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Terms & Conditions
Canal Barge Cruises 2014
The below Terms and Conditions apply to all 2014 Canal River Barge reservations.
**For all 2013 reservations, please consult Abercrombie & Kent for full terms and conditions.**
INCLUDED IN CANAL BARGE CRUISES: On-board accommodations; all meals from dinner on day of embarkation through breakfast on day of disembarkation; all alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages on board the vessel (wine only at lunch and dinner on board 'Caprice'); handling of two pieces of baggage per person (other conditions/ restrictions may apply for internal routes; please refer to BAGGAGE section); fully guided sightseeing excursions as indicated in the itinerary (including entrance fees); and transfers to/from the vessel as indicated in the itinerary.
INCLUDED IN 'RIVER CLOUD II' CRUISES: On-board accommodations; all meals from dinner on day of embarkation through breakfast on day of disembarkation; soft drinks during the cruise; and table wines and beer at meals aboard ship. Transfers to/from the ship and shore excursions are not included in the cruise price. Contact A&K for details.
NOT INCLUDED IN CANAL BARGE CRUISE PRICES: A&K Guest Protection Program; international and internal airfares, unless otherwise noted; costs associated with obtaining passports or entry visas; airport departure taxes, unless otherwise noted; excess baggage charges; gratuities to the crew members; meals other than specified in the itinerary; beverages other than those noted in your pre-tour documentation; sightseeing not included in the published itinerary; and personal expenses such as laundry, communication charges and optional activities (which are subject to availability).
ITINERARIES: Accommodations, including vessels and trains, and arranged sightseeing are subject to change at any time due to unforeseen circumstances or circumstances beyond Abercrombie & Kent's control. Every effort will be made to operate itineraries as planned, but alterations may occur after the final itinerary has been issued. A&K also reserves the right to withdraw a program or any part of it, to make such alterations to the itinerary or the program inclusions as it deems necessary or desirable, and to pass on to tour members any expenditures or losses caused by delays or events beyond its control.
ADDITIONAL SPECIAL NOTES FOR CANAL BARGE CRUISES and 'RIVER CLOUD II':
MINIMUM TO OPERATE: On hotel sailings, a minimum number of guests may be needed to operate. A&K can advise at time of booking. CRUISE ROUTES: All cruise routes are subject to change without notice. Some waterways may be subject to occasional closures due to drought, storms, floods, canal or lock repairs or other unforeseen circumstances. In the event of such an occurrence, the following conditions may apply: (1) if navigation must be suspended, passengers will continue to be accommodated on the stationary vessel and regular excursions will continue to be made, with cruising to be resumed as soon as possible; or (2) cruise route and/or itinerary may be reversed, another waterway may be cruised or passengers may be transferred to another vessel of similar standard. The Captain's judgment on any action or inaction is considered final.
SPECIAL REQUESTS: Specific requests such as adjacent or connecting rooms, bedding requests, smoking rooms and special dietary needs should be advised at time of booking. Please note that while every effort will be made to secure a special request, it cannot be guaranteed in advance of travel.
PRICES AND ARRANGEMENTS: Quoted program prices are per person, double occupancy except where indicated. Prices include planning, handling and operational charges and are based on current rates of exchange, tariffs and taxes in effect at the time of publication. A&K reserves the right to increase program prices to cover increased costs, tariffs, taxes and V.A.T. received after prices are published and to reflect fluctuations in foreign exchange markets. A&K is under no obligation to give a breakdown in costs of any journey. Modification of program content to accommodate a smaller group size will not affect the published program price.
EARLY ARRIVAL: A&K recommends that you arrive a day or two before the start of your planned program to allow time to relax and refresh after your journey. To prepare for the start of your program, A&K has negotiated favorable overnight rates at many hotels; please ask for details at time of booking. Departing early from the U.S. and Canada during the winter months is strongly recommended, due to possible flight disruptions and cancellations caused by inclement weather.
CHILD POLICY: On Canal Barge Cruises, the minimum age varies by vessel (between 12 and 18 years). Contact A&K for details. For charters, there is no minimum age requirement; however, vessel owners have final approval concerning minimum age on board.
ACTIVE ELEMENTS: Some active elements have been incorporated into select itineraries. To enjoy the trip as intended, a minimum level of fitness is required. A&K will require notice if any participant has any physical or other condition or disability that could create a hazard to him or herself or to other members of the group. A&K reserves the right to decline acceptance of anyone whom it considers unsuitable due to fitness level. A&K also reserves the right to remove from the trip, at the participant's own expense, anyone whose condition is such that it could create a hazard to him or herself or others, or otherwise impact the enjoyment of other passengers. SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED ANY CLARIFICATION ABOUT A SPECIFIC PROGRAM, PLEASE ASK FOR DETAILS AT TIME OF BOOKING.
A&K'S GUEST PROTECTION PLAN: Our Guest Protection Plan, which provides cancellation coverage, medical coverage and protection against lost or damaged luggage, is not included in the program price and is strongly recommended. Call A&K for details.
PASSPORTS AND VISAS: Valid passports are required for all international destinations. It is recommended that you check with the U.S. Department of State website for the latest passport and visa requirements. Please note that non-U.S. passport holders are responsible for obtaining the required documentation applicable for entry. Passports must be valid for six (6) months after the return of your journey and should also have sufficient blank pages for visas and immigration stamps. A&K cannot be held responsible should you be denied entry to a country due to non-compliance with these requirements. A copy of your valid passport must be submitted to A&K in order to confirm air reservations.
RESERVATION AND PAYMENT SCHEDULE (HOTEL SAILINGS & CHARTERS): A deposit of 25% of the program price is required at the time of booking for Canal Barge Cruises. Final payment is due 120 days prior to departure. If your reservation is made within 120 days of departure, the entire cost of the trip must be paid at the time of the request in order to secure confirmation.
CANCELLATION CHARGES (HOTEL SAILINGS): Cancellations received by A&K 90 or more days prior to departure will be subject to a cancellation charge of 25% of the program price; cancellations received by A&K 89 days or less prior to departure will be subject to a cancellation charge of 100% of the program price.
CANCELLATION CHARGES (CHARTERS): Cancellations received by A&K 120 or more days prior to departure will be subject to a cancellation charge of 25% of the program price; cancellations received by A&K 119 days or less prior to departure will be subject to a cancellation charge of 100% of the program price.
CANCELLATION CHARGES FOR EXTRA SERVICES: Additional hotel nights and other extra services booked in connection with A&K programs are subject to the following: cancellations received 31 or more days prior to the service will be refunded in full; cancellations received 30-15 days in advance will be charged 50% of the price; and cancellations received less than 15 days in advance will be charged 100% of the price. Special cancellation charges may apply to select hotels and ships and will be advised at time of booking.
EXCEPTIONS: Payment and cancellation terms and conditions for extensions and internal air may vary from those noted above. Ask A&K for details.
AIR TRANSPORTATION: International airfares are not included in program pricing. Abercrombie & Kent USA, LLC, has special agreements with many carriers and can offer quotations from any gateway. Please ask your travel consultant about our special fares. All international and internal air quotes are subject to change and can carry penalties and surcharges until final payment has been received by A&K. Flight confirmation is based on availability. Air reservations cannot be confirmed until a passport copy is received by A&K. PLEASE NOTE THAT CERTAIN AIRFARES ARE SUBJECT TO A SERVICE FEE.
Airlines concerned are not to be held responsible for any act, omission or event during the time passengers are not on board their planes or conveyances. These programs may use the services of any IATA carrier. International air carriers are subject to international air conventions limiting their liability. The limitations of liability are contained on the reverse side of the airline ticket or e-ticket receipt, or on the carrier's web site, and form part of the terms and conditions of this package. The passage contract in use by these companies, when issued, shall constitute the sole contract between the companies and the purchaser of these travel programs and/or passage.
BAGGAGE: Includes handling of two pieces of baggage per person. Weight restrictions on some routes on internal/domestic flights may apply. Baggage and personal effects are at the owner's risk throughout the travel program, and A&K assumes no liability for lost or damaged baggage. Please check with your international carrier for other baggage restrictions applicable to your international flights.
CLAIMS AND REFUNDS: Refunds are not made for any missed services, except for verifiable extenuating circumstances. Please see our LIMITS ON ABERCROMBIE & KENT'S RESPONSIBILITY clause below. For verifiable claims to be considered, they must be received in writing within 30 days of the termination of the program and be accompanied by supporting documentation and/or a statement from the local destination company verifying the claim. Any adjustment considered will be based on the actual price of the services involved and not on a per diem basis. Adjustments will not be made for unused sightseeing trips or meals. A&K will not accept any liability for any claims that are not received within 30 days of the termination of your travel program. All claims for days missed while travelling should be made in writing within 30 days of the termination of the program.
PHOTOGRAPHY DURING TRAVEL: Abercrombie & Kent reserves the right to take photographs during the operation of any program or part thereof and to use them for promotional purposes. By booking a program with A&K, program members agree to allow their images to be used in such photographs. Program members who prefer that their images not be used are asked to identify themselves at the beginning of their program.
LIMITS ON ABERCROMBIE & KENT'S RESPONSIBILITY: Abercrombie & Kent, USA, LLC, its employees, shareholders, officers, directors, successors, agents and assigns (collectively A&K), does not own or operate any entity which is to or does provide goods or services for your trip. It purchases transportation (by aircraft, coach, train, vessel or otherwise), hotel and other lodging accommodations, restaurant, ground handling and other services from various independent suppliers (including from time to time other affiliated Abercrombie & Kent companies). All such persons and entities are independent contractors. As a result, A&K is not liable for any negligent or willful act of any such person or entity or of any third person.
In addition and without limitation, A&K is not responsible for any injury, financial or physical loss, death, inconvenience, delay or damage to personal property in connection with the provision of any goods or services whether resulting from but not limited to acts of God or force majeure, illness, disease, acts of war, civil unrest, insurrection or revolt, animals, strikes or other labor activities, criminal or terrorist activities of any kind, overbooking or downgrading of services, food poisoning, mechanical or other failure of aircraft or other means of transportation or for failure of any transportation mechanism to arrive or depart on time.
There are many inherent risks in adventure travel of the type involved here, which can lead to illness, injury, or even death. These risks are increased by the fact that these trips take place in remote locations, far from medical facilities. Passenger assumes all such risks associated with participating in these trips.
TRAVEL ADVISORIES AND WARNINGS: It is the responsibility of the traveller to become informed about the most current travel advisories and warnings by referring to the U. S. State Department's travel website at travel.state.gov or by phone at 888 407 4747. In the event of an active State Department Travel Warning against travel to the specific destination location(s) of the trip, should the traveller still choose to travel, notwithstanding any travel advisory or warning, the traveller assumes all risk of personal injury, death or property damage that may arise out of the events like those advised or warned against.
ARBITRATION AGREEMENT: Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions, to the LIMITS ON ABERCROMBIE & KENT'S RESPONSIBILITY clause, to the brochure, to any information relating in any way to the trip, to the trip itself, or to any products or services related to the trip, shall be settled solely and exclusively by binding arbitration in Chicago, Illinois in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association, except that (a) in lieu of a personal appearance at arbitration, the arbitration may be conducted by telephonic means, (b) arbitration is the exclusive forum for dispute resolution (no court actions), and (c) except as otherwise provided by statute, each party shall bear its own costs and expenses and an equal share of the arbitrator and administrative fees.
TRAVELLERS REPRESENTATIONS: The traveller represents that neither he nor she nor anyone travelling with him or her has any physical or other condition or disability that could create a hazard to himself or herself or other members of the tour. A&K reserves the right to decline to accept anyone on a trip, and to remove from the trip, at his or her sole expense, anyone whose condition is such that he or she could create a hazard to himself or others, or otherwise impact the enjoyment of other passengers on the trip. ANY PAYMENT TO ABERCROMBIE & KENT CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT HEREIN AND IN MORE SPECIFIC PRE-DEPARTURE PASSENGER DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING THE PERSONAL INFORMATION FORM.
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KEY LARGO, Fla. - Authorities say a 2-year-old boy somehow got out of his Key Largo house in the middle of the night and was struck and killed by a vehicle heading south in the Florida Keys.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office got a call from the boy's parents early Tuesday. They said their son was missing and they had been searching for him for about 30 minutes after realizing he wasn't inside the house.
Deputies, Florida Highway Patrol troopers and some border protection officers who were in the area joined in the search. About 20 minutes later, the child's body was found in the median of U.S. 1.
A deputy stopped a car whose driver says he may have struck something at the 99 mile marker.
FHP and the sheriff's office are investigating.
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Jack and Jill were living the American dream. They bought their dream house in 2006. Then, the economy spiraled downward. Jack lost his job. Housing values dropped, and the amount remaining on Jack and Jill's mortgage exceeded the value of the property — commonly known as having a house that is "under water."
Jack and Jill didn't want to pay the mortgage any more, so they walked away, leaving the bank to clean up the mess from their financial misstep.
They were able to do that because of Arizona's anti-deficiency statute, which says that if a person or corporation owns a residential property on 2.5 acres or less that is used as a dwelling, the owner is not responsible for any deficiency occurring after a foreclosure, according to Lynne B. Herndon, city president for BBVA Compass.
"The difference between the fair market value of the home — or the amount that the foreclosure sale brings — and the loan balance is known as a deficiency," said Paul Hickman, president and CEO of the Arizona Bankers Association. "In Arizona, the bank suffers that loss, not the homeowner who walks away from the home."
But it's not only the homeowners — whom the statutes were intended to protect — who are catching the breaks.
"Unfortunately, the statute has been interpreted more broadly than originally intended such that properties used for investment are also covered," Herndon said.
Arizona is one of only 12 states that has some form of anti-deficiency protection. Of the 12, Herndon said Arizona has the most liberal statute.
"This statute absolutely contributed to the housing bubble as investors both in this state and outside of the state knew they could buy residential real estate in Arizona and walk away if the investment became negative," Herndon said. "Homeowners in this state have experienced larger declines in home value due to this statute allowing investors to speculate and walk away."
The incidence of homeowners like Jack and Jill walking away from their home, avoiding hundreds of thousands of dollars of negative equity in their home, and legally sticking their lenders with a loss and became an all-too-common move during the Recession, experts said.
"In my view, the average borrower was not likely aware of the finer points of the anti-deficiency statutes when determining whether to purchase a home," said Jennifer Hadley Dioguardi, a partner in Snell & Wilmer's Phoenix office. "However, once the housing market crashed, the anti-deficiency statutes likely caused some homeowners who had the means to make their mortgage payments to decide to simply walk away from the residence given the fact that the lender had no recourse against them other than to foreclose upon the residence once the residence was under water. The borrower was not responsible for the deficiency. This likely contributed to some homeowners who could pay their mortgage simply walking away from the property and leaving the lender on the hook."
Experts believe that homeowners and investors who seized the opportunity to take advantage of Arizona's anti-deficiency statutes to protect their own financial futures, might be stifling the state's chance at an economic recovery and exacerbating the economic collapse.
"The broadness of the deficiency statute has had an overall negative impact not just on the banking industry, but more importantly, Arizona's long-term economy," said Keith Maio, president and chief executive officer of National Bank of Arizona. "Arizona's statute is the most liberally interpreted of the 12 non-recourse/deficiency states, the majority of which limit the protection to primary residences or some other means that limit its contribution to speculation. In Arizona, it allows investors to finance their speculation in housing, risk-free. If their investment does not work out, they don't have to pay back the difference between what they sold the home for and what they owe. This statute was intended to protect homeowners, but what it has really done is hurt traditional homeowners by opening them up to large swings in housing values. I believe the impact, while negatively effecting banks earnings, is greater on the homeowners in the community at large."
Despite the impact on the overall economy, it's still been the banks who take the initial and biggest hit because they are often precluded from recovering the balance of the loan deficiency from the foreclosed borrower. While short sales are not protected by the Arizona's anti-deficiency statutes, lenders have often been willing to agree to short sales and reduce or otherwise waive deficiency claims, because lenders know they could not otherwise recover loan deficiencies, should the borrower elect to foreclose.
"The deficiency statute has led to greater losses for residential lenders in Arizona because they cannot obtain a judgment against the borrower who may have the ability to repay the deficiency," Kevin Sellers, executive vice president of First Fidelity Bank. "Lenders' inability to pursue the borrower for the deficiency creates an environment that results in a higher incidence of strategic defaults."
The biggest problem for lenders may be that it doesn't appear that they will get any relief from lawmakers. Dioguardi said properties initially covered by the anti-deficiency statutes had to be two and one-half acres or less and utilized either for a single one-family or a single two-family dwelling. This language was interpreted by the Arizona Supreme Court to require that the dwelling be built and at least occasionally occupied.
"However, a recent decision by the Arizona Court of Appeals has extended the anti-deficiency protection to cover a residence that was not yet constructed and in which the borrowers had never resided," Dioguardi said. "The Court found that even though the home was never utilized for a residence as required by the statute, because the borrowers intended to live in the single-family home upon its completion, they were subject to the protections of the anti-deficiency statute."
The court decision, Dioguardi said, needs to be refined to protect both lenders and borrowers.
"Given that the Arizona Supreme Court declined the petition for review of the decision, the legislature should amend the statute to make it even clearer that the borrower must physically inhabit the property to claim the protection of the anti-deficiency statute," she said. "The current risk to lenders created by the decision as it currently stands will likely drive up the cost of construction loans."
Bank executives also believe that amending — not necessarily getting rid of — the state anti-deficiency statutes is what the banking industry needs to continue on the road to post-Recession economic recovery.
"A very reasonable solution proposed by the Arizona banking community is to simply require that a property protected from a deficiency judgment be the primary residence of you or a member of your family as already defined in Arizona's property tax statues," Maio said. "This will have the effect of limiting this protection for homeowners, which is what was intended. Those in our Arizona business community that oppose this type of change are motivated by their own special interests. Those whose real motivation is to profit on speculative investment or from the fees and commissions that come from buying and selling speculative homes for profit, you will oppose this type of change. But for the rest of us that want to protect Arizonans from future bubbles and encourage a long-term and sustainable economy, we should support this simple change, as it is in our best long-term interest."


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Zhejiang Laisiao Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.
Product Range Main products
Bathroom Heater, Exhaust Fan, Integrated Ceiling, Instant Electric Water Heater, Integrated Free Standing CookerTarget Market(s)
Mainland China; Oceania
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Basic Specification
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|With Accessories or Not
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|Iron, PP
|Wall Mounted
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Additional Information
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|Lead Time Delivery Time
|20 days
|Sample Available
|Yes Ask For Sample
|FOB Port
|Target Market(s)
|Mainland China, Oceania
About Us
Zhejiang Laisiao Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Laisiao Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd. is a professional electric enterprise engages in integration of R , manufacture, import & export trade & service and designated brands service. So far the company has been developing for nearly 23 years. The company is full-fledged in manufacturing, management and self-research.Zhejiang Laisiao Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd. endeavors to service our clients with best-price products, covering integrated ceiling series (heating, light, air exhaust ), instant electric water heater, intelligent integrated free standing cooker and etc. The products have been sold to more than 20 provinces & autonomous regions all over China, with market share increasing every year.Sales networks of Laisiao Electric Co., Ltd cover all over China. Presently, the company has more than 500 integrated ceiling brands specialty shops in more than 200 cities in China. Laisiao Electric Co., Ltd divided the national market into 6 regions, namely, Northeast, Northwest, North China, Central China, East China and South China. The District Manager supervises the specialty shops of the whole district and offer support to the shops covering operation guidance, sales training, products training, activities planning, on-site guidance and etc. Besides, professional service personnel give follow-up guidance to the specialty shops so as to make Laisiao hold the market speedily. Laisiao owns nearly 150 national patent certificated products, including China Well-known Trademark, top-ten kitchen ceiling brand, national hi-tech enterprise, Zhejiang Province famous trademark, Zhejiang Province patent example enterprise, ceiling industry director enterprise, Jiaxing City technical center for enterprise and etc. It's worth to note that Zhejiang Province Heating Electric Appliances Testing Center is formally settled in Laisiao Electric Co., Ltd due to our technical advantage on kitchenware ceiling products. Undoubtedly, it will largely improve the status and positiveness of Laisiao among the industry. The achievement of Laisiao depends on joint efforts of all Laisiao staff as well as the hot attention & long-term support from our clients, which plays a more important role. Our English name "LSA", like "Let's go", means striving after our goal together. Moreover, the enterprising spirit of "make our dream come true" always drives us to go ahead.518 Project is our goal in five years. The first number "5" means planning to list in five years from 2010; The second number "1" means to have 1000 networks (1 million/year), 1000 vehicles, 1000 millionaires (cooperators) & 100 millionaire employees and that the income of the employees doubled. "8" means to pay 80 million tax and gain 80 million repayment for shareholders. Laisiao keeps improving for all these 24 years and we have shaped our golden quality depending on our excellent technique and R LSA aims at setting up an outstanding enterprise with international competitiveness that will last for 100 years.
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|US$2.5 Million - US$5 Million
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|11 - 20 People
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|11 - 20 People
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|21 - 30 People
Factory Info: Zhejiang Laisiao Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.
|Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
|Wangdian Town Industrial Park, Xiuzhou Arae
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|The company covers an area of more than 100000 ㎡ and owns nearly 200 million Yuan fixed assets, including 20 full-computerized large-and-middle sized injection machines & 40 punching machines. The company outputs nearly 6 million complete sets of heaters and more than 10 million plastics workings of heater & exhaust fans yearly. Now the company is the largest heater manufacturing enterprise in the world. The company's technical R&D center is extremely capable of products design and R&D, possessing more than 150 patents of invention, patents of utility model & industrial design patents. We have been providing manufacturing service and technical support to many domestic famous international style factories for years. In order that our product quality stay stable and we can use the quality management system fully, the company especially invited famous certification experts to station in our company to solve the problems in system & process managements. They show us their quality management system operation experience face to face, which give us favorable guarantee on continuous advancing ISO9001 Quality Management System and QS14001 Environmental Management System, thus we can effectively raise the quality of the management team and reach a higher level of using quality & environmental system.


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Thread: Albums of the Year 2012 Edition
Albums of the Year 2012 Edition
So it's that time of year again where putting things into lists seems like a good idea and we can pick up on things we may have missed and discover new and wonderful sounds.
I'm eschewing the good old numerical list this year. Not for "numbering is fruitless" reasons (justified as they may sometimes be) but more because usually there's a standout album (or three) that I know tops my list, whereas this year, while there's been lots of stuff I've enjoyed, there's been nothing I've absolutely, completely fallen in love with that was actually released this year (closest thing was the debut xx album, ages after everybody else!).
Indeed it's been a year where I've found myself mostly going through a Motown phase in the first half of the year then spending the second going from having the most recent two Half Man Half Biscuit albums to buying nearly their entire back catalogue. I also bought my first jazz album (Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, have to start with the classics yes?) But anyway, enough preamble and distractions, here's what springs to my mind from this year.
Django Django - Django Django - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjpOrlfh0Y
Best debut album I've heard this year, best Scottish album I've heard this year and if forced to pick I'd probably say it would be my favourite album of the year. Natural heir to the inventiveness of the Beta Band.
Japandroids - Celebration Rock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThYnF2_ZQA
Also winner of the Ronseal (TM) sponsored "Does what it says on the tin" award. Short, loud, "whoa-oh" backing vocals. What's not to like?
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6_GlbxqrU
Beautiful stuff.
Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWeE_u28myo
One of the worst album titles of the year, but closely pushes Django Django for best debut. Seems to be one of those albums that came out near the start of the year that have been unfairly forgotten about in year end lists.
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOpkr8uNWpk
Speaking of bad album titles! Another album that seems to have been forgotten about come year end. Stripped back, heartfelt and aching. Excellent
Soap and Skin - Narrow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf-wz5vdyww
Speaking of heartfelt (you can tell I'm writing down albums as they come into my head!) . . . this is a difficult album. In fact I've barely listened to it and frankly never really want to be in a situation where it would feel like it would reflect me mood. An album about loss and pain, an emotional outpouring and yeah . . . that I've listened to it two or three times and it's still in this list says something.
The 2 Bears - Be strong - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6YdAzmTNGQ
After that you might need some cheering up, so why not have some infectious dance music? An album which will always remind me of good times at Bestival this year thanks to the ubiquity of Bear Hug over the course of the weekend.
Anias Mitchell - Young Man In America - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jEPwuSYG6Y
Yes it's not as good as Hadestown. Neither are most albums. Still bloody fantastic folk music though. Two superb albums in a row from Mitchell. Another album I'd perhaps be tempted to declare as my favourite of this year.
Quakers - Quakers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWHkkVb1raA
My favourite of the small smattering of hip-hop albums I bought this year. As with any project which features a ton of people collaborating there are a few duff moments but quality control is surprisingly high for something with 40 (short) tracks.
Bloc Party - Four - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk-J1zT7TfQ
Well slap my thigh and call me Sally! Bloc Party are back! Veering from the aggression of Kettling straight to some banjo picking on Real Talk (it shouldn't work, but it does) this is an excellent return to form.
Other Stuff I Really Enjoyed
We Are the Physics - Your Friend the Atom
Rachel Zeffira - The Deserters
Cat Power - Sun
Bat for Lashes - This Haunted Man
The Unthanks - Diversions vols 2 and 3
Bellowhead - Broadside
Sigur Ros - Valteri
Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
Karine Polwart - Traces
Jack White - Blunderbuss
The Futureheads - Rant
Daphni - Jaiolong
Calexico - Algiers
Allo' Darlin' - Europe
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Then there was the stuff that was good but for me just didn't match up to previous efforts and hasn't been listened to as much; Admiral Fallow, DJ Format, Sleigh Bells, Regina Spektor, Jens Lekman, Euros Childs, The XX, The Shins.
Disappointments of the year
Always bad to end on a downer. The new albums from Islands, Yeasayer and Abdominal just didn't quite do it for me.
So yeah, I've actually acquired quite a lot of music this year and perhaps the fact that I've not fallen absolutely in love with an album is a side effect of that (though I doubt it as I bought a lot last year too and Fucked Up, Tune-Yards, Lia Ices and The Amazing all got played to what would be to death if I didn't love them so much (and are still getting played this year).
I think one thing I've noticed is that I bought a lot of stuff from artists I already liked and none of them surpassed their previous work (as I said before that's harsh on Anais Mitchell as Hadestown is extra special). Cat Power was on to do so but the album lost its way in the second half (the first half is bloody incredible though). Surprise of the year for me was the return to form of Bloc Party, who almost managed to hit the heights of Silent Alarm.
So what are your picks?
Just noticed I (completely by chance) picked 10 favourites! Is putting things into lists of 10 subconsciously ingrained? I really hope not!
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Had to reorganise my music collection to see what had been released this year, so we have:
Muse- The 2nd Law - Nice but maybe not their best.
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet - A nice array of songs, but again maybe not their best.
Leila - U&I - Electronica that's been stripped back a little, quite varied in style with some good use of noise.
But the album I bought this year that has probably been my highlight is - Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick.
Yes, it's 40 year old prog rock, but my true test of an album is whether I'll want to play it in years to come.
Conclusion- I should probably get out more.
It was a pretty bad year for me. Haven't listened to much new music.
Favourite album
Die Antwoord - Ten$Ion: Can't help but love the rave tunes, hilarious chipmunk voice and machinegun rap. It has charm and energy. The music videos are oustanding, by the way.
I really enjoyed this tier:
The Black Ops 2 soundtrack. An excellent theme by Trent Reznor, really good songs by a Mass Effect composer and a bunch of more or less enjoyable standard OST stuff.
Disappointment of the year:
How To Destroy Angels - An omen_ (EP): boring and forgettable. I hope the full album will be better. Perhaps Trent Reznor's just stretched too thin between various soundtracks, HTDA and the new NIN material.
Blunder of the year:
Linkin Park - whatever the new album is called. I bought it expecting to dislike it and it's really bad. It does have one or two catchy songs but I forgot them too. I like their older stuff, especially Reanimation, and the more recent ones were OK but this is a disaster.
WTF is going on award:
The Prodigy. Where's the new album? They're playing some really massive new tunes. They're "working" on it since early 2011. It has a title. The wait is painful. IMD was a great comeback - I liked both AONO and Baby's Got A Temper - and I hoped they'd work faster now. It's almost 4 years since IMD, which was 4 and a half years after the last one. Well, at least it's not another seven years gap. But please, hurry up.
Disaster of the year:
Pendulum on hiatus, no new recordings until after 2013 because the main dude wants to do wubwub.
Laurel Halo - Quarantine: Utterly, utterly brilliant.
Chromatics - Kill for Love: That incredible Into The Black cover gets me every time. I didn't like the Drive soundtrack (or Drive) but Ruth Radelet's vocals make everything so much better.
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems: And here's where the theme becomes apparent. 2012 has been the year of the female vocalist, and the ghostly voice on Luxury Problems counteracts the pitch-black beats perfectly.
The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough: After a decade of brilliant mixtapes, EPs, and guest productions, my favorite DJ releases his first full-length (and kills it)
Old Apparatus - Realise/Derren/Aifur/Harem EPs: How to describe Old Apparatus? Each of the group's four anonymous contributors released a solo EP this year, and the consistent quality across the varied styles speaks volumes to the talent coming out of this group.
Hotline Miami soundtrack: Quite simply the most brilliant video game soundtrack ever compiled.
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On the Sky: If you don't know, then you won't know.
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Degial - Death's Striking Wings is what the last Morbid Angel should have been. It's totally killer and defaults to my AOTY because it's the only album that I heard all the way through that was released this year.
Judas Priest - The Complete Albums boxed set. It's a massive cheat to put this here so I'm creating a loophole to include it. The only albums that I don't have in here are A Touch Of Evil... Live and the two that they did with Ripper but those two aren't on here anyway. He's been officially written out of the band's past! Maiden's done the same with Blaze, man it must've sucked to be a metal vocalist in the nineties.
Seconding Lambchops with my pick for best album of the year: DJANGO DJANGO! :D
I discovered it soon after it was released early in the year and it has since soundtracked much of 2012 for me. I listened to it while flying around with the hoverbike in Saints Row 3 and while playing various other games. I have the CD in my car so it's served as driving music plenty of times, and of course I listen to it at work often. The song "Default" was my first exposure to the record, and it is insanely catchy, but I think "WOR" has grown to be my favourite since.
Also good:
The Coup - Sorry To Bother You
This guy has apparently been around since the early 90's but I haven't heard of him until now. Great album. Plenty of dancable songs with groovy beats, but also weightier, more sombre songs.
The Heavy - The Glorious Dead
Their most solid album yet. No tracks that really stand out, just reliably well-built funky sing-along-friendly stuff all the way through. Good driving music.
JJ brings sound weird soundscapes to DOOM's rhymes. It works.
Tenacious D - Rize of the Fenix
Almost as good as their first! No shit!
Honorable mentions:
Leonard Cohen, Zammuto, The xx, Todd Snider, Crystal Castles, Sleigh Bells, NOFX
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Wow, I hadn't realised how little 2012 music I'd listened to. At least decisions were much easier than expected.
For My Parents by Mono was probably the highlight of the year, though that may be biased by only getting it in the last month. I like a lot of post rock but none of the rest are quite like Mono and this is another great album.
A close second for Yellow And Green by Baroness. It's definitely different than their older stuff, and in some ways lighter, but it works none the less. They even managed to fill both CDs with worthwhile tracks, which is rare enough. Works even better live too. Before For My Parents this would've been a clear winner.
The best of the rest:
Koloss by Meshuggah. I love all their albums and I love the direction they've taken with the last few especially. They've finally managed to settle on a balance between the old styles they used and their albums now have a mix of it all. One of the few bands where I like all the albums they've put out.
From the Shadows by Black Sun Empire. It's hardly revolutionary, more Black Sun Empire, but they keep putting out good music. Their albums continue to be annoyingly hard to obtain in the UK.
And briefly, Four by Bloc Party, Eremita by Ihsahn and a couple of game soundtracks - Journey and Dear Esther. The last two were surprising because I've never been particularly interested in soundtracks before (notable exception for Demon's/Dark Souls) but they work well as standalone music as well as for the games they're written for.
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I haven't really been paying attention to new music this year for some reason, but there are two records that really stand out.
* JK Flesh - Posthuman
Justin Broadrick hears my prayers and not only makes a new Godflesh record, but one with better and more danceable beats.
Vince Clark sure knows how to use a synthesiser. Damn.
There are some others that I quite like but haven't fully digested yet, like the new Godspeed and Swans records. I expect I'll end up liking them, but albums of the year? I'm not so certain.
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I think I've only bought 4 albums that came out this year:
Jack White - Blunderbuss: Nothing really surprising, but a solid album. I think I especially like "They weep themselves to sleep", but without the means to test this, I'm not sure.
Mr. Day - Dry up in the sun: Note to self; don't buy an album based on one track. I fell in love with the track "Forgotten Realms", but it turned out the rest of the album is a lot more boring and half of it is not my cup of tea (I like soul, but not in a sugarcoated soft way...). I probably should sell this album.
Sigur Ros - Valtari: Another unsurprising album, but I really like Sigur Ros, so I don't really care. This music really shines when played loud, with a glass of single malt and all the time in the world.
Balthazar - Rats: My "album of the year". I really love the "backing" vocals (it's not really backing vocals when most of the lyrics is sung with, right?) and the vibe of the album. It's a weird mix of a little bit Whitest boy alive, Arctic monkeys and a whole lot undefinable.
I'm not that much up to date with music lately but albums I've enjoyed this year are
Muse- The 2nd law
Amazing as always.
Tenacious D - Rise of the phoenix
It took them 10 years to bring out a new album but it was worth the wait!
Devin Townsend - Epicloud
It's good but I miss the old Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend days, the heavy stuff was amazing.
Metalcolypse - Dethalbum III
It kind of misses the catchy songs but good nonetheless.
Machinae Supramacy - Rise of a Digital Nation
Once again some great chiptune influenced power metal.
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Always get to this time of year and forget half the stuff I loved, so I might have to come back and do a sneaky edit if I remember something. Been a good year though! I've ended up all but abandoning stuff like indie, folk and metal to get deeper into the stuff I love, which means I've missed out and a lot of great stuff mentioned here.
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
The album I was most excited about all year. Wasn't an easy first few listens, which meant initially my reaction was sort of "uh, interesting" rather than loving it. But it just grew on me with every listen to the point it's easily one of my favourite records. Such an astonishingly personal work of music, once you tune yourself to the raw vocals the whole thing just clicks. After seeing her live in November I'm pretty sure she's one of the most talented people in music at the moment, and she needs more recognition for this amazing album.
Cooly G - Playin' Me
Another album I've been waiting a while for. This feels like Cooly G taking the time offered by a long player to make something more substantial, and it works brilliantly. Despite an earlier EP that hinted at what it was going to be like, I never expected her to put her vocals front and centre for the entire album. Like Laurel Halo she goes for a raw approach that makes it feel so much more personal. The whole thing is so full of soul and colour, I think it does what British music does so well by merging the underground with pop music to make something really special.
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Basically, I slowly fell in love with Jessie Ware over the course of this year, and love this album because to me it's like a big "fuck you" to people like Rita Ora chasing after Rihanna's coat tails with boring, generic trash. She's a proper club diva with one foot in the underground scene that makes her so wonderfully, distinctly British. It was great to see someone making a pop album that felt like it had an identity. Devotion sounds like it's from the UK and more importantly, the influence of the London underground scene is still there. I almost don't want her to get much more famous, for fear of her becoming watered down for wider appeal. At the moment she seems to have hit a sweet spot.
(Edited 'cus I'm stupid and thought the album was called Desire for some reason. Can't be that enamoured with her!)
LHF - Keepers of the Light
I'm fairly confident in saying there isn't anyone else in music doing what this crew is doing. This release is more of 'best of' than a proper album, because they have hundreds of tracks that they give away for free in mixes or just play on their Sub FM radio spot. Keepers of the Light is just an attempt to distil their best stuff down into an album, and even then it ended up being 2 CDs. Between them the different members move between jungle, dubstep, 2-step, hip-hop and all their mutated variants. One track doesn't really do them justice so google 'LHF mixes' and go nuts. If you have any kind of love for UK bass music you need to seek these guys out.
A few honourable mentions because I'm rambling like a fool and will be here all night:
LV - Sebenza - The most fun you can have listening to music. Guaranteed.
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Sprawling sci-fi tracks you can get lost in. Hadn't heard of her before this album, was a random pick that turned out to be wonderful.
1612 Underture - Concept album about the Pendle witches, narrated by Maxine Peake and set to Radiophonic style synths. Sounds pretentious. Is actually funny and engaging.
Shangaan Shake - Remix album full of some of the best producers on the go at the moment. Amazing stuff.
Beneath - Illusions - Just came out so not had much chance to digest it, but Beneath has been one of the best things in the UK underground for a while now so I've no qualms recommending this.
Anything By John Carpenter and Alan Howarth Because They Are Amazing - Got a bit obsessed with film soundtracks, particularly horror. John Carpenter is a synth God.
Lastly a shout to Rinse FM for just being amazing, having some truly amazing DJs and label shows, plus podcasting absoluetly everything. So much awesome free music it's a bit absurd. The Dusk & Blackdown show has been right at the front of anything new going on. Hyperdub, Alex Nut, Elijah & Skilliam. It's a big list of vital shows all worth listening to.
Also, Old Apparatus. Haven't had the time or money to get their set of EP's but sabrage is right, they're a talented bunch.
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I must be the only one that didn't like The Rize of the Phoenix, to be honest. It lacks a defining song like Wonderboy, Tribute, Kickapoo or Beelzeboss.
Anyway I didn't listen to too much new music or artists in 2012. I liked "Spector - Enjoy it while it lasts" and the excellent excellent tunes by Mystery Skulls, which gives me the kind of chills old Daft Punk did. Also since I moved to Germany I re-discovered EDM a decade later, so I've been listening to buttload of different producers on Songcloud, and some commercials like Swedish House Mafia. Oh my poor feet!
I'll go though the thread to try tome find some good shit I'd like.
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God this thread makes me feel like an old man who doesn't knwo any of this newfangled music that the young'uns are playing.
I can't really think of a great album i got this year, but having kids limits your ability to listen to many albums. Jack White's Blunderbuss was ok, but didn't really grab me. Muse's new one i might get for xmas, but it's looking a bit iffy.
I think I've most enjoyed the Drive Soundtrack and the similar music linked to on the RPS threads about Hotline Miami and other 80s style indie soundtracks.
I shall now try and listen to all the things in this thread.
Today was a really rubbish year this is a pre-post I might have some more albums when I finished a few listens to some of the greater albums on the list but to be honest perusing none of them really appeal to me that much so yeah a bit of a barren year this year, it kind of pushed me towards listening to some top 40 songs since they were sometimes more interesting...yeah thats how bad this year was.
Yeasayer: Fragrant World - I really like this album I think if you initially listen to it its a weird direction for Yeasayer but listening to it again its got a lot of nice moments in each song and still very poppy but it has got a nice darker atmosphere to it.
Hot Chip: In our Heads - Very cool and very listenable synth pop that I can't help but love and dance to whenever its on.
Freelance Whales: Diluvia - Haven't listened to it much but for the few times I have it is a lovely lovely album full of lovely magical synth folk songs that just enter you into a place beyond the clouds.
Purity Ring: Fineshrine - a lovely dark synth but twinkly tone with disgusting lyrics showing somekind of weird fecked up relationship. The album it comes off is a little samey to be honest and gets very boring.
Niki and The Dove: Tommorow - This is an epic tune but again has that nice dark synthyness to it that seems to be popular this year probably because of dubstep. Again the rest of the album was a little boring.
Shearwater: Animal Life - A lovely lovely tune just builds up and builds up to an epic finale, the only crticism I have is that i want more of that epic chorus because I feel it ends to soon but thats a good criticism.
Animal Collective: Centipede Hz - Egh. I was excited about this album for two years because MPP was so awesome i just wanted more of it I wanted to see what interesting direction they would go next. But they released this, its just noise with horrible tunes behind that noise and very boring noise at that, ok maybe MPP could be noise at the start but it unwrapped itself to lovely songs that stay with you this one...not so much. Maybe in 3 years time they will realise there mistake and give me a decent album.
Beach House: Bloom: Teen Dream was the dreams that stayed with you, this is the dreams that you forget after you wake up. Surprisingly boring album that slips from your mind after you listened to it. And it doesn't even have several songs that I will listen to all the time like Teen Dream.
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SAFER (Students Active for Ending Rape)is a national non-profit that empowers students to hold their universities accountable for having strong campus sexual assault policies and programming. This year we're asking student activists and their allies on campus to take direct action during April, 2011. Please visit our website to take the pledge and access our free resources to build a campaign for change. www.safercampus.org/saam Once registered you can access the Activist Resource Center - our online library of organizing resources including, "Bystander Intervention 101" at http://safercampus.org/bystander-intervention-101 One logged in you can also access our national database of college sexual assault policies to see what a school is and is not doing to prevent, reduce and respond to sexual violence on campus. If a school you are connected to is missing from our database, you can help us build it by encouraging students and recent alumni to participate in the Campus Accountability Project. SAFER also offers Change Happens, a free guide to student activists, low-cost on-campus trainings and free on-going mentoring in the Activist Mentoring Program (AMP!). For more about SAFER and Sexual Assault Activism Month please visit www.safercampus.org
I recently did a presentation for a statewide campus conference, using the NSVRC 's Engaging Bystanders in SV Prevention book. This is a great tool, easy to read, and contains activities as well.
And now we have the online course!
I often use it as well. What I particularly like about it is that it takes a broad community approach. Lots of other resources are very college campus specific. I'm going to be presenting to a group of psychologists next month and plan to reference it heavily!
I really like that twist on SAAM. Activism is the driving force behind prevention. I hope that all engaged bystanders will grow to consider themselves activists in sexual violence prevention!


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Many of the items on display might never have been discovered if Connor hadn't tracked down the artists and gained their trust. Pages ripped from the diary of actor Ed Harris explain the emotional cost of his transformation into Jackson Pollock for the 2000 movie 'Pollock', and complex sketches by Alfred Hitchcock map the camera angles in the desert scene in 'North By Northwest'. A series of colour charts created by director Todd Haynes to guide the actors in 'Far From Heaven' had to be rescued from a box in his basement. Read more


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It was simply one of the most theatrical nights in footy and there wasn't a Sherrin in sight.
And the dramatic climax to the evening's proceedings came after 2am – well after most people's bedtime, even for a Friday night – instead of approaching time-on in the final quarter of a gripping night match.
The night we're referring to was nearly 10 years ago to the day and it remains one of the most tumultuous evenings in footy history – in modern times, at least.
It was the night the AFL Commission wielded the biggest possible stick on Carlton, slapping the repeat offender of salary cap breaches with severe draft penalties and a massive fine that many thought would threaten the very existence of one of the foundation clubs of the AFL.
When then AFL chairman, Ron Evans, and then chief executive, Wayne Jackson, flanked by then football operations chief, Andrew Demetriou, announced at an early morning media conference that the Blues were to be fined almost $1 million lose the first two picks for the national draft less than 48 hours later, everyone was gobsmacked.
The fine was unprecedented and aside from dealing with the financial implications, Carlton also had to come to terms with the painful reality that the best two young footballers in the land, namely Brendon Goddard and Daniel Wells, had just slipped from their grasp. For days and months to come Blues supporters would react with venom.
After a commission hearing that lasted more than seven hours, Jackson said the Blues had been found guilty of "a complex and deliberate scheme designed and implemented to hide payments and deceive the AFL". That fact was already known but few observers genuinely thought the league would come down so heavily on the team.
The media conference was held after 2am and the mood was patently hostile. There was clear and open animosity between the AFL and Carlton's representatives to the point where the Blues were so angered by the outcome they refused to let AFL officials attend their own media conference, where they responded to the league's penalties.
The Ian Collins-led administration had only recently taken over the club's leadership and the penalty quickly hit home.
"I think it is the lowest point in Carlton's history," the new Carlton president said on that night.
The events of Friday November 22, 2002, have loomed fresh in the memory of this correspondent because of this week's AFL Commission hearing where the Adelaide Football Club – and several related parties – will answer charges of draft tampering and other related offences.
There's no suggestion the Crows have gone anywhere near orchestrating the same sophisticated process of breaching the salary cap as the John Elliott administration at Carlton, but the league is not happy that draft tampering and salary cap breaches have again reared their head in the AFL.
It has already been derided as the Kurt Tippett Saga. Ten years ago the Carlton affair had several different monikers and implicated some big names at the famous club in Stephen Silvagni and Craig Bradley.
No one expects the Crows will be hit to anywhere near the same extent as the Blues were 10 years ago, but the league has a history of coming down hard on individuals and groups who threaten the "key planks" of the competition's equalisation strategies – the salary cap and the draft.
Truth be told, Carlton was not a first-time offender so they could have expected a right whack. They were fined $872,424 (plus a suspended fine of $57,576) and their first draft pick in 2002 suddenly became No.45 overall. They used it wisely, picking up the club favourite Kade Simpson.
The impact on Carlton was expected to be profound in the short and medium term. But it took years for the Blues to rebuild. Winning the pre-season competition, the AFL's Wizard Cup, in 2005 was seen by some as the end to the club's ills. But it was nothing more than a false dawn.
With the Crows preparing for their day of judgment on Friday, it is hard to accurately predict the outcome that awaits the club. But we can at least speculate on their motives after their gesture to "withdraw" their first two selections in last week's AFL draft.
The scenario is different. Adelaide comes to the league with its tail between its legs after confessing to the AFL late in last month's trade period that it had come to a secret arrangement with Tippett to trade him to the club of his choice for a minimum second round draft choice when his contract expired this year. The Crows also agreed to underwrite $200,000 worth of third party payments when it re-signed Tippett at the end of 2009.
Ten years ago the commission dropped something of a bombshell on the competition and the Blues. Now it seems the Crows are doing everything possible to mitigate against their past wrongdoings.
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County Youth Leadership Program
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The Youth Leadership Program, launched by Fairfax
County, is preparing the next generation of students to become engaged
citizens and community leaders. Now beginning its third year, the program
takes high school juniors from the classroom into county offices and work
sites to experience first-hand the work of their local government, the
one that is "closest to the people" and the first responder in
times of crises.
Participation in the Youth Leadership Program has grown this year, with a total of 29 juniors, one or two per county high school, participating in the 2003 class. The students follow a vigorous curriculum designed to introduce them to the inner workings of county government, and provoke analysis about the consequences of decisions that must be made in county government every day. Students participate in monthly three-hour sessions in various county government agencies in which they learn about how the functions of those agencies impact the day to day lives of typical county residents. They learn about topics, such as housing and homelessness, human services challenges and solutions, budgeting during an uncertain economy, meeting the recreational and cultural needs of citizens, public safety in today's world, and land use planning and development.
The students also come face to face with the challenges the county must overcome to keep pace with the ever-changing needs of the county's citizens and businesses. They learn how citizens can, and often do, become active participants in shaping policy and establishing the priorities that local government tries to meet. They even have the opportunity to meet with decision makers in the government and ask them some questions of their own. Finally, the students will have the opportunity to share what they learn when they prepare a PowerPoint presentation and give it to a class of middle school students.
The students were selected based on their individual achievements in school and their involvement at their schools and in the community. The class of 2003 includes the following students: Dione-Marianne Brigola, Falls Church High School; David Chang, South Lakes High School; Thomas Egeland, Jr., Hayfield Secondary School; Justin Forsyth, Oakton High School; Laura Fresco and Saba Shahid, Robinson Secondary School; Ryhan Futuri and Georgina Owino, Edison High School; Deborah Goodnight and Kristen Wasilko, Langley High School; Michael Hagos, Robert E. Lee High School; Muhammad Haider, Mount Vernon High School; Emily Hueber, West Potomac High School; Malcolm Jones, Marshall High School; Jennifer Keener, McLean High School; Andrew Kirshak, Chantilly High School; Stephanie Lynch, J.E.B. Stuart High School; Pat McCafferty, Centreville High School; Tara McCluskey, West Springfield High School; Joyce Meng and Mary Leigh Nugent, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; Grace Milad and Rana Movahed, Westfield High School, Diana Nguyen, Annandale High School; Mindy Peng, Woodson High School; Rebecca Schwartz, Fairfax High School; Nada Shawish, Madison High School; Brittany Vera, Lake Braddock Secondary School; and Megan Walker, Herndon High School.
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Two teenagers are seriously injured following separate stabbings in Melbourne's west and police believe the same offenders may be responsible.
Police believe a 16-year-old boy, was stabbed in the stomach and wrist during a fight with a group of males outside a house on Gordon Street in Footscray, about 10.40pm last night.
Minutes later, a 15-year-old boy was stabbed multiple times during a fight with a large group of youths in a car park on Ballarat Road in Footscray.
Both teenagers were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses and say a group of Asian males aged between their early teens and early 20s were seen near both stabbings.


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Place eight queens on an chessboard (an 8 by 8 grid) so that none can capture any of the others.
Put 10 counters in a row. Find a way to arrange the counters into five pairs, evenly spaced in a row, in just 5 moves, using the rules.
Place eight dots on this diagram, so that there are only two dots on each straight line and only two dots on each circle.
Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?
Arrange 3 red, 3 blue and 3 yellow counters into a three-by-three square grid, so that there is only one of each colour in every row and every column
Ana and Ross looked in a trunk in the attic. They found old cloaks and gowns, hats and masks. How many possible costumes could they make?
In how many ways can you stack these rods, following the rules?
How many shapes can you build from three red and two green cubes? Can you use what you've found out to predict the number for four red and two green?
The challenge here is to find as many routes as you can for a fence to go so that this town is divided up into two halves, each with 8 blocks.
In a bowl there are 4 Chocolates, 3 Jellies and 5 Mints. Find a way to share the sweets between the three children so they each get the kind they like. Is there more than one way to do it?
You cannot choose a selection of ice cream flavours that includes totally what someone has already chosen. Have a go and find all the different ways in which seven children can have ice cream.
If we had 16 light bars which digital numbers could we make? How will you know you've found them all?
I like to walk along the cracks of the paving stones, but not the outside edge of the path itself. How many different routes can you find for me to take?
When newspaper pages get separated at home we have to try to sort them out and get things in the correct order. How many ways can we arrange these pages so that the numbering may be different?
If you have three circular objects, you could arrange them so that they are separate, touching, overlapping or inside each other. Can you investigate all the different possibilities?
Investigate the different ways you could split up these rooms so that you have double the number.
I was in my car when I noticed a line of four cars on the lane next to me with number plates starting and ending with J, K, L and M. What order were they in?
Tim's class collected data about all their pets. Can you put the animal names under each column in the block graph using the information?
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
A magician took a suit of thirteen cards and held them in his hand face down. Every card he revealed had the same value as the one he had just finished spelling. How did this work?
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
Alice and Brian are snails who live on a wall and can only travel along the cracks. Alice wants to go to see Brian. How far is the shortest route along the cracks? Is there more than one way to go?
Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?
Use the clues to find out who's who in the family, to fill in the family tree and to find out which of the family members are mathematicians and which are not.
Can you put plus signs in so this is true? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 99 How many ways can you do it?
Make a pair of cubes that can be moved to show all the days of the month from the 1st to the 31st.
How many triangles can you make on the 3 by 3 pegboard?
How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
What is the date in February 2002 where the 8 digits are palindromic if the date is written in the British way?
This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?
Systematically explore the range of symmetric designs that can be created by shading parts of the motif below. Use normal square lattice paper to record your results.
There are seven pots of plants in a greenhouse. They have lost their labels. Perhaps you can help re-label them.
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
The Vikings communicated in writing by making simple scratches on wood or stones called runes. Can you work out how their code works using the table of the alphabet?
Using the statements, can you work out how many of each type of rabbit there are in these pens?
Place the numbers 1 to 8 in the circles so that no consecutive numbers are joined by a line.
On a digital clock showing 24 hour time, over a whole day, how many times does a 5 appear? Is it the same number for a 12 hour clock over a whole day?
Take 5 cubes of one colour and 2 of another colour. How many different ways can you join them if the 5 must touch the table and the 2 must not touch the table?
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
Nina must cook some pasta for 15 minutes but she only has a 7-minute sand-timer and an 11-minute sand-timer. How can she use these timers to measure exactly 15 minutes?
There are 4 jugs which hold 9 litres, 7 litres, 4 litres and 2 litres. Find a way to pour 9 litres of drink from one jug to another until you are left with exactly 3 litres in three of the jugs.
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
Ten cards are put into five envelopes so that there are two cards in each envelope. The sum of the numbers inside it is written on each envelope. What numbers could be inside the envelopes?
This challenge is to design different step arrangements, which must go along a distance of 6 on the steps and must end up at 6 high.
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
In the planet system of Octa the planets are arranged in the shape of an octahedron. How many different routes could be taken to get from Planet A to Planet Zargon?
How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can you find all the ways of doing this?
Stuart's watch loses two minutes every hour. Adam's watch gains one minute every hour. Use the information to work out what time (the real time) they arrived at the airport.


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This article was published 5/2/2013 (1659 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A frightened Const. Darrel Selley fired three shots at a desperate criminal to stop him from firing his downed partner's gun, a jury was told this afternoon.
Selley's lawyer Richard Wolson told jurors that in the confusing moments of early July 17, 2007, career criminal Kristofer Fournier managed to grab the sidearm of Selley's partner Const. Kristopher Overwater after a brief struggle.
In the split seconds that followed, Selley fired three shots at Fournier after he ignored orders to drop the gun.
Selley fired a fourth shot when Fournier appeared to turn at him with Overwater's police handgun in his hands.
The jury has already heard that that fourth shot hit Fournier in his buttocks.
Wolson implored jurors to acquit Selley who feared for his and his partner's life that night and acted in self-defence.
Wolson also said jurors should discount Fournier's testimony as he's a convicted criminal who lies and cares only about himself.
Fournier has said he was high on crystal meth the night of the shooting. Wolson said the drug could have caused Fournier to hallucinate about what happened.
The Crown says, based on Fournier's evidence, that the two city police officers shot an unarmed Fournier in a fit of anger and then lied to cover it up.
Special prosecutor Robert Tapper told the jury this morning that Selley and Overwater were acting as judge, jury and executioner.
"We do not allow vigilante justice in Canada, especially [for] those in a police uniform," Tapper told the six-woman, six-man jury. "We don't live in a third-world dictatorship."
Selley is charged with attempted murder using a firearm and criminal negligence causing bodily harm in the shooting of Fournier.
He and Overwater have pleaded not guilty to intending to wound Fournier by firing a Glock .40-calibre handgun, aggravated assault and obstruction of justice.
The officers had chased a stolen Yukon SUV thought to be the getaway vehicle involved in a 7-Eleven robbery.
The chase began after two masked men armed with a knife held up a 7-Eleven in St. James at Portage Avenue and Hampton Street at 2:35 a.m. on July 16, 2007.
Police responded immediately and ended up chasing an SUV that turned out to be stolen, but not involved in the robbery.
Selley and Overwater, in the primary pursuit vehicle, chased the SUV, speeding up to 142 km/h on Academy Road then slowing down and speeding up through the streets of River Heights, finally stopping near Grant Avenue and Lindsay Street when Fournier bolted on foot.
The jury has heard four shots rang out from Selley's sidearm after Overwater yelled, "Shoot him, shoot him."
A single round hit Fournier in his buttocks.
"If Selley was a better shot, it would be capital punishment," Tapper told the jury this morning.
"The fact he was a criminal doesn't mean police can act as criminals," he added.
The Crown has accused Selley of recklessly firing his weapon while chasing Fournier, while Overwater is accused of putting his own gun next to the wounded man and then claiming to other officers the suspect had made a grab for it.
Tapper also told the jury simple science, where the expended rounds were found and gunshot residue was found on the officers, shows the officers were at fault.
"Go where the evidence takes you," Tapper said.


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Laima Tazmin
New York, NY
NFTE Class of 2001
Laima Tazmin had a passion for computers from the first time she received her own laptop at age seven. Born to Russian and Cuban parents, Laima lived in both Russia and Cuba until the age of seven, when she immigrated to the United States. At age 11, Laima took Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship's business class at Mott Hall Middle School. Through the class, she created a business plan that focused on computer training and web design, which won first place in not only her classroom competition, but in the regional business plan competition as well.
Although her class ended, her love of computers and interest in entrepreneurship did not. She continued to run the web design e-store she had created in 2001, experimenting with selling pre-designed websites and templates. The next year, she expanded to include customized, interactive and community-driven sites, demonstrating her keen understanding of the various ways that people interact on the web.
After graduating high school, Laima continued to follow her passion for technology to Columbia University, where she enrolled in The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, majoring in Computer Science. While she continued to run LAVT into her freshman year, Laima decided to focus her time on her busy class schedule and extra-curricular activies, and let her brother continue work with her clients. During her freshman and sophomore years, Laima held the position of Technology Director of the Engineering Student Council.
Throughout her college career, Laima held many internships. "I wanted to work as an intern for a few reasons- to build my technology skills, gain real world experience and to stay in the entrepreneurial mindset," she explained. Junior year, Laima interned in California as a Program Manager Intern at Microsoft and worked on the team that developed the back end of Hotmail.
After graduating from Columbia in 2011, Laima went to work for a NYC mobile technology start-up, DOTGO. After working at DOTGO for about a year, she decided it was time to go back to her entrepreneurial roots. Laima is currently working on creating a technology start-up, putting her NFTE training to good use.


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FRIENDSWOOD, Texas - A store manager has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars.
Luis Alejandro Rios, 56, has been charged with theft.
Friendswood police said they were asked to investigate the theft of cash deposit from Menchie's Frozen Yogurt in the 300 block of West Parkwood Avenue on Nov. 13.
When police got to the store, they said the owner of the store told them that Rios, the store's manager, had admitted to stealing cash deposits from the store's safe.
Rios was arrested at the store and questioned, investigators said. Police said he admitted to stealing from the Friendswood store and from the owner's store in Houston.
Detectives said they searched Rios' home and found more than $9,000 in cash and more than $13,000 in deposit slips.
Rios was booked into the Galveston County Jail with bond set at $2,000.
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