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I usually wear jeans – almost everyday. If its really hot, I might wear shorts. Lately I've decided I'd like to dress up more. I have a number of skirts, but most of them aren't the kind of thing I'd wear out – most are either too fancy or too short. One of my big goals for making that happen is to make myself a wardrobe of skirts that I want to wear. I'm a little scared yet of making up skirts without a pattern, but hopefully I'll get there by the end of the summer. I've been picking up skirt patterns I like from JoAnn's when I notice they're on sale (they're usually marked around $12-$15, but at least one weekend a month they have one brand of patterns on sale for $1 or $2 – its a great deal!). I now have a good stack of skirt patterns, and finally got around to making myself one of them with a black woven fabric I got on sale at JoAnn's a while back.
The pattern boasts 'ready to wear sizing,' and I found that the size which corresponded to my waist and hip measurements fit really well. It came much higher waisted than I wanted, so I took about 4″ off the top. I also ended up adding my own waistband, which doesn't fit quite as well as I'd hoped – but its usually tucked under a shirt when I wear skirts, so its not the end of the world.
I love the twirliness and flowiness of this skirt! It just hangs really nicely – which I'm guessing is due to both the pattern and the nice drape of the fabric I used. I'm thinking about also making the jacket if I can find more of the fabric.
I'm sharing this at some of these places.


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Real estate closing for WRTC set to happen on Jan. 16
WILLMAR -- A deal to sell a majority of the land and buildings at the Willmar Regional Treatment Center to a private Willmar company will be closed on Jan. 16.
Jim Sieben, a spokesman for MinnWest Technology, said Thursday that verbal agreements on final issues were resolved Wednesday. Now all that's needed is the follow-up paperwork.
He said once the documents are "pulled together" and reviewed one last time by the company, the deal will be sealed. He said it's expected the transaction will take place in Willmar.
MinnWest Technology, which is made up of Nova-Tech Engineering and Epitopix -- companies that have their roots with Willmar Poultry -- will buy 95 acres and 37 buildings on the WRTC campus for $900,000. MinnWest Technology will use the land and buildings to develop a technology campus to house their businesses and other technology enterprises that they say could bring several hundred new jobs to town.
Kandiyohi County will purchase the remaining 18 acres and seven buildings for $1.
Wayne Waslaski, who handles real estate transactions for the Minnesota Department of Administration, confirmed the Jan. 16 date as the target timeline for final signatures.
In an interview Thursday, Waslaski said most of the final documents were sent to MinnWest Technology on Thursday and the remainder would be sent today. He said the company wanted one week to review the final versions of the 44 documents before the transaction is completed.
Waslaski said representatives from MinnWest and local government entities involved in the transaction, including Kandiyohi County and the city of Willmar, met Wednesday to hash out the final sticking points. Waslaski wasn't at the meeting but participated in the discussion via telephone. Ken Warner, president of the Willmar Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce, was one of the players at the negotiation table on Wednesday. He said after the meeting everyone walked out with their "chin up and their chest sticking out that we finally, finally got there."
The process to broker the deal was long and took a number of complicated turns that could have resulted in derailment any number of times.
The transaction was "an opportunity of a lifetime that proved to be a lot more difficult than anybody anticipated," said Warner. "It's been a journey."
Warner said the deal is a good example of a positive private and public partnership "that can really pay dividends" for the community. The treatment center has been a "huge part of the history of this community and now we're creating a new history and a new future," he said.
Knowing the conservative nature of the people behind MinnWest Technology and the risk they are taking in buying the WRTC is a sign of the company's confidence in success, said Warner. That, in turn, has helped generate community confidence in the project, he said.
When asked what MinnWest Technology would do if it was unable to find enough businesses to fill the technology campus, Sieben said such a possibility is "not acceptable" and is not an option they're considering. He said the company has not wavered from its original goal of creating a technology campus.
Sieben was reluctant to talk about the specifics of the last negotiating points that were settled other than to say that all the details had been agreed upon.
Waslaski said the final issues that were settled won't bring about any major changes in the deal.
He said one of the changes clarifies when Kandiyohi County could exercise its option to purchase about 30 acres of bare land from MinnWest Technology. If the land isn't used for technology business purposes, the county will have the option to buy the land. That option ends, however, when MinnWest Technology successfully adds 275 new, full-time jobs to the campus. The land will continue to be zoned for technology, said Waslaski. If MinnWest wants to use the land for something else in the future, the city would have to approve a change in zoning, said Waslaski.
Kandiyohi County Administrator Wayne Thompson was at Wednesday's meeting and has been very involved with the negotiations but was out of town Thursday afternoon.
City Administrator Mike Schmit, who was at the meeting, was also not available on Thursday to comment about finalizing the negotiations.
Wayne Larson, a Willmar attorney who's handling the legal documents for Kandiyohi County, did not return the Tribune's phone call.
After the papers are signed Jan. 16, Sieben said work will begin on renovating buildings for Nova-Tech, Epitopix and Life Science Innovations, which is the management group of Epitopix. He said about $1 million will be invested in each building. The company expects to move its offices to the campus by mid-year. After the company owns the land and buildings, efforts will be in full swing to find tenants, said Sieben.
Kandiyohi County will have permanent ownership of two buildings where the Prairie Lakes Youth Program, a juvenile detention center, is housed. It will own five other buildings that it will lease back to the state for existing human services programs. MinnWest Technology will have the option to purchase those five buildings in the future.
Thompson has said in the past that the bare land the county is buying from the state may be used for a new courthouse.

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Welcome back to Peoria on report day for the position players. Everyone is accounted for and will be working out on the first full-team workout on Wednesday. That leaves us waiting on Alex Torres, who is battling visa issues from his native country of Venezuela, as the lone Padre yet to arrive in Peoria. With a healthy roster in these beginning days of camp there is not much to report, but Padres manager Bud Black did hit on a few topics today in his daily talk with the media:
- Black seemed very pleased with the amount of early arrivals from his position players prior to today's official report day. He brought up how the clubhouse has been filling up the past few days and there are many guys getting a lot of extra work in, though he did not mention anyone by name.
- For Yonder Alonso, Black agreed with a question that he could see 20 home runs come off of his bat this season. He didn't give an exact number, but said "somewhere in and around there, I don't want to put a number on it, but sure". Alonso has only hit 15 home runs in two seasons with the Padres. He had nine playing a full season in 2012 and with the other six coming in his injury-plagued 2013 season.
- Everth Cabrera comes into camp without the worry of what turned out to be his eventual suspension for PED use. Black said that everything that there was to be said from Cabrera to his teammates was aired out last season. Jeff Sanders will have more on the shortstop later today.
Top prospects Austin Hedges and Matt Wisler are not letting the hype of being named top-100 prospects get to their heads. Hedges is working on improving his bat and Wisler is focusing on fine tuning aspects of his game such as getting out left-handed batters more efficiently.
As mentioned above, Torres is stuck in Venezuela dealing with visa issues that stem from his January trade from Tampa Bay. MLB.com's Corey Brock reports with the latest on Torres.


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How does the news influence the way we look at things? Out of our line of vision, hordes of journalists travel to North Korea every year. Almost all of them return with the same story, a story that serves to reinforce our clichéd image of the country. But what goes on outside the extreme images we see in the news? Does normal life carry on between the concentration camps and the military parades? To many people, North Korea is a total mystery. It is often referred to as the least democratic country on Earth. But the shield of bombastic propaganda conceals another, invisible world.
A handful of scientists, filmmakers, writers and photographers, including Alice Wielinga, have spent time studying the country that we know so little about. Their observant eye has helped to fill the gap between the propagandist North Korean imagery and the alarming news items. Alice Wielinga is particularly fascinated by North Korean propaganda art. What do these pictures show us? In her work, she sketches a world between hope, dreams and bitter reality.
On 1 March (20.00), after the film Under the sun by Vitaly Mansky, Alice Wielinga, North-Korea expert Koen de Ceuster and filmmaker Pieter Fleury will explore the mechanisms of a propaganda society.
Photo: Alice Wielinga, Epic of the soldiers
Featuring film and photography by: Tomas van Houtryve, Pieter Fleury and Alice Wielinga (among others).


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I feel like I was born with a sort of mastery in destroying people. I feel like I was born principled in building and breaking and tearing apart worlds. I feel like I was born skilled in the art of heart-shearing. I feel like it is an innate evil that I will live and die with. It walks within me like a treadmill of terror. I feel like the world can never be more right in the way it will destroy my image. It shall be defamation. It shall be desecration. It shall be worded so perfectly that each word will leave a picture of the damage that I've created. I feel like the world can never be more right in the way it will destroy my body. It shall be painful. It shall be exhausting. It shall etch the curse I've cursed others with a million times upon my flesh, and I shall die a million deaths alongside the hearts I have buried in my backyard. Yet, before this occurs, like a coward, I will run. I will run into the crevice of the earth, and I shall hide my face from the eyes of the one's who may wish to forgive me of my sins. I am far more wretched than the wretched of the earth. I am the puss of the wounds I've made. I am the dirt that the wretched will stand upon. I am nothing, but all that they have said I am. And since this is the case, I say, with cowardice bravery, I will run. I will convince myself that staying will do the world a great disservice. I will convince myself it is better to leave than to let the world get its rightful revenge. I will do the only deed I know to be benevolent: I will run. I will run into the crevice of the earth.
The Open Journal – Day 2: Grandma's EulogyPoetry
Grandma's Elegy
Ecclesiastes Chapter 3:1, 5 – 10: "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: . . a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace."
Grandma's Elegy
Some pains are soft and silent; but, a pain is a pain nonetheless,
And all pains requires action whether passive or direct
Because every living pain is a fragment of a death like cut glass to the neck of the spineless.
She believed in silence, but the kind of silence that an internal riot caused
It wasn't the calm before the storm, but a calm within the storm
Like a soaking in the rain with the counting of each bolt
As if each jolt of energy was a misery spotlighted
Without the sound of thunder.
She just wandered in the voided noise,
Listening to snowfall
Because snowfalls like Mice do – quiet and unnoticed
And all she asked to be right now is quiet and unnoticed
Because she can feel a change within the clouds and she can notice
That the world was heading towards a time where everyone's unnoticed;
And, she believed in silence –
The kind of silence that could be foolishly mistaken for peace, but in actuality was the birth of a grief.
For grief is autumn leaves off trees
And Grief's a calm thief and Grief is God's Demon
Grief's the remedy with a side effect of silence.
Silence, Silence,
She believed in silence
For Silence is in the midst of a mind that can't reach beyond time and into heaven
Silence is obscurity – hidden in the abyss of never been and won't return
Silence is the purity in believing Hell's burn is found breathing on earth,
And Heaven is eternal darkness.
For in darkness, there is silence.
It is hidden in the cloud of every lost consciousness
It is revealed in unconscious
After attempting to hold constant grip onto one jagged edge of life.
But, Grandma wasn't holding on.
Grandma let it go, and it must have been the aching of her shoulders
As her arms stretching holding onto memories
Of family, community, and unity
As the pain stretched the body of antiquity to its limits.
She felt replenished by a loving God and all of her blessed children
From daughters, sons, and nephews,
To nieces, grands, and greats
She lived off prayers and precious memories to medicate her pains
As if each breathe of life surrounding her was heavy dosages of morphine
Coursing through her veins with love and musical endorphins
Solace was a song of soul jostled in her neck as the choir in her vocal chords
Was forcing out her breath she sung:
It's Me, It's Me, It's Me, It's Me Oh Lord
Standing in the Need of Prayer . . .
Each note captured the air and strangled its hand for help,
But benevolence devoured her,
She found herself praying songs for everybody else singing:
Not my father, not my mother, but it's me Oh Lord
Standing in the Need of Prayer . . .
And on her knee her prayer continued:
Let my family come together. Family has fallen
Like jeans of hip hop moguls and modesty for women.
I've seen the Apple placed on every corner, hood, and every project
And these children find an urge to bite before they learn to digest.
Let my family come together. Family is lost
Like just police and justice that I've seen so often fought
Let my family come together. Family's a song
Like the weak voice in the choir put together we are strong.
Once my family comes together – I can see what's righteous
And my song can find its end and I can enter into silence . . .
After singing all her songs, she left us in the silence
So we can fall into each other arms for –
One moment of silence.
The Things You Write at 6 AM: An Existential Spoken WordPoetry
This is a poem I wrote entitled, "The Things You Write at 6 AM."
It's what I call "existential spoken word" because it focuses on themes of despair, anguish, and the quest for meaning in human existence. In the poem, I speak about topics relating to suicide, love, God, and writing. The words to the poem are written below. I know that it's not perfect that's why feedback and criticism is well-warranted and welcomed.
Thank You.
The things you write at 6 A.M. will scare you to death.
He wrote this choking on the smoke from last night
His chest cringed tightly like a ropes around his neck while the chair beneath him wobbled on three fragile legs;
Thinking: don't let it slip.
He feels as if he's in boxed in walls while two dogs bark, foaming from their mouths aroused after a dog fight;
Thinking: don't lose grip
Left with ultimatums: Be Alone or Die Floating
He thinks he rather be alone now, but he's stuck and still sinking
Like a Titanic standing in quicksand – He can't stand being broken.
Dance with him and notice, his rhythm's only irregular.
Dizzy from his Dancing with the Devil in a setting of Hell masked as Heaven
Is this life truly a blessing or a curse?
Because since his birth he's rebirth like flamed birds only to reverse back into an apathy.
Existing like a ghost, only hoping that when he goes someone will care more than he did.
He swear, "It takes time to tick before you notice it."
And it ticks, ticks, ticks while
All he truly wants to find is the perfect words to say
To form and contemplate all the blurriness of his brain.
Because this stage lives everywhere and he's made false care
Facticity and the fraudulence is awfully drear.
The more we seeks, the less we find, the more we feels less prepared.
The more we seeks, the less we finds, the more we feel no one cares.
Nobody cares the way the used to – Nobody cares enough.
Because love is just a tall-tale; love is just a story.
Compassion is a myth, and caring's only foreign.
We have origami hearts and we've been shredding the papers
And the tiny lost pieces are feeling better than taking the risk . .. of letting somebody . . . take a hold of us.
Too often we feel like he have to adhere to the ways of this moment to the ways of right here,
But he's not quite here
He's trapped in white walls; He's wrapped in nightmares.
The way he stand is like a sway on one leg on a windy Wednesday
Attempting to make his pen stay on track, but these railroads only lead to dark tunnels
And If there's a light deep inside it's hidden like Where's Waldo.
The Things you write at 6 A.M will scare you to death
Trying to wipe the tears from your paper as the ink starts to spread and your emotion pulls away at you
No more feeling apathetic; only pathetic because he thinks he rather die than feel half-alive
Because he doesn't want to exist like ghost; haunted in this temple that he'd like to call a mind, but it feels like an asylum.
In his silence he's bare-knuckled brawl all his demons, but he's changing with the seasons and noticing he can't die like this.
He can't die without this poem off his chest as the pendulum sways about-face and ticks my life to gray.
And it ticks, ticks, ticks while
Every day he awakes with this weight and this fear of dying in that silence while nobody cares.
Because we all want to be great right?
But, we all don't stay awake until the sun comes into sight paranoid of living null and void.
Drowning in your rising sins.
Praying just to pray.
Terrified of never finding why you're really here today.
And you can feel the time ticking
So you're asking God to show his face
While your scribbling out these frantic thoughts upon the blankest page
Living in a maze and finding fear and only fear
Because this world is full of loose ends; tell me why I am here?
Before the time disappears because I can feel it ticking
And I don't want to live always searching, but I don't know want to die without finding out my purpose
With my origami heart that left my feeling like a ghost
And my tears that smear my written words like raining poem quotes
My love that never feels the way that love should feel at all
And The Things I Wrote at 6 AM that saved me from the fall.


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One of the reasons I've been quiet on the Weblog is that I've been in the process of switching from PC to iMac. I've been thinking of this for a long time and using an iMac briefly recently, decided I had to make the effort. I had become fed up with getting that 'Sorry this application has to close, would you like to tell Microsoft?' message and I seemed to spend more time waiting for the machine to boot up or applications to open (or re-open) that I decided the switch was necessary.
However, it takes time, including putting VMFusion on to the iMac so that I can run Windows. Now, why would I want to do that, given the problems? Well, it is essentially only for one program - Homesite, my HTML editor, which isn't available for the Mac. The last version, 5.5, was put out about 8 years ago and I think that Adobe has probably abandoned its development. In the software industry, 8 years is a long time to go without a new version.
I've been using it since it was shareware produced by Nick Bradbury - he and his program were bought by Allaire, which was bought by Macromedia, which was bought by Adobe, which will be bought by... who knows? I find that blogs and discussion groups devoted to Web design on the Mac all have individuals who have been using Homesite as long as I have and who bewail the fact that nothing for the Mac is anything like as good. I can testify to this - I've tried out just about every freeware, shareware and priced html editor for the Mac and not one of them is anywhere near as good.
Why Homesite hasn't been ported to the Mac is a mystery - perhaps Bradbury's latest development, TopStyle, which is an xhtml, html and css editor, which looks very much like Homesite, will make the transition.
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15 March 2009
Posted by Tom Wilson at 17:09
Labels: Homesite, html editors, iMac, TopStyle
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RBS has called in administrators with a view to a possible sale of the One Blackfriars Road luxury property development, following what joint developer Beetham Holdings said was "breakdown" of the relationship between the bank and their Russian partner Mirax.
Royal Bank Of Scotland Group
The potential sale of one of London's landmark developments comes as property industry consultants EC Harris on Tuesday released a survey warning that many banks were likley to be forced to sell off their distressed real estate holdings within two years.
The survey based on interviews with real estate industry bankers at more than 20 major financial institutions operating in the UK and across the rest of Europe and Russia.
Only 2pc of those surveyed said they thought banks had more than five years to manage the sell down of their distressed property assets, while more than half said large-scale disposals would have to be made within the next two years.
"There is a potential for a glut of bank property disposals to hit the market in the next couple of years. Banks selling assets will have to ensure they are carefully packaged to ensure they achieve the best prices," said Matthew Cutts, head of lenders and investors at EC Harris.
EC Harris warns that any increase in interest rates could accelerate the volume of disposals banks are forced to make as more borrowers get into difficulty, while the likely sell down by the Irish government of property assets transferred from the country's banks to the state could add to the downward pressure on commercial real estate valuations.


text: Eris is small, thin, and light - and is a perfect fit for me. This one is rooted (by a friend) and KaosFroyo v.34 has it working brilliantly. I've never been happier with a smartphone. HOWEVER: There's v.35 and v.36, and of course more to come. And, there are other ROMs. I would like to experiment, but not at the expense of reconfiguring everything. Is there a simple, step-by-step procedure for installing and testing other ROMs without killing my setup?


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No, it's not a joke this time. Our time together as a triad has come to an end, but I am by no means monogamous now! I drafted today's post quite a while ago, but when I started it, I had no idea the story would end with Aidan and I parting ways. But life is funny. It never turns out how you expect, you know? Here's part two – the final chapter – of our story.
Aidan and I were very vague acquaintances online – he'd seen some of my artwork, and we'd crossed paths in various gaming communities. I'm not sure if it was a subconscious decision – or just coincidence – that around the time Ash and I decided we were polyamorous, Aidan and I started talking on Skype. A lot.
At the time, we lived on opposite ends of the state, so we began to video chat every day. We started to fall for each other very quickly. What came next was so perfect it seemed to come straight out of a romantic comedy. Aidan and I finally confessed our love for one another – and that very night, Ash came home and told me he had a job offer in Hobart. Where AIDAN LIVED!
It was almost too good to be true, but thankfully there was no big catch. Aidan and I started going on dates, and around the same time, Ash and Aidan started talking to each other. Having so many interests in common, they immediately became close friends. I was so happy I couldn't even describe it. The two people I loved got along like a house on fire, and wanted to spend time together, both alone and with me. That's when I realised this could really work. Having that respect for each other made communication and dealing with jealousy super smooth. A good foundation for a new poly family.
Not long after that, Aidan asked me out and we became an official polyamorous triad. I expected some awkwardness at first, but there was hardly any. We all settled into our new roles pretty comfortably. The honeymoon stage left us all glowing with happiness.
Like it does with every relationship, the NRE slowly wore off. But that was when we started seeing the relationship realistically, and we were all still happy with it. And that's how it stayed for a long time.
On paper, the relationship was perfect. But there was an issue that kept coming up, and got more serious as time went on. And that was, that Aidan and I were just too similar. We are both passionate about our views and made them heard. We are both stubborn, and let little things get to us. The result was a lot of petty fights.
The relationship started out strong, and those fights didn't bother us at first. But after three years together, I noticed some of those fights were stemming from deeper issues. And because we both have inflated egos, neither of us wanted to admit that we were wrong. When our emotional minds got in the way of our rationality, it became hard to communicate and we got into petty habits like getting jealous, stretching the truth and expecting each to read the other's mind. These were all things I was aware I'd done in the past, and thought I'd overcome. But I guess being polyamorous doesn't make you perfect, and it doesn't stop your emotions from getting in the way.
Aidan was prepared to work on things and see if they got better, but I didn't feel the same. I felt like if we continued, it might be better in the short term, but things would just revert back to being crap. And so I was the one who initiated the break up. That's something I've never done before, and hoped never to do. It made things harder for Aidan, which played on my conscience a lot.
It's now been about a month since we officially split. Things have started looking up for both of us. I feel like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders, and I feel better about my decision now that the dust has settled. Things have been a little tense between us, but I think we can continue to be good friends in the long term.
Ash and I are still together and there haven't been any issues between us throught the whole ordeal. In fact, Ash has been a godsend in that he's been able to mediate and help us to keep the fights from getting too bad. That's just one more benefit to polyamory- Aidan's had a close friend and I've had a loving partner to help us through the split.
So, that's the lowdown. It's not that polyamory doesn't work; I wouldn't even say it's not for me. It's just a chapter in my life that ended in an unexpected way. But it's made me grow as a person – cliché, but true. I've learned a lot about myself I couldn't have ever learned in monogamy. And I think I can speak for Aidan when I say he has, too.
Polyamory is still part of who I am – having only one partner doesn't make me any less poly than being single makes you less hetero or homosexual. And for that reason I plan to continue posting on TTND, but perhaps a little less often. See you around!


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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jul 23, 2013) - Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. (the "Company" or "Progressive Waste Solutions") (BIN.TO) (BIN) today announced the appointment of William B. White to its Board of Directors, effective July 22, 2013. Mr. White will also be included as a nominee for shareholder consideration at the Company's next Annual General Meeting to be held in May 2014.
"We are very pleased to welcome Bill White to the Board of Progressive Waste Solutions," said James J. Forese, non-executive chairman of the Company. "His demonstrated leadership skills, business acumen, and commitment to corporate governance, will be valuable contributions to our team as we focus on creating value for our shareholders."
An experienced global business leader, Mr. White is currently a partner in CBW Associates, a Canadian business consulting firm. Previously, Mr. White served as President of DuPont Canada, retiring in 2008. He held a variety of global business unit leadership roles in his 34 years with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Prior to his 2006 appointment as President of DuPont Canada, Mr. White worked across DuPont leading businesses and programs focused on growth through marketing and sales transformation, the development of emerging markets, and step change business strategies. Prior to his appointment to lead DuPont Canada, he was Director of Business Improvement at DuPont's headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. White is a graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering) and chairs Purdue's Mechanical Engineering advisory committee. Mr. White serves on the Board of Directors of a number of organizations, including the Schulich Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business (York University) and the Sustainable Chemistry Alliance. He was previously on the Board of Directors of MaRS Discovery District, the Ontario Science Centre, Helix BioPharma and Afexa Life Sciences, where he also served as Chairman.
About Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd.
As one of North America's largest full-service waste management companies, we provide non-hazardous solid waste collection, recycling and disposal services to commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers in 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and six Canadian provinces. We serve our customers with vertically integrated collection and disposal assets. Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd.'s shares are listed on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges under the symbol BIN.
To find out more about Progressive Waste Solutions, visit our website at www.progressivewaste.com.


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jeez, it's simple; If you don't believe him, don't waste your time making the mod..
Your for real?... I've asked for what i want and offered what i got and that's that. So move on with the insults and let this post resume it's meaning.
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In very few areas of public life does the topic of safety play such a critical role as in air traffic, this is also true in relation to all operations surrounding aircraft on the ground: the aircraft are parked on the airport apron after they have been directed to a spot, here the passengers leave the planes, loading takes place and technical and logistic examinations are undertaken. Uncompromising performance, compliance with all standards, and reliability are the decisive criteria in this context.
Together with Munich Airport, ewo is conducting a model project for energy efficient apron illumination. In this context, LED technology was used instead of the existing high pressure sodium illumination. The LED floodlight F32 is able to illuminate even large areas despite its compact form, it represents the first time that such solutions have been used in such implementations throughout the industry. The dimensions are oriented on proven standards, this allows them to be mounted on existing structures without any problems.
From the lens to the lighting unit to the housing, the F32 was specifically developed by ewo to meet the demands of airports. Areas to be illuminated can thereby be more precisely defined than is possible with conventional technology. The multi-layer concept – involving the overlayering of the consistently distributed light emitted by the individual LED units – ensures that no areas are left in darkness even in the event of a partial failure.
The F-System can be equipped with various optical lenses. Hence, at Munich Airport another special version specifically developed for street lighting ensures optimal illumination of the service road located beyond the apron. In order to enhance the resistance to external influences, such as jet fuel and exhaust fumes, we enclose the lighting technology behind a flat glass cover that also makes it easy to clean.
Light is therefore directed and distributed in a manner that fulfils the requirements of an airport, thereby complying with all of the guidelines and standards for the intensity and consistency of illumination. In relation to safety aspects, the illumination even exceeds the requirements: it can be switched on and off without delay. Since the LEDs used as the source of light have a far higher CRI (Colour Rendering Index), documents, marking and labelling can be read quickly and accurately. In comparison to the orange hue of high pressure sodium lights, this light is perceived to be as much as 25 % brighter.
A high mast with six floodlights of this type now already requires 57 % less energy than was previously the case for a similar level of consistent illumination. The planned integration into a light management system can lead to further savings. With extremely reduced maintenance and over 50,000 hours of life, the LED solution makes an important contribution to saving resources.
Project: MUNICH AIRPORT
Product: F-SYSTEM
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Michael Jackson's family has failed in a bid to force concert promoter A.E.G. Live to pay them more than $1 billion in damages after they claimed that the promoter was responsible for the singer's untimely death in 2009.
The singer died at the age of 50 in Los Angeles in June 2009 before he was due to begin a series of 50 concerts at London's 02 arena. The This Is It Tour was supposed to mark the singer's comeback after years of not being active in the entertainment industry, however the Beat It musician suddenly dies prior to the gigs.
Jackson's personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 and jailed. He gave Jackson a lethal dose of a powerful surgical anaesthetic called propofol to help him overcome his chronic insomnia.
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These TODD-AO productions will look great on blue. Transfers from 70mm sources Please!
These will come in time. All of the FOX Todd-OA films should look excellent on Blu- ray and Fox is aware of that. Also: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines The Agony and the Ecstacy Star! Hello, Dolly! "Can-Can" was supposely filmed in Todd-AO but the last DVD had some element problems which I was told could be corrected but it will take time, but it should also look good on Blu-Ray
If they ever do STAR! on Blu-ray, I hope they're rethink that sepia wash they bathed the entire picture in. It didn't look like that theatrically, and the laserdisc didn't look like that.
When CLEOPATRA is released I hope that they place the opening music for second half at the start of the second disc where it belongs instead of at the end of the first disc.
Cleopatra in Blu-ray will more than likely have the whole film on one disc. It sure is irritating the way they did it on the DVD.
I also look forward to nice deluxe (no pun intended!) BD of CLEOPATRA. I'd also like to see a BD of OKLAHOMA's Todd-AO version. I remember how thrilling the laserdisc version seemed when it was released and I'm hoping that Fox is planning a redo, especially since the last SD version was such a disappointment.


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A Wayne County Deputy says he was sexually harassed by his female boss and his complaints were ignored.
Now he's suing the sheriff department saying it retaliated against him when he spoke out.
"He told her to stop, he told her he wasn't interested," said attorney Scott Batey. "He let her know on no uncertain terms nothing was going to happen."
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The lawsuit claims McMillan would go as far as giving Kozlowski's partners false assignments so she could be alone with him.
Kozlowski says he made numerous verbal complaints to his captain but they were ignored.
"In this society most people think a guy should be so lucky to be harassed by a woman," Batey said. "It's just the way it is. It's unfortunate."
It wasn't until Kozlowski filed a written complaint of sexual harassment, did his superiors take action - but not against Maureen McMillan - against him.
"They retaliated against him and found him insubordinate," Batey said. "They suspended him five days without pay and demoted him and stripped him of his police powers, took away his gun and that cost him about a thousand dollars a year."
At one point we're told McMillan allegedly turned the tables and filed a sexual harassment complaint against Kozlowski, despite the fact co-workers claimed just the opposite.
Attorney Scott Batey says his client felt he had no choice but to sue - going after the Wayne County Sheriff's Department for doing nothing about a hostile work environment that lasted nearly a year.
"He waited as long as he could," Batey said.
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office issued a statement:
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Police resources from Moreton District combined in a joint operation with the Police Railway Squad in the Redcliffe Police Division on July 12. Seventeen officers from Redcliffe Station, Moreton District Tactical Crime Squad, Moreton South Criminal Investigation Branch and Deception Bay Road Policing Command were deployed. The operation was conducted around the time of the third State of Origin match played in Brisbane and targeted train stations and licenced premises within the Redcliffe Peninsula.
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- Google: 2 results after folding the duplicates - main page + one post. Expanding them gives 25 results. Cool.
- Bing: 0 results. Boo. I could not find any page on this blog using it. 2xBoo.
- Yahoo: 2 results - main page and one post, different from the post that Google shows.
- duckduckgo: One hit to the same post as Yahoo shows, not to the main page.
- altavista: 2 results, same as Yahoo.
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- kosmix: 2 results in google web search (same as google), 4 results in the google blog search, 0 results in yahoo web search. Entertaing how they disagree with Yahoo.
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- yebol.com: 2 results same as yahoo + 1 site result. Very interesting form of presentation. I got to play with this one for daily searches, even though it does not appear to be too fast compared to google.com.
- I don't have many inbound links here - probably about two :)
- google.com has a better reach towards the "long tail" (EDIT: 'long tail' in this case being blogger.com - would be interesting to test e.g. typepad.com or other blog sites)
- There are much more than 127 billion pages on the web.
- yebol.com is a new toy to play with
Though some of the above are fairly obvious, not bad of a result for a single SHA-1 hash, I think. Would be interesting what results this method gives for more popular blogs/websites.
The debatable point in this method is - to which extent do the search engines discriminate the "oddball hex stuff" vs. the "common words". From all I know about the search engines, they should not - vice versa, it's the stopwords (too frequent to be useful ones) that are usually filtered.


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Gov. Deval Patrick said State House leaders' $500 million alternative to his major transportation plan would require people who live in cities and towns beyond Boston to pay more in gas taxes, tolls and fares without seeing much, if any, local benefit.
Patrick has sharply criticized the legislative leadership's plan since its release. He kept up the pressure for several days, making his case to news media across the state and repeating his vow to veto the legislative proposal if lawmakers pass it as is. The House passed the measure late on April 8, but short of the margin the chamber would need to override a veto from Patrick.
The governor stressed the State House plan means less money for regional transit, commuter rail, road repairs and other transportation improvements across Massachusetts.
"In many ways, this bill is a return to a type of politics here on Beacon Hill that got us into this mess to begin with - a kind of pretend solution instead of a real solution that pushes off the real solution until another day," he said in a conference call with reporters.
At the same time, the governor said he is flexible on the price tag of a state transportation plan and on how to fund it, and hopes to find common ground with legislative leaders.
"I want a compromise," he said. "I hope this is a process and not the end."
But House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Brian Dempsey told State House News Service it "does not appear at all likely" legislative leaders will accept a higher number and said failing to pass the plan would jeopardize any additional funding for transportation.
Patrick earlier this year proposed raising an additional $1.9 billion a year for transportation and education initiatives, largely by raising the state income tax by a percentage point while trimming the sales tax. The plan from House and Senate leaders would instead hike the gas tax 3 cents a gallon, along with cigarette taxes, to the tune of $500 million a year to shore up transportation funding.
In a recent interview with Wicked Local, Patrick slammed the plan as neither fair nor sufficient to address transit problems in the long term.
Joining Patrick on Friday, state Transportation Secretary Richard Davey said the legislative plan probably would require higher toll and fare hikes over time than the governor's proposal because it does not resolve a long-term transportation deficit.
Patrick's plan called for 5-percent toll increases every two years, but Davey said toll hikes as high as 30 percent would be required by 2016 under the State House proposal. Patrick also predicted commuter rail service cuts and higher fares over time.
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Lincolnshire's Bryn Davies asked the B4RL Facebook group the question: "Will it help us get better broadband into rural areas if BT is split from BT Openreach?". At the time I posted a quick response to the effect "probably not" but Facebook comments don't really give the space to properly answer a question like this. So here goes…
There are two parts to my thinking on this – timing and the impact.
If there is will to split Openreach out of BT Group it won't happen over night – it's likely to take years, way beyond the current rural broadband policy timescales, and way beyond this parliament. In principle the split would allow an independent Openreach to make independent investment decisions but this will take time to evolve with the BT culture deeply embedded within Openreach veins. It's likely to take some time post-separation before Openreach starts to think differently, especially as the residual BT Group will remain its biggest customer.
So the first part of my answer is that assuming a split it helpful, it's likely to require the final 5-10% of the UK to wait a very long time to see the impact.
Once Openreach learns to make strategic decisions in its own newly found image it can't be assumed that they will be radically different from those of BT Group. Openreach would still be a scale business where exceptions become very costly, very quickly.
The hardest to reach areas are generally exceptions – they are the odds and ends that can't be delivered using a vanilla national architecture – the long lines, the exchange lines, the poor joints, the low-grade aluminium, etc.
To my thinking these areas will never be addressable by a scale fixed-line operator without ripping up much of its current infrastructure. If the split had been done before BT embarked on a massive deployment of FttC then perhaps things might be different – perhaps – but it wasn't and Openreach will need to start from where BT Group left off.
There may be very good arguments for splitting Openreach from BT but I very much doubt delivering deeply rural broadband will be one of them.
The final few percent is not about BT – its the domain of the niche specialists.


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Competitive fisherman Conor Cogan and several friends went fishing New Year's Day near Port Stephens in Australia. Little did they know the excursion would feature a brush with death and an incredible story to tell.
After hooking a 200-pound marlin and a brief fight, DailyMail reports the fish wasn't going to make things easy. Turning towards the boat, the fish breached the water at full speed with its spear-like bill aimed directly at Cogan.
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"The last thing I remember is him coming straight for me in line with my head," said Cogan. "At the last second I ducked and [the marlin] fell onto the side of the boat and onto my back and I thought, 'Geez I'm alive.'"
According to Cogan, the fish that day were especially energetic, although he certainly didn't expect one to leap towards him.
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"I know guys that have had marlins jump into the back of the boat before, but never have they hit someone and fall back into the water without anyone being seriously injured," said Cogan.
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Not only did the marlin successfully land itself on the boat, it was able to circle around Cogan and go back into the water, creating a harrowing moment for everyone on board. It seems both the fish and fishermen had a bit of New Year's luck.
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If you get a good rate, ask about discounts. Hotels routinely discount rooms to a wide range of groups. Sometimes AARP works; many times, membership in AAA is enough. Some hotels save their best discounts for corporations but have extremely lax rules on who gets this "corporate discount." In the end, don't be afraid to ask the reservation agent, "What is your lowest discounted rate and who is eligible for it?" The only time you should pay full rack rate (hotelier's term for full price) for any room, anywhere, is in a time of high demand, such as Christmas or if the Super bowl ever kicks off in Orlando.
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2. How close are you to Disney?
A hotel advertising "two miles to Walt Disney World" means exactly that – two miles until you set foot on Disney-owned land. But since the Disney resort covers 43-square miles, it may be a long haul from your hotel to the Magic Kingdom. If the hotel reservation agent gives you a driving time to Disney, such as "it's only ten minutes by car," press for specifics.
3. Can I park my car right outside the room?
On the positive side, a convenient parking space saves steps. On the negative side, hotels with convenient parking are more accessible to thieves. If it's a long trek from car or bus to your room, then it's a long way for a thief to run.
4. What kind of locks are used — credit card or key?
Every hotel should now have credit card-style locks (or something even more advanced) that don't list a room number in case you lose it.
5. When was the hotel refurbished last?
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Frog And Bucket Comedy Club
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Alex Boardman
Oldham-born-and-bred comic who epitomises the laddish, male perspective on the world. After cutting his teeth on the Manchester comedy circuit, he is now a national act, appearing across the country and occasionally on the BBC. Not for the easily offended.
'His tall tales can lead anywhere on any given night' (The Times)
'A rare mixture of wit and charm' (The Guardian)
'Probably the quickest I've ever seen, certainly the funniest' (The Big Issue).
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Damian Clark
Aussie Damian Clark has had comedy goers in hysterics from the moment he hit the European comedy circuit in 2005. His award winning, high-octane observational comedy has garnered worldwide critical acclaim.
'There is barely a bad word to say about Clark: distinctive and possessing a comic talent beyond his years, both biological and mental' (Chortle)
'His sunny observational humour is perfect' (Three Weeks)
'A relentless onslaught of crippling laughs' (The Skinny)
'Hilariously surreal... well-wrought set delivered with brio and huge charm... amazing' (The Scotsman)
'Infectious, hilarious and highly recommended' (Kevin Bridges)
'The Best that comedy can be' (The Age).
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Jim Tavare
Jim Tavaré is a BAFTA award winning British comedian. He played Tom the Innkeeper in Harry Potter 3. In the US he made TV history by becoming the first overseas act to reach the finale of NBC''s Last Comic Standing.
He won a BAFTA for the ITV series 'The Sketch Show', wrote and starred in his own TV shows 'The Jim Tavare Show' (co-written with Ricky Gervais) and 'Jim Tavare Pictures Presents'.
TV credits include NBC's Chuck, Showtime's Californication, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Tosh.0..
Jim was involved in a near-fatal head-on car crash in Los Angeles in March 2017. He sustained horri?c injuries - a broken neck, both clavicles, sternum, 15 ribs, 2 collapsed lungs, over 20 fractures in his leg, a shattered ankle and heel, and a hand that detached from his wrist. Jim spent 3 weeks in intensive care in the USA battling for his life.
As Jim's US medical costs began to rise and with months still ahead of physical therapy and care, Jim's friends within both the UK and US comedy circuits stepped in to help by putting on benefit shows.
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Mickey D
A great young comic from Adelaide, Australia.
'Having travelled all over the world to entertain people with his high energy persona, he has been awarded the Best International Guest two years running by the NZ comedy guild. Full of life and charisma he delivers his material with genuine fervour and has his audiences crying with laughter' (Funhouse Comedy)
'His material is all delivered with such bawling gusto that it's a joy to take in'
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Johannesburg - A man was killed when he landed under a train at Wittebome train station in the Western Cape on Wednesday, paramedics said.
Paramedics received reports that the man had tried to duck past a moving passenger train while trying to get onto another train, said ER24 spokesperson Vanessa Jackson.
He was pulled under the train, and landed on the tracks underneath the wheels. His body was torn apart and he was declared dead on the scene, said Jackson.
Police would investigate what happened.
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He used to be an idiot,I don't know what he is now.
That's what the bridges are for! don't just run over the tracks!!! Condolences to his family.


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Nov 13 (Reuters) - Shares of Nautilus Minerals Inc tumbled more than 38 percent on Tuesday after the company said it stopped assembling mining equipment for its underwater copper-gold project and laid off about 60 people.
Nautilus is halting development work on the Solwara 1 copper-gold project in Papua New Guinea's territorial waters to save cash as it works to resolve a dispute with the Pacific nation over the project agreement.
The government of Papua New Guinea exercised its option to take a 30 percent stake in the project in March 2011, but Nautilus said the government has not yet paid its share of development costs, and Nautilus cannot afford to continue financing the project on its own.
The termination of the build program will likely lead to a major delay in first production and could result in project cost increases, the company said.
Solwara 1, planned as the world's first underwater copper-gold mine, was originally expected to start production in late 2013.
Nautilus plans to use technology from the offshore oil and gas industry to get at high-grade metal deposits that it says are easier to reach than typical hard-rock resources, despite lying beneath more than a mile of water
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Posting preliminary figures today, chairman and acting chief executive Tom Kirby uses his introduction to inform the market of his aim to "continue to make the best fantasy miniatures in the world and sell them at a profit".
And how does he plan to do this? "We run a tight ship, and do our damnedest to get more sales," he says. "Everything else is just whistling Dixie."
Games Workshop, which makes and sells fantasy games such as Warhammer and Lord of the Rings and model figures with which to play them, posted pre-tax profits of £19.5m for the 53 weeks to June 3 2012. But royalty income from licences sold to computer games companies fell £2.5m to £1.0m.
"We expected a significant decline," says Mr Kirby, who says the traditional computer games industry has been "changed utterly and permanently" by the arrival of smartphones and iPads.
"We switched as fast as we could," he confesses. "But [we] were limited by the constraints of the deals we already had in place."
Games Workshop may have adapted but Mr Kirby hasn't quite kept up, referring to one new product as "Warhammer Quest for iOS (Apple stuff). Buy it now! Good fun."
He also goes back to basics as runs through the company's performance. "Sales," Mr Kirby explains, "is all the money we take in and we quantify by counting it."
Such ideas are not "mysterious", he admits.
On the subject of overheads, he is equally pithy: "With overheads we try to have them not grow at all. Easy to say. Hard to do."
Mr Kirby also tells investors in the London-listed business to take next year's capital investment numbers "with a pinch of salt".
"We think it many be £9.3m," he says, before referencing the 19th century German military strategist Helmuth von Moltke. "But remember that, as von Moltke said, 'No plan survives contact with the enemy'."
However, he says the biggest threat to the company is internal – its own staff. This is why Mr Kirby will only hire employees who understand that Games Workshop's business ethic is modelled on inventor Thomas Edison's methodology.
Mr Kirby explains the modus operandi: "After 10,000 attempts to make an incandescent lightbulb, [Edison] was asked about the 9,999 failures. 'They weren't failures, he said. I now know 9,999 ways it won't work'."
But if Games Workshop's factory burns down, the company is "well insured". In fact, says Mr Kirby, it could be back into full-scale production "within 12 months".
Mr Kirby has a policy of never giving interviews or speaking to the press, leaving his "CEO's Commentary" to do the talking for him.
He is part of a tradition of plain-speaking business leaders that includes Andrew Perloff, the outspoken chairman of Panther Securities, whose bi-annual "ramblings" have become more of a media event than the financial performance of his property investment company.
Although, of course, that may be the intention.