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The University of Dayton will mark the 200th anniversary of the Marianist sisters with Mass and a reception on Wednesday, May 25.
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NEW DELHI: Some Middle Eastern countries, including Qatar, have refused to accept the letters of credit (LC) issued by the country's largest bank, State Bank of India, saying that the bank does not have adequate credit rating.
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This last week I was contacted by Don Hendrix. I helped him to identify two people and he sent me photos of two of the sons of James A Buchanan, (my grandfather's first cousin). James A. was the son of Andew Buchanan and his wife Frances Mary (Minnie) Coxon. Don also send me a photo of James A's steam-powered threshing outfit, which I believe was the first on Lopez Island. He also sent me a scanned image of the birth registration of Clifford Buchanan (grandfather of our commercial photographer cousin Clifford C. Buchanan III of Florida), another son of James A. (James A. was married three times and had a large family.)
To: 'Bill Buchanan'
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 2:40 PM
Subject: Article in the San County Journal by Andy Hansen, son of Frances Buchanan... Bill: In the second part of Andy's newspaper article, he gives us more information about his mother... I still am having difficulty locating her in your extensive collection of Buchanans. Can you place her or her brother Gordon Buchanan? Don Hendrix
I sent him a reply, indicating that Andy's mother was Nora Irene Buchanan and his grandmother was Frances Mary (Minnie) Coxon who married Andrew Buchanan. I gave him information on Nora and her brother Wilfred "Gordon" Buchanan, and received this reply From: Donald L. Hendrix To: 'Bill Buchanan' Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:20 PM Subject: Picture of Andy Lawrence Hansen and his grandmother, Frances Coxon Buchanan Bill: Here is the picture of Andy Hansen, age 2, with his grandmother Frances Buchanan, from the San Juan Island Journal. This picture, according to the article, was taken on their farm on San Juan Island (ca. 1922). Note that all of Andy's article is also posted on the Web and you can find it with Google under the search terms: "Andy Hansen" and "Buchanan."
Donald L Hendrix
I found the article and photo at this location:http://grandpa-andy.blogspot.com/2007/08/san-juan-island-blog.html
It is a delightful account of one of our cousins growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.
You will enjoy it. Maybe you will even be inspired to write your own life story!
Don, Thanks for these photos. I had a small copy of Buck and Ercy from Garner, but I don't think I have ever seen the one of Ed. These are wonderful! Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: Donald L. Hendrix To: 'Bill Buchanan' Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:34 PM Subject: Two more Buchanan pictures... Bill: I don't know if you have these pictures of Buck and Eddie Buchanan in your collection or not. They have been posted on a WEBsite devoted to the history of Lopez Island. DLH
I found the website with the historical photo from Lopez Island. Here is a shortcut to it. There are various Buchanan's, McCauley's and their relatives in the photos.


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https://tickets.puppetlabs.com. See the following page for information on filing tickets with JIRA:
Running Puppet on AIX¶
Puppet on AIX is partially unsupported but yet still useful (at least two sites have it deployed in a production environment). It doesn't work with the ruby packages that are available from bull at http://www.bullfreeware.com/, as they lack socket functionality, however it does when ruby is built from source with openssl support (at least on 5.2 and 5.3! On early versions, mileage may very etc). Currently, as at 0.22.4 there is still some big holes in functionality, specifically:
- Mount doesn't work. Thank you, IBM!
- Cron jobs mysteriously fail with 'crontab: cannot access'. Bug 2798
- Service management via init works, however AIX by default uses something else for internal packages Feature 2864
Service Management¶
Most things on AIX are handled using the system resource controller (SRC).
lssrc -a list all services available and their state
startsrc -s sshd start a subsystem
stopsrc -s sshd stop a subsystem
refresh -s sshd refresh a subsystem (does not work on all subsystems, ssh for instance).
You can also pass -g instead of -s to start/stop a group of systems (such as NFS).
Services to be managed via the SRC can be defined with the mkssys command. The example adds the sshd subsystem and the ssh group to the SRC. In the example the binaries reside in /usr. The -a flag allows passing of arguments.
/usr/bin/mkssys -s sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-D' -u 0 -S -f 9 -n 15 -R -G ssh
The so generated subsystem sshd can be started with the above mentioned commands.
Package Maintenance¶
Packages are installed one or two ways. Locally using a local collection of .bff files (native BFF filesets) or remotely using Network Install Manager (NIM), which is similar to kickstart or jump start, plus there's client management after the fact. NIM has the ability to remotely run simple scripts, reinstalling the OS, or making a system backup (mksysb).
NIM installation¶
The way that seems to be most common is to deploy packages with NIM. The client is configured to communicate with the NIM server using the niminit command. This can be run on the client or server. In most cases the entry on the server should be created first.
niminit -a name=HOSTNAME -a master=NIM_SERVER_FQDN -a connect=nimsh
Packages can then be installed using the nimclient command with the CUSTomize operation.
nimclient -o cust -a lpp_source=LPP_NAME -a filesets="package1 package2 package3"
LPP_NAME is the name of the package repository on the server, you can discover the available sources with nimclient -l -t lpp_source.
Local Installation¶
If the packages are local (or on NFS) they can be installed with the installp command.
installp -acgXY -d /usr/sys/inst.images package1 package2 package3
-a means to apply packages (install)
-c (optional) commit packages to the system, cannot be rejected after this
-g (optional) process dependencies. If depends are not met, install fails.
-X automatically extend filesystems if needed.
-Y automatically accept License agreements.
-d dir use install source location
Before packages can be installed from a local repository, an index of metadata must be created. This is done with the inutoc command. This generates a .toc file in the directory that installp uses to know what packages are where. The filenames of the packages are irrelevant.
Handling mounts¶
Mounts are dynamically created/removed by commands, instead of modifying /etc/filesystems directly.
lsfs, list filesystems with their attributes
mkfs, creates a filesystem and adds it to /etc/filesystems
rmfs, removes a filesystem (and underlying block device unless the filesystem is not JFS or JFS2)
mknfsmnt, create an NFS mount in /etc/filesystems
rmnfsmnt, remove an NFS mount from /etc/filesystems
chfs, change the mountpoint, attributes, mounting groups, etc. of a filesystem (example: chfs -An /usr causes /usr to not mount on boot)
Mounts are handled exclusively via command line or smitty, using the above commands or importvg/exportvg.
/etc/inittab is managed by {ch,ls,mk,rm}itab commands. Do not write changes to this as a text file.
Building Puppet & Dependencies From Source¶
AIX 6.1 TL6 GCC Build Environment Software Prerequisites¶
The following environment allowed for a successful build of zlib, openssl, ruby, and finally facter and puppet on AIX 6.1:
$ oslevel -r
$ oslevel -s
We need to install the libm package:
$ lslpp -l | grep -i bos.adt.libm
bos.adt.libm 184.108.40.206 APPLIED Base Application Development
We also need to install this APAR or bring your system up to AIX 6.1 TL6 SP6 so we don't suffer from a GCC assembler error:
My fresh install of AIX 6.1 had the following RPM's on it:
$ rpm -qa
Next we need to install the following RPM's:
$ rpm -ivh make-3.80-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
$ rpm -ivh gcc-4.2.0-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
$ rpm -ivh libgcc-4.2.0-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
$ rpm -ivh db-3.3.11-4.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
I was able to download the above rpms from IBM here:
GCC Compiler Environment:¶
Michael Perzl has a great web page about howto create a competent compiler environment for AIX using GCC:
If you are coming from the Linux world the following is an informative post on some of the differences between libraries and linking between AIX and Linux.
Example RPM's and SRPM's¶
The following link provides both pre-compiled RPM's and SRPMS for zlib, openssl, ruby, facter, and puppet.
Install Puppet client using pre-compiled binary packages¶
Required pre-compiled binary packages¶
# rpm -ivh libgcc-4.2.0-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
libgcc ##################################################
# rpm -ivh db-3.3.11-4.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
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# rpm -ivh pup-zlib-1.2.5-1.32.puppet.local.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
pup-zlib ##################################################
# rpm -ivh pup-openssl-1.0.0e-2.32.puppet.local.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
pup-openssl ##################################################
# rpm -ivh pup-ruby-1.8.7-p352.1.32.puppet.local.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
pup-ruby ##################################################
# rpm -ivh pup-facter-1.6.3-1.puppet.local.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
pup-facter ##################################################
# rpm -ivh pup-puppet-2.7.6-1.local.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
pup-puppet ##################################################
# rpm -ivh pup-puppet-conf-0.1-1.local.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
pup-puppet-conf ##################################################
Puppet sample client config file¶
# mkdir -p /etc/puppet
# vi /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
# cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
vardir = /opt/puppet/var
logdir = /opt/puppet/log
rundir = /opt/puppet/run
modulepath = /etc/puppet/modules:/opt/puppet/share/modules
archive_files = true
archive_file_server = archiveserver.local
certname = localhost.local
server = puppetmaster.local
report = true
classfile = $vardir/classes.txt
localconfig = $vardir/localconfig
graph = true
pluginsync = true
Create puppet directory structure¶
# mkdir -p /opt/puppet/var
# mkdir -p /opt/puppet/log
# mkdir -p /opt/puppet/run
# mkdir -p /etc/puppet/modules
# mkdir -p /opt/puppet/share/modules
Test connection to server¶
# /opt/puppet/pup-puppet/bin/puppet agent --waitforcert 10 --test
Puppet server certificate list¶
# puppet cert list
puppetclient.local (F2:12:52:F5:66:63:98:E1:68:1E:F3:53:E8:35:1E:34)
Now sign the certificate on the server end¶
# puppet cert --sign puppetclient.local
notice: Signed certificate request for puppetclient.local
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Absolutely Lovely Children #32 — Big Noses and Tiny Budgets
November 8th, 2008
Let's bring PANDRA back into action already.
This was probably the worst overall looking episode of the show to date, even including that crazy Gonzo-fest around episode 27. It's like the animators completely forgot how to draw noses. Sakaki and Shiho's noses both grew at least an extra inch in profile while they were wearing their surgical masks too. Add to this an extended crappy CG car driving video game sequence and a healthy amount of telepathic talking, which means that you don't even have to pretend to animate the mouths, and they really phoned it in this week.
Unfortunately, it wasn't a particularly entertaining episode either, and I'm always a bit skeptical when they give Shiho development through her learning what other people think. She reads their minds for torture purposes. What more is she going to learn about them that she hasn't already? This episode was basically just a string of nonsensical "do X to prove who is the better psychometer" between Shiho and Sakaki. How video games and fishing demonstrate this, I have no idea. Then one of Sakaki's old enemies from Comerica shows up, Kaoru accidently poisons him with a blowfish, and he and Shiho telepathically bond while she assists him performing surgery. QED.
The end of the episode, with the girls fantasizing about what Sakaki would have been like if he had been happy/with them when growing up was probably the best part of the episode, but I'm perfectly happy that he's just vaguely creepy and trying to use the girls as an in for Oboro's pants instead of some kind of telepathic Detective Conan ripoff. Next week looks rather terrible too. I'm hopeful because there's one shot of Mio, but less hopeful because of the copious amount of screentime their school friends seem to be getting. I don't even remember those useless brats' names anymore.
Camping trip.
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09/08/2011, Catalina Island, CA
Dad's turn at this Blog stuff. We left Little Harbor after a couple of sleep deprived nights (bobbing and rolling all night can have that affect) and pushing a bit north, rather than west or northwest as we have been since leaving San Diego, SAILED!!! slowly on 5 knots of wind from the west into Catalina Harbour. This was a destination I was looking forward to, as it is one of only two "hurricane holes" in California and I was anxious to see it. Our neighbours in Pier 32, Steve and Carol, had spent a year or so in the harbor and had been quick to express their enjoyment of the place. It also boasted a restaurant and bar with wifi and we were anxious to reconnect to the family. It has surprised us how much we rely upon internet access.
Catalina Harbour "Cat Harbour" is a large deep harbour, patrolled by a couple of bald eagles on the west side, and an elderly male buffalo called Wilson to the east. Again we hiked a portion of the Catalina trail. First we went west uphill on a steep grade for two miles, no exaggeration. We were bloody tired when we finally reached mile 29, a destination I pushed for as we needed proof. We met about three troops of young scouts, 12-14 years old coming down, and could hear them coming for ½ hour as they chatted. We smiled when the older scout leader at the end of the parade, dressed as the outback guy, asked us if we had seen any birds and wildlife and lamented his lack thereof when we told him we had seen a few. The odds of him finding anything wild would require the creature to have just broken a wing trying to escape the oncoming hoard. Anyway, again very beautiful on the ascent and descent but we were in the clouds when we reached the peak at about 1500' so nothing to see there. After a day recovery we went east on the trail and visited a neat little dedication high on the hillside overlooking the harbor. It was a small fenced area which if my memory is correct is maintained by the San Diego Yacht Club and dedicated to a couple who obviously much enjoyed Cat harbor. Inside was an old school desk style box on a post and inside notebooks and pens for visitors to record their thoughts and their passage, and just outside a picnic table on a small horizontal piece of land to sit and admire the view. We much enjoyed the area, of Cat Harbour and concluded our stay by going dancing Saturday night at the pub and met an interesting couple Gill and Theresa, she celebrating her birthday. Phoebe says I cannot say what birthday it was, and this type of advice is one of the reasons I have survived to 65. On our way now to Santa Barbara Island.
He was big but sleepy
Reg continues to hike up the hill while I decide to rest...
but I am betting you wore shoes this time around !
I believe this is a Hutton's Vireo.....but don't quote me
Beautiful views but not as easy as it looks, a long way up and a long way down but worth the trip


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Do you want to know how to remove a watermark in Word 2010?
In a previous article I wrote about how to add a watermark in Microsoft Word 2010, but if you no longer want to have the watermark in the document, and need help figuring out how to remove it, then read on and I'll show you how to remove that watermark from your document!
How to remove a watermark in Word 2010…
A watermark is a security feature for a document to identify that document as either confidential, a draft, or some other status which you don't want people to be able to freely copy or pass off as their own creation, and so having the watermark image appear behind your document's text will help deter people from doing this.
So if you've read my previous article and added a watermark to your word document, but now want to remove it because it is no longer considered confidential, personal or a draft, then I'll show you how to do that here.
It's important to note that you'll only be able to remove a watermark on a document that you've personally created or a document that you have full editing permissions for. If you copied a document from someone or downloaded a document from the web, you may not be able to remove their watermark.
This is a security feature built-in to Microsoft Word to prevent people from removing a watermark from someone else's document, and so if you are unable to remove the watermark by following these instructions, make sure you are the owner of the document, or if not, then contact the person who created the document and ask for their assistance in removing it.
To remove a watermark from a document in Word 2010:
- Open Microsoft Word 2010, and make sure the document you want to remove the watermark from is open.
- Click on the "Page Layout" tab on the top menu.
- Click on the Watermark button, and a window will drop down. Toward the bottom of this window you will see an option called "Remove Watermark". Click on this option to remove the watermark from your document.
And that's all you need to do to remove a watermark from a document you created in Word 2010!
Again, if you are unable to remove the watermark from your document by following these instructions, make sure you are either the owner of the document, or that you have full editing permissions. If this is still not working, let me know in the comments below and I'll work with you to get your problem resolved and your watermark removed!
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It is almost every little boys dream to grow up to be a super hero, and for 3-year-old Lincoln Hendrickson that is exactly how he will be remembered, 'Super Linc.'
Lincoln battled cerebral palsy and passed away last week. Neighbors say even at his young age, he fought every step of the way.
In honor of his passing, Lincoln's community decided to show their support by blanketing their yards with superhero badges.
Almost every yard in the neighborhood has Lincoln's 'Super Linc' symbol on their lawn or driveway. To see the logo blanketing the neighborhood check out the video above.
"I am speechless," said his mother Melanie Hendrickson. "I am happy because I know Lincoln can see it. He can see how much he has impacted everybody and changed people's lives. He made a difference in three and a half years."
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"When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it."
Holocaust survivor and tracker of Nazi war criminals Simon Wiesenthal. Mr. Wiesenthal, who helped find SS leader Adolf Eichmann, died on Sept. 20 at age 96.
"I promised, 'If I go to the United States one day, I'm going to join the Army and try to pay back that beautiful country.'"
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HURON, Calif. — The two fieldworkers scraped hoes over weeds that weren't there.
"Let us pretend we see many weeds," Francisco Galvez told his friend Rafael. That way, maybe they'd get a full week's work.
They always tried to get jobs together. Rafael, the older man, had a truck. Galvez spoke English. And they liked each other's jokes.
But this was the first time in a month, together or alone, that they'd found work.
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They were two men in a field where there should have been two crews of 20. A farmer had gambled on planting drought-resistant garbanzo beans where there was no longer enough water for tomatoes or onions. Judging by the garbanzo plants' blond edges, it was a losing bet.
Galvez, 35, said his dream is to work every day until he is too bent and worn, then live a little longer and play with his grandchildren. He wants to buy his children shoes when they need them. His oldest son needed a pair now.
Most of all, he wants to stay put.
But the slowly unfurling disaster of California's drought is catching up to him. Each day more families are leaving for Salinas, Arizona, Washington — anywhere they heard there were jobs.
Even in years when rain falls and the Sierra mountains hold a snowpack that will water almonds and onions, cattle and cantaloupes, Huron's population swells and withers with the season.
These days in Huron — and Mendota and Wasco and Firebagh and all the other farmworker communities on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley — even the permanent populations are packing up.
"The house across the street from us — they all left yesterday," Galvez said. "Maybe this town won't be here anymore?"
Since the days of the Dust Bowl, these have been the places where trouble hits first and money doesn't last.
Before the drought moved into Year Three, Galvez paid the rent and bought his children school supplies. When he left for the fields, his wife, Maya, would send him off with a lunch of tortillas and beans and fruit. It was late afternoon on this April day. He hadn't eaten since the night before.
He was more than a month behind on his $850-a-month rent, but his landlord had agreed to let him pay a little each week.
The month before, when Maya told him she was pregnant, she apologized.
"She told me she is worried for me because there is no work," he said. "But I told her, 'A baby is a happy thing. Don't worry, we'll handle it. I will try. I will do my best.' "
Burglary victim
Galvez's house is ranch-style, three bedrooms. The walls are freshly painted and hung with school class photos and a calendar with scenes of Yosemite and scripture. But some windows are cracked and there's almost no furniture.
The burglars who broke in on the same day Galvez learned his wife was pregnant took everything, even the beds. They left one wooden chair.
The neighbors across the street brought over a big-screen TV and a soft chair. Galvez borrowed money from his brother in Texas to fix the largest window. His brother, he said, is the type of person who expects to be paid back promptly.
The garbanzo field yielded two days of work. It was now two weeks later and Galvez hadn't found any other jobs. He said the fields are his only choice. In Oaxaca, he left school after fourth grade to work. He's been in California since he was 17, but he is not a U.S. citizen.
Rafael, a man who has worked under many last names, knows a lot of contractors and used to be able to line up work ahead of time.
But now, in the early mornings, long before sunrise, they go to the parking lot in front of the panaderia where they can no longer afford to buy Mexican sweetbread or coffee. They wait with other day laborers for a contractor to drive up and bark an offer.
The week before, the going rate was $8 an hour, minus $8 to $12 a day for a ride in the van to fields 45 minutes away. So many people have fled town that farmers were hurting for workers and the offer on this day had gone up to $8.50 an hour. Still, Galvez wasn't hired. He went home.
His two youngest girls, a tangle of giggles, played leapfrog in the empty living room. Manuel, 16, the oldest of six children, was in his room studying. "He wants to join the Navy someday," Galvez says proudly.
Without rain
By late April, the air held the warmth of growing season. The illusion of lushness was there. But without the rains, even California's vast system of buying, selling, pumping and moving trillions of gallons of water from the Sacramento Delta to this dry, clay-bottom plain — even pumping so much groundwater that parts of the Central Valley sink a foot a year — wasn't enough to keep Huron working.
The main drag was as sleepy as the stray dogs napping in every shady doorway.
Huron already whispered of the ghost town it could soon be: It has a $2 million deficit. Only about 1,000 people in a town with a permanent population of 7,000 are registered to vote, and of those, only some 200 actually do. Each week at school, Galvez's children have fewer classmates.
Galvez is determined that the one sacrifice he won't make for his family is leaving them.
Once before when times were hard, he went alone to Texas to work. He was gone more than three years. "I don't want to do it again."
But if they stay, he doesn't have work. The family now owed almost two months' back rent.
"It's breaking my head, wondering what are we going to do, what are we going to do?" he said.
Missionaries visit
Mormons were at Galvez's house — two blond, Spanish-speaking women from Utah who had been coming weekly.
At Galvez's house the lead missionary was encouraging Galvez's middle daughter, 12-year-old Dianey, in prayer.
"Just say what's in your heart," she told her.
Galvez, who was raised Catholic, has been going to several different churches.
"I like what they say. They all say the same thing: 'If your mind is right you can talk to God and he will tell you what to do,' " he said.
"I still have to learn how to make my mind right."
Family meeting
In May, a season when Huron's population once doubled with workers planting and picking, Galvez had found three days of work in two weeks.
The family was down to the amount of his last check: $256. They stocked up on huge bags of beans and rice.
Galvez and Maya called a family meeting. Galvez said they told the children they would probably be moving to Texas soon.
The 15-year-old, Itzel, said no, she had a boyfriend. The 11-year-old, Francisco, said no, he liked his school. The oldest son, Manuel, said not a word. He only put a hand on his father's shoulder.


text: Simon Robinson 2016-05-30T22:34:54-04:00 Simon Robinson http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/index.php?author=simon-robinson Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Simon Robinson Good old fashioned elbow grease. Personalised Pricing - A Step Too Far? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2518660 2013-01-21T04:38:12-05:00 2013-03-22T05:12:01-04:00 Simon Robinson http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-robinson/ However with the advent of online, the retail environment has become much more complex. Consumers are finding new ways - for example mobile devices and social media platforms - to interact with their favourite brands. In today's 'big data' era, retailers are scrambling to decipher the growing wealth of information being generated by these new customer touchpoints and are looking to use the data they glean in new ways. For some retailers, this has led to a new level of personalisation - personalised pricing. At the end of 2012, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) launched an investigation into the use of online data for personalised pricing. From the investigation the OFT wanted to discover how aware consumers are about brands' use of online personal data to target them with different price promotions and whether they found this off-putting. Naturally brands want to build engagement and create relationships with customers and using customer data effectively to target each individual with the right offer at the right time is key to this. Personalised pricing is no different to other forms of personalisation, such as an offer received on your birthday or a nod to your favourite skincare brand in an email. These types of personalised promotion can be used to reward regular and loyal customers according to their individual profiles. However, the question is whether the data being used for personalised pricing is in breach of any data protection or consumer regulations and how transparent retailers are being about its use. Personalised pricing already happens in the offline world. Two good examples of this are in the car industry and at UK universities. Often a car dealer will assess all the information he has on a potential buyer, including how they dress, where they live, what car they arrive in or how much they say they are willing to spend. Other factors such as the current stock situation and bartering between the dealer and the potential customer will mean that the final agreed price is often somewhere between what is on the windscreen and the actual cost price. At which point, it is up to the potential buyer if they want to accept or walk away. In the case of universities, it is common practice to charge different rates for UK and non-UK students for exactly the same courses and tuition. Such instances of personalised pricing are now becoming increasingly possible in the online world. It has been suggested that brands can now access information on a customer's browsing history and what kind of computer is being used to assess if it's appropriate to make a special offer. As in the offline world, the potential customer can either accept or shop elsewhere. The practice is essentially the same. For those that get it right, both customer and brand walk away happy. Brands that don't get it right run the risk of losing a potential sale and even worse, the customer's loyalty altogether. In light of the demise of many of our high street favourites, in today's digital world successful retailers will be the ones that are smart and transparent about how they are using data. The premise of collecting online customer data has always raised privacy issues and is understandably considered by many as a bit 'big brother-ish'. But as marketing priorities shift towards a more 'relationship first' stance, we will see more data being used by marketers to create experiences and offers for consumers that are highly targeted to each individual. Personalised pricing could fit into this strategy, but if used incorrectly it could become a quick way of destroying trust and alienating a once loyal customer. At the end of the day, the customer comes first. 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Mobile wallets will enable consumers to pay using their mobile phones by swiping them at terminals as part of the check-out process. The service uses Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, similar to London Transport's Oyster card system. Shifting away from 'voucher stigma' But how will the move benefit brands and consumers? Most people will have, at some point in their lives, used vouchers or coupons to get a discount or special price for goods or services. Being British, many of us will sheepishly hand them over, unsure if they are valid, fearing it being refused. Voucher stigma is not only embarrassing; it seems strange to rely on a paper-based system in today's digital age. With a mobile wallet the process could be quite different. Consider this: you're walking past your favourite Indian take-away on the way home. As you walk past you get a text offering you half-price on your favourite curry. The next day you walk in and order the curry, paying by flashing the back of your phone at the point of payment with the offer applied automatically. You've opted in to receive texts from the Indian takeaway so you are happy for them to contact you over your mobile. Geolocation technology enables companies and brands that you actively subscribe to know when you are in the local area, and because you use your phone to pay for your curry, the shop also knows what your favourite kind is. Opt-in or opt-out This is one example of how mobile payments could be used in the future. But key to its success is permission. To avoid such messages becoming an unwelcome intrusion, brands and companies must get customer permission. Another crucial factor is educating retailers on the benefits of the technology. When contactless cards were introduced, retailers were not sure of the benefits of faster payments, resulting in a scenario where card issuers were unwilling to get behind the scheme because there weren't enough payment terminals in use, and retailers did not want to install terminals because there were few cards being used. However mobile wallets are slightly different. There are more incentives for retailers given the opportunity to collect data on customer preferences. The potential to offer retailers a wealth of valuable customer information particularly on purchasing patterns is expected to drive adoption. Data means loyalty This information will help brands and companies to target offers and build a clearer picture of customers, potentially leading to the development of new products and services. But there is also a clear benefit for consumers who are increasingly looking for more personalised relevant offers and content from brands and companies. The advent of the mobile wallet could not only mean the death of paper vouchers, it could also mean the end of physical loyalty cards. For customers this will mean needing to carry fewer cards, if any, and also the ability to redeem points all from their phone. It is clear that mobile payments could transform the way we shop, and how brands and companies tailor offers to keep us loyal. It seems like merely a matter of time before we see mobile checkouts on the high street as mobile payments take shape as the next step in the smartphone revolution.]]>


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With a positive rise of 8.36% in international tourist arrivals to Indonesia in the first 10 months until October year on year, the government is confident that the 2013 target of 8.6 million international tourist arrivals will be achieved, said Mari Pangestu, Minister for Tourism and Creative Economy.
The tourism sector is also estimated to have generated US$ 6.7 billion in receipts, indicating tourism's resilience in the face of global economic upheavals. During the same period the Creative Economy sector grew by 5.76%, which is slightly higher than the national economic growth of the country. Together, the Tourism and Creative Economy sectors have proven to have contributed positively towards the growth of Indonesia's Economy, said Minister Mari Pangesttu at a recent press conference.
With positive tourism growth, we are confident to reach the target of 9.1 million international tourists in 2014, continued Minister Mari. In order to reach this target, Indonesia continues to pull potential markets, including China, for example, by increasing connectivity, creating a dedicated Mandarin website and working in cooperation with the Chinese government. Facilities like Immigration, Customs, airports and air links both internationally and within the country are constantly being improved, while regional events and special interest activities like cruising, yachting, sports, and many others will continue to be supported.
Statistics showed that during January through October 2013, Indonesia received a total of 7,134,052 foreign visitors, up 8.36% from the 6,583,629 the previous year. Top market sources are Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, China and Japan.
Chinese visitors grew by 21.43% to 633,921 arrivals, one of the highest and fastest increases. Indonesia hopes to receive 1 million tourists from China before 2015.
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On this site you will find information on the community groups in the village, events which are taking place, and information on the area's history and its environment.
Making connections:
This web site helps people to make connections within Down Hatherley, and it helps people in Down Hatherley connect to the rest of the world. Ideas, information and contributions are always welcome so please feel free to use the contact us page to let us know what you'd like to change or add. The site includes contact names and addresses for specific organisations or community interest groups.
Down Hatherley – its location and character:
Down Hatherley lies in the Green Belt between Cheltenham and Gloucester. It has evolved as an area of farming, small holdings, orchards and nurseries, and these are still very much in evidence in the locality. The area enjoys long open views across open farmland and some attractive walks across arable and pastoral farmland and along the Brickhampton Golf Course. The Cotswold Hills are prominent to the East, the Malvern Hills are in view to the North West, May Hill frames the view to the West, and Gloucester Cathedral is a key landmark to the South West.
As well as its 165 households, Down Hatherley includes St Mary and Corpus Christi Church, a village hall, the Hatherley Manor Hotel, a cricket club, garden centre, three plant nurseries, horse stables, and four farms.
Although there are few services and no shops in the parish........ adjacent villages, suburbs and the nearby major towns of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury together provide a great variety of choice just minutes away by car, bus or bike.
A new page has been created to share news of the Neighbourhood Development Plan and Joint Core Strategy. Click here for important updates
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There are two little villages close to the town,
One of 'em's Up and the other one's Down;
And once on a time a sprite, so they say,
Used to tell people wrong when asking the way.
Mind who you ask when you're asking the way!
You'd meet an old fellow all wrinkled and brown
And ask him the best way to Hatherley (Down),
And later you'd know that he'd sold you a pup
For you'd find yourself making for Hatherley (Up).
Or perhaps 'twould be dressed in another disguise,
A charming young lady with pretty blue eyes,
And she'd smilingly say to a stranger from town
"That's the way to Up Hatherley, pointing to Down.
All this of course happened a long time ago
And you ask if it's true, well, I really don't know.
But such things don't happen to people to-day
For lovely white sign-posts will show them the way.
Mind who you ask when you're asking the way !
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By E.R.P. Berryman
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Samuel Etoo to open a soccer Academy in Kenya
The Aznhi Machakakala forward who is the highest paid footballer in terms of salary made the announcement on Wednesday afternoon after grazing the finals of the Laikipia Unity tournament at the Nanyuki Municipal Stadium.
Eto'o has been ambassador of the tournament for the past two years and he says the new development is part of his gift back to the community.
"I am an African and I feel at home anywhere I go to in Africa. We want to build future stars from this academy, people who are going to be better than Eto'o, Essien or Mariga. We hope to impact on their lives positively not only in football but also in educating them", Eto'o said in Laikipia.
"We want to create more opportunities to these young people and ensure that they develop their talents", he adds.
On whether the same route should be followed by all African players, Eto'o says;
"I am an individual and I have chosen what to do. As for the others, they are all adults and I can not tell them what to do or not to do with their money. It is up to them to make that decision", he says.


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Rep. Christopher Lee is a married Republican congressman serving the 26th District of New York. But when he trolls Craigslist's "Women Seeking Men" forum, he's Christopher Lee, "divorced" "lobbyist" and "fit fun classy guy." One object of his flirtation told us her story.
On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Men" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" she asked, inviting "financially & emotionally secure" men to reply.
That afternoon, a man named Christopher Lee replied. He used a Gmail account that Rep. Christopher Lee has since confirmed to be his own. (It's the same Gmail account that was associated with Lee's personal Facebook account, which the Congressman deleted when we started asking questions.)
By email, Lee identified himself as a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist and sent a PG picture to the woman from the ad. (In fact, Lee is married and has one son with his wife. He's also 46.)
Hope I'm not a toad. :) i'm a very fit fun classy guy. Live in Cap Hill area. 6ft 190lbs blond/blue. 39.. Lobbyist. I promise not to disappoint.
Lee's Craigslist correspondent—a government employee from Maryland who asked not to be identified—liked what she saw. She replied flirtatiously. He replied with a PG-13 muscle picture.
Are you sure that's not a photo from a Jcpenney ad?
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From: Christopher Lee
Lol…no…Here.. I just took one..i'm relaxing at home.
By modern day standards, the conversation was relatively banal: No prostitutes, escorts, or madams were involved. Just good old fashioned lying and an apparent willingness to cheat on one's wife:
From: [redacted]@yahoo.com
To: Christopher Lee
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:33:27 -0800 (PST)
Thanks...so do you always send shirtless pics to women from cl?
From: Christopher Lee
To: [redacted]@yahoo.com
Sent: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 3:34:27 AM
Sorry. Its all I had
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From: [redacted]@yahoo.com
To: Christopher Lee
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:36:58 -0800 (PST)
I was only joking
From: Christopher Lee
To: [redacted]@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 3:37:52 AM
So when was your lasat date. And how did it go
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From: [redacted]@yahoo.com
To: Christopher Lee
Date: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:40 PM
A few weeks ago with a coworker's cousin..and it didn't go . I wanted to leave after 10 min...yours?
From: Christopher Lee
To: [redacted]@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 3:41:30 AM
Lol. last Monday.. She was not as advertised. Lol.. how do people think you aren't going to figure it out once you see them in person. J
From: [redacted]@yahoo.com
To: Christopher Lee
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:44 PM
They're hoping you'll let it slide.
Are you divorced?
From: Christopher Lee
To: [redacted]@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:45 PM
Yes.. one child.. You?
The woman says she cut off contact when she searched for Lee online and concluded he'd lied about his age, occupation, and marital status. Then she forwarded us the correspondence.
Yesterday, we reached out to Rep. Lee, whose support for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and vote to reject federal abortion funding suggests a certain comfort with publicly scrutinizing others' sex lives.
A spokesman for the Congressman confirmed that the email address belonged to Lee, and that he had deleted his Facebook account because our initial inquiry had him fretting about "privacy." (A screenshot of his account before it vanished is at right.)
So did the married Republican prowl Craiglist looking for hook ups? After first telling us that he couldn't comment until we forwarded every single email in question, a request we refused—shouldn't Lee know if he's corresponded with women on Craigslist?—Lee's spokesman eventually announced that the Congressman believed he'd been hacked, and provided an email he claims Lee sent to his staff about the security breach on January 21.
That could, theoretically, be true. But the evidence suggests otherwise. The emails were sent more than a week before the alleged hack. The shirtless photo—which, according to metadata contained in the picture, was taken in Washington, D.C.—was taken with a Blackberry, the same mobile device that Lee uses, which means the hacker would have also accessed the photos on Lee's phone. (And he'd still be the kind of guy who takes cellphone pictures of himself topless.) Finally, if someone had hacked into his account and was seeking to discredit the politician, why shoot in the dark with such relatively benign emails to a totally random middle-aged woman on Craigslist, who didn't seem motivated one way or the other to us, beyond wanting to share a funny story? And funny it is.
"The Congressman is happily married," said Lee's spokesman when pressed for answers to our questions. "The only time he or his wife posted something online was to sell old furniture when they changed the apartment they keep in DC."
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RailRiders sale dispute remains unresolved
The legal dispute between Lackawanna and Luzerne counties over who is entitled to what from $14.6 million sale of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders baseball franchise appears no closer to resolution more than a year after a judge rejected Luzerne County's bid for a summary judgment.
"It has not been scheduled for trial at this point and it doesn't look like it is going to be scheduled for trial in the foreseeable future," Lackawanna County solicitor Don Frederickson said.
Luzerne County sued Lackawanna County and its Multi-Purpose Stadium Authority in 2010, claiming it was entitled to half the proceeds from the then-pending sale of the Triple-A baseball franchise under the 1986 agreement that brought professional baseball to Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Lackawanna County filed a counterclaim, arguing Luzerne County should be on the hook for half of the $20 million-plus Lackawanna County taxpayers spent over the years to maintain the old PNC Field.
In April 2013, after the purchase of the franchise by SWB Yankees LLC, attorneys for Luzerne County asked visiting Senior Judge Richard N. Saxton Jr. to declare Luzerne County is entitled to 50 percent of the proceeds, minus a $345,000 deduction, based on what they called the clear and unambiguous language of the 1986 agreement. The judge rejected the motion.
Since then, there has been little change.
Frederickson and attorney Frank Tunis Jr., stadium authority solicitor, said the case is still in the discovery phase.
"There's not much to add," Tunis said. "We are still exchanging information and documents and taking depositions."
Both he and Frederickson said there are currently no settlement talks underway.
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Ravalli County health officials dealing with an unprecedented outbreak of pertussis banned all students with immunization exemptions in the Corvallis and Victor school districts from attending school until May 13.
Public Health Director Judy Griffin said any student who hasn't been vaccinated for pertussis, whether it's for religious or health reasons, will miss 21 days of school.
"Of course, the decisions you make aren't always popular,? said Griffin. ?We're trying to protect the general public, and we're trying to protect those babies out there that have no way of being totally immunized."
Griffin said twenty-two cases of whooping cough have been confirmed in Ravalli County, many of them students in the Corvallis and Victor school districts.
Corvallis School District Superintendent Monte Silk said on Monday that the plan is for teachers to prepare work for the unimmunized kids to take home, and for them to make up any tests they miss when they return to school on May 13.
Silk said he?s expecting plenty of feedback from parents who aren?t happy with the decision.
"You can't be on school grounds, you can't come to school for 21 days. If you even get a shot tomorrow, you still have another 14 days to wait,? said Silk. (Extra-curricular activities) are the fun part of school. And when you're looking at sports and two state championships on the line, it causes you to think a lot."
Silk said parents can still trust their children won't fall behind.
"They should not worry unduly about the education of their child, because the teachers and the administration will make sure we get them their materials and resources to keep up with school, take their tests when they come back. "


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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson offered up a first look at him portraying Greek demigod Hercules. He tweeted on March 23, 2014: "EXCLUSIVE first look. #HERCULES The world's first superhero. #TilDeathOrVictory."
Set to hit theaters July 25, 2014, the action-adventure movie begins after Hercules has endured his legendary 12 labors, and has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.
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As a musician who, on the new Apples In Stereo CD New Magnetic Wonder, introduces a new musical scale that he's invented, it's not surprising to hear Robert Schneider has lofty goals for the band's records.
In press materials for the new album, Schneider says he wanted to make a CD that felt "life affirming and real, yet ultra hi-fi and unreal at the same time." He laments that such a record might not be technically feasible.
Schneider's bandmate, bassist Eric Allen, isn't quite so critical.
"I would disagree (with Schneider) and say this album to me is all those things," Allen says. "But I know how it is. Robert's got stuff in his head that he'd like to hear on tape, and has not yet."
Chances are fans of creative, finely crafted Power Pop will side with Allen once they hear New Magnetic Wonder, which could very well be this year's best Pop album. That the Apples In Stereo returned to action with such a stellar effort won't come as a surprise to fans of the group's previous work.
The band, whose beginnings date back to 1992 in Denver, emerged on the national scene three years later -- after several personnel changes that saw the arrival of Allen, guitarist John Hill and drummer Hilarie Sidney -- with the CD Fun Trick Noisemaker. Led the by songwriting of Schneider (with Sidney pitching in a few tunes as well), the band quickly gained a reputation for superior Pop songcraft, a fact affirmed by subsequent albums like Tone Soul Evolution (1997), Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999) and The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (2000).
The band's 2002 release Velocity Of Sound represented a significant stylistic turn for the Apples.
The CD retained the catchiness of the earlier efforts, but where previous discs were textured, studio-crafted works with keyboards frequently laced within a sunny Guitar Pop sound, Velocity Of Sound rocked hard. The band's sound was stripped back to guitar/bass/drums and the tempos were kicked up to create a collection of tunes that barreled along one after another.
"It was more kind of for the first time reconciling who we are on record with who we are live," Allen says of Velocity. "I think that's what we kind of needed to do. Let's make an album that actually captures the way we sound live, that's faster and rawer and doesn't have that much on it."
Having made that artistic statement, Allen says, the band naturally gravitated back toward making a much more studio-crafted and musically-varied CD with New Magnetic Wonder. But as the five-year gap between albums suggests, the path to completing New Magnetic Wonder was long and not always smooth. Several factors contributed to the long delay. For one thing, several band members took time to work on other projects. Hill toured and recorded with Power Pop band Dressy Bessy. Schneider also worked with a couple of side projects, Ulysses and Marbles.
Another issue was far more personal -- the divorce of Schneider and Sidney. Although Sidney remained with the band for the entire New Magnetic Wonder project, she recently left to devote her full energies to her other band, High Water Marks.
"I think they did really well with it for awhile, and certainly a lot better than I would have done under the circumstances," Allen says. "But, yeah, I think they're both in a really good place now and happy with their lives, and it's just kind of natural for Hilarie to separate from the band."
Then there was the recording of Wonder itself, which stretched over 18 months and involved work in five studios in five different cities. While Schneider and his bandmates have never shied away from taking advantage of studio technologies on the Apples albums, New Magnetic Wonder was the band's most ambitious project yet. What eventually emerged was a meticulously crafted set of 14 songs linked by a dozen brief musical segues that feature plenty of densely layered instrumentation and sonic ear candy.
While the logistics of the project created challenges, Allen says Wonder became a better CD because of the time that went into the project.
"We really got to spend a lot of time listening to rough mixes and kind of stuff that was unfinished, and it just sort of germinated," he says. "I think if we had the money to crank the album out in two months, I don't think it would be nearly as rich as it is now."
Listening to Wonder (which is being co-released by Yep Roc Records and the new label owned by actor Elijah Wood, Simian Records) the time and effort that went into the project was clearly worthwhile. A multi-faceted and typically upbeat collection, songs such as "Can You Feel It?" and "7 Stars" recall the peppy Pop of Inside the Moon, while the group's more raucous, guitar-centric sound emerges on tunes like "Skyway" and "Sundial Song." Between those extremes fall songs like "Same Old Drag" (a keyboard-based tune that might inspire comparisons to Ben Folds), the gorgeous melancholy of the ballad "Play Tough" and the dreamy psychedelia of "Open Eyes." It all makes for a consistently satisfying kaleidoscope of Pop in the tradition of Brian Wilson's Smile and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's.
The sonic detail in the music, of course, will take some doing to re-create in a live setting. To meet that challenge, Apples In Stereo has expanded from the previous four-person lineup to six band members, with keyboardists Bill Doss (formerly of Olivia Tremor Control) and John Ferguson (of Ulysses) joining Schneider, Hill, Allen and new drummer John Dufilho (formerly of the Deathray Davies). The new lineup has obviously created a very different dynamic on stage.
"For me, it feels kind of like a new band," Allen says. "There's me, Robert and John Hill, and then there are three other guys who are totally new, who I get along with great, but I'm still learning about them. When you've hung out with someone (Sidney) for 10 or 11 years, you know, it's like a comfortable pair of shoes, or sometimes an uncomfortable pair of shoes. But you know everything about them, about their families. You've spent so much time traveling together. So in a way, it makes me kind of feel like I'm in a new band, which I like the feeling, actually, because it will kind of break you out of some of your comfort areas and make you think about things differently than you have in awhile."
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The ceremony will be outdoors and is expected to last two hours. The ceremony begins with the procession of graduates, the faculty, and the President's party. The two-hour program includes the awarding of honorary degrees, remarks from the guest speaker, the President's message to graduates, and the conferring of degrees by school.
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|Canadian Show Jumping Team Finishes Second in Belgian Nations' Cup
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May 2, 2008 — The Canadian Show Jumping Team comprised of Mac Cone of King City, ON, Jill Henselwood, of Oxford Mills, ON, Eric Lamaze, of Schomberg, ON, and Ian Millar, of Perth, ON, finished second in the FEI Nations' Cup held Friday, May 2, during the CSIO 5* Lummen in Belgium.
With 14 countries fielding teams in the Nations' Cup, Canada was tied for third at the end of the first round with a score of eight faults. Lamaze and Hickstead, a 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion owned by Torrey Pines Stables and Ashland Stables, provided a clear round for the Canadian team, while Millar, riding Susan Grange and Lothlorien Farms' In Style, a 13-year-old Holsteiner gelding, and Cone riding Ole, a 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned by Sara Houstoun and Larry Evoy, incurred four faults each. As Canada's lead-off rider, Henselwood riding Special Ed incurred eight faults.
In a format that sees the top six countries return for the second round, Norway was in the early lead with a perfect score of zero while Italy was second with four faults. In a tie for third place eight faults were Belgium, Canada, France, and Sweden.
In the second round both Lamaze and Millar had fault-free performances while Henselwood had four faults riding Special Ed, a 14-year-old Oldenburg gelding owned by Juniper Farms. Cone's eight-fault performance provided the drop score. Counting only four faults in the second round, Canada finished in second place. Norway won the competition with a two-round total score of eight faults, France was third and Italy finished fourth. The home team of Belgium finished fifth while Sweden rounded out the top six.
"The course was quite big with the triple combination in the course posing quite an athletic test for the horses and riders," remarked Terrance Millar, chef d'équipe of the Canadian Show Jumping Team. "Only six teams came back for the second round. All in all, it was a very good result for our first show."
The four Canadian riders will again form a team in two weeks time for the Nations' Cup competition at CSIO 5* Madrid in Spain. A Nations' Cup is the only competition in show jumping where riders, competing in teams of four, compete against other countries for top honours. The top three scores from each team are counted towards the final result of the two-round competition.
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TWO artists made debuts at the New York City Opera on Sun day--Elyakum Shapirra, who conducted "Carmen" in the afternoon, and Maria Coronada, who sang Maddalena in the evening performance of "Andrea Chenier."
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Mark Wahlberg Discusses Why His Planet Of The Apes Movie Didn't Work
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes was one of the surprise hits of the summer, grossing $483 million worldwide and earning rave reviews for Andy Serkis motion-capture performance as the hyper-intelligent chimp, Caesar. Rise wasnt the first time somebody tried a high-profile relaunch of the Apes franchise in recent years, however. Back in 2001, Tim Burton spun a straight-up remake of the original Planet of the Apes, starring Mark Wahlberg in the astronaut role made famous by Charlton Damn Dirty Apes Heston. It was, as you may recall, not very good. It didnt really improve on the original, and in its attempts to put a new spin on the movies infamous twist ending, it instead wound up being merely nonsensical.
It turns out, critics werent the only ones who found Burtons Planet of the Apes lacking. In an interview with MTV Movies Blog, actor Mark Wahlberg admitted that his Apes movie simply wasnt very good. When asked if hed seen Rise yet, Wahlberg said, I haven't seen it yet, but I heard it was pretty damn good. Well, ours wasn't. It is what it is. Ours wasn't.
Wahlberg explains further, suggesting that many of the films problems stemmed from the studio rushing the production to the finish line: They didn't have the script right. They had a release date before he had shot a foot of film. They were pushing him and pushing him in the wrong direction. You have got to let Tim do his thing."
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Sarah Beeny is back with a brand new series helping homeowners in distress to rescue houses that appear to be terminally ill.
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Sarah Beeny is back helping homeowners in distress. In Narborough she meets Jamie and Charlotte who fear their house is sinking. Sarah and her team of specialists diagnose subsidence and roof spread.
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Sarah Beeny and her team of specialists diagnose and deal with another host of potentially terminal property problems. The team head to the Murphy family's chocolate box cottage.
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Sarah Beeny intervenes to help Mandy Franks, who is terrified her Swinton home of 15 years is falling down a mineshaft. Or could the mystery cracking be due to the pub next door?
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Sarah Beeny meets recently engaged couple Mark and Gudren whose Warwick home has walls that are crumbling to dust, while the timbers are being eaten by woodworm.
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Sarah Beeny helps to rescue single mum Carole's dream of living the Good Life in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. She has hens and a vegetable patch, but her 1950s bungalow is splitting apart.
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Can Sarah help save a 14th-century Essex farmhouse from utter ruin? Andy and Andrea Green are at the end of their tether with their home's leaking roof and a dangerously decayed bathroom floor.
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Sarah meets mum-of-four Christine Davis whose home of 23 years in Woolwich is riddled with problems and threatening to slide away. Can a mousecatcher and digger make it all better?
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