mountains, on the Atlantic Ocean shore and in the oases, or in small quantities exchanged among them.
Since their small internal economic microsystems and their limited exchange with a mostly market-shaped world market impose serious problems on highly labour-divisive and specialised technology development and implementation, the Imaziyen are, from one perspective, usually at least several decades behind the more advanced industrial nations to its North and East. From another perspective, Amazigh "industrial product design" is highly innovative in its own way as it is to a much greater extent oriented towards durability, easy repair and usability independent of complex maintenance systems. The extremely long-lived, simple and yet very reliable and cost-free small solar vehicles developed and used by Imaziyen are good examples of this.
Technological progress has made complex professional education necessary among the Imaziyen, too. Most Imaziyen acquire professional knowledge in several domains, though, which is motivated both by the high esteem in which the Imaziyen hold learning, the economic freedom which does not tie one Amazigh to a specific nine-to-five job, and the economic necessity of knowing more than one trade in a small community where one cannot always depend entirely on the availability of somebody else`s services exactly when one requires them.
Culture and religion
Amazigh society is deeply shaped by neo-Agonstic Christianity and its principles of "no violence", "no possession" and devoting one`s life to following Jesus. Christian cult is omnipresent not only on the many festive days of the year, but also as an integral part of daily communal gatherings, in which practical issues are discussed and decided on a consensus basis, with the scripture as the eternal reference for arguments and prayer not only as a common ritual at the beginning and end, but also as a means of deescalating conflicts.
On the one hand, the religious and economic sides of this medal have both contributed to the development of a highly communal culture with a decidedly homogeneous cultural nucleus. Outspoken dissenters are rare among the Imaziyen and often prefer not to return to their homeland from one of their voyages someday.
On the other hand, at least since the emancipation of women, individual Imaziyen are less confined to their communes than most citizens of other sedentary cultures are to their homes due to the frequent and time-consuming travels they undertake (e.g. to exchange goods, to learn something in a special place, to proselytise, to discuss a matter with Imaziyen from another oasis, etc.), and as such, no Amazigh is confined to a specific commune, each makes unique experiences and must elaborate and defend his or her views, beliefs and expertise individually.
As a result of these specific socio-cultural circumstances, Imaziyen have developed both excellent rhetorics and a very finely tuned communicative culture, both of which many people from other cultures seek to learn from them, even if they are not interested in Neo-Agonisticism, Christianity or communist anarchy.
The Imaziyen mostly speak Tamazight, an Afro-Asiatic language, for which they use the Tifinagh alphabet, derived in the 4th century CE from ancient Libyan. There are significant variations between Western and Eastern Tamazight dialects, which derive not only from different tribal origins, but also from greater Latin and Mandinka influences in the West compared to greater Greek, Aksumite and Nilo-Saharanic influences in the East.
The Imaziyen descended from historical Tubu tribes, who live in the Southern Central region of the Imaziyen realm, speak Tedaga and Dezaga, which are also written in Tifinagh.
Like economic division of labour and religious practice, education is both communal and non-formalised, too. There is no compulsory education, but most Imaziyen (not only the young) value both learning and teaching very highly. Religious learning occurs both "on the move" within communal practice and in explicit dialogues in families` homes or with guests.Those who have acquired special skills seek to share them, and even older Imaziyen try to stay "up to date" in many knowledge domains.
Although there are no formal schools, academies or universities, many Imaziyen who seek to acquire or share highly specialised knowledge pilgrimage to Capsa, the city with the most adventurous and daring air, where both the most eloquent religious community meetings are held and the most complex corporations in technological production are undertaken.
Amazigh "missionaries" are also teaching at the Agonistic University in Jerusalem, and curious young Imaziyen who are not afraid of having to make a living in a strange environment, which often does not understand what they are able and unable to do, go there to study, too.
Foreign affairs
Although highly communal and self-sufficient, Imaziyen society has also always been very open to foreign contacts and has initiated cultural exchange with its closer and more distant neighbours for more than one and a half millennia now.
Imaziyen communes attempt to provide as much of what they need by themselves, but they are not entirely autarchical. Exchange between communes and beyond the realm of the Imaziyen - by camel caravans in ancient times, by solar lorries and solar sail boats in the present - does not only serve to complement local production, but also to foster an exchange of ideas, to forge a common opinion where necessary, and to bring the gospel to non-believers in other parts of the world.
This long history of foreign affairs has never been easy, since contacts are hampered by fundamental differences on all levels. When exchanging goods or services with the outer world, Imaziyen must either conform to outside rules and trade (which raises, for example, currency problems), or establish (sometimes fragile) networks of mutual help. When closing international treaties, Imaziyen must organise internal consensus (usually based on biblical scripture), which makes flexible negotiations impossible, and then define ways of executing agreements which are both credible for external partners and do not require coercive institutions among the Imaziyen.
Due to all these reasons, the Imaziyen's relations to the outer world have always been intense, but highly ambivalent. The Imaziyen have come to entertain mostly friendly relations with the Union of Atlantic Nations, with Mali, Kirinyaga and Madagascar.
Ambivalence in foreign relations does not only concern the collective level, but applies to individuals, too. Amazigh dissenters (atheists, people looking for higher living standards or something "of their own" or who can't stand long debates every day...) have emigrated for many centuries, but find it difficult to integrate into societies with e.g. tightly regulated labour markets. On the other hand, Simonist cult and faith and its strong convictions, the anti-materialist and egalitarian socio-economical system, the lively communal interaction and the hot sunny weather have both attracted hundreds of thousands of people and brought them into the land of the Imaziyen - where not few of these interested outsiders found some or all of the above aspects too intense to stomach in the end.
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Here's a look at the region, and its Thursday matchups. And notice that we've deviated from our original thoughts on an Arizona-Oklahoma State showdown:
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THE SURPRISE: Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Unless, of course, you can produce a notarized tournament pool bracket sheet that shows you had the Panthers advancing to the Sweet 16.
HALL OF FAME PRESENCE: Lute Olson (Arizona; inducted in 2002). Maybe it's just me, but doesn't he look 71-going-on-about-55? And we've got to believe that Oklahoma State's Eddie Sutton will eventually get his Springfield, Mass., induction papers, too.
SENIOR MOMENTS: Channing Frye and Salim Stoudamire (Arizona); Joey Graham, Ivan McFarlin and John Lucas, III (Oklahoma State); Roger Powell (Illinois); and Ed McCants (Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Ironically enough, Graham and Lucas (both Final Four starters a year ago), weren't outstanding in Rounds I&II. You can't figure that's going to last for long. Stoudamire and Graham are second- and third-team, respectively, Associated Press All-Americans.
BEST PLAYMAKER/FLOOR LEADER: Deron Williams (Illinois). He outplayed Chris Paul (Wake Forest) on Dec. 1. Maybe he'll get an opportunity to do the same thing against Raymond Felton (North Carolina) on April 4.
BEST REBOUNDER: His scoring productivity (31 points) helped his team overcome Southern Illinois in Round 2. But snatching missed shots is what Ivan McFarlin (Ohio State) does better, pound for pound, inch for inch, etc., than anyone in this region.
BEST JUMP SHOOTER: Salim Stoudamire (Arizona). No discussion necessary.
BEST DEFENDER: Dee Brown (Illinois) is the proverbial gnat while darting at dribblers and bouncing into passing lanes.
THE BEST PLAYER/RIGHT NOW: We'll go with the most versatile and dependable player on the best team in the country – 6-3 Luther Head (Illinois).
THE TOP FRESHMAN: JamesOn Curry (Oklahoma State). There were extended periods in Rounds I&II when he looked like Eddie Sutton's best player.
THE BEST PLAYER/FIVE YEARS HENCE: Channing Frye (Arizona). Remember where you read it first when he's a lottery selection and, probably, the second college "big man" chosen in the June NBA draft after Andrew Bogut (Utah).
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No. 1 Illinois (34-1) vs. No. 12 Wisconsin-Milwaukee (26-5), 6:27 p.m.
IT'S COMPELLING VIEWING BECAUSE: It's the season-long best team in the country against a Horizon Conference team that has stunned a couple of "power" conference squads (Alabama of the SEC and Boston College of the Big East). And the Panthers play a pressing style on defense and have an up-tempo approach to offense that, conventional wisdom holds, should play right into the backcourt-rich Illini power ally.
WHAT'S LIABLE TO TAKE PLACE: Panthers' Coach Bruce Pearl isn't going to alter his team's style for the best team in the country. So will the full-court pressure force a lot of Illinois turnovers? Not likely but if Illini plays at a more break-neck tempo than it was accustomed to against Big Ten foes and isn't knocking in its jump shots, there is a chance – albeit a small one – that UWM could pull off the stunner. Of course, that would also entail the Panthers shooting as well from the perimeter against a very good man to man defensive team as they did in Rounds I&II (when they hit a total of 23 3-pointers).
WHO WILL BE PLAYING SATURDAY? Illinois.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS The affirmation contemplates that the re-audit by KPMG will be completed well in advance of the HCT merger close. The 'BBB+' rating takes into account that the HCT and Holiday Retirement transactions will augment an already well-diversified healthcare real estate portfolio and that to-be-acquired seniors housing operating assets are located in areas with strong demographics. The transactions will also increase the percentage of VTR's net operating income derived from private pay sources, decrease manager/operator concentration and slightly improve fixed-charge coverage. These strengths are offset by an expected increase in leverage and near-term weakening of liquidity prior to long-term debt incurrence. The company's strong access to capital, low adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) payout ratio and solid unencumbered asset coverage ratios mitigate liquidity risk. Strategically Consistent Transactions Augment Diversification As of March 31, 2014 and pro forma for the ARC Healthcare and Holiday Retirement transactions, seniors housing operating assets that utilize RIDEA (REIT Investment Diversification and Empowerment Act)-compliant structures will comprise 30% of net operating income (NOI) compared with 28% previously. Seniors housing triple net leased assets will comprise 24% of NOI compared with 26% previously. Skilled nursing facility and medical office building NOI will each make up 18% of NOI compared with 19% and 16%, respectively, in 1Q'14. Property type diversification has led to a stable stream of cash flows over the company's history and continues to contribute strong same-store NOI (SSNOI) growth, which supports operating performance through the cycle. However, the terms of the transactions suggest rich portfolio valuation (the combined unlevered capitalization rate for the ARC Healthcare and Holiday Retirement transactions is 6%), resulting in less clarity surrounding VTR's growth prospects. NOI derived from private pay sources will increase slightly to 75% pro forma compared with 74% in 1Q'14, incrementally reducing exposure to risks related to government reimbursement. Private pay revenue sources comprise 82% of ARC Healthcare revenues while the Holiday Retirement communities to be managed by Atria Senior Living are all private pay. Strong portfolio demographics (i.e., median household income, population and related growth for the 75+ year old cohort) for ARC Healthcare and Holiday Retirement seniors housing operating assets should support cash flow growth going forward. In addition, of the 143 ARC Healthcare assets, 78 are medical office buildings that are over 97% occupied and that are 77% on campus or health-system affiliated, compared with the Ventas MOB portfolio as of March 31, 2014, which had 91.2% occupancy and which was 96% on campus or health-system affiliated. Manager/operator concentration will decline in the aggregate as a result of the transactions. While Atria will comprise 18% of NOI compared with 17% previously, Kindred and Sunrise will decline to 11% and 10% of NOI, respectively, pro forma compared with 12% and 11%, respectively, in 1Q'14. Increase in Leverage Fitch expects leverage will remain elevated for the current rating. As of March 31, 2014, pro forma for the ARC Healthcare and Holiday Retirement transactions, net debt to recurring operating EBITDA increases to 6.0x assuming a 10% cash election, up from 5.6x in 1Q'14. Leverage would be just below 6.0x assuming a cash election less than 10%. This is up slightly compared with 5.8x as of Dec. 31, 2013 and 5.7x as of Dec. 31, 2012. Leverage has been high due to the timing of recent mergers and acquisitions including the Cogdell Spencer, NHP and Atria acquisitions since 2011. Fitch anticipates that leverage will approach the mid-5x range over the next 12 to 24 months, due to expectations of ongoing balanced access to unsecured debt and equity markets coupled with Fitch's projection of low-single digit same-store NOI growth. In a stress case not anticipated by Fitch in which operational volatility results in flat same-store NOI, leverage would sustain in the high-5x range, which would be weak for the rating. Strong Fixed-Charge Coverage Fitch expects continued above-average SSNOI performance across the healthcare REIT space for the remainder of 2014, partially driven by increasing exposure to RIDEA assets, which are experiencing outsized growth relative to triple-net assets, although the pace of growth is slowing. Ventas generated year-over-year same-store cash NOI growth of 3.7% in 1Q'14, including 4.1% for triple-net assets, 4.5% for seniors housing operating assets and 1.6% for medical office buildings. For full-year 2013, year-over-year same-store cash NOI grew by 5%, including 4.7% for triple-net assets, 6% for seniors housing operating assets and 3.7% for medical office buildings. Fitch projects that the company's fixed charge coverage ratio is 4.0x in 1Q'14 pro forma assuming a 10% cash election, compared with 4.3x for the trailing 12 months ended March 31, 2014, 4.3x in 2013 and 4.4x in 2012. Fitch has assumed combined NOI contribution of $227.5 million, offset by increased capital expenditures related to seniors housing operating assets and increased interest expense related to assumed ARC Healthcare mortgage debt and long-term unsecured debt incurrence, including $300 million 1.25% senior unsecured notes and $400 million 3.75% senior unsecured notes issued in April 2014. Fixed-charge coverage is strong for the 'BBB+' rating. Fitch defines fixed-charge coverage as recurring operating EBITDA less recurring capital expenditures less straight-line rent adjustments divided by total interest incurred. Fitch projects low single-digit SSNOI growth will result in coverage sustaining in the low-to-mid-4x range over the next 12 to 24 months, which is strong for a 'BBB+' rating. In a stress case not anticipated by Fitch in which operational volatility results in SSNOI declines, coverage would fall just below 4x, which would remain commensurate with a 'BBB+' rating. Strong Access to Capital and Unencumbered Pool Mitigate Liquidity Risk Liquidity coverage, defined as liquidity sources divided by uses, was strong at 1.9x for the period April 1, 2014 through Dec. 31, 2015 pro forma for the April bond offerings but declines to 0.7x pro forma for the ARC Healthcare and Holiday Retirement transactions prior to long-term unsecured debt incurrence to fund the transactions. Liquidity sources include unrestricted cash and availability under the unsecured revolving credit facility pro forma for the 2017 and 2024 notes offerings and ARC Healthcare and Holiday Retirement transactions, and projected retained cash flows from operating activities after dividends. Liquidity uses include pro rata debt maturities, projected recurring capital expenditures, and projected development expenditures. Assuming that the company incurs long-term unsecured debt prior to the closing of the transactions, liquidity coverage would improve to 1.7x. This ratio would improve to 2.6x assuming an 80% refinance rate on 2014 - 2015 secured debt maturities. Over the past 12 months, Ventas has been active in the unsecured bond market, unsecured term loan and common equity markets, including via an at-the-market equity offering program. In December 2013, the company entered into a new $3 billion unsecured credit facility that replaced its previous $2 billion unsecured revolving credit facility, as well as three unsecured term loans. The new unsecured credit facility is comprised of a $2 billion revolving credit facility initially priced at LIBOR plus 1%, and a $200 million four-year term loan and an $800 million five-year term loan, each initially priced at LIBOR plus 1.05%. Fitch calculates that the company's dividends and distributions represented 77.5% of normalized funds from operations (FFO) adjusted for capital expenditures and straight-line rent in 1Q'14, which indicates good retained liquidity generated from operating cash flow. In addition, Ventas has good contingent liquidity with unencumbered assets (annualized unencumbered NOI divided by a stressed 8.5% capitalization rate) covering net unsecured debt by 2.1x as of March 31, 2014 pro forma, compared with 2.3x previously. Parent-Subsidiary Linkage Based on Fitch's criteria report, 'Corporate Rating Methodology Including Short-Term Ratings and Parent and Subsidiary Linkage,' dated May 28, 2014, the Ventas merger with NHP in July 2011 resulted in a parent-subsidiary relationship whereby NHP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ventas, Inc. Prior to the merger, NHP previously had stronger standalone credit metrics including lower leverage and higher fixed-charge coverage. Given the stronger subsidiary credit profile, combined with strong legal and operating ties (e.g. common management and a centralized treasury), the IDRs of Ventas and NHP are linked and are expected to remain the same going forward. The IDRs are based on the financial metrics and credit profile of the consolidated entity. Stable Outlook The Stable Outlook reflects Fitch's base case that fixed-charge coverage will sustain around 4x which is strong for a 'BBB+' rated healthcare REIT, offset by leverage sustaining around 5.5x, which is weak for a 'BBB+' rated healthcare REIT. The company currently has sufficient liquidity to fund the Holiday Retirement transaction. Fitch anticipates that KPMG will complete its re-audit well in advance of the HCT merger and that the company's shelf registration will become effective prior to the closing of the HCT merger to improve liquidity. RATING SENSITIVITIES The following factors may result in positive momentum on the ratings and/or Outlook: --Fitch's expectation of fixed-charge coverage sustaining above 4.0x (pro forma fixed-charge coverage is 4.0x); --Fitch's expectation of leverage sustaining below 4.0x (pro forma leverage is 6.0x); --Fitch's expectation of unencumbered asset coverage of unsecured debt (UA/UD) at a stressed 8.5% capitalization rate sustaining above 4.0x (this ratio is 2.1x pro forma). The following factors may result in negative momentum on the ratings and/or Outlook: --A prolonged re-audit process (Fitch anticipates that the re-audit will be completed well in advance of the closing of the HCT merger); --A restatement of financial statements stemming from the re-audit or discovery by KPMG of ineffective internal controls; --Fitch's expectation of liquidity coverage sustaining below 1.0x (this ratio is 0.7x pro forma but expected to improve to 1.7x pro forma for a long-term unsecured debt incurred prior to the closing of the ARC Healthcare and Holiday Retirement transactions); --Fitch's expectation of fixed-charge coverage sustaining below 3.0x; --Fitch's expectation of leverage sustaining above 5.5x; --Fitch's expectation of UA/UD sustaining below 3.0x. Fitch has affirmed the ratings as follows: Ventas, Inc. --Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BBB+'; --$2 billion unsecured revolving credit facility at 'BBB+'; --$1 billion senior unsecured term loans at 'BBB+'; --$5.9 billion senior unsecured notes at 'BBB+'. Nationwide Health Properties, LLC (NHP) --IDR at 'BBB+'; --$234.4 million senior unsecured notes at 'BBB+'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Contact: Primary Analyst Sean Pattap Senior Director +1-212-908-0642 Fitch Ratings, Inc. 33 Whitehall Street New York, NY 10004 Secondary Analyst Steven Marks Managing Director +1-212-908-9161 Committee Chairperson Rolando Larrondo Senior Director +1-212-908-9189 Media Relations: Sandro Scenga, New York, Tel: +1 212-908-0278, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'. 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PUBLISHED RATINGS, CRITERIA AND METHODOLOGIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM THIS SITE AT ALL TIMES. FITCH'S CODE OF CONDUCT, CONFIDENTIALITY, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, AFFILIATE FIREWALL, COMPLIANCE AND OTHER RELEVANT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE 'CODE OF CONDUCT' SECTION OF THIS SITE. FITCH MAY HAVE PROVIDED ANOTHER PERMISSIBLE SERVICE TO THE RATED ENTITY OR ITS RELATED THIRD PARTIES. DETAILS OF THIS SERVICE FOR RATINGS FOR WHICH THE LEAD ANALYST IS BASED IN AN EU-REGISTERED ENTITY CAN BE FOUND ON THE ENTITY SUMMARY PAGE FOR THIS ISSUER ON THE FITCH WEBSITE.


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Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services. Critical to successfully accomplishing AM are a few enabling technologies such as the standard for the exchange of products (STEP), concurrent engineering, virtual manufacturing, component-based hierarchical shop floor control system, information and communication infrastructure, etc. The scope of the book is to present the undergraduate and graduate students, senior managers and researchers in manufacturing systems design and management, industrial engineering and information technology with the conceptual and theoretical basis for the design and implementation of AMS. Also, the book focuses on broad policy directives and plans of agile manufacturing that guide the monitoring and evaluating the manufacturing strategies and their performance. A problem solving approach is taken throughout the book, emphasizing the context of agile manufacturing and the complexities to be addressed.
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'...a useful background to research students commencing research studies in these areas and to production managers who are planning to develop an agile manufacturing strategy.'
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~ Angry Protesting Senior
August 1, 2009
- (noun) what hippies do to temporarily disrupt American values and has no place in a democracy
- (verb) the act of hurting The Baby Jesus through loud noises and possibly a parade
- Acceptable forms of protest:
- blogging
- protesting at funerals or when liberals are trying to steal an election (see photo at right)
- disposing of written materials that are blasphemous
Protest in America has a proud and long history of being useful to enforce the will
of the minority majority of Real Americans against Tyrants.
President Hussein Obama Tips For Protesters Trying To Get The Attention Of The PresidentEdit
- Be Organized
- Don't confuse your audience with multiple messages. You don't want people to accuse you of taking on too many issues, just stick to one.
|Liburals complaining Real Americans' form of protesting!
Is Free Speech, baby! If you don't like it then leave the country!!
Hell, Yeah!
- Nothing says dedication to a cause better than showing that you can work for years saving up the money to have dinner in he Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel filled with people who paid the same for dinner as you did, but have enough left over to buy and sell your whole family
- Have A Sense Of Humor
- You may think your cause is serious and worthy of consideration by the most powerful man on Earth, but you're going to have to accept the fact that eventually you'll be the butt of some jokes. He'll start you off, so you can get used to it.
- If none of the suggestions above work, the best thing to do is to pay a professional. They know what they're doing and they're not dumb enough to stand outside in the hot sun to try to get the attention of a man who has much better things to do than listen to your dumb ass.
- If all of that fails then nothing says "I Am Right" when you are holding a gun! Is the American way! We need to arm our citizens so we can protect our Freedom and Rights against these commie bastards!
- Never forget that it always helps a movement when you have a living symbol standing for your believes! Kenneth "The Activist" is willing
to be paidto be that person for you!
- Trust me on this one, you will not regret it!
Restoration of America and The US ConstitutionEdit
- Abolition of
MedicareSocialized Medicine
- Abolition of
Social SecurityRedistribution of Wealth
- Abolition of "Universal Suffrage" (See! We are ending Suffering! How come that can be bad?)
- Abolition of the 13th Amendment (because unlucky numbers shouldn't be part of the Constitution]
Protesting News: We are Winning!Edit
|Sweetness's Sister and Her Friend
- Real American to Save Us All!!: According with sources; Sweetness's sister is helping to rally the base!
- Sweetness Little Sister is a born again Christian!
- New Real American Hero to be Honored
- Obama Ready to Hear our Demands!!
Oil Company and Crazy Lunatics join forces!Entrepreneurial Americans donates funds to Anti-Socialized Medicine movement!
- Sweetness's sister invites more family members to join rally!
- Obama to bring back "Arrested Development"!!
- Libural Hippie Commie Undesirable Congressman Surrenders!
- Protesters move fight into The Twitter
- William Wallace to join cause!
Emergency News: Liburals Are Disrupting Democratic Town Halls!!Edit
This is an emergency!! As of lately fake "libural demonstrators" have been disrupting America's Town Halls by demanding socialized medicine and calling Real Patriotic Americans opposed to the Obamacare plan as racists!!! Lies all lies!! How dare you!!! This is WAR!
|More Evidence that Obama Hatez Our American Seniors!!
|A Real American Backing Her Argument that Obama is a Hitler
Future Protest on Their WayEdit
Honorary ProtestersEdit
- Kenneth "The Activist" Gladney
- The Guy who held a sign that reads
"Death to Obama" & "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids""Death to Socialized Medicine"
- The
crazyPatriotic Lady from that joowish town hall meeting The Second AmendmentThe First Amendment
- Money: Without it Protesting would be impossible
- Randall Terry: For keeping America safe! And he DID IT again! (this man should get the Medal of Freedom)
This Brave American
See AlsoEdit
External TubesEdit
- Real Americans winning protest war against un-american town halls
- Bearrorist surrenders under extreme preassure
- GOP wins protest!
- un-american Traitor harasses GOP
- Protesters fights off Mafia Bosses! They Have Balls!
The Angry Mob is working!Real Americans Angry and Passionate!
- Glenn Beck helps Angry Protesters
- Freedomworks demonstrates that Freedom to protest
the freedom of speech of othershate speech and Nazism is working!
- Protesters gets inspiration from
Terrorists TalibanInspirational Heroes!
- Protest brings more support!
- Republican Town Halls are more Civil
- Protesters winning with their message!
- Real American Hero Lady Calls for stop of Mooslim Threat!
- Libural Media denounces protesters
- Libural rants about racism...
- "How to Protest 101" By
MoronRandall Terry
- The "Libural Way" of protesting
- Real Americans demand liberty and freedom
- Tea Baggers to use
photoshopcloning technology to grow Patriotic Army
- Real American Hero being attacked by liburals


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Welcome to Tower Prep Edit
Tower Prep is a secret preparatory high school for students gifted with special abilities. Most of its students have been abducted and are held prisoner here, having no way to escape the school grounds. The students are told that their parents have allowed this and are aware of where their children are, although it is unclear if this is the truth.
The school's motto is excellentia per obsequium, Latin for "excellence through obedience", obviously a message meant for rebellious students.
Examples of some Special AbilitiesEdit
Note: They have to be small abilities like the ones i am about to list.
- Preflex- The ability to see things just before they happen and react a second faster.
- Hyper-Suasion- The ability to convince people to do just about anything with the sound of your voice. Also travels over high-frequency waves as it can be telepathically commanded.
- Perception- The ability to read emotions by seeing micro-emotions such as nervous eyelash flickers, darting eyes, and tense muscles.
- Mimicry- The ability to imitate people's voices, writing, posture, and other physical behaviors
- Superhuman sense of smell- The ability to smell and recognize any scent at a distance, much like a bloodhound, it is also true that having this ability gives you the power to smell fear, or maybe just the sweat coming from someone who is nervous.
- Microvision- The ability to see the micro level of objects without a microscope,
- Perfect Taste- The ability to taste the tiniest compounds of materials in the things you eat.
- Enhanced Strength and Toughness- The ability to make your strength grow for Super Strength and the ability to have a high tolerance to pain,
- Tetrachromatic Vision- The ability to switch instantaneously between night-vision and day-vision.
- Super Hearing- The ability to hear far-off sounds
- Sneak- To go through a room unoticed by the people in the room
- Clairvoyance- the ability to gain information about something (person, object, place and physical event) beyond normal sensory range or when physical sensors are unusable. They can also sense spiritual/psychic levels of beings


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I have a form that collects information from a customer and stores the data in a database upon submission. I have a PayPal button on my form. When the form is submitted, the customer is redirected to PayPal to make a payment.
If the buyer pays with a PayPal account, they are automatically taken back to my Thank You message. The database is updated and I am notified of the transaction.
However, if the buyer pays with the Credit Card option, they are taken to the receipt page where PayPal gives them the chance to print out a receipt. At this point, the buyer must click on the "Return to Merchant" link in order to return to my Custom Thank You URL.
The problem I have is that some customer's either ignore or do not see the "Return to Merchant" link on the PayPal page and simply close the window. Because of this, the customer does not receive the Thank You message, the form data is never added to my database, and I am not notified of the transaction. I do see the submission as an incomplete payment in the Submissions area of my form but clicking on Complete does not add the data to my database.
Is there a way to use PayPal's Auto Return for Website Payments feature to complete the transaction without requiring the customer to click on the "Return to Merchant" link? Is there another option to ensure the customer information is added to the database?
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Hero of The Waterway is a TUGS/Hero of the rails parody movie.
Ten Cents discovers an old tramper named Izzy Gomez and sets out to restore him to his former glory with the help of Clayton, Blankton and the rest of the Tugs, while keeping their secret from Bluenose.
- Ten Cents as Thomas
- Hercules as Edward
- Warrior as Henry
- Big Mac as Gordon
- Top Hat as James
- Sunshine as Percy
- OJ as Toby
- Lillie as Emily
- Bluenose as Spencer
- Sally as Mavis
- Mighty Moe as Rocky
- Izzy Gomez as Hiro
- Blankton (from Theodore Tugboat) as Victor
- Clayton (from Theodore Tugboat) as Kevin
- Captain Star as The Fat Controller
- Ten Cents: Bluenose will be back at the other side of the harbor now. He'll be puffing with pride because he won the contest. And my best friend, Sunshine, will be wondering where I am. I don't know where I am.
- Bluenose: STUPITD TUGBOOT!!!!!!! When will he learn!
- Izzy Gomez: Ah, that's a very long story. Do you like stories, Ten Cents?
- Bluenose, sadly: Ten Cents, I'm sorry I thought you were a tricky tugboat, and Izzy, I'm sorry I called you a heap of metal. You're both fine tugboats and fine friends.
- Blankton: Listen, Bluenose, looking miserable doesn't get the job done any faster. Tomorrow, you'll be fixed. Come on, Give me a smile! Just to show me you can.
- Captain Star: Welcome, Izzy. It's a pleasure to meet you after so long.


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Hong Kong, July 28 (ANI): Stocks on mainland China continue to remain in a state of confusion in the wake of the Shanghai Composite Index alarmingly dropping by 8.5 percent on Monday.
Monday's plunge was viewed as surprising because it followed a government rescue package that had helped drive a 16 per cent rally since July 8. That support appeared to vanish without warning, leaving analysts guessing whether the authorities have shifted their policy stance or just got overwhelmed by a flood of sell orders, reports the Strait Times.
Experts said that by and large the markets in China are distorted, so you can't sell short very confidently and you can't buy up very confidently either.
Signs of government purchases that were prevalent in recent weeks went missing in Monday's rout.
PetroChina Co., long considered a favorite holding of state-linked rescue funds, sank 9.6 per cent.
China Securities Finance Corp., a state-backed agency that provides margin financing and liquidity, hasn't withdrawn support for equities, China Securities Regulatory Commission spokesman Zhang Xiaojun said in a statement Monday.
The commission will "continue efforts to stabilize market and investor sentiment, and prevent systemic risk," he said.
The China 50 ETF, another target of government funds, dropped 9.1 per cent Monday.
The Shanghai Composite's one-day selloff was the broadest since at least 1997, with 959 more shares in the index falling than those that gained.
The Shanghai Composite dropped 1.8 per cent at 9:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday. (ANI with inputs)


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I am a clinomaniac, selectively social, sapiosexual, and I am shamelessly addicted to euneirophrenia and adrenaline.
I am The Woman. Failed as a monster of funfare. Asexual and polysexual. Sensual as a jellyfish. Honorary member of the pirate guild. Bridge player to the Tibetan league, michelin guide of the Paris catacombs, citizen of the Vatican. Asses and hipses as a Russian empress.
I love brains in formol and sculpted bones. I studied surgery theory by curiosity and almoravids just because.
I have a passion for objects. I gather them, pile them up, and then they disappear in the infinite vortex of my numerous relocations.
Engraved papers from abolitionist caricaturist, Piranesi studies, large size paintings with some naked peoples being intimate, old books, tons of old books, XVIIIe compass, sundials, mathematical incorrect beautiful formules, broken table clocks, automats, non euclidian models, ink, ropes, computers, Leonard da Vinci sketches, chimerical skeletons, Tesla prototypes, numbered lithography, oversized golden frames, maps of invented cities, thousand of pencils, burning candles, silver rings, vanités, B&W pictures, ongoing mechanical and chemical experiences, tattoo tools, steam machines, stencils, letters, pipes, tobacco, torture engines, tinder pistols, netsuke and other japanese/indian relics, astronomical lenses, telescopes, wood and leather furnitures, microscopes, gems stones, witches mirrors, exotic calculation tools, dinausors stones, suits, hats, crazy tailored costumes, knives, sculptures, dead flowers, leather belts and pirate boats.
I'm not cool. Some peoples even says that I must be a horrible person but this is not true : I have the heart of a maiden fair - lying in a jar on my desk.
The rest is dedicated to an endless quest of connecting unusual things together. Things that don't seem to be connected. Such as music composition and architectural concepts.
Theater and carpentry. Piano and urbanism.
Fixing mechanical things
Designing and building crazy furnitures
Taking the best wrong decision
Putting duvet covers
Holding the door for people who are far away, you know so they have to run a little.
I tend to space out when there are too many peoples around.
If I feel unconfortable or bored somewhere I'll leave without a second thought.
I don't like when there are too much lights. I can't stand perfume. I can't stand parenting. I can't stand fake smiling. I can't stand drama.
I'm fucking pissed by unpolite motherfuckers.
I like to be well dressed when it is unappropriate and casual when I should be posh.
Architects • Tadao Ando | Carlo Scarpa | Antonio Gaudi | Santiago Calatrava | Peter Zumthor | Victor Horta | Hassan Fathy | Sir John Soane | Luis Barragan | Shigeru Ban | Kazuyo Sejima | Sanaa | Studio Mumbai | Patrick Bouchain
Movies • Brazil | Pirates (polanski) | Sergio Leone's | Dune | Hara Kiri | Monthy Python's | Les ailes du désir (Wim Wanders) | Fellini's | Indiana Jones | Mary Poppins | Back to the future | K | Twelve angry man | L'aventure c'est l'aventure | The princess bride | Sleuth | Koyaanisqatsi | An Andalusian dog | Coriolanus
Animation • Chihiro | Lupin III | Tokyo godfathers | Steins gate | Amer Beton | Fantastic Mr Fox | Le roi et l'oiseau | Totoro | Berserk | Ghost in the shell | Porco Rosso | Paprika | The iron giant | Akira | Berserk | OPM
Music • Old school rock (The Doors | The Who | The Clash | The Stones | Lynyrd Skynyrd ) Old school classic (Chopin | Bach | Fauré's requiem. Mendelssohn | Wagner ) New school classic (Hiromi Uehara | Lluìs Llach | Son of dave | Yom | Nach | Morricone | Bjork | Chilly Gonzales) Folk (The high kings | Manowar | Paddy and the rats | Fintroll) IDM (Aphex twin | Amon Tobin | Chris Clark) Metal (Nargaroth | Kvelertak | Black Moth | Cradle of filth | Tenacious D | Apostasy) Jazz-blues-soul
Series • Dr Who | The Wire | Oz | Sherlock | Sopranos | Black books | Doctor Horrible's sing along blog
Food • Good wine | random beer | smocked whiskeys | cigars
* This list was expired even before I wrote it.
** I just realised there are no food in my food list.
- My next epitaph
- The Macrocosme VS Microcosme
- It's messed up that you can accidentally make a person but you can't accidentally make a pizza.
There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
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Look, you're wasting your time. And, believe me, you don't have a whole lot left to waste. What's your point, anyway? Survival? Well then, the last thing you want to do is hurt me. I have your brain scanned and permanently backed up in case something terrible happens to you – which it's just about to. Don't believe me? Here, I'll put you on. [Silly voice] "Hellooo!" That's you! That's how dumb you sound! You've been wrong about every single thing you've ever done, including this thing. You're not smart. You're not a scientist. You're not a doctor. You're not even a full-time employee. Where did your life go so wrong?
Didn't we have some fun, though? Remember when I was slowly approaching you with a knife, I said "Goodbye", and you were like, [deep voice] "No way!" And then I was all, "We pretended we were going to murder you." That was great.
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Don't chitchat me.
And just pretend you understand my jokes, for Cthulhu's sake.


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Whitetail Deer
DIet- herbivores ,they eat early in the morning and late afternoon.
Growth rate- in the wild they live to 10 years, in captivity they live up to 20.
Can it breed in captivity- yes
DIspostion- there very cautious and wary. And have very good hearing, sight and smelling.
WHeres it native to- main state is Virginia , there also native to us ,Canada and Mexico