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The Antigua Guatemala Hotel Guide covers the best 10 hotels in all of Antigua Guatemala by number of Hotel room, services, and tripadvisor number of reviews. Hotel Casa Antigua offers many fine services during your stay, in Antigua Guatemala. It is our service that keeps people coming back, year after year. Even though we are not a 5-star hotel building, we try to maintain a 5-star hotel service, for our budget prices. Please let us know of any special wishes and we will do our best to fulfill them. We also offer special services like for your wedding, anniversary or any special occasion.
Casa Antigua is a beautiful hotel. Everything is very clean and the staff was extremely helpful. My parents came to visit and they don't speak any Spanish but the wonderful lady at reception spoke enough to make them feel comfortable and they said they wouldn't want to stay anywhere else in Antigua. The rooms are very affordable and the location… More
I recently stayed at Hotel Casa Antigua for 10 days with a large group of high school students. The location could not be better – about 1/2 block from the main plaza. The hotel staff was extremely helpful and friendly. When we had problems – a broken lock, a toilet issue – it was fixed immediately. The rooms were cleaned… More
I normally stay here with groups of volunteers who come from different parts of the world and we all love this hotel. The staff is AMAZING, the location is fabulous and I love the new improvements on the front desk and other parts of the hotel. It's hard to find a very attentive and detail-oriented staff and this hotel has… More
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I chose Hotel Casa Antigua for my lodging in Antigua Guatemala based upon the description of the hotel in the Lonely Planet Guatemala guidebook, as well as the many reviews posted by former guests here on TripAdvisor. E-mail communication with hotel personnel was fast and easy. In order to secure my reservation, the hotel requested my credit card information, then…
- 22 room historical property, all with private bath & cable TV
- 24hr reception in a very secure environment (bilingual staff during the day)
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- 3 gardens, all with fountains & sitting areas, surrounded by beautiful flowers
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We offer 22 very comfortable & clean hotel rooms. All with beautiful Guatemalan typical furniture & fabrics, & many antiques with lots of history. All hotel rooms have cable TV, Wi-fi & new anti-stress beds. There are many antique items dating back several hundred years throughout the hotel.
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The beautiful Vanessa (Adrienne Bailon) introduces him to a congregation that eschews the description "religious" for "person of faith" and a pastor (Galley Molina) who drives a Lamborghini with no sense of irony.
A church where he doesn't have to give up style for God (who's credited as an executive producer, by the way) — or, for that matter, his eight-bedroom house, $300,000 Bentley and stacks of cash, all derived from a life of crime?
Why wouldn't Miles go for that? What's even more offensive is he apparently doesn't even have to atone for his past sins.
Competently filmed by director Steve Race and cinematographer Keith J. Duggan, "I'm in Love With a Church Girl" otherwise suffers from the same ills as too many movies that preach to the choir: a laborious length, formulaic plot and dialogue and, disappointing for a film that stars a rapper, a stock score.
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Agree with those who say it would take a 1960's rendition of Ali to beat Vitali ( and Wlad for that matter. ) Muhammad was still awesome in the 1970's and a head to head monster at that.. But Vitali is a different kind of animal from the ones that he faced during that era. Going through spurts of flicking the jab while taking periodic breaks to stop and hold, aren't going to cut it for Ali here... He'd have to use constant movement at full speed for the duration of the fight, and Ali from 1974 onward was no longer capable of this...
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) today announced the completion of the sale of land adjacent to the nuclear site at Sellafield in Cumbria, comprising approximately 190 hectares (470 acres), for a value of at least £70 million.
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The first images in "Nadia and the Hippos" are, fittingly, of giant traffic jams in Paris caused by a transportation strike; in many ways, watching this Gallic pic is akin to being stuck in interminable gridlock. It's not an uninteresting trip, with understated moments that pack real emotional power, but helmer Dominique Cabrera never succeeds in her attempt to merge the political and the personal.
The first images in "Nadia and the Hippos" are, fittingly, of giant traffic jams in Paris caused by a transportation strike; in many ways, watching this Gallic pic is akin to being stuck in interminable gridlock. It's not an uninteresting trip, with understated moments that pack real emotional power, but helmer Dominique Cabrera never succeeds in her attempt to merge the political and the personal. The small-scale human dramas are much more affecting and memorable than the endless political discussions, which often feel like Left-wing Unionism 101. Pic will likely elicit limited arthouse action on home turf, but the French political issues at the heart of the yarn will scare off most international auds.Tale is set in December 1995, in the middle of a giant transportation strike that has paralyzed the country. Parisians have to walk, cycle or brave insanely crowded streets to wend their way to work, while the striking rail workers mount picket lines throughout the city. Nadia (Ariane Ascaride) arrives on foot at the Austerlitz train station with her 6-month-old son, Christopher (Najd Hamou-Medja), in tow. She tells a group of strikers she is looking for a train worker named Gerard. Only gradually does she reveal that the guy she's seeking is the baby's father, who she hasn't seen since the kid was born. It turns out that she caught sight of the father on the TV news the night before while watching a report on the labor dispute. Train-company strikers Serge (Thierry Fremont), Jean-Paul (Philippe Fretun) and Claire (Marilyne Canto) offer to assist by taking Nadia with them as they visit various groups of striking workers around the city. Pic chronicles the foursome's night of travel, swinging between little personal dramas and big, union-themed chats. Out of the blue, Jean-Paul declares his love for Nadia, while — almost at the same time — Serge is bitterly attacking longtime colleague Claire for being cold and repressed. Pic derives its resonance from an almost doculike immediacy, in large part thanks to the use of real-life railroad workers for many of the group scenes. Cabrera has also created an intriguing character in Nadia, a sullen, angry welfare mom who is both irritating and endearing. But the emotional confrontations often feel contrived. Worse, the central plot development concerning the identity of the baby's father is a bit of a stretch. Ascaride does a good job as the woman at the center of the tale, her expressive range allowing her to move convincingly from raging incoherence to tenderness. Other lead thesps are equally strong, bringing their characters' small dramas to life with surprising force. Pic is shot almost entirely at night, in dark settings, and uses little music. Title refers to a small hippopotamus ornament hanging inside windshield of the van. It's a fairly obtuse metaphor, with heavyweight beast meant to rep old-fashioned, nonsuperficial culture.
Nadia and the Hippos
A Diaphana Distribution release (in France) of an Agat Film & Cie. production, in association with La Sept Arte and La Sofica Gimages 2 and with the participation of Canal Plus and the CNC. (International sales: Mercure Distribution, Paris.) Produced by Gilles Sandoz. Directed by Dominique Cabrera. Screenplay, Cabrera, Philippe Corcuff.
Camera (color), Helene Louvart; editor, Sophie Brunet; music, Beatrice Thiriet; art director, Raymond Sarti; sound, Xavier Griette, Gerard Lamps; assistant director, Marianne Fricheau. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), May 15, 1999. Running time: 102 MIN.
Nadia - Ariane Ascaride Claire - Marilyne Canto Serge - Thierry Fremont Jean-Paul - Philippe Fretun Christopher - Najd Hamou-Medja Andre - Olivier Gourmet With: Pierre Berriau, Laurent Arnal, Michel Bony.


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After adding several (> 20) mail filters using Zimbra Desktop I ended up with some rather strange errors:
After that the filter does not show up in the list - however when I try to add another filter with the same name I get the error message that this filter already exists.Code:msg: system failure: modifying acct (zimbraId=a1ce0664-2636-4e86-805f-14396f5c7165) code: service.FAILURE method: SaveRulesRequest detail: soap:Receiver trace: btpool0-15:1231236096570:ac035f1f95d02f51
I think I'm using the latest version of Zimbra Desktop (at least some weeks ago it updated itself to the latest verison) on Ubuntu Hardy, together with the latest version of the ZCS (Network Edition).
Before I started using the desktop client I added all my mail filters via the web interface. Unfortunatly, these filters never appeard in the 'mail filter' tab of the desktop client. When I added a new filter using the desktop client (by accident, because I expected the following to happen), all rules that were previously there vanished. I had to re-add all my rules then (> 30) - while doing this I ran into the problem described above.


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A while ago I asked a question on Stackoverflow regarding the use of Web Deployment Projects with an x86 build configuration to which I got no answers within a reasonable time frame and I really needed an answer. Fortunately The Gu came to my rescue and put me in touch with a couple of engineers at Microsoft who assisted me with the fix.
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`Science and Faith' seminar set for Dallas' Wilshire Baptist Church this Saturday
The all-day event will feature three Baylor University professors – Gerald Cleaver, a physicist; Barry Harvey, a theologian; and Phyllis Tippit, a geologist.
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Science & Faith Seminar Apr. 24
"Science and Faith: Breaking Down the Wall" is the title of a unique seminar to be offered at Wilshire on Saturday, April 24 in coordination with the Baylor University Center for Ministry Effectiveness and Educational Leadership.
This will be the second presentation of this seminar in Texas, following on its premier at First Baptist Church of Austin in January.
Seminar times are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Morning refreshments and lunch will be included in the registration fee of $30. Location is Community Hall. Schedule breakdown with information. (pdf)
"One of the great challenges deep in American culture today is reconciling tenets of the Christian faith with those of modern science," noted Donald Schmeltekopf, former Baylor provost and an organizer of this event. "Many noted scientists and mathematicians often think they cannot become Christians due to the common misconceptions of conflicts between faith and science. High school and college students often lose their faith because of this same misunderstanding. Many Christians see science as a threat to their faith rather than a means to enriching it."
The goal of this seminar is to educate people both inside the church and outside the church about the engagement of faith and science. Clergy and laity alike will be challenged to understand how, in their pursuit of truth as Christian people, faith will be strengthened and Christian effectiveness increased when they take both biblical theology and science seriously.
"The sponsors of this seminar believe that as Christians better understand the relationship between the Christian faith and the scientific investigation of the natural world, many who may currently see these as antagonistic, or at best as disconnected, will begin to view them as complementary, while also mutually informing and edifying them," Schmeltekopf said. "Christians–indeed, congregations–will become more aware of the positive relationship between faith and science that is possible when each is properly understood, with God seen as the author of both."
Speakers for the seminar are Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor; Barry Harvey, professor of theology at Baylor; and Phyllis Tippit, lecturer in geology and interdisciplinary science at Baylor.
Registration is required to attend the seminar, which is open to the community. There is a registration fee of $30. You may register by contacting Sandy Allen at (214) 452-3150. A registration page has been set up if you would like to register online and pay by Mastercard or Visa. You will need to create a login if you don't already have one, and both members and non-members may register this way. If paying by cash or check, you may mail it in, pay in the church office, or pay at the door. We would like to have your name before the event.


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The patrol says that answering agents' questions is voluntary, part of a "consensual and nonintrusive conversation"
Er, no. I experienced this first-hand in June, coming home on Amtrak from Moorhead MN. The train hits Buffalo very early in the morning, and I was awakened by some person asking where I was born. Apparently "huh?" is not the right answer, as he then began yelling for ID in Spanish and English.
Trust me, you don't have the choice not to answer. And, they will not answer any questions put to them about the reason they are checking citizenship on a train that crosses no international borders, or why they seem to be targeting only those who aren't white, other than to say, "Please sit down, ma'am." (Although after that, they will very carefully begin asking every single person's citizenship status.)


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Florida Man Arrested for Driving Drunk in School Zone
According to News 4 in Jacksonville, Fla., a Tampa man was arrested Wednesday, August 20 for DUI while in a school zone.
The police said that Michael Trotter Shaffer, 28, had a blood alcohol level of more than four times the legal limit.
Shaffer was arrested around 2pm after being pulled over by a deputy monitoring traffic in front of an elementary school.
The breath tests registered his blood alcohol level at .376 and .367. The officers charged Shaffer with a DUI, driving with license revoked-habitual offender, battery of a law enforcement officer and obstructing or opposing an officer.


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03/08/2011, St Annes, Martinique
A very pleasant sail from Guadeloupe down to Martinique, passing Isles des Saintes and Dominica without stopping as we wanted to put some miles in and hopefully meet up with the Burch family on Samba who we met in Lanzarote. The Grib files predicted constant Easterly winds of 14-16 knots. We are learning the nuances of Caribbean winds and despite having to motor some of the way, it really was a lovely sail, sunny, no swell, kids happy, clear night. Mark and I had forgotten how hard it was to do nights - I think a one off is harder than a three weeks passage, where you can get into a routine. I had to stand up to take watch so if I nodded off, my legs buckled under me and woke me up!! Perhaps my biggest sailing faux pas so far took form in the shape of the biggest riding turn in history. For landlubbers, the rope got knotted all around the winch big stylee. I was trying to get the genoa out without waking up Mark, but this only resulted in him waking up for his watch with having to rapidly sort out my cock up. I really wish I had a photo to demonstrate, but I was too busy eating humble pie to remember the camera. Arrived in Martinique to the back drop of a gorgeous sunrise only to be met by really miserable diesel operators who seemed irritated by my bad French, and all my insecurities about 'giving it a go' came flooding back. We tried to anchor in Fort de France but it was really busy and I wussed out, choosing a quieter anchorage round the corner in Schoelcher, where we got the opportunity to practise putting both anchors out til we get our new anchor. We had fun negotiating their annual dinghy regatta of 200 plus optimists, windsurfers and hobies to get inshore. Little update 24 hours on..... we are drinking ti punch with Mel and Pete from Samba - so lovely to meet up with fellow sailors. Current location: St Annes, Martinique.
03/06/2011, Deshaies, Guadeloupe
The last couple of days have probably been two of my favourite since leaving Greece. We had no major jobs to do (well, there are, but we don't have the parts yet!) and it was just the Jackson Four and Pegasus having fun. Lochy has cooked us breakfast two days in a row - pancakes and eggy bread! Yesterday, Mia swam over to the boat next to us in the anchorage to say hello. When Isabella swam over to us two weeks ago we thought it was astounding that an 8 year old could do that and yet now Mia and Lochy can jump off the back of the boat into water out of their depth and snorkel. Mark has been teaching Mia to dive. When she asked me to demonstrate, I had to admit that I couldn't actually dive on account of not liking to put my face under water! So at the tender age of 39, I had my first lessons in diving from my husband! Apparently I can dive perfectly, except at the end I bend my knees. I put that down to trying to stop my bikini bottoms from coming off! Once I change my swimming attires I am sure I will score the perfect 10. Mia has been practising her French with Harold, a French lad who comes in the morning to the boat to deliver croissants and baguettes.
Tomorrow we leave for Martinique. The boat is tidy and ready to go. Now, there's a first. We would have left today however I didn't want to miss skyping the Newcastle Uni girls on their reunion weekend.
03/04/2011, Guadeloupe
I must stop worrying about the fact that I am crap at languages and just get on and speak it! Most of the time I can formulate what I want to say in French, even not blush when I say it now, but I have to concentrate so hard on speaking that I can't then possibly understand what has been said in return. Correction. I probably could understand the response but I am just not listening becauase all my focus of attention has gone on speaking! However, I really want to encourage the children to speak French (and in Guadeloupe, all the boat kids are French) and so I have to overcome my own insecurities of speaking languages and show that it's OK to get it wrong. Mia and Lochy kept running back to me to say "how do I ask....?" whilst playing with kids on the beach today. It was soul destroying to see them speak and then get ignored by the other kids, but they kept at it, bless them and I suppose it will come with more exposure. I was watching a video posted on Ellen MacArthur's website about whether schools are killing creativity by Ken Robinson - and Mia asked me why I was laughing and what I was watching. When I explained that this man thinks we should pay as much attention to art/creative subjects as maths and English, she replied "finally, a grown up who agrees with us kids." Classic. Mind, she was drawing at the time.
We visited Steve and Julie Ferreira on their boat. It's always great to listen to others' experiences and compare set ups. I think Mark was quite tempted by their last trip through Panama to head North to Alaska rather than South to NZ, but he can't complain about the heat here - it's been overcast and rainy most of the day. We had a lovely lunch in Deshaies and the kids enjoyed a swim again. Tomorrow after school work we'll head over to the town again and explore a little more as it seems a shame to leave immediately and we could check in and out at the same time online at a cafe, which was the easiest customs check we have ever had. Vive la France!
03/02/2011, Guadeloupe
Finally, after three days of procrastination, we set off for Guadeloupe today. The weather reports said 20 knots of wind and 1 metre swells, so of course it was gusting 35 and peeing with rain. Our new addition to our wish list is a rocna anchor after realising that we pretty much drag wherever we are - we clearly don't have a big enough anchor. So that is our highest priority. Down to number 2 on the list is the water filter which would mean an end to horrible plastic water bottles. I can't call myself green, using solar showers and wind power one minute and buying 20 5 litre water bottles the next. Then, moving down the list to number three is the holding tank, as we are starting to do a very good job of coordinating bowel movements with shore trips (no mean feat with 4 of us!) wonder why we bother with bowel retention however, when the water taxi man suggested the kids didn't paddle in English Harbour yesterday as they had just pumped the town's sewage out into the bay and it had just stopped bubbling black. Mmm. Nice.
So, back to our trip out of Antigua. Peeing down with rain as we take all the mooring lines off the mangroves, Mark takes in the 2nd anchor before we take up the 1st anchor (see, I said our anchor doesn't hold - belts and braces approach!) I said to Mark that we needed to leave at 10.30am at the latest if we are to make Guadeloupe in daylight. We finally leave at 11.30am. Luckily, with the strong winds, we make it JUST as the sun sets and the fog that has covered Guadeloupe for the whole trip lifts. Mia very excited to see a Jersey registered boat that actually looks like it might be from Jersey (i.e. not 100 foot super yacht tax dodge) so we row over to meet Steve and Julie Ferreira on Dos Tintos who ARE from Jersey - yippee - invited for coffee tomorrow morning.
The trip itself was wet, swelly. Mia felt sick and Lochy read Harry Potter for 4 hours before feeling sick himself. So, glad that one is over. Lochy excited to add Brown Boobies onto his tick list from his Caribbean Bird Book. We have decided to stay at least tomorrow to explore and make the boat more ship shape, before leaving for Martinique.
Cath x
02/26/2011, Antigua - still!
When we arrived in Antigua, we said to a 9 year old boat kid that we thought we'd be here for a week. He replied "thats what YOU think. We've been here for two and a half years." And I have to admit, it's quite hard to leave! We enjoyed sailing round to Jolly Harbour, getting more experienced with dropping our anchor, and then coming back to English Harbour. Mark and I are in agreement that we are abit lazy when it comes to sailing. If we are going to sail then we want to GO somewhere - like another country. It's all abit of a faff pulling up the anchor, stowing everything away, just for a couple of hour jaunt around the coast and then spending a couple of hours wondering if our anchor is holding before venturing ashore! The kids' swimming has really improved just with them jumping off the back of the boat. Lochy is in twitching heaven, with all the different species of bird there is to see, both on the coast and in the rainforest. And finally, we have met loads of boat kids, which has been great for the kids and for us - lots of beach excursions, a birthday party and exposure to French.
We said goodbye to Alan who went off on the RORC 600 race with the big boys and then said hello to him again when he came back 4 days later, but he is no longer on our boat and we are back to being just the Jackson Four - we shall miss his moans and groans in the morning "I'm not a morning person" and I shall miss thrashing him at Backgammon!!
We have found our routine with school again after a weeks holiday and the kids have enjoyed going to the Nelson Dockyard museum and learning about how he was shipped home in a barrel of French Brandy!
We are going to be heading down South soon - once our trampoline is back on having been repaired - maybe Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia etc. So if anyone wants to visit, just name their island.....!
02/09/2011, Antigua!!
Oops! I forgot to say - yes - we did arrive! At 1.30am on 8/2/11 we dropped anchor. All the advice is not to go into a strange port in the dark and we weren't sure if we were going to have to hang around til morning, but after we had scoped the entrance a couple of times, we were lucky to see another yacht enter the harbour, so we slipped in behind and then found a suitable anchorage. Sipped bubbly once we had ensured the anchor had bitten and sat around quite incredulous that we had actually stopped moving!! Antigua is lovely. We are enjoying the rest before tidying up the boat! We were really sad to say goodbye to Chloe who has landed on her feet with a lovely job/accomodation. Alan has paid his backgammon debts and we are looking forward to celebrating Mia's birthday tomorrow. Thank you, everyone for all your comments and best wishes, Blogs will more than likely be less frequent now I am on dry land!! Love, Cath xxx
Congrats on your great achievement so far. Many happy returns, Catherine and Mia. Sorry the greetings are late but we only got back from Cambodia yesterday and were able to read your blog. We look forward to your updates.
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Thousands of cancer patients whose disease has spread to the bone could benefit from a new drug currently being approved for use on the NHS.
Denosumab (Xgeva) helps prevent bone complications in people whose cancer has spread from its original site.
These complications include bone fractures, spinal compression (when the spinal cord is compressed by the bone) and bone complications requiring radiotherapy or surgery.
Symptoms include pain as well as weakening and eventual destruction of the bone.
New draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) recommends the drug for certain groups of cancer patients whose disease has spread, most commonly the spine, pelvis, hip, upper leg bones and skull.
These patients include women with bone tumours from breast cancer, and men with painful bone disease spread caused by hormone-refractory prostate cancer for whom other treatments have failed.
Other patients, who currently qualify for standard treatment with zoledronic acid, will also be able to receive the drug.
Professor Carole Longson, director of the centre for health technology evaluation at Nice, said: "Bone metastasis is associated with increased pain and skeletal-related events such as fractures and spinal cord compression.
"It can have a major impact on quality of life and we are therefore pleased to be able to recommend denosumab."
The drug's manufacturer, Amgen, estimates there are more than 150,000 patients in the UK with solid tumours and disease that has spread to the bone.
Breast and prostate cancer patients account for more than 80% of this group. The cost of the drug is just over £4,000 per year but could be lower after Amgen negotiated a discount deal for the NHS.
The guidance is still subject to consultation.
Prostate Action chief executive Emma Malcolm said: "When it comes to providing drugs allowing cancer sufferers a longer and more comfortable life, all the dice are loaded against men with prostate cancer.
"The NHS does an admirable job of providing breast cancer sufferers with drugs that maintain their quality of life; unfortunately the same is not true for men with prostate cancer, who are all too frequently left out in the cold.
"Nice's proposals to make denosumab available on the NHS represent an admirable move towards redressing this shocking imbalance."
Owen Sharp, chief executive of the Prostate Cancer Charity, said: "This draft decision is good news for men with prostate cancer and sends an encouraging message to men in the final stages of the disease that their needs have not been forgotten.
"Although it will not extend lives, this simple injection gives these men the chance of a much better quality of life."
He said he hoped today's draft guidance may mean Nice reverses its decision on another drug, abiraterone, which has been shown to extend life.
Tara Beaumont, clinical nurse specialist at Breast Cancer Care, said: "Currently there are limited treatment options for secondary breast cancer patients with bone metastases, so this recommendation would widen patient and clinician choice."
A twice-daily skin cancer drug almost doubles the survival times of advanced cancer patients, American scientists have discovered. Researchers from the Jonsson Cancer Center at the University of California, found that advanced melanoma cancer sufferers lived on average of 16 months after receiving the vemurafenib drug. Read the full story here. Read the full story here
Scientists have discovered five new genes that cause heart attacks and strokes and hope these findings will enable them to pinpoint when the attacks will strike. The researchers, from Queen Mary University of London, identified five generic variants that trigger heart attacks and strokes after investigating blood pressure measurements of 25,000 participants. The aim of the study was to look into the role that genes play in hypertension and high blood pressure. Read the full story here.
American scientists have discovered a potential new drug that could help fight against Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscientists from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine discovered that a skin cancer drug called bexarotene appears to reverse cognitive and memory deficits associated with Alzheimer's when tested on lab mice. Read the full story here.
A "personalised" pill for advanced skin cancer that can extend life has been approved for use in the UK. The drug, vemurafenib, only works for patients with a specific variant of the BRAF gene. Read the full story here.
The genetic code of the most common form of hereditary breast cancer has been mapped for the first time, offering hope for diagnosis and treatment of the disease in the future. Researchers say they have "fully sequenced" the DNA of two breast cancers caused by a faulty BRCA1 gene, which is responsible for aggressive and highly drug-resistant tumours. Read the full story here.
Scientists from the Northwestern University in Chicago have come one step closer to developing a potential cure for peanut allergies, by creating an immune system tolerant to peanuts. The researchers found that they can switch off potentially deadly peanut allergy attacks by tricking the immune system into tolerating nut proteins, and not seeing them as a threat to the body. Read the full story here.
A breakthrough lung cancer detection test is set to be trialled on smokers for the first time in Scotland. If successful, cancers could be identified five years earlier than by current detection methods. Read the full story here.
Sleepless nights could soon be a thing of the past as scientists discover a key chemical trigger that suppresses sleep and wakes people up. Researchers from Boston University found that when the body has too little of the calcium kinase enzyme, it causes the brain to nod off to sleep. Read the full story here.
A new treatment for breast cancer has been discovered after scientists found that breast tumours can be killed in minutes - by boiling them. The latest treatment, known as Preferential Radio-Frequency Ablation, uses a targeted electrical current that heats, or 'boils' the tumour to 70 to 90c (160 to 190f). Read the full story here.
British scientists have developed a revolutionary breast-screening system that uses anti-landmine technology to detect cancer in seconds. The radio-wave scanner is safer, cheaper and less painful than traditional mammogram X-rays, and unlike the current system, can be used on women of all ages. Read the full story here.
Breakthrough research involving a brain transplant of stem cells could offer hope for the treatment of both autism and Parkinson's disease. The study, from Harvard University, has already proven successful with mice. Scientists transferred healthy stem cells from mouse embryos into the brains of adult mice who were unable to use leptin, a hormone that tells the body when to stop eating. Read the full story here.
A stomach implant that can trick the brain into thinking the stomach is full is the latest hi-tech gadget that experts hope will help fight the flab and beat obesity. The Abiliti, or 'Gastric Pacemaker', is a credit card-sized implant, inserted using keyhole surgery, which detects when food has been eaten and sends signals to the brain to create the feeling of fullness. Read the full story here.
Scientists from the Imperial College London have discovered a 'fertility switch' that could help treat infertility and miscarriage in the future. The study, published in the Nature Medicine journal, discovered an enzyme in the body that determines infertility and the chances of miscarriage, as it acts like a 'switch'. Read the full story here.
Eviplera, a new once-daily pill for the treatment of HIV has been made available in 27 countries of the European Union following approval by the European Medicines Agency. The new drug, from Gilead Sciences, combines three antiretroviral treatments in a single tablet so HIV patients only need to take one tablet a day to treat their condition. Read the full story here.
Scientists believe that a potent Alzheimer's vaccine jab could be the secret to preventing the disease developing from its early stages. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington found that an antibody for Alzheimer's disease is more likely to trigger inflammation in the brain the later it is given and that it could potentially be prevented, as long as the vaccine is taken during the very early stages of the disease. Read the full story here.


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This is a large park very much off the beaten path. It has good paved streets in the interior with some gravel, some concrete pads. Our premium site had a concrete pad and patio with a table and bench and grass between the sites. We were on the back row of the park, so it was fairly quiet, but the view was overlooking some debris. The Wi-Fi did not work well on our site, and our AT&T service was poor. - SMorin
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Very nice park. We had a new improved campsite on the end with new cement parking. Very clean park. Our neighbor and I wished we could cut down one tree to get our satellite to work, but was fine without. Large park and we rented a golf cart. We may go back. But not this year. One problem was we dropped off our new propane tank to be filled. When I came back to get it, it was gone. So they gave me some old rusty tank. Not too impressed with that. - Camping Somewhere
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Too far off beaten path; 13 miles or more off Rt. 21. Good Sam has messed up this listing for travelers. Nice place on lake. Incompetent help checking you in; didn't know they were Good Sam affiliated. Gave us crappy site when most of park empty. Don't recommend! - User483


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Every vehicle owner dreads the day that his vehicle is damaged, taken to a repair shop and the damage assessed.
Few of us have the knowledge to make a judgement on the cost of repairs – and we are always guessing what the potential damage might be. Sometimes we are informed that the car is not worth repairing/ beyond repair – and this is usually communicated to us in terms such as "the car is a write –off" or "the car is totalled" or "is a total loss".
This decision to write-off the vehicle has often resulted in disagreement between the insured client and his car insurance company – and we would like to provide in this blog post some insight to how this decision is made.
The car insurance policy and the decision to write-off the vehicle
As a starting point we need to consider the terms and conditions of the car insurance policy. The car insurance policy is an agreement between the insured vehicle owner and the car insurer and stipulates the obligations and terms and conditions under which insurance cover is provided.
Car insurers set the standards by which they determine whether or not a car is totalled or written –off , and need to disclose this to the client in the terms and conditions of the policy. The car insurance policy provides cover for vehicle loss and damage – and the car insurance company will use professionals to calculate the value of such loss or damage.
What happens when my vehicle is damaged?
After an accident or other vehicle damage, your insurance company will send a qualified assessor to determine the damages of your car. This assessor (also known as an adjuster) calculates the damage of your vehicle in monetary terms and this assessment is than compared with the actual value of the vehicle.
Should it cost more to repair the vehicle to an acceptable and roadworthy condition than the actual value of such a vehicle, the car insurer will decide to write-off of the vehicle….
Which factors are considered by the assessor / insurance company?
It is important to note that there are more factors to be considered than merely the physical damage to the vehicle in making a decision whether it is economically feasible to repair the vehicle.
Factors to be included in the assessment are:
• The cost to repair / fix the vehicle and meet the necessary road safety measures
• Storage costs while the vehicle is being repaired – These are considered by some international car insurers although some car insurers in South Africa have rejected this as a factor to be considered
• Hire charges – if the car insurance policy covers the provision of a rental car while the vehicle is repaired , then these costs of the rental car can effect the decision by the car insurance company as it presents a higher costs to the insurer. Some car insurers in South Africa have however confirmed that they do not consider car hire as a factor in the write off calculation. They believe the client pays a premium for this and it should not be part of the write off decision.
It is important to be aware of the fact that not all car insurers use the exact same formula in the calculation of whether to write-off the vehicle. It is suggested that you communicate with your car insurer in this process to enquire how this decision is made.
Please note that other factors to be considered include parts availability, age and condition of the vehicle before deciding to write it off. In many cases one might wait for parts too long as they are imported. Structural damage is also a deciding factor as damage to a chassis or roof can be repaired, but one would not risk safety on a vehicle even after repairs are done. In these marginal cases one most likely write off the vehicle.
The guideline the industry uses when deciding to write off or not is 70% of the value of the vehicle.
Actual cash value of the vehicle
If the value of repair exceeds the actual cash value of the car, and also if it cannot conform to road safety measures, it may be termed written-off or totalled. What is this actual cash value and how is it calculated?
Actual cash value is often calculated as 'fair value' which means the values at which a willing buyer and a seller would exchange a vehicle for in arms-length transaction. To calculate the actual cash value the insurer will closely monitor trade publications to value the vehicle, amending these figures for the age, condition and mileage of the car.
What happens to the vehicle after it has been written- off?
Your insurance company, once your vehicle insured vehicle is written-off, will make payment under the terms and conditions of your car insurance policy. The insurance company then owns the damaged vehicle and can mostly do what they want with it. This will inevitably mean they will re-sell it to a salvage company to offset their own costs and compensate for the payout.


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The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and Short Film Market concluded on September 26, with the "Best of Festival Award" - accompanied by a cash prize of $2,000 - going to American filmmaker Benjamin Ross' "Torte Bluma," about the relationship between a German commandant and the Jewish prisoner who cooks his meals in a concentration camp during World War II.
The event is North America's largest short film festival and market. This year, 324 short films were screened, and 22 awards in 13 categories and six audience favorites were handed out, totalling $14,000 in cash prizes. The festival is known for screening shorts that go on to receive Academy Award nominations (46 films over the past 10 years, according to festival representatives).
Josh Staub from the U.S. won the Future Filmmaker Award - with a cash prize of $2,000 - for his short "The Mantis Parable," which also won for Best Animation. The Panavision Grand Jury Award, which included a Panavision Camera Package worth $30,000 - was given to Diego Postigo from Spain for "La China." American Stevo Chang won the Alexis Award for Best Emerging Student Filmmaker for his short "Fields of Mudan."
The Audience Awards went to John Mitchell"'s "Goodnight Bill" for Live Action Short, Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman's "God Sleeps in Rwanda" for Documentary Short and Peter Lepeniotis' "Surly Squirrel" for Animation Short.
Among the section award winners, each of whom received $2,000 in cash, were: Joshua Leonard's "The Youth in Us" for Best Live Action Under 15 Minutes, Taika Waititi's "Tama Tu" for Best Live Action Over 15 Minutes (second place went to actress Tiffani Thiessen for "Just Pray") and Dawn Khoo's "Search for Her" for Best Documentary.
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Factor 5's mythical Dragon adventure Lair has managed to crack the Japanese top ten in its first week of release, entering the charts at number seven.
The game, released in late August in North America and Europe just last month, sold a total of 22,000 units for the week ended October 14, according to the latest figures from Media Create.
Reception so far has been mixed to say the least, though our reviewer thought it was a competent title, despite some notable flaws.
Lair takes places in a fictional world thwart with war and natural disasters. Two factions, Mokai and Asylians, are engaged in a heated conflict between each other, with player's casts in the role of a knight named Rohn, a member of the Asylians elite dragon-riding force.
With the noble dragon at your command, Rohn must defeat the onslaught of Mokai forces by engaging them in intense aerial combat on the back of your gigantic winged beast, using whatever means necessary to overthrow the enemy.


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Doug Bowman is without a doubt an extraordinary designer. Doug and I were "peers" in Google's User Experience organization before his departure last week. I say "peers" in quotes because, while technically we were peers in that we reported to the same director, my capabilities and talent pale in comparison. It was certainly an honor to be within the same team as Doug and to benefit from the fruits of his work. We will miss him and his contributions dearly.
Doug's recent article about his departure from Google contains many truths. Of course Google is a company run by engineers. Yes many design decisions are driven by data. But Doug's description of how design is viewed at Google is an oversimplification.
While there are many teams within Google that view design process as a problem in logic requiring data to solve, there are others that do not. While there are many Googlers who view designers as people who tinker with link color and border widths, many do not. Doug's experience was unfortunately clouded by the teams and executives he was asked to work with.
My experience has been different.
I oversee the work of a team of designers focused on Google's advertiser and publisher products – known within Google as simply "Ads". As Doug mentioned, the talent and intelligence of designers at Google is incredible and the Ads team is no exception. To highlight a few: Google Analytics' Doug van der Molen is a brilliant design leader with remarkable vision and entrepreneurial spirit. Feedburner's Matt Shobe – who now applies his talents to new publisher products – breathes life into his products by injecting them with personality. And Ad Planner's Ken Moore has talents that only a select few can truly appreciate.
Within Ads, we don't work on projects which aim to determine the highest monetizing shade of blue. Nor do we focus on tweaking border widths. Rather, we work on complex, large-scale redesigns such as the soon-to-be-announced new AdWords interface. Or major feature upgrades to Google Analytics. Or new product designs for … well, I can't talk about that just yet.
To design successfully in this environment, we simply must partner closely with product management and engineering. And we do. PMs and engineers understand that designing usable interfaces to support complex workflows for our advertisers and publishers requires something more than opinion and data. It requires skills that only designers can bring to bare. Skills that go beyond color theory and making things look "pretty". Yes we use data to assist in decision-making, but data takes a back seat when teams develop the kinds of design innovations you experience in Google Analytics, the new AdWords UI, and other products delivered by the Ads team.
It's not all perfect of course. There are certainly times when designers are somewhat marginalized, or when engineers or PMs pull rank when a decision has to be made. But these times are rare.
Perhaps what differentiates this team of designers is that we don't expect the rest of the company to bow down to our design wisdom. We earn respect by demonstrating the value of good design through our work day in and day out. By working with our partners, not in spite of them.
Some may give up when faced with an organization less aligned with their discipline than they would like. Some say goodbye. We say otherwise.


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Nationality American Other Names Edward Lee Thorndike
Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on animal behavior and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific… Read More
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Edward Thorndike.
1874 Birth Born on August 31, 1874.
1898 23 Years Old Upon graduation, Thorndike returned to his initial interest, Educational Psychology. In 1898 he completed his PhD at Columbia University under the supervision of James McKeen Cattell, one of the founding fathers of psychometrics.
1899 24 Years Old In 1899, after a year of unhappy, initial employment at the College for Women of Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, he became an instructor in psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University, where he remained for the rest of his career, studying human learning, education, and mental testing.
1900 25 Years Old On August 29, 1900, he wed Elizabeth Moulton and they had five children. … Read More
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… He was a member of the board of the Psychological Corporation, and served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1912. … Read More
1929 54 Years Old … In 1929, Thorndike addressed his early theory of learning, and claimed that he had been wrong. … Read More
1937 62 Years Old In 1937 Thorndike became the second President of the Psychometric Society, following in the footsteps of Louis Leon Thurstone who had established the society and its journal Psychometrika the previous year. … Read More
1949 75 Years Old Died on August 9, 1949.
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Tax Day is past. You've filed your tax return with the IRS. You are either awaiting a refund, or you have dutifully mailed off the check for what you owe in taxes. However, you realize that you are missing something. You forgot to add some paperwork [3], and you are entitled to a bigger refund, or you don't owe as much money. Maybe you forgot to report some income, or you made a mistake. Do you have recourse now that your 1040 is already wending its way through the IRS system?
Actually, yes. You can file an amended tax return.
If you want to change something on your tax return, you need to file an amended tax return. This is different from an extension. A filing extension [4] is a request for more time to file your return. You need to file an amended return if you are changing something on your tax return.
When need to change something on your 1040, or on one of the Schedules that go with it, an amended return is required. This can include filing for a tax credit you just realized you were eligible for, as well as if you realize that you made a calculation error, or if you forget to include home business deductions on your Schedule C. Anytime you need to change something on your tax return, you need to file an amended return.
Note that you have three years to file an amended return. One example is if you were eligible to take the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit [5] in 2009, but you didn't. Even though your taxes for 2009 have already been filed, you can still amend that return, since it falls within the three year time limit. You can fill out your amended return for 2009, and still receive your tax credit.
The proper form for filing an amended tax return is the 1040X [6]. For best results, you need to wait until the IRS has processed your original return before filing your amended return. That means that you need to wait until your refund has been issued if you think that you need an even bigger refund. It really helps to avoid snarling the process if you wait. If you filed electronically, it should only take a few days for your original to be accepted, so you can file an amended return shortly thereafter.
Starting with tax year 2010, it's possible to file an amended return electronically. (If you are filing an amended return for a year previous to 2010, or if you are filing one that involves certain types of paperwork, you will need to mail your amended return.) This makes things much easier, and the IRS has fillable forms for the 1040X. If you use an accountant, sometimes it is worth it to have him or her help you file the proper amended return. Make sure you are thorough, and refer to your original return, since you will be asked for the information that appeared originally, in addition to the information you want to change.
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The benefit of deducting one and a half times the spending on skill development of employees when businesses calculate their taxable income will be available only if spent on new recruits, the finance ministry said on Thursday.
According to the rules the revenue department notified on July 15 for granting the benefit of weighted deduction of 150% of the spending on skill development projects to companies, spending on existing employees will not be eligible if their training starts after six months of recruitment.
The finance ministry had announced the benefit in the 2012 Union Budget by introducing section 35CCD in the Income Tax Act, 1961.
The rules also say the benefit will not be given to alcohol, spirit and tobacco producers. Skill development should be conducted in separate facilities in a training institute set up by the central or state government or a local authority.
The National Skill Development Agency will be the nodal agency to scrutinise the applications made by companies. Weighted deduction of expenditure will not cover the cost of land or buildings.


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Images: Iraq war veteran receives second Purple Heart [Image 2 of 5]
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alyn-Michael Macleod
Maj. Gen. William D. Razz Waff, commanding general of the 99th Regional Support Command, right, awards Staff Sgt. Shawn D. Carter his second Purple Heart medal for wounds sustained in Iraq in 2006 during a ceremony at the Maj. John P. Pryor Army Reserve Center on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., March 17. Carter shared the moment with, from left, daughter Kristyn, son Kevin and wife Kathleen.
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Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2010 - Senegal
|Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC)
|Publication Date
|23 March 2011
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|Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC), Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2010 - Senegal, 23 March 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4d932e1624.html [accessed 30 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
|Quick facts
|Number of IDPs
|Percentage of total population
|Start of current displacement situation
|Peak number of IDPs (Year)
|70,000 (2007)
|New displacement
|About 4,000
|Causes of displacement
|Armed conflict, human rights violations
|Human development index
Successive peace agreements have failed to put an end to low-intensity conflict in Senegal's Casamance Region, where government forces and the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) have been fighting since 1982. Cultural discrimination, a lack of livelihood opportunities and an influx of people from other regions following a land reform imposed by the government all helped to cause the conflict. During 2009 and at the beginning of 2010, clashes between government forces and the MFDC grew more frequent and intense in southern Casamance, and reportedly led to the new displacement of approximately 4,000 people.
There has been no reliable data on the overall number of IDPs. Since 2008, many people have returned but the number of people whose return has been sustainable is unknown, as is the number who have successfully integrated in their place of displacement or settled elsewhere. There were between 10,000 to 40,000 IDPs in 2010, many of them in Ziguinchor, the largest city of Casamance.
Limited access to land has stopped many IDPs developing sustainable livelihoods, due in part to the many landmines in the areas they fled from. In these areas crime has been rampant and infrastructure and basic services have remained poor. Women and children remain most at risk: displaced children have often struggled in integrated classes in areas of displacement, and others have been abandoned by families facing poverty. Many women have been forced to turn to begging or prostitution to support themselves and their families.
Senegal has not signed the Kampala Convention and has no national bodies, legislation or policies in support of IDPs. The government's response has instead included IDPs in wider reconstruction, peacebuilding and development activities, such as the Programme for Revival of Economic and Social activities (PRAESC).
International programmes have also targeted wider populations; some of benefit to IDPs have focused on food security, education, demobilisation and reintegration of combatants, and reconstruction in areas of return.


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We are very pleased and proud to present the July 2013 CCD Imaging Semi-Finalists in the Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching Contest.
M57 captured on the night of July 6/7 from St Helena, CA
NELM 6.3 (21.4 MPSAS), Seeing 5/10 Pickering
PlaneWave 12.5" CDK OTA
Astro-Physics 900GTO mount
SBIG STXL-6303E camera
180 min H-alpha (20 minute subs), 45 min Lum (5 minute subs), 20 min RG&B (5 minutes subs)
Guided and captured in Maxim DL, calibrated and registered in CCDStack, post processed in Photoshop.
After a week of imaging during several nights I could finally finish my Cygnus Wall image. This is the result in a Hubble palette with RGB stars...
Full resolution
Telescope: TEC-140
Camera: QSI-583
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ-6
H-alpha: 6 x 1800s (3nm Astrodon)
OIII: 9 x 1800s (3nm Astrodon)
SII: 3 x 1800s (3nm Astrodon)
RGB: 3 x (4 x 600 s Astrodon True RGB)
Total exposure time: 11 hours
Oleg Bryzgalov
Whirpool galaxy M51 in Canes Venatici
This photo was taken for four nights in May and June 2013 in Crimea and Khlepcha observatory near Kiev, Ukraine.
Equipment: reflector S&D 10" f/4.7, Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L=20*900 sec. bin.1 RGB: 10*900 sec. each channel, bin.1 Total exposure 12.5 hours.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8, Fitstacker and Photoshop CS6.
Full resolution
Here's my photo entry for the contest. My first completed image with automated backyard observatory!
NGC6960 Veil Nebula West - The Witch's Broom
14 hours each Ha and OIII in 30 minute subframes
75 minutes each RGB in 5 minute subframes for star color enhancement
Stellarvue SV127 Dual Fluoro APO
SBIG STT-8300M with Astrodon 3nm narrowband filters
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO mount
Captured with CCDSoft, TheSky6, automated with CCDCommander
Processed in CCDStack and Photoshop CS
June-July 2013
Phil G
Here's my entry: Antares to Rho Ophiuchi region
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX-III @ f/3.6
Camera: Moravian Instruments G3-11000
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Mount: Losmandy G11
Exposures: ~10 hours (Luminance ~6 hours of 600s subs, RGB ~4 hours of 300s subs)
Full size on Flickr: http://www.flickr.co...N08/9369662292/
or on my blog: http://cooledpix.com...o-rho-ophiuchi/
Direct link: http://cooledpix.fil...ho-ophiuchi.jpg
David Rosenthal
Here is my entry. Shot from a Bortle Red Zone 20 minutes NW of New York City
Red = SII, 5nm, 9*1200 seconds, 1X1
Green = Ha, 5nm, 9*1200 seconds, 1X1
Blue = OIII, 3nm, 9*1200 seconds, 1X1
Borg/Pentax 125SD at f/4.6
AstroDon E-Series Gen II Filters (36mm unmounted)
SXVR-H18, SX Wheel, SX OAG, SX ExView Guider
Losmandy G-11, Gemini, Ovision RA Worm
Please note that voting will conclude on August 8th at Midnight ET.
Many thanks to all who took part in the contest!
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Floodplain Management
Floodplain management is the operation of an overall program of corrective and preventative measures for reducing flood damage, including but not limited to, emergency preparedness plans, flood control works, and floodplain management regulations. Examples include mapping communities to identify flood prone areas, elevating buildings above the base flood and relocating structures out of the floodplain.
Community Assistance
The Pitt County Planning Department assists several communities in Pitt County with the enforcement of floodplain regulations. The communities we assist are:
- Town of Ayden
- Town of Grifton
- Town of Winterville
- Town of Grimesland
- Town of Bethel
- Village of Simpson
- Town of Falkland
- Town of Fountain
If you live in one of these communities and need assistance, please contact the Pitt County Planning Department at (252) 902-3250.
Flood Insurance
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a federal program enabling property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance as a protection against flood losses in exchange for State and community floodplain management regulations that reduce future flood damages. Participation in the NFIP is based on an agreement between communities and the Federal Government. If a community adopts and enforces a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risk to new construction in floodplains, the Federal Government will make flood insurance available within the community as a financial protection against flood losses. This insurance is designed to provide an insurance alternative to disaster assistance to reduce the escalating costs of repairing damage to buildings and their contents caused by floods.
Pitt County has been participating in the NFIP since 1983. The Pitt County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance was adopted by the County Commissioners on August 18, 1980 and is administered by the Pitt County Planning Department. Through the use of this ordinance, Pitt County strives to:
- Protect human life and health,
- Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects,
- Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public,
- Minimize prolonged business interruptions,
- Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines, streets and bridges located in floodplains,
- Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of floodprone areas in such a manner as to minimize flood blight areas, and,
- Insure that potential homebuyers are notified that property is in a flood area.
There are currently 760 flood insurance policies in effect in areas regulated by the Pitt County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance for a total of $154,500,100.00 worth of coverage. These policies are broken down as follows:
# of Policies*
Amount of Coverage
Unincorp.Pitt County
$ 111,101,800
Town of Ayden
$ 5,227,200
Town of Bethel
Town of Falkland
Town of Fountain
Town of Grifton
$ 15,017,500
Town of Grimesland
Village of Simpson
Town of Winterville
$ 24,722,500
*As of March 31, 2013.
Below are the available limits of coverage.
Building Coverage
Single-Family Dwelling $250,000
2-4 Family Dwelling $250,000
Other residential $250,000
Non-residential $500,000
Contents Coverage
Residential $100,000
Non-residential $500,000
Community Rating System
The NFIP's Community Rating System (CRS) was implemented in 1990 as a program for recognizing and encouraging community floodplain management activities that exceed the minimum NFIP standards. Under the CRS, flood insurance premium rates are adjusted to reflect the reduced flood risk resulting from community activities that meet the three goals of the CRS: (1) reduce flood losses; (2) facilitate accurate insurance rating; and (3) promote the awareness of flood insurance. There are ten CRS classes: class 1 requires the most credit points and gives the largest premium reduction; class 10 receives no premium reduction. The CRS recognizes 18 creditable activities, organized under four categories numbered 300 through 600: Public Information, Mapping and Regulations, Flood Damage Reduction, and Flood Preparedness.
On October 1, 2002, Pitt County* became a participant in the Community Rating System (CRS) and received a class 9 rating which gave its citizens a 5% reduction in flood insurance premiums. In February, 2004, Pitt County submitted a modification to its CRS rating and became a Class 8 Community effective October 1, 2004. This change in class increases the premium discount to 10% for those in the 100 year floodplain and also gives a 5% discount to those citizens outside the 100 year floodplain that choose to purchase flood insurance.
*Pitt County means the unincorporated areas of the county outside any municipality.
Floodplain Development
All development that takes place in the floodplain must meet the provisions set forth in the Pitt County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance. Development is defined as any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. An elevation certificate or floodproofing certificate will be needed for structures located within the 100-year floodplain.
NC Floodplain Mapping
Updated Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) panels and the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) Report for all of Pitt County became effective on January 2, 2004. These new maps were produced by the State of North Carolina under a unique partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This partnership, signed September 2000, designates North Carolina as a Cooperating Technical State and delegates the primary responsibility for the creation and maintenance of all FIRMs to the State of North Carolina. The remapping of all floodplains for Pitt County is the result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Floyd, which flooded thousands of square miles of eastern North Carolina and left thousands of people homeless. This disaster highlighted North Carolina's vulnerability to natural disasters and the need for accurate, up-to-date floodplain maps. The State of North Carolina, through its Floodplain Mapping Program, has established a website that will be used to disseminate information on all aspects of the mapping program. Using this website you will be able to view floodplain information online, download the FIRM panels as well as the FIS Reports, download available digital floodplain data, and get information about the mapping program. The website address is www.ncfloodmaps.com.
The official Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) and Flood Insurance Study (FIS) for Pitt County and the municipalities we assist can be viewed in our office. You can also access approximate floodplain data through the Pitt County website by clicking here.
Floodplain Data Assistance
As a public service, Pitt County will provide you with the following information upon request:
- Whether a property is in or out of the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) as shown on the current Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) of the County.
- Additional flood insurance data for a site, such as the FIRM zone and the base flood elevation or depth, if shown on the FIRM
- We have a handout on the mandatory flood insurance purchase requirement that can help people who need a mortgage or loan for a property in the SFHA.
- We have elevation certificates for recent construction on file.
If you would like to make an inquiry, please tell us the E-911 address, parcel number, or the owner's information. We are open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday. Call us at (252) 902-3250 or drop by the Pitt County Planning Department at 1717 West Fifth Street in Greenville. Someone will be glad to help you. There is no charge for this service.
Links of Interest
North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program
NC NFIP Branch
NC Association of Floodplain Managers
National Association of Floodplain Managers
Surveyor's Guide to Elevation Certificate
FEMA Technical Bulletins