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Our hotel is located 15 km away from Paris, or 45 minutes with the RER from Notre Dame de Paris Church, and 30 minutes away from the Eiffel Tower.
We are part of the Balladins network. We are located only 20 minutes walk from Enghien les Bains' famous Casino and the lake.
Our accommodation is economical, providing customers with efficient service at competitive prices. Our rooms are spacious and soundproof. We are also equipped with a number of rooms especially accommodated for handicapped persons.
All rooms can accommodate two people and are equipped with their own bathroom and TV. A buffet continental breakfast is also available. We can propose you a secured parking lot 24/7 as well as coffee and fast food machines. You will have internet access 24/7!!!
By Car
- Epinay sur Seine is situated 10 minutes away from all the gateways to Paris: Porte de Clichy by RN310, Porte de La Chapelle by A1, la Défense by A86 and Cergy Pontoise by A15.
By Train
- The RER station of Epinay (5 minutes walk from the hotel): RER C from 5.10am to 11.35pm with trains in every 15 minutes.You can get the train R E R C from the following stations : Porte de Clichy/ St micheal notre dame/ levallois Pereire/ Porte maillot.People who get off from the station Saint Lazare : get the metro line 3 & R E R C from levallois Pereire
From the station Gare du nord :take the metro line 2 (direction Porte dauphine) & get off at the metro station Place de clichy ,then take the metro line 13(direction Gabriel Péri/Asnière-Gennevilliers & get off at the station Porte de clichy, You can get the train line R E R C from this station (30 MINUTES)
Direction from the station Epinay sur seine to the Hotel:
Follow the main exit on to your right side when you get off from the train & Take the street you find once you come out from the station. (sign: tabac shop) work till the end of this street & then you'll come to the main street where you see the hotel IBIS in front of you. Turn to you left from there & cross the street(sign : garage speedy).You're only 2 minutes away from the hotel. Can't miss it(you can see the hotel from there)
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The International Airport Charles de Gaulle 30 minutes by A1, Orly Airport in 40 minutes by A86 then by A4.
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The current World Heavyweight Champion is in fact impressed by the seventeen years old's punching skills.
Teen sensation Justin Bieber has been learning how to land a left hook from British boxing champion David Haye. The "Baby" hitmaker shed his clean-cut image and stepped into the ring with the current World Heavyweight Champion at his training gym in London on Sunday, March 13.
And Haye admits he was impressed with his opponent's punching skills, writing in a post on his Twitter.com page, "Great workout in The Hayemaker Boxing Gym, Justin Bieber. You sure can pack punch!! I'm now a Belieber! Stay Blessed!"
Meanwhile, Justin gushed, "Worked out with Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World David Haye. I took it easy on him. haha. good times (sic)."
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HOUSTON - A fight in a CVS Pharmacy parking lot ended in a deadly shooting.
The shooting happened Thursday night outside the CVS in the 8900 block of Barker Cypress Road.
According to investigators, the victim, identified as Deandre Liggins, and his friend went to sell illegal narcotics to a man, who then tried to rob Liggins.
Investigators say Liggins and the suspect struggled over a handgun and the suspect shot Liggins.
The suspect fled in a white Buick.
Liggins, 21, was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
Anyone with information regarding the murder case is asked to contact the Harris County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit at 713.967.5810 or call Crime Stoppers at 713.222.TIPS(8677).
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Yes, that would be the best way. If you don't get to actually see the lawyer tomorrow then you probably want to go ahead and contest it in writing.
Alright what does a hearing usually consist of? Just arranging another court date?
Yes, usually there is a judge, someone representing the state, and then you and your lawyer and the officer. It is usually in a different place than the DUI case.
What is the average percentage of a 18 year old kid winning this
With a .15 it isn't a high percentage.
Alright. Well so should I still plead not guilty?
Probably 10% or less. However, the lawyer will look for problems with the evidence and that can help a lot.
Yes, still plead not guilty.
And get your lawyer.
Alright thank you. But one last question for the days in jail. Is it usually a one night and two day thing then your out the next day or two days and two nights then out bright and early on the third day
It's usually part of one day and part of another.
They don't usually keep you a full 48 hours.
So say I go in at 5 p.m sleep there and leave the next day a little afternoon?
Yes, something like that.
Alright thank you!
You're welcome!
When am I most likely have to serve the two days? Weekend? Or tomorrow?
Not tomorrow since you are pleading not guilty and getting a lawyer. Usually the judge will let you serve it on a weekend.
Alright thank you!
You're welcome.
Also forgot to ask are the consequences the same if I lose the case or will they add more on?
If you end up going to trial you could get more but just because you plead not guilty now doesn't mean you are actually going to trial. By pleading not guilty you can get an attorney and have them review everything and then later you can change your plea to guilty. Likely you will get a better deal later than you would if you plead guilty now.
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So Iowa law is minimum two days in jail. But can you research on it and see IG they really keep you in for that long? Or just one day or so?
There is no way to research that online since that depends on the jail. Most jails give credit for the time and it results in less than two full days but some make you serve a full 48 hours.
Is there anyway I can ask them?
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BERKELEY-based cycling siblings Etienne and Pfeiffer Georgi competed in the three-day Isle of Man Youth and Junior Tour recently.
Both Castle School students were riding for Giant CC Halo Films.
Beginning with a 1.3km seafront prologue and progressing to a 29km hilly road stage, Pfeiffer, 13, took commanding wins in the first two stages in the under-14 girls' category.
However, disaster struck in the final 19km seafront Criterium, when Pfeiffer was brought down in an early crash.
Valiantly chasing the 50-strong bunch of the combined under-16 and under-14 girls' categories, Pfeiffer completed the course on her own, with a subsequently diagnosed fractured wrist, and salvaged second place overall in the under-14 girls' category.
Etienne's tour was fortunately less calamitous, achieving 14th place overall in the under-16 boys' category.
Competing over extended distances of 36km for the hilly stage two and 34km for the stage three Criterium, Etienne's best stage result was fifth place in the frenetic Criterium sprint of the 70 riders.


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Freddy is a leading producer of Italian dance wear. These posters are for advertise a series of workshops by Freddy held by the best choreographers in Italy and worldwide of dance. The drawings represent the imaginary lines and curves traced by the body during the performance in different kind of dances.
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1988 Vs. 1998
I still haven't found Jane Doe, so in the meantime I've been bumping "Twice In A Lifetime" off Black Star's debut album.
They were spitting back then. It's hard to believe it's already been ten years since Black Star's only LP. Some of you may remember that it dropped on September 29th, one of the illest release dates in hip-hop history. Jay-Z's Hard Knock Life, Outkast's Aquemini, A Tribe Called Quest's final CD, The Love Movement and Bran Nubian's Foundation, all hit stores that day. That's five solid albums dropping on the same day. I haven't heard five solid albums all year.
Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill had just dropped a month earlier (August 25), and you dunn know I was still bumping Def Squad and DMX and those Best Of Canibus Freestyle CDs. That was a hot summer, Cam. I remember us bumping that Capital Punishment on the way to Coney Island, or trying to break my aunt's windows blasting that N.O.R.E. when everybody left the crib. For my money, 1998 is one of my favorite years in hip-hop. Not only for the music, but the memories I associate with the albums. I think 94 or 96 may be my other favorite calendars. Shoot, listening to Hot 97 wasn't even half bad back then.
I'm pretty sure my older brother feels the same way about 1988, the year of monster releases by Big Daddy Kane (Long Live The Kane), Boogie Down Productions(By All Means Necessary), Slick Rick (The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick), Public Enemy (It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back), N.W.A.(Straight Outta Compton) and Eric B. & Rakim(Follow The Leader). He's looking over my shoulder right now telling me my year can't hang. You see I love those albums, but I have a different type of appreciation for them. I could wikipedia the dates, but I'd be lying if I told you I remembered the day they dropped. I was a super youngin' at the time. I was probably more worried about how many homeruns Darryl Strawberry hit in the Mets game anyway.
But anyway, 98 may be one of my favorites, but I couldn't possibly say it was better than 88 album-wise. I may not have understood everything the R. said back then, but I sure revisited his CD years later. Dude was a beast. The same goes for Kane and them. Basically, 88 wins because of the ratio. There were less albums out, but almost everything out (minus Hammer of course) was fire. What do you guys think? What was the better year 1998, or 1988? I couldn't possibly remember every release, so if I forgot somebody, my bad. Speak on it.
-Big Daddy Kane-Long Live The Kane
-Biz Markie-Goin' Off
-Boogie Down Productions-By All Means Necessary
-EPMD-Strictly Business
-Eric B. & Rakim-Follow The Leader
–The Fat Boys-Come Back Hard Again
-Jungle Brothers-Straight out the Jungle
-MC Hammer-Let's Get It Started
-N.W.A-Straight Outta Compton
-Public Enemy-It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
-Rob Base And DJ E-Z Rock-It Takes Two
-Run-D.M.C.-Thougher Than Leather
-Salt-n-Pepa-A Salt with a Deadly Pepa
-Slick Rick-The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick
-Ultramagnetic MCs-Critical Beatdown
-Beastie Boys-Hello Nasty
-Big Pun-Capital Punishment
-Bizzie Bone-Heaven'z Movie-Black Star-Mos Def & Talib Keli Are…Black Star
-Brand Nubian-Foundation
-Busta Rhymes-Extinction Level Event
-Cam'Ron-Confessions Of Fire
-Cappadonna-The Pillage
-Cypress Hill-IV-Daz Dillinger-Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back
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-DJ Quik-Rhythm-Al-Ism-DMX-It's Dark & Hell Is Hot
-DMX-Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
-Fat Joe-Don Cartegena
-Gangstarr-The Moment Of Truth
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-Jay-Z-In My Lifetime Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life
-Jermaine Dupri-Life In 1472
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Topic: PewDiePie is the most subscribed channel, how to get paid more on YouTube, Benny Luo of New Media Rockstars gives advice, and more.
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A slightly twisted and superbly talented chanteuse -Tom Staudter- New York Times
Joan Crowe gets to the heart of a songs story. And shes funny. And she is
beautiful. She gets the hat trick is how Michael Bourne of WBGO describes Joan. As a
long time supporter of her work, he wrote the liner notes for her debut CD, Bird On The Wire, which garnered rave reviews in LA Jazz Scene, Jazz Improv, All Music Guide, Cadence, JazzReview.com, All About Jazz and others. Joining her on the CD is Tedd
Firth on Piano, Jay Leonhart on Bass, Scott Neuman on Drums, George Walker Petit on
guitar, and Justin Flynn on Sax. She has had the privilege of touring Berlin, Prague, and
Amsterdam and Hong Kong as a result of the international airplay her first CD enjoyed.
Joan is a versatile singer with an extensive repertoire and a unique comic ability that earned her the 2002 MAC Award for Female Musical Comedy and led her to
produce a ground breaking video pod cast devoted to the lighter side of jazz. Filmed
mostly at Birdland, www.FunnyJazzChick.com boasts 44+ episodes to date with
subscribers in 63 countries worldwide. The pod cast led her to record her second CD: In The Key Of Comedy live with Jay Leonhart, Matt Wilson, Tedd Firth and Bob Dorough. The CD led to her current project: a series of shows with Jesters Of Jive, an ensemble featuring Mark Berman, Saadi Zain and Moe Roberts. Jesters Of Jive an ensemble featuring Mark Berman, Saadi Zain and Moe Roberts. Jesters Of Jive focuses on the music of such maters of wit as: Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, Oscar Brown Jr. and others.
After a successful career as an actress, she caught the jazz bug when she
opened for Joe Lovano in 2002. Since then she has played in many prestigious jazz clubs, including The Jazz Standard, The Iridium Jazz Club, Sweet Rhythm and Birdland..
She is very proud of the money she has raised for Breast Cancer and other
charities performing one of her many shows: Women of Note, a tribute to Women
Songwriters, a show that Time Out New York selected as a Critics Pick. Bloomberg
Radio, and Hilarious by the Associated Press dubbed her show As the Crowe Flies
Fabulous! Seven Deadly Songs is hysterical look at good and evil. And earned her a
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She performs regularly with her 10-piece band, High Society Rhythm. Her credits include performances at The Rainbow Room, The Oak Room in Grand Prospect Hall,
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MARLOW is now officially rubbing shoulders with the likes of Belgravia and Notting Hill as one of the UK's most glamorous locations to live, according to a national newspaper survey.
The Sunday Times has named Marlow the 16th most glamorous area to settle, beating the likes of Windsor, Ascot and St Andrews to feature around halfway down the newspaper's top 30 list.
Marlow is praised as one of the "prettiest and most bustling towns on the Thames", with the annual regatta cited as one of the top reasons for its appeal.
The quality of its High Street is also lauded, along with its proximity to London which provides good commuting links.
Figures published in last week's MFP support Marlow's claim as an attractive destination, with the town's car parks receiving a landmark £1million visitors last year.
And with twice as many new businesses popping up in Marlow compared to the average in the district, the statistics suggest it is becoming a serious place to do business, as well as a spot for the glamorous elite to moor their yachts.
Knightsbridge and Belgravia topped the Times poll, with the area's houses selling for anything up to £24.5million.


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In 2008 From Here to Awesome experimented with a "day and date" festival model that helped filmmakers reach audiences on various devices and platforms while enabling them to retain their rights. Instead of repeating what we did last year we've decided to spend some time doing R&D around the topics that are impacting the futures of entertainment. Over the course of 2009 we'll be holding a number of discussions with thought leaders from various industries. The first in the "From Here to Awesome" series centers on the issue of discovery.
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Rob and Sheila are eliminated at the end of the first leg after arriving 15 seconds later than tenth placer Jaymes and James.
Eleven teams began their journey on "The Amazing Race" in the premiere episode of season 21 which aired Sunday, September 30. After being informed that a team who won the first and last leg could get a $2 million grand prize, everyone rappelled off of the Colorado Street Bridge in California. Once they hit the ground, they learned that they would travel to Shanghai, China.
The first seven teams to arrive at Los Angeles airport got tickets for the first flight, and they were James & Jaymes, Caitlin & Brittany, James & Abba, Amy & Daniel, Abbie & Ryan, Nat & Nadia and Rob & Kelley. Rob & Sheila, Gary & Will and Trey & Lexi, meanwhile, were on the second flight.
In Shanghai, they headed to Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium where they faced Roadblock. One of each team's members had to play a table tennis against a Chinese junior champion and score one point. Things got hilarious as the young athlete began using household items like a tambourine, a clipboard and a frying pan instead of a paddle.
Abbie already scored a point when Rob and Kelley were still lost on their way to the sports stadium. Abbie & Ryan headed to CuiPing Restaurant, followed by James & Abba and chippendales dancers Jaymes & James. At the restaurant, the team member who didn't play table tennis had to eat a traditional Chinese dessert, frog fallopian tubes inside a papaya, with chopsticks.
James & Abba quickly finished the dessert and got the next clue. Meanwhile, Rob had to eat three times because he broke the rules by picking up the food off the table. The clue led them to the Bund Conservatory, where they had to find a woman using an abacus.
Abbie & Ryan were the first team to find the woman and finished in the first place, meaning they have a shot at winning $2 million. Amy & Daniel came in second place, followed by Caitlin & Brittany, Nat & Nadia, Rob & Kelley, James & Abba and Josh & Brent. Gary & Will finished in the eighth place after giving a wrong hint to Jaymes & James about where to find the woman.
Trey & Levi finished ninth, leaving it between Jaymes & James and Rob & Sheila to compete for the last spot. Rob & Sheila slowed down on their way to the pit stop and Jaymes & James arrived 15 seconds ahead of the engaged couple. Despite being the first to be sent home, Rob & Sheila were relieved that they didn't have a conflict during their time on the show.


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BATH, N.C. -- In a pirate-worthy broadside on conventional history, a Raleigh, N.C., author claims that Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren't rogue Englishmen, but sons of North Carolina landowners.
Most historical accounts contend that the notorious pirate known as Edward Teach or Thatch was from Bristol, England. But Kevin P. Duffus said his review of archives and genealogical research indicates that Blackbeard was probably Edward Beard, son of a landowner in Bath in Beaufort County.
"There's never going to be a smoking gun to determine who he really was," Duffus said of the pirate. "My version is a lot more plausible than what's been foisted upon us for nearly three centuries."
The writer also claims that several of Blackbeard's crew members were not hanged as earlier accounts said and at least three returned to North Carolina to respectable -- and wealthy -- lives.
With the help of genealogists, Duffus has found a descendant of one of Blackbeard's known crew members, Edward Salter. Under prodding by Duffus, state officials are investigating whether a skeleton kept for years in a state archeology lab in Raleigh is that of Salter, who lived out his life near Bath.
The bones were recovered in 1986 from a crypt near the Pamlico River. If DNA tests show that the bones are Salter's, the identification would establish that at least one of Blackbeard's men had family roots in Bath.
Steve Claggett, the state archeologist, said such a scenario could be true.
"I think there's a pretty good case for it," he said.
The state already claims the wreckage of Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. Hundreds of artifacts, including cannon, ship rigging and even traces of gold dust, have been recovered since 1996 from Beaufort Inlet, where historians say the pirate ran the ship aground.
Duffus is bracing for a backlash from historians and Blackbeard buffs. He admits he doesn't have conclusive proof of his assertions, but he thinks they are more plausible than versions that have been around for generations.
"Blackbeard followers revel in retelling their favorite Blackbeard fable over the years," he said. "I realize they will not let go of them easily."
The pirate is largely known for his exploits late in his life, before troops from Virginia tracked him down and killed him at Ocracoke in 1718. His ties to Bath have been documented and some have become the stuff of legend, but there is scant evidence of his early life.
Duffus' theory is that Blackbeard was the son of Capt. James Beard of the Goose Creek area near Charleston, S.C., who owned about 400 acres on the west bank of Bath Creek as early as 1707. He says Beard's son Edward, born in South Carolina in 1690, came to eastern North Carolina with his father but was also taken to Philadelphia, where he learned his sailing skills.
Duffus suggests that Edward Beard sported a black beard and used "Black" as a nickname, much like fellow pirate Black Sam Bellamy. By his account, Thatch or Teach was an alias, and the pirate's moniker was actually Black Beard, later condensed to Blackbeard.
Most accounts of Blackbeard's early years stem from references by Capt. Charles Johnson in A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, an 18th-century bestseller. "Edward Teach was a Bristol man born," he wrote.
But Duffus says there is no documentation of a Teach or Thatch in Bristol, and no one knows for sure who Johnson was or where he obtained his information.
"They (skeptics) can accept seven words written by an author whose true identity remains a mystery," he said -- "or a preponderance of circumstantial evidence."
David Moore, curator of nautical archeology at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, agreed that the link to Bristol is tenuous. But he also said the link to Bath is speculative.
"I find it extremely hard to believe if there was an association we wouldn't know it now," he said.
Moore, who has researched Blackbeard's career, said new claims will spur more interest in the legends -- not that pirate lore has been lacking.
"Pirates and piracy have held a fascination with the general public since piracy began," he said.
Another pirate researcher, Charles Ewen of East Carolina University, said Duffus' theories about Blackbeard and Edward Salter are plausible, but he maintains his skepticism. He said it may be difficult to ever find a definitive answer.
"The onus is on the naysayers," he said.
In his self-published book, The Last Days of Blackbeard the Pirate, Duffus recounts his search for answers to the mysteries surrounding Blackbeard's link to eastern North Carolina. He says he found documents that earlier researchers either overlooked or ignored.
For instance, he cites a document in British archives that says two vessels that cornered Blackbeard at Ocracoke approached from Pamlico Sound. Earlier accounts indicated they came from the ocean. That is a significant difference, he said, because it explains why Blackbeard was surprised in waters he knew well.
"If history could make this error, what other errors could have been made in telling the Blackbeard story?" he asked.
Traditional accounts also said that 15 men suspected of being part of Blackbeard's crew were tried in Williamsburg, Va., in 1719. Thirteen were reportedly convicted and hanged, one was pardoned for his testimony, and the other was not a crew member and was acquitted.
According to Duffus, nine were either pardoned or acquitted, and only six were executed. Three with ties to Bath, including Edward Salter, were not hanged, he said, adding that Salter became a merchant and gentleman who owned substantial property.
Some of Duffus' findings are not new. He credits genealogy research on Beard and Salter by Allen Hart Norris, John H. Oden III and Jane Stubbs Bailey that was published in a journal in 2002. But he has also traced Salter's line to a possible living descendant.
State officials are reviewing Duffus' request for DNA testing on the skeletal remains in Raleigh. Claggett, the state archeologist, said the studies could cost up to $6,000. He said other researchers are considering facial reconstructions that would show what the man looked like.
Duffus is challenging other myths and legends about Blackbeard, including the fanciful tale that Blackbeard's headless body continued to swim after being tossed overboard. He says Blackbeard's body is probably buried at Ocracoke along with those of the slain pirates and Royal Navy sailors.
-- The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.).


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By Suvashree Dey Choudhury and Subhadip Sircar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The current account deficit grew less than expected in the June quarter and is tipped to ease in coming months as a pick-up in exports and lower gold imports improve the trade balance, offering relief to the battered rupee.
But the country's fiscal gap widened sharply in the first five months of the financial year, putting pressure on the government to spend less in the run-up to national elections or risk missing its stated aim of cutting the budget deficit.
The high current account gap has made it especially vulnerable to a surge in capital flows out of emerging markets in recent months, sending its currency down as much as 20 percent this year.
The rupee hit a record low on Aug 28, although it has since recovered some of the lost ground.
The current account deficit (CAD) for the three months through June was $21.8 billion, or 4.9 percent of gross domestic product, driven by sluggish exports and high gold imports in April and May before the government hiked tariffs on the metal to a record 10 percent.
Five economists had predicted the deficit would rise to $23-$25 billion.
The lower-than-expected figure was due in part to stronger inflows from software exports, helped by the weaker rupee.
"Risk of high CAD has receded to a considerable extent but (the risk) is alive on the fiscal deficit," said A. Prasanna, an economist at ICICI Securities Primary Dealership.
The fiscal deficit rose to 4.05 trillion rupees for the April-August period, or 74.6 percent of the full fiscal year target, higher than the 65.7 percent at the same point a year ago.
The government has set a target of trimming its fiscal deficit to 4.8 percent of GDP in the fiscal year through March but the Congress party-led administration, which faces elections by May, could find it hard to cut back on subsidy spending.
"The government should build on the gains on the external front by taking corrective measures like cutting expenditures to achieve the fiscal deficit target," Prasanna said.
The June-quarter current account deficit was wider than the gap of $18.17 billion, or 3.6 percent of GDP, in the quarter ending in March.
Economists expect the gap to ease as the duty on gold has constricted imports, with improving global demand and the weaker rupee bolstering exports.
A narrowing current account deficit would reduce India's reliance on foreign money to fund the gap.
Since hitting a record low 68.85 to the dollar, the partially convertible rupee has gained about 10 percent and closed on Monday at 62.60.
Balance of payments slipped marginally into deficit for the June quarter at $346 million versus a surplus of $2.68 billion in the March quarter.
Also on Monday, India reported that output for the infrastructure sector rose 3.7 percent year-on-year in August, its biggest gain since January, mainly driven by coal, cement and electricity production.
In the fiscal year through March 2012, infrastructure output grew 3.2 percent compared with 5 percent in the previous year.
(Writing by Tony Munroe; Editing by John Stonestreet)


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Here are 10 things you should know for Tuesday, May 27:
1. -- U.S. stock futures were rising Tuesday while European shares gained on hopes for easier monetary policy.
Asian stocks ended the session mixed. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.2%.
2. -- The economic calendar in the U.S. on Tuesday includes durable-goods order for April at 8:30 a.m. EDT, the Case-Shiller 20-city Index for March at 9 a.m., the FHFA Housing Price Index for March at 9 a.m., and consumer confidence for May at 10 a.m.
3. -- U.S. stocks on Friday (markets in the U.S. were closed Monday for Memorial Day) rose, with the S&P 500 closing above 1,900 for the first time ever after stronger-than-expected new home sales in April provided further evidence of a housing recovery.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.38% to close at 16,606.27. The S&P 500 closed 0.42% higher at 1,900.53, breaking its record close of 1,897.45 on May 13. The Nasdaq gained 0.76% to 4,185.81.
4. -- Pfizer (PFE) pulled the plug on a takeover of British drugmaker AstraZeneca (AZN), in what would have been the largest deal in the pharmaceutical industry's history.
The announcement came a week after AstraZeneca's board rejected a $119 billion buyout proposal from Pfizer of New York.
Pfizer had until 5 p.m. local time in London on Monday to extend a firm offer for AstraZeneca or declare its intent not to do so. Under U.K. law, Pfizer now can't make another offer for six months.
Pfizer shares rose 0.7% in premarket trading to $29.70. AstraZeneca shares fell 1.6% to $71.15.
5. -- Apple (AAPL) is readying a new software platform that would turn the iPhone into a remote control for lights, security systems and other household appliances, as part of a move into the "Internet of things," the Financial Times reported.


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THE Baillieu government will argue at a trial next month that its ability to govern Victoria will be reduced if a legal challenge to its crackdown on union-friendly deals in the building industry is successful.
It emerged in the Federal Court on Wednesday that lawyers for the Baillieu government will use constitutional arguments in their bid to defeat the case brought by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
That will include arguing that its ability to govern Victoria will be impaired if it loses the case.
The trial in the Federal Court - which is expected to begin next month - is a crucial test of the state's new building code, which took effect from the middle of 2012. The code is a key part of the Baillieu government's plan to control building costs and change work practices in the industry.
If builders breach those rules through union-friendly deals, they risk missing out on government work.
Before Christmas The Age revealed that the government would ban major builder Lend Lease for up to four years due to a deal it signed with the CFMEU that requires union flags to be flown on site and placed limits on the use of outside labour.
The case in the Federal Court relates to Lend Lease's bid to build the $630 million Bendigo hospital; it is the builder for one of the two consortiums that is tendering for it. Lawyers for the CFMEU are arguing that the government is breaching the federal Fair Work Act by either threatening to or banning Lend Lease from the tender.
Finance minister Robert Clark, through a spokesman, said it considered its rules to be ''fully consistent with the Fair Work Act''.
''It would be beyond the constitutional power of the Commonwealth to restrict the state's ability to undertake key public projects in the way being sought by the CFMEU,'' he said.
''The [code] guidelines are intended to help bring an end to the kinds of unlawful practices and consequent cost blowouts for which the Victorian construction industry has been notorious.''


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Ohio State freshman wide receiver James Clark, who suffered a pretty tough-looking ankle injury against Florida A&M Saturday, is likely out for the season, per his position coach, Zach Smith:
Smith said James Clark suffered an ankle injury and is likely lost for the year. He was injured early in the second half against FAMU.
— Kyle Rowland (@KyleRowland) September 23, 2013
"He's doing well," Smith said. "He had an ankle injury and he's probably done for the year, so we'll move forward with him. As far as his mentality and his psyche, he's doing really well. We were excited about his development and how he was coming, but obviously injuries happen in football. So we are looking forward to an off‑season for him and getting him stronger and a better understanding of the offense, so we are excited about it."
Because the injury occurred during the first third of the season, Clark will receive a medical redshirt if he is unable to return. Get well soon, Mr. Clark.


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My brother asked me the question, 'Do you want to be associated just with Dolphin People?' A very good question to which I didn't know the answer. So of course I Googled it.
I put 'dolphin people' into the search box and came up with a lot of different and interesting things.
Who do you think 'dolphin people' are?
I would be interested in your views, and whether you consider yourself a 'Dolphin Person' or not.
Olivia Newton John is a Dolphin Person
Watch the video of her song 'The Promise – Dolphin Song' below
The Reason I Chose The Dolphin
The reason I chose the dolphin for my logo is that I see dolphins as perpetuating the kind of energy I am talking about – Energy For Life, or Joy of Life – 'Joie De Vivre' as the French call it. The kind of playful, carefree, happy energy that is light, free and joyous.
Dolphins always seem to have a smile on their faces.
They are intelligent animals (apparently their brains are bigger in relation to their size than human brains), communicate well with each other, and even with humans, are nurturing with their young and loyal to their mates. They move freely, and appear to be ever youthful.
Dolphin energy is what I would like to aspire to for my entire life.
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MORE potholes will be repaired on Dorset roads thanks to a £3 million cash injection.
The county council has been allocated the money from the £168 million national pothole repair fund.
The council submitted a bid to the fund to help cover the cost of mending the county's storm ravaged roads.
And news that the bid has been successful has been welcomed by Cllr Spencer Flower, the Leader of Dorset County Council.
He said: ""We are pleased that we've been allocated just over £3million from the fund. I was pleased with the feedback we received about our bid - the team worked hard to get it right.
"This brings the total money received to just under £9 million to repair and resurface our road network."
He said the council's current resurfacing and drainage repair programme will now be extended and work should be complete by Christmas.
The application for the fund included examples of the approaches the council is using to speed up repair times and ensure that potholes are fixed properly first time using Velocity Patchers and NuPhalt thermal repair units
.A county-wide programme of works has been scheduled to use the money in a way that uses the machinery and the teams' time can in the most efficient way possible.
The resurfacing works will be carried out on high priority roads, working on damaged routes in that vicinity. The teams will then move to another area.
They will continue in this way across the county. Permanent pothole and road defect repair will also continue on roads across Dorset.
The county has also received £184,813 from the severe weather recovery scheme for the community impact of the storms.


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At Frankfurt airport, the insecurity police screening hand baggage discovered something in my bag that alarmed them. Gingerly they opened the bag, swabbed the object with bomb-sensitive tape and took the tape to a detector machine. The machine gave the all-clear. It was not a bomb. It was only a book.
It is not easy to have much confidence in airport security when its officials find themselves nervous over a book, but the suspicious item (bought in the sterile area at London's City Airport) is, in fact, something of a bombshell.
Max Hastings' "Nemesis," the book in question, is massive — in scope and in imagination as well as in pages. It covers the big battles, with maps illustrating the lines of attack at key stages, across the huge arena from Imphal in the west to the vast Pacific Ocean in the east and south.
But there is a lot more. Hastings seeks to get into the minds of the policymakers in Washington, Tokyo, Moscow, London and China as they struggled through the fog of war. Besides plundering the official archives, he has talked to survivors on all fronts and front lines, including American marines, Chinese peasants, "comfort women," prisoners of war, kamikaze pilots, Japan's firebombing victims, Soviet troops rushed into battle in the final week to steal booty for Stalin, and Japanese interned in Siberia.
These reveal the horrors of war and include the atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese soldiers beyond the call of duty.
Hastings is quick and confident in his judgments, sometimes cocksure. He has withering comments about almost every leader on every side, especially about Douglas MacArthur, better actor than general, and his British thespian colleague Admiral Louis Mountbatten. He is scathing about the failures of the various branches of the U.S. armed forces to subjugate their own wish for glory to the national war interest. Personal ambition was the most powerful searchlight through the fog.
Almost the only military figure who emerges with his reputation intact is Bill Slim, the head of the British 14th Army and reconqueror of Burma, a good general and a great human being, but whose valor was a deadly sideshow, as too were those "bloody handkerchiefs" of battles for Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
Hastings has little sympathy for Japan, claiming that in the last phase of the war: "two million Japanese people paid the price for their rulers' blindness, a sacrifice that availed their country nothing. After years in which Japan's armies had roamed Asia at will, killing on a Homeric scale, retribution was at hand."
That quote illustrates Hastings' considered judgment about Japan's behavior during the Pacific War (from 1931 or 1937 onward), widely shared throughout the West and in China and Korea. He rejects the idea of any moral equivalence between the Allies and Japan in their inhumanity to fellow humans, either at individual or state level, claiming that the war-weary Allies merely wanted to end the struggle and were not systematic abusers of human rights.
Terrible retribution was visited on Japan. Witness Curtis LeMay, mastermind of the firebombing of Japanese cities, who, though he supported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was chagrined that they would take credit from his own efforts to bomb Japan into the ground. LeMay admitted matter-of-factly that civilians suffered in the attacks on supposedly military targets, but: "The entire population got into the act to make those airplanes or munitions of war . . . men, women and children. We knew we were going to kill a lot of women and kids when we burned that town. Had to be done."
Hastings claims that the firebombing of Japan's cities and the atomic bombs should be seen in the context of the difficult decisions facing U.S. leaders when only "peddlers of fantasies" believed that beaten Japan would surrender before Hiroshima.
The conclusion of Hastings' book is unsatisfactory. It's as if he suddenly became tired. He deals with the war crimes trials perfunctorily and applauds the flawed trials and death sentences against generals Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masaharu Homma, claiming that the generals had to pay for Japan's "culture of massacre."
But the war trials were abandoned when the United States felt it needed Japan's support in the new Cold War. Class A criminals like Nobusuke Kishi were let free without having their day in court and were able to go on to hold highest political office, and a new generation of Japanese leaders was able to claim "victor's justice" and wriggle away from understanding what brought about the slaughter of probably 30 million people, only 10 percent of them Japanese.
Kevin Rafferty is a former managing editor of publications for the World Bank.


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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
ERric DoERingER's ER Book Club is a project inspired by Rob Pruitt's Book Club and the books of Ed Ruscha. It is a group of nearly 100 Ruscha-inspired books, which will be auctioned on eBay from February 1 - March 5. As with the books in Rob Pruitt's Book Club, each book contains an original Ex Libris Eric Doeringer stamp, signifying the book is deaccessioned from my personal library established during my High School years.
The books are being exhibited in Bound by Paper at LMAK Books + Design, 298 Grand Street, NYC, and can be found on eBay by searching for "ERBookClub".
In the same exhibition at LMAK, I am also showing a Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing and a group of my books inspired by Sol LeWitt alongside the original volumes. The exhibition continues through March 5.
Please visit the Eric Doeringer / Copycat Publications shops on etsy and lulu.
Recent Press
I spoke with Atlas about Eric Doeringer's RP Flea Market eBay Shop (an appropriation of Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, selling Richard Prince-related items)
My 2015 Echoes project, inspired by the life and work of On Kawara, ran concurrently with the exhibition On Kawara - Silence at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. During this time, I made 30 date paintings and reenacted Kawara's I Got Up, I Met, I Went, and I Read projects, which were posted daily to echoes2015.tumblr.com. Works from the project were exhibited at MULHERIN NEW YORK and Guest Spot. Watch a video tour of the MULHERIN exhibition here.
A few articles about the Shit And Die exhibition (curated by Maurizio Cattelan) prominently feature my installation The Hug: Swide, ArtSlant, ArtForum, Financial Times, ANSA
Forbes Magazine says my Spot Paintings are a good value! (by Danielle Rahm)
New York Times review of my exhibition Eric Doeringer - Paintings and Sculpture by Roberta Smith
Rough Cut video of my exhibition Eric Doeringer - Paintings and Sculpture by James Kalm
My Cowboy Photographs mentioned in Artforum's The Year In Re: (see #18) by Martha Buskirk, Amelia Jones, and Caroline R. Jones
Toronto Star review of my Survey exhibition by Murray Whyte.
NY Times review of my exhibtion The Rematerialization of the Art Object by Ken Johnson.
Huffington Post review of my exhibtion The Rematerialization of the Art Object by Filip Noterdaeme.
Video walk-through of my exhibtion The Rematerialization of the Art Object with James Kalm.
Video of my TEDxChelsea talk Copyright and the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Interview with Mishka Henner on the ABC Artists' Books Cooperative web site.
Video of my "cowboy rephotography" workshop at Printed Matter.
Review of my work from the group show Staging Over Manipulation in the Baltimore City Paper.
Blake Gopnik chose my Cowboy photographs (after Richard Prince) as three of the pieces he would buy on an (imaginary) Art Basel Miami shopping spree (see slide #5).
I was mentioned in a Huffington Post article about Jerry Saltz's search for a fake Gerhard Richter painting.
My exhibition Eastern Standard Time was reviewed by the LA Weekly and The Huffington Post.
Audio interview with Tom Sanford and Amanda Browder for Bad At Sports.
The New York Art Resources Consortiom blog has a nice piece about the Brooklyn Museum's acquisition of my books Some Los Angeles Apartments and Real Estate Opportunities.
I Like The Art World And The Art World Likes Me, an exhibition I curated of artworks inspired by the art world, was reviewed in Frieze Magazine, Artforum.com, NYFA Current, Idiom, Hyperallergic, Art Fag City, and Gallery Beat.
My On Kawara "Bootleg" in the Crowd Scene exhibition was reviewed and awarded a "critics pick" on artforum.com
The Volunteer Lawyer for the Arts Art & Law Residency Exhibition (in which I showed artworks based on pieces by John Baldessari, Sol LeWitt, and Lawrence Weiner) was reviewed on idiom.
Vince Aletti wrote a nice blurb about my books Some Los Angeles Apartments and Real Estate Opportunities for Photograph Magazine. The books were also included in a recent centerfold portfolio by Tom Sowden for Afterimage Magazine called, "Ruscha Rip-Off, Rip Out"
My exhibition Eric Doeringer : Sol LeWitt at {CTS} @ Dam Stuhltrager Gallery was reviewed by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine / artnet.com. The gallery produced a video docutmenting the installation of the drawings that you can watch HERE. The show was also the subject of a "Facebook Roughcut" video by James Kalm.
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If I understand your concept well - I would love to see something like this.
I'm managing projects in Washington DC - am eager to figure out how to advise folks in country on using Frontline for language training and other training settings, but haven't gotten my fingers in the Frontline SMS pie and am looking for a short orientation/training on SMS functionality...
Any thoughts?
Hi all,
I am new to FrontlineSMS and this group but found the conversations very inspiring.
Within the context of FrontlineSMS, I think the focus is not on mobile learning but a subset of it which could be labeled as 'SMS-based learning'. This sub topic is more focusssed and could concentrate on managing the constraints associated with using SMS within the context of supervision and support in a continuing learning enviroment.
For example, many new graduate front line workers (e.g. health workers) in the Pacific Islands region are thrown into isolated communities without ongoing support and supervision from their instructors. I am interested in exploring how SMS-based learning and FrontlineSMS could fulfill these very important functions and to minimise the isolation and increase continuing learning while the workers are on their own with very little support in their new environment.
Hi Pak,
Its great to hear about your interest in 'SMS-based learning'. It is certainly a growing area. The use case you suggest - using FrontlineSMS to help support front line workers - is a fantastic example of how SMS can help to support learning. I am currently researching those using FrontlineSMS for learning-related purposes, and this is food for thought!
Could I ask, have you used FrontlineSMS at all in your own work? It would be great to share more ideas with you on the potential of SMS-based learning. Feel free to write back here or email me at email@example.com if you'd like.
Thanks again for your interest!
All the Best,
Hi Florence,
Sorry for this late reply, I am in Tonga attending a regional conference.
I have not used FrontlineSMS yet but have used SMS-based learning in my own teaching via Twitter or Facebook. FrontlineSMS provides a mechanism that will replace the use of Twitter or Facebook.
The projects I mentioned are in its planning stage. Do you know of others who have used FrontlineSMS within the context of supporting front line workers?
Hi Pak,
Thanks for getting back to me. I hope you are enjoying the conference in Tonga. Its great to hear more about your planned use of FrontlineSMS to support learning. There have been a few previous forum posts about connecting FrontlineSMS to Twitter which you may find helpful, for example here and a video here, too.
One example of connecting frontline health workers using FrontlineSMS is the work by Medic Mobile (previously FrontlineSMS:Medic) in Malawi, which you can read more about here. This is not based so much on learning though, and we are certainly looking for more of these kind of use cases so I will let you know if I come across any other relevant examples. Do keep in touch as this project and your own use of FrontlineSMS progresses, and feel free to ask us if you have further questions.
Its great to be in touch! \o/
Hi James,
This looks very promising and I am happy to be involve in the beta testing phase. If that phase has already been completed, I like to be an early adopter.
I'm no natural laggard, but wish I stumbled upon this comment earlier-- perhaps the timing was fortuitous as I'm now in the final 6 months of finishing a MSc in Communication for Development . I've been in touch via Facebook and must be following the right sources if I've stumbled upon your recommendations on frontlinesms too. Thanks for the useful (and comprehensive comment.
I think they're all brilliant. I'm especially interested in the top 3. I'm working on becoming more of a techy, but for now I'm driven by the potential technology has to support education. If you message was an attempt to gauge interest, please consider me hooked. What have your learnings been thus far?
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The Builders Association of the Hudson Valley has announced its Pinnacle Awards for 2013 and the list includes some businesses – and interesting projects – in our tri-county region.
P. Morrissey Contracting, a Mount Kisco general contractor, won for the Best Custom Home of 6,500-square-feet or more. In receiving the award, President Patrick Morrissey said: "I am honored to receive this prestigious award, and thank all of the team members of our office and field staff for such a successful project." The home (shown above in photo provided by the company) was part of a new estate built in New Castle that was completed in 2012.
The association represents the building industry in Orange, Dutchess, Putnam, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties.
Other award winners in the area:
*Comstock Residential Contracting in Briarcliff Manor won two awards for best addition or alteration — between $250,000 to $500,000 and for $500,000 to $750,000.
*Murphy Brothers Contracting of Mamaroneck won for Best "Green" Remodeling Project and for Best Historic Commercial Renovation at over $1 million.


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text: Karl Brauer, CEO of Total Car Score.com, recently drove the new ATS, and said that "GM has cracked the code on how to do this stuff. "It might not quite be the 3-Series in pure driving dynamics, but we're talking shades of grey there," he said. "The difference is small enough that most people wouldn't even notice it. ATS is a hugely important car for GM, (whose) attitude is 'we're taking on the world,' and I think it's going to work." ATS, in Brauer's view, can lead Cadillac out of the woods. The bigger XTS "is a good step in the process where they will one day have a very serious competitor" for Mercedes S-Class, he said. Escalade, a full-sized luxury SUV, "is plush enough and nice enough that people like it, but it still needs to be put onto a car platform" like the GMC Arcadia. Meanwhile, Cadillac's CTS midsize luxury sports sedan, "is kind of a 'tweener' between BMW 3-Series and 5-Series," Brauer said. It could, in fact, be called a 4-Series. "It's successful as a tweener, but now it can evolve into something bigger because the ATS is the new 3-Series fighter," he said. With just five vehicles once ATS arrives, Cadillac is obviously at a disadvantage in a luxury world where Mercedes has 15 vehicles, BMW has 10 and Toyota's ( TM) Lexus has nine. In June, CTS and the SRX luxury crossover accounted for 77% of Cadillac's volume. Looking ahead, Libby said "Cadillac's product renaissance" will continue with coupe and wagon versions of the ATS as well as a redesigned CTS and a redesigned Escalade. In 2014, an ATS cabriolet version and a CTS wagon both come to market, followed in 2015 by a new SRX and a redesigned CTS coupe. Polk estimated the aggressive product introductions will drive Cadillac's share of the U.S. light vehicle market from 1.2% in the first six months of 2012 to 1.3% in 2013 and 1.4% by 2015. In 2015, BMW will have 2.4% of the market, Mercedes-Benz will have 2.1%, Lexus will have 2% and Lincoln will have 0.9%, the firm estimated.


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The 'Amazing Spider-Man' actress is forced to put on a patent maroon coat on top of her cherry red dress after discovering a rip below the zip fastening in the couture creation.
Emma Stone has her fair share of wardrobe mishap on the biggest night of the year in fashion. As she made her way to the after-party of this year's Costume Institute Gala on Monday, May 7 night, the actress playing Skeeter in "The Help" discovered that her couture evening gown had a rip below the zip fastening.
One of the photos taken displays Stone showing off the hole to the Lanvin dress' designer Alber Elbaz on the backseat of a car. It was reported that Elbaz looked on with horror at the tear. The malfunction didn't hinder the 23-year-old beauty from attending the bash though. She was later seen putting a patent maroon coat on top of the dress.
Stone's trouble with the cherry red dress that features hand embroidered crystal flowers seemed to have begun earlier that evening. The "Easy A" star was spotted getting a helping hand from fellow actresses Rashida Jones and Leslie Mann with the frock on the steps of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The dress' trouble aside, the Gwen Stacy of "The Amazing Spider-Man" looked chic at the annual fashion event. She completed her red carpet look with an updone hairstyle by Mara Roszak and a pair of satin black pumps from the Hiver 2011 Runway Collection.


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York County, SC - The York County Sheriff's Office is currently taking applications for the fourth class of its Citizens' Police Academy. This winter, the Citizens' Police Academy will consist of eight sessions offered on Monday evenings from 6:30 to 9:30. The classes will run from February 4th to April 22nd, 2013, and will end with a formal graduation.
The Citizens' Police Academy will introduce participants to the various functions of the York County Sheriff's Office and will feature instruction by staff from the different divisions of the Sheriff's Office.
The goal of the Citizens' Police Academy, in addition to providing an overview of the Sheriff's Office, is to create meaningful partnerships with the citizens of York County and give the Sheriff's Office the ability to serve our citizens better and more efficiently through the open exchange of knowledge and communication.
The Citizens' Police Academy class is open to adults, 18 years of age and older, and is provided free of charge. Applications are available at the York County Sheriff's Office, any of the district offices, and here (click to open form, then print):
Applications will be accepted through January 14th, 2013.
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Sabaidee Pee Mai Lao (Happy Lao New Year) as we witnessed Sangkhan Kheun (Day 3) complete with its pageantry, ethnic costumes, food, and customs. Its what took place at the Wat Lao Buddharangsy in Ceres, California.
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Randy Magnus grew up in the Central Valley farmlands of California, and saw the cultural diversity that came into the area as the population grew. He learned to celebrate what the different cultures had to offer in the arts, food, and lifestyles. With his cameras Randy would document the cultural celebrations, showing the pride in what sets each culture apart, perserving a part of their unique heritage to share with others. Randy Magnus has work in several museums, including MOMA in New York City, the Oakland Museum, and the Achenbach Print Collection at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. He has had one-man shows in San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam. .
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Community members are invited to learn about New River Medical Center's affiliation with CentraCare Health System at a community meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in Board Room A at the medical center, 1013 Hart Blvd., Monticello.
New River Medical Center will officially join the CentraCare family on April 1 under lease and affiliation agreements signed by both organizations. Attend the community meeting to hear an overview of the legal relationship as well as commitments CentraCare has made to invest in the health of the community.
The approved lease and affiliation agreements confirm CentraCare's pledge to strengthen and grow local health care services. CentraCare's commitments to the Hospital District and the health of the community include:
•Reopen an obstetrics and birth center by the spring of 2014 to serve the women and growing families of the community.
•Recruit and maintain primary care and specialty providers who support local health care.
•Invest in facility, capital and technological advances in order for the facility to remain state-of-the-art.
•Maintain, develop and grow services to ensure that a continuum of health care services are offered and provided locally.
•Ensure financial viability through commitments regarding current debt and offsetting operating losses in order to avoid future tax levies by the Hospital District.
•Encourage and enable continued local input for local health care through community representatives on a local governing board.
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SEVEN years have passed since films were screened in Gravesend but they are set to come back with a bang on Tuesday (January 8) thanks to an award winning film director.
The Paul Greengrass cinema at The Woodville will open with a screening of the comedy drama, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
The Bourne Supremacy and Green Zone director has put his name to the venue which will host three screenings every Tuesday, along with a Saturday morning family film club and world cinema classics on a Sunday evening.
A further two films will be screened each month as part of the Blockbuster film event with all tickets free of charge throughout this month.
This will be the first time films have been screened since the old Gravesend cinema burnt down in 2006 after an arson attack.
Woodville manager Neil Chandler said: "It will have a huge impact on the community as the cinema is free throughout January and from then on will be far cheaper than surrounding cinemas.
"Some children in Gravesend will never have visited the cinema before.
"If this were their first time we wish to make it a magical experience and create a lasting impression."
He added: "The rebranding of Woodville Halls cinema will add some gravitas and kudos to the proceedings.
"It will not just be the Civic Centre cinema."
All tickets will cost £4.50 for adults, except family film club tickets on a Saturday morning which will be £3 - cheaper than surrounding cinemas as films will be shown six weeks after release dates.
The venue, which is sponsored by solicitors Hatten Wyatt hopes to screen some of Greengrass' films early next year along with a directorial talk from the man himself.


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Type of Document Dissertation Author Han, Jae-Hwan Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-03312006-160644 Title The Effects of Perceptions on Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified(GM) Foods Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title R. Wes Harrison Committee Chair Jeffery M. Gillespie Committee Member Krishna P. Paudel Committee Member P. Lynn Kennedy Committee Member Roger A. Hinson Committee Member W.Douglas McMillin Committee Member Witoon Prinyawiwatkul Dean's Representative Keywords
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Date of Defense 2006-03-03 Availability unrestricted AbstractThis study investigates the effects of risk/benefit beliefs on consumer purchase intentions for genetically modified (GM) foods. A random, national, mail survey is conducted. Three main problems are addressed in the study. The first problem addressed is to analyze the relationship between consumers risk/ benefit beliefs regarding GM foods, and their willingness to buy GM crop and meat products. The second problem deals with linkages between a consumer's risk/benefit beliefs about GM foods and willingness to pay (WTP) for GM foods with a benefit disclosure. The third problem addressed is to test a causal relationship between knowledge and trust toward GM institutions, and consumer's purchase behavior toward GM foods.
The cognitive factors associated with risk/benefit tradeoffs turn out to have significant impacts on consumer acceptance of GM foods. Results indicate that when consumers decide whether to buy GM crops and meat, the most crucial factor is food safety. Other important factors affecting consumer purchase intentions are ethical issues and concerns regarding the environment and wildlife. Depending upon product types, consumers show different levels of risk perceptions for GM foods. Results indicate that consumers have higher risk sensitivity for GM meats than GM crops, as expected. Consumers living in the Northeast region of the U.S. show a negative attitude about willingness to buy GM meat products. Benefits of GM foods on health and the environment have positive, significant impacts on the premium levels for GM potatoes. Similarly, benefits of GM foods, a positive evaluation of GM foods, and trust in GM institutions such as, government, food companies, consumer environmental groups, and scientists, are significant factors that affect consumers' participation in the market for GM beef. Unexpectedly, however, health and environmental risk perceptions of GM foods and morality concerns stemming from unnatural way to produce them do not significantly affect either the decision to participate in the market or the premium level. The study found that consumer risk/benefit beliefs depend on their level of knowledge and credibility in GM institutions. Results also indicate that consumers perceive more risks than benefits for GM foods.
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Here are the answers to our latest Name That Sound:
1. Which Bethesda Softworks game is it from?
The Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire. Released in 1997, Battlespire was, I believe, the first Elder Scrolls title that supported multiplayer. Check out UESP's Battlespire page for more about the game.
2. What is the sound of?
It's the Scamp!
3. Extra 1,000,000 points if you can name the developer who created the "source" of the sound in the game. (Not the actual sound itself — though if you know the answer to that, kudos).
Mark Jones is the artist who created the Scamp. Elder Scrolls aficionados will recognize his name. Mark has worked on most of the Elder Scrolls games.
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George W. Bush's newly published memoir, Decision Points, provides fodder for an ongoing criminal investigation of Bush administration officials, writes Bill Quigley in a recent column for The Huffington Post.
In his memoir the former president admits to authorizing the waterboarding of detainees, which is considered torture under international and U.S. law, notes Quigley, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).
"Bush's crime confession coincides with reports that no one will face criminal charges from the US Department of Justice for the destruction of 92 CIA videotapes which contained interrogations using waterboarding," writes Quigley. "Where is the accountability for these crimes?"
Frustrated with the Obama administration's unwillingness to prosecute the former president and others, CCR, along with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), has joined a Spanish criminal investigation examining the role of former Bush administration officials in the commission of international law violations, including torture.
We say: Charlottesville reveals the weeping wound of racism. What do we, the American Catholic faith community, do next? Read the editorial.
CCR has filed two investigations with the National Court of Spain related to the U.S. torture program, a disturbing indicator that American courts are providing little or no redress for detainees who endured torture or abuse.
Quigley's column includes a joint statement by CCR and ECCHR announcing their decision to work with the Spanish inquiry. Its language is refreshingly unequivocal. Here's an excerpt:
"Without accountability it is impossible to ensure that such actions are never authorized by any future president or other U.S. official. No immunity protects Bush from prosecution for acts which violate federal and international law. The Pinochet precedent demonstrates that the law eventually catches up with former presidents--even those who flout their impunity.
"Bush states that accountability 'would set a terrible precedent for our democracy.'
"We answer that not doing so is failing our democracy--yet again. We therefore urge the Obama administration and the Department of Justice to act upon their recognition that waterboarding is torture as a matter of law, to investigate and prosecute acts of torture and other serious violations carried out by officials of the former administration, including George W. Bush.
"But we will not wait any longer for the Obama administration to act--we will continue seeking justice and accountability under the principle of universal jurisdiction and as counsel in the ongoing investigation in Spain.
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The Spring Lake Park City Council is making changes to its ordinance regulating animals kept in the city.
The council April 15 unanimously approved adding a dangerous/potentially dangerous dog provision.
According to Police Chief Douglas Ebeltoft, the ordinance is in need of updating because it does not address how the city will handle potentially dangerous dogs/dangerous dogs.
In addition to adding the definition of what a dangerous or potentially dog is, the changes would also spell out the steps to be taken after an animal has been declared dangerous/potentially dangerous, Ebeltoft said.
According to the ordinance, a dog could be declared potentially dangerous if it bites a human or another animal unprovoked either on public or private property, it chase or approaches a person in an apparent attitude of attack and/or has a propensity or tendency to attack unprovoked, causing injury or otherwise threatening the safety of humans or domestic animals.
If the dog is declared dangerous, the owner is required to microchip the animal within 14 days and quarantine the dog if it has bitten or scratched a person.
The ordinance also states a dog could be dangerous if it inflicts substantial bodily harm on a human on either private or public property and/or kills a domestic animal without provocation while off the owner's property.
Under the new ordinance, owners of a dangerous dog will have to register the dog with the city; show evidence that they have a proper enclosure for the dog; that warning signs have been properly posted; take out a surety bond of no less than $300,000 on the dog; microchip the dog; pay an annual fee of $500 for a "Dangerous Dog" certificate of registration; and have the dog sterilized within 30 days.
The ordinance also outlines the appeal process and a $250 filing fee to request a hearing.
There are also some language changes, including changing animal control warden to animal control authority/officer, Ebeltoft said.
The new ordinance will also require the city to purchase certain items in advance, including dangerous/potentially dangerous dog warning signs and specific animal tags, he said.
"Those expenses will be recovered through the dangerous/potentially dangerous dog application process," Ebeltoft said.
As someone who "was chewed up as a child, I think with is a good thing," said Councilmember Bob Nelson.
The ordinance also applies to cats, Ebeltoft said.
Tammy Sakry is at [email protected]


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Electrical part supplier expanding in Goldsboro
Posted January 4, 2013
Goldsboro, N.C. — An electrical components manufacturer is expanding in Goldsboro with plans to add 29 jobs in the next three years, Gov. Bev Perdue said Friday.
Balfour Beatty Rail's Traction Power Group, which currently employs 50 people in Goldsboro, makes electrical parts for the public transit industry. The company will invest more than $1 million during the expansion.
"The current expansion is necessary as Balfour Beatty Rail anticipates a growing demand for mass transit construction opportunities around the U.S., including systems such as the Charlotte Light Rail System and the recently awarded Charlotte Street Car System," said Joe Reed, vice president of Transit for Balfour Beatty Rail.
He said the company will need project engineers, project managers, manufacturing personnel and others.
The average salary for the new positions will be $43,000. The average annual wage in Wayne County is $31,512.
The expansion is being helped by a $60,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund, which was created to attract and retain businesses in the state.


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Emory & Henry College recently celebrated the daughter of Fred W. and Eleanor Dean Jackson who, through her generosity, recently augmented the endowment of a scholarship in the name of her parents.
[Emory & Henry] makes you feel like you're really a part of the college life.
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Jane Jackson Woerner was the guest of honor at a recent ceremony that officially acknowledged her gift of $25,000 to the corpus of the endowment for the Fred W. and Eleanor Dean Jackson Memorial Endowed Scholarship.
Jane praised her parents for the strong emphasis they placed on higher education. "I grew up learning from Mother and Daddy how important education was and I have always been so thankful for that," she said.
She also praised Emory & Henry as "a wonderful college" that cares deeply for its students and "makes you feel like you're really a part of the college life."
The Jacksons were revered members of the Bristol, Va. community. Fred W. Jackson was a member of the E&H Class of 1937 and was retired from the Hassinger Corporation. He served in Europe during World War II and remained in the U.S. Army Reserves, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a member and past president of the Bristol (Virginia) Kiwanis Club.
Eleanor Dean Jackson was an active community volunteer, giving time to the Parent Teacher Association, Border Guild, Junior League and the Blue Stocking Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were active members of the State Street United Methodist Church. He served as chairman of the Official Board and was a Sunday school teacher and choir member. She served as president of the United Methodist Women and was a Sunday school teacher and Circle member.
The scholarship will benefit students at Emory & Henry who are in need of financial assistance, with preference given to students from Southwest Virginia.


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The comment was made by his regional coach Lyn Jones - who has yet to give the 21-year-old an Ospreys start.
"He reminds me of Barry John, he glides over the top of the ground, holds the ball in two hands, avoids defenders and uses his runners," Jones told the BBC.
"He attacks the line, defends well, has speed and also a big kicking game."
Neath outside-half Hook gets his chance in the second Test with Argentina after just two substitute appearances for the Ospreys and an impressive, try-scoring display from the bench against the Pumas on Sunday.
He came on at inside centre in place of the injured Matthew Watkins, and now keeps the Scarlets man on the bench with Nicky Robinson retaining the number 10 jersey.
"Sunday's game has given me confidence, but I know it's going to be very physical from the start this week," Hook told BBC Sport Wales.
"I've had some great direction off [Wales coach] Gareth Jenkins and [attack coach] Nigel Davies, and there are experienced players around me.
"Last week we cut the line nine or 10 times in the backs, but this time we have to be more clinical and finish off the moves.
"It's weird playing for Wales without having started for the Ospreys, but I've been so busy this year with Wales Sevens, Wales Under-21s and Neath that I haven't really thought about it.
"Although I usually play at 10 I have some experience at 12 with Neath - but Buenos Aires is going to be a completely different environment!"
Jones has no doubt that the youngster can cope with the pressure and the unfamiliar position.
"I was proud and delighted to see him playing for Wales and have no worries about him starting," said Jones.
"He's like Gavin Henson and a lot of other modern players in that he can play a lot of positions.
"He's played a lot at 12 for Neath. [Former Wales coach] Scott Johnson had the idea of trying him there with Arwel Thomas at outside-half.
"In the future we'll see a lot more of him at 10 and he'll be very good there.
"But there's no doubt that 12 is an easier position than 10 and it could be a blessing in disguise that he's making his full debut there, it'll be good for him."