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Giving up Alcohol in 2017
Happy new year 2017 to anyone reading this today, but especially those who have found this page as they want help stopping drinking. This podcast is with Jon, who has many years of sobriety and myself, who gave up the booze decade ago.
How to stop Drinking
Stopping drinking when you have a problem is hard, but luckily things are advancing, compared to when we stopped. More people are making use of the Sinclair Method which deals with the horrible cravings that us Alcoholics face when we first attempt to stop drinking. I was not aware of this solution when I was first trying to stop, which is a great shame, as it would have been the method that I would have chosen.
You can of course try and stop on your own, and most people try to do this. We both did and failed which is sadly rather common. We only managed to stop when we joined a support group which in our case was AA, which everyone has heard of. The success rate in AA is not high, but people who really commit to the program and enjoy being part of AA, often do well. Others are put off by the religious side of AA, and there are some other hazards that should be addressed. I generally tell people to just go to meetings at first and not to worry about the religious side when they are new. Your background and beliefs will influence how you react to this side of AA.
There are smaller groups such as Smart Recovery and Lifering which also have online meetings which offer a more modern approach, which you may find helpful. There are also harm reduction groups such as moderation management for those not looking to be abstinent. I would advise people to look into all these methods and see what will work for them.
Amazon is a great resource and there are many books on the subject, which are not available in your local bookstore. I would advise to read as much as possible. I learnt a lot this way, and was able to plan my own recovery in a way that would not have been possible in the past.
There is always rehab, but be careful what you choose. Some people do need medical attention and a proper detox. Stopping drinking if you have been drinking heavily can be really dangerous and some will need help to cut down. If you have any doubts, go and see a doctor. They can give the best source of advice for you, and offer counselling and medication. They can also discuss the different types of rehabs available and other solutions.
Life without Alcohol
I certainly do not regret stopping drinking and view myself in a completely different way these days. I started to exercise and now tend to mix with healthy people. It takes time to adjust and the first few weeks and months can be tough, but it well worth it.
Most people do not manage to stop first time and so try not to beat yourself up, if this happens to you. This part of the process proved to me that I had a problem! It was only when I finally had enough and made a commitment to myself, that I managed to stop. I also learnt a lot from what people shared in meetings and from reading about the experiences of others. I joined online groups although some of those are best avoided, especially those that attract members with extreme views. You should not be surprised that there are some crazy people in recovery groups so be careful what you share and perhaps set up a recovery account on things such as Facebook if you want to keep some privacy.
Anyway best wishes to anyone starting recovery today and good luck in 2017!Google+
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So yesterday we went to the anthropology museum. We heard from a friend that it was a wealth of information. Trust us, it is.
We walked down Reforma which is a beautiful area and street lined with trees and, benches and surrounded by stone architecture. It's actually quite European. We made our way to the Museum, paid the $57 pesos and headed inside. Within the first hour we saw the first section but we all needed a moment outside to recover from all that we have seen. There was just so much to see. So many artifacts. Honestly I didnt expect to see so much of what was there. Some broken pots and some bones perhaps but not all the jewelry, the sculptures, the weapons,and the gold. Gincori and Tahira mentioned how amazingly gifted these people were.There were items that were so intricate and items that were so grand and large. Yet with no precision tools and machinery. Dad was intrigued by the glyphs, the carvings and the spiritual ceremonies of each culture, especially in the section related to the Mayans. Personally as an artist I was really inspired. I kept looking at the designs on clay pots, and bowls and thought, I want to do that. There were shapes in stones, and tiles that I wanted to use in my own work. I photographed jewelry, carvings and structures that resonated with me. It was amazing for all of us to see the differences between the different areas such as the Yucatan and the Mayas to the Aztecs more central and the Olmecs. Each culture was very different in how they represented the world around them and their beliefs.
It felt a bit overwhelming in some cases. However we walked away feeling that it was Far more worth the $57 pesos which is about $5 AUD. There were boards with information in Spanish and English but so many of the small plaques were in Spanish and there were things that we were unsure what they were used for. We used our imagination though. I think that made it exciting; just guessing what things were. We all had different ideas. I guess we'll never know for sure.
We definitely recommend a visit to this museum.
So far we have been enjoying our stay here in Mexico City. It has all the restaurants, cafes, and shopping you could hope for in a city as well as local life bustling all around you. There are many cultural things, such as museums, galleries, and historical cites to check out. We are looking forward to the next few days exploring the city and taking it all in.
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Dark street, the empty staircase, next to none - as scary sometimes come home late at night, knowing that in this darkness no one to help you. How to help yourself, especially if you are - a weak woman, and a number have lacked a strong male shoulder?
It turns out that all is not as bad as it seems. Protect yourself can anyone, even a teenager, just this should be done wisely. Today in Chisinau got a lot of clubs, which teach wrestling any of the world. In order to avoid confusion in them, we will try to explain what differences exist between all these categories, where you can learn self-defense, especially women, and even interviewed the President of Okinawan Goju-Ryu karate-do Association in Moldova Victor Panasiuc, September sowing, included in the top ten distinguished coaches in Europe.
* Types of control
When you have a son, you is not difficult over the years to give it to any kind of struggle, in the end - not like it, allot of the other circle. Since girls are much more complicated. If the daughter grows tomboy and not afraid of boys older and more of it - it does not mean that any kind of fight her on the shoulder, then the issue more delicately.
The first and most common form of struggle - karate. Guoxing-Jitsu - specially developed system of self-defense, the elements of which in Japan are used for police training. "Golden Dragon", as translated from the Japanese of this type, designed for very ordinary woman who decided to learn the real methods of protection and effective way out of any critical situation. At training practiced demeanor, the preferred sequence of actions and other necessary skills to ensure their own safety in critical situations.
Many professionals, especially doctors, speak out against the spread of women's struggle, saying that it is extremely traumatic sport. It is believed that women wrestlers are injured more often than men. This is explained by the fact that, despite the greater flexibility of muscles and ligaments in women is weaker so-called muscular corset. Besides women, unlike men, are moving away from an armlock not due to muscular effort and, above all, due to the greater - than men - the flexibility that is many times more dangerous to health.
Excellent alternative to fight in this case - Capoeira. In capoeira two people come together in the dance of strategy and cunning. Closed kicking and accurately adjusted departures combined with the stand on his head and various acrobatic elements, which can immediately go to the dance movements.
The appropriate form of struggle for women and Kung Fu. In the system of training is a training process in the hall, reading classic works of the East, holding traditional holidays and teas. The main style of this kind of fight Wing Chun Quenya. For young children are taught Nantsyuan. All involved are divided by age and years of schooling, which makes it possible to maintain the overall level in groups for better absorption of the material. Taekwondo - Korean traditional martial art. The term "Tae Kwon Do" means "way of hands and feet. The reason for the name served as a specific fighting techniques - the active work of his hands and feet. But the main difference from other Taekwondo Oriental martial arts - hopping technique and breaking things and, surprisingly, the pretext of combating successfully addressed and women, because they are easy when jumping and have good coordination.
And one of the most humane forms of struggle - ai ki up. The most important of his aim must be to be able to understand the teachings of O-Sensei. "In aikido, there is no competition. This warrior is invincible because he was not struggling with anything." Winning "means to overcome the adversarial mind in which we find refuge," - that is, here is completely absent the attack, but there is only protection from the attacker.
* Where do?
Practice has shown that if you want to reach a goal quickly, but qualitatively, it is better to engage in sports federations. First, it is the correct pricing, and secondly, taught masters, and not lovers, and, best of all, virtually anywhere extra classes for free. Here's a brief overview of Kishinev federations against: International Association of kung fu - st. Peter Zadnipru 5 / 1; Karate Association - st. Decebal 72, sport complex Olympia, Capoeira - street. Berzarina, Building 20, (Lycée. Pushkin / former 2-I school); Federation of Tae Kwon Do - Ion Pelevan 30 / 2. As for aikido, then while the federation in Chisinau, but at the Association of karate, you can do and this kind of struggle, as well as in private clubs.
* Victor Panasyuk: "Do you want to protect? - Do not walk on dark streets!"
In Victor lot of training throughout the city. In his classes to meet a woman - not a rarity. His pupil is highly praised martial art as a means of self-defense for women. The finest details, we decided to ask the very Victor:
- Viktor Borisovich, what kind of control is most suitable for women?
- Almost all types of oriental martial arts suit. The fact that the East has never been taught to fight, taught to analyze any critical moment, and honorable way out of it, without losing self-control.
- But women have been taught to fight certainly harder than men. Why?
- The main reason - the difference in weight, here and important moment of reflection on the situation. The opponent may be bigger and stronger, but this does not mean that it has priority, if you can concentrate on your goal. Moreover, more women to men, so it harder to stay on one thing, but every fight requires cycling. Sometimes one movement you work a month, the only way to reach a desired result. She too impatient for that. On the other hand, some women are more purposeful any of the ambitious man, so then double-edged sword.
- Fear - the first thing that interferes in the time of the attack. How to overcome it?
- This is perhaps the most difficult part of training. It is necessary to release the head from thoughts. Anyone inclined to think too much about his fear, negative thoughts are awakened and prevent unnecessary emotions. You must try to look at the problem calmly, saying "stop" the internal dialogue, but this study for years.
- So what advice would you give to those who have not yet had time to go to the lessons of the struggle?
- In a moment imagine the fear of the enemy in the most secure form, though paper. Suppose that you laugh, but make the escape from the panic. Carry in your pocket salt and pepper, and best of all just do not walk alone at night.
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Make Music For Me, who finished fourth in the 2010 Kentucky Derby, sold to Nicks Farm in Sellersburg, Ind., for $1,000 on Thursday at the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale.
William Austin Nicks, who signed the ticket on the 12-year-old son of Bernstein said initial plans were to re-sell the stallion – something the farm has done to some success in recent years – or stand him at his farm if he remains unsold by the breeding season.
"I didn't come with plans to buy him, but he came across [at the right price]," Nicks said. "I bought [Grade 2-winning stallion] Exhi out of the Keeneland November sale for $1,000 and flipped him pretty good, so I figured I'd try again."
Nicks sold Exhi to stand privately at a farm in Arkansas.
Make Music For Me stood the 2018 breeding season at EF1 Farms in Hemet, Calif., for an advertised fee of $1,500. He entered stud in 2014, and his oldest foals are 4-year-olds of 2019. His leading earner is Triple Shot, a winner of three of four starts in California who has earned $61,665.
Owned during his racing career by Ellen and Peter Johnson and trained by Alexis Barba, Make Music For Me won four of 30 starts during his on-track career for earnings of $564,650. A pair of second-place finishes in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity and G2 Best Pal Stakes, along with a third in the G1 CashCall Futurity gave him enough graded earnings to make the Kentucky Derby field, where he finished a surprising fourth behind Super Saver, followed by a ninth in the Belmont Stakes. He earned his lone stakes win in March of that year, taking the non-graded Pasadena Stakes at Santa Anita.
Make Music For Me raced until his 7-year-old campaign, occasionally testing graded company. He finished third in the G2 Strub Stakes at age four, then ran third in the G2 San Antonio Stakes at seven.
Make Music For Me is out of the stakes-winning Carson City mare Miss Cheers, making him a half-brother to G2-placed stakes winner I Dazzle and stakes-placed Masculino. Breeders' Cup Mile winner Opening Verse is in his extended family.
"If I don't sell him, I'll stand him," Nicks said. "If he's going to be standing in the stall, I might as well be doing something with him."
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With the season-long murder case solved in the penultimate episode, the finale of Riverdale Season 1 dug into a core question: Is Archie Andrews' hometown fundamentally good or evil?
Oh, it's evil. Most definitely.
Leading up to Riverdale's major death
Last week's episode, "Anatomy of a Murder," revealed that bewigged patriarch, Clifford Blossom was the one who pulled the trigger on his son, Jason. Soon thereafter, the Riverdale police discovered that the Blossom family fortune came from the heroin trade, not maple syrup.
In the finale, "The Sweet Hereafter," Riverdale appeared to be settling down. Sure, Cheryl was suicidal and giving away all her prized possessions (even her spider brooch!). And, OK, Jughead was being kicked out of the Andrews home at the behest of social services and enrolled at Southside High. And, yes, Alice Cooper revealed that Polly and Betty had a mysterious older brother that she had given up for adoption as a teenager. But as far as Riverdale goes, that was relatively normal.
Until, of course, Archie and Veronica decided to do the nasty in the heat of the moment. Then Jughead, shortly after declaring his love to Betty, was interrupted by a coterie of Southside Serpents, who, due to his father's loyalty, offered the younger Jones a jacket and a membership. More surprising, Jughead accepted the offer breezily. All of that could be course-corrected.
That was until the final moments of the episode, when a masked intruder attempted to rob Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe, only to shoot down Fred Andrews at the feet of his son. Is he dead? He looked it. Then again, this is comic book melodrama, where even the most fatal injury can be mended for maximum shock value.
But for now, Fred looks to be out of the picture, which raises the question: what's next for Riverdale? Innocence is lost, and the future is grim. "There definitely will be a big genre element to Season 2," series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told Entertainment Weekly earlier this season. "It won't suddenly just be a coming-of-age drama. There will definitely be a very strong, bold genre statement."
Many have speculated that there would be a supernatural element that would involve Sabrina making an appearance and potentially creating a zombie apocalypse (similar to what Aguirre-Sacasa established in the Afterlife with Archie series). Fans went into the finale with expectations set by those involved; Aguirre-Sacasa hinted at the possibility months ago and K.J. Apa, who plays Archie on the series, all but confirmed it at last year's San Diego Comic-Con. "Sabrina ... she's going to come," Apa said, "she comes in our last episode." Not quite.
Could she appear in Season 2? Maybe, but we have another guess as to where the show's headed.
The Godfather: Riverdale
Perhaps the most telling line of the episode was Jughead's offhand reassurance: "Kevin, relax, this isn't The Wire." Riverdale loves irony and planting seeds, so it would be very fitting if the quiet little town of Riverdale turns into a gritty, surreal crime drama.
Aguirre-Sacasa spilled earlier this year at a Coast-to-Coast ComicCon panel: "We'll be teasing in the big bad for Season 2. It's someone who has long, deep ties to the Archie universe. It's definitely a character people know. I think it's a character that people won't see coming."
If anyone from the finale fits the bill, it's Hiram Lodge, Veronica's father, who has canonically had extreme disapproval of Archie and Veronica's relationship in the comics. All through season one, Hiram has stirred up trouble despite being confined by prison walls. How much worse will it be once he gets out? At the very least he'll become corporeal next season -- he's slated to be played by Mark Consuelos.
Or could the new big bad be Hiram's wife, Hermione, whose sugary facade has hardened each time her husband inches closer to freedom? (Could it be that she had put the hit on Fred Andrews for not being -- ahem -- cooperative?)
The clues for Season 2's crime wave
Aguirre-Sacasa strengthened the Godfather theory in a post-finale interview, stating that "I can only say that when Mark Consuelos arrives, as handsome and charming as he is, we're definitely going to get a sense that a young Michael Corleone has arrived in Riverdale."
Potentially, if the Riverdale writers don't want to lose the Lodges, being such strong, canonical characters as they are, there's the potential for Chic Cooper, Betty and Polly's long-lost older brother to swoop in and steal the mantle of big bad. Having seen the dark side of Betty earlier this season, perhaps Chic is an American-Psycho-type with a sadistic streak?
Expect the crime genre to weigh on the core four, too. In particular, Jughead, who gladly and eagerly accepted his father's jacket from the Southside Serpents as Betty, horrified, looked on. Jughead, who, in his own words, has always been weird, seems to embrace these ruffians who accept his rough edges.
And as Aguirre-Sacasa has said, Archie will be forever changed by the moment at Pop's: "What Archie witnessed in Pops is the equivalent of what Bruce Wayne witnessed when he saw his parents gunned down in that alley or when Peter Parker learned his Uncle Ben had been murdered by a burglar he could have stopped." Spider-Archie in Season 3?
The unanswered Riverdale questions
For everything set up in anticipation of the second season, there are still loose ends from Season 1 in need of resolution.
- Will we get more Reggie next season? (Even if he does have to be recast.)
- Will Betty go full dark, no stars with Jughead?
- If Fred is dead, where will Archie live?
- Will Jughead's mom and sister make an appearance?
- Does Jughead actually get Hot Dog now?
- Will we see Archie become a version of his comics alter-ego Captain Pureheart?
- Will we ever see Sabrina? I mean, we have to see Sabrina. Right? Please.
Only the Riverdale writers know for sure, but expect plenty of not-so-subtle teasing along the way until the show returns next fall.
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US stocks closed sharply lower Friday on an incessant stream of bad news in financials and technology that bled over into the rest of the market.
Major indexes posted substantial losses amid disappointing economic reports and word of further credit-related turmoil among banking giants Wachovia and Capital One. By day's end, however, financials were one of the few sectors that had reversed its gains.
For the day, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 223.55 points, or 1.69 percent, at 13,042.74. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 21.07 points, or 1.43 percent, at 1,453.70. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 68.06 points, or 2.52 percent, to 2,627.94.
The rabid selloff began the bell and lasted throughout the day, as some of the biggest names on the Dow and Nasdaq posted substantial losses. The Nasdaq, which recorded sharp declines in the two previous sessions, was down 5.7 percent for the week and on track for its second worst week of the year.
"The market is just not happy with some of the news coming out Wachovia. We keep getting this data coming out from these thanks that's worse than expected," said Scott Martin of Astor Asset Management. "The market is finding out that things are a lot worse than what we were told and what we thought."


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Until the 1950s, coastal development was undertaken with minimal understanding of natural processes and dramatic/costly hazardous impacts still occur.
Increasing development pressures along the world's shorelines, coupled with increasing knowledge of coastal processes, have led to legislative controls and design standards which address personal safety, property protection, and preservation of the natural, social and cultural environments.
In New Zealand, the most influential legislation at the present time is the Resource Management Act (1991) and its offshoots: Regional Plans and Policy Statements, District Plans and most importantly the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement. The latter underwent significant revision between 2004 and 2010 and local government implementation is presently very much a work in progress. In addition, legislation and design standards are continually being revised to account for the effects of predicted climate change, of increasing knowledge of coastal processes, and changes in public values toward the environment.
Given the lack of information defining the controlling coastal processes, coupled with the serious consequences of coastal hazards, courts and government officials in particular, are quick to invoke the 'precautionary principal'. This principal requires decision makers to err on the side of caution when considering development where such uncertainty exists. Official conservatism is also related to the present need to protect aforementioned property developed earlier in the 20th century when sand spits, foredunes and cliffs had proved so alluring for siting dwellings. However, existing residents can react strongly when councils' propose new development constraints intended to prevent the impact of future potential hazard; typically on the grounds of individual property rights and a perception of lowered property value. The need to reduce uncertainty while providing scientifically robust information is paramount.
In recent decades our understanding of coastal processes has increased, to a great extent due to innovative computer-based analysis. In addition, high quality and longer-term data sets are becoming available for all types of atmospheric, oceanographic and terrestrial systems.
Coastal Geomorphology
Geomorphological understanding is the cornerstone of assessing a project's environmental effects, potential coastal hazards and coastal management options. The New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement (2010) in particular formally recognises the need for coastal geomorphology in defining the coastal environment, natural character, outstanding landform and landscape assessment, and hazard assessment.
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: gê, "earth"; morphḗ, "form"; and lógos, "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by processes operating at or near the Earth's surface. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do, to understand landform history and dynamics and to predict changes through a combination of field observations, physical experiments and numerical modelling. Coastal geomorphology relates specifically to surface features that are, or have been, subject to coastal processes (driven by wind, waves, tides and associated currents). Sea-level change at time scales up to thousands of years that are associated with climatic and/or tectonic change may extend the effeted region significant distances beyond the current shoreline, as may the migration of sand dunes and the existance of inlets
Choosing your coastal expert
Coastal experts can come from a wide range of backgrounds. These include environmental and civil engineering, landscape architecture, and a range of scientific disciplines such as geography, geology, geophysics and oceanography, along with a further array of specializations including information technology, mathematics and statistics.
In addition, consultants may be attached to a variety of organizations including universities, small specialist companies, or multi-discipline corporations. Yet some of these organisations may lack access to even rudimentary expertise in coastal geomorphology.
The coastal consultant you choose must:
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- be able to carry out a geomorphological assessment for your particular site, and
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We live sooner or later and there are new gadgets, devices and smart computer systems coming nearly every single day of our lives. TCP/IP technology, introduced on ARPAnet in 1972, has already reached the transformation phase, however blockchain functions (in purple) are of their early days. Social financial standing may additionally stop some college students to enjoy the advantages of know-how that's provided at college.
When the model that predicted a direct path from unhealthy eating to sick-being was examined—after factoring out all related mum or dad and little one demographics together with guardian BMI as well as total every day know-how utilization and each particular person sort of every day know-how utilization—differing outcomes were found within the three age teams.
Students could have the tendency to explore beyond the subject material that is assigned to them and wanders into activities that's completely unrelated to the lesson. In addition, older children are consuming common soda, energy drinks, and occasional drinks usually with teens consuming extra total than preteens and kids.
As biographer Walter Isaacson details, Einstein himself was skeptical of the notion, calling it akin to taking pictures birds at nighttime in a spot where there are only some birds." However after studying in 1939 that German scientists apparently had managed to achieve nuclear fission on a small scale, Einstein modified his view.
In addition, every path model tested four various kinds of ill-being—psychological points, behavior problems, consideration problems, and physical issues—in addition to a complete ill-being scale composed of the mixture of the four types of ill-being.


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Industry: energy
Denbury Resources is an oil and gas producer focused on the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions of the U.S.
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A company creates wealth for its long-term shareholders in 2 main ways - through dividend payments and through the accumulation of retained earnings. This graph shows the accumulation of per-share equity of long-term shareholders (green bars), which consists of the retained earnings plus all capital invested in the company, and the cumulative dividends the company has paid over time per share of its stock (blue bars).
In the words of Warren Buffett: "We're looking for... businesses earning good returns on equity while employing little or no debt."
Return on equity is a key metric of financial performance, indicating a company's ability to generate earnings using shareholder capital. Over time, ROE is one of the major determinants of the rate at which a company creates shareholder wealth. The average ROE for large U.S. companies is 12%, and many investors use it as a threshold for attractive investments.
Companies can boost ROE by increasing leverage, which reduces the safety of the investment. Therefore, it is useful to look at the return on assets (ROA), which measures a company's earning power regardless of its capital structure. A widening gap between ROE and ROA may be a warning sign that should be thoroughly investigated.
Earnings per share is a popular metric used to value a company (using P/E ratio); growth in EPS is often used to judge company growth potential. However, many investors believe that EPS is an inferior metric to ROE, because it ignores the amount of capital the company used to generate earnings.
Free cash flow shows how much cash a company generates from operations, above and beyond what is required to maintain or expand its productive assets. This cash can be returned to investors, or spent by management on growing the company or paying back its debts.
Balance sheets of many companies contain intangible assets such as goodwill, trademarks, patents, etc. Many investors consider intangibles more difficult to value than physical assets. If intangible assets had been valued incorrectly, they must be impaired, resulting in a loss charged against shareholder equity. This chart demonstrates the potential loss to shareholder equity from such impairments.
Companies often use debt financing to increase their return on equity. However, as the amount of debt financing increases relative to the amount of equity financing, the company becomes more sensitive to down turns and other negative events. As a result, many investors use the ratio of debt to equity as a measure of a company's financial risk, and avoid companies that have this ratio above 1.
This chart shows shareholder equity as a percentage of total assets, allowing investors to judge the overall leverage. Companies with a higher proportion of equity can be viewed as safer investments. This metric is particularly important for highly leveraged institutions, such as banks, where it must be at least 4% according to government regulations.
The ratio of current assets to current liabilities is known as the current ratio. This metric is a quick measure of the company's ability to pay its short-term obligations. A current ratio below 1 is a warning sign that should be investigated, especially for companies that cannot count on adequate cash flow from operations.
This chart shows the cumulative dilution of investor ownership in a company over time. Dilution reduces an investor's participation in the future earnings. Dilution increases when a company issues new shares, and decreases when a company buys its shares back. Many investors avoid companies with large chronic dilution.
analysis provides insight into factors affecting the Return On Equity of a company.
The DuPont equation decomposes ROE as follows:
ROE = (Net margin) * (Asset turnover) * (Asset to equity ratio)
Net margin indicates operating efficiency, Asset turnover measures the total asset use efficiency, and the Asset to equity ratio is a measure of financial leverage.
The dividend payout ratio tells investors what percentage of earnings a company returns to shareholders, and what percentage it retains and reinvests. This ratio represents a major capital allocation decision by the company, and can be used to judge management rationality. Rational management should pay out all earnings that cannot be productively reinvested. Therefore, a low dividend payout ratio for a profitable company with a low growth potential may be a warning sign.
Many investors use the P/B ratio as a quick way of judging company valuation. Value investors - followers of Graham and Dodd - specifically seek out companies with low P/B ratios. However, investors should be careful not to make investment decisions on this metric alone, without considering a company's earning and growth potential, since a low P/B ratio can be a sign of a bleak future for the business.
P/E ratio is a popular way of making a quick judgment of a company valuation. Value investors - followers of Graham and Dodd - often seek solid companies with low P/E ratios as investment opportunities. However, P/E ratio represents an oversimplified approach to business valuation, and can often lead to incorrect investment decisions.
The Company converted all of the 1,500,000 shares of Convertible Preferred simultaneously with the closing of its equity offering (see below) on October 30, 1996 into 2,816,372 Common Shares. Giving effect to the issuance of Common Shares for the Debentures and the conversion of the Convertible Preferred (collectively, the "Capitalization Adjustments"), as of September 30, 1996 an additional 3,132,962 Common Shares would have been outstanding.
On October 30, 1996, the Company closed on a 4.4 million public offering of Common Shares at $12.875 per share with net proceeds to the Company of approximately $52.5 million after underwriting discounts and estimated expenses. The Texas Pacific Group, a significant shareholder of the Company, purchased 800,000 of these shares at a price equal to the public price per share less underwriting discounts and commissions. On November 1, 1996, the Company closed on an additional 540,000 shares relating to the underwriters over-allotment option, with additional net proceeds to the Company of approximately $6.5 million.
On February 26, 1998, the Company closed its public sale of 5,240,780 Common Shares (which included the underwriter's over-allotment option of 683,580 Common Shares) at a price of $16.75 per share and a net price to the Company of $15.955 per share (the "Equity Offering"). Concurrently with the Equity Offering, affiliates of the Texas Pacific Group ("TPG"), the Company's largest shareholder, purchased 313,400 Common Shares from the Company at $15.955 per share, equal to the price to the public per share less underwriting discounts and commissions (the "TPG Purchase"). The net proceeds to the Company from the Equity Offering and TPG Purchase were approximately $88.6 million, before offering expenses.
At a special meeting of the stockholders held on April 20, 1999, the stockholders approved (i) a move of the Corporate's domicile from Canada to the United States as a Delaware corporation, (ii) the sale of 18,552,876 common shares to an affiliate of the Texas Pacific Group ("TPG") for $100 million or $5.39 per share, and (iii) increases in the number of shares available for issuance under the Company's stock purchase and stock option plans.
On July 10, 2001, the Company completed the acquisition of Matrix Oil & Gas, Inc.("Matrix"), an independent oil and gas company based in Covington, Louisiana. Under the merger agreement, Denbury paid a total of $158.0 million, comprised of $98.8 million (63%) in cash and $59.2 million (37%) in the form of 6.6 million shares of Denbury's common stock. The cash portion of the purchase was funded with available cash and borrowings of $95.0 million from Denbury's bank credit facility. The Company plans to record $30.0 million of the purchase price as unevaluated property to reflect the significant probable and possible reserves that it has identified. The Company has protected its investment with the purchase of price floors covering nearly all of the forecasted proven natural gas production through December 2003, with a minimum price of $4.25 for July 2001 through December 2002 and $3.75 for all of 2003. The Company paid a total of $18.0 million for these price floors, which had a market value as of June 30, 2001 of $31.1 million. The acquired operations of Matrix will be reflected in the Company's financial statements beginning July 1, 2001.
On March 9, 2010, the Merger of Encore with and into Denbury was consummated. The Merger was financed through a combination of $1.0 billion of 8.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020, which Denbury issued on February 10, 2010, a new $1.6 billion revolving credit agreement entered into on March 9, 2010, and the assumption of Encore's remaining outstanding senior subordinated notes. In the Merger, Denbury issued approximately 135.2 million shares of its common stock and paid approximately $833.9 million in cash to Encore stockholders. The Denbury shares issued to Encore stockholders represented approximately 34 percent of Denbury's common stock issued and outstanding immediately after the Merger. The total fair value of the Denbury common stock issued to Encore stockholders pursuant to the Merger was approximately $2.1 billion based upon Denbury's closing price of $15.43 per share on March 9, 2010.
Due to a continued decline in the first-day-of-the-month average oil and natural gas price for each quarterly 12-month rolling period in 2015, we recognized full cost pool ceiling test write-downs totaling $4.9 billion during the year ending December 31, 2015.


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That sounds kind of like a deposit of something, doesn't it? As if one might say, "we just found a prosetry of fossils at the site," or some such thing.
That's beautiful. I'm going to say it until it becomes a thing, i.e,
Prosetry (noun)
a. A combination of prose and poetry
"I've just written some wicked prosetry"
b. A deposit (specifically, a natural deposite) of something.
"There is a prosetry of oil underneath my home."
Consider it coined.
On to the prosetry itself! It's about the juxtaposition I see between the kids I work with now, and my choice to work hard to give a good future to my biological children. So...that.
I've never written any poetry (PROSETRY) before, so advice is well appreciated!
I'm at the mall, shopping with a friend,
And as she's eying cute clothing and unique make-up
I'm scrutinizing organic candy and Moshi Monsters
Because the kids are more important.
In the evening, I peruse Pokemon, imagining which cards will most enthrall the bright faces that greet me every morning,
Before I have packed my lunch or laid out my uniform
Because the kids are more important
The kids are more important,
So I choose analyzing poetry over attending parties,
And memorizing the words of a French philosopher from years long ago over messing around with friends.
I choose to learn, to excel, to improve;
To attain the best outlook possible for my future family.
Is it possible?
That my actions now can affect my children in the future?
My children; the ones whom I will wear close to my heart,
Whose hands I will hold as we walk,
Whose voices will regale me with stories and serenade me with songs?
With whom I will make cards, meals, crafts-a family?
With whom I will make cards, meals, crafts-a family?
I don't know,
But I'm not taking any chances.Because the kids are more important.


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These walks were compiled by Waverley Borough Council and are intended to help you enjoy Frensham Common and encourage greater understanding of the area.
There are four routes, including a short (450 metres) 'Easier Access' loop suitable for wheelchair users. Each walk is shown on the map and on the information boards and waymarked by coloured discs positioned around the Common. All the walks start at the Information Room at the Great Pond.
We hope you enjoy the Common
Easier Access Loop (450 metres)
Marked in Black on the Map
This short route offers a glimpse of the varied landscape and wildlife of Frensham Common.
Points Of Interest
From the Information Room, with its views of the Great Pond, head towards the fenced areas, which are set aside to encourage heather growth. From here the route passes through a small oak wood, which provides a home for birds such as tits and woodpeckers. The path returns to the Information Room across the boardwalk through the heather. This small area of heath supports a variety of heathland plants and reptiles, such as the Common Lizard.
The Heathland Explorer (25 mins)
Marked in Purple on the Map
This walk provides an introduction to the heath and its wildlife and offers fine views.
Points of Interest
The fenced areas near the building are intended to encourage heather growth. Beyond these areas is the old car park which was closed in 1990. It has since been colonised by a variety of heathland plants and animals. On the heathland you may see birds such as the Dartford Warbler and Stonechat, or catch a glimpse of a Common Lizard in the heather. In the past the common was grazed by livestock and the heather was cut for thatching and broom making, while the yellow flowering gorse provided winter fodder for animals and fuel for local people. The Common is now managed for wildlife. The heather is mown and bare sand exposed too benefit rare insects such as the Tiger Beetle and the Silver Studded Blue Butterfly, and scrub is cleared to maintain the open heathland. Returning to the Pond, you will pass a small oak woodland. This supports a different wildlife community, including the Wood Mouse and Purple Hairstreak butterfly.
The Great Pond Circular (45 mins)
Marked in Green on the Map
This walk offers an opportunity to enjoy the pond and a small part of the heathland. Part of the route is along the road, please take care.
Points of Interest
As you leave the car Park you climb Warren Hill. The bracken here is a 'weed' and is cut every year to prevent it taking over the heath. On the pond you may see birds ranging from the common Mallards and Coots to the rare visitors such as the Bittern and Goosander. Following the road towards Frensham Ponds Hotel, you will pass the pond outfall which was the site of a mill in the reign of Edward VI. There is also a Victorian sheep wash, which was used to clean sheep before being shorn. As you walk along Pond Lane you will cross the stream that feeds the pond, bringing water down from Grayshott and Hindhead. The south east corner of the pond is a sanctuary area, providing a quiet, undisturbed refuge for wildlife. The reed beds around the pond support more than forty pairs of Reed Warblers each summer. Walking back towards the Information Room you will cross the old car park which was closed in 1990. The nearby beaches have been created by erosion over the years and are a major attraction for many people.
The Two Ponds Way (2.5 hours)
Marked in Orange on the Map
This is the longest of the walks going through several different habitats, and providing attractive views. Please look out for horses on the bridleways. The bridleways are marked by blue posts.
Points of Interest
When the Great Pond was managed as a fish farm it was drained every five years so that the fish could be collected and sold, but it was most recently drained during the second world war to prevent enemy aircraft using the pond as a landmark. As you walk towards the road, you will cross an area of short grass which was once a car park. Cross the road and in front of you is King's Ridge, so named because Edward VII once reviewed troops from here. The humps on the ridge are Bronze Age burial mounds. Going down the far side, look out for Green Woodpeckers feeding on ants, or Dartford Warblers and Stonechats perched on the gorse. At the foot of the hill, you will pass around Vampire Flats, named after a vampire aircraft which crashed here on 21st December, 1948. Cross the causeway through the carr (a kind of wet woodland dominated by Alder trees) which provides food and shelter for winter visitors such as Redpoll and Siskins. The walk now takes you past the Little Pond, part of which is a sanctuary for the waterbirds and other wildlife found here. The Scots Pine woods around the pond have been used in several film and TV productions as a substitute for Scotland. On the Common you will notice areas of birch and pine scrub. In order to maintain the heathland landscape, this scrub is kept under control and is regularly cleared. This is vital to protect the rare heathland wildlife. Just after crossing the road you will see an area of bare sand this is an important habitat for rare insects and reptiles. As you return towards the Information Room you pass several mown strips in the heather. These provide a home for scarce species such as the Silver -studded Blue butterfly.
Cycle routes
The trail is in the form of two loops. The first loop provides a short ride of roughly 1.5km while both loops together add up to approximately 5.5km of easy to moderately difficult cycling. Be warned however, there is one short section where you would be advised to get off and push.
The trail starts from the small car park off Priory Lane.
It travels west along the northern edge of the Common, on relatively firm level ground.
After roughly 300 metres the trail turns left beginning to slowly climb up onto Kings Ridge, giving views across the Common towards the Great Pond.
Shortly after, the trail levels out, the loop turns left and back down towards the car park. The long rout continues along the ridge which is level and fairly firm, past the burial mounds, before entering a wooded area. At the end of the ridge, the route goes down a fairly steep hill, with some loose stones before turning sharp left.
Carry straight on where the main track turns sharp right. Stay on this firm path until it rejoins the bridleway.
Turn left where the bridleway meets the road. At the end of the road, turn right and stay on the firm, level path past the southern shore of the Little Pond. Cross the sandy track and climb up the steep slope to the top of the ridge. You would be advised to get off and push this bit!
At the top, turn around and enjoy the view over the Little Pond. Turn right along the ridge, using the same track as on the outward let, before bearing right, down the track towards the car park.
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trawling Reddit for gay-related problems, and inviting readers to respond?
Gay journalism - beats working!
PS As they're on Reddit it's hard to know if they're true or made-up, but when's that ever been a problem for the pink press?
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Daly's roller coaster career makes him memorable
Dear Babe: I have an autographed Razorbacks golf ball signed by John Daly when he was at Oakmont for the U.S. Open.
– Jan Garrett,
Warren, Pa.
Daly, who did compete for the University of Arkansas, has a roller coaster career with most of it being on the downside.
He was a rising star still when he won 1991 PGA Championship at 25, following up with a second major win – the 1995 British Open.
The rising star turned into a meteor, crashing and burning amid behavior that was questionable at best. In the end, he has won but five tour titles – the last one in 2004.
These days he depends on sponsor exemptions to get into PGA events.
Recently, he carded a sextuple-bogey 10 a par-four hole at the Tampa Bay Championship.
Nonetheless, he has two majors titles and that makes his autograph desirable.
Theo Chen, owner of www.AutographsForSale.com, said that Daly does sign golf balls, although like many golfers prefers not to. He said the Razorbacks ball signed by Daly would be worth around $60.
Dear Babe: A neighbor has a 1974 L.A. Rams signed team football. He owned a deli in the L.A. area which was frequented by the Rams. To my surprise, Ron "Jaws" Jaworski is on there!
– Nate Hale,
Redding, Calif.
It just goes to show you what being on TV does for you. It's true. Jaworski was a rookie backup quarterback for the 1974 Rams, but he's far from the top name on the ball. Hall of Famers Jack Youngblood, Tom Mack and Merlin Olsen lead the cast. The team also featured Cullen Bryant, John Cappelletti, Charley Cowan, Fred Dryer, Dave Elmendorf, John Hadl, James Harris, Harold Jackson, Lawrence McCutcheon, Willie McGee, Lance Rentzel, Jack Reynolds, Isiah Robertson, Rich Saul, Jack Snow and Jim Youngblood.
The 1974 Rams were NFC West champs under Coach Chuck Knox. The run-oriented team was known as "Ground Chuck" in those days. All they did was win NFC West titles from 1973 through '77. Knox's teams went 54-15-1 over those five years.
However, it was a different story in the playoffs. The Rams under Knox went 3-5 with three first-round departures. Then owner Carol Rosenbloom couldn't handle that, firing Knox after the '77 playoffs.
"That football is worth $400-$500, depending on how dark the autographs are and the 'look' of the football," said David Kohler, president of www.scpauctions.com.
Babe note
Upper Deck is taking another run at a baseball set, using its license with the Major League Baseball Players Association. Several products will feature current and retired stars – without showing team logos or letters. 2013 Fleer Retro Baseball is scheduled to release this summer.
A second MLBPA licensed baseball product will be revealed in the summer. In addition,
Upper Deck plans to produce 2013 Sweet Spot Classic, which will feature retired subjects.
Upper Deck tried to use its MLBPA license to produced cards in 2010, but those weren't very well edited. They showed logos. Major League Baseball went to court and Upper Deck pulled the sets along with forking over a hefty settlement for its transgression.
Based on some sample images UD sent along with its press release, it appears the images on the 2013 cards have been more carefully selected.
Babe Waxpak is written by Bill Wagner and is a feature of the Record Searchlight in Redding, CA. If you have a question for Babe Waxpak, include your full name
and hometown, the card number, year and manufacturer or send a photocopy. Please do not send cards. The address is: Babe Waxpak, Box 492397, Redding CA 96049-2397 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Rick Cerenzia, creator and editor and chief of POPGoesCULTURE.com has had the privilege to sit down with two of the most memorable house guests to ever play the game of "Big Brother", everyone's favourite tattooed house guest; Lydia Tavera and the ultra-fabulous Kevin Campbell!
In the interview below, Lydia opens up about her thoughts on her season of "Big Brother", who she still keeps in touch with, secrets we may not have known about the game and who she wanted to win "Big Brother 13". Plus, she let's us in on when we can see her on TV next!
Get ready to be transported to a world of unicorns and positive vibes!
In his exclusive interview, Kevin opens up about his time in the "Big Brother" house (including what he would have changed about his experience), the cheesy new reality show "The Glass House", the upcoming Canadian edition of "Big Brother" as well as tips if you're looking to be cast on your favourite reality show.
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Government spending is often presented as a panacea for all economic ills. The view that public works are a means of providing employment is of particular concern.
Consider, for example, bridge construction. This may solve a traffic and transportation problem. However a bridge to provide employment is a different kind of bridge: projects are now invented. Instead of considering where bridges must be built, government spenders think in terms of where bridges can be built.
We must look beyond the immediate toward secondary consequences. Although bridge workers may received more employment, the bridge still has to be paid for from taxes. In these terms, if the bridge costs £10 million, the tax payer will lose £10 million.
The argument being made is often a visual one. People can see the bridge being built by the workers. However, more important are the things we do not see because they have been prevented from coming into existence by taxation.
The second string to this argument is that without the new bridge the nation would have been poorer. Because voters can see the bridge they are unable to imagine the possibilities that could have come into existence with £10 million in private hands.


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Great talents require a forum! The newcomer award is a unique distinction for designers, who have attracted attention with their extraordinary achievements and creative talent. The renown and international publicity associated with the competition are valuable for the honoured young designers. Furthermore, the German Design Council offers all finalists a series of exclusive events where they have the opportunity to meet the foundation members, which include leading experts of the design-oriented industry.
The award ceremony of the German Design Award
The awards ceremony of the German Design Award 2020 will take place on 07 February 2020 in the context of the Ambiente fair in Frankfurt am Main.
Here you'll find more information on the exhibitions.
Catalogue of the German Design Award
Presenting all winners and products nominated for this year's award, the accompanying catalogue to this first-class design competition provides a summary of the innovative trends that are currently occupying the international design scene.
The catalogue consists in Excellent Product Design, Excellent Communications Design and Excellent Architecture.
The Organiser makes all the Difference
The German Design Council, the expert for brand and design in Germany, bestows the German Design Award. Commissioned by the highest authority to represent new developments in the German design industry. Established on the initiative of the German Bundestag (the lower house of German parliament) as a foundation in 1953, it supports the industry in all matters consistently aimed at generating an added brand value through design. As a result, the German Design Council is one of the world's leading competence centres for communication and brand management in the field of design. The exclusive network of foundation members includes in addition to designers and design associations, in particular the owners and brand directors of numerous renowned companies.


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Kate Plays Christine | Sundance Review
By Don Simpson | February 2, 2016
Director: Robert Greene
In 1974, news reporter Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on air at a Sarasota television station. Over 40 years later, it is difficult to find anyone who remembers Chubbuck, rendering the act of killing herself on camera relatively pointless. (Sundance 2016 tried to rectify that by programming not one but two films about Chubbuck.) Chubbuck quite purposefully requested that her fateful on air appearance be recorded, but the footage was never released. In fact, tracking down any video footage of Chubbuck is more difficult than one would expect, considering how many times she appeared in front of television cameras.
Actor Kate Lyn Sheil travels to Sarasota to research an upcoming role in a bio-pic about Chubbuck. (No, not Antonio Campos' Christine.) Documentary filmmaker Robert Greene follows Sheil as she tries to learn more about Chubbuck.
The lack of material to draw from is frustrating for Sheil. It seems as though everyone who knew Chubbuck can only describe her with vague descriptions and arbitrary [and sexist] terms, such as "hard" or "masculine." With such an incomplete portrait of Chubbuck, Sheil is hopelessly trying to immerse herself into a character she knows very little about. Until she can find video footage of Chubbuck, Sheil can only work with a few known facts: she had black hair and bronzed skin; she was depressed; she bought the revolver that she used to kill herself; she was obsessed with suicide. Needless to say, Sheil's attempts at playing Chubbuck are justifiably bad.
Functioning as a sequel of sorts to Actress, director Robert Greene delves into a heady psychological analysis of an actor's preparation process. Greene places Sheil into a difficult situation — having to become a character she has very little information about — and keenly observes her actions and emotions. The topics of depression and suicide take front and center in Sheil's preparation (since that is what she knows), and that has a profound affect on the actor's own psyche.
Kate Plays Christine also highlights the inherent artificiality of documentary filmmaking. Perhaps Kate Plays Kate Playing Christine might have been a more appropriate title, since there is an apparent additional layer of performance with Sheil portraying herself as an actor attempting to embody a real life persona. Greene does this specifically to contemplate the staged nature of documentary filmmaking and the camera's inability to capture unfiltered reality. The onscreen events attempt to represent reality, or in some cases reenact it, but there will always be a directorial hand at play and the subjects naturally become recorded representations of themselves.
Rating: 8.5/10
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i sat at my desk several times this week,
hands poised above the keys,
but found i had nothing to put into words.
i spent my week living in the moment
without stopping to reflect on the moments i'm living.
my organizer's two-page spread for march 14-20
is full of plans & daydreams
scribbled in pen and green marker.
yoga classes with big, satisfied checkmarks through them...
power flow,
hot yoga.
morning runs with a curly-haired puppy
brightened my days & brought spring even closer.
an early-morning phone call from my mama
ended in booking seven flights
on three different itineraries
so that everyone in our family
can meet in hawaii
to spend a week in may
celebrating our parents' thirty years of love & marriage
at a beautiful penthouse suite
in kailua-kona.
saturday's routine was welcomed and savoured...
a trip to the farmers market and a gorgeous cheese shop,
a delicious brunch at home of
fresh croissants, local bacon & smoked-cheddar infused scrambled eggs,
made all the more special by the knowledge that
seven years ago on this day,
we started our life together with a first date
at a waterfront restaurant in victoria.
sunday was spent in the kitchen
roasting bell peppers and roma tomatoes
for a thick thyme-spiced soup,
slicing crisp pears to toss with
arugula, walnuts, a squeeze of grapefruit juice & shaved parmesan,
and mixing sticky batter with piles of aged cheddar cheese
to make the best scones in the world.
lunch was shared with paul's phd supervisor
and his lovely wife...
an afternoon of indulgence,
grapefruit-rose mimosas,
conversation & plans to visit their beautiful cabin
on the edge of the world.
a week of indulging in small pleasures
and relishing happy moments...
feeling blessed to be here,
sharing my wonderful life
with a wonderful man
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Well we have been a bit busy recently: i appologise for not blogging regularly!
The biggest news is that at last we managed to register the business and are able to provide meals and drinks!
This was not achieved easily...
We have racked up around 400 kilometres on the van driving back and forth to our department capital trying to register. We didn't want to moan about paperwork in France, but when we were turned away from the custom office (where they issue drinks licenses) because we did not have a bit of paper from the mayors office telling the customs offfice we were applying for a drinks license we didn't know whether to laugh or cry (in the end, we compromised and did a bit of both!)
The veterinary service (who are not just for animals, you know) confirmed that we do not have to have a stainless steel kitchen to run a table d'hotes (stick that in your pipe and smoke it - outside in the properly ventilated and cordoned off smoking area, of course - lady from chambres de commerce, and all the other people who planted seeds of misery in our brains) and they were extremely helpful also. The customs people were also very helpful.
What shocked us was that registering the business at the chambre de commerce was quite a jolly affair (once we had all the correct paperwork to hand).
We are now officially up and running!
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Astor Place (2005) (445 Lafayette St.) (21 floors) over 435 Lafayette. New York, NY. Architect: Ismael Leyva Architects + Gwathmey, Siegel & Assoc..
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Eleven Moroccan cities will be administered by the PJD
After the shake-up produced by the recent regional and municipal elections, the picture is becoming clearer as to where the power rests. At least eleven Moroccan cities will be administered by the ruling PJD. These include Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Agadir, and Tangier
The administrative capital, Rabat, and its neighbouring cities, Salé and Temara will be chaired respectively by Mohamed Sadki, and Jamaa Moatassim and Moh Rejdali, described as the "three tenors" of the PJD.
The city of Marrakech will be managed by Mohamed Larbi Belcaid. former MP of the city.
In the north, the PJD is appointing Mohamed Bachir Abdellaoui President of Tangiers and Mohamed Sefiani in Chefchaouen with Bouanou Abdallah taking charge of Meknes.
In Agadir the mayor will Salah Mallouki who will replace Tariq Kabbaj. The city of Errachidia be administered by Abdallah Hannaoui.
|Idriss Azami Al Idrissi will take charge of Fez
Casablanca will now be managed by Abdelaziz Omari, the young Minister for Relations with Parliament and Civil Society.
The former Istiqlal stronghold has changed hands and now the city of Fez, the spiritual capital of the country, will be chaired by Idriss Azami Al Idrissi, Minister for the Budget.
Morocco to Increase Refugee Intake
While dozens of Syrian migrant are trying to cross the border of Melilla, Moroccan authorities have announced they could grant asylum to an additional 500 Syrian refugees.
The minister of communication, Mustapha El Khalfi tmade the announcement in a press conference.
The government spokesman said, without specifying the actual numbers, that "the Ministry of Migration Affairs had held a meeting to evaluate the possibility of accepting a number of Syrian asylum seekers. These cases are being processed by the National Monitoring Committee and Appeals chaired by the national committee of Human Rights (CNDH). " But a ministerial source says that the CNDH had investigated "459 asylum requests, including 126 concerning children."
This would be a first time any Syrian migrant had obtained asylum in Morocco. Previoisly 5250 Syrians had been regularised in the exceptional regularisation operation in 2014. According to the minister in charge of Moroccans living abroad and Migration Affairs, Anis Birou, the numbers primarily concerned women and children.
Rabat to Rome with Ryanair
Ryanair is due to launch a new route linking Rabat to Rome in the summer of 2016.
During a media briefing in Rome on Thursday, Ryanair CEO Micheal O'Leary announced a total of seven new routes from Rome's Ciampino and Fiumicino airports for the summer of 2016 season, including a route to Rabat
According to O'Leary, flights will be either two or three times a week to Rabat.
Ryanair is the largest low-cost airline in Morocco and the second largest carrier in the key Morocco-European market after RAM, and the biggest carrier at both Marrakech and Fez.
The company is currently operating from Marrakech to Brussels-Charleroi, Dusseldorf, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Girona, London Luton, London Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Milan, Paris Beauvais, Pisa, Rome Ciampino, and Sevilla.
From Fes, Ryanair currently operates flights to Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Girona, Marseille, Milan and Paris Beauvais. It added Lille, Nantes, and St. Etienne in 2013.
Extremists Busted in Essaouira
More success for the security authorities as five people suspected of preparing a terrorist plot were arrested on Saturday, September 12, in Essaouira by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ).
According to a statement from the Interior Ministry, a large arsenal was seized. This included "four automatic pistols, a machine gun, seven tear gas canisters and three electric batons." Authorities also seized a "large quantity of ammunition and suspicious materials that can be used in the manufacture of explosives".
This "terror cell" whose members "adopt the bloody line of the so-called Islamic state terrorist organization" was active in three locations: Beni Mellal, Sidi Allal Bahraoui and Tinzouline, below Zagora, the source said.
They had planned to "commit acts of sabotage targeted in the Kingdom before joining ISIL camps," the statement added.
Of the five people arrested, three were in a "one of the safe houses in Essaouira," according to the communiqué. The investigation is continuing under the supervision of prosecutors, the statement said the Interior Ministry.
Free Films in Fez
Café Clock is showing two interesting movies this week - Darbareye Elly Directed by Asghar Farhadi with Golshi eh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti. The movie is in Darija with French subtitles.
The Theory of Everything Directed by James Marsh with Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones and Tom Prior. The movie is in English with French subtitles
The films are shown Monday and Saturday at 6pm and entry is free.
Ninth International Women's Film Festival in Salé
The ninth edition of the International Women's Film Festival in Salé, organised by the Abi Raqraq Association, will run from September 28 to October 3, 2015.
The festival will host a competition for twelve feature films that deal with women's issues with entries from Europe, Africa, North America, Latin America, and Asia.
The opening film, The Unbearable Presence of Asmahan from Palestinian director Azza El-Hassan, tells the story of an Egyptian diva's songs that speak to the musical arts of an age gone by.
This year's festival will also host a forum on this year's theme:"Female directors, between technical measures and the financial conditions of production".
During the closing ceremony on October 3, the winners of the following prize will be announced: Grand Prize of the Festival, the Jury Award, Best Female Role Award, and the Award for Best Male Role, and Documentary Film Award.
During this forum, some new Moroccan films will be screened, and two actresses, Egyptian and Moroccan, will be honored for great artistic careers.
The Association Communiqué reports that the International Women's Film Festival does not seek to re-produce itself, but intends to move forward, regardless of the means available, as it preserves its identity as a festival dedicated to women.
|Nkoyen Hwank Dieppe's Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere from Vietnam
The feature films that will compete for this prize include; Aida MariniIdris, Morocco, 2015. Lesson Kristona Kroziewa and Peter Vahanov, Bulgaria, Greece, 2015. Virgin Under Oath, Laura Bespora, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania 2015 Summer Sonkaile, Olanta Kavalleti, Lithuania, France, 2015. Nahed Ida Banahandi, Iran, 2015 Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere Nkoyen Hwank Dieppe, Vietnam, France, 2015. Second Mother Anna Mulajri, Brazil, 2015. Pauline Gets Away. Emily Preezavon, France 2015. Misting, Denise Gamza Aarkevin, Turkey 2015. Adrian (mechanist), Rooney Bolioh, Canada, 2015. The Price of Love, Imon Haile, Ethiopia 2014. and Decor, Ahmed Abdullah, Egypt 2014.
Finally - for our Australian expat readers...
You have a new Prime Minister! Malcolm Turnbul has defeated Tony Abbot by 54 votes to 44 in a leadership spill. The former banker and lawyer, who defended Peter Wright in the Spycatcher case, is set to be sworn in as the fifth prime minister in five years after winning a vote of Liberal party MPs and senators.
Turnbull promised to lead a "thoroughly Liberal government" that would explain the challenges facing Australia and "not lecture".
"I'm very humbled by the great honour and responsibility that has been given to me today," he said.
Observers say Turnbull read the public mood perfectly and his party realised that Abbot had become so despised by a huge number of voters that he was unelectable in the future.


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I was at the sink stacking dishes in the washer
after breakfast. Dad's face appeared
at the kitchen door. Something was wrong.
I don't remember how they told me.
My horse was dead, spooked
into a metal post, must have hit
an artery, bled to death.
It was Sunday. God didn't let
things like this happen.
Didn't go to church that day.
We had to bury Big Red.
My parents wouldn't let me watch.
The bulldozer had to drag him to the hole.
Spent the rest of the day trying to be brave
but after every phone call, I cried some more.
I've had other horses,
watched one die
as wind picked at his mane.
But I haven't been back to church.
The ultrasound shows
the tumor that slips
between vessel walls
letting blood pass
into your gut.
I watch as the veterinarian pushes
sodium pentothal into your vein,
wait for the drug to leak
into your cells.
Breathing shallows,
eyes distance,
heart falters.
Was the last image
to reach your darkening brain
my blurred remains?
The painted bunting cannot escape
the mesh. Wings and head tangled,
feet twisted in black net. It rests in the net,
begins to flutter at the bander's approach.
Quietly, she encloses its wings in her hand.
Pulling the net from its feet, wings, head,
it flaps and pecks at her fingers, the angle
of the sun that drives it to flight fading for the day.
She places the rainbow bird in a white bag
Painted buntings have taken this route
since time has been measured. Only Archaeopteyx
can reveal if flight grew from a glide to another tree,
a hop to a branch. Its ancestors have seen the growth
and retreat of great ice, birds follow the same path
despite clear-cut forests and barrier islands
swept clean by Katrina. The bander
places a silver bracelet on its leg, measures
wing, tail, and bill. It rests for a moment
in the bander's hand
this strange perch.
The triangle floats in formaldehyde.
Hemangiosarcoma on the pathology
report, unusual on the ear.
I am disoriented
looking at my cat's ear
separated from his body.
I remember my high school job,
pushing patients and cleaning
whirlpools. Judy came down
every day for the Hubbard tank,
I was asked to sit with her,
a suicide risk. She and her boyfriend
rode a motorcycle, played chicken
with a car. She lost her leg.
After she left the hospital, we went swimming
at the park, everyone stared. I wonder,
does Ivory have an altered body image,
like Judy. Mother taught me not to look at amputees
but with only one and a half ears, he is funny.
The stump rotates to collect sounds, a clumsy ballet.
The edges are crusty, the remaining cartilage
still bruised and red. The soreness
must be gone, he rubs his head
against my hand as he settles for a nap
I-85 North-my tires bump
on the spaces between slabs
of concrete sections, a rhythmic
thunk. The rumble strips rattle
to wake me.
And it doesn't matter if I am coming
or going when I cross the black snake
of the car counter.
One of my favorite sounds—
the tire scrunch on the gravel
that welcomes me home.
That double thud is the one I hate.
The rabbit in the early dark,
a squirrel's moment of indecision.
Later still, the turkey vulture,
not finding anything larger,
sits in the road,
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Architectural styles for constructing commercial and/or domestic structures have undergone a sea-change since the last cent. At the same time, the modes of sprucing up the interiors of workplace and homes have also been through a phase of transformation. The decor of a contemporary office or a residential condominium doesn't comprise of just a few chairs, tables or sofas anymore.
Stepping inside the offices of any large multinational corporation or residence, one is simply overawed by the splendid furnishings and fixtures that essentially entail designer settees, elaborately upholstered chairs, luxury divans, and the ambient LED lighting. There is a good chance that the FF & E of numerous offices and homes in Hong Kong have been ordered online via www.stockroom.com a web-based furniture outlet in Hong Kong.
Stockroom.com.hk is a reputed and well-established web-based stockist, supplier, and distributor of an eclectic range of quality furniture, fixture and equipment (FF &E). The site jointly established and administered by Jojoba L. and Roy M. inventories furniture and fixtures that can be classified under the categories of 'chairs', 'tables', 'benches', 'sofas', 'storage', 'bed-frames', 'office furniture', 'kids furniture', and 'accessories & rugs'. The products it stocks and retails can be broadly classed under the listings of 'wood collection', 'design collection', 'design classic', 'sofa collection', 'outdoor living', 'office idea', 'kids collection', 'color inspiration', 'greenery', and 'great accessories'. The firm procures premium quality of products from world-class manufacturers.
For instance, the outfit sources and supplies solid wood office tables chiseled from best grade of hardwoods and softwoods.
Logging into the site, one can scroll through the page listing images of a suite of tables including solid wood office tables. For example, the user can view pictures of STOCKROOM solid oak wood working desk with drawer; Jacob solid oak wood dining table; modern rustic recycled solid elm wood dining table; Izzac solid wood armrest coffee table, and so on. The furniture outlet buys out products in bulk from several recognized manufactures and OEMs and one such established producer is Mid Century Designer Classic. Stockroom takes meticulous care in selecting furniture that have been chiseled out of the highest grade of raw materials available but also meet ergonomics specifications.
The firm mediates with the producers directly doing away with middlemen and third-parties which enable it to not only order superlative grade of products but also keeping the retail prices modest and competitive. For instance, Stockroom indexes countless models of table lamp that are unquestionably of a high quality as well as modestly priced. Browsing through the page on table lamps, one comes across Josephine lamp whose actual price is HK $1,799 but is retailing at HK $569.
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LUBBOCK, Texas — Shark Fights 14 will take place Friday, March 11, at the Fair Park City Coliseum in Lubbock, Texas, and will air LIVE on HDNet starting at 10 p.m. ET.
The Shark Fights 14 main event features well-rounded Brazilian Danillo Villefort (12-3), taking on former IFL middleweight champion Matt Horwich (26-17-1).
Villefort has won his last three fights, two by knockout, and most recently defeated Joey Villasenor via unanimous decision at Shark Fights 13 last September.
Horwich is coming off a third round TKO of Jake Rosholt at Xtreme Fight Night this past November. His is 3-3 in his last six bouts.
In the Shark Fights 14 co-main event, two of the top-ranked female fighters in the world will face off as Tara LaRosa (19-2) takes on Carina Damm (15-5). These two ladies will be looking to settle some bad blood that goes back to their days with Bodog.
Weigh-ins for Shark Fights 14 took place Thursday evening at the Copper Caboose in Lubbock and the results are as follows:
Televised Bouts:
- Matt Horwich (185.6lbs) vs. Danillo Villefort (185.6lbs)
- Tara LaRosa (125lbs) vs. Carina Damm (126.8lbs)
- Lucas Lopez (175.2lbs) vs. Mike Bronzoulis (174.2lbs)
- Alex Cisne (169.8lbs) vs. Eric Davila (170.8lbs)
- Sean Shakour (136lbs) vs. Joseph Sandoval (135lbs)
- Layne Hernandez (170lbs) vs. Gabe Vasquez (169.2lbs)
Non-televised Bouts:
- Donnie Frye (146lbs) vs. Quaint Kempf (145.4lbs)
- Larry Garcia (138lbs) vs. Derek Cansino (133.6lbs)
- Matt Espinoza (133.4lbs) vs. Ryan Benoit (136.2lbs)
- Matt Dodgen (145.6lbs) vs. Gino Davila (143.8lbs)
- Mark Martinez (251lbs) vs. Jonathan Valencia (235.4lbs)
- Cesar Rodriguez Jr. (123.8lbs) vs. Tommy Gomez (124lbs)
- Matt Hobar (149.6lbs) vs. Jeremy Gauna (149.2lbs)


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The Big Hits 9.09.08
A football recap.
+ As you know by now, the Cheifs eliminated Tom Brady from football competition for the year. Despite the fact that Yahoo! broke the Tom Brady story, the New York Post editors completely knew they were expressing joy at the man's injury. He wears Yankee caps, you dipholes. But the Post is never actually classy, the great paper of rumor and innuendo they are.
+ Watching that Redskins/ Giants game last Thursday was great for a drive or two, and whenever Brandon Jacobs flat destroyed a safety; but the Redskins had their chances and the Giants couldn't put them away. The Washington Post looks into what went wrong with the rookie head coach Jim Zorn and third-year QB Jason Campbell; some say he's a poor fit for this kind of offense. For his part, Jim Zorn definitely was not hurrying things up in a hurry-up situation; it was poor execution all around and not just on the quarterback.
+ In the OH SNAP files, the Tennessean noted that Vince Young may have asked out of the game against Jacksonville, before he was injured. At the very least, he did not inform the trainers that his hamstring was tight, he simply sat to the side. Well, an update: the man who has also thought about retiring has roused concerns about his mental state (h/t to Music City Miracles):
Concerns about the well-being of Tennessee Titans' quarterback Vince Young prompted an early morning meeting at the team's headquarters.
Metro police officers and Titans Head Coach Jeff Fisher gathered at Baptist Sports Park around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday to meet with Young after trying to locate him.
According to sources, questions about Young's state of mind began when the quarter back left his home abruptly at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
According to the same sources, Young seemed emotionally down and left his cell phone behind.
Titans' officials alerted Metro police to be on the lookout for Young's SUV.
After Coach Fisher spoke with Young, it seemed concerns about Young's state of mind were unfounded, according to sources.
+ That Raiders game last night against the Broncos was a complete dog. Their reporters are going to go back to thesaurus to find new ways of saying "inept." DeAngelo Hall chirps a lot for a guy who picks up consecutive unsportsmanlike penalties. Poise, my man. Poise.
+ The J-E-T-S JETSJETSJETS played a decent game in Miami on Sunday, beating the Dolphins 20-14 in a game featuring an injured kicker, a furious comeback by deposed former Jet Quarterback Chad Pennington, and Favremania. Lots of room for improvement on this squad, though. Some guy named Will Leitch comments that the conservative Mangenious style may conflict with Brett "no father to my style" Favre.
+ Aaron Rodgers had a nice debut (you cannot "flap" him!)… and Tavaris Jackson looks like a third string quarterback. Really, for a number of plays, the whole Vikings squad looked third string.
+ Joe Flacco sounds like an excited kid, and he should be – rookie starting his first NFL game, and he wins? Big runs? The Baltimore Sun lists some keys to success… they're going to be disappointed in the "need to improve" areas. he's still a rookie.
+ The Rams got housed. They keep this up, they're going to get relegated and the Missouri Tigers will join the NFL. That was for the sake of joke, of course the Tigers would do worse.
+ The Lions suck way worse than the Falcons, who got a passing touchdown from their rookie QB Matt Ryan and some hella good running from Michael "I'm Free" Turner.
+ Matt Forte for the Bears proved up to the challenge of the starting job, gashing the Colts for 123 yards on Sunday night. A fun thing about being in Chicago – the city is extremely football partisan, and where I live, the Bears are part of the local culture. And it's a walking city. So I could follow whether the Bears were doing well as I walked the dog by listening for the cheers coming out of every other apartment building, with blonde Chads and Trixies walking up to their viewing parties with cases of beer… that's pretty cool. You don't get that as much in New York, where fans of every team live.
I didn't keep track of the rest of the games because, well, what is there to say about Buffalo putting 34 on Seattle, or Pittsburgh laying 38 on Houston? Carolina vs San Diego was competitive and Arizona vs San Francisco was kind of pathetic. I can't believe Dallas didn't put more points on the Browns.


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I've been introducing my kids to the Legend of Zelda games (part of their Gamer Heritage), and they absolutely love them. We've played through Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess, and we're working on Wind Waker now. They LOVE to play as Link and Zelda, so it was clear months ago what they wanted to be for Halloween this year.
My wife has been working for weeks on the costumes (mostly Zelda's), and I can't even say how AWESOME she is for making such an amazing costume for Emma. The details are perfect, and Emma looks amazing. And Gabe just lives and breaths Link. Besides the touches on his costume (a leather pouch that he made himself, a real ocarina, and the Hylian Shield that I made), he's been practicing his sword moves, and has them down pat, straight from the games.
I love being a geek dad. 🙂
You can view and download all of the photos in [this Imgur album](http://imgur.com/a/JNjcK#0).