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Lively competition warmed up auctions across wintry Melbourne on Saturday.
One hot property was 1 Elliott Avenue, Balwyn, which fetched $450,000 over the reserve. Strong bidding by three potential owners entertained a crowd of 200.
Maurice DiMarzio, of Hocking Stuart, took bids in jumps of $20,000 to $50,000. On the market at $1.76 million, the well-proportioned four-bedroom, three-bathroom house on an attractive 760-square metre block soared to $2.21 million.
Fletchers made hay with a Box Hill sale about $100,000 over the quoted price of $390,000-$420,000.
Five bidders pushed the price of the two-bedroom brick house at 2/1B Kintore Crescent to $515,000.
"The prices being paid are more than what you expect market value would be," says buyers' advocate Catherine Cashmore.
But buyers' advocate Janet Spencer proved there were still bargains at auctions - in Kensington at least.
Persistence paid off when she secured a townhouse, at 25 McTaggart Street, on the site of the old Newmarket sale yard. W. B. Simpson put it on the market at $600,000, she reports, and sold it to her investor client for $610,000. There was one other bidder.
In Toorak, a stunningly renovated Victorian house, marketed by Marshall White's Madeline Kennedy and Anna Perry, drew bids from three would-be buyers. The property, at 22 Evelina Road, went on the market at $1.67 million and was sold for $1.82 million.
The auction at 86 Hunter Street, Richmond, was slow off the mark, starting with vendor bids of $800,000 and $810,000, reported buyers' advocate Bruce Renowden. But it warmed up when three bidders stepped in to vie for the two-storey contemporary home, which sported stylish stone finishes.
Gordon Hope, of Jellis Craig Bennison Mackinnon, dropped the hammer before 30 onlookers at $910,000, off a reserve of $895,000.
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Alexander Spit follows own hip-hop path
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Alexander Spit calls himself an alternative artist. That may be surprising to hear for anyone who remembers the hip-hop culture war between "mainstream" and "indie" in the late '90s, and how rappers of all career trajectories seemingly take pains to portray themselves as pop-worthy and accessible.
But he says he's proud of the fact that he has created a dense virtual world centered on his debauched vision.
"2 Chainz says 'I'm Different,' when arguably people could say he's very formulaic with the music he makes," says the Los Angeles-based Filipino rapper. "For me, I'm trying to express the fact that a cool kid isn't limited to a rich rapper or a hipster kid. When I express the term alternative, I mean the alternative to the norm."
Spit's website, alexanderspit.com, offers dozens of podcasts, videos and mixtapes, from a song posted via SoundCloud, "December 31, 2012," to free digital releases like "A Breathtaking Trip" and "Mansions."
He produces his own beats, and designs most of the artwork for his releases, including a trippy kaleidoscope image of three girls sprawled on a couch for "A Breathtaking Trip," a five-song prelude to his forthcoming album, "A Breathtaking Trip to the Otherside."
"Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - that mind-set is always going to be prevalent in music. And by no means do I consider myself revolutionary with the way I approach it. But when I write about that stuff in my music, I try to do it as much as possible from an introspective mind-set, rather than just bragging and flaunting my use of it," he says. "It's a medium for creating a soundscape for people to understand my thoughts."
Scheduled for release on Jan. 29 on Decon Records, "A Breathtaking Trip to the Otherside" includes cameos from stars like E-40, the Alchemist and Action Bronson. However, it's still more complex than the average rap album, with odd time signatures and segues between tracks, and Spit's lyrical comparisons of his beats to "seances." It's quirky enough to take time to digest.
"Everyone's on ADD where, like, if the song isn't amazing in the first 10 seconds, they'll skip to the next song. I try to disregard all that," he says. "Unfortunately, I haven't created a way to get every thought of mine across in a three-minute song. It takes an entire album to get a bunch of thoughts out that fit under the same theme."
It must be sweet redemption for a peripatetic career that began modestly in San Francisco, where he lived his teenage years, formed his first rap crew at the age of 16, and performed his first shows as a solo artist before relocating to Los Angeles in 2009. He just recently quit his day job at streetwear company the Hundreds, and now spends all his time on music, whether it's beats for friends like the singer Bago or licensing music to Absolut Vodka's "Absolut X" campaign.
"It's very different than any sound I usually produce. It was a much more EDM-based sound," he says of the latter project.
Meanwhile, "A Breathtaking Trip to the Otherside" promises to bring him real national exposure that ripples beyond appreciative blog notices for his mixtapes. But Spit sounds cautiously optimistic about its release.
"I've learned a few things over the years: not to jinx myself about certain moves and things I've got coming out, and also not to put all my eggs in one basket," he says. "Yes, I'm finally at the point where I can put out a commercial release, but by no means is this album my 'Alexander Spit opus.' It's just a time capsule for right now."
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If you're drawn to the vitriolic dimension of Rodriguez's 26-song opus and are tracking reactions to Searching for Sugar Man, you're probably tempted to respond to the media blitz with a pinch of cynicism. A Wikipedia entry, tweets and a rash of Facebook pages? Tick. Official merch and top-dollar eBay memorabilia? Affirmative. Bandwagoning and profiteering? Maybe, but who the fuck cares? Certainly not Rodriguez. "Fame is fleeting," is the cold fact that he drops on CNN (video below). It's his highest profile interview ever. His star has never shone brighter. Yet he responds with an air of cultivated detachment. This is not the man who wrote those songs 40 years ago. He's even wiser.
And as for the unfortunate "Hispanic Dylan" tag that accompanies most mainstream commentary about Rodriguez, perhaps it's best to identify the truth in it. While "Dylanesque" has come to describe any guitar-strumming singer-songwriter with a taste for poetry and irony, there are certainly Dylan and Rodriguez songs that make great companions. "Sugar Man" speaks to "Tambourine Man" while "Establishment Blues" sits comfortably next to "Subterranean Homesick Blues." "Forget It" and "It Ain't Me Babe" are both table-turning reactions to being dumped and "Like Janis" and "Like a Rolling Stone" see Rodriguez and Dylan at their most vividly scornful.
As for Rodriguez's Hispanic credentials, it's hard to tell. His strumming technique definitely betrays shades of Mexico but he certainly doesn't lean on Latin pop sensibilities and is unlikely to ever be anthologised alongside troubadours like Trini Lopez or José Feliciano. More useful are parallels with the work of Leonard Cohen (stick on "Cause" and "Suzanne" in rapid succession) or Lou Reed (the same characters of "Most Disgusting Song" inhabit "Walk on the Wild Side.") Add Rodriguez (Detroit) to Reed (New York) and Bukowski (Los Angeles) and you can trace the coast-to-coast, downtrodden, urban fallout of Hunter S. Thompson's wave that broke and rolled back at the end of the 60s.
All this in lieu of a legitimate review of the Searching for Sugar Man soundtrack. Suffice to say that this compilation is the most astute way of packaging "the best" of an artist who has only released two albums. It's a combination of songs from both Cold Fact and Coming from Reality with a trio of non-album singles to boot. In short, if you're certain you'll only ever be satisfied with one Rodriguez album, this is your best bet. And if what you've already got was released before the "Dead Man" tour, you could do worse than support a remastered playlist that Rodriguez will get a cut from. Who knows, insomuch as it describes itself as an "original motion picture soundtrack," there may even be room for an Oscar nomination if Sony Legacy can bend the "written specifically for a film" rule. One glaring omission, however, is a track or two from his South African concert album Live Fact. Although a rusty Rodriguez fronts a somewhat staid backing band, his 1998 tour is central to the film and his interaction with the crowd and "thanks for keeping me alive" quip are golden.


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IT WOULD have been easy for Knights coach Wayne Bennett to react to the team's mid-season five-game losing streak by cancelling the players' week off and flogging them at training.
The last of those five losses was inflicted by the Raiders at Hunter Stadium on June 9, and the players were booed off the field by their own fans after the embarrassing 32-16 defeat.
The Knights had a bye after that game and a 16-day break before their next assignment against a Wests Tigers team that had strung seven wins together.
Bennett allowed the players to go their separate ways for a week to catch up with family and friends or recharge with a brief interstate or overseas holiday.
When they clocked back on for duty a week before the Tigers match, instead of kicking stones they had a spring in their step, and responded with four wins from their next five games.
Newcastle's past two victories have been against last year's grand finalists Manly and the Warriors in successive weeks, and tomorrow they will chase their first winning hat-trick in a year against the team that inadvertently kick-started their resurgence.
The Knights trailed the Warriors 18-0 after 16 minutes at Mt Smart Stadium last Saturday but rallied to win 24-19 to join the Warriors, Raiders, Titans and Dragons on 20 points - one win adrift of the eighth-placed Tigers - heading into this weekend.
''We've just got back to having fun at training, and if you turn up here every day, you see a lot of smiles on the blokes' faces, and we're just enjoying our footy,'' playmaker Jarrod Mullen said before Newcastle's game against the Raiders at Canberra Stadium tomorrow.
''Even though we were down against the ropes [against the Warriors] at the weekend, we just got back to playing simple and just enjoying ourselves, and I think it showed out there. It was getting a bit of a grind there at one stage, but we're playing a lot more games at training, and it's helped in the games.''
Centre Timana Tahu said the Knights had rediscovered their self-belief. ''We were down on confidence early in the year,'' he said. ''After the Canberra game when we got booed off things started changing from there.
''The training has been more enjoyable. Wayne has come in and made us keep a smile on our face and enjoy what we are doing. At the end of the day this is what we do; we love playing football. If it becomes a chore everyone starts hating it.''
Mullen said it was Bennett's idea to lighten the load at training, and the players - having adapted to his methods and mindset - embraced the change.
''We were probably treading on eggshells, and didn't really know how to take him early on but now, everyone knows what the go is with the team and what we've got to do every week, and it's been working,'' Mullen said of the seven-time premiership-winning coach. ''He's always been mellow. He just puts a lot of ownership on the players.
''He gives us a bit of leniency towards a lot of stuff, and plenty of rest and stuff like that, but when it's time to train it's time to dig in, and that's what we've been doing.''
Mullen said the arrival in April of Willie Mason, who had a larger than life personality and infectious sense of humour, helped break the ice.
''He's been tremendous, not only on the field but off the field for us,'' Mullen said. ''He's always having a joke with the boys, and I think he's really brought our pack together.''
After struggling to compete in most games in the first two-thirds of the season, Mullen said Newcastle's improved ball control was another key to their recent success.


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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stemsynergy Therapeutics, Inc., today announced a breakthrough study for treating synovial sarcoma, an aggressive soft tissue cancer that predominantly affects teenagers and young adults. Stemsynergy is a privately held biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery and development of small-molecule drugs targeting developmental pathways fundamental to cancer. Synovial sarcoma is a high-grade soft tissue cancer that is associated with a chromosomal rearrangement, meaning that chromosomes incorrectly switch positions. This results in production of a protein known as "oncogene SYT-SSX." This protein promotes the uncontrolled cell proliferation that leads to cancer. The 10-year survival rate for individuals with synovial sarcoma is estimated to be as low as 10%. Previously, it was unknown how SYT-SSX caused cancer in people. In a recent study, published in Cancer Discovery, a group from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Stemsynergy used mice to show that the SYT-SSX oncogene leads to the activation of a cell signaling process called the "Wnt pathway." This work demonstrated that the Wnt signaling pathway is a master controller for the initiation and growth of synovial sarcomas, and that blocking this pathway can stop tumors from growing.
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James Franco's 'The Interview' Character Gets an MTV VMA Special
by Ethan Anderton
August 14, 2014
Hot on the heels of a release date push to Christmas Day and news of digital alterations being made to avoid riling up North Korea anymore than they already are, The Interview isn't slowing down their marketing brigade. In fact, it gets a big push in the youth market this weekend as James Franco will appear in character as entertainment tabloid TV host Dave Skylark with a half-hour special on Sunday, August 17th at 9/8c on MTV, interviewing music superstars like Nicki Minaj, Iggy Azalea and Jason Derulo before the VMAs. Franco's character seems to be a dimwit, but surely he'll be kept in line by his show's producer Aaron Rapoport, played by Seth Rogen, who will also be appearing in the special. Watch a tease below!
Here's a tease of the MTV special with James Franco & Seth Rogen's characters from The Interview:
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The Interview is written and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (of This is the End previously, and the co-writers of Superbad, The Green Hornet, Pineapple Express), with a story the duo wrote with "The Daily Show" scribe Dan Sterling. In the comedy, James Franco plays the handsome talk show host of "Skylark Tonight" who finds himself and his producer (Rogen) into a dangerous CIA organized plot to assassinate the leader of North Korea under the guise of a television interview. Columbia Pictures will be releasing Rogen & Goldberg's new comedy The Interview starting this holiday season on Christmas Day.
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"They say: pay us the retrenchment money and if the farm doesn't close then we will go on working for you. They won't accept that we have no intention of stopping farming."
Although the Fosters were technically hostages at the weekend, forbidden by their workers to leave their farm unless they were prepared to stump up around $US30,000 in cash, they managed to slip away to where the remnant of the local white farming community was discussing its blank future. Maybe half of the area's 80-odd local farmers have already left, some never to return.
After the meeting strong men in shorts drank beers and talked about Australian and New Zealand rugby, but mostly just about Australia and New Zealand. The few young children still in the district played tag.
"We've applied for a business visa for Australia," said Chris Stanley. "If things turn around in the meantime we'd rather stay here but we are worried about the children. We want them to have a future and Oz offers everything there."
Back at the Foster farmstead Back at the Foster farmstead the drums and singing surged with the full fall of night. A bonfire sprang up just beyond the Fosters' garden. The radio, blaring out its subliminal suggestions - It's Only Just Begun, Make it Easy on Yourself - was left on loud even after the hostile racket finally subsided at 5am. The Fosters and their three sons slept soundly, they said. Their guests had long, dark hours to contemplate the strangeness of it all.
On Saturday morning Mark Foster met a small workers' delegation. They told him that government officials and farm workers' unions were advising agricultural employees to strike for their full redundancy money up front.
Though he had done his best to keep his boss's family awake all night, delegate James Moyo seemed both reasonable and sympathetic.
"We do not have any real trouble with the boss. It is the Government that makes the trouble," he confided, after the farmer had gone. "We want to stay here, we want to work, but there is all this confusion."
That night, the workers barricaded the farm gate completely and somebody set fire to a haystack and a field.
Everybody at the farmer's meeting on Friday night said you have to talk to Johann Steyl, who won prizes for the highest yields of maize and soya in the whole country.
In July last year 50 families of black settlers, marshalled by ruling party militants, invaded Mr Steyl's farm and staked out the entire 500-hectare arable area for themselves. They confiscated some of his outbuildings and in August last year they trashed and looted his house, along with dozens of others in the region.
A year later, fields that once produced 3500 tonnes of maize, 1000 tonnes of soya beans, 1200 tonnes of wheat, 150 tonnes of sugar beans, 300 tonnes of precious seed maize and an export crop of tobacco are now sprouting with weeds and six foot shamva grass, stifling the few ragged plots of malnourished cotton and maize.
Mr Steyl reckons the settlers' maize crop this year will be around 100 tonnes. Coincidentally, the United Nations World Food Program now classifies half of Zimbabwe's 12 million people as at risk of famine.
By noon Saturday it seemed that pre-emptive strikes were becoming general across the area. A visit to another farm was cut short when a mob of striking female workers attacked the car.
They too were demanding redundancy money. Although their employer intended to try and stay on his farm, his elderly parents were retiring to South Africa and the sight of their furniture vans had sparked a panic. Now the entire family, including two children, was barricaded in the homestead.
The situation was tense but - what luck! - just then a rare police Land Rover was sighted. Alas, the inspector driving it had other business in the area. He had brought his wife and children to inspect the 40-hectare plot which he had been awarded on Chris Stanley's farm.
Back on the Foster farm, Jennifer was enumerating the Government's various methods of turning the screw on the hated white imperialists.
Over the past two years many - possibly most - have effectively been stripped of their Zimbabwean citizenship. Their lands are being confiscated without due legal process and the police are openly allowing settlers and war veterans to molest and - on at least 10 occasions - murder farmers while settlers and thieves rob them of crops, livestock and equipment.
All the farmers complain that the settlers who are seizing their land nevertheless expect them to provide tractors, irrigation, seeds and materials free of charge.
Jennifer remembers the first time the Fosters met the senior public servant who has been awarded the 40-hectare section of their farm which contains their family home.
"You feel like a carcass and you are just being picked over," she says. "They are like parasites. Nothing smacks of fairness. You have to be nice to these people, you have to supply them with everything they want. There's no give and take. We are just giving and they are just taking."
On Saturday afternoon Roger Makumbe is hard at work on a corner of the Fosters' farm. A friendly man in his 20s, he is building a hut to cement his claim to 25 hectares the Government has awarded him.
He has come 300 kilometres from the town where he works in a shop. He says he plans to settle three or four peasant families on his land to grow a little maize.
"The Government doesn't have any money to give us inputs so I'm going to buy my own," he says.
It seems he doesn't much approve of the program that he is benefiting from. "It's good to be given land, but land reform shouldn't happen this way."
He produces a copy of the Financial Gazette and shows an article about white farmers being forced to leave the land.
"Sad. It's so sad," he says, then carries on with his work.
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TWO more representatives of Swindon's Esprit Gymnastics Club will be joining Laura Halford in Glasgow at the Commonwealth Games.
Stephani Sherlock and her coach Deb Hows will be part of the English gymnastics team for the competition in Scotland.
It is Sherlock's first taste of international competition but she is the current English Rhythmic Champion and a silver medalist in the hoop and ball disciplines.
Hows has been involved with the English and Great Britain rhythmic gymnastics set-up for a while but this is her first Commonwealth Games.
Speaking to the Advertiser Hows said: "For the town it really is pretty amazing. My hopes are they both do the best that they can do, this has been years of training and dedication for them.
"I'm incredibly proud of Stephani and Laura as I've worked closely with both of them. It's a proud moment for me, with both of them (at the Games) as their (club ) coach. It's what being a coach is all about, coaching your athletes to be the best they can be."
"I've coached the English teams for a few years and been away as a Great Britain coach to the Olympics but this is my first Commonwealths."
"It's even more exciting having now collected the kits and tracksuits for the Games."
Sherlock was delighted to recieve her first call-up she said: "I am already very excited about the Games. This will be my first competition at such a high level, so I am looking forward to this amazing experience, being a part of a strong medal-hope team representing England."


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I. to establish the construct validity (via factor analysis) of the Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals - Student Version (IAPCC-SV) II. to determine the responsiveness of the IAPCC-SV III. to investigate demographic predictor variables of the IAPCC-SV
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I. the variables will load on only one component, with each component being represented by a number of strongly loaded variables II. the IAPCC-SV will demonstrate responsiveness, evidenced by significantly higher post-module IAPCC-SV scores of the experimental group when compared to the control group III. the cultural composite score and race will be significant predictors of IAPCC-SV score
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BDGA InFlight Annual Review Published
The British Disc Golf Association (BDGA) is proud to announce that its annual review, InFlight, supported by Innova Discs, is now available for the whole world to view!
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In this issue you'll find the full review of what happened over the pond in 2009, including what happened when 3 PDGA World Champions (Avery and Val Jenkins, and Nate Doss) came to London to play one of our tour events.
We have stories on all 9 tour events, and, as always, incredible photos of the British disc golf scene. This year, the editors were also pleased to see contributors' creative juices flowing, and we can bring you poems and songs as well as the usual columns and reviews! We'll leave you to decide just how talented our lyricists are...
We review the two events in Beaminster, which is, once again, hosting this year's 2010 British Open. At the time of writing, the prize pot is a guaranteed $13,000, and 79 players from 11 countries are already registered. Brian Sullivan of Discraft described this venue as "the most beautiful course in the world" following the European Championships here - read about it in InFlight, and then book your flight - this is a stunning venue.
Our feature article about the tournament on the Isle Of Mull - location of next year's 2011 British Open. It's an event in one of the most stunningly beautiful locations in the British Isles. So, feast your eyes on the pictures, and maybe start planning your visit now - it'll be your chance to take on Europe's best in a breathtaking venue. We guarantee you will not have played in such a wonderful location!
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TWO friends' dreams were crushed when they lost out on One Direction tickets — after a ticket agency pulled out of the deal.
Friends Elli-Jayne Gleave, aged 14, and Melissa Richards, aged 10, could not believe their luck when their mums bought them tickets to celebrate their birthdays, which both fall in February.
Mothers Madelaine Richards and Dawn Hall, a payroll manager, bought the tickets for the concert at Manchester's Etihad Stadium on Saturday, May 31.
But they were then told the tickets — bought from the GET ME IN! website — were no longer available.
The company allows people to sell on tickets that they no longer need or want.
Mrs Richards, aged 41, from Harwood, said they paid £108 per ticket — a fee higher than the cost on other sites — as it was a birthday present for their daughters.
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Harvey 'Two Face' Dent has been officially buried six-feet-under and won't be coming back for "The Dark Knight" sequel. While talking about his new controversial movie "Towelhead", the man behind Dent, Aaron Eckhart, put an end to any speculation regarding the possibility of his character's return in "Batman 3".
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We have this class group project
So in my Government class, our professor put us in groups of 6 and gave us each some parameters for a country that we had to create. Although this isn't included in the assignment, I spent some time yesterday drawing up a map of our country, Vessa:
The state names are derived from the Greek Gods of Olympus, and the state capitols are derived from the phonetic translation of 'North', 'South', 'East', 'West', 'Center', 'New World', and 'Forgotten' in Greek.
I am currently in the process of listing the states alongside their areas and populations. Tomorrow, out group is gonna meet at the library where we'll draft out constitution and turn it in along with all this stuff.
This has to be the most fun I've had in a group project ever.
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That's exactly what we're wondering at the moment. We'll figure something out, providing for them is hard, but the real challenge is building a force of government that can both represent everyone in the most democratic way possible, as well as keep everyone satisfied and in-line.
Another problem with this size of country is the manner of cooperation and interstate commerce.
Posted September 18th, 2013 at 3:32 PM by Echidna
Alright here's what we have so far:
Each state will, of course, have its own police system and what we're calling 'State Rangers'. The rangers are the investigative branch of law enforcement, separate to each state, and are kinda similar to the FBI. The rangers from each state will cooperate in a manner of inter-agency cooperation. Judicial systems are separate to accommodate the separate constitutions and laws set by each state.
Any crime that crosses state borders will be handled by the supreme court. Each state is ruled by a plural executive that includes a Governor of a 3 year term. Terms are rotational within the states, so 2 terms end every three years. Demetra's Governor terms end after the other 6 states.
Each state will have a document listing its own statutory laws, with a national constitution covering the major constitutional laws.
The Governors are elected by the people of each state, same as the judges and police chiefs. The Governors together form a sort of council that together rules the country in order to preserve balance and equality between all the states in rights, resources, and representation.
The nation as a whole has a unique form of a mixed government, due to the massive population. The Governors, as mentioned, will rule together, aided by a supreme court and a national congress that will handle external affairs.
Seeing as how Demetra is the only state overlooking the ocean, all forms of overseas trade and naval military will be focused on its shores.
Remaining responsibilities are divided upon the remaining 6 states based on their natural resources and geography. This is why interstate commerce plays a huge role in the well-being of the nation as a whole.
I know its all pretty weird, but come on, we have 1 billion people. Come on...
Oh and national congress is also chosen by the people, 7 from each state forming a total of 49.
Posted September 18th, 2013 at 3:55 PM by Echidna
Holy crap, 1 billion people but 7 subnational divisions? Could be a case of federalism - but how do you make a federation of 7 large powers? It sounds like it would have broken up a long time ago - each division would have a population of hundreds of millions and would probably be self-sufficient. If there's relatively little shoreline, it could be an incredibly self-sufficient country that can shelter itself from international trade.
And if Vessa is 1.5 times the size of the US, that continent must be huuuge. Like hemispherical.
Posted September 18th, 2013 at 5:31 PM by Kanzler
I know. Problem is, we were only given 4 days to do all of this.
And the population & area were forced upon us in the parameters of our assignment. The only way we thought of that could fix that was dependability. We're trying to build the country around the concept of cooperation while kinda dividing responsibilities among them.
Interstate commerce is crucial here. None of the states will be able to go on its own.
Posted September 18th, 2013 at 5:55 PM by Echidna
Is that so? But the population and geography seems to speak otherwise. There'll be plenty of natural resources over that huge territory, as well as huge markets to consume domestic and foreign products and investments. Were you given parameters for the country's development? Like GDP per capita and inequality?
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1. Re: To Create Database or NotPeter Häusler Oct 10, 2012 8:24 PM (in response to cmennens)Hello,
you can also install a database without all this components. I have also some customers which get trouble while a license audit when the install this components, while the have only have a enterprise Edt. license.
You can also install the database from the installer screen, but for me i prefer to use the dbca afterwards. Because i can install all PSU Patches and then create the database i want with the patches in place as long i did not take a predifiend database.
2. Re: To Create Database or Notcmennens Oct 10, 2012 8:29 PM (in response to Peter Häusler)So none of the components I listed above from the OUI component selection window are 'CRITICAL' to successfully installed 11g R2, right? I guess that's all I'm not clear about right now. I have deselected all the component options and want to proceed with just installing a plain single instance Oracle Database 11g R2.
3. Re: To Create Database or NotPeter Häusler Oct 10, 2012 8:32 PM (in response to cmennens)Hello,
If you need this database for a application which depends on this feature then yes you need it (and maybe you mus license it). But as long you did not need this for your application you can also deselect it during installation.
4. Re: To Create Database or NotSrini Chavali-Oracle Oct 10, 2012 11:25 PM (in response to cmennens)For the options, pl see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/license.112/e10594/editions.htm#CJACGHEB
Some options are included in EE, others are not (i.e. will cost extra). If you have an EE license, you can select/include all of the options include in an EE license.
If you choose 'Install database software only' then you are only installing the software. The 'Create / Configure database' option not only installs the software, but also creates an empty database.
All of this is documented, assuming you care to read the documentation - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24321/inst_task.htm#BABJGGJH
5. Re: To Create Database or Notcmennens Oct 11, 2012 1:05 AM (in response to Srini Chavali-Oracle)
Srini Chavali wrote:I think it also installs other things to like generic / test schemas / users. So what can I expect to see or have to do manually if I choose 'Install database software only'? Does this mean after the installation is complete I have to manually create a database using SQL statements? If I select the above mentioned option, can I not simply connect to my database instance and run 'startup' from SQL*Plus or because there's no empty database, I would have to do something manually before being able to run the 'startup' command in SQL*Plus?
If you choose 'Install database software only' then you are only installing the software. The 'Create / Configure database' option not only installs the software, but also creates an empty database.
All of this is documented, assuming you care to read the documentation - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24321/inst_task.htm#BABJGGJHThanks for the link above. I read the page and not knowing anything about Oracle software, I'm guessing if I select EE (Enterprise Edition), I can de-select EVERY option and still have a functioning / healthy RDBMS, correct? None of the options in the URL above seem to be madatory in order for me to create a database, schema, user, or put data into tables. correct me if I'm wrong please...
Thanks again for your help!
6. Re: To Create Database or NotSrini Chavali-Oracle Oct 11, 2012 1:28 AM (in response to cmennens)"Install database software only" means exactly that - only software will be installed and no database will be created. Pl read the doc link I posted - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24321/inst_task.htm#BABJGGJH
If you want to create a database after the software has been installed, you have two options - use DBCA to create a database or create a database manually using scripts. Again, all of this is documented.
7. Re: To Create Database or NotEdStevens Oct 11, 2012 3:14 PM (in response to cmennens)
CarlosinFL wrote:To (hopefully) clarify, summarize, and add to previous comments
I'm installing Oracle 188.8.131.52 on RHEL 6 Linux and during the OUI, I am prompted with a section of the installer that asks if I would like to:
- Create / Configure database
- Install database software only
- Upgrade
My question is what exactly am I omitting or will I encounter if I select 'Install database software only'? Is it recommended to select this option if I don't need the sample 'SCOTT' database and other stuff not necessary to run Oracle 11g R2?
Secondly my next question is also about the installer...under the 'Which database version do you want to install menu page or OUI', I'm selecting Enterprise Edition but I'm being told to make sure I don't load un-necessary components that we wont use. Assuming this is the most basic single instance database server ever to filter dust, what components can I remove and still have a minimal functioning Oracle 11g R2 database with?
- Oracle Partitioning
- Oracle OLAP
- Oracle Label Security
- Oracle Data Mining RDBMS Files
- Oracle Real Application Testing
I've so far deselected them all because I don't think I need any of those. I'm just not sure if I can install a healthy database software if I omit all of the above...
1) none of the components are necessary for a minimal database. You could start by de-selecting all of them. If your app then runs into a problem because it relies on a component you didn't install, you can always come back and add it in.
2) If you select to create a database at installation you will not have as much control over how it is created. I agree with phaeus, to install software only then use dbca to create your db. One word of caution there .. if you select one of the pre-defined database types, you will get a database that is essentially an rman restore of a pre-built database as of the base level of your rdbms. Thus, it will possibly need the upgrade scripts applied if you have upgraded/patched your software. If you select 'custom database', it will create the database truly from scratch - executing a CREATE DATABASE statement. As a result the database created will be current with the release/patch level of the ORACLE_HOME.
8. Re: To Create Database or Not719669 Oct 12, 2012 6:44 PM (in response to cmennens)Hi,
To answer your question
1) The options that are available with OUI , you can consider them as follows
- Create / Configure database ( Installs the Oracle Software + Creates a starter Database )
- Install database software only ( Installs the Oracle Software only )
If you choose "Install Database Software only", then to create a Database you will have to use the DBCA.
(Note: I personally feel this to be better practice as this gives you much more control during the Database creation stage )
2) Database editions like Enterprise / Standard / Personal are to be chosen based on the licenses that you hold.
Unchecking all the options will still provide you a Database in a working condition.
If a very basic Database is the need of the hour you can go ahead by unchecking those options.


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Chewy Fruit Cookies Recipe
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup halved candied cherries
- 1 cup chopped dates
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 36 pecan halves
- 1. In a large bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and buttermilk. Combine the flour, salt and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in the cherries, dates and chopped pecans.
- 2. Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto lightly greased baking sheets. Top each with a pecan half. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks. Yield: 3 dozen.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 114 calories, 6g fat (1g saturated fat), 6mg cholesterol, 60mg sodium, 15g carbohydrate (9g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein.
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Average Rating
"These cookies tuned out absolutely wonderful! I would bake them again. I made a few small variations in the recipe. Instead of using cherries, I used cranberries, Also, instead of using 1 cup of dates, I used 3/4 cup and used a 1/4 more chopped pecans. So delicious! Very easy to make! Just one critique...these cookies are soft and have a nice texture, but they're more of a bready kind of chewy texture."
"I have made these cookies many times and everyone loves them! I will be making them many times more. Anytime I make cookies, I mix the salt into the liquids early so it is totally disolved."


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The prospects of the gas boom are tantalising. The Browse gasfields lie off the coast of Western Australia stretching over the 140,000 square kilometre basin. This huge underwater province is home to the biggest dream of some of Australia and the world's largest oil and gas producers.
How then did small Australian explorer
Nexus owns the sizable, yet remote, Crux and Echuca Shoals gasfields in the Indian Ocean off the north-west coast of Australia. But to develop them it needs deep pockets, which it doesn't have. Yet last week came the announcement that this minnow would link into a great venture that would involve a world-leading floating production ship – a technology designed to bring plentiful, but distant, deposits of gas and condensates within reach of Asia's energy consumers.
Behind the commercial announcement are some powerful politics. This venture has been made possible by the marriage of Nexus Energy, with its strategically important fields, with the huge global capital and technological might of Shell. What has been little understood, however, has been the role of celebrant
In the wings behind Ferguson is former prime minister
Just don't suggest to Ferguson for one minute that he has arranged the tie-up of some of Australia's huge oil and gas wealth to benefit a local over a foreign owned company. This is no local leg-up, he insists.
"I am sympathetic to Australian companies, but that doesn't influence my decision-making under the act", he tells the Weekend Financial Review.
Under federal government legislation, Ferguson has the final say over approvals of oil and gas production licences and retention leases, which are first processed through state governments. This would prove the deal maker.
Ferguson says he was motivated by broader "national interest" concerns.
He wanted to show the world that Australia could exploit its remote lucrative gas fields in a cost-effective way using world leading massive floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) platforms.
"The project is very important for the national interest. It plays into Prelude and getting up Prelude will be to the long-term advantage of Australia", Ferguson says.
"It will be a huge operation and a lot of other companies will be watching to see how it goes. It could be the first of a range of floating fields in remote offshore areas, previously not thought of as commercially possible to develop," he says.
The Prelude venture – in the gas-rich Browse Basin – will showcase technology that he says "is very important to Australia's future development of the offshore industry".
Beyond Ferguson's dream were the gritty details of how he helped stitch the deal together. When faced with one small Australian company, Nexus Energy, with limited resources to exploit its Crux field and one giant foreign owned oil major, Shell, with lots of capital and but not enough resources to underpin its Prelude floating LNG project, Ferguson acted.
It would have helped that Keating well understood the challenge Nexus faced: small companies just do not have the leverage to force big multinationals such as Shell into their arms. This was only too painfully obvious as two years of protracted negotiations between the companies failed to land a result. For this small company the government offered a way to get Shell to the table.
After two years of negotiations seemingly made little progress, Ferguson moved behind the scenes, putting pressure on Shell and Nexus to work out a deal in which both would win.
The Crux resource is complicated – it has oil held within the gas and Shell did not want the gas, and still does not, until 2023. Pumping out the gas to get to the oil, which Nexus could sell immediately, and then re-storing the gas for years was beyond the financial capacity of tiny Nexus. This meant Shell could sit back and wait until Nexus was forced to hand over the gas.
Yet Ferguson had a bargaining chip – he knew Shell needed the Crux gas to augment the shortfall at its own Prelude gas fields, but Nexus held the production licence over the field, not Shell, and Ferguson would not waive the "use it or lose it" rule just to suit Shell.
In effect, unless Shell agreed to a contract that included Nexus and allowed an integrated development of the liquids and the gas, Shell would lose the right to the gas and the government would let in other oil majors to bid for the resource.
The deal was done. Shell agreed. As one person close to the deal observed: "If the government had simply bent over, a little Australian company would have disappeared. They [Nexus] found the gas and proved it up and they would have given the whole thing over to Shell. Now you have got the right result and you are pumping out the gas and liquids once not twice."
All parties agreed to a "staged development" of the Crux resource that would not contravene the "use it or lose it" approach required under the federal government's retention lease regime.
"From the national interest point of view this meant the project was deliverable," Ferguson says.
"It will use technology very important to Australia's future development of the offshore industry where floating fields are like a huge ship and can be moved from field to field – even around the world.
"I give Shell full marks for this – it is a big risk, only big players like Shell have the potential to develop these sorts of fields commercially."
So Nexus last week signed a non-binding heads of agreement with Shell Development and Osaka Gas to pursue the integrated development of the Crux gas and liquids project, as an add-on to Shell's $13 billion Prelude venture.
Under the agreement, Nexus handed over ownership of 80 per cent of Crux, 600 kilometres north of Broome, to Shell – for no cash cost – which will now develop and operate the project. Nexus will own 17 per cent and Japan's Osaka Gas, Nexus's original 15 per cent partner in the venture, 3 per cent.
Shell, which already owned the rights to the gas at Crux thanks to a cheap deal with Nexus in 2006, gained certainty over its access to the valuable resource, which will be added into Prelude once gas at that field runs down.
While not huge, Crux still holds about 2 trillion cubic feet of gas, in addition to about 75 million barrels of condensates or light oil, which would be a valuable back-up for Shell's own gas in its Prelude and Concerto deposits, already slated to be produced through the floating plant.
Shell made a final commitment to develop Prelude last May, but successful development still depended on certainty over the gas in Crux as part of the venture.
"Shell took the final investment decision on Prelude on the assumption it could put Crux gas in there,"one industry source says.
"Ferguson knew it was in the best interest to bring the resolution of the Crux issue forward and took a keen interest in it. He wanted to see a Crux deal done."
Ferguson kept closely abreast of developments through the negotiations. Shell has an active government relations team in Canberra, while sitting on Nexus's board is John Hartwell, the head of the resources division within the federal Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism until he retired in August 2010.
Significantly, the deal with Shell, which is due to be firmed up in April, gives Nexus a 12-month option to sell another 2 per cent in the venture to the oil major, for $75 million.
Using that figure, the whole project is worth about $3.75 billion, valuing Nexus's 17 per cent stake at a massive $637 million, about double Nexus's market capitalisation.
Nexus chairman
Shell declined to comment on Ferguson's involvement in the negotiations but said that a combined development of both the gas and liquids resources at the Crux field would be better than developing the liquids first, then the gas.
"An integrated development will reduce capital expenditure, increasing profitability and returns to Government," a spokeswoman said.
It was a spectacular journey for Nexus, which in 2002 was capitalised at just $2.5 million with no viable assets.
Three years later, the company's second chief executive
But its plans to develop the field have not gone smoothly.
Nexus had been seeking a partner to develop the condensates resource at Crux ever since 2006 when it sold its gas rights to Shell for a mere $52 million.
Its idea was to extract the gas from the offshore field, strip out the light oil for sale as a premium grade of crude, and pump the gas back into the reservoir for Shell.
But a $255 million deal with Mitsui collapsed in the middle of the financial crisis, and subsequent efforts to forge a partnership came to naught.
The company's management was plunged into high drama with the former managing director Richard Cottee departing suddenly in September after a tussle with chairman Michael Fowler.
Not helping Nexus in its negotiations with potential partners were the terms of the deal with Shell, in which it had to hand over all the deposit to the oil major at the end of 2020, so Shell could access its gas reserves, plus any remaining condensates.
That deal has been overtaken by the latest agreement with Shell.
But at the time, the timeline put mounting pressure on Nexus to clinch a deal for Crux and start producing as soon as possible to get as much value from its $1.4 billion project before having to transfer ownership to Shell.
As time went on, the value of the asset was declining by the day.
Another hurdle was Nexus's 15 per cent partner in Crux, Osaka Gas, which had serious doubts on the concept of an early condensates project and favoured all along a combined gas and liquids venture with Shell.
By late last year Nexus had talked to several potential partners for the liquids project, and had narrowed the field down to one, a Chinese group. Fowler told shareholders about the potential Chinese partnership at the AGM in Melbourne in November, increasing the pressure on Shell to come to the table to negotiate.
That accord was finally reached last week, but several issues remain unresolved, including the production licence at Crux, which will need to be converted back into a retention lease because of the later development schedule.
Still unclear too is how much Nexus and Osaka Gas will have to pay Shell to process their liquids from Crux through the Prelude project.
Another factor is the estimated $2.5 billion it will cost to connect Crux into Prelude, and how Nexus will finance its share.
The revelations that Ferguson had played a part behind the scenes in making the deal happen, raised questions about whether the federal government was on the lookout for boosting participation by Australian companies in the development of the rich offshore gas fields that are dominated by foreign-owned oil and gas majors.
They come as Australian-owned
Some observers even saw signs that the federal government could be influenced by the kind of considerations driving the Howard government's decision 10 years ago to block Royal Dutch Shell's $10 billion takeover bid for Woodside Petroleum on national interest grounds.
The idea was that Woodside was protected from the takeover because it was the great local hope for a stake in the expected gas bonanza from the vast fields off north-west Australia.
Ferguson says he is influenced only by the "national interest" and insists this does not mean promoting the interests of Australian companies per se.
He never gets involved in the commercial or monetary aspects of such deals, but he likes to keep the door open to business executives in the industry.
"I am continually talking to the industry and they are raising their problems with me," he says.
Another plus for the Nexus project was that it would deliver a big return for taxpayers under the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax regime, Ferguson said.
He says the country is now on track to jump from the fourth largest LNG exporter, to the No. 1 or No. 2 spot in 2017-2018. Already there is $180 billion committed investment in gas projects in Australia.
But to make the leap, the projects have to happen and Ferguson sees it as his role to help in any way he can.
The Australian Financial Review


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