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Get an overview of this hotelBeachfront Nago-Torbole hotel in Torbole sul Garda with free parking
Popular property highlights
Located in Torbole sul Garda, this hotel is 0.3 mi (0.6 km) from Customs House and within 3 mi (5 km) of La Rocca and Tower of Apponale. Piazza Goethe and Saint Andrea Church are also within 15 minutes.
Hotel Features
Along with a bar/lounge, this smoke-free hotel has a coffee shop/café and a meeting room. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, concierge services, laundry facilities, and a library are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 38 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, plus premium bedding and flat-screen TVs. Hair dryers, showers, and phones are among the other amenities that guests will find.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Overall room comfort
Hotel Residence Torbole
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle and an area shuttle. This Nago-Torbole hotel also offers a library, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Hotel Residence Torbole is a smoke-free property.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 38
- Number of floors - 4
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Garden
- Terrace
- Picnic area
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Free parking nearby
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
- Miniature golf on site
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces), Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Shower only
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Sofa bed size
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Playground on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at 8 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 3 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 10.0 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 10.0 per night.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 5 per pet, per day
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 14 years of age.
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 120 per person (roundtrip)
- Pet fee: EUR 5 per pet, per day
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10.0 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 10.0 per night
Hotel Name
- Hotel Residence Torbole
- Residence Torbole
We should mention
All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport. Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. Up to 2 children 3 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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Remembering Bobby Vega and his legacy
At the memorial service for Bobby Vega I was asked to share my thoughts as mayor about the impact of his life on our city.
I said: As the mayor of a grieving city I rise to thank God for the life of Bobby Vega, a man who spent his entire adult life seeking ways to lift up young men and women who have lost their way — and in helping them repair and reform their lives restoring belief in this city as a community of compassion and caring.
In homage to Bobby I composed a poetic colloquy between Bobby and a young person just off the street. The street youth approaches Bobby and says:
Engage me now in quiet talk; Convince me how and where to walk.
I'm tired of guns and gangs and drugs; Guide me away from hate and thugs.
Love and peace have passed me by; And anger is my constant cry.
Life makes no sense — it's all despair; And no one even seems to care.
Show me how to work each day; To earn my keep and pay my way.
It's skills I need to make a life; Away from streets so filled with strife.
Bobby responds:
I'll do my best to show the way; To a life of meaning, not dismay.
Lean on me my new-found friend; I'll keep you safe — your life will mend.
In mountains you will find that peace; Hard work in nature gives you lease
To renew the spirit and refresh your soul. You'll learn to love — that is your goal.
And darkness flees when school is in; So grab your books, a pad and pen
And listening hard you'll find what's right; That learning is God's great delight.
Love and peace have not passed you by. You'll find that place to laugh and cry
Where people care and hold your hand. There you will find that life is grand.
— Mayor Pat Morris, San Bernardino
Sheriff's forum focused on cheerleading
A couple of months ago I attended in San Bernardino what I thought was to be a debate among our three candidates for the San Bernardino County sheriff. I was hoping to get some insight into this very important position. I was very let down.
The candidates are incumbent John McMahon, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Paul Schrader, and former deputy Clifton Harris. McMahon was handpicked by former Sheriff Rod Hoops, who resigned the position the day after the last election to take a cushy job in Washington, D.C.
McMahon's selection was completed by the county Board of Supervisors.
Paul Schrader, who as a San Bernardino County resident has worked with the L.A. Sheriff's Department for about 30 years, was the second-highest vote getter when he ran against Hoops in 2010. McMahon did not run at that time.
Clifton Harris is a nice man and business owner, yet seemed to be way out of his league and terrified in front of an audience.
The "debate" turned out to be nothing more than a cheerleading practice for the sheriff's union. I was expecting tough questions to be asked of the candidates, such as why a deputy sheriff was recently awarded $885,000 of taxpayer money when he was wrongfully terminated while serving under John McMahon's watch.
Instead, questions like "Do you think the Sheriff should like the union?" and "Do you think the department is underfunded?" were asked.
For me, my vote will go to Paul Schrader. Schrader is not for sale.
— Nick Benson Sr., Barstow

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Distilling a life's story down to a single film can be a daunting task -- especially when documenting the life of an artist. It's one thing to create a biopic on a politician, athlete, or historical figure. Their narratives, whether complex or straightforward, are largely independent of aesthetic. Their biopics may be bound by temporal or factual parameters, but these parameters inform the aesthetic, rather than dictate it. A movie about John F. Kennedy would have a complexion different from one on Howard Hughes, but both subjects afford a measure of directorial license. Oliver Stone's signature would shine through with as much clarity as Martin Scorcese's.
Artists, on the other hand, present an entirely different case. Here, the director must work not only within historical limits, but within aesthetic ones, as well. This window is narrowed, in large part, because of audience expectations. When we sit down to see a film on Picasso, for example, we go in expecting the work to have a certain constitution. Because we're already familiar with the artist's work, we assume that any filmic representation of his life would, on some level, reflect his real-life aesthetic. By this logic, a film on Van Gogh should incorporate the pastoral, a film on Pollock the frenetic, and a film on Dali the fantastical.
These expectations extend to the realm of narrative, as well, thanks to the age-old archetype of "artist as tortured soul." We expect a certain amount of drama from nearly every work of fiction we encounter, but these demands are only amplified in the case of the artist -- someone who, by our preconceptions, has led a life of emotional and interpersonal extremes, of internal strife and external struggle.
The challenge, then, is one of balance. How does a director -- himself an artist -- put his personal stamp on a film that's predicated upon someone else's art? How does she dramatize inherently dramatic source material without veering into the maudlin?
The answers, of course, will invariably hinge upon a director's given subject, and his or her cinematic sensibilities. But what happens when the line between subject and artist begins to blur; when the director finds himself bleeding into the biography? What happens, is Basquiat.
Basquiat presents an interesting case study on a number of levels. For one, director Julian Schnabel had already risen to the upper echelons of the art world by the time Jean-Michel began turning heads, and both were deeply embedded within the New York art scene of the 1980s. They first met in 1981, and soon fostered a relationship that Schnabel would later describe as both "sweet" and "volatile." No director can ever be completely removed from his subject, but Schnabel brings a uniquely intimate perspective to this biopic -- so intimate, in fact, that the character Albert Milos, played by Gary Oldman, is based on Schnabel himself.
It's hard to quantify the impact Schnabel's perspective had on his approach to narrative, though it certainly affects viewer expectations. With Schnabel at the helm, we go into the film in anticipation of a different kind of biopic, one told not from the eyes of a peripheral observer, but from the viewpoint of a true insider. Given that the two knew each other so well, the audience doesn't really expect an objective rendering, either. All we can hope for is a vision of Basquiat through Schnabel's lens. In a sense, then, the movie is as much a biopic on Basquiat as it is on Schnabel himself.
The film is also distinct in its temporal proximity to its subject. Basquiat was released in 1996, just eight years after the artist's fatal heroin overdose. Moviegoers at the time may not have been familiar with his full oeuvre, but his death was still close enough for the Basquiat name to hold cultural cachet. This provided Schnabel with rather substantial liberty as a storyteller. He didn't need to spend much time excavating Basquiat's past, building the case for his fame, or even fleshing out the New York art scene. All were still vivid enough for contemporary audiences to remember, allowing Schnabel to sow his creative energies within a tighter patch of space and time.
The director takes full advantage of these redefined parameters, eschewing the chronological, and at times, the narrative convention itself. Schnabel's work gives us only a brief, stylized glimpse into Basquiat's early life, during the opening credits. Sprinkled in among the title cards are blue-tinted shots of a young Jean-Michel walking through a gallery with his mother. The child looks into the camera once the credits close, before the scene pans upward, where a radiant crown sits atop his head. No words, no explanation, no context. From here, we're thrown years into the future, with a shot of an adult Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) sleeping in a cardboard box.
Everything pertaining to the artist's past is presented within the fabric of the film's present day. Through conversations and events, we learn of Basquiat's Haitian origins. We know his mother is in some sort of institution, but that's about it. Actions unfold within dimly lit studios and lofts, grimy apartments, Lower East Side street corners. Figures like Andy Warhol (David Bowie) drift in and out of the story. Some, like Warhol, play a critical role throughout the film. Others fall by the wayside, sometimes without explanation.
Compared with the methodical architecture behind most linear biopics, Basquiat's storyline seems held together by atmosphere, rather than concrete actions. There are events that clearly fuel his meteoric rise, but Schnabel's Basquiat seems more a product of his environment than his own prerogative. Things happen to him, people act upon him, and fame suddenly materializes out of thin air.
The result is a story predicated less upon plot than it is upon society, and, more subtly, psychology. There's a distinct aesthetic at work, but it's an aesthetic of place, rather than person or, in this case, art. (The few Basquiat paintings that appear are actually reproductions; Basquiat's father refused to allow originals in the film.) Because of this, Wright's character comes across as helplessly decentralized, despite the fact that he remains the fulcrum upon which the entire plot pivots. As we find out, though, the force that's manipulating these levers -- the engine behind the narrative -- is not our protagonist himself, but an amalgam of pressures, each a direct product of time and place.
As these forces gradually exert their influence, both Basquiat and Schnabel's narrative seem to drift ever deeper into a fugue-like dream state. Recurring images of televised surfers and water skiers flash across the Manhattan sky as Basquiat's life crumbles around him. Simultaneously, we begin to appreciate the widening gulf between the studio, where Basquiat works with quiet, preternatural deliberation, and an outside world that consumes, chews, and spits out everything in its wake.
In an interview with Charlie Rose shortly after the film's release, Schnabel affirmed that, despite the critical role that the art world plays in Basquiat, he does not blame society for his demise, though he doesn't blame the artist, either. As he sees it, Basquiat simply fell between the cracks dividing art from reality, the studio from the streets. "There is this kind of chasm between the artist and society that is very, very large," Schnabel explained. "One of the reasons for making this film was that it might shorten the distance of this chasm. It demystifies the process of making art."
And, as he says, only someone with an intimate knowledge of this milieu could have faithfully translated it into the language of cinema: "I just felt like a tourist shouldn't make this film."


text: Okay Hearthers, the Dragon Lady and I are going to Greensboro NC the first part of Nov. to see my Mom and sister. Planning on leaving MI. and spending a good couple of days going down then 3-4 days there and a couple of days back. What are the must see's and do's? Planning on taking the backroads within reason, do I have to worry about Banjo music up in the hills? As far as stuff in and around Greensboro my sister will have all that planned. Trying to figure if I want to spend the time going to the coast, I think I may need a saltwater fix as it has been a few years for me. Gotta try out a few BBQ places also. Thanks for any input! Gary Sorry title should have said "where to go" (Fixed)


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At one time DIRECTV was the undisputed HDTV leader: the first to carry the ever popular HDNet and still the only provider to offer an HD TiVo. DIRECTV has been pouring all of their resources into offering local HDTV channels and at the same time letting their national HD lineup suffer. Many subscribers are less than happy with their HD locals experience. As if this wasn't enough, subscribers are complaining about the amount of compression that DIRECTV uses on their HD lineup. Meanwhile DISH Network continues to add more HD channels such as the VOOM channels. After all this tipping of the HD advantage in DISH's favor DIRECTV now announces a rate hike.


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File And Find 'em—Part I; Keywording Strategies
One of the greatest challenges in working with large numbers of images is determining how to catalog your photographs in a way that not only makes sense to you, but also to anyone else who may be searching for specific content.
If you maintain all your own images you have more freedom in how to go about tagging these photos for future reference. On the money-making side, if you submit to stock agencies it's critical to tag your images in such a way that potential clients will find them sooner than they find similar images that may be available. If stock photo buyers are under tight deadlines, they may never bother browsing through the hundreds of choices that may be returned to them. They are more likely to choose from the batches of images they see first. Even if you're not selling your images, if they're worth keeping, they're worth finding again in the future. The best way to do this is through consistent use of keywords.
Metadata Tags
All digital images have metadata associated with them. You might be more familiar with the term EXIF, which stands for Exchangeable Image File Format. It's exchangeable because it's a standard format that can be read by almost any program that works with digital images. Here's where you'll find the information on your exposure settings, time and date of capture, and other useful data. While interesting, the real value of metadata comes in the additional information that can be added to a file, including copyright, contact information, and keywords. This information travels with the file. If you post it online, your copyright and any assigned keywords are in the file. When you backup your images, the information stays with the file, making it easier to find in the future.
Keywording is supported by every DAM (Digital Asset Manager) application in one form or another. If you use Adobe Bridge, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop Organizer, or Apple Aperture, you can add keywords and other metadata to your images when you import them. (From experience, I know that images tagged on import are more likely to have more accurate and relevant tags than those images I put off tagging until later.) Most programs make it easy to add keywords during import. Here's one, Adobe Lightroom, that I'll use to illustrate the ease with which it can all work.
Import And Copyright
To add keywords during import from a memory card, select File>Import (or click the Import button in the Library module) and you'll see a dialog similar to the one shown.
In this dialog you'll find two very helpful items. The first is what template to apply. Because every single image you shoot should at a minimum include your copyright, it's best to setup a template that will be assigned automatically on import. So, choose Create New Preset and enter your information (to enter the copyright symbol hold the Alt key and type 0169 on the numeric pad for Windows, or type Option + G on the Mac).
If all the images you're importing have the same subject, you can add keywords now, saving yourself time down the road. You'll see a Keywords field in the Import dialog. As you enter keywords here, anything that matches will be displayed, which helps avoid misspellings. Separate each keyword with a comma, and when you've finished, click the Import button.
Keyword Later
Of course, you can also add keywords at any time to one or more images that are already in your collection. In Lightroom, this is done from the Library module. On the left side, you'll see a Keywording section. Select all the images you want to apply the keywords to, and enter them here. As you can see, if the keyword already exists, you'll see a list of matching entries you can select from.
Keywording Tips
1. Regardless of what words you use, make their use consistent. If you start using house, use house on all appropriate images, don't tag some with house and some with home.
2. If your application supports hierarchical keywords, identify keyword groups for your images. For example, if I shoot images of tulips, I automatically get flowers included with my keywords because tulips are a subset of flowers. Same with roses or iris. So, when I search for flowers, I can either use the keyword flowers to find everything, or I can filter it down to a smaller group by using the flower name.
3. If you're stuck trying to come up with keywords, go online and look at similar images for ideas. Of course, if you go with The Controlled Vocabulary, finding the right keyword is seldom a problem.
4. Whether you use keywords or not, put your copyright information into every single image you import.
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One problem that arises is in knowing which specific keywords to use. For example, the photo shown is from Nyhavn Harbor in Copenhagen, Denmark. Logical keywords would include Nyhavn Harbor, Copenhagen, Denmark, boats, tourism. But, let's assume that the potential buyer doesn't use boats in his search and can't recall the name of the area. If he searches for ships, Denmark, he will see a number of images before finding this one and this image will be lumped with every other image tagged with Denmark, regardless of the subject matter.
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The catalog is available in various formats to support popular DAMs. You'll also find plenty of information on metalogging and IPTC standards to help you learn what standards are used by stock agencies and other image buyers.
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Only five percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor, decided by impartial peer review.
Published on: 11/24/2015
MIAMI – Sixty-one physicians affiliated with Nicklaus Children's Hospital have made the Best Doctors in America® List for 2015-2016. Only five percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor, decided by impartial peer review.
Best Doctors has earned a worldwide reputation for reliable, impartial results by remaining totally independent. Doctors cannot pay to be included in the Best Doctors database, nor are they paid to provide their input. The list is a product of validated peer review, in which doctors who excel in their specialties are selected by their peers in the profession.
The Nicklaus Children's Hospital physicians who made this year's list are:
Dr. Eduardo C. Alfonso, Ophthalmology
Dr. Israel Alfonso, Neurology
Dr. Mislen Bauer, Medical Genetics
Dr. Audina M. Berrocal, Ophthalmology
Dr. Redmond Burke, Cardiovascular surgery
Dr. Cathy Anne Burnweit, Pediatric surgery
Dr. Enrique J. Canton, Pediatrics
Dr. William F. Carroll, Neonatology
Dr. Miguel A. Castellan, Urology
Dr. Melissa C. Clemente, Pediatrics
Dr. Hernan Cruz, Neonatology
Dr. Marco Danon, Endocrinology
Dr. Sandeep P. Dave, Otolaryngology
Dr. Alejandro Diaz, Endocrinology
Dr. Magaly Diaz-Barbosa, Neonatology
Dr. Michael Duchowny, Neurology
Dr. Jaime Edelstein, Pediatrics
Dr. Ernesto E. Erdmann, Pediatrics
Dr. Lori A. Fein, Pediatrics
Dr. Steven B. Fishberger, Cardiology
Dr. Maria Franco, Pulmonology
Dr. Rani S. Gereige, Pediatrics
Dr. Mark S. Ginsburg, Pediatrics
Dr. Norman David Goldberg, Honorary/Emeritus
Dr. Luis Gonzalez-Mendoza, Endocrinology
Dr. Ruben Gonzalez-Vallina, Gastroenterology
Dr. Rafael Gosalbez, Urology
Dr. Erick Hernandez, Gastroenterology
Dr. Vivian Hernandez-Trujillo, Asthma and Immunology
Dr. Parul Jayakar, Genetics
Dr. Ronald J. Kanter, Cardiology
Dr. Ziad Khatib, Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Colin Knight, Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Judith W. Lederhandler, Pediatrics
Dr. Sarah Legorburu-Selem, Pediatrics
Dr. Rafael Enrique Llanso, Pediatrics
Dr. Cecilio (Leo) Lopez, Cardiology
Dr. Leopoldo Malvezzi, Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Madeleen Margaret Mas, Cardiology
Dr. Luis Santiago Medina, Radiology
Dr. Marcos A. Mestre, Pediatrics
Dr. Ian Miller, Neurology
Dr. Phillip Gary Newcomm, Jr., Pediatrics
Dr. Jose Alberto Nodar, Pediatrics
Dr. Ana Maria Paez, Emergency medicine
Dr. Ana L. Paredes, Nephrology
Dr. Philip Paul, Honorary/Emeritus
Dr. Jose E. Perez-Rodriguez, Endocrinology
Dr. John Ragheb, Neurosurgery
Dr. Felix I. Ramirez-Seijas, Nephrology
Dr. Trevor Jesse Resnick, Neurology
Dr. Mario A. Reyes, Pediatrics
Dr. John A. Rock, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Antonio Rodriguez, Pulmonology
Dr. Anthony Rossi, Cardiac Intensivist
Dr. Norman R. Ruiz-Castaneda, Pediatrics
Dr. Moises Simpser-Dubovoy, Pulmonology
Dr. Lorena M. Siqueira, Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Elizabeth Welch, Cardiology
Dr. Gil Wernovsky, Cardiology
Dr. S. Anthony Wolfe, Plastic Surgery
Founded in 1950 by Variety Clubs International, Nicklaus Children's Hospital – part of Miami Children's Health System – is South Florida's only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children, with more than 740 attending physicians and over 220 pediatric subspecialists. The 289-bed hospital is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine with several specialty programs ranked among the best in the nation in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016-17, by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and has been designated an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession's most prestigious institutional honor. For more information, visit nicklauschildrens.org.
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MACOMB, Ill. (AP) - Terell Parks' fourth double-double of the season helped Western Illinois defeat North Dakota for the second time this season with a 68-46 victory Thursday night.
Parks had 13 points and 11 rebounds for the Leathernecks (5-4), who beat North Dakota 65-62 on Nov. 26 in Grand Forks.
Ceola Clark hit four 3-pointers and led Western Illinois with 15 points. Don McAvoy sank three 3-pointers among his 11 points, and Tommie Tyler scored 11 for the Leathernecks.
Aaron Anderson's 11 points paced the Fighting Sioux (5-7), who lost their second in a row.
The Leathernecks hit 23 of 47 shots (48.9 percent), including 10 of 18 from 3-point range. North Dakota made just 15 of 46 (32.6 percent).
Western Illinois never trailed, led 37-19 at intermission and never allowed North Dakota to shrink its deficit into single figures in the second half.


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Hi all!
A while back i got the Amoretti sample kit... LOVED what I have used... however i have only used things in frostings and such, so adding to taste.
I know the extracts and such are supposed to be concentrated... do you have issues firing how much to use?
Also I have a cake coming up where they have requested a raspberry puree kinda filling...This will be a decorated cake, and most likely will not be able to be in the fridge once i start decorating. I had thought about using something from Amoretti, maybe their "Raspberry Compound" would work? Have you done this? Do you just spread a thin layer? I'm just not sure the best way to use it with out doing too much or too little.
Any help is appreciated!
I just got some samples from them and have not used them yet, but I did just make a raspberry filled cake that had to be let out of the fridge. I used the the Raspberry icing frits added to buttercream (OMG yummy!) and the henry and henry Raspberry sleeve filling. put a thin layer of both between each layer and torte'd layer. This cake was soooo yummy and EVERYONE raved about how good it tasted.
That is a thought with the H&H fillings... I always forget about them. thanky!
Anyone have experience using thee products?
I have used quite a few Amoretti products, my sister used to work for them. All of their compounds are shelf stable, so you can leave your cake out without a problem. The compounds are super concentrated, so I wouldn't use it as a filling itself. I add it to Bettercreame for a nummy mousse type filling. The swirls are meant to use at full strength or just swirled into something, so that would work. You should try their fondant, it is fantastic. I used to use it, but even with my sister's discount it was a little too pricey for my free cakes.
As for the amount to use, it is designed to be added per a weight ratio. I don't weigh my indredients, so I just eyeball and taste until I like it.
I didn't realize they did fondant. cool will check it out!
Thanks for clearing it up I had talked to oneone there a while back and they made it sound like i could use it as a filling... im so glad I checked here. I don't think she understood what i was looking for!
my raspberry filling is a jar of raspberry jam/preserves and a small box of raspberry jello ! I learned from someone of this site.
I just open a jar of jam and pour the jello powder in it.. put it in the microwave for a minute or so. until it is somewhat warmish... stir well. Then I put it in the fridg to set up... One of the best tips ever!!! Doesn't have to be in the fridg. Can do this with so many flavors!!
ooh that's cool
ill have to try it!


text: Posted January 14, 2014 · Report post I know some of you here think this is BS, but for those receptive to truly understanding how the body functions and what the connection is between deficiencies & neurological imbalances, please take a look at this article as a starting point. I find it interesting in terms of simply explaining the brain & body's chemical balance. It's not a comprehensive study or anything, but a good starting point for some potentially breakthrough research. For what it's worth, I not only went through very severe depression more than once in my life, but I also studied depression from a clinical perspective, only to realize that doctors do not fully understand the different possible mechanisms that can trigger and worsen depressive tendencies. http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/10-nutritional-deficiences-that-cause-depression.html As someone who has greatly improved depression after addressing my vitamin D deficiency, I can verify there is some merit to this approach. It sure beats antidepressants, and contributes to improving your overall health. Whoever wants to undermine my opinion and say I know nothing about depression (you know who you are), don't even bother reading this. All I can say is based on my experience and friends who I offered this advice to, depression can be reduced by addressing significant nutritional deficiencies. Of course, the emotional aspects of depression need to be addressed as well, but physiologically speaking, these deficiencies can make matters worse. TOP 10 FOODS AND VITAMINS/ MINERALS/ AMINOACIDS TO NOTICE: - Sugar intake - obvious one. Limit your intake of junk food as much as possible. - Omega 3s - I personally don't supplement with omega 3s, I just try to incorporate them into my diet but there are many on this forum who had success with O3 supps. - Vitamin D ---> this is my top one - B-vitamins deficiency ---> another one that helped me, particularly inositol (B8) for hormonal balance - zinc, folate, chromium, and iron -- I would also add selenium to this list. - iodine deficiency (or, I would add, iodine excess in some cases, both of which can cause/ are caused by thyroid problems) - amino-acid deficiency *check my other post below for more links & studies * 1 person likes this Current regimen: garlic supplements & turmeric [as needed, for antioxidants, both are AMAZING for skin], Enzymedica gluten blocker/ digestive enzymes [as needed], nicadan [the only vitamin presciption I take -1/2 per day works well], DIM (needed), inositol (very rarely nowadays - no longer needed as my PCOS is balanced). Also trying herbs for adrenal fatigue. I try to simplify as much as I can. Don't take more supplements than you need....try one at a time and be patient. The supplements that really helped me when my acne was at its worst: inositol, DIM [not as frequently now!] digestive enzymes [don't need them every day anymore, only on cheat days], herpanacine & vitamin C with rose hips/ low acid [not every day], regular sun exposure for vitamin D3, superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzyme supplements. NOTE: I do not recommend DIM for long term use, and I do not recommend hormonal creams without doctor supervision. Lifestyle & Skin Care: acupuncture, regular exercise/ yoga, low histamine diet, avoiding unnecessary stress, balancing skin's PH (using BioClin and other products), using distilled/ filtered water to wash face, occasional high frequency & lactic acid peel facials... Grocery list: ** Find the cause, find the cure ** ** If you have a question for me, please ask it publicly so that others can benefit from the discussion** Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino remains hopeful Harry Kane will be fit enough to face struggling Swansea today.
Kane sat out the Europa League victory over Fiorentina on Thursday night after breaking his nose against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup last weekend.
The striker underwent an operation on Wednesday and then took part in light training on both Thursday and Friday in a bid to prove his fitness for this weekend's match at White Hart Lane.
Tottenham will be cautious while Kane remains in discomfort but the forward could wear a face mask if it means he can play and help his team's title charge.
Pochettino said on Wednesday he expected Kane to return to action against Swansea but, speaking after the win against Fiorentina, the Spurs head coach was more circumspect.
"We need to assess him day by day," Pochettino said. "On Thursday he was on the training ground, he ran, he made some exercises and we are happy with the way he is.
"We will see. We hope he will be available for Sunday."


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NIAGARA COUNTY, NY--- The Niagara County SPCA is investigating two separate incidents of animal hoarding, and now it is in need of help.
SPCA officials removed one cat from a home in Lockport on Wednesday. Niagara County SPCA Director Amy Lewis says the home was filled with items and they were not able to capture all of the cats.
"Her situation is a very typical hoarding case. Not just animals, but possessions. I was shocked. I've been doing this for nine years and this is probably the worst hoarding case that I've seen," says Lewis.
Traps have been set to try and catch the remaining 50 cats. The resident in this home has been hospitalized and likely will not face charges.
"Literally floor to ceiling stuff in this house. You couldn't make it from one end of the house to the other without having to climb over things. So we really have no idea how many cats we're dealing with with that situation," says Lewis.
SPCA officials also removed 24 cats from homes and a field in Newfane. The owner tried to split up the cats between two houses and an open field after the SPCA offered help.
"These animals are in really rough shape. We're dealing with eye infections, horrible flea infestations, emaciation, all of the animals are dehydrated, a lot of them are emaciated, so we will be pursuing charges for failure to provide medical treatment for those animals and really just sustenance," says Lewis.
Due to the large number of cats seized, the SPCA is in need of donations to help feed and care for the cats. For more information on how to donate, log onto the Niagara County SPCA website.


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WENATCHEE, Wash. — Retailers and their customers who buy Northwest cherries are increasingly choosing the high-graphic pouch bag, and shippers say they are prepared to meet that demand.
"Talking to retailers, talking to packer-shippers, people are excited about this bag," said B.J. Thurlby, president of Yakima-based Northwest Cherry Growers.
Introduced about two years ago for smaller chains, the high-graphic bag was then embraced by Wal-Mart and other retailers, industry leaders say.
The standard cherry consumer package for quite a few years was the 2.2-pound catch-weight bag with a slider lock, but Mac Riggan, marketing director for Chelan-based Chelan Fresh, agreed that the premium pouch bag is gaining traction as the top choice of retailers.
Pouch bags may account for about 75% of domestic volume, said Brian Birdsall, general manager of cherry operations for Sage Fruit Co., Yakima.
"The majority of retailers who tested it last year are going 100% this year," said Bob Mast, president of Columbia Marketing International LLC.
Mast said CMI doesn't want to run out of pouch bags, since moving customers to the traditional catch-weight bag after they have used the premium pouch bag would be hard to do.
Club stores tend to prefer clamshells, no smaller than 2-pound clamshells for rainiers and 3-pound or 4-pound clamshells for red cherries.
While CMI didn't ship any 4-pound clamshells during last year's short crop season, the larger crop will translate to 4-pound clamshell shipments this year, Mast said.
Traditional retailers have used a combination of bags and clamshells, with clamshells traditionally used for rainier cherries.
Now, Mast said, some rainiers are converting from the clamshells to pouched bags for rainiers, he said. Some higher-end markets still merchandise bulk cherries, Mast said.
At $155 per square foot, cherries are the No. 1 dollars per square foot item in July, and the high-graphic pouch bags help draw consumers to cherries, Thurlby said. That's important, since retail research shows about half supermarket cherry purchases are unplanned, impulse buys.
The premium bags are being tweaked by shippers to vary the location of the handle and are becoming narrower in dimension, he said.
Last year, perhaps 25% of industry volume was in high-graphic pouch bags, but this year the proportion could be up to 60% or more, Thurlby said.
Scott Marboe, marketing director for Oneonta Starr Ranch Growers, said the pouch bag has gained popularity as the norm for sweet red cherries and rainiers.
Clamshells and standard bags will be offered to some accounts, in addition to some bulk shipments.
Domex Superfresh Growers, Yakima, rolled out a high-graphic pouch bag for its dark sweet cherries last year, and this year the marketer will also offer the pouch bag for rainiers, said Loren Queen, marketing and communications manager.
The pouch bag is expected to account for about 75% of the company's bag business this year, largely replacing the traditional catch-weight poly bag. Next year the pouch bag could account for 100% of bag volume, he said.
"From a marketing standpoint, (the pouch bag) gives us more recognition on the shelf, with bright colors and headers that stand above the fruit to draw attention."
Retailers who want smaller cherries can receive them in the traditional poly catch-weight bag, but premium quality and larger-size cherries are generally offered in high-graphic pouches, said Suzanne Wolter, marketing director for Selah-based Rainier Fruit Co.
Chris Falk, vice president of Washington Fruit & Produce, Yakima, said the pouch bags are rapidly gaining influence, though a few chains have said they want to stay with the traditional slider bag.
Two common boxes for the pouch bag are the Euro carton holding 12 2.25-pound pouch bags, and the standard carton featuring eight bags of 2.25 pounds.
"The Euro carton is actually a better format to transport a pouch bag," said Jon Bailey, with The Dalles, Ore.-based Orchard View Farms, whose cherries are marketed by Vancouver, British Columbia-based The Oppenheimer Group.
Bailey said he thinks the industry will migrate to the Euro carton as the carton of choice for cherries in pouch bags, since the pouch bags stands up easier and have more room in the Euro carton.


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I was thinking that for new visitors the bounce rate might be lower, especially lower than from search, because someone browsing a social media site is probably not in search-and-find mode as much as they are already in a mood to look around.
Also, the link might be seen as more likely to be worthwhile - bookmarkworthy. Depending on the way the site is identified via the social media page, the linked content is sort of pre-identified as targeted and interesting information on a topic, possibly on the say-so of an authority.
This leads me to wonder if wanderers from social media are more likely to subscribe to a site's feed, for even more wandering later.
First time visitor > follows social media link > wanders or subscribes or both > wanders again later?
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Kulp, Isaac Clarence (1938-2007)
Isaac (the name he preferred in later life) Kulp's work of preserving the old stories of southeastern Pennsylvania was important to the memory of the Franconia and Eastern District Mennonite Conferences in the mid-20th century. In a time when the community was losing much of its cultural and spiritual memory, he grew up, influenced particularly by his mother, as one of the rare few who could recognize information around him that was worth preserving, and when it was important to record it.
After dropping out of his first year of high school, Isaac showed an extraordinary interest in and ability to explore his Pennsylvania German and Church of the Brethren/Mennonite heritage. Deeply self-taught in Pennsylvania spiritual history, he learned to read not only the printed German language but the archaic cursive script of documents he collected or found in homes and archives.
As a protégé of fellow Church of the Brethren member Robert Bucher, and along with Mennonite friend Alan Keyser, Isaac spent a lifetime collecting and interpreting. On invitation from many academic or folk organizations, he became a familiar face at lectures, church services, and festivals connected with the Pennsylvania German experience. Academics beat a path to his door, and he was invited to preach sermons in "Pennsylvania Dutch."
In his twenties, Isaac took on the specific plain Brethren garb that would eventually link him visually to the well-known 19th century bibliophile, Abraham Harley Cassel of the same community. Isaac served as a founding member and officer of the Goschenhoppen Historians, tending the folk history of the Goschenhoppen region between Hereford and Harleysville. Informally he gathered the "Goschenhoppen Sing-Schieler" (Singing Scholars), from 1980 to 2000, and taught them forgotten hymns from the Mennonite tradition and other Pennsylvania German churches.
Finding the local tradition of Fraktur of central interest, Isaac became a frakturist himself. Beginning with basic certificates and bookplates, he advanced to producing colorful watercolors of scenes from folk-memory, eventually creating nearly 300 pieces. He has been called the "Grandma Moses" of the Goschenhoppen community. Isaac served as a main consultant and translator for Mary Jane Lederach Hershey's book on Mennonite school fraktur, This Teaching I Present. His remarkable collection of folklore notes, tape recordings, books, paintings, photographs and other manuscripts has been preserved at the Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.
Gibble, June A. "Remembering How It Was: An Interview with John Lapp and Clarence Kulp," in Called to Caregiving: A Resource for Equipping Deacons in the Believers Church. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1987: 39-47.
Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach. This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2003.
Isaac Clarence Kulp Collection, Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, Pa.
Kulp, Isaac Clarence, Jr., ed. A Brethren Pilgrimage: A Tourist's Guide and Manual to the Historic Sites of the Early Brethren in Southeastern Pennsylvania…. n.p., 1976.
Kulp, Clarence, Jr. "A Dunker Weekend Love Feast of 100 Years Ago." Pennsylvania Folklife 11, No. 1: 2-10.
Kulp, Isaac Clarence, Jr., ed. The Goschenhoppen Region. 1968-1969. (folklife journal)
Kulp, Isaac Clarence, Jr. "Introduction to 'The Voyage of Bishop Naas, 1733.'" Pennsylvania Folklife 30, No. 1: 29-35.
Kulp, Isaac Clarence. "Love Stories from Old Alms Books." Sharing 9, No. 2 (July 1975): pp. 5-7.
Kulp, Isaac Clarence, Jr. "The Order," in Heckler Plains. Lower Salford Bicentennial Committee, 1976.
Kulp, Clarence, Jr. "A Study of the Dialect Terminology of the Plain Sects of Montgomery Co., Pa." Pennsylvania Folklife 12, No. 2: 41-47.
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JERUSALEM (Nov. 3)
Jewish organizations have approached the Soviet Government with a project to establish an office in the Soviet Union the purpose of reestablishing contact between Russian Jews and their relatives in America and Palestine in order to secure individual relief for them, it is reported today in Davar, Palestine Labor organ.
The report states that the project is awaiting the approval of the central Soviet authorities. It is expected that such an office will reunite many Jewish families separated during the retreat of civilians from Russian territory now now under Nazi occupation.


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The Internet As Today's Counterculture
from the sex,-drugs,-and-tcp/ip dept
We've already mentioned Michael Lewis's new book, Next: The Future Just Happened. Here's another article about the book that says its focus is really about how the internet has become today's "counterculture" for kids to differentiate themselves from their parents. The book is full of stories about kids who have used the internet to do amazing things - while, in most cases, their parents were completely clueless about what was happening.


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Spruces slide into a delivery truck.
Firs are flipped into it from a band of veterans.
And pines are poured in, all in the name of spreading Christmas cheer to military bases.
"It's an excellent program because so many military families don't get a chance to go home," said Don Spilker of Spilker's Pineridge Tree Farms.
It's all part of an eight year tradition of sending Christmas trees to military bases through an organization called Trees for Troops.
"Being able to put a Christmas tree up in some of the homes, mess halls, and churches all adds to the Christmas spirit," said Spilker who heads the charge locally.
He served in the Korean Conflict and knows what it's like to be away from home during the holidays.
"We didn't have a Christmas tree, so it's nice to make sure they have one," said Spilker.
"Christmas away from your family is really tough and so to have something like this is a touch of home," said Ed Hoffman, a Vietnam veteran who volunteers every year.
Last year, Trees for Troops donated 100,000 trees to bases all over the world. This year, the organization will send 18,000 more than last year.
The organization flourishes thanks to people like Marvin Kohout, a Christmas tree grower who has donated to the cause for the past seven years.
"They are away from home and family and it's a great thing for them to celebrate Christmas no matter where in the world they are," said Kohout.


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Despite three of its classes being closed due to strike action on one day of Ofsted inspectors' visit and the whole school abandoning normal lessons on the other, Marlborough School in Falmouth has emerged with an "outstanding" rating across every category.
With less than 24 hours notice given of the inspection, head teacher Richard Gambier, was determined to go ahead with the school's Big Dig Day two, which saw pupils and staff leave their classrooms for a day spent in parks and gardens across the town.
The Ofsted rating came as no surprise to Mr Gambier, though, who has always had faith in his school and its ability to impress. "We are aware that through our unashamedly child-centred ethos and individual ways of working, the school does indeed stand out - it was always going to be a question of whether Ofsted would agree. Although the inspection coincided with our second Big Dig Day, we weren't going to change anything just to tick the Ofsted boxes."
The new Ofsted framework, which has been in place since September 2012, rigorously assesses schools on the achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils and leadership and management, before making an overall judgement.
Marlborough is the first school in the Falmouth area to be graded as fully outstanding and one of only seven primary schools in Cornwall over the past 18 months.
"Even before the report was published, all the teachers felt buoyed up by the expressions of support from parents," said Mr Gambier.
"I felt humbled by some of the amazingly kind comments submitted to the inspection team, but extremely content that the families we serve value the school so highly.
"This means more to us than the inspection findings, but nevertheless it is very gratifying that Ofsted has recognised the strengths and effectiveness of our community school."
In her report, lead inspector Sarah Jones, said the curriculum is innovative, providing a highly effective and imaginative approach to learning that pupils enjoy and that pupils enjoy the challenges set.
Attainment at the end of year six is above the national average and reception class children acquire the communication and social skills needed to learn effectively.
Teacher's performance was noted to be managed well and their morale, exceptionally high.
Mr Gambier also came in for praise with his creative vision proving an exceptional opportunity where all pupils want to engage and learn.
Mr Gambier, who has been head of the school for nine years, said he has no intention of converting the school to an academy.
"We have no desire to become an academy," he said. "I believe in local schools, I believe in community schools.
"This is the longest I have been anywhere and I have no intention of going anywhere. I have a great team and I am committed to this school."


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Focus: Guide on US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Relevance to Australian business
23 November 2012
In brief: The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have issued a resource guide to US foreign corrupt practices legislation. It provides helpful regulatory direction on the enforcement of the legislation, including on issues relevant to its application to Australian business. Partner Louise Jenkins (view CV), Senior Associate Rachel Nicolson and Lawyers Stuti Sethi and Rebecca Grover report.
How does it affect you?
Importantly for Australian corporates, the Resource Guide to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the FCPA) (the Guide):
- reaffirms the positions of both the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (together, the Regulators) that the FCPA anti-bribery provisions may be triggered by conduct that has only a minimal connection to the US and provides guidance on the attribution of corporate liability for the acts of subsidiaries and predecessor companies;
- addresses the application and scope of the FCPA in relation to various key issues including the definition of 'foreign official', the provision of gifts and other payments and the maintenance of the facilitation payments exception; and
- reiterates the importance of company anti-bribery compliance programs, identifying 10 'hallmarks' of an effective compliance program and providing insight into US regulatory expectations of the content of such programs.
The FCPA, which is the key US anti-bribery law concerning bribery of foreign public officials, remains the most actively enforced anti-bribery law globally, including against non-US companies that fall within its jurisdiction.
The FCPA addresses bribery in two ways:
- the anti-bribery provisions, prohibiting the payment of money or anything of value to a foreign official in order to influence them to obtain or retain business; and
- the accounting provisions, imposing record keeping and internal control requirements with respect to company finances.
While the Guide is non-binding and the courts remain responsible for the interpretation of the FCPA, it is a comprehensive document providing unprecedented guidance on the Regulators' approach to enforcing the FCPA (including illustrative examples). In this article, we have highlighted some of the key issues raised in the Guide that are relevant to Australian companies and multinationals.
Liability under the FCPA
Foreign entities and territorial jurisdiction of the FCPA
The FCPA's anti-bribery provisions apply to three categories of persons and entities:
- issuers (which includes, for example, companies with a class of securities listed on a national US securities exchange and foreign companies with American Depository Receipts listed on the US exchange);
- 'domestic concerns', which includes US nationals and companies with their principle place of business in the US and
- persons and entities acting while in US territory that are not issuers or domestic concerns.
The Guide reiterates that foreign nationals and entities that are not issuers or domestic concerns will be subject to the FCPA's anti-bribery provisions where they have engaged, either directly or through an agent, in the use of 'US mails' or 'any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce' or 'in any other act' in furtherance of a corrupt payment while in the territory of the United States. The Guide notes that this phrase covers the placing of a telephone call, the 'sending of a wire transfer to or from a bank in the United States or otherwise using the United States banking system' as well as a foreign national attending a meeting in the United States to further a foreign bribery scheme.
The Guide notes that foreign nationals and entities may also be liable under the FCPA where they aid and abet, conspire with, or act as agent for issuers or domestic concerns – even if the action did not take place in the US.
It is important for Australian companies and multi-nationals to be conscious of the broad extraterritorial reach of the FCPA, particularly where communications or bank transfers have US connections, as recent case law suggests that the Regulators are seeking to prosecute FCPA violations vigorously.
Parent company liability for subsidiaries
Anti-bribery provisions
The Guide outlines two circumstances where a parent company will be liable for bribes paid by a subsidiary. The first is where the parent company is directly liable for a subsidiary's actions through its own participation in the conduct. The second is under agency principles and 'control' of the subsidiary is identified as a determining characteristic for liability. This is assessed on factors including the parent company's 'knowledge and direction' of the subsidiary's actions (generally or in the context of a specific transaction) and the 'practical realities' of how the parent and subsidiary interact (and not just their formal relationship).
Accounting and record keeping provisions
The FCPA books and record keeping provisions provide that an issuer's books and records include those of consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates. As a result, the Guide notes that the issuer is responsible for ensuring that 'subsidiaries or affiliates under its control', including foreign subsidiaries and joint venture partners, comply with the accounting provisions of the FCPA. This assists in identifying bribes that have been mischaracterised in company records and the Guide notes that where the requirements of the anti-bribery provisions have not been met, companies may be liable for improper recording of bribes.
The Guide recognises that companies may not have the same control over minority owned subsidiaries or affiliates. In such circumstances, it 'is only required to use its best efforts to cause the minority-owned subsidiary or affiliate to establish and maintain internal accounting controls consistent with the issuer's own obligations under the FCPA'.
Liability of successor companies
The Guide confirms that when a company merges with or acquires another company, the successor company assumes the predecessor company's liabilities, including liability for FCPA violations in which the successor company was not involved.
The Guide emphasises the importance of conducting detailed pre-acquisition due diligence and improving compliance mechanisms for a number of reasons, including that this 'demonstrates a genuine commitment to uncovering and preventing FCPA violations'. The Guide states that the Regulators:
- have 'declined to take action against acquiring companies that have voluntarily disclosed and remediated conduct and cooperated in the merger and acquisition context'; and
- 'have only taken action against successor companies in limited circumstances, generally in cases involving egregious and sustained violations or where the successor company directly participated in the violations or failed to stop the misconduct from continuing after the acquisition'.
Regulators are unlikely to pursue successor companies for breaches of a predecessor company where appropriate pre-acquisition due diligence and disclosure have been undertaken by the successor company.
Guidance on key terms
Definition of 'foreign official' – ownership and control entities
The Guide notes that the FCPA applies to bribes paid to 'foreign officials', including employees or officers of an 'agency' or 'instrumentality' of a foreign government. This is intended to capture corrupt payments to state-owned entities and state-controlled entities.
The Guide notes that the 'ownership, control, status and function' of an entity will determine whether it is a government instrumentality and identifies a number of indicative factors referred to by courts in the US. Importantly, 50 per cent ownership is identified as the threshold at which an entity is likely to qualify as a government instrumentality but the Guide cautions that a foreign government with a minority stake in an entity may nevertheless exercises 'substantial control' (for example, through veto rights) of the entity, making it a government instrumentality. Given this broad definition, companies subject to the FCPA should ensure appropriate due diligence is conducted to identify foreign officials who may be involved in transactions.
The Guide also clarifies that:
- the provisions apply irrespective of the rank of the foreign official involved;
- foreign governments are not considered foreign officials but cautions companies to avoid the appearance of impropriety in any gifts or donations to foreign governments and take steps to ensure that monies are not used for corrupt purposes.
Exception for facilitation payments – routine government actions
The FCPA exempts facilitation payments from the anti-bribery prohibitions where they are made in 'furtherance of a routine government action'. Examples identified are actions such as processing a visa, providing police protection or mail service. Decisions to award new business or continue existing business do not fall within the exception.
The Guide instructs companies to determine the propriety of a specific facilitation payment by focusing 'on the purpose of the payment rather than its value' (although size may indicate the propriety of the payment). Companies may still violate the FCPA books and records provisions if such payments are not completely and accurately recorded in the company records.
Companies should also consider their liability under other bribery legislation that may apply to facilitation payments before structuring compliance programs permitting such payments.
The permissibility of facilitation payments is currently under review at a Commonwealth level in Australia (in addition to being illegal in most Australian states and territories) and the scope of payments that are permissible remains unclear. Further, facilitation payments are illegal under the UK Bribery Act and may also violate local laws as well as the recommendations of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Working Group on Bribery.
Definition of 'anything of value' – intent of hospitality and gifts
There is no minimum threshold for prohibited gifts and payments. The Guide states that the FCPA prohibition on giving 'anything of value' to a foreign official ensures that gifts or other non-cash benefits intended to improperly influence government officials are captured. This 'corrupt intent' requirement is intended to permit the 'legitimate promotion of business' while prohibiting 'bribes disguised as gifts'.
The Guide does not clarify what constitutes 'legitimate' gift giving but notes that extravagance can indicate impropriety. However, small-scale gift giving demonstrating a 'long standing course of conduct' evidencing a 'scheme to corruptly pay foreign officials to obtain or retain business' is also prohibited. Gifts or payments to third parties intended to indirectly influence foreign officials will also be caught by the legislation.
Many companies have already instituted compliance programs with guidelines for gift giving to create an effective and efficient mechanism for controlling gift giving and exposure to FCPA violations.
Effective compliance programs
The Regulators consider the adequacy of a company's compliance program when deciding whether to prosecute and the penalties that will be sought. Effective compliance programs may also contribute to the early detection of violations and assist companies in self-reporting, cooperating with the Regulators and taking remedial actions – all of which are taken into account by the Regulators when enforcement options.
The Guide does not include any mandatory standards or form of compliance programs, but stresses that they are an essential component of internal risk management and identifies the following 10 'hallmarks' of an effective compliance program:
- commitment from senior management and a clearly articulated policy against corruption;
- a code of conduct and compliance policies and procedures;
- assignment of responsibility for oversight to a person with adequate autonomy from management and sufficient resources to ensure effective implementation of the compliance program;
- risk assessments of particular transactions so that unnecessary resources are not devoted to low risk projects;
- training and continual advice for directors, officers, employees, agents and business partners;
- inclusion of incentives and disciplinary measures that are commensurate with the violation and apply across the organisation;
- education of third parties of internal policies and assurances of reciprocal commitments and appropriate due diligence in relation to third parties;
- reporting of misconduct internally and a procedure for internal investigations;
- periodic testing and review to ensure continuous improvement of the compliance program; and
- FCPA due diligence in a mergers and acquisition context, including incorporation of the acquired company into the acquiring company's compliance framework.
This represents a significant addition in regulatory guidance on expected compliance steps. It follows similar guidance provided by the UK Government on what are considered to constitute 'adequate procedures' on compliance under the UK Bribery Act.
The FCPA is of major importance to Australian companies and multinationals that may fall within its jurisdictional reach – particularly in light of the Regulators' aim to enforce the FCPA vigorously. While it is just guidance on the interpretation and enforcement of the FCPA, the Guide provides some clarity as to the circumstances in which Australian companies and multinationals may be subject to the FCPA, including through the extensive jurisdictional reach of the FCPA and corporate liability for the acts of subsidiaries.
The Guide includes examples to illustrate the positions adopted by the Regulators. However, these should not be viewed as restricting the Regulators' enforcement rights in any way. Companies should remain conscious of the Regulators' intent to prosecute violations and take a conservative approach when considering the risk of FCPA violations. This includes implementing comprehensive compliance programs and undertaking due diligence when conducting business or acquiring or merging with a business that operates in jurisdictions of risk.
Further, Australian companies and multinationals should be aware of the different requirements of regulators across the jurisdictions in which they do business and ensure compliance with the requirements of local laws, as well as those laws with extraterritorial reach, such as US, UK and Australian anti-bribery legislation (as applicable).
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ATHENS, Greece — It's known as the cradle of Western civilization, but these days cash-starved Greece is viewed as more of a miscreant.
This nation where ancient infuses the modern, where buses and motorcycles whiz past stone remnants from classical times, has become a symbol of fundamental cracks in European unity.
At the opposite pole lies Europe's economic engine, Germany, whose people vehemently oppose bailing out the Greeks.
The turmoil over Greek debt has hammered the markets, hinting at another round in the global financial crisis just as it seemed to be fading. It also raises fears that troubled Portugal and Spain are next, highlighting a North-South divide in Europe that challenges the viability of the European Union and its common currency.
Even if Greece avoids the worst, the cultural rift will stay. Germany and France are European Union linchpins; Greece is generally viewed as problematic, relying on its partners' largesse and loose with statistics.
"They apparently treated their capital like waste," said Ilona Reichelt, a German retiree. "It's not like they've suffered an earthquake or a natural disaster. It's a man-made disaster."
Greeks take pride in their ancestors, pioneers of law and politics that shaped Western society, while relishing a life of carefree spending and early retirement.
In trying to explain how Greeks think, some point to Zorba the Greek, the fictional, free-spirited figure of dance. He's not the type to get his finances in order.
"I wouldn't say that all Greeks are Zorba, but part of every Greek is this love of life and this love of enjoyment," said Nikos Dimou, a 75-year-old Greek author who studied in Germany. "The Greeks have a rather negative view about the Germans because they work too much."
Now Greece wants $59.8 billion from the 16 euro nations as well as the International Monetary Fund. Germany, Europe's largest economy and a model of efficiency, would contribute about a fifth of the cash.
In Germany, a lawmaker fired up debate by calling for Greece to sell its islands to bolster the budget. On Friday, the Bild newspaper showed a picture of Greek prime minister George Papandreou, saying: "Here comes the Greek panhandling for our billions."
Some analysts warn that Greece might have to drop out of the eurozone, and said Europe would face a broader meltdown if Spain, a much bigger economy, veers toward debt default.
Germany and the European Central Bank have also taken darts for months of deliberation, and no action, on the Greek crisis.
Though Greeks have enjoyed the benefits of easy credit in past years, they will face hard times if the government bears down with IMF-led austerity measures that would cut wages and pensions, and could cramp growth for years. There have been street protests, but not as large as demonstrations during similarly tough policies in the 1990s.
"I hear from a lot of Greeks that Germany is so above us, and the system there works, and the schools are better, everything is better," said Zoe Kazani, a 22-year-old art gallery director in Athens.
"But at the end of the day, everybody wants to be in Greece because it's a fun way to get away from your problems."


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Improving Diabetes in Primary Care (IMPACT)
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|April 20, 2005
|Last Updated Date
|March 1, 2010
|Start Date ICMJE
|December 2003
|Primary Completion Date
|Not Provided
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00108927 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Improving Diabetes in Primary Care (IMPACT)
|Official Title ICMJE
|Improving Diabetes Through Primary Care Translation (IMPACT)
|Brief Summary
|The goal of our research program is to successfully translate empirical knowledge regarding diabetes treatment and management into sustainable clinical practice. The study hypothesis is that implementation of a multicomponent intervention will result in meaningful improvement in clinical performance measures at the clinic that include average A1c (Hemoglobin A1c), average systolic blood pressure, and national clinical performance measures at a reasonable cost to the health system.
|Detailed Description
The focus of the study is on the primary care environment, where the majority of patients with diabetes seek on-going health care. The proposed group-randomized and controlled clinical trial-targeted at 24 primary care clinics-evaluates the effectiveness of the TRANSLATE intervention, a multifaceted diabetes intervention program promoting better comprehensive diabetes management. The intervention begins by evaluating the organizational structures of primary care offices and identifying existing barriers in these small complex systems. A set of nine well-developed intervention components-selected from among some of the most successful strategies in the literature for altering clinical outcomes-are then introduced to correct existing deficiencies at each clinic. The TRANSLATE components function as an interdependent system, providing substantial support to both the provider and patient. Key features include the targeting of high-risk patients, a patient reminder system for routine visits, both passive and patient-specific physician reminders, a disease-specific networked reporting system, and physician education. Implementation is facilitated by a local diabetes intervention team assisted by a site coordinator and a local physician champion. Notably, the model does not centralize care, but rather promotes dissemination of care delivery improvements by promoting infrastructure changes at the primary care clinic where most care is delivered. Quality improvement methods are employed to optimize implementation in each unique clinic setting. Upper level administrative personnel are integrated into the regular review of implementation measures and resource use.
The study hypothesis is that implementation of the TRANSLATE intervention will result in meaningful improvement in physiologic outcome measures and important disease process measures-at a reasonable cost-within primary care settings.
The specific aims of the project are to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of the TRANSLATE program by comparing intervention and control clinics on the following three clinical and economic outcomes:
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Design ICMJE
|Time Perspective: Prospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
|Not Provided
|Not Provided
|Sampling Method
|Not Provided
|Study Population
|Not Provided
|Condition ICMJE
|Intervention ICMJE
|Behavioral: TRANSLATE
|Study Groups/Cohorts
|Not Provided
|Publications *
|Peterson KA, Radosevich DM, O'Connor PJ, Nyman JA, Prineas RJ, Smith SA, Arneson TJ, Corbett VA, Weinhandl JC, Lange CJ, Hannan PJ. Improving Diabetes Care in Practice: findings from the TRANSLATE trial. Diabetes Care. 2008 Dec;31(12):2238-43. doi: 10.2337/dc08-2034. Epub 2008 Sep 22.
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Completion Date
|December 2005
|Primary Completion Date
|Not Provided
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
(The unit of randomization is the medical clinic)
|18 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|1 R18 DK061709 (completed)
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|Not Provided
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Not Provided
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
|Verification Date
|March 2010
ICMJE Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP


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Totally awesome! It's '80s week on AMC
Time to pull a Ferris and fake the old clammy hands routine to get out of work: Beginning Sunday, it's '80s movies week on cable's AMC network. Get ready to veg out with some classic flicks from our favorite decade that you don't already own on DVD.
Aww, who am I kidding? Even if I own them, I'll still watch them again on TV. And AMC seems to know that: Most of the best movies ("Fletch," "Blues Brothers," "Vacation") are repeated at least once during the week.
And my all-time favorite flick from the underpopulated child/guerrilla genre -- "Red Dawn" -- is playing three times! "Wolverines!" I swear I watch it every time on TV. It's like finding a dollar bill on the street -- it's just an unexpected blessing to be unquestioned and savored.
I'd love to say there are no truly awful movies in the mix, but that would mean I'd have to lie about "Fletch Lives" and "Any Which Way You Can."
Click the link below for day-by-day highlights. Times shown are Eastern so check your local listings for exact time and channel:
Sunday, June 3
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (8 p.m.): It's always fun to watch the TV version of this movie to see which scenes are completely deleted and what words they substitute for the curse words.
Monday, June 4
The Lonely Guy (1:30 a.m.): Largely forgotten Steve Martin flick.
The Three Amigos (3:30 p.m.): A guilty pleasure.
National Lampoon's Vacation (8 p.m.): One of Chevy's three best flicks.
Tuesday, June 5
The Blues Brothers (11:30 a.m.): Hard to remember this is actually an '80s flick.
Fletch (8 p.m.): I dub thee Chevy's all-time best performance.
Wednesday, June 6
Stakeout (1:30 p.m.): Emilio Estevez with a mustache. Worth watching for that alone.
Red Dawn (8 p.m.): Need I say more?
Thursday, June 7
No Way Out (10:45 a.m.): Next to Untouchables, one of Costner's underrated performances.
Commando (3:45 p.m.): A nod to the action-movie fans out there.
Friday, June 8
Hoosiers (12:30 p.m.): Best ... basketball ... movie ... ever.
Black Widow (6 p.m.): Theresa Russell, you dirty dirty girl.
Saturday, June 9
Glory (1:30 p.m.): Three Oscars for this flick, including a statue for Denzel for supporting actor.


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NEW YORK — Jenn Sterger, the Gaither graduate who allegedly received lewd photos and inappropriate text messages from Vikings quarterback Brett Favre met with NFL investigators Thursday, her manager said.
Phil Reese said in an e-mail Sterger met with league officials and "we cooperated fully by providing them with substantial materials in our possession."
The NFL is examining if Favre sent Sterger messages and photos while he was with the Jets in 2008 and she was a game host for the team.
The league had no comment.
Favre could face disciplinary action under the league's personal-conduct policy.
The allegations arose last month in a report on the website Deadspin. The site said Sterger wouldn't agree to an interview and acknowledged it paid a third party for the texts, voice mails and graphic photos, said to be of Favre, that it posted.
Browns LB collapses
BEREA, Ohio — Browns linebacker Marcus Benard went to a hospital for testing after collapsing in the locker room. His status was not available.
Benard, who has a team-high 4½ sacks was sitting in a chair in front of his cubicle when he fell. Some teammates believed he was joking before linebacker Matt Roth yelled for a trainer.Benard, 25, did not appear to lose consciousness and his eyes were open as members of Cleveland's training staff checked on him.
More Browns: Quarterback Jake Delhomme practiced for the first time since aggravating his high right ankle sprain on Oct. 10. His availability for Sunday hasn't been determined.
Baltimore cop unpunished: Baltimore County police say they won't discipline an officer who got an autograph from Ravens running back Ray Rice after warning him about the tint on his car's windshield. A spokesman said investigators determined Rice didn't get special treatment Monday and there was no quid pro quo. Rice posted a statement on Twitter that suggested he got out of a ticket in exchange for the autograph. He deleted the post and later said it was poorly worded.
Harvin out again: Vikings receiver Percy Harvin missed his second practice because of a migraine. His status for Sunday hasn't been determined. Also, receiver Sidney Rice, out all season after hip surgery, went through practice. If he is to play, the Vikings have until Saturday to activate him from the physically unable to perform list.
Bengals: Starting right tackle Andre Smith was diagnosed with a broken left foot, which was stepped on during a pass-protection drill Wednesday. It's the same foot he broke last season as a rookie. It hasn't been determined if he will need surgery or return this season.
Bills: Linebacker Shawne Merriman, claimed off waivers last week, won't play Sunday after aggravating his right Achilles' tendon injury Wednesday, during his first practice with the team. Also, the home game will be blacked out in the Buffalo area because it did not sell out.
Cardinals: The team said it "rested" running back Beanie Wells but he should practice today. Wells had been limited in practice for two weeks by an allergic reaction to the injection of a medication used to lubricate his right knee. Wells has missed two games after arthroscopic surgery on the knee.
Giants: Receiver Steve Smith left practice early after hurting a pectoral muscle. Coach Tom Coughlin said he was unsure about the extent of the injury or if it will keep him out Sunday.
Patriots: Running back Fred Taylor, who has missed five games with a turf toe on each foot, said he hopes to play Sunday. He was limited at practice on Wednesday and Thursday.
Seahawks: Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck was cleared to practice and play after sitting out Sunday with a concussion.
Titans: Quarterback Vince Young practiced for the first time since spraining his left ankle in Tennessee's last game (Oct. 31 against the Chargers). He split reps with Kerry Collins, but coach Jeff Fisher said he expects Young to take most of the snaps today. Sunday's starter hasn't been determined.


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[stohn-waw-ling] /ˈstoʊnˌwɔ lɪŋ/
the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
verb (used without object)
to engage in stonewalling.
British. filibuster (def 3).
Cricket. (of a batsman) to play a defensive game, as by persistently blocking the ball instead of batting it for distance and runs.
verb (used with object)
Informal. to block, stall, or resist intentionally:
lobbying efforts to stonewall passage of the legislation.
British. to obstruct (the passage of a legislative bill) in Parliament, especially by excessive or prolonged debate.
pertaining to or characteristic of stonewalling:
a new round of stonewall tactics.
(intransitive) (cricket) (of a batsman) to play defensively
to obstruct or hinder (parliamentary business)
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