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The Kant Dreieck
Josef Paul Kleihues
Berlin, Germany
The Kant Dreieck is located near three buildings designed by Bernhard Sehring around the turn of the century: the Theater des Westerns, the Fasanenstrasse Artist Building, and the Delphi Palais de Danse (now a movie theater). The small square is planned to relate to the forecourt of Theater des Westerns.
The building houses offices and commercial space. The 11 story, 56 meter tall, tower is designed on a square module with a steel cube on top of a stone cube, placed alongside a five story triangular glass structure that relates in scale to the neighboring buildings.
A strong contrast between the two cubes is provided by the white metal cladding, with exposed cross bracing, and the gray stone cube of gneiss, a crystalline type of slate; the square window pattern unifies the cubes. The lower section, triangular in plan, has a curved facade on its long side generated by the line of the adjacent "S" Bahn rail line.
The "shark fin" shape of the enormous aluminum weather vane, which sits on top of the tower and turns in the wind like a giant sail, follows the ground plan configuration of the building section, which in turn refers to the shape of the site. The building's "cocks comb", so called by Kleihues, provides an identity and contributes to the identification of the building as a new landmark.
Access to both buildings is provided through the main entrance in the Tower Block. There is a lobby on each floor with access to the offices and a smaller lobby that provides access to the open plan offices in the triangular glass building.
/Excerpt from an essay by Winfried Nerdinger
The tower building clearly gives away that it found its form in the rational tradition by stacking two cubes (stone and steel) in a static gesture, but this is countered by the crowning sail turning in the wind, which can be understood at first as a playful element with no specific purpose at all in brief, an ornament. But the sail makes it quite clear that the two principles, rationality and poetry, permeate each other.
Its shape is derived from the shape of the site, transposed into the vertical; the site is shaped like this as a result of a significant urban intervention in the district in the 19th century a curved railway line. Beyond this, the sail refers ironically to Modernism's criticism of ornaments. The north side of the façade (Fasanenstrasse) follows a right angle pattern derived from the architectural grid.
The influence of the underlying design process expresses itself in the articulation of all elements on a basic 15 centimeter module. This system of dimensions, abstract in principle, means that the building appears as a complete aesthetic unit in the sense of architectural autonomy. But the curved rear of the building is based on a geometrical system determined by correspondence with the curve in the railway line.
In contrast to the architectural theme of the building grid, it is based on an urban fact and relates irregularly to the architectural grid. Both systems, urban context and architectural autonomy, contradict each other at first, which is clear in the detailing inside the building and also on the rear side.
Josef Paul Kleihues "Themes and Projects"
Birkhäuser Verlag
Facts about The Kant Dreieck
Site area:
8,050 square meters
Building area: 6,050 square meters
Josef Paul Kleihues
Project Team:
Frank Strobel (Architect in Charge)
Dirk Blomeyer
Klaus Burhoff
Robin Foster
Roland Frank
Chrostoph Haag
Paul Kahlfeld
Gisela Baurmann
Last updated: December 19, 2013
See also
Blog: A visit to Hamburg Hafencity
Richard Neutra: Complete Works
Studios by the Sea
Modernism Rediscovered


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Hudson does it all vs. Nats in career victory No. 200
Righty goes seven strong innings, doubles, homers in milestone win
ATLANTA -- Like many who were raised in the Southeast during the 1990s, Tim Hudson idolized Greg Maddux, John Smoltz and Tom Glavine. Now, like those three former Atlanta greats, Hudson has experienced the honor of notching his 200th win while wearing a Braves uniform.
Displaying the youthful exuberance first seen during his early days in Phenix City, Ala., Hudson reached this milestone in grand fashion. The veteran right-hander allowed three hits over seven stellar innings and belted his third career home run while helping the Braves remain perfect against the Nationals with Tuesday night's 8-1 win at Turner Field.
"It was just one of those nights where things were lined up," Hudson said. "The stars were aligned, and I guess it was meant to be."
Hudson's fifth-inning, opposite-field home run off Zach Duke simply added to the splendor of becoming the 110th pitcher in Major League history to notch 200 career wins. The only other active pitchers who have reached the mark are Andy Pettitte and Roy Halladay.
"He was about as good as I've seen him pitch," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "I don't think he labored the whole game. It was fun to watch. I know Chipper [Jones] had some milestones last year. But this, for me, might have been one of the most fun ones I could sit back and enjoy."
After proving unsuccessful in his first two attempts to notch the milestone on the road, Hudson savored the opportunity to record his 200th win in front of the hometown crowd, which included his wife, his oldest daughter, his father and his brothers.
Hudson was one out away from reaching this milestone last week before Justin Upton misplayed a two-out fly ball at Coors Field and Craig Kimbrel suffered his only blown save of the season.
"I think things happen for a reason," Braves center fielder B.J. Upton said. "He could have got it on the road, but it didn't happen. He comes home and gets to do it in front of the home crowd in a place where he's been for 10 years, and in front of his family. To have the kind of day he had at the plate, it's kind of icing on the cake."
Hudson began his second two-hit game of the season with a double off the left-center-field wall and capped it with his fifth-inning home run, which bounced out of Bryce Harper's glove, hit off the top of the right-field wall and fell over.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Bob Lemon was the only other pitcher to hit a home run in the same game in which he notched his 200th win.
"It was a fun game all the way around," Hudson said. "I felt like I threw the ball well. I felt like I was in command of the game throughout the seven innings. You know what? Sometimes if you swing hard, sometimes you hit it. That was the case tonight."
Fittingly, Hudson reached this milestone with a win over the Nationals. His 16 wins against the franchise rank as the highest total he has recorded against any Major League club.
"Hudson was out there, he was fired up," Harper said. "You know, his 200th win. That's pretty incredible."
Harper was just 8 years old when Hudson notched the first win of his career on June 13, 1999, coincidentally against a Dodgers team that employed current Nationals skipper Davey Johnson as its manager.
"It's a great accomplishment for anybody," Hudson said. "But honestly, I feel like it's something along the way, and I hope I can accomplish a lot more in this game. I feel like I can play for a while. I feel like I haven't missed a beat from 17 or 18 years ago. I'm just a little more crafty nowadays, and I definitely have more pop."
Hudson's mastery enabled the Braves to record their ninth consecutive win over the Nationals dating back to last year. They have won each of the first five games played against the defending National League East champions this season.
Hudson did not allow a hit until Tyler Moore opened the fifth inning with a double that helped put him in position to later score on Wilson Ramos' groundout. Hudson ended his evening in grand fashion as he escaped the seventh inning unscathed after allowing Ian Desmond's leadoff triple.
"It was fun to go out there and have some fun from start to finish," Hudson said. "We put up some runs early. It made it easier on me to go out there and be aggressive. To get out of that one inning after giving up the leadoff triple was kind of the cherry on top."
The Atlanta crowd showed its appreciation when Hudson was shown on the stadium's large video board before going to the clubhouse just before the start of the eighth inning. He has recorded 108 of his victories since the A's fulfilled his childhood dream by trading him to the Braves before the start of the 2005 season.
"He's an old-school baseball player,'" said Evan Gattis, who drove in two runs and served as Hudson's catcher on this memorable night. "He's good at the game. It's not anything special, nothing magic. He's just good."
The lone run tallied against Hudson was far from enough to compensate for the damage incurred by Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez, who allowed five earned runs and seven hits in just four innings. Gonzalez has allowed 12 earned runs in nine innings against the Braves this year, and seven earned runs in the other 23 innings that he has completed.
Andrelton Simmons provided the game's first highlight with his first career leadoff home run. But the spotlight shined on Hudson for the remainder of the night.
Hudson's winning percentage now stands at .656. The only modern-day 200-game winners with a better career winning percentage are Whitey Ford (.690), Pedro Martinez (.687), Lefty Grove (.680), Christy Mathewson (.665), Halladay (.663) and Roger Clemens (.658).
"I still don't consider myself really worthy of being in those kinds of conversations," Hudson said. "But talk to me in five years, if I'm not in a wheelchair."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Does your forecast call for a future without a brand new Ford Mustang, but rather a more practical sedan or crossover? As mom (or dad) gets geared up to pick out a new car, it seems your opinions about owing your own are taking the backseat. But your enthusiasm is your weapon: All that driving practice, your legal age creeping up, and the car-site cruising (and I expect you've been checking out all The Auto Channel'sNew Car Buyers Guidehas to offer), makes you the best car saleslady in town. So slick …
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Green looks good on all of you. A new car is an opportunity to create a family that cares about the environment. Some realistic and functional alternative energy cars include hybrids, cars using ethanol 85 (E85), fuel-flexible vehicles (FFV) and diesel or bio-diesel. Just one carbon dioxide (or CO2) molecule, which is what cars emit, stays airborne for over a century and is warms depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer. Yuck!
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Chatty man Alan Carr posed for selfies and ate fish and chips on Bournemouth beach last week.
The comedian was visiting the town with The Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding on Friday, July 11 to shoot a segment for his new series.
Accompanied by a representative of Bournemouth council's tourism team, the pair went to Harry Ramsden's on the seafront to order fish and chips, before enjoying their lunch at the end of the pier.
Alan, who was born in Dorset and is most famous for his eponymous Channel 4 talk show, appeared in good spirits as he joined Noel on the carousel at Pier Approach.
Fans took to Twitter to spread the word of the appearance and a number asked them to appear in pictures with them.
Thomas Davis posted a picture of the duo aboard the carousel and told Alan on the social media site that it looked like he was having fun.
Opportunistic Hollye-Anne McKenzie, 22, from Poole, snapped a shot of herself with Alan.
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A spokesman for the council said after the pair left Bournemouth beach they went to a beach hut at Alum Chine before Alan had to dash off to attend a performance in Eastleigh.
After parting ways, Alan sent Noel a tender thank you message on Twitter.
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You are never higher than 150 metres above sea level throughout the trail
South Africa's Otter Trail, winding through the Tsitsikamma forest and skirting the Garden Route's rugged coastline, is considered by most serious hikers as the best hiking trail in the country.
A five-day hike, the Otter Trail's incredibly diverse natural beauty - taking in the best of forest and coast, with a wide variety of fauna and flora on show - will make a huge impression on you.
The trail is 42km-long, most of it following cliff tops along the shoreline, 150m above the sea, returning to sea level for river crossings. Though not the most difficult hike in the country, it does require a fair level of fitness.
Hikers also need to be aware of the dates and times of high and low tides as it is all but impossible (and inadvisable) to attempt river crossings during high tide periods.
The trail starts from the Garden Route National Park's Storms River rest camp and day one is a relatively easy hike of 4.8km. Along the way is a large cave that is worth exploring, as is the majestic waterfall that follows.
Day two, a 7.9km hike, features the most varied section of the trail. It includes a walk through stunning forest before reaching the solid quartz outcrop of Skilderkrans, a great place to take a break and try spot any frolicking dolphins or whales in the waves below.
Day three brings a 7.7km hike, starting with a river crossing (remember to check the tides) and then following the rocky coastline through pristine fynbos until the Elandsbos river is reached, a great place for a swim.
Day four, at 13.8km, is the longest section of the trail and includes a long walk through the Bloukrans estuary. The final leg of the hike, 6.8km, is a relatively easy stroll (especially after the previous day's exertions) to Nature's Valley where the trail comes to an end.
A word of warning: the Otter Trail is extremely popular, so you have to reserve a place at least a year in advance. Numbers are also strictly limited to control the impact of hikers on the sensitive environment.
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Who to contact
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The start of the trail is found at Storms River Mouth. The closest national airport is in George, approximately three hours drive. The closest international airport is in Cape Town with daily flights available to George.
Best time to visit
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Summer '09 Reading List
What is it about a pool party that still gets us as giddy as a three-year-old at a self-serve sundae bar? Is it the shirtless guys with washboard abs? Sipping on ice-cold beers before noon? No sand to make its way into your two-piece? Personally, I think it's the music. Where else are guests totally game for that unique alchemy of nostalgic arena rock, hands-in-the-air hip-hop, checked-out retro beach pop, proto-dancehall, and everything else that makes us feel like we're on spring break for a day. I don't have a backyard (unless you count my fire escape), but I do have friends who live in a faraway land New Yorkers like to call "upstate." They have not only more than one bathroom but also a sprawling yard with a crystal-blue pool surrounded by outdoor speakers. Next time we head up there (friends, you reading this? I'm free this weekend!), I'll put these 10 records on my iPod, hit shuffle, and take in the sun.
Manners (2009)
Passion Pit
Indie electropop to move and be moved by. Lead singer Michael Angelakos' otherworldly falsetto makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and on tracks like "Sleepyhead" and "Little Secrets," foot-stomping beats and euphoric synth will get even the too-cool-to-dance types shaking it.
Poor Man Style (1983)
Barrington Levy
Proof there's more to reggae than Bob Marley's Legend (despite what every frat party in history might suggest). Levy is one of the early pioneers of dancehall (not to mention a living reggae legend), and on Poor Man Style, his voice packs some soulful heft, making anyone within earshot feel a million miles away from it all.
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We are told the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. By this measurement, we can deduce Mayor Sam Katz is one intensely sane individual.
On Sunday, Katz attended a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. A big-city mayor attending a gathering like this would not normally be that newsy. Except last year, Katz did not attend Nov. 11 services. When it was learned he was at his vacation home in Phoenix, well, the poppies really hit the fan.
Had Katz missed Nov. 11 this year, there were two likely explanations: He was thumbing his nose at those who criticized him last year, or he had more or less decided not to run for re-election, so who cares? The latter may seem like a pretty long bow to draw, but Katz-watchers will tell you what this mayor does and when he does it is fertile ground from which to deduce his master plan.
The frequency of his public appearances, especially in the evening and on weekends, has always been a barometer of Katz's interest in the office. In the months prior to the 2010 election, Katz attended religious ceremonies, ribbon cuttings and photo opportunities that, previously, he would have been happy to miss. This, his handlers said, was a new work ethic brought on by a spirited challenge from former MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis. Unfortunately, it didn't last long.
A recent story by the CBC found Katz took nearly five weeks of vacation in the year following re-election, by far and away the most taken by a Canadian mayor. In fact, Katz has been away from the city and city business so much, it becomes newsworthy when he actually shows up at a public event.
Personal appearances notwithstanding, speculation about the mayor's future is at an all-time high right now. Having been drawn into several high-profile controversies, the mayor and many of his loyalists -- including chief administrative officer Phil Sheegl -- are reeling. He has been ripped for buying an Arizona shell company from Sheegl for a nominal amount. Then, it was learned Katz had purchased a million-dollar Phoenix home from an executive at real-estate developer Shindico, a company that has both a long relationship with the mayor and a veritable stranglehold on the city's real estate business.
At the same time these stories simmer, there are allegations of impropriety related to the construction of new fire and paramedic stations by Shindico. Those deals are being reviewed by the city auditor. Katz has not been directly implicated, but his relationship with Shindico president Sandy Shindleman has drawn the mayor into the broader deliberations.
Now, all over the city, politicos of both the professional and hobbyist persuasion are desperate to know if Katz will run for re-election in 2014. His willingness to stay in Winnipeg and conduct mayoral business in person, on a weekend no less, certainly suggests that at the very least, he's keeping his options open.
No politician will be explicit about what he or she will do two years from now. Even those who are near locks to keep their names on ballots rarely, if ever, reveal their ultimate plans. Consider the recent stealthy announcement by then Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty. Many wondered if he would run again given the litany of scandals facing his government, but hardly anyone saw a resignation coming.
Katz has been very careful not to tip his hand one way or the other. A frequent supporter of term limits, Katz has several times suggested two full terms in office is enough. However, at the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce's state of the city address in March, Katz said he would stay until he gets a new, fair infrastructure-funding deal from the province.
"I won't quit until that's accomplished," he said.
The obvious point to make here is when Katz made that comment, he had not yet faced a new batch of controversies around his relationships with Sheegl, Shindleman and Shindico. The audit on the fire-and-paramedic-hall replacement program, along with a broader review of other real estate transactions, may take years to be completed. Even so, it's hard to believe it won't be done before the fall of 2014, when Winnipeggers go back to the polls to elect a mayor. That audit may well be a deciding factor in Katz's future.
In many ways, Katz has never had it so good. He draws a decent salary as mayor and continues to derive income from his Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball team. He has power, profile and -- notwithstanding the battering he has taken recently -- respect. Apparently, things are so good that he can purchase without the help of a bank a million-dollar home in Phoenix that, thanks to a forgiving electorate and robust airline schedules, he is able to visit frequently.
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Syria: Three Years of Crisis
The Ides of March—it holds such an ominous place in our collective literary and social consciousness. Some we may chalk up to superstition. But some, it seems, is frighteningly all too real—tomorrow, March 15th, marks the third anniversary of the beginning of crisis in Syria. The numbers are staggering. More than 100,000 people have died, 2.5 million are refugees, and more than four million are internally displaced within their devastated home country.
A full-blown regional crisis
As bombings continue, more and more Syrians are seeking refuge abroad—much to the strain on their host nations. As it stands now, some 900,000 Syrians are in Lebanon, 613,000 in Turkey, 590,000 in Jordan, 222,600 in Iraq, and 133,000 in Egypt.
As such, the conflict has truly erupted into a regional one—and has unequivocally been dubbed by the NGO community as the worst humanitarian crisis of our generation. The countries bordering Syria, particularly Lebanon and Jordan, are feeling the weight of the constant flow of refugees. In Lebanon, for example, the more than 900,000 registered refugees represent nearly 25% of the host country's population of four million. In areas close to the Syrian border, like Aarsal, the number of refugees far exceeds the population of native Lebanese.
A coordinated NGO response
According to Rob Drouen, a regional representative for Action Against Hunger in the Middle East, NGOs have stepped up as the main actors attempting to mitigate the crisis. Rob chairs the Board of the Regional Forum of NGOs in Syria, a 33-member group aiming to influence regional humanitarian policy.
Our teams are hard at work collaborating with governments to develop new services for refugees and host communities alike, and to support long-term interventions. We work through several coordination platforms, meeting with our colleague organizations to ensure proper coverage of food security, water, and nutrition programming throughout the region.
"The Syrian crisis has emerged as a regional crisis that affects not only refugees but also communities and host governments, and it can lead to more division."
—Rob Drouen, Regional Representative-Middle East, Action Against Hunger
By coordinating with our peers to aim for a situation in which no needs go over- or under-met, we've designed a comprehensive suite of response services, being implemented throughout the region. This means our efforts may entail nutrition response in one location, and water and sanitation or food security efforts in another. From distributing meals, blankets, diapers and hygiene kits, to distributing water by truck, to providing livestock vaccinations and fodder, to building latrines and so much more—we're taking a nuanced, community-based approach to response.
Real families, real stories
The numbers associated with this crisis are astounding, and it can make it hard to remember that individual families just like ours are the ones who are suffering—and the ones we are working so hard to help.
Five-year-old Rawan had her leg shattered by a missile when she was on her way to the market with her mother in Yabroud, Syria. "We were coming down the stairs towards the market, when the rocket exploded," her mother, Rasha, explained. The bomb exploded, spitting up thousands of fragments that embedded in the legs of both mother and daughter. Rasha's husband died, and Rawan lost so much blood that she needed several transfusions and was comatose for three days.
Rawan and her mother have been placed in one of our settlements in Abo Noor, Lebanon, where we're providing drinking water and sanitation structures for refugees. We're also collaborating with Handicap International to try to secure Rawan a wheelchair.
Disoriented and living in difficult conditions, refugees like Rawan are extremely vulnerable—and we fear the deterioration of family units. That's why we've also starting programming focused on protecting family ties and promoting community solidarity. It's this combination of care—physical, social, and emotional—that we hope makes the difference for Rawan, Rasha, and the millions like them across the region.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
Your team is running an optimized PPC campaign. Your efforts on social media are producing leads. Your Google page rank is steadily increasing. You're on the first page for a variety of pertinent keywords. Because you measure your Web traffic and your phone traffic closely, you know that your Web traffic is up and your marketing is generating phone calls.
By any measure your marketing is working.
Your prospects are asking for more information, asking for product demonstrations or downloading content from your website. You have contact information about them. They raised their hand. They reached out to you.
That sounds like a great situation doesn't it?
Sadly, there is a problem: your sales numbers are not going up. Your revenue is stagnant. Occasionally there will be a bump in the right direction but your sales success is not proportional to the marketing success your company seems to be generating.
What's going on?
There are only a few reasons why your marketing success and your sales results are not aligning.
Likely Culprits
The Double-Cross– Among the most common reasons that marketing success does not translate into sales success is the double-cross or the bait-and-switch. Your ad, demo or material promises one thing, but your product or service delivers another. Your prospects are interested until they wipe the "marketing-speak" aside and see reality. This is a very common problem.
Fix It:Companies fix this by refining their marketing message. Get more specific about what you do and how you do it.
Forgetting the Phone– Did you know that you are significantly more likely to close business if a prospect calls you than if that prospect fills out an Internet form? Your team is much more likely to make the sale when someone calls.
With that in mind, you should integrate phone numbers into everything you do. Put phone numbers in PPC ads, social media, tradeshow and local SEO listings. Put phone numbers everywhere. It seems like a reasonable question, right? If someone is more likely to buy from you when they call, why wouldn't you want them to call?
Fix It:Put phone numbers EVERYWHERE. Put phone numbers on your Facebook page, your website, your collateral, your cards and on any advertising you do, online or offline.
Ain't Systematizin'– Every business has leads fall through the cracks. Who is responsible for leads once they come in? Are they assigned to someone? Are they automatically organized and updated in a CRM like SalesForce or Zoho? Or, on the other hand, are they lost in the process somewhere? Do your leads escape?
Fix It:Invest in a 'system' of some sort. And more important, make sure everyone actually uses it. We use Zoho, for example, and our rule is this: if it isn't in Zoho it doesn't exist.
Wimpy Sales Reps – Many salesmen are simply afraid to contact leads. For example: leads that signed up for a free eBook, White Paper or newsletter should be contacted by a sales rep. Too often sales reps overlook leads that aren't 'hot.' They overlook these leads because they view them as a waste of time, or because they are scared of calling a 'cool' lead.
Fix It:Call.
Poor Sales Skills– We've listened to millions of phone calls over the years and, unequivocally, this is the most common reason marketing success and sales success doesn't align. Perhaps they've never been trained properly, or maybe the training they have didn't stick. Either way, poor sales skills hurt a business.
Fix It:Improve their sales skills through training, accountability and measured performance.
Slow Sales Reps– How quickly does your team call leads once they flow into your system? Does it happen on the same day? Same week? Same hour? If someone is interested how long do they have to wait before someone calls them?
Some stunning research conducted by a private firm found that a lead is 21 times more likely to convert if the prospect is called within five minutes of 'raising their hand,' than if they are called within 30 minutes of raining their hand. Further, the likelihood of converting the lead is cut in half every day the lead goes without contact.
Fix It:If you get a lead, call the lead immediately.
Jason Wells is the CEO of ContactPoint. The company's new product, LogMyCalls, provides inexpensive tools for businesses seeking to optimize marketing and sales performance. These tools – phone call tracking, call recording and call performance scoring – allow businesses to determine which advertising methods are effective and improve their ability to secure business over the phone.


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Giambattista Valli Spring 2012 Couture
Giambattista Valli's second haute couture collection was a preternaturally assured study in the marriage of old-school couture techniques with desirable contemporary clothing—for the ladies who lead the private-plane and palazzo life.
True, the thick ivory wool cape that opened the show (with ivory-flower epaulets tumbling from the shoulders), and a trumpet-gored cocktail frock dense with swags of bugle-bead embroidery seemed as sculptural as the clothes created by the great Roman couturiers Capucci and Valentino in the Dolce Vita sixties.
But a lily-scented breeze wafted through the rest of the collection, scattering the florets from hydrangea blooms across fragile lace and chiffon skirts, and photo prints of those flowers (in different scales, and in heady shades of rose and scarlet) over cloudy organza crinoline skirts. A gleaming black sequin skirt revealed panels of filmy black lace that shadowed a bare leg when the model moved. A black bouclé jacket had its shoulders cut out and prettily encircled with blossoms.
Sometimes the breeze had a decidedly lily-of-the-valley fragrance, because at times those jackets with their New Look peplums ("it's all about the waist," says Valli) and molded bodies deftly cut to bloom into an exuberant bow collar; the asymmetrically draped chiffon evening gowns; and the giddy romanticism of tiny florets (in organza or biscuit porcelain) scattered as trimming all seemed like persuasive propositions for a storied couture house on the Avenue Montaigne.
But referential as he may occasionally be, Valli's voice is always loud and clear. Those airy chiffon pieces, for instance, were anchored with Luigi Scialanga's silvered bronze belts and necklaces, cast at a Roman foundry to resemble thick cords, or giant flower faces. A sleeveless lacquered black crocodile jacket with an exaggerated peplum was crafted from skins sliced so fine that it seemed almost as weightless as the ivory lace skirt that it was shown with. "I love the idea of wearability," says Valli, bringing an old-fashioned idea of what couture should be firmly into the twenty-first century.


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- High quality 14 oz. ring spun denim
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The quality that you know and trust from Ariat is also found in their jeans. The M2 jeans by Ariat are made from high quality 14 oz. ring spun denim that is built to stand up to many washes. The utility ipocket is a contemporary coin pocket. This pocket is smaller than your regular pocket but it is big enough for a phone or music player. The comfort inseams are flat and will not cause irritation when riding. The rear belt loop is reinforced on the top with a piece of leather for a more durable belt loop. These jeans are a lower rise and relaxed fit for comfort and they are a stackable boot cut, so they will fit over the boots but stack on your boots.
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Today Ariat is the world leader in performance equestrian footwear as well as offering the most stylish western boots on the market. Ariat Boots offers a wide range of products from English and Western riding boots, work boots and casual boots. Their forward thinking and performance lines outfit today's most avid equestrian riders and enthusiasts.
If you are the professional rider who absolutely demands performance boots or the novice who likes to ride around from time to time, Ariat definitely has the boots for every man, woman or child. We have all of the top styles including the Fatbaby boots, Heritage Western, the Dixie and the QuickDraw. These styles are all must have for men's western boots, women's western boots or kids western boots. The casual look and performance driven Ariat Boots will provide you with long comfy rides in the country or a relaxing day in the sun. Get yours today!


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Chairmanship - United Kingdom
United Kingdom passes Chairmanship to Albania
23 May 2012 - The 122nd Session of the Committee of Ministers was held in Strasbourg under the chairmanship of William Hague, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom. The meeting concluded the six months of UK Chairmanship of the Committee, centred chiefly on seeking means to guarantee the continued effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights system.
At the close of the meeting, after having presented a stocktaking of his Chairmanship, Mr Hague handed the Chairman's office over to Edmond Haxhinasto, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Albania, who then presented the priorities for his country's six months in the Chair. (more...)
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Quartering Act
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
The Quartering Act refers to a series of laws which allowed for people to be drawn and/or quartered, as needed.
edit The Quartering Act of 1765
In 1765 the Quartering Act was passed.
Public response was mixed, with those who were doing the drawing and quartering generally being in favour, while those who were being drawn and quartered tended to be less enthusiastic.
edit The Act is Repealed
In 1770 the Quartering Act was repealed, in spite of never actually having been pealed in the second place. Oohh Yeah Im Frikken Awesome :P
edit The Quartering Reenactment of 1774
In 1774 the Quartering Act was reenacted by a small community theatre to poor reviews.
edit The Reenactment is Rerepealed
The show ran for less than a week, before being closed.
This resulted in the Third Amendment to the US Constitution, which expressly prohibits quartering of any kind, and only allows for drawing if a professional artist is used.
edit The Patriotic Quartering Act
In 2004 the Senate passed a bill which would reinstate the Quartering Act as a provision of the Patriot Act, with respect to traitors, terrorists, and other such unpatriotic persons.
The measure was narrowly defeated in the House, and the Senate launched an immediate investigation, claiming that those who voted against it were giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and were just the sort of people that the bill was needed for in the 12th place.


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Back in 1776, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" pointed out that a competitive market economy would lead to increased wealth due to its great efficiency. But, what is it efficient at doing?
For the most part, modern economics views the environment - when it considers it at all - as a source of raw materials and as a place to put our waste. However, more and more economists and ecologists recognize that the environment serves other critical roles.
Cheryl Burke has been working in Pakistan for about six years, now serving as a professor and dean of students at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan. For parents Charles and Sharon Burke of Gainesville, the benefits far outweigh the concerns of having their daughter serve in a volatile and far away country.
She's making a difference there, fostering tolerance between students of different backgrounds and helping to provide an education to Pakistani young people.
On Good Friday, members of Saint Michael Catholic Church performed a Stations of the Cross service at Laurel Park. Stations of the Cross is a Roman Catholic ceremony in which the final hours of Jesus' life are depicted.
Forty five years ago this week, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made it across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Ala., and arrived in Montgomery to deliver a powerful prediction regarding the waiting time for racial equality: "How long? Not long!"
It was his third attempt. Twice before that same week, peaceful civil rights marchers had been beaten back with bricks and clubs and hate. Facing down those who said racial and ethnic minorities are inferior, he said calmly, "No lie can live forever."
Without a doubt, for the past few years, Americans clearly wanted reform in health care. Something had to be done.
But in fact, most Americans have basically been satisfied with the health care they get,including the doctors they choose, the quality of treatments, the effectiveness of procedures they undergo and any surgery they might have. The care they get is generally excellent and second to none anywhere in the world.
Like the shot heard round the world, Judge Paul Magnuson's federal court decision last summer sent huge waves through Lake Lanier and Gainesville-Hall County, forcing us to push our plans for future water needs into fast forward.
The latest plans advanced by Hall County leaders involving the proposed Glades Reservoir - to increase the size of the reservoir and connect it with the Cedar Creek Reservoir in East Hall - don't do much to improve the project from the perspective of environmental sustainability and taxpayer liability.
The jousting in the General Assembly of Georgia this year over state appropriations as a byproduct focused attention on the issue of tuition equalization grants to students who attend private colleges and universities. The program that has been around in Georgia since the early 1970s currently carries a price tag of about $30 million as it helps some 34,000 students pay for higher education.
In a budget-cutting initiative, the governor proposed eliminating funding for the program. The legislature restored the funding in the supplemental appropriations bill for the current fiscal year. Lawmakers have yet to take final action on ...
How dangerous is the registered sex offender living in your neighborhood?
Local anecdotal evidence and national studies indicate that the risk may not be as great as some believe.
After a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, it's time to welcome back the Georgia National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Its mission has been to organize, train and prepare Afghanistan's security forces to manage their own nation's security operations. Taking on this daunting task in the middle of a renewed Taliban insurgency has been quite a challenge. However, 10 months after the 48th Brigade's entrance into the country, Afghanistan's security forces have seen tangible progress.
In an address to Congress in December, the commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley ...
In 1925, Brookton Elementary School raised $63 selling homemade chicken pies that they carted to the school in washtubs and sold in order to build a much-needed road.
Eighty-five years and thousands of pies later, the Chicken Pie Supper is still held at Wauka Mountain Elementary, the school's successor, and has become the largest and most anticipated fundraiser of the year.
It is awe inspiring to be part of an elite group of media that is allowed exclusive access to the intricate details of a tightly secured historic event.
American as apple pie and baseball? Well, almost.
"Wherever He leads I'll go, I'll follow my Christ who loves me so."
That's the old hymn I used to sing not even considering that one day God would call me to go to Africa. But just 10 months ago that is exactly what happened. When my good friend Doug Hanson returned from Uganda, he immediately came to me with the idea of returning with him.
FLOWERY BRANCH - The group had just finished building the new church, putting away tools and gathering with villagers in the building for a prayer of dedication.
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NVIDIA GeForce FX Personal Cinema Roundup - Asus, Chaintech, eVGA, and MSIby Andrew Ku on 12/23/2003 10:48 AM EST
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Webgod - Sunday, January 11, 2004 - linkWhere's the review? Where's the comparison of screenshots of live TV with both the Personal Cinema and ATI AIW cards? How does it compare to your TV set side by side? How do the ATI AIW's compare to the Personal Cinema cards with PVR functions, etc.? Go more in depth, this is Anandtech. Reply
bschuler2004 - Monday, December 29, 2003 - linkNvidia sure does make some crappy AIW imitators! I thought they'd be worse than ATI, but not THIS bad. It's shocking to say the least. I'd rather have an original AIW rage IIC card then one of these garbage cards.
How on earth do they honestly intend to sell this junk with a straight face? It's laughable.
jruff - Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - linkPC CLub recommened the nVidia card which is what I built for my mothers computer. Going over tomorrow t o run thru the software. For my wife's machine I just bought a AIW 9600 Pro that I will be installing tomorrow. Shhhh, its a christmas present ;)
I couldnt find much on the nVidia when I put her new system together I was just going on what PC Club said. Ill get a chance to use both here in the next week putting together the 6 Digital 8 tapes I have managed to make in the last year of my sons life (birthday jan 8, 1 year)
We will se how it goes and which makes the easiest final product.
Stay tuned :)
LoneWolf15 - Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - linkInteresting, but I do get a little tired of bundling all of these products with the video card. I want to keep a TV tuner/PVR for the long haul, and every time graphics technology changes, buying a new all-in-one card would break my budget. That, and the fact that NVidia only offers these features on their low-end cards means I'd rather choose one of ATI's solutions, despite some issues with their software. The All-in-Wonder line now spans from the entry-level AIW 7500 and 9000 on up to the top. ATI has a much better tiered structure, and also has standalone tuner/capture cards (TV Wonder Pro). Reply
morcegovermelho - Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - linkGood review. Very good info on breakout box, remote control, and Dual Display Support.
Maybe should be included in the review some info about video-capture.
What capture format? MPEG2? AVI? Other format?
If capture is mpeg2, what resolution? what bitrate? Is it DVD-compliant?
If capture is avi, what is the codec? Can it be uncompressed? Can we use DivX? It's a proprietary codec?
How about dropped frames?
Audio capture - 44khz or 48Khz? Uncompressed, mp2 or ac3 ? Reply
sandorski - Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - linkI just kinda skimmed the article, but I saw enough to support my conclusion(I think ;) ): Nvidia has a long road to catch up to ATI in regards to Multimedia/Multifunction vidcards. It's not just in technology though, but also reputation.
It wasn't too long ago when Multifunction was all ATI had, they certainly weren't selling their cards for Gaming Performance reasons. No serious Gamer would even consider them.
OTOH Nvidia and 3DFX were engaged in a bitter battle for the Gaming Performance crown. We all know how that turned out ( :( ).
Nvidia won the Crown and all seemed good....until ATI released the Radeon 9700 Pro. That one card turned the video card world on its' ear and NVidia has been trying to catch up since.
ATI's time relying on and perfecting their AIW and lesser MultiMedia functioning cards had allowed them to focus on Gaming Performance. They acheived that and the Marketplace is begining to turn on to the whole Multimedia/Multifunction idea in a big way.
Nvidia has a long road ahead and seems to be trying to desperately catch up on a number of fronts. Hopefully they can for Competitions sake, but ATI is turning into a Juggernaut. Reply


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ALUN Rossiter was left fuming by another referee decision that he felt cost his side victory at Elite League leaders King's Lynn Stars.
His Robins lost the meet by a single point and the one point earned was not enough to lift his side into the play-off places.
But the Swindon chief felt that referee Margaret Vardy was wrong to exclude Peter Kildemand in heat 11, saying that the Dane was still under power when the heat was stopped.
The race was a 3-0 award to Swindon, but Rossiter felt that it should have been a 5-0 to his side.
"The referee has just cost us the meeting tonight," the Robins chief said. "He (Kildemand) was clearly still under power.
"The rule is under power, not racing. She said that he wasn't racing, but there were only three riders in the race, he kept going – that should have been a 5-0 and we would have had the points tonight.
"These people have got to understand that this is our business, our livelihoods. It is alright for them, they can go home and go back to their day jobs, it is our livelihoods that they are messing about."
The Swindon chief was not just unhappy about the standard of the refereeing last night but across the whole Elite League this term.
He said: "The referee standards this year have been absolutely atrocious – there has got to be a big shake up.
"It is not 'Rosco is on one again', it was quite clearly, quite simply he (Kildemand) was still under power, the rule is under power – he doesn't have to race.
"I don't know how you'd change it but that is not down to me. There has got to be a massive overhaul of them, the standard has been absolutely appalling – I'm just very disillusioned."
Rossiter says that he will not need to pick his side up for tonight's rearranged meet with Lakeside Hammers after bank holiday Monday's meet was rained off.
"The boys are fine. Anybody would have said beforehand, got a point (at King's Lynn) and be happy, we should have had the lot tonight," he said.
The Robins travelled to Norfolk at full strength with number one rider Kildemand back in the side following his head injury.
Rossiter's men, who despite missing out on riding on Bank Holiday Monday, came into this meet at King's Lynn on the back of an impressive 52-41 success at the Abbey Stadium last Thursday.
The hosts started well against the Robins gaining three 4-2s from the opening three heats.
Stars' number one Niels-Kristian Iversen took the opening session as Robins' top man Kildemand struggled to get anywhere near the rest.
In heat two Lewis Kerr took the gate to lead his side home, while Robins' youngster Nathan Greaves battled hard but was unable to hold off the challenge of Simon Lambert in the battle for third.
Robins skipper Troy Batchelor fought hard in heat three but he could not find a way past Kenneth Bjerre as the Stars claimed a 12-6 lead.
Nick Morris, in his new position at two, claimed the first win of the night for Robins in heat four, with Simon Lambert and Nicklas Porsing trailing behind.
It appeared that the normal 4-2 Stars service was restored in heat five as the in-form Dakota North held on for second in a real tussle for Iversen.
The Robins took the first maximum of the night in the sixth heat as Batchelor led from the second bend with Kildemand following to bring the visitors back to within four points.
North's fine night continued in the following heat as he held off the challenge of Kerr, but Steve Worrall was unable to make an impression.
Morris and Simon Gustafsson, who had a night to forget, led Swindon home for the second maximum of the night in heat eight to draw the two teams level.
In the second reserve battle of the night it was the Stars duo Kerr and Simon Lambert gating to win.
While Greaves did well to keep control of his bike at the end of the first lap, Worrall battled hard to take second.
Swindon's Swede then saw his night come to end in heat 10 when he was excluded after going down at the first corner as the Stars opened up a 32-28 lead despite a fine ride from Batchelor.
Drama arrived at the start of heat 11 when Bjerre's back packed up before the tapes and was replaced by Kerr.
However, the Stars replacement retired in the first lap, while Kildemand was deemed not to be racing as Rory Schlein went down at the start of the third lap leaving North declared the winner and Rossiter fuming at the decision to exclude his Dane.
Robins duo Morris and Worrall gated well in heat 12, but Robert Lambert battled for second as the Aussie took the heat victory.
The Stars gained their first maximum of the night, their 50th of the season, as Iversen and Bjerre led Kildemand and Batchelor home.
Another great ride from North in the penultimate heat helped send the visitors into the final race of the night trailing by just one point.
In the finale Batchelor made a great start and held on for the heat win, but North tailed off to finish fourth giving the Stars victory by one point.


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By Colleen Wheeler | Monday, April 23, 2012
In honor of yesterday's announcement of Adobe's Creative Suite 6, and the six newly released CS6 New Features courses on lynda.com, I thought this week's Featured Five collection should expand to showcase six free movies from the lynda.com library. All of our new CS6 New Features courses (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks, plus Premiere Pro and After Effects CS6 which were released on April 12, 2012) are designed to help you discover the latest software updates, and how the new features may fit well with your workflow needs. With the introduction of the new Adobe Creative Cloud subscription model, which allows you to pay a flat fee to access all of the Suite applications, finding out what's new across the Suite may now be more important than ever as you'll be faced with new decisions during the upgrading process. To give you an idea of what our CS6 New Features courses have to offer, here are six free-to-everyone movies that discuss some of the interesting new abilities of the CS6 flagship applications. After you've checked out the featured six, make sure to let us know in the comments section which CS6 features have you the most intrigued.
1. Photoshop CS6 for Photographers New Features
You may have explored the Photoshop version of CS6 already, given that a public beta has been available for a few weeks. In Photoshop CS6 for Photographers New Features, Chris Orwig reviews the key features that are going to make a difference specifically for photographers. Some of the new features in Photoshop are pretty significant (not to mention extremely cool), but the one that might actually affect the most Photoshop users is the revamped Crop tool. In this free movie Chris demonstrates how the new Crop tool works in a much less destructive way than Crop tools of the past:
2. Illustrator CS6 New Features
Having just celebrated its 25th anniversary, Illustrator is a fairly mature product in the software world. Despite it's industry years, there is no lack of interesting upgrades to the vector graphic program this year. For one thing, you'll notice that like Photoshop, Illustrator has gone to a dark interface, which gives it quite a modern look despite its advanced age. There are also a few cool new ways to tackle old tricks, including a vastly updated pattern creator. Here's a free movie from Justin Seeley's Illustrator CS6 New Features course that shows how the new Pattern Options panel works:
3. InDesign CS6 New Features
When I asked the author of this course, Anne-Marie Concepcion, what her favorite feature from InDesign CS6 was, she said, "I think my favorite feature would be the Auto-Size text frames option. It's not exciting like the neat-o Liquid Layout, but Auto-Size is something I can use right now and something I will be using every day." It's always those features that you use every day and can't remember living without that make a software upgrade significant, even if they're not the sexiest new technology options. In this video from the InDesign CS6 New Features course, Anne-Marie talks about the new Auto-Size text frames option and why it makes her life easier:
4. Dreamweaver CS6 New Features
Dreamweaver CS6 has a bunch of new features, including interface, optimization, and FTP support enhancements, but it's the CSS capabilities that have author James Williamson intrigued. By employing the CSS Transitions feature housed in a convenient new Dreamweaver panel, you can easily add and manage your transitions. You don't need to take my word for it, though, you can hear the enthusiasm for Dreamweaver CS6′s support of CSS transitions in James' voice in this free movie from the Dreamweaver CS6 New Features course:
5. Fireworks CS6 New Features
Fireworks is the Creative Suite app that helps you produce optimized web graphics for any device. In this excerpt from Fireworks CS6 New Features, Ray Villalobos shows off his favorite new Fireworks feature, which is support for creating and exporting CSS Sprites. In the video, Ray demonstrates how you can now use Fireworks to simultaneously help with graphics and the hover state of graphics:
6. Flash Professional CS6 New Features
The CS6 version of Flash Professional has new support for 3D, and a new framework for exporting HTML. In this free movie from Flash CS6 New Features, Anastasia McCune focuses on the new Captive AIR runtime option for creating Android, OSX, or Windows apps. You can now decide if you want your Flash apps to run with Captive AIR embedded or if you want to require that users download the AIR runtime. In this video, Anastasia considers why you might want to choose one option or the other:
If you'd like to see more free CS6 tutorials, we'll have a lot more coming to lynda.com in the next few weeks. While you're checking out the new CS6 Suite, also keep in mind that 10 percent of all lynda.com content is free to try. Just click on any of the blue links on any course table of contents page in our library to watch unlocked videos.
I'll be back next week with five more free selections—but in the meantime, I'll be checking out what CS6 has to offer. Which CS6 features do you have your eye on?
Suggested courses to watch next:
• Photoshop CS6 for Photographers New Features
• Illustrator CS6 New Features• InDesign CS6 New Features• Dreamweaver CS6 New Features• Fireworks CS6 New Features• Flash CS6 New Features
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Some people hanker for a sea change, others a tree change, but Richard and Alison Evans are going for a snow change.
Richard is retiring as a primary-school teacher in 18 months and the couple will move from Dapto on the NSW south coast to Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains to set up a bed and breakfast. Alison, a home lender at IMB, plans to start a mortgage-broking business there as well.
Richard has calculated they will have about $48,000 in a bonus, plus $50,000 (before tax) of a long-service leave payout and will have an indexed pension from his super paying $2200 a fortnight plus Alison's super of $132,000. There's a $260,000 mortgage on their Dapto home, which is worth about $340,000. The couple have about $80,000 in other loans.
Richard estimates the B&B would cost $600,000 ''at most'', including a separate small flat to let. Together, the B&B and unit would ''just about cover repayments''. They also plan to trade in their car for a new one of about $35,000, and would like to travel a little in their retirement.
Richard asks: ''Are our plans feasible? How should we use the bonus, long-service leave, my wife's super payments and my super?''
BFG Financial Services
Although the B&B and tenant income is expected to just about cover the loan payments, additional income might be needed from either the mortgage-broking business or Richard's superannuation pension for loan repayments to ensure the loan can be repaid by retirement.
Assuming the Dapto property is sold, the proceeds should be used to repay the home loan and other loans.
To fund the B&B purchase, a loan will be required. Given how variable business income can be, Richard and Alison should borrow the maximum amount possible for the B&B loan because it is harder to increase the loan should any problems with cash flow occur.
To provide some cash for repayments should one of the income sources not meet the amount projected in the budget, place available cash from the bonus, long-service leave and Alison's superannuation (if able to withdraw tax-free) in an offset account against the loan.
In summary, the plans are risky due to the fact that two new business ventures are being established that will require a considerable loan.
It is worth doing a number of ''what if'' tests?
For example, what if the expected occupancy of the B&B is lower than budgeted? What if we are unwell and cannot run the B&B for a short or long term? What if tenants don't pay their rent? How do we meet repayments and provide for our living expenses?
Moran Howlett
Financial Planning
To be honest, I'm having trouble seeing the risk-reward mix of your strategy providing a real benefit.
In a best case, the lender might treat the B&B purchase as a home loan rather than a business loan. If this is the situation, you are going to have to put about 25 per cent of the purchase price down as a deposit and to cover costs. This means you will need $150,000, and unless you use Alison's super, I can't see where the funds would come from. Superannuation can be accessed by individuals over 55 provided they are permanently retired from the workforce, but from what you are suggesting, this is not the case.
I understand you are in a bit of a debt hole, but given that you both seem keen to continue working, it would make more sense to me if you used the pension income (tax-free after age 60) to supplement other income and rapidly reduce your debt. Salary sacrificing back into super might make sense from a tax perspective, and allow you to repay your loan more efficiently.
This does not exclude a move to Jindabyne, but you might consider renting out your Dapto property and then renting in the Snowies for a year or two. I always recommend a ''try before you buy'' approach when making significant lifestyle changes.
I have a core rule that you should own outright the roof over your head before you retire, and then focus on your retirement income. The income seems sorted, but the focus between now and when you want to stop working (or have to) needs to be on owning your home - wherever it is.
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The snow change could well become a reality given your reasonably strong financial position and the security of Richard's indexed pension of $57,200 a year.
You will have $80,000 equity in your family home after repaying your mortgage loan, or about $65,000 after sale transaction costs. Use this $65,000 together with some of your cash savings to pay off your $80,000 in ''other loans'', which presumably are not tax-deductible and therefore not tax effective to retain.
You should have about $83,000 in cash savings, less any tax payable on Richard's long-service leave. Up to $35,000 of this is earmarked for a new car and the remaining $48,000 could be used for your new businesses or as a cash reserve.
When Alison retires or otherwise becomes eligible, she could start a pension paid from her accumulated super benefits.
Meanwhile, she should try to build up her super by maximising her tax-deductible contributions.
Initially, this can be difficult due to constrained cash flow, but remind yourself of the long-term pension income benefits. Richard's indexed pension does provide peace of mind. but check how much of it will revert to Alison if he dies before her.
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No one can say what the future brings. But David Wright, who turns 30 today, has already been the best player through age 30 in the history of the New York Mets.
As per WAR, through age 30: Wright has a total of 39.1. That's better than any other Met, with the closest Darryl Strawberry (34.4), Edgardo Alfonzo (28.0) and Jose Reyes (27.0). Even had Reyes' age-29 season in 2012 been with the Mets, he was still way behind Wright.
Strawberry has Wright beaten on OPS+, 145 to 135, but defense and positional value more than make up for the difference. And Wright has the edge on everyone else in Mets history, meaning he's been a better hitter than all of them through age 30, forgetting about his defensive edge playing third base.
Strawberry also holds the edge in home runs through age 30, 252-204, but that is an edge Wright should be on pace to erase by the time he's, say, 32.
It's just an easy reminder of David Wright's role as the best player, at this stage in his career, you've ever had the privilege of watching as a New York Met. And for the next eight years, you'll have more of an opportunity to do so. Let's hope the Mets put a team around him worthy of such a player.


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A delegation of three students in the Masters of Public Administration program have just returned from visiting Syrian and Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. The group was led by Professor Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger, coordinator of the Center for Legislative Studies (CLS) Global Civic Leadership and Education Program and faculty director of the university's Institute for Policy Analysis and Regional Engagement.
The participants were Meredith Ann Deacon, Jodie Morrell and Samantha Loutzenhiser.
The students, each in the nonprofit concentration, learned much during their time in Jordan, said Dr. Leuenberger. "The biggest thing is how overwhelming the humanitarian crisis involving children is," she said. "What you don't expect when you go into these very dangerous situations is that who you see are children."
In fact, in these tense and high-risk camps, 60 percent of the residents are children, Dr. Leuenberger said.
Jordan is a key provider of refugee services, and in recent years it has taken in Palestinians, Syrians and Iraqis who have fled their countries.
"The need for support there is so high," Dr. Leuenberger said.
Yet, despite the hardship all around, the students encountered the kindness of strangers, she added.
"They were overwhelmed by the kindness of the people in the community and the hospitality they received in contrast to this high risk area that surrounded them," Dr. Leuenberger said.
For those interested in hearing more about the situation in Jordan and the graduate students' experiences, a forum will be held in the fall where they will present, along with Dr. Leuenberger, their findings and thoughts.
The funding and support for participants were provided by BSU's CLS and office of external affairs, as well as Jordan's Yarmouk University.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The 1-2-1 Financial Credit Union delivered some down to earth moon rocks to hundreds of elementary school students.
"This year's Space Night event at Durbin Creek Elementary School in northern St. Johns County featured a display of space rocks brought back from the moon by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration" said Cindy Breslin with 1-2-1 Financial.
The credit union made arrangements for Deidre Adams, and an Einstein Fellow with NASA to bring the NASA display to the St. Johns school event.
"This is the third year we have participated in the event. Our credit union tries to take every opportunity possible to support youth education. And even though youth financial education is our primary focus, we frequently participate in many aspects of education that will help develop our young people. We are just fortunate that we have the connections to be able to bring something as extraordinary as the moon rocks to Jacksonville, and to enhance the Durbin Creek Space Night's experience." said Breslin.
Other activities at the Space Night event included telescopes for viewing the stars, a laser light show, a NASA presentation and other fun activities for the entire family.
"We are extremely excited and grateful that 1-2-1 Financial could bring in the moon rocks for our event," said Angie Conlan, Durbin Creek partners in education coordinator. "It's the support of corporate sponsors like 121 Financial that really adds to the learning experience for our kids."
The last time the moon rocks made an appearance in Jacksonville, was in November 2010, when 1-2-1 Financial Credit Union brought in Ms. Adams and her display for the re-opening of the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium at the Museum of Science and History (MOSH).
Between 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions brought back 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. In addition, three automated Soviet spacecrafts returned with samples totaling approximately three quarters of a pound from three other lunar sites. With the cutback in the U.S. space program, no future lunar samples are expected to be collected.
The lunar material is considered a national treasure, and with the exception of two sets of goodwill gifts presented to 135 nations, the 50 states and the U.S. provinces, NASA maintains it has never gifted or otherwise provided any individual with a piece of the moon.
Even the astronauts were not permitted to keep a rock for themselves. Instead, the space agency has recently been presenting moon rocks in name only to the early Mercury, Gemini and Apollo crew members to be put on permanent public display.
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Pakistan's cricketers, dismissed as an indisciplined rabble before the World Cup, are eying a place in the semi-finals while Ricky Ponting defiantly stood his ground as Australia captain.
Pakistan, the 1992 champions, have been one of the surprises of the tournament, defying their army of critics who confidently predicted an ugly implosion as soon as they took to the field.
Captained by Shahid Afridi, they overcame a demoralising loss to New Zealand to end defending champions Australia's 34-match unbeaten run in the tournament and clinch top spot in their qualifying pool.
Now the West Indies, who squeezed into the last eight courtesy only of a better run-rate than Bangladesh, stand in Pakistan's way as the quarter-finals get underway.
Victory in Dhaka could hand Afridi's men a mouth-watering semi-final against arch-rivals India, if the co-hosts beat Australia in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
"Our entire focus is on winning the quarter-final, I am not even thinking of the next match, whether it is India or Australia," said Afridi.
"We will not take the West Indies lightly. Any team is capable of winning on their day, there are no second chances in a knock-out match. I think they are a very good side."
Afridi is the tournament's leading bowler with 17 wickets with his fastish leg-breaks, while seamer Umar Gul has kept the pressure on at the other end with 13 wickets.
Afridi may have failed with the bat so far with just 65 runs in six games, but young guns Umar Akmal and Asad Shafiq have shone brightly in their first World Cup.
Akmal has scored 211 runs at 52.75 and Shafiq averages 124 in the two games he has played so far, while seasoned seniors like Misbah-ul Haq and Younis Khan have lent solidity to the middle-order.
West Indies threw away two winning positions in their last two matches against England and India and go into Wednesday's game at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium having lost 18 successive matches against the leading nations.
But they will be boosted by the return of star batsman Chris Gayle and pace spearhead Kemar Roach.
The duo missed the last league match against India in Chennai on Sunday with Gayle resting an abdominal strain and Roach feeling unwell due to viral fever and a stomach infection.
Experienced batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, left out of the last two matches, could also be recalled to plug the middle order leaks.
The West Indies return to the venue where they shot out Bangladesh for their lowest one-day total of 58 in the league to romp home by nine wickets in a match that ended in under two hours.
Meanwhile, besieged Australia captain Ricky Ponting denied Wednesday he plans to quit international cricket amid reports he was ready to walk away.
The 36-year-old Ponting, who has been under intense pressure since the Ashes defeat, as well as for his controversial behaviour at the World Cup, said retirement had never crossed his mind.
Britain's Daily Mail reported he planned to retire from the international scene at the end of World Cup and finish his career at an English county.
"I've never ever thought about retirement or where the finish line might be," he told Australian media.
"I've been trying to prepare myself as best I can as a player and lead the team as well as possible. For some reason, these retirement things keep popping up all the time.
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Al Jefferson scored eight of his 25 points in overtime to lead the Utah Jazz to a 114-110 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Saturday night at EnergySolutions Arena.Utah squandered an eight-point in the final two minutes of regulation before riding Jefferson to victory.Paul Millsap added 21 points for the Jazz, who improved to 24-20 for the season.The Jazz started poorly, with Indiana jumping to a 15-8 lead.Utah got going, however, when Jefferson and Millsap began going inside against David West and Roy Hibbert.Millsap and Jefferson each scored six points and Gordon Hayward came off the bench to add six more during a quarter-ending 19-9 run that gave the Jazz a 27-24 lead.In the second quarter, Utah failed to convert its opening six possessions.Still, the Jazz scored eight straight points to build a 45-39 lead with just over three minutes left before going cold.West scored 14 points and the Pacers finished with a 9-0 run to build a 48-45 halftime lead.In the third quarter, Millsap scored the Jazz's first seven points.Randy Foye followed with a three-pointers, including one that gave Utah a 60-56 lead. The Jazz also converted their next four possessions while holding Indiana scoreless and they build a 69-59 lead.Utah owned a 98-92 lead with 1:37 remaining but three turnovers by Hayward kept Indiana alive. Paul George forced overtime with two free throws with 9.8 seconds left.In overtime, however, Jefferson scores eight points and Utah opens a 104-98 lead before holding on for its ninth win in 12 games.
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It's easy to spit out the cliché "it's how many, not how, that counts," but if the Winnipeg Jets fall into that line of thinking, this season will be just another exercise in futility.
It's early to be talking too much about results. The process and playing the right kind of game is key at this stage. Get that right, and the wins will follow.
Tuesday's win over the Edmonton Oilers shouldn't fool anyone. It was a bad game masked by a good result. That's not a formula that can continue.
The Jets talk a lot about growth and there's no doubt there's been a lot of improvement as individuals. Now it's time for team growth. Time to listen to the coaches, buy into the game plan and do it over and over again.
If the Jets don't make the post-season at the end of this year, it likely won't be a result of a lack of talent but more because they tried to rely on that talent.
We're now into the third season of watching this group play and it's fair to say there is skill on this roster. But this group has yet to show it's consistently committed to playing a brand of hockey that results in wins.
If that doesn't change, the results at the end of the season will be the same.
Tuesday's game was a prime example of the Jets not executing defensively. They got away with it but they won't if they fall into the same habits tonight against the Los Angeles Kings.
"I think we showed a lot of heart in coming back but we put ourselves into a bad position that we won't be able to overcome most nights," said Jets defenceman Zach Bogosian. "We need to be better defensively as a team. Giving up four goals a night isn't going to get us where we want to go."
Spot Kings goalie Jonathan Quick four goals and more likely than not he'll beat you. Give Los Angeles a pair on the power play and they'll grind you into 5-on-5 submission.
"You can't go into too many nights and play like we did in Edmonton and expect to win," said Jets coach Claude Noel. "You don't win the special teams game and you go into the third down, it's not a recipe for success in the National Hockey League. We know we dodged a bullet and we have a lot of work to do to get better."
The Kings are one of the NHL's elite teams with a top-end goalie, a Norris Trophy candidate on the blue-line in Drew Doughty and a deep and balanced forward group that can both score and check. In many ways, the Kings are the standard the Jets must aspire to meet.
Bogosian says the combination of speed and size on the Kings makes them a challenge.
"If you look at the majority of the skill guys around the league, they're usually smaller. But these guys are big and they have skill. They're harder to defend. They can protect the puck. A big guy that can skate is difficult to play against," said Bogosian. "Their blue-line is mobile and they have a pretty good goalie. Quick is going to make saves. We have to get traffic and get a lot of shots. We need to crash and bang a bit."
For me, how the Jets play right now is more instructive than the end result. Sure, wins are needed to accomplish the goal of the post-season but over the long haul, execution of a proper formula will bear out.
The Jets need to grasp this and the sooner they do the better.
For now, the how is actually more important than the how many.
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A record 5.3 million votes were cast in selecting the UEFA.com users' Team of the Year 2012, a 20% increase on 12 months ago, and the end product is another XI packed predominantly with Spain-based talent.
UEFA.com users' Team of the Year 2012
Iker Casillas (Real Madrid CF & Spain), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid CF & Spain), Gerard Piqué (FC Barcelona & Spain), Thiago Silva (AC Milan/Paris Saint-Germain FC), Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München & Germany), Andrés Iniesta (FC Barcelona & Spain), Xavi Hernández (FC Barcelona & Spain), Andrea Pirlo (Juventus & Italy), Mesut Özil (Real Madrid CF & Germany), Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF & Portugal)
For the third successive edition, eight Liga players feature in the Team of the Year, five of whom were involved in Spain's UEFA EURO 2012 triumph in Poland and Ukraine. FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF provide four players apiece, with the Catalan club' contribution headed by Iniesta, who was chosen by almost three out of every four users who voted.
Club-mates Piqué, Xavi and Messi also make the cut, and Messi is joined in attack by Cristiano Ronaldo, making a record seventh appearance in a poll now in its 12th edition. For the first time users were invited to decide their favoured formation – they nominated 4-4-2, the system used as a default for the previous selections.
Ronaldo, like Casillas, is also in the XI for the sixth year running. Ramos returns for his second appearance, four years after his first, but for the fourth member of the Real Madrid contingent, Özil, this marks a debut. At 24, the German is the youngest member of the lineup; another player making his bow, 33-year-old Pirlo, is the oldest.
A third newcomer, Thiago Silva, completes the cast list, narrowly edging out Borussia Dortmund's Mats Hummels for the final defensive berth. The PSG man is Ligue 1's first representative since 2007, and if for the first time there are no Premier League players, the Spanish Liga's dominance continues.
The 5.3 million votes were cast by nearly half a million users, both records, surpassing 2010 when 400,000 users made 5 million selections. Some 50,000 of this year's picks were made directly via the official UEFA Champions League Twitter page, an option available for the first time.
The next step will see one member of the team receive a €100,000 cheque from UEFA which he will donate to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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750-Meter Swim/20-K Bike/5-K Run The Crescent Moon Triathlon is a fun late-summer tri. It's the best way to end the summer triathlon season! All participants will receive a quarter-zip long sleeve tech shirt, tremendous goody bag, catered BBQ lunch, raffle prizes, custom pottery awards for division winners and $1,200 in prize money for the top performers. This race has sold out since 2007. This year, the Crescent Moon Tri will be the final event in the new Front Range Sprint Triathlon Series ? the best value in Triathlon in Colorado! The series also includes My Way or the Tri Way on July 6th at Cherry Creek State Park in Denver, and the Evergreen Tri on July 28th in Evergreen. The series offers $5,000 in Elite and Master's prize money, as well as series awards in every age group and a special award for all who complete all three races! The series is open to all ages and abilities, with a discounted series entry fee. Sign up for all three series events by June 1st and you'll get a commemorative series pint glass!
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