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Farewell Fully Chic - G'day frockwriter
Patty Huntington –, Friday, July, 04, 2008, (11:55am)
Model cue card for Christian Dior's SS08 RTW show, Paris, October 2007/Patty Huntington
Well hello. Or rather, goodbye!
It's time to pull the plug on Fully Chic and for me to say goodbye to some of you and to blogging for mainstream media outlets. And time for me to say hello to the world of independents with my own blog. And what better day to do it, than July 4?
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Beautiful, but different: The quiet, fat revolution of Velvet d'Amour
Patty Huntington –, Thursday, June, 19, 2008, (4:46pm)
Velvet d'Amour. Pictures/Petra Pikkelova.
I had been trying to organise a new Velvet d'Amour interview since our March post about Leona Edmiston's decision to upsize to a 24. Various family issues on either side and Australian Fashion Week intervened however, so this is the earliest I have been able to get to it.
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"We don't want you to be anorexic. We just want you to look like you are"
Patty Huntington –, Friday, June, 13, 2008, (3:15pm)
Snejana Onopka in Calvin Klein SS07 (L), Siri Tollerød in Herve Leger FW0809 (M) and Olga Sherer in Balenciaga FW0809/Style.com
So noted top Canadian model Coco Rocha during her chat to the New York fashion troops at Tuesday's CFDA model health seminar - relaying instructions she claims to have received by fashion industry professionals. It's a mere coincidence the meeting took place in the week following our revelations about the Elite Development board — and as far as Fully Chic is aware no reference was made of the latter. The Elite story was nevertheless picked up by the Jezebel blog in New York, The Observer and Independent newspapers in London and The New Zealand Herald. In addition to a number of blogs.
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Snubbed by ANTM - booked by Prada and Gucci
Patty Huntington –, Thursday, June, 12, 2008, (10:32pm)
Myf Shepherd, as shot - although not literally, we hope - by Douglas Perrett/COACD
We mentioned two weeks ago that the NY hype had already started before Myf Shepherd had even gotten on the bloody plane. But now, a fortnight in the Big Apple and she is already making model waves - christened by no less than Prada and Gucci. All the more amusing therefore to hear from Shepherd's Sydney agent, Kathy Ward, that the 17 year-old Queenslander was, earlier this year, culled from auditions for the current season of Australia's Next Top Model because the producers didn't, ahem, think she had what it takes.
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America's next top skeletons: The developing dysmorphic disorder of the fashion elite
Patty Huntington –, Thursday, June, 05, 2008, (4:01pm)
Elite Development models Allyson Ertel (L) and Abbie Gortsema/Elite Models, New York
American casting director Douglas Perrett wasn't kidding when he sniffed at Ali Michael's purge-and-pose coming-out story in June's Teen Vogue. Of Michael's account of losing her period and hair in a bid to maintain her "couture body†— only to gain 5lbs and find herself iced from the Paris shows in March - Perrett noted, "The fashion reality is that a new batch of girls are in town, younger and hungrierâ€. Girls like Allyson Ertel, we assume - part of the "Development†stable at top New York agency Elite. Just in case anyone needed confirmation that the fashion industry has its head stuck so far up its own coit it can no longer tell the difference between slim and skeletal, take a look at these (06/06/08 @ 12:10 SINCE REMOVED) images of Ertel to which Elite is giving star billing on its website.
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Death of a fragile fashion revolutionary: Vale Yves Saint Laurent
Patty Huntington –, Monday, June, 02, 2008, (3:54pm)
A September 1961 photograph of Yves Saint Laurent working out of the new office of his brand new company in Rue de la Boetie, in downtown Paris/AP
Although I don't believe he ever visited Australia, Yves Mathieu Saint Laurent shared a special link with this country by virtue of Australian wool. He first came to the attention of the fashion world at the age of 17 in 1954, after his one-shouldered cocktail dress won both the first and third prizes in an International Wool Secretariat competition. Saint Laurent's great archrival, Karl Lagerfeld - who survived Saint Laurent not only professionally, but now, with Saint Laurent's passing at age 71, literally — won the coat category of the same competition.
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Miss Australia: The Gyroscopic music vid debut of Samantha Harris
Patty Huntington –, Saturday, May, 31, 2008, (1:53am)
She might not have been in the running for the David Jones gig (and more's the pity). But Aboriginal Australian model Samantha Harris has just scored her first music video cameo: on Gyroscope's just-released Australia.
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She's Got The Look: America's next top Boomer
Patty Huntington –, Thursday, May, 29, 2008, (1:52pm)
If you thought teen wannabe supermods have cornered the market on reality show histrionics, take a look at this trailer for the latest US reality tv show with a fashion skew: She's Got The Look. It's yet another search for America's next 'supermodel'. The clincher here is, this one has to be over the age of 35.
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Myf Shepherd, Sarah Stephens: Latest hatchlings from the Chic supermod incubator
Patty Huntington –, Wednesday, May, 28, 2008, (1:58pm)
Myf Shepherd and (R) Sarah Stephens, shot by Ellen Von Unwerth for May Russian Vogue
One was a star of our Girls, catapulted? models-to-watch post in the Australian Fashion Week leadup, walked in more AFW shows than any other Chic Management girl — 17 — and leaves for New York tomorrow. The other is on a NY-bound plane as I type, on hold for American Vogue. Yes the agency which brought you such international It girls as Miranda Kerr, Alexandra Agoston, Catherine McNeil and Abbey Lee Kershaw, is about to unleash its next two potential superstars: Myf Shepherd and Sarah Stephens.
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Fabulous, but evil? Invasion of the bodysnarkers
Patty Huntington –, Saturday, May, 24, 2008, (4:03pm)
Nasty but nice, a scene from the 1994 file Mean Girls / Supplied
A couple of interesting body image-linked discussions have erupted in recent days — and no I'm not talking about the underage model furore which has (finally) engulfed Bill Henson. First, readers started asking about Leona Edmiston's promised 16-24 size increases in her new online boutique — and fair enough, since the boutique is still not live, in spite of its advertised April 21 start date. Barneys creative director, author and all-round New York fashion guru Simon Doonan said he'd love to design a fashion range for the plus size market. And The Wall Street Journal published a by now much-discussed story about the rise of bodysnarking.
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Best little powerhouse in New York: IMG models don't get out of bed for V
Patty Huntington –, Tuesday, May, 20, 2008, (3:30pm)
Part of the "Powerhouse" photospread of IMG models that appears in the latest edition of US magazine V.
What's with the nudity at the moment? In the same month that Australian Catherine McNeil flashes her breasts in German Vogue's 'Sex' issue, comes a full frontal IMG Models 'power' posse. Joining 29 of her IMG stablemates — or should that be Playmates? — Australian Miranda Kerr strips down to the nuddy for the latest (#53) issue of US glossy V. To the best of Fully Chic's knowledge, most of the models are (well) over 16 — leaving out, thankfully, IMG's 14 year-old Polish protégée Monika 'JAC' Jagaciak. But the photospread does nevertheless include topless 16 year-old Tanya Dziahileva.
In pictures: See more of Miranda Kerr here
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The "fat" lady sings: Ali Michael, on the record about model weight
Patty Huntington –, Thursday, May, 15, 2008, (12:24pm)
Model Ali Michael in the Lanvin FW0708 show in Paris in March 2007 - which she opened - and her look (R) at the FW0809 shows in New York in February. Pictures: Style.com
Back in March, we mentioned that 17 year-old American model Ali Michael left the Paris leg of the FW0809 show season after just one day, having been told she was five lbs too heavy this season and that her legs were too big for the runway. This was according to her mother, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The Michaels swiftly went to ground ignoring all interview requests. In the June edition of US Teen Vogue however Ali Michael, who turns 18 today, has reemerged to come forward with some fairly explosive claims about the modelling business.
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Somewhere over the rainbow: There's no place like home for Josh Goot
Patty Huntington –, Wednesday, May, 14, 2008, (1:16pm)
Josh Goot Spring/Summer 0809 collection. Picture: Charlie Brewer
This morning, far from the madding Fashion Week crowd, Josh Goot showed his latest spring/summer offerings — inspired, he said, by the "story of a dayâ€, from sunrise through stormclouds to sunset. Sydney will be seeing a lot more of Goot, if not at Fashion Week, then at least in person. The 28 year-old is the latest Oz refugee from not only New York Fashion Week, but the Big Apple itself. Back living and working in Sydney, Goot now has his show sights set on London.
Josh Goot Spring / Summer 2008 Gallery
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Now recruiting: Ten year-old wannabe supermods
Patty Huntington –, Wednesday, May, 14, 2008, (8:15am)
The Vivien's 'Supermodel Search' poster as seen in Warringah Mall.
So much for the babymodel brouhaha. Ten days after the wrap of Australian Fashion Week — at which under-16 models were verboten, following April's JAC-Gate — top Oz model agency Viviens has commenced a new recruitment drive. The agency which discovered Gemma Ward has its name plastered over a series of Wanted posters, luring wannabe Wards with the carrot of a 12-month modelling contract. According to the posters it's a callout for girls aged anywhere from 19 down to........................10.
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Magna Carta: The rake's progress and other modelisms
Patty Huntington –, Monday, May, 05, 2008, (3:46pm)
Stephanie Carta backstage at Akira. Picture: Sonny Vandevelde
Well Stephanie Carta had a good week. First she's off the runway because she was deemed too skinny and her agency wanted to avoid a media circus. Then she's on the runway again - and onto every Australian news bulletin. Fully Chic heard on Friday morning that Carta had rocked up to Thursday night's Ksubi party in an "I'M RAKING IT IN†T-shirt. Perhaps Carta washed it overnight, Ksubi made more than one — or the 23 year-old had not been home in between — but she turned up to the Akira show on Friday afternoon in exactly the same T.
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Once again TransACT is exactly that, only available in ACT!
iiNet has boasted it now has more customers connected to its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network than NBN Co has connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN).
The ISP has 8000 customers on its FTTH TransAct network, Internode network and wholesale services, with its FTTH network capable of the NBN speeds of 12/1Mbps, 25/5Mbps, 50/20Mbps and 100/40Mbps.
It also has 2700 customers on the NBN.
"When it comes to FTTH, we're using every opportunity to connect as many Australians as we can…" Michael Malone, chief executive officer at iiNet, said in a statement.
"As well as delivering super-fast broadband to more people than are connected to FTTH through the NBN, we're now the largest provider of FTTH services in the country."
iiNet recently launched high-speed broadband on the TransAct hybrid-fibre coaxial (HFC) network, which achieves speeds of up to 100/8Mbps.
Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy told the Senate yesterday there were just 7000 fibre connections on the NBN.
This is an increase of 600 from 17 October this year, when Conroy told a Senate Estimates hearing just 6400 premises had active NBN connections.
iiNet recently laid down the gauntlet to NBN Co, stating NBN Co needs to buy out iiNet's fibre and HFC networks or be prepared for competition from the ISP.
However, Chris Coughlan, director research consulting at Telsyte, said iiNet's fibre and HFC networks are unlikely to be attractive to NBN Co due to the low number of customers it has, compared to Telstra and Optus' HFC customers.
"The latest press around FTTH numbers may well be an attempt to influence NBN Co on their market power so as to increase the motivation for NBN Co to do a deal. NBN Co may well provide the same or similar terms to iiNet. However, the benefit to NBN Co will not be as large due to the relatively low numbers [of customers]," he told Computerworld Australia.
"With the 18-month closure of copper now commencing, we can expect that [the] migration to NBN Co-provided FTTH will increase rapidly in the coming year and will quickly surpass the customers on iiNet direct infrastructure."
Conroy told the Senate there are now 30,000 premises with active connections to the NBN via fibre, fixed wireless and satellite.
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Once again TransACT is exactly that, only available in ACT!
Put NBN in Sydney and see what happens.
Even places like Coomera in the Gold Coast, huge population limited to ADSL1. You will get big numbers there. This always happens, with NBN the government will focus on the smaller areas with limited internet services and more difficult installation zones. It will then get rapid deployment to more urban zones once the smaller areas are up and running. Then we will see how good the NBN is. I for one will happily move my 100mbps Telstra cable connection to an NBN connection. But I'm happy to haev 100mbps as an "interim" solution :-P
But they are still extremely expensive and when they give you crap service you have no other options....crap plans, no option to have a naked fibre service, no option for voip phone in the plan.....top dollar and bad customer service.
Have had to go to the Ombudsman twice in the last 9mths....worse than the Telstra monopoly
"iiNet: we have more fibre customers than the NBN"
What a STUPID comment to make, honestly.
TransACT has been laying Coax and FTTH in the ACT since early 2000's.
Ofcourse they have more customers than NBN. The NBN is still being built you fools!
"Ofcourse they have more customers than NBN"
what a stupid comment to make , despite transact being around since 2000 doesnt make it any less true.
find something real to pick apart.
Oh iiNet you are idiots! Happily left you this week for Telstra and automatic upgrade to the NBN. Your advertised download speeds are great, your real-life speeds are slower than my 3G mobile phone.
Dont let to door hit you on the way out ....
The real story is of course the opposite to the headline.
NBNCo, one year since first release, and with the mainstream rollout only just having begun after the March 2012 Telstra contract signing, already has 70% of the active fibre customers that it took TransACT 12 years to accumulate. And it has the same number again already signed on for fibre and awaiting activation.
Maybe they should focus on fixing their crappy broadband...I'm lucky if I can get 3.5mbps and have to reset 'BoB' nearly every day and I live in Perth metro! Should I go back to the evil telstra and get a way worse deal or stick with iinet and only get through 10% of my monthly downloads? 1 song took 25 mins the other day...they all suck!
Put the NBN in locations where people actually know what the NBN and Internet are...putting it in safe labor backwater electorates where all the people are sheep and can't spell NBN will not help the ratio one bit! Put it out the front of my place and I will be on at 100Mb or more if available! Alas...I live in a very safe liberal electorate so probably won't get it until I'm old and gray! Anyone who thinks I'm wrong - overlay the electoral map with the NBN rollout map and see the truth! BIAS...you bet!! Anyone suggests I move - if you think I would live in a safe labor electorate with the feral sheep - no bloody way!
EMMA ALBERICI: But we've recently seen that the NBN has said they've connected 7,000 premises to fibre?
STEPHEN CONROY: Well it's growing every day. We're actually at 8,500 as of, I think, yesterday or today. So every single day we're connecting premises
Ramping up nicely 1,500 added since advice to the Senate
iiNet made their brag, pretty hollow one
It has nothing to do with politics, plenty of Blue Ribbon Lib electorates in the 3Yr rollout. It is all about the rollouts from the POI's, it was the ACCC that determined 121 POI's and their locations, even then only finalised in the last month.
The network is built out from FSAMS, commenced 66 in Sept (Corp plan is for 40/month at peak roll out), overall is tracking to be 17,200 premises ahead of prediction by end of Financial Year
"No one's using something they don't have yet so buy our pox HFC with taxpayer coin or we might have to get competitive".
yyNet pls.
Great situation to be in, anything this Government is involved in is a disaster at any time so to be beat with a private company against the NBN is no surprise.
Only thing with IINET is don`t be late or miss a payment as they have a great habit of turning you off first before they tell you of the problem
1Gb: You're talking about the most educated electorates in Australia...
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Mon. 11:30 a.m.-midnight; Tue.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sat. 6 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sun. 6 a.m.-midnight.
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Excellent food and a terrific staff – I had stopped in here for the bar and enjoyed the beer selection. Eventually we decided to try the dinner menu, not expecting much. However, the food was superb. The say it is all made from scratch and I believe it. Obviously a lot of people in Cole Valley have figured out how good it is! Great job everyone at Kezar.
A great time! – I've been to the Kezar several times now, and each visit was an absolute blast! The food is quite good (get the fish and chips!) and the service is great, also. There are times when it does get VERY crowded so the service can slow down a little, but that is entirely understandable when serving both food and MANY drinks to a very enthusiastic crowd. There is usually rugby if you get bored with American football like I do. :) I highly recommend this place and can't wait to go back to SF so I can go back. Have fun.
Great neighborhood bar – I loved this place when i lived in the neighborhood and still look for excuses to go. the chef is great, except for the pasta dishes which he always puts just one too many things in (pine nuts and peas don't always have to be in a pasta dish). The atmosphere is great, very comfortable.
the waitstaff is consistently bland and unhelpful, and they always look the same from year to year. But whatever - go if you have a few hours to spend with some good friends.
Great pub food – The pub food is great. Hard to believe one is in a pub when the quality, hearty food comes out. People who walk into a pub looking for a+ service are missguided. The staff is as friendly as the bar atmosphere present at the moment. I wouldn't want to be in a pub that operated differently. Good mix of American and international sports....
A blissful coexistence of tie-dye and touchdowns in the heart of the Haight. – The Scene
The 49ers used to play at Kezar Stadium across the street, but the Kezar Pub (which still bills itself as "the home of the 49ers") doesn't play favorites during football season. Fifteen televisions and four satellites bring you ESPN2, Game Day and every single NFL game. They also show rugby, soccer and even Gaelic football (feverish fans of which will be happy to explain the rules and provide running commentary). Pool tables and dartboards offer halftime amusement.
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A full menu of typical bar grub (chicken wings, onion rings) and draft beers make this the ideal afternoon chill-out sports stop. Sundays are packed with neighborhood regulars eager for brunch and bloody mary specials.
Best Food In Town – Okay...so I know that is a bit much, but I have lived here in SF for only a few months and I do mean it when I say it is the best I've had. I suppose if you are the type of person who goes to the higher end restaurants in town, then you get great food there, but if that is you I am sure that you aren't reading this review. Anyway, the food was great (the bruschetta appetizer was the best ever and the pulled pork sandwich was great). And it was all for a really good price for this city. I'd go there once a week if I lived in the neighborhood. Great pub food.
Nice Neighborhood Rest. – I use to LOVE this place. In recent years the food quality seems to have diminished but it still remains a comfortable and convenient place to eat. I would not recommend going out of your way to eat here.
good taps bad pool tables – It's a great place to gather for sporting events because of its limited space, young crowd and low ceilings
Great place, great neighborhood. – I go here all the time. It's so easy and low key, but don't be fooled....they have great food. It's a step beyond your typically burger and beer, and will keep a little change in your pocket at the same time. Go there.
Amazing Lamb Burger – This has always been a good place to get pub food that's a little bit more up-market - but the lamb burger I had there recently was quite simply the BEST BURGER I've ever had. The bread was perfectly toasted, the lime-mint aioli was a fantastic addition to the perfectly cooked lamb, and grilled onions sealed the deal. As usual we had the cajun fries which were tremendous. Our waitress was bubbly and friendly, and it ended up being a reasonably cheap dinner.
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Pope Benedict used his annual Christmas message to denounce gay marriage, saying that it destroyed the "essence of the human creature."
In one of his most important speeches of the year, the Pope stressed that a person's gender identity is God-given and unchangeable. As a result, he sees gay marriage as a "manipulation of nature."
"People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being," he said at the Vatican on Friday. "They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves."
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Drew Nieporent is only five minutes late for lunch, a virtual early bird by New York standards. No sooner does he sit down at a sunny window seat of his Tribeca Grill then the hostess arrives with a message. Jim Lelyveld, executive editor of The New York Times, is on the phone. But he's not calling about a story; he wants a reservation at Nobu, Nieporent's extremely popular Japanese restaurant just down the street from Tribeca Grill. While Nieporent is impressed, he's not awed, because he gets such calls several times a day. "We try to be accommodating, and yes, I do try to squeeze in friends and give professional consideration to other restaurateurs," he says. But sometimes no amount of money or power will get you a reservation. "A few years ago at Montrachet [the second most difficult reservation to get among Nieporent's restaurants], I turned down Henry Kissinger."
A few minutes later, a package arrives at the table. It contains glossy color photographs and layouts of a property in San Francisco on Post Street. The real estate agent who sent Nieporent the information wants to know if he is interested in putting a restaurant in the space. "We call these the 'deals of the day,' " Nieporent says. "At this point we're not always ready to make a deal. It has to be right for us. And that includes the Rainbow Room."
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Amy M. Bryngelson, 100, of Toledo, IA formerly of LeGrand, IA passed away Thursday, November 8, 2012, at Carrington Place of Toledo. Funeral Services will be 1:30 p.m., Thursday, November 15, 2012 at Stavanger Friends Church in rural LeGrand. Visitation will be 12:30 p.m. until the time of the services at the church. Interment will be at the Stavanger Cemetery. A memorial has been established in her name. The Main St. Chapel of the Anderson Funeral Homes has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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A Dateline NBC special featuring the remarkable efforts of Southeast Ohio food pantry operator who has dedicated her life to looking after her poverty-stricken neighbors won an Emmy for news and documentary programs.
Lisa Roberts, 47, of Coolville, Oh., joined Dateline producers and staffers on stage at Monday's awards ceremony in New York.
The special, "America Now: Friends and Neighbors" aired on July 25, 2010, with a follow-up on Aug. 2, 2010, and won the award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine.
The program followed the lives of several southeast Ohio families and focused heavily on the Friends and Neighbors Community Choice Food Center in Lottridge which is run by Roberts.
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TS2, also known as the trade show about trade shows, will now include a track for show organizers as well as for its traditional exhibitor audience, thanks to a new partnership between the International Association of Exhibitions and Events and National Trade Productions, which bought the show from the Trade Show Exhibitors Association five years ago. The partnership was announced last week at IAEE's Expo! Expo! at the Miami Convention Center.
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- Public Participation in the Siting Process: Practice and Procedure Guide (PDF File, 3.3 mb)
- Summary of Typical Public Involvement Opportunities in Energy Commission Siting Cases
- Public Adviser's Presentations and Printed Materials
- Commission Siting Division
- Title 20
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Bullard Energy Center (BEC) Power Plant Licensing Case
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Commission's Documents
Applicant Request for Suspension of Bullard AFC Review Posted: September 13, 2007. (PDF file. 3 pgs. 81 kb)
Letter from the California Energy Commission to the City of Fresno Planning and Development Department Posted: March 30, 2007. (PDF file. 6 pgs. 66.2 kb)
Transcript for the February 7, 2007 - Public Informational Hearing & Site Visit. Posted: February 26, 2007. (PDF file. 118 pgs. 160 kb)
Report of Conversation - City of Fresno Land Use Non-Conformity Issues Associated with BEC. Posted: February 7, 2007. (PDF file. 5 pgs. 156 kb)
Issue Identification Report . Posted: February 2, 2007. (PDF file. 10 pgs. 88 kb)
Corrected Data Requests 1 through 67. Posted: January 31, 2007. (PDF file. 29 pgs. 115 kb)
Data Requests 1 through 69. Posted: January 30, 2007. (PDF file. 30 pgs. 204 kb)
Revised Data Adequacy Recommendation. Posted: December 21, 2006. (PDF file. 48 pgs. 244 kb)
Data Adequacy Recommendation. Posted: December 6, 2006. (PDF file. 82 pgs. 383 kb)
Applicant's Documents
Letter from Bullard Energy Center Requesting Termination of Application for Certification, dated Februry 22, 2008. Posted: February 25, 2008. (PDF file. 1 pgs. 149 kb)
PG&E Confirms That Site Change Minor Modification., Posted: August 16, 2007. (PDF file. 3 pgs. 91 kb)
Request to suspend AFC , Posted: August 8, 2007. (PDF file. 5 pgs. 91 kb)
Revised Response to Data Request #62, Posted: March 23, 2007. (PDF file. 4 pgs. 44 kb)
Data Response for Data Requests 1-67 (Set 1) - Posted: March 14, 2007. (PDF, Excel files)
Revised Figure 3.4-6, Posted: February 13, 2007. (PDF file. 4 pgs. 44 kb)
Applicant Request for Extension of Time to File Data Request Responses, Posted: February 13, 2007. (PDF file. 5 pgs. 48 kb)
Bullard Data Adequacy Responses, Posted: January 2, 2007. (PDF files)
Application for Certification, filed November 6, 2006. (PDF files)
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Intervenors' and Others' Documents
City Of Fresno's Request For Additional Information. Posted: May 7, 2007. (PDF file. 24 pgs. 400 kb)
City Of Fresno's Request For Additional Information. Posted: March 27, 2007. (PDF file. 11 pgs. 3.3 mb)
City of Fresno's response to Bullard Energy Center's Request to Review Project for Consistency with Fresno Zoning Ordinances. Posted: February 2, 2007. (PDF file. 5 pgs. 94.6 kb)
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Without any bias, I am an excellent programmer, an innovator and a perfectionist. I code with passion and confidence, at the same time catching up on my weaker areas and new technologies yet to be learned.
I will undoubtedly prove to be an excellent investment for your business.
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Programmer/Engineer, UAB "Infotransportas"
Dezember 2007 - September 2009
Worked on an existing CMS in charge of logistics processes. It was both substantially huge and unmanageable, but it was my first real programming job and my boss, the author of the system (and my sole colleague!) taught me a lot.
I started with small adjustments, ended up designing and writing whole new modules (eg. repair and parts, policy notifications etc.) and finally refractured and rewrote most of the core functionality.
Refracturing was a tremendous task, there were multiple similar codebases adapted to each of our bigger clients and there was little reuse of code between modules, no central bootstrapper, not even version control. File manipulation using regex and GREP was immensely helpful in bringing order to the chaos.
The job also had much to do with importing and interfacing with other software used by the clients. Synchronizing data with Navision, MS Access and other, more obscure technology based systems was routine and although all new to me, I managed with little effort.
Optimal performance being always a priority and the challenges of poorly written code base both eventually proved to be invaluable lessons even though they were a nuisance at first.
Web developer, UAB "AAH"
November 2009 - Aktuell
I'm one of two sole developers working on an international and ever-expanding e-shop and its numerous side projects.
All company's sites are based on my framework, advanced modules like shopping basket, activity reservation process are all designed and written from scratch by me.
The decision to not use third party frameworks was forced on us as the codebase was in a really bad condition when we first came to the company and it had to be refractured in parts so no one complete solution was viable.
We're currently in the final stages of launching a totally rewritten code base for all of the sites and CMSes. It's again based on my framework and around 70% of the whole code is written by me, the system was designed by my colleague and I, it took almost two years and is a massive project even forgetting the fact that it was made by two people.
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B.S. Computer Science, Vilnius University
2004 - 2009
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GitHub, Mai 2012 – Aktuell; 715 Follower; 96mal geforkt
Kint - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool
A creation of mine, built through out the years and constantly gaining appreciation among PHP developers globally.
Google Code, ; 6 Follower
Class for making HTML table headers intelligently scroll along with the page
A piece of relatively simple JS which I thought was unique enough to be shared. Looking back at the code makes me want to refractor it a bit, but I'm over my head with work as it is.
AMD Athlon XP, meh
I've written and am constantly improving a full-fledged PHP5.3 HMVC framework on my own.
Several fully functional projects are written based on it and I am very happy with it. It includes an advanced form generator and handler, some CRUD generation elements and lots of indispensable helper classes which I've found or written myself throughout the years. Due to lack of time to write detailed documentation I have not outsourced it yet, but I plan to do so at some point.
My first acquaintance with programming was at around 7-8th grade when I discovered the scenario editor for a then-popular strategy game Stracraft. Not owning an internet connection at home, I took multiplayer maps and re-did them to be single player for me and my schoolmates to play. The editor was powerful and beginner friendly enough to start me up from the help files alone. I later on created a whole scenario that I alone designed, created maps for and programmed. Sadly though, I lost all my work to faulty hardware over time.
I did casually mod another game later on - a first person RPG called Morrowind. Some mods of mine are still around - and apparently played by many. Here's my most downloaded one, Decorator+:
This mod lets you do some interesting things with your surroundings in the game. You can scale, move, rotate and dispose of almost any item in the game world through an easy to use interface. It requires an external script extender to run along the game - Morrowind is really buggy and constricted when it comes to modding, even with the help of external tools. Unsurprisingly, the major work was figuring out why your scripts don't behave as they should and what new bug of the game engine have you found now. Kind of like writing pages for IE6 these days :)
The way I look at coding now is that people pay for crossword and Sudoku puzzles and rebuses, whilst I not only get the best ones for free, I actually get payed for solving them :)
Designing and implementing solutions for innovative and challenging (i.e. hard) problems is very entertaining for me. Usually the process of obtaining my salary is more satisfying than the money itself.
I also constantly have a freelance project on the side. It lets me try out new technologies and methodologies that I wouldn't be able to do freely under supervision.


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MORE parents in Lancashire have sought reassurance over suspected paedophiles than anywhere else in the country, according to new Home Office figures.
Ever since Sarah's Law was adopted, giving the right for anxious parents to apply to police over potential sex abusers working with children, 196 referrals have been made to Lancashire police.
Sixty were made in 2011-12, the scheme's first year, 70 for the following 12 months and there have been 66 to date for 2013-14.
Campaigners have expressed concerns, given a drop nationally in the number of applications being made, that not enough publicity is being given to the existence of the initiative.
And only around one in seven of those applications made leads to a disclosure being made regarding past convictions.
Donald Findlater, director of research and development at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a sex abuse charity, said: "Given the apparent drop in applications since the start of the scheme, albeit small, we have some concern that people may not know the scheme is available to them.
"We would like to see continued public awareness and publicity, whether by local forces or nationally by the Home Office, so that people know that this means of checking someone out exists."
Mr Findlater also expressed concern that in six out of seven cases, no dislcosure is being made.
He added: "The police know of only a proportion of offenders – many have not been caught and are not on any police database.
"For members of the public to make an application to police, they must have had some concerns in the first place."
The scheme was brought in following the death of Sarah Payne at the hands of convicted paedophile Roy Whiting in July 2000, and campaigning by her mother, Sara.
Under the Home Office scheme, parents can ask police about anyone with access to their children and officers will reveal details confidentially if they think it is in the child's interests.
Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson said: "When Sarah's Law was rolled out in Lancashire, it was something I very much welcomed.
"I am encouraged by these figures, which show that people are aware of the legislation, using the provisions to their full potential and helping to protect children and young people."
Critics have voiced fears that the disclosure scheme may be shifting the responsibility for child protection from the state to individual parents.
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text: Presenting and demonstrating products with style Published on: Dec 19, 2012 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print The confidence and care you take in presenting and demonstrating products can set you apart not just from other retailers but also from the ever increasing competition from the internet. Here are some tips to help you stand out from the pack. Get your customers involved If it's an item of clothing let the customer touch it and then encourage them to try it on. If its furniture, perhaps you're showing them a sofa, invite them to sit on it. If you're in a pharmacy and you're reading information from the label on the back of the box pick up the second item and put it in their hand so that they have it as well. Wherever possible, encourage your customers to hold the item, try it on or use it in some way. By letting them experience the product, it becomes more real to them. Also it is no longer your product, when it is in their hands or as they are trying it out it is potentially their product. They've moved a little closer to ownership of the item. Handle with care Have you ever been in a jewelry store and noticed how the staff present a precious diamond necklace or ring to the customer? Without even seeing the price you know it is expensive because of the reverence they show as they handle it. They should also present a diamante necklace or ring in exactly the same way, yet very few sales people do this. It's about being customer focused rather than product focused. You are handling this person's potential possession so it should be treated as if it is precious. Treat your merchandise with respect. Remember, you may be showing the product to its future owner. I remember trying on a pair of squash shoes in a small sports store. It was busy and there seemed to be lots of pairs of sport shoes spread across the floor. After trying on a pair that didn't seem quite right, the owner brought me another pair. He made room for me by sweeping aside the first pair and a couple of others with his foot as if they were rubbish to be put in the bin. He probably thought he was just moving HIS 'stock' out of the customer's way but to customers he is not only devaluing the product, he is treating THEIR potential product disrespectfully. By the way, it is a good tactic to immediately remove from sight any product that the customer has rejected - though not ones they are just a bit doubtful about - so, the sports store owner was doing something right. It's just how he did it that was wrong! Demonstrating a product We've already covered some key points appropriate to demonstrating a product in the previous sections on handling the product with care and getting your customer involved. The more interactive you can make the shopping experience, the more inclined your customers will be to buy. And if you can provide them with evidence via this interaction they will have proved to themselves that the product can do what you say. With many products, an ounce of demonstration is worth a ton of words especially if your customers can try out the product for themselves. Research has shown that when a customer is given the opportunity to use a product or see it in operation the chances of closing the sale increase by 17%. There are a couple of additional rules to bear in mind. 1. Check any products first to make sure they work. This should be done in advance of your customers coming into the store. There is nothing more embarrassing than attempting to demonstrate a product that has a faulty part that doesn't work. 2. Make sure you can demonstrate with confidence by rehearsing in advance. Take turns at demonstrating products with your colleagues. 3. Be completely familiar with any safety considerations associated with the product. Case Study: Piano Virtuoso When my daughter was 7 or 8 years old she expressed an interest in learning to play the piano. So we headed out on a shopping expedition to purchase a piano. Having no experience in anything musical, I relied on the knowledge of the salesperson in the retail store. What would be best for her as a beginner? Which makes and models held their value best in case she didn't maintain her interest? And so on. In one store we came across a knowledgeable salesperson who clearly enjoyed seeing a child being introduced to a musical instrument. He answered my questions, translated the features into benefits and took an interest in my daughter as well as me. He almost had us there... then he blew it! He sat down at the piano to demonstrate and proceeded to stun us by playing the most amazing piece. Then he got up and asked my daughter to have a go. She wouldn't go near the piano. He had totally intimidated her with his virtuoso performance. We politely excused ourselves and a few days later bought the same piano from another retail store where my daughter didn't feel intimidated. The lesson from this is that whether you are demonstrating a new computer gizmo or an electrical guitar if you concentrate on showing off your skills rather than demonstrating ease of use, you may intimidate the customer. And if they are unwilling to try it they are unlikely to buy it. These tips come from Jurek Leon's new two volume, 'Retail Selling: The Complete Do-It-Yourself Training Programme'. Check the Terrific Trading website for more tips and information on the DIY program. Jurek Leon is a storyteller, trainer and coach. Subscribe to Jurek's FREE monthly 'Terrific Tips' e-newsletter at http://www.terrifictrading.com and find out about his 'Retail Selling: The Complete Do-It-Yourself Training Programme'. Alternatively, email firstname.lastname@example.com. 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The former supreme allied commander of NATO, now a Burkle Center senior fellow, and UCLA law professors discuss provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Clark disputes need for "rough treatment" of detainees on practical, moral, and geo-strategic grounds.
[See coverage of the Oct. 2 discussion with Gen. Clark in the Los Angeles Times and the Daily Bruin.]
Addressing a UCLA audience for the first time as a senior fellow for the Burkle Center for International Relations, Gen. Wesley K. Clark (U.S. Army, ret.) expressed dismay at Congress' apparent embrace of indefinite detention and some forms of torture for terrorism suspects in the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Congress sent the bill to President Bush Sept. 29, the day after the Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restored the right of captured individuals to have their detention reviewed by a judge.
From counterterrorism and geo-strategic perspectives, Clark told invited guests at the Oct. 2, 2006, breakfast, America's turning away from the spirit of the Geneva Conventions is an example of "shooting ourselves in the gut." Clark is a former supreme allied commander of NATO and a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
But Clark made his case most forcefully on moral grounds, highlighting an incompatibility between torture and both societal and military virtues. Excerpts from his comments and from those of UCLA law school lecturer Jack Beard, a former Pentagon lawyer, are given below. Professor Ron Rogowski, vice provost and dean of the UCLA International Institute, introduced Clark; and Professor of Law Kal Raustiala, who also teaches courses in the Institute's Global Studies interdepartmental program, provided a summary of the issues at stake in the approved legislation.
The Oct. 2 breakfast, featuring responses to the Military Commissions Act and to suggestions that the Geneva Conventions are obsolete, was co-sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center and the School of Law. According to press accounts, the legislation will, among other things, give President Bush wide latitude to decide what constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of detainees under the Geneva Conventions; to declare individuals, including U.S. citizens, "enemy combatants" under an expanded definition of that term; and to hold these people indefinitely so long as they are not charged and tried. Many observers read the legislation to rule out the most severe interrogation techniques, including one that simulates drowning.
Also on Monday, the legislation drew its first U.S. legal challenge. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruled that Common Article III of the Geneva Conventions governed the detention of Al Qaeda members. That ruling and resistance from within the Central Intelligence Agency to the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques reportedly led the Bush administration to seek the legislation.
On practical benefits of the Geneva Conventions:
On the one hand, because of who we are and what we represent our soldiers have received a privileged status. On the other hand, all the cruelty in the world doesn't by itself break the spirit, break the will to resist, or end a fight; in fact, it strengthens and hardens resolve.
On effective interrogations:
I don't know where the desire to resort to rough methods comes from.…Look, if you put people under pressure, some will talk. The less disciplined they are, the less cohesive the organization, the more they'll talk; and the less pain you need. The more disciplined, the more cohesive, the less likely it is you'll break them....
If you look at Al Qaeda, although they're getting financial assistance from all over the world, they're not living in mansions. They're not really getting rich. Apparently Osama bin Laden, despite the fact that he has several wives, lives in caves. There's reason to believe they're a pretty tough, hardened organization. So you can't anticipate that they're going to break under pressure easily.
What we have found in our experience in interrogation over centuries in armed forces worldwide is that you have to get people to talk voluntarily....
The Yemenis have gone so far with Al Qaeda as actually having imams come in and doing "deprogramming," and actually arguing with terrorists…[with] some success. Then, of course, they apologize, they blurt out everything you want, and you can believe it.
On torture and U.S. military values:
We thought we were in this uniform because we stood for something. We stood for what was right, what was fair, what was just: we didn't torture people. I certainly wouldn't have stayed in an armed forces or worked with a government that I thought was doing the same skulduggery that the Soviets and the rest of them were doing. That's what we were against. How can it be that we think we can condone that kind of stuff now?
Torture not justified because there are "bad people":
We've heard that argument. We heard it in Argentina with the desaparecidos. We've heard it all over Latin America. We've heard it in Europe. We read it in novels. We know enough, surely, not to trust it. We've seen it in history. We've seen great empires like Rome lose their moral authority totally when they departed from humane standards of treatment.
On geo-strategic grounds for following international norms:
We've got to have allies to help us win this war on terror. The only way those countries work with us is through our moral legitimacy. We shaped the post-Cold War environment. It was America that led the effort to create the Geneva Conventions. And now we're walking away from it? What happened to that shining beacon that was America when we can walk away from the very values that we've espoused?
And then there's the future.... There will come a time when maybe America isn't the only superpower, and maybe not even the preeminent superpower. If you look at the economic map—assuming that we can get a grip on challenges like global warming—then it's reasonable to expect that India and China…will at some point have at least equal and maybe greater capacity than the United States. I'm not trying in any way to diminish what we consider exceptional about America, but it's just a reality that scale is one of the most important laws in economics. And they've got scale on us. And we've got to set rules of international behavior that work to our interest, that other nations will agree with and voluntarily adopt as their own. I like to think of these as the Golden Rules of international behavior: do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
These "golden rules" that you speak of have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. They've eliminated all sorts of different types of unnecessary suffering of combatants. They've saved untold numbers of civilians from all sorts of discriminatory actions…
As we sit here this morning, the radio airwaves in America are speaking a different story, and it's very disturbing as someone who has practiced in the area…to hear the Geneva Conventions described as an exclusive, wonderful way to provide nothing but basically resort treatment to terrorists. That through these conventions the terrorists receive every possible luxury they can have. "They're happy people now. Our hands are tied. We can't fight the war, and anyone who says otherwise is unpatriotic…."
On the contrary, in the long run [adherence to international standards] is the only way you win.
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WASHINGTON -- One of the big topics on Capitol Hill last week was the ongoing investigation into the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya. And members of Maine's congressional delegation -- including one who isn't even an official member yet -- were in the thick of the discussion.
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Maine's two Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, serve on Senate committees that are probing the September attacks that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Collins made headlines Tuesday morning when she said it was "absolutely imperative" that former CIA Director David Petraeus testify to Congress, despite his recent resignation amid a scandal over an extramarital affair. Petraeus appeared before congressional committees late in the week.
But Collins also made news when she said a Watergate-style investigation was unnecessary and, in the process, appeared to "ding" fellow Republican Sen. John McCain, of Arizona, for missing a closed-door briefing on Benghazi. McCain was holding a news conference on his desire for a special select committee during the briefing to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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"All I was trying to point out is that he's a very valuable member of our committee, so he would be involved in all the briefings, the hearings and investigation," Collins told NBC. "And thus, I don't think that it's necessary to create a whole new separate committee. Our committee has a history of doing independent, bipartisan, comprehensive across-the-board investigations."
Maine Sen.-elect Angus King, meanwhile, added his thoughts on whether Susan Rice's statements on Benghazi should disqualify her for the secretary of state job. McCain and other Republicans have vowed to oppose Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, over the statements suggesting the attacks may have been tied to protests over an anti-Islamic video.
"I watched some of those comments yesterday and I don't really like starting out my Senate career -- I'm not even sworn in yet -- getting crosswise with some of the leaders of the other party. But I thought it was a bit premature," King, an independent, said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
Snowe was slated to talk about Benghazi on CBS' Sunday morning news program, "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer. Snowe participated in several closed-door briefings on Benghazi in recent days as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Earlier in the week, Snowe was withholding judgment on whether a select committee was necessary. But she was critical of the lack of answers or progress on bringing the attackers to justice.
In the mid-1980s, Snowe helped develop legislation that established the U.S. Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service to oversee security of State Department facilities worldwide following a surge in attacks on U.S. facilities abroad.
"But, frankly, it's inconceivable to me that we would not have provided the necessary resources to provide for the protection and defense of that consulate," Snowe told the Portland Press Herald. "That was the purpose of the initial law creating the bureau to begin with because we had a lapse in security that ultimately led to attacks on our embassies and on our men and women."
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U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, D-2nd District, is asking leading defense officials for answers to how the military lost, destroyed or failed to keep combat records for many incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Such records can provide important documentation for veterans later seeking treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs. A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Seattle Times found lax record-keeping for some units in the two wars.
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