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Power and cooling specialist APC-MGE has announced a partnership with Germany's STULZ Gmbh to cross-market their products in cooling solutions for customers of both companies. The agreement will initially focus on countries in Europe, and later be expanded globally, the companies said.
STULZ specializes in precision technologies for perimeter cooling, while APC's latest technology focuses on in-row cooling systems for high-density offerings. The partnership will allow the companies to offer full solutions for customers looking to improve the efficiency of their perimeter cooling while using in-row spot cooling to address "hot spots."
STULZ uses an approach called Dynamic Free Cooling (DFC), an electronically controlled hybrid cooling system that uses free cooling (using chilled water from an outside water tower) to limit the use of the compressors within the computer room air conditioner (CRAC) unit. DFC tracks the outside temperature to determine when to turn the compressors on and off for optimum energy usage.
Under today's agreement, APC-MGE will add an APC branded perimeter cooling solution manufactured by STULZ to its comprehensive cooling offering, while STULZ will offer APC's InRow cooling systems to its customer base. The agreement builds on a history of cooperation between the two companies, primarily in China, Singapore and the Philippines, where MGE and STULZ worked together for more than 20 years as a sales and service partner.
"Customers can now rely on one vendor to meet all their critical power and cooling needs in the data center," said Christian Corsin, APC-MGE senior vice president, Enterprise & Systems. "We are delighted to combine STULZ's perimeter precision cooling expertise, solutions and services with the innovation and strong customer base of APC-MGE to better help our customers address cooling high efficiency data centers."
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Mystery Flower
Not sure what this is. It came up by itself. I like the leaves so far but I am sure it is a weed. Can't wait to see what the flower looks like when it opens.(-:
Posted by CiNdEe at 8:53 AM
5 comments:
- peggy said...
Looks like a moonflower, maybe. Don't pull it up yet. Your flowers are so nice.
- September 11, 2012 at 3:25 PM
- GRACE PETERSON said...
It's a Jimson Weed. Google and you'll see photos. It's from the same family as Datura and is highly poisonous.
- September 11, 2012 at 3:47 PM
- Randy said...
It's also a seriously dangerous hallucinogenic. Pull it up and get rid of it before some kid tries to use it.
- September 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM
- Peggy said...
The most innocent looking plant and flower can be so dangerous?I was amazed at the comments as we don't have Jimson weed over here
- September 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- CiNdEe said...
I pulled it. It also had a nasty smell. So its gone.
- September 17, 2012 at 10:11 PM
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Former rugby league star
"Yee-ha" was all Benny had to say in sending through an advanced copy of an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange, detailing the Federal Court judgment.
But just how well the Chameleon Mining boys have done out of the case is not exactly clear and investors didn't seem to think it was much of a victory at all. Shares in Chameleon sank 0.8¢ yesterday to 2.1¢ on heavy volumes.
Chameleon at least succeeded in its claim against former Murchison director Phillip Grimaldi and is entitled to compensation to the equivalent value of 10 million Murchison shares, which could be as much as $50 million.
It may receive as little as $152,750 plus interest from Murchison, although there appears to be a lot of work to be done by forensic accountants to determine how much it is entitled to.
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The aircraft was an Oxford from No.8 FTS at Montrose / Dyce. There was no mention of it in the unit Operations Record Book.
The Oxford, Consul & Envoy File has the following:
L9644 8 SFTS "Crashed in forced landing while lost and overturned, Duntulm, Skye, 28.11.39."
The aircraft appears to have been written off as there is no further record of it. I notice you couldn't get much further north on Skye than Duntulm.


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Kathryn Sergava, Dancer, 1909-2003
Kathryn Sergava, who has died aged 94, was the sloe-eyed Russian siren taken up by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to replace Greta Garbo when the great actress decided to retire from Hollywood in 1934.
After Garbo announced that she was settling permanently on a secluded mountain estate in Sweden, MGM scanned many supposed look-alikes, and when it found a Russian ballet dancer with little screen experience but who was attractive and glamorous in a convincing Garbo way, it immediately put her under contract.
The studio decided not to build up Sergava gradually but to keep her under wraps, then allow her to burst forth in glory. MGM's head, Irving Thalberg, thought of parading her along Hollywood Boulevard with the MGM lion on a leash, just as Paramount had made Pola Negri travel around with a leopard in 1919.
Studio officials were so impressed by the Sergava screen test that Garbo's friend Wister Clark sensed the Russian posed a real threat. A picture of her, with a letter of explanation, was hurriedly sent to Sweden by plane and boat, and Garbo immediately decided that she must return to America. Negotiations were opened with Thalberg and the studio head, Louis B. Mayer, and the result was Garbo's starring role in the acclaimed Anna Karenina (1935). The lead was to have gone to Sergava, but the studio had now lost interest in a "second Garbo".
A businessman's daughter, she was born Katya Sergeiva in St Petersburg and educated at local schools before studying ballet with the Moscow Art Theatre. She recalled fleeing the Red hordes during the Revolution of 1917. The family settled in various Black Sea ports, and her father enjoyed an income from his oil interests until the White Army was defeated. Her parents sold their furs and jewels to peasants as they made their way, via Tiflis (now Tblisi), to Constantinople, where they remained for two years. They then took passage to America, where the income from her father's oil began to flow again.
The young Katya adopted the name Kathryn Sergava, studied ballet in New York, then joined a touring company, which in visits to Berlin, Budapest and Paris added to her polish and sophistication. In 1926 she appeared with the Russian Ballet at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles and, at 17, became a sensation on the dance floors at nightspots.
In 1930 Sergava settled in London where the future king Edward VIII and his brother, Prince George, were counted among her fans. The British director Monty Banks gave her a part in the film 18 Minutes, starring Gregory Ratoff and Benita Hume.
Shortly after the filming was completed, it was announced that she and Leslie Howard would feature in British Agent, based on Robert Bruce Lockhart's adventures in Moscow during the Revolution. Halfway through she was replaced by Kay Francis, but this didn't stop MGM snapping her up.
For a year after Garbo's return to Hollywood, Sergava enjoyed a life of ease at the beach, never appearing at the studio and having salary cheques mailed to her. Then her contract was terminated. There was no room at MGM for Garbo and Sergava. But Warner Bros signed her after a screen test. Audiences were taken with her slow, sultry glances as Maritza, who enjoyed the sympathetic attention of a womanising doctor played by William Warren in Bedside.
Mervyn LeRoy cast her in Hi Nellie, a comedy about embezzlement starring Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell. Off-set, however, the atmosphere was anything but humorous. Farrell disliked the way LeRoy favoured Sergava; Sergava criticised Farrell's acting ability, claiming: "She is so wooden that the bugs have set in."
Kay Francis and Dolores del Rio, who rivalled Sergava in good looks, were spared her wrath when they worked on Lloyd Bacon's musical comedy Wonder Bar, which was not unlike the storyline of the earlier Garbo vehicle Grand Hotel.
Although Warner Bros offered to renew Sergava's contract, it failed to do so, and her admirers had to study the pages of film magazines such as Movie Crazie and Film Fun to learn more of her.
She did better on Broadway when she joined the cast of Oklahoma! for more than 2000 performances. In 1948 she starred at the Adelphi Theatre in George Abbott's Look Ma, I'm Dancin', in which she was choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
Sergava appeared in several TV shows until the mid-1960s when she retired to a luxurious condominium in the fashionable Rancho Mirage suburb of Palm Springs; neighbours included Ginger Rogers and Frank Sinatra. In more recent years she became a friend of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Sergava spoke in the same low voice as Garbo, and wore big sunglasses and a floppy hat. She liked to dine alone at Spago's in Hollywood where the head waiter was instructed to point her out to any celebrities.
But when the director Sidney Lumet asked Sergava to play the title role in Garbo Talks! (1984), which told the story of a son whose dying mother has one last wish - to meet Garbo - Sergava was indignant, viewing it as an insult. She declined, and the role was given to the songwriter Betty Comden.
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A SOLEMN procession through Basingstoke town centre brought home the true meaning of Easter this morning.
Hundreds of people took part in the annual Walk of Witness, which has become a key feature of the Easter weekend in the borough.
The event, organised by the Alliance of Basingstoke Churches (ABC), brings Christians from across the region together for a procession every year for the Good Friday event.
People gathered at the United Reformed Church in London Street at 9.15 this morning for a short service.
Bob Smith, chair of ABC, welcomed those gathered, telling them: "This is Good Friday. It is a good day because on this day, Jesus laid down his life for us."
He then lead the crowd in prayers, before readings were made by a street prayer pastor and by Father Mark Hogan, of St Joseph's Church.
After the singing of two hymns, accompanies by the Salvation Army Band, those assembled began a silent procession down Wote Street.
Led by cross bearers and the band, they made their way through Festival Place and The Malls, with Easter Eggs being handed out to local children, before the group gathered in Castle Square, The Malls.
There were then more songs and a message from Peter Fellows of the Salvation Army before a special performance event by Wessex Christian Fellowship, who provided flash-mob style theatrics.
After a final performance of Amazing Grace and a prayer and benediction by Bob Smith, attendees were invited to St Michael's Church Cottage for hot cross buns and coffees.
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Most customers at Capital Ford start to sweat when the sales folk talk about the sync specialist.
A concluding event after buying a new car is when the sales folks back away and tell the buyer the dealership's "Sync Specialist" is about to appear and offer a tutorial on the magical high-tech bells and whistles that are about to start buzzing inside the car.
This is when most customers at Capital Ford on Oleander Drive start to sweat, preparing for a condescending and undecipherable lesson from some erudite computer geek. Instead, they get Kenny Davis, Capital Ford's sync master, exuding impressive patience and understanding for someone who was a:
high school track star who elbowed aside older runners in the world-famous Penn Relays.
served as corpsmen with Airborne paratroopers in Vietnam.
worked as an undercover federal narcotics agent in Philadelphia.
and perfected a consistent 'tude as an admitted civil rights 'rabble-rouser' and halfway-house enforcer in Wilmington.
"I knew older people like me are intimidated by the computers and new technology inside a car," Davis said. "But out I come – an old, 67-year-old black guy who is not supposed to know anything about anything. I seem to put people at ease.
"The young kids, I explain it to them in 10-15 minutes. Older folks like me, might take two hours depending on their age. Then they'll come back the next day for more instruction."
Sync Services are the voice-activated communication and entertainment systems in Ford models. The latest version, introduced in 2011, is My Ford Touch, which provides a dashboard display that allows drivers and passengers four windows of electronic connectivity to the outside world – phone, entertainment, climate and navigation.
"You can see the customers start to get nervous when I mention we're going to go over the tech options and procedures," said Mick McKoy, sales consultant. "They start sweating. Then they see Kenny. Their apprehension goes away. He's a tremendous asset."
Davis joined Capital Ford as a salesman working the lot in 2008, but managing partner Doug Barbour hit on an interesting fit a couple of years later when Ford prompted dealers to employ an on-site works on Sync Services Specialist.
"I knew Kenny had problems with his knees," Barbour remembers. "So I was curious if he'd be interested in the new Sync job rather than being outside pounding the pavement in the parking lot. I was afraid we had put him out there in a position where he was bound to fail. The Sync opportunity turned into the perfect role for him – and for us."
Davis, born in Wilmington and raised in Philadelphia, has had more interesting roles in his life than any handful of actors out at Screen Gems, starting out as a state track star for Philadelphia's iconic Overbrook High School, where he won the Pennsylvania mile and half-mile.
After Overbrook, he joined the Army in 1964 and served in Vietnam in 1965 with 101st Airborne as a medical corpsman, which is when he got his first taste of cracking the code of segregation.
He and his Airborne mates were traveling by Army buses from jump school back to a base in Kentucky when they stopped for lunch in Huntsville, Ala. It happened to be the same day that Martin Luther King Jr. was holding a march for civil rights and desegregation just down the road in Selma.
At least at this Alabama eatery, at this particular lunch time, blacks among the paratroopers didn't have to come in through the back door. They walked right in the front.
"Nobody was going to mess with 200 paratroopers," said Davis, who was about to begin a lifetime of learning and listening and fighting for civil rights – all the while working interesting jobs and fashioning a career of responsibility.
After Vietnam, Kenny Davis, began this odyssey in 1967:
Worked at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, putting his corpsmen's training to use. Always hoping to learn more, he convinced the chief of surgery, to let him watch different operations. The chief was C. Everett Koop, later U.S. Surgeon General.
He wanted to give back to his neighborhood in West Philly, which was called "the bottom" because of its position among Philly neighborhoods, and joined the Philadelphia Police Department, walking the beat in the 17th district for four years.
He attended St. Joseph's University "but only until I realized you had to take nine hours of theology," and then transferred to Temple University to study criminal justice.
He joined the forerunner of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on the federal narcotics strike team, dressed like someone from the 1970s TV Mod Squad, including a huge Afro and thick black beard and became the first agent to make an undercover drug buy – five bundles of heroin.
He signed on with some of Eastern Pennsylvania's biggest law firms and began to do investigative work.
When his mother took ill in 1989, he returned to Wilmington to care for her. He found a spot at Corning, working the draw, which is pulling fiber from glass, and did a stint as the general sales manager for the African-American newspaper, The Challenger.
Davis then went back to keeping people on the straight and narrow. From 2006 to 2008, before joining Capital Ford, he ran the halfway house at the non-profit LINC (Leading into New Communities).
Typical of much of his career, his assignment was clear. "I was in charge of making sure everybody there at the halfway house was doing what they were supposed to be doing."
Davis left only because LINC ran out of money, and – despite aching knees from his track days – was thankful Barbour had a spot for him, especially later in the Sync Services role that got him off his feet.
"I'll never forget the things that man has done for me," Davis said of Barbour.
But Barbour counters that Davis is a terrific asset not just to his dealership, but to the Wilmington community – a walking, talking history book.
Davis' biggest book of knowledge is on the subject of civil rights and equal justice.
He was born in 1945 at Wilmington's segregated Community Hospital and attended a segregated elementary school in Kelly. Before moving to Philadelphia, he grew up with colored water fountains and restaurants that sent blacks around to the back door.
Half-a-decade after his return, Wilmington would put him on its 1898 Foundation, whose commission first studied and honored the memory of the people who died in 1898 and then created cores of inclusion that focused on black and white relationships: the minister roundtable, the Carolina Heritage Tourism Network and the Partnership for Economic Inclusion.
According to the StarNews' Topic page, on Nov. 10, 1898, "a mob of up to 2,000 whites roamed the streets of Wilmington, burned the offices of the black-owned Wilmington Record newspaper, murdered perhaps dozens of black residents, ran black and white Republican leaders out of town and forced the legally elected Republican city government to resign. The city officials were replaced by a slate of white Democrats chosen by a secret committee."
"I never was chairman of the 1898 commission or anything, of course," Davis said. "They had to have someone more palatable. Yes, I was thought of as a rabble-rouser. I was the most radical when we made the commission report about what happened on Nov. 10, 1898 – it was the only coup that ever took place in the United States. And the White supremacists who did it, who declared a white declaration of independence, were felons who should have been put in jail."
Davis even worked hard to have the book, "We Have Taken A City: The Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898" by H. Leon Prather Jr., which chronicled the massacre, brought back into print.
Davis did get one chairmanship – he was chairman of the Wilmington Commission on African-American history.
These days, he talks more about the future than the past.
As a single parent in 1991 at the age 47, he began raising his son, J.D., who played football at Hoggard High School and now attends North Carolina Central in Durham.
And now there is a grandson, too. Jordan is only 2, so grandpa isn't sure yet whether the kid will learn to run the mile for a state title.
Asked which role he mastered in an eventful career was the most satisfying, Davis took a long pause.
"Don't know," he said. "Not done yet."
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Police cordoned off a road to protect the public from hazardous gases after a man was found dead in his flat on Tuesday.
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THE biggest fight in British boxing history was put together over an £11 pot
of coffee.
A swish London hotel hosted a meeting that lasted no more than 20 minutes.
In the Art Deco Polo Bar at Mayfair's Westbury Hotel, Frank Warren shook hands
with David Haye's manager Adam Booth, paid and walked back to his
chauffeur-driven Bentley with a spring in his step.
In those 20 minutes, Warren — Dereck Chisora's manager — had struck one of the
easiest deals of his career with both camps determined to stage The
Sun-sponsored fight at Upton Park on July 14.
As the hotel's crystal decorations twinkled in the mid-morning light, Warren
knew the bout was heading for blockbuster status.
Proof of how much fans want to witness a genuine grudge match has come in
ticket sales — with a staggering 17,000 sold on Tuesday's release day.
Warren said: "A very influential person in the media world called me one day
and asked when I was going to stage the fight everyone wanted to see.
"At the time, I just laughed it off. Then a fortnight or so ago, everything
changed so suddenly when Chisora's appeal to box again was delayed.
"I called Adam and asked to meet him. We'd spoken on the phone but I'm a firm
believer anything can be worked out face to face, although I didn't expect
it would be so easy. The reason why? Both fighters wanted it to happen.
"There were no grumblings about purses or cuts, no suspicions about hidden
agendas. It was two proper fight people talking straight."
But there were huge obstacles to overcome — the first being permission to
Chisora had his licence withdrawn by the British Boxing Board of Control for
his part in a snarling, spitting bust-up that overshadowed a fine display
when he tried to take the WBC heavyweight title from Vitali Klitschko in
At the Press conference afterwards, Haye and Chisora had a brutal fist fight,
still being investigated by Munich police.
Haye was eager to come out of retirement, having lost to the younger Klitschko
brother Wladimir last July.
He pitched up trying to bait Vitali into fighting him but became embroiled in
a bitter trade of insults with Chisora.
All hell broke loose and Chisora was knocked down by a sledgehammer right.
Warren added: "Even on the night in Munich, the Klitschkos' manager Bernd
Boente was saying Haye and Chisora should box and the winner could face one
of the brothers."
German company Sauerland Events, with a fight licence in neighbouring Austria,
said they would be willing to promote Haye-Chisora in London.
But to comply with regulations, Sauerland needed a UK-registered promoter,
which is where TV channel Box Nation came in and applied.
To make sure both fighters were properly licensed to meet European Boxing
Union regulations, an approach was made to the Luxembourg commission.
Warren said: "I've known Bruce Baker, the Luxembourg boxing federation
representative here in England, for years and he didn't understand why
Chisora couldn't box when he was NOT banned."
The bout has attracted ferocious criticism in some areas but Warren felt his
hand was forced when the BBBC pushed back to July Chisora's appeal to have
his licence returned.
Warren revealed: "Dereck is struggling financially and would be looking pretty
glum when he came to my offices.
"The only time his eyes would light up was when Haye was mentioned. He kept
saying 'There's something between us that needs settling'.
"Let's make one thing clear — if Dereck had been banned by the British Board,
he would not be fighting Haye.
"Once the idea of fighting Haye was out there, everything seemed to snowball.
"I even had an offer from Russia to stage the bout there!
"The first time I saw Haye in a long while was at Tuesday's Press conference.
"Why was the conference delayed? Haye and Chisora were signing contracts out
the back, in the West Ham dressing room, I think."


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A SEASON-ending knee injury to star West Coast forward Mark LeCras has opened the door for former Western Bulldogs goalsneak Josh Hill to resurrect his stalled AFL career.
The Eagles' worst fears were confirmed yesterday when scans revealed LeCras had ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a training mishap on Thursday.
The 25-year-old will undergo traditional reconstructive surgery next week, leaving the Eagles without one of their most potent goalkickers.
LeCras booted 58 goals in 2009 and 63 goals in his All-Australian year of 2010, when the Eagles finished last.
Last season, LeCras spent more time in the midfield but still managed 47 goals, with his form helping the Eagles to a top-four finish.
Hill, recruited from the Bulldogs at the end of 2011, has kicked 75 goals over 66 games as a mid-sized forward, and said he was ready to fill the gaping hole left by LeCras.
The 23-year-old showed flashes of brilliance during his five seasons at the Bulldogs, but was unable to nail down a permanent spot. His best season was in 2009, when he booted 33 goals in 23 games.
''I've been training and working on playing that half-forward role. So, if the spot is there and I work hard to get it, then I'll work hard to keep it,'' Hill said.
''I'm still getting used to putting on the Eagles' colours. Hopefully, I can come out here and show what I can for the team and show the coaches what I can bring.
''[LeCras] is a classy player. He is a tough opponent to play against.
''Training and being alongside him has shown me a few things to work on as well. He can be that role model for me and also the younger players.''
Hill will have to battle fellow smalls Andrew Strijk and Ashton Hams for LeCras' position.
Hill and Hams will get an early chance to impress coach John Worsfold in tomorrow's NAB Cup games against Fremantle and Essendon at Patersons Stadium.
West Coast veteran Andrew Embley, who will miss two weeks with a shoulder injury, said the player group would do everything they could to support LeCras through a tough time.
''I must admit yesterday was a pretty dark day,'' Embley told Fox Sports.
''We all feel for him. He's not just a teammate, but a really good mate as well. It's just important we get behind him.
''He's obviously a very important player to us and we're going to really miss him.''


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Rose Byrne and Oliver Platt to Join 'X-Men: First Class' Cast
Hollywood just got a lot more mutated.
According to reports, Damages actress Rose Byrne is in negotiations to star in the upcoming superhero flick X-Men: First Class, while 2012 actor Oliver Platt has signed on for the production, joining a cast that already includes Twilight's Edi Gathegi, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon and Nicolas Hoult.
Should Byrne—who's currently filming the Kristen Wiig comedy Bridesmaids—sign on the dotted line, she'll play the part of Moira MacTaggert, a scientist specializing in genetic mutation. (The character also serves as the love interest of telepathic X-Men honcho Charles Xavier, who'll be portrayed by McAvoy.)
Meanwhile, Platt—who also stars with Laura Linney in the new Showtime series The Big C—will star as a character named The Man in Black, who is not a mutant. (We're also assuming that, despite the character name, he's also not a Johnny Cash impersonator.)
X-Men First Class, which will be directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass), is scheduled to begin shooting at the end of August in London for a June 3, 2011 release.
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The leading provider of chaplains in the ACT has launched a recruitment drive, as more schools register for services and secular welfare staff face redundancy.
Peter James, chief executive of the Scripture Union, which co-ordinates the National School Chaplaincy Association's program in the ACT, said four more schools had registered for chaplains in recent months.
"We're looking for five new chaplains in ACT schools, as we had one person move on to new things at the end of last year," he said.
The recruitment drive comes as the Abbott government continues to push ahead with a religious-only school chaplaincy scheme.
The federal government was forced to redesign its $244 million scheme after the High Court ruled it invalid in June and in a bid to prevent another legal challenge, the federal government will provide funding to state and territory governments to administer the scheme.
Mr James said he had noticed an increasing number of schools registering for government-funded chaplains across the country in recent months.
"The ACT has started off a fairly modest base, with only 47 places allocated for funding, although we've already seen some new schools applying for chaplains," he said.
A School Chaplaincy ACT spokesman said many schools in the territory made passionate applications to retain funding for their existing chaplains.
"One application was 52 pages long, filled with evidence, comments, letters from students, staff and parents who valued the work the chaplain did in their school," he said.
"We received a very quick response from the Education and Training Directorate to let us know that all our current 17 schools were successful in their applications, plus four of our new schools were receiving funding for a chaplaincy service."
But the federal government's changes to school counselling workers means the jobs of up 25 welfare officers in the ACT remain uncertain or under threat.
Ruth Pickard was one school-based welfare worker who would have lost her job this year because of the reforms, if it weren't for a new opportunity with her school.
"I was quite fortunate in that I remained at the Blue Gum Community School in a different role, running their after-school care program, after I graduated with a diploma of secondary teaching from UC," she said.
"But that doesn't mean what has happened isn't pretty destructive for school communities. Those positions are no longer being filled by people with a diverse range of skill sets and no religious agenda."
Ms Pickard, who was deployed by the Australian Student Welfare Association, said her former counselling role had not been filled and teachers were required now to share the pastoral workload.
Australian Student Welfare Association director Ross Sutherland said many ACT schools would "lose their staff member and not be able to apply for the chaplaincy program due to a lack of community support".


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Former teammates Ennis, Pierre prepare for NCAA Tournament matchup
Yuki Mizuma | Staff Photographer
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Up near the Ennis' home country, there's a reunion of sorts taking place.
Tyler Ennis and his brother Dylan are both playing at First Niagara Center for the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament and on Saturday, when No. 3-seed Syracuse squares off against No. 11-seed Dayton, Ennis will take the floor against Dyshawn Pierre, a fellow Canadian and former CIA Bounce teammate.
"It's a great opportunity. It's a little bit different playing against guys you know," Ennis said. "It just shows Canada's really on the rise."
Ennis and Pierre overlapped for one year with CIA Bounce and played together for one summer with the Canadian national team Cadets.
With CIA Bounce, Pierre was playing with the U17 team and Ennis, then a 16-year-old, played up a year.
"With his talent he was able to play with us," Pierre said. "His talent spoke, for sure. We were all about winning, too, and we needed him at times when the older guys weren't playing well. I think he started over some of the guys."
The two live about 45 minutes apart in Canada, Pierre said, and both live about three hours from Buffalo. Pierre expects to see a largely pro-Orange crowd Saturday, but upstate New York is close enough to Whitby, Ontario, that there will be a contingent of friends and family supporting him.
The same is in play for Ennis. His entire family, including Dylan, is in Buffalo to support both SU and Villanova, but it's also a chance to take in a showcase of good Canadian players.
"We have so many players in the Tournament still and playing key players," Ennis said. "It just shows we have talent."
Ennis has faced off against a slew of Canadian opponents throughout the season — the Orange traveled to Canada for four preseason games during the summer and faced an Olivier Hanlan-led Boston College team twice — but Pierre is one of the few guys he has experience playing with.
He hasn't had much of a chance to see Pierre during this weekend, but when both teams played in the EA Sports Maui Invitational they got to watch some basketball together.
Now, while other Canadian stars like Melvin Ejim and Andrew Wiggins play crucial roles elsewhere, Ennis and Pierre collide on the big stage in Buffalo, where they sing the Canadian National Anthem before games, too.
Said Ennis: "It goes to show how far Canada has come to have players who are impact players on this level."
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this happens to me all the time, it drives me nuts, I want to finally get to the bottom of this..
WHY is there extra space betw elements here?
if I add a border around elements the space disappearshttp://mayacove.com/dev/modal/test2.html
but of course as you can see, I can't do that here.. (I added overlfow:auto; to containing element, still no cigar...;-)
I run into this prob again and again (occurs in all browsers), sometimes I can solve by adding borders around elements, but you can't always do that, as is the case here...
would appreciate some help..
thank you..
PS: edit: just found out only browser it doesn't occur is IE7!!! (&6? I don't have to support IE6..) go figure...
That specific gap is coming from the margin value of "benefits_inner". Try using padding instead.
You should look at a CSS reset (Google: Eric Meyer), this will help "normalise" your browsers and will help greatly with cross browser issues.
You will learn that some elements come with default margins, and different browsers come iwth differnet settings of them set. It's probably not happening in IE7 due to something called collapsing margins. The bottom and top margins of elements are colliding.
You can read this article for more information on why your issue isn't across every browser. You will need the reset as mentioned above.
tank you for yr response.. actually I use a reset that has all elements set to margin:0; and padding:0;http://mayacove.com/dev/modal/test.html
what I actually had to do was give all elements overflow:auto; (not the containing element, which is what I had tried..)
Well to be honest I'd remove that code you just added to make all divs overflow:auto. That will only lead to troubles in the long run.
You actually only needed it on "#bens_main" but also putting it on "#benefits_inner" would also prevent a margin collapse happening (unrelated issue).
you're right: need it only in #bens_main div
(yes under normal circs I wouldn't do something like
#benefits div {overflow:auto; }
did it here for practical reasons.. but, just like you say, only needed in that middle main div..
thank you very much..
Ok I just wanted you to know the... impracticality of using that on all divs.
You're welcome :).


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UNC-CH suspends Willingham's research privileges
Posted January 16, 2014
Updated January 17, 2014
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Mary Willingham – the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill adviser who claims the UNC system is failing to help student-athletes receive an education – says the university has suspended her research privileges.
Willingham works in the UNC Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling, and from 2003 to 2010, she helped athletes in the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes.
During the course of her work, both as a UNC graduate student and employee, Willingham researched how university admission standards are applied to athletes in the high-profile, revenue-driving sports of men's football and basketball.
She found that that 60 percent of the 183 athletes she studied read at a level more common in elementary school and up to 10 percent had the reading skills of a third grader.
Willingham's research made the national spotlight last week as part of a CNN report on academic deficits among student-athletes nationwide.
The school said Thursday evening it has notified Mary Willingham that she can't continue to use data with information that could identify the subjects until she applies to the university's review board that governs human research.
In a statement, the school said researchers don't require board approval for research if it doesn't include identifiable information on the subjects.
Willingham said Thursday night that she has been asked to re-apply for research privileges and said that she plans to do so.
Willingham said Thursday night in a statement that the "gap in academic preparedness between profit-sport athletes and students at NCAA Division I institutions perpetuates educational inequality."
"Until we acknowledge the problem and fix it, many of our athletes, specifically men's basketball and football players, are getting nothing in exchange for their special talents," Willingham added.


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SUGARTOOTH The Sounds of Solid 1997
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HITTING BIRTH Thirst of the Fast Three Years 1992
Industrial music that also includes the percussionist from Pigface, and the drummer from The Wipers.
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BIG CHIEF Drive It Off 1991
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CORDS Taurus No Bull 1993
by Nitsuh Abebe
The Cords' two albums tend to be pretty monochromatic, so it's important to consider musical context when evaluating them -- by these standards, 1993's Taurus No Bull is definitely the better. That's not to say that it's particularly impressive -- the band can pretty easily be described with a single Babes in Toyland references, meaning that Taurus No Bull is a decent but largely unnecessary entry into late-period riot-grrl-ism. An interesting conundrum emerges, however: 1997's Hear! See! Feel! tend to fare better with this sound than Taurus No Bull does -- but at the same time, this sound was growing somewhat tired as of 1993, and it's practically unconscionable that the Cords should be releasing the same sort of work toward the tail end of the decade.
Not the best review the Cords has ever gotten, but a lot of people I know seemed to like them.
23 March 2012
SISTER PSYCHIC Surrender You Freak 1994
KING MISSILE self titled 1994
by Steve Huey
Essentially a vehicle for the musings of John S. Hall, King Missile merged off-kilter spoken word monologues with eclectic, mildly psychedelic rock & roll. Hall's dry, absurdist sense of humor colored much of the group's output, blurring the lines between comedy, Beat poetry, narrative prose, and simple rock lyrics. Yet in spite of their focus on Hall's literary bent and all its New York artiness, King Missile was most definitely a band, and relied on music to play a much more than perfunctory role in their overall effect. The band initially won a following on college radio with several albums for producer Kramer's eccentric Shimmy-Disc label, while surviving a major lineup overhaul. Signed to a major-label deal with Atlantic, they scored a highly unlikely novelty hit with 1992's "Detachable Penis," which conquered MTV and college radio despite its subject matter. Their new audience didn't stick, however, and the second lineup split after another album; Hall later organized a third … » Read more
MOTORHOME Sex Vehicle 1995
by Mike DaRonco
Formed in 1993 out of Chicago's Wicker Park area, Kristen Thiele (vocals/ bass), Laura Masura (drums) and Josiah Mazzaschi (guitar) got together MotorHome while barely out of high school. With their combined motivations in distorted pop, crunchy guitars and spaced out undertones, the released their first single "Whole in my Head"/"SugarLow" in 1994 with the additional help from Dirty Records. MotorHome's first full-length Sex Vehicle came out the following year.
POEM ROCKET Infinite Retry on Parallel Time-Out 1997
by James Christopher Monger
New York City-based alternative noise-rock trio Poem Rocket formed in 1994 around the talents of multi-instrumentalist husband and wife Sandra Gardner and Michael Peters and drummer Peter Gordon. They released their first album, a disparate collection of EP tracks and 7"s called Felix Culpa in 1995. It was followed in 2000 by equally creative Psychogeography and by Invasion! in 2007.
THOSE BASTARD SOULS Debt and Departure 1995
by Heather Phares
Originally a side project for the Grifters' Dave Shouse, Those Bastard Souls formed in 1996 with the release of Twentieth Century Chemical. The album was basically a Shouse solo project, but when he was approached by Sebadoh with an opening spot on their tour, he connected with the Dambuilders' Joan Wasser and former Red Red Meat bassist Matt Fields to flesh out the Souls for the road. As Wasser's and Shouse's main groups broke up (in the case of the Dambuilders) or went on hiatus (in the case of the Grifters), Those Bastard Souls evolved into a full-fledged band. The original trio added another ex-Dambuilder, drummer Kevin March, and former Jeff Buckley guitarist Michael Tighe to the lineup for the recording of their V2 debut, 1999's Debt & Departure.
LAZY The Lazy Music Group 1996
by Stephen HowellGuitarist/vocalist Steve Schmoll had been playing around the Cincinnati, OH area since the mid-1980s in bands such as Pink Lady with pre-Brainiac vocalist Tim Taylor. After that group split, Schmoll continued his musical pursuits in local outfits such as Human Zoo and the Tigerlilies. It was around the latter portion of 1991, however, when Schmoll asked his friends Suzann Lynch and Meghan Haas about forming Lazy. Together, the trio released a seven-inch single, a 12-inch single and their full-length debut, Some Assembly Required, all on Roadrunner Records. However, the line-up changed in 1995 when Lynch left, and bassist Kari Murphy stepped in. With Murphy, Lazy released their second album The Lazy Music Group. Poor promotion of the record resulted in poor sales, and as a result, Roadrunner dropped the group. Lazy went on to record two singles for Elastic Records in 1998.
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MEDFIELD MA Journal Entries 1994
By request
Thanks to Jan for the DL!
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SWEET 75 self titled 1997
by Greg Prato
Sweet 75 was ex-Nirvana member Krist Novoselic's first (albeit short-lived) band after Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide. Novoselic and ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl originally contemplated remaining together and working on a set of songs that Grohl had penned, but ultimately opted to go their separate ways (with Grohl using those songs for the Foo Fighters' first album). In May of 1994, Novoselic's then-wife threw a surprise birthday party for him, and hired a Venezuelan street singer, Yva Las Vegas (who was discovered singing outside Pike Street Market in Seattle), to sing "Happy Birthday" at the bash. But Las Vegas wound up staying the remainder of the party and singing Venezuelan folk songs, which got the singer and Novoselic to talking about possibly working together in the near future. Novoselic planned on producing an album for the singer, but after the two began penning original songs together, both decided to form a group -- with Las Vegas assuming vocal and bass duties, and … » Read more
SALEM 66 Down the Primrose Path 1995
By request
by John Dougan
Just a little ahead of their time, if Salem 66 were at their peak today they would be no doubt be big news. Instead, they are the influential older sisters of many current women-led rock bands and are fondly remembered by those of us living there at the time as one of the best bands of mid-'80s Boston. Judy Grunwald and Beth Kaplan (guitar and bass, respectively) were Salem 66's brain trust, and despite their off-kilter melodies and clashing, not-always-melodic singing, they created a churning, idiosyncratic pop sound that was loaded with smarts and enthusiasm, even when their technical limitations were apparent. But like other technically limited performers both male and female, that never prevented Salem 66 from stretching out and wailing full-on. After a tentative debut EP debut in 1984, the band hit its stride with the release of the accurately titled A Ripping Spin the following year. With a popularity in the then-alternative rock press that went outside the Boston, Salem 66 were … » Read more
HYPNOLOVEWHEEL Angel Food 1992
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by Steve HueyAn underexposed and underrated combo from Long Island, Hypnolovewheel issued several albums in the late '80s and early '90s that offered a distinctive blend of power pop, dreamy psychedelia, noisy '60s-style garage rock, and tense, nervy post-punk. They drew comparisons to bands as far-ranging as R.E.M., Wire, and the Embarrassment, topping off their rather strange brew with a smart, quirky sense of humor that was most overt on their earlier material. Consisting of guitarists Steve Hunking and Dave Ramirez, bassist Dan Cuddy, and drummer Peter Walsh, Hypnolovewheel debuted in 1988 with Turn! Turn! Burn!, which was released on the small Fabian Aural Products label; the same was true of its 1990 follow-up, Candy Mantra. The group got a bit more exposure after moving to the somewhat higher-profile indie Alias Records, for whom they debuted with 1991's well-received Space Mountain.
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I HATE THE 90s Volume 4
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NAKED self titled 1997
Thanks to El Diablo Con Queso
|Mann's Chinese
|The Road Home
|The Color Decays
|What About You?
|Raining On The Sky
|Love Supreme
|Drift Away
|The Great Escape
BEEKEEPER Anywhere Will Do 1997
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|Wake Up
|Knocks The Head
|Winding Down
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SILKWORM Even a Blind Chicken Finds a Kernel of Corn Now and Then 1998
By request
by Andy Kellman
Even a Blind Chicken thankfully reissues the majority of the impossible-to-find L'ajre LP and the excellent, vinyl-only His Absence is a Blessing EP, buttressing them with various singles and compilation tracks spanning five years. Aside from the Blessing EP, nothing here quite lives up to the high standard of Silkworm's other works, but the compilation is essential for any fan. A self-released 1992 single comprising renditions of the Comsat Angels' "Our Secret" and Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" is a major highlight. They make the Comsats song very much their own, exchanging the original's ringing guitars for agitated roars. Joel Phelps and Tim Midgett repeatedly shout "We will never give it up" as a defiant mantra. There's even some atmospheric synth added in, just for the hell of it. The Fleetwood Mac cover is storming, done completely without irony, unlike your token ha-ha ska band cover. All vocalists chime in at various points as Midgett makes a bitchin' Lindsey. Loudon Wainwright, Tom Petty, and the Walkabouts also receive the Silkworm treatment. A couple moments of misguided infancy are pretty embarrassing, perhaps documented with the diehard in mind. The thrashy "Inside Outside" has an uncharacteristic bass lead-in and goofy vocal trickery. Phelps' vocals veer dangerously close to Geddy Lee-with-laryngitis territory. A handy, well-warranted package, Midgett's often hilarious liner notes provide added value, recalling van wrecks and recording processes. He also lucidly expresses the instability of even the most durable bands, stating that they "...walk a thin line between satisfying individual egos and caving into them." Valuable words for any band.
VARIOUS ARTISTS Does The Word Duh Mean Anything To You? - Another Che Compilation 1995
Track 1 from "36 cents an hour"
Track 2 is exclusive to this compilation.
Track 3 is exclusive to this compilation.
Track 4 from Tribute To A Bus
Track 5 from I Had A Thought / America
Track 6 from Will They Turn You On Or Will They Turn On You
Track 7 is exclusive to this compilation.
Track 8 is exclusive to this compilation.
Track 9 from V-Neck
Track 10 from V-Neck
Track 11 from Side Effects
Track 12 from Side Effects
Track 13 from Trip Fuck / Hummingbird Mountain
Track 14 from Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15
Track 15 is exclusive to this compilation.
Track 16 from So, You Got Anything Else?
Track 17 from In Debt
Track 18 from In Debt


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Hotel Tax
Ordinance No. 1-97.pdf
Berks County Ordinance 1-13, amending the Berks County Hotel Room Rental Tax
Ordinance No. 01-13.pdf
Amended & Restated 06-01-16, Berks County Hotel Room Rental Tax
Hotel Tax - Amended Restated 6-1-16
Rules and Regulations for the Collection of the Hotel Room Rental Tax
Rules and Regulations for Collection of Hotel Tax.pdf
Hotel Revenue Report (Used to report net taxable revenue) Hotel Exemption Form (Document exemption claim)
For information on filling out the form please go to the Form Information page.


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6 Stories You May Have Missed
Celebuzz has compiled some of Friday's top stories from around the web.
Justin Bieber Definitely Not Over Selena Gomez
The singer was spotted leaving a museum in Amsterdam with the screensaver on his iPhone clearly displaying a picture of his ex. Take a look at the photo at TMZ.
One Direction Movie Poster Unveiled
The 1D boys are releasing a documentary-style movie titled This Is Us in August. Check out the poster at Idolator.
Nick Lachey Will Raise Son In Ohio
In an interview with ABC News, the 98 Degrees singer revealed that he and his wife, Vanessa Minnillo, are planning on raising their son far away from Los Angeles. Find out the reason why at Gossip Cop.
Kristin Chenoweth Flaunts Incredible Bikini Body
The 44-year-old Broadway sensation tweeted a photo of her toned bikini body while staying at The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort in Mexico. See the picture on Us Weekly.
Sandra Bullock Reaches Out To The People Of Boston
The actress revealed to Access Hollywood on Thursday, that she believes Boston is a city "made up of amazing, strong, loyal, kind and giving people." Huffington Post has the full scoop.
The singer has been posting scandalous photos of herself, and isn't at all afraid to show us some skin. TooFab has the pictures.


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The four-strong Eddie Joe's syndicate have now accepted the six-week suspension handed to Davids Lad in February.
Mattie Lynch, one of the syndicate, said: "We have had no joy so it's no Aintree for us this year.
"It was a once in a lifetime shot but I suppose it could be worse and now we'd be looking at the Irish Grand National or maybe the attheraces Gold Cup."
Denis Egan, chief executive of the Irish Turf Club, said of the decision: "We are thrilled.
"Hopefully we will get the same result at the full hearing. It will be going to a full hearing at a date in the future."
The decision finally dashed the hopes of running the horse in the big race at Aintree on 5 April.
Davids Lad, who had been 14-1 second favourite for the Grand National, was suspended by stewards at Naas racecourse after finishing last in the Paddy & Helen Cox Memorial Newlands Chase.
The nine-year-old's suspension will last until the day after the National.
The gambler placed an ante-post win bet on the horse and will forfeit his cash if it is a non-runner.


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Stamps show UK is first class in space
The UK's postal service, Royal Mail, will issue a set of new stamps next week that highlight the nation's involvement in space missions. With a strong astronomy and planetary science theme, they are designed to mark the 50th anniversary of Britain's first satellite, Ariel 1.
The tribute comes a little late – Ariel 1 was launched on 26 April, 1962, and the stamps will be available on 16 October – but the stamps include classic images of the Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn, its largest moon Titan and the asteroid Lutetia.
All were taken from missions conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA) with UK involvement. Royal Mail Stamps spokesperson Andrew Hammond said: "Britain has played an important role in space exploration over the last half a century and our Space Science issue is a fitting tribute.
"We're delighted to be bringing stunning imagery of our solar system right onto the nation's doorsteps through this latest stamp issue."
In February 2007, Royal Mail issued stamps to mark 50 years of the BBC's record-breaking astronomy programme The Sky At Night, presented throughout by Sir Patrick Moore.
The launch of Ariel 1 made Britain the third country to become a space nation, after the USSR and USA, though the satellite was actually lifted into orbit by an American Thor-Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite re-entered the atmosphere in April 1976. Here are the remaining stamps.


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Totally Open Arduino-Compatible Hardware Development
Listed below, in order of
ascending complexity are the various Freeduino (fully Arduino(tm) compatible) offerings from Wulfden.Click on any picture for full size renderings and
click on the title headings to go a page with more detailed information and ordering forms.
This is what it says ... it is rock bottom ...
simply the barest minimal Arduino compatible kit. It will get you up and running on the Arduino IDE.
It contains the cpu chip (with bootloader),
appropriate chip socket, crystal, caps, reset switch and pullup resistor. (Basic RBFK does not
include P4 programmer, breadboard or power supply shown in pic)
This kit is offered with either the ATmega328P-20PU (a drop in pin-for-pin replacement
for the 168), or the ATmega644P-20PU (the Sanguino chip)
From Don Davis out at DorkBotPDX
in Portland, OR. This is a minimalist board, useful for skimpy budgets learners and yet makes a great
project board easy to interface to other devices
Based upon our collaboration with Paul Badger at
Modern Device the RBBB board is bread board oriented, but
can be equally easily mated to generic project boards. The kit is offered with a choice of .25A and
1.25A power supply. It is quite useful for development or as a runtime board.
Yet another collaboration with Paul Badger at
Modern Device, the BBB board is one of the most flexible Arduino
solution on the market. It can be configure many ways to suit the user. It can be easily made to connect
to breadboards, shield boards, Radio Shack proto boards, etc. The analog ports have multi-pin connectors
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The farm was established in 1750, and in the 1970s the then-owner began to plant Tinta Barocca, Carignan and Grenache Noir. In 1995 the farm was bought by Paul and Anna Kretzel, who started to produce wine under the Lammershoek label in 2000 after several years of continuing the farm's tradition of selling its grapes to the Perdeberg Co-operative.Lammershoek's home in the Aprilskloof Valley, Paardeberg, enjoys a Mediterranean-type climate which brings hot summers and cold, damp winters. Soils of granite and sand give the wines texture, acidity and a degree of perfume on the nose. There are 70 hectares of vineyard, at 80-300 metres above sea level, mostly non-irrigated drylands and all farmed organically (uncertified).
The fruit from each vineyard block is handled differently from one year to the next, its individual qualities offering something different to work with at every vintage. No preconceptions are held regarding what the final wine should taste like - the grapes make that decision! For the 2010 vintage, fruit quality was exceptional following an unusually cool vintage, and grapes were hand-picked early in the morning in 20 kg crates. Fermentation took place in open 5-6 ton concrete tanks before being transferred to older 300 litre barrels for malolactic fermentation and maturation. The wine was bottled after a few months further storage in concrete tanks. Lammershoek produce their wines as naturally as possible, and no additives are used apart from a small amount of sulfur dioxide. No fining or filtration takes place.
Dominated by dark berry flavours, the wine has an undertow of fresh spice, a dash of pepper on the finish and an overall rusticity redolent of a high-quality Rhone red. It would sit nicely with any lamb dish that involves coriander seeds, or in less complicated moments it would extend a cordial welcome to a really good steak.


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German travel agents experience the magic of South Africa in ten days
In short… the FAM will deliver evidence of the heartfelt connections that people make when they visit us.- Theresa Bay-M?ller, Country Manager Germany at South African Tourism
A group of German travel agents is currently in South Africa to experience a ten-day mega familiarisation (FAM) trip. Organised by German Tour Operator Gebeco, in partnership with South African Tourism, the FAM has been engineered to give the agents first-hand experience of South Africa as a holiday destination to make it easy for them to sell South Africa with confidence.
Dubbed the "Gebeco Experience Tour" the FAM trip is designed to promote South Africa's offerings and showcase its world-class service and facilities to travel agents who sell destination South Africa in one of South Africa's most lucrative tourism markets. During the ten day visit, the agents will be given the opportunity to experience the various leisure and adventure activities the destination offers in six of its provinces.
Theresa Bay-M?ller, Country Manager Germany at South African Tourism says: "The Gebeco FAM gives a hundred of the most influential agents in that market an opportunity to explore South Africa, enjoy South Africa; experience our adventure offerings, our culture; our amazing scenic beauty and our awesome infrastructure. It also gives them the chance to see for themselves that South Africa is the most accessible, inviting, warm, friendly and hospitable destination in the world. In short... the FAM will deliver evidence of the heartfelt connections that people make when they visit us."
South Africa's popularity as a destination is growing in Germany, one of a very number of European markets that has not shrunk as a result of the Eurozone crisis and of the world recession. Last year, arrivals from Germany grew 9.3 percent (235 774 arrivals) and by end February this year, arrivals were 7.8 percent up on February 2011 numbers. It's an extremely important and lucrative market, says Bay-Müller and South African Tourism invests in defending it.
Jens Hulversohn, Director Marketing and Sales at Gebeco, is delighted to be in South Africa as a FAM delegate. "It's a beautiful, capable, friendly country," he says. "We have been welcomed with open arms. The beauty of the scenery and the infrastructure capability are rivalled only by the warmth and friendliness of the people. It's no wonder Germans love South Africa.
"The FAM has proved to be really useful. We have been introduced to valuable contacts in the local industry. We have experienced what our clients will experience when they visit. We have learned about the distances between places; the culture; the South African sense of humour; the great outdoor lifestyle you have here... and the great indoor lifestyle, too. It's been great. Most important, it's been a valuable tool to do our work when we get back home to and sell South Africa in Germany."
On the FAM itinerary was a one-day intensive destination workshop that was held in Cape Town. Gebeco presented its South African products at the workshop whose theme was 'Sustainability in connection with destination'. The workshop was followed by a dinner dance where delegates experienced the authenticity of how South Africa parties to the rhythm and beat of an optimistic, celebratory and inviting nation.
"An important aspect of what we do is to constantly educate travel agents about destination South Africa, its people and the products. The workshop was useful in that it addressed issues and answered questions while delivering the experience of South Africa at the same time," says Bay-M?ller.
The mega FAM visit and associated workshops have been made possible through partnerships with Gebeco, South African Tourism, South African Airways, Vineyard Hotel and Cape Town Tourism.
"Partnerships and relationships drive the tourism business. Singlehandedly, we would not have been able to put together such a well-rounded itinerary so we are grateful to our partners in the industry who made it possible," says says Bay-M?ller.
Cape Town Tourism's CEO Mariette Du Toit-Helmbold commented: "Cape Town Tourism is proud to partner with South African Tourism Germany and Gebeco to increase demand for Cape Town as a leisure and subsequent business destination. Cape Town and surrounds remain a firm favourite with German travelers and the Gebeco Experience Tour covers the best of Cape Town's tourism offering – showcasing both iconic Cape Town attractions and unexpected Cape Town experiences. We strongly believe that the FAM trip will contribute to the conversion of awareness into tourism arrivals for the destination."
The Gebeco agents leave the country on 14 June.
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Register on our media extranet to browse the latest news releases (from SA Tourism as well as the tourism industry in general), access the news archive and get details of all upcoming tourism industry events (both locally and internationally).
South African Tourism is the national tourism agency responsible for the marketing of South Africa as a preferred tourist destination. It is headed up by Chief Executive Officer, Ms Thandiwe January-McLean, Chief Operating Officer Mr Timothy Scholtz and Chief Marketing Officer, Ms Roshene Singh.
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text: After covering more than 30,000 miles, GE's (NYSE: GE) FlexEfficiency* Truck Tour, showcasing the power generation technology of tomorrow, will make its 27 th and final stop Wednesday, Feb. 13 in Weehawken, N.J., across the Hudson River from New York City. "Our North American FlexEfficiency Truck Tour has been a tremendous success, with more than 4,000 people visiting the trailer to learn how the latest innovation in power generation will meet today's energy challenges while driving economic growth," said Paul Browning, president and CEO, Thermal Products for GE Power & Water. "It is especially fitting that we are concluding our tour in New Jersey, since our new FlexEfficiency technology will support a major project that will add cleaner, flexible and highly efficient energy for this region." The Newark Energy Center, a 655-megawatt gas-fired combined-cycle power plant, will use GE 7F 5-series gas turbines, which are members of the FlexEfficiency 60 portfolio. Scheduled to begin service in 2015, the facility will be one of the cleanest of its kind in the United States, thanks to its use of natural gas and advanced emissions control technology. "We are happy to be involved in a project that will provide cleaner, more efficient and reliable power to the northern New Jersey grid, while bringing employment and new revenue to Newark," said Scott Thon, executive vice president, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company for the Newark project. SNC-Lavalin has a long history of working with GE F-class gas turbines, having installed 70 such units at power plants around the world. This custom-built, 18-wheel FlexEfficiency tractor-trailer, loaded with interactive, innovative exhibits and demonstrations of GE's newest technology, was unveiled Sept. 26 during a global launch event in San Francisco. During its five-month tour, it has showcased the key features and benefits of FlexEfficiency 60 technology for customers, engineering students, media representatives, industry analysts, GE employees and members of the general public who have visited the trailer. Built for the United States and other 60-hertz countries, GE's new FlexEfficiency 60 Portfolio of products addresses the emerging need for flexible, efficient technology capable of providing electricity with record-setting efficiency. The strong global demand for this new technology has resulted in more than $1.5 billion in orders from the U.S., Japan and Saudi Arabia. These sales comprise orders for 22 gas turbines—16 for the 7F 5-series gas turbines and six for the 7F 7-series gas turbines. GE's FlexEfficiency portfolio of gas turbines can provide highly efficient baseload power and unprecedented flexibility to pair natural gas with renewables. This natural gas-fired technology can rapidly increase its power output in response to fluctuations in wind and solar power, which will enable more renewable resources to be integrated onto the power grid.


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Jones, 19, started two games for the Victoria Park outfit's first team last term, with the rest of his season spent in the reserves.
The 19-year-old is currently enjoying his second spell with the Pools, having performed in the club's Under 11-16 teams as a youngster.
The defender was released to Chester-le-Street Town before rejoining the Pools youth team in July 2005.


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"It's a market which is neglected by almost everyone in the games industry. ...The games industry has been mainly focused on the teenage boy demographic for decades now. Despite evidence that outside the console market, the vast majority of gamers are female and over the age of 35, the types of product hitting the market continue to focus on this increasingly niche audience. It leaves huge gaps in the overall global audience and means that for any player who doesn't appreciate or want the usual genres of game, there's very little out there." - Tsumanga Studios co-founder, Graeme Harvey
While it's good to hear that complaint coming from a dev, I don't know that Harvey is really reaching out to the girl demographic. They are behind the Winx Club games, which target the very young end of the female spectrum. What about all the other female gamers out there?
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By SHANNON WATKINS
The Pulaski Theatre doesn't quite qualify as Hotel California, but it's good enough for Eagles cover band 7 Bridges: The Ultimate Eagles Experience, who will put on a show on Saturday, Aug. 10.
7 Bridges is based out of Nashville, Tenn., and requires no harmonizers or backing tracks. Each band member assumes the role of an Eagles member during their performances. Blake Hall, who plays guitar and mandolin, also does vocals and takes the role of Don Felder.
Bryan Graves, whose father, Josh Graves, played dobro with Flatt and Scruggs, will perform as Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit. In the past Graves has performed as Paul Stanley in a KISS tribute band. He plays bass and does vocals.
Jason Manning, on guitars and keyboard as well as singing, will perform as Glenn Frey. He has played the college circuit in other bands and attended writers' nights at the legendary Bluebird Café.
Keith Thoma, supplying drums and other percussion along with vocals, will perform as Don Henley. He has been a member of country group The Truesdells, with whom he opened for Merle Haggard and Daryle Singletary.
Race Goodwin, on guitar and vocals, will be performing as Joe Walsh. Goodwin has performed with numerous bands and took the position of lead guitar at Tootsies Orchid Lounge, which allowed him to perform with Hank Williams Jr., Steve Miller, John Rich, Gavin DeGraw, Mel Tillis, Jimmy Dickens and Lorrie Morgan.
Vernon Roop, holding down keyboard, percussion and vocals, will perform as Joe Vitale. From an early age, he played in his parents' country band and went on to a career in music with Florida band Buck Wild and outside of it in television production.
7 Bridges plays local events, corporate functions, fairs and festivals, casinos and private events. For more information, visit www.7bridgesband.com.
Tickets may be purchased directly from Pulaski Theatre. They are also available at the Fine Arts Center of the New River Valley between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. If purchased with a credit card, there will be a $1 credit processing fee per ticket. Call 980-7363 for more information. Tickets are also on sale at Barry's Music in Radford. Their hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
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At one of the extremes of 20-century architecture there were the modernists Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier and Bauhaus' Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. They made impersonal and cool buildings in the "International Style" in vogue at the time that celebrated whiteness, straight lines and steel and glass as primary building materials. The descendents of the style — the box-like apartments and skyscraper office blocks that are ubiquitous in any modern city — function as the architectural emblems of capitalism.
At the other end was the environmentally aware Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). His current retrospective, "Remainders of an Ideal: The Vision and Practices of Hundertwasser," is currently showing at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto till May 21, and will travel to the Musee d'art Mercian Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture as of June 10.
A heretic in the face of modernism's high seriousness, Hundertwasser stood for pretty much everything that the puritanical approach of his fellow Austrian Loos (1870- 1933) and his heirs did not. When Loos wrote that "ornament is excrement," Hundertwasser opined that "shit is our soul" and adopted the undulating lines and expressive distortions of the waning Art Nouveau movement. When Le Corbusier affirmed that "by law, all buildings should be white," the guru-architect would abut uneven planes of vermilion, mustard and cerulean on his exteriors. While van der Rohe indulged in minimalist aphorisms like "Less is more," Hundertwasser would actually discard his clothes to promote flushless, ecologically-friendly toilets.
Hundertwasser had a semi-enduring relationship with Japan that included the design for the exterior of Osaka's Maishima incineration plant and five year marriage to Yuko Ikewada. The commission for the incineration plant was a ploy to spruce up the image of the man-made island Maishima and its sports facilities in 1997 when the city prepared for a bid to host the Olympics in 2008. As the design adopted environmentally friendly treatment processes, and the Osaka government hired an architect who practiced along similar lines. The building, completed in 2001, is a popular destination for school field trips — particularly for witnessing how the drab business of waste-disposal can be housed in something akin to the wonder world of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
But though Hundertwasser is best known for his building designs, his paintings and prints first brought him international attention after he won the Mainichi Prize at the 6th International Art Exhibition in Tokyo in 1961 and was given a retrospective at the Venice Biennial in 1962.
Artistically, he was first introduced to Japan via Edo Period (1603-1867) woodblock prints of the "floating world" when hitchhiking in Italy prior to the 1960s. Hiroshige's and Hokusai's landscapes made such a strong impression that they led to a lifelong commitment to print mediums such as woodblocks and silkscreens.
Hundertwasser was the first European artist to actually have his work cut by Japan's master carvers, and in the early 1970s, he completed his "Nana-Hyaku-Mizu" series after an 11-year collaboration with Japanese woodblock-cutters and printers. He adored the idea of the Japanese prints' formative process being the cooperative and successive work of many hands — the designer, the carver, the printer. His prints, though, resemble nothing of the artistic style of his Japanese forebears, except for the traditional kanji seal — Hundertwasser's is a literal translation of his surname, "Hyaku Mizu (Hundred Water)." Japanese reactions to the works, particularly in his free use of line, were generally favorable, and his first one-man show in 1961 at Takashi Yamamoto's Tokyo Garo in Ginza sold out.
His style, which he called "Transautomatism," combined spirals, florid patterns and flamboyant color with influences from European Symbolist and Expressionist painters such as Egon Schiele and moderate doses of Surrealism. He preferred the organic over the mechanical, and eschewed, above all, straight lines, thinking them "godless" as they all looked the same. These tendencies are still visible in late works like the 1980 protest poster "Plant Trees, Avert Nuclear War," in which a hillside morphs into a human face.
The communal work he discerned in the printmaking was one he thought should be more prominent in architecture. For Hundertwasser, the architect, bricklayer and tenant was a trinity akin to a religious order. The role of the architect was to be that of an adviser, and tenants should be directly responsible for the aesthetic choices and also the actual construction.
Hundertwasser also thought that mankind should not shrink from the human sacrifice that such a new mode of building would entail. But, all that was too much for a modern, functional, and safety-conscious world to accept, and anyway, the Bauhaus lineage had already won out.
Not that Hundertwasser seemed to mind. He passed away in 2000 in his adopted home of New Zealand. The cohabitation with nature he advocated reached its zenith when his remains were buried beneath a tulip tree in the Garden of the Happy Deads.


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OCHGS To Host Monthly Program
The Owen County Historical & Genealogical Society will hold its monthly educational program on Monday, June 18, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Owen County Public Library. Featured speakers Deanna Collins and Terry English will give a presentation about the Battle of King's Mountain. This battle, which took place in South Carolina on October 7, 1780, is sometimes called "the turning point in the Revolutionary War." Two men who fought in the battle, Andrew Evans and Samuel Newell, later settled in Owen County, Indiana. Andrew Evans was the first sheriff of Owen County. Evans is Deanna Collins' great-great-great-great-grandfather. Deanna will discuss the lead up to the battle, its aftermath and significance, the part these Owen County ancestors played in the battle, and their contributions to our local history.
Terry English, president of the Daniel Guthrie Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, will discuss his ancestors Charles and Hiram Kilgore, two of five brothers who fought in the battle. OCHGS programs are free and open to the public.
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A MAN is having to undergo reconstructive surgery after being attacked in Accrington on Saturday night.
The 30-year-old man was in the Calder pub on Blackburn Road when he was punched in the face in a seemingly unprovoked attack.
He received two separate fractures in the incident, which happened at around 9pm.
He is now having to undergo corrective surgery to deal with his injuries.
The attack was captured on CCTV.
A 19-year-old was in police custody yesterday morning helping officers with their inquiries.
Anyone with any information about the attack can call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Efron will play the title character who is up against a crime boss to win his love interest, while Theron's character in the Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi movie is named Vickers.
Zac Efron and Charlize Theron appear among a bunch of casting news floating around the web today. The former is set to star in "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" and the former is said being cast in "Prometheus".
In "Charlie Countryman", Efron will play Charlie who, after the death of his mother, heads to Europe to find himself. There he meets a girl and falls in love, but she already belongs to an insanely violent crime boss with a gang of thugs at his disposal. But that won't deter Charlie who endures one bruising beat down after another to woo the girl and keep her out of harm's way.
Written by Matt Drake, the action comedy is now looking for director after Dante Ariola who was attached to the helming duty detached himself from the project. The movie is expected to kick off principal photography sometime this year, The Playlist reports.
Theron, meanwhile, is said to portray a character called Vickers. The actress joins Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender in the Ridley Scott-directed film which was previously developed to be "Alien" prequel. Plot details are still kept under wraps but the helmer teased that it will feature "alien DNA". The sci-fi thriller is slated for June 8, 2012 release in the U.S.
Zac Efron has wrapped filming "The Lucky One" and has signed up to join star-studded romantic comedy "New Year's Eve". As for Theron, she can next be seen in Jason Reitman-directed drama comedy "Young Adult" and is attached to star in "Mad Max: Fury Road". The 35-year-old beauty is additionally linked to the antagonist role of the Evil Queen in "Snow White and the Huntsman".


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