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Uganda Juniors Lift Trophies
Uganda's Kampala Kids League (KKL), young players from several parts of the East African country capped their remarkable run in Denmark's junior soccer league by winning prestigious summer trophies.
The KKL snared the Tivoli cup, the Gothia cup and the FFD Premier Cup tournaments. This past Saturday, the KKL beat Thisted U-16 Academy team 3-0, in the Århus fifth edition. The bigger Danish first division academy team did their homework well on KKL and gave a strong performance in the first half, closing down KKL in midfield and shutting out KKL's dangerous wingers.
But in the second period after Ibrahim "Saddam" Juma was upended in the box by Morten Nystrup, Saddam coolly converted the penalty 12 minutes after recess when he sent Thisted's custodian Steffan Kirk the wrong way.
Two minutes later Mike Mutyaba, the "Golden Boot" winner, scored a cracking volley after a stunning 3-man evasion move that had the crowd, including several Danish scouts giving a standing innovation in appreciation.
In the 75th minute it was all over as "Saddam" tapped in from a Ssali Mose cross. On Monday the team flew back to Uganda with Brussels Airlines with suitcases filled with trophies and medals. Main sponsor Stanbic Bank is planning a big party for the team this week.
KKL have now have won 15 international trophies in six years.
Team Leader Trevor Dudley says, "This has to be KKL's greatest triumph. This week I have watched the Ugandan boys play selected top academy teams one year older and much bigger than themselves. They were intimidated, kicked, chased, pressed and splattered to the ground time and time again. We spent whole evenings patching the team up ready to face the next onslaught. They have learnt what professional football is all about these days in Europe. I am so proud of them. They have now put Uganda football on the European academy shopping lists."
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The agreement with new managers for the Baltimore Grand Prix looked risky for city taxpayers when MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration signed it in February. With little visible progress since then on putting this year's race together, and with signs of dissent among the new race promoters, it now looks much worse. It's time for city officials to give up on the notion of holding another IndyCar race in Baltimore this year.
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Summary of events, quotes, articles of the time, first-hand accounts, suggested readings and pictures (Graphic).
Summary of Events Leading up to the Genocide
Somewhat surprisingly to many, Armenians and Turks lived in relative harmony in the Ottoman Empire for centuries. Armenians were known as the "loyal millet". During these times, although Armenians were not equal and had to put up with certain special hardships, taxes and second class citizenship, they were pretty well accepted and there was relatively little violent conflict. Things began to change for a number of reasons. Nationalism, a new force in the world, reared its head and made ethnic groupings self-conscious, and the Ottoman Empire began to crumble. It became known as "the sick man of Europe" and the only thing holding it together was the European powers' lack of agreement on how to split it up.
As other Christian minorities gained their independence one by one, the Armenians became more isolated as the only major Christian minority. Armenians and Turks began to have conflicting dreams of the future. Some Armenians began to call for independence like the Greeks and others had already received, while some Turks began to envision a new Pan-Turkic empire spreading all the way to Turkic speaking parts of Central Asia. Armenians were the only ethnic group in between these two major pockets of Turkish speakers and the nationalist Turks wanted to get rid of them altogether.
As European powers began to ask for assurances that Armenians receive better treatment, the government began to treat the Armenians worse and worse. From 1894-6 hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in the Hamidian Massacres ordered by Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
A coup by 'progressive' Young Turks in 1908 replacing the Sultans government was supported by Armenians. Unfortunately, promised reforms never came, and in fact a triumvirate of extreme Turkish nationalists took complete dictatorial control, Enver, Jemal and Talat. It was they who masterminded the plan to completely eradicate the Armenian race in a step towards fulfilling their pan-Turkic dreams.
The Genocide
World War One gave the Young Turk government the cover and the excuse to carry out their plan. The plan was simple and its goal was clear. On April 24th 1915, commemorated worldwide by Armenians as Genocide Memorial Day, hundreds of Armenian leaders were murdered in Istanbul after being summoned and gathered. The now leaderless Armenian people were to follow. Across the Ottoman Empire (with the exception of Constantinople, presumably due to a large foreign presence), the same events transpired from village to village, from province to province.
The remarkable thing about the following events is the virtually complete cooperation of the Armenians. For a number of reasons they did not know what was planned for them and went along with "their" government's plan to "relocate them for their own good." First, the Armenians were asked to turn in hunting weapons for the war effort. Communities were often given quotas and would have to buy additional weapons from Turks to meet their quota. Later, the government would claim these weapons were proof that Armenians were about to rebel. The able bodied men were then "drafted" to help in the wartime effort. These men were either immediately killed or were worked to death. Now the villages and towns, with only women, children, and elderly left were systematically emptied. The remaining residents would be told to gather for a temporary relocation and to only bring what they could carry. The Armenians again obediently followed instructions and were "escorted" by Turkish Gendarmes in death marches.
The death marches led across Anatolia, and the purpose was clear. The Armenians were raped, starved, dehydrated, murdered, and kidnapped along the way. The Turkish Gendarmes either led these atrocities or turned a blind eye. Their eventual destination for resettlement was just as telling in revealing the Turkish governments goal: the Syrian Desert, Der Zor. Those who miraculously survived the march would arrive to this bleak desert only to be killed upon arrival or to somehow survive until a way to escape the empire was found. Usually those that survived and escaped received assistance from those who have come to be known as "good Turks," from foreign missionaries who recorded much of these events and from Arabs.
After The Genocide
After the war ended, the Turkish government held criminal trials and found the triumvirate guilty in abstentia. All three were later executed by Armenians. Turkey agreed to let the US draw the border between the newly born Republic of Armenia and the Turkish government. What is now called Wilsonian Armenia included most of the six western Ottoman provinces as well as a large coastline on the Black Sea. Cilicia, a separate Armenian region on the Mediterranean, was to be a French mandate. Mustafa Kemal's forces pushed the newly returned Armenian refugees and forces from these lands and forced a new treaty to be written which was an insult to Armenian victims. They were basically told never to return and that they would never receive compensation. The Kars and Ardahan provinces of Armenia were taken as well in an agreement with the Soviet Union.
Contemporary Events
On the 50th anniversary of the genocide, the scattered survivors of the genocide and their children around the world began commemorating the genocide on April 24th, the day which marked the start of the full-scale massacres in 1915. Many Armenian Genocide Monuments have been built around the world since, as well as smaller plaques and dedications.
The Turkish government has in the past few decades been denying that a genocide ever occurred and spending millions of dollars to further that view. This is adding insult to injury and will cause bad feelings to continue much longer than would otherwise be the case between the peoples. Those who say forget about it, it is in the past, are wrong. Unless crimes like this are faced up to and compensated for, they will be committed again and again by people who do not fear prosecution or justice. Read what Hitler said before beginning the Jewish Holocaust here.
A class action suit against New York Life insurance company by genocide survivors was filed in 1999. They were sued for not being forthcoming in paying up for policies of those killed in the genocide. The suit was settled in 2004 for $20 million, and payouts began to individuals and some Armenian charitable organizations.
Other Information
- Gruesome Pictures
- Quotes. Hitler, Atatürk, US Ambassador, etc.
- Survivor and eyewitness accounts. - Add your family story.
- Contemporary articles in major western newspapers.
- Online Texts about the genocide. Including Books, treaties, and essays.
- International Recognition of Armenian Genocide
- Turkish Recognition of Armenian Genocide
- Turkish Denial of Armenian Genocide
- Armenian Genocide Books
- Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission, aka TARC.
- Settlement for descendents of genocide - New York Life Settlement, Axa Insurance Settlement, Deutsche Bank Settlement
- Armenian Genocide Monuments
- Armenian Genocide Films
Armenian Genocide Links
- Armeniapedia.org
- http://www.armenian-genocide.org
- http://www.genocide.am
- http://www.genocide.ru/rus./
- http://www.never-again.com
- http://www.asamsu.ru/scoro2.php
- http://www.genocideevents.com/
- http://www.theforgotten.org/
- http://www.genocide1915.info/
- http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/genocide.html
- http://www.cilicia.com/armo10.html
- http://www.Armenocide.de
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Workloads involving relationships amongst data, complexity of the data or the need to operate on multiple keys/records at once need some of the recently added functions to 2.0 which include distributed indexing and querying, JSON storage, online compaction, incremental map reduce and cross data center replication.
Document stores tend to be excellent for logging online events of different types when those events can have varying characteristics. They work well as pseudo content management systems that support website content. Due to their ability to manipulate at a granular level, document stores are good for real-time analytics that change dynamically for which the application can take advantage of immediately.
Key-value stores have historically (ok, it's all a short history) performed better than the more functional document stores. Couchbase is navigating their capabilities forward in a very sensible manner. There is no reason for performance degradation or lack of functionality and Couchbase is beginning to show this. While there's still a release or two to go to be at a functionality standard for document stores, Couchbase is coming at it from a strong performance base.
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Social institutions
The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) measures gender-based discrimination in social norms, practices and laws across 160 countries. The SIGI comprises country profiles, a classification of countries and a database; it serves as a research, policy and advocacy tool for the development community and policy makers.
The SIGI covers five dimensions of discriminatory social institutions, spanning major socio-economic areas that affect women's lives: discriminatory family code, restricted physical integrity, son bias, restricted resources and assets, and restricted civil liberties. The SIGI's variables quantify discriminatory social institutions such as unequal inheritance rights, early marriage, violence against women, and unequal land and property rights.
In the Social Institutions and Gender Index 2014 Edition , Uzbekistan has medium levels of discrimination against women in social institutions. It has lower discrimination in son bias and higher discrimination in restricted access to resources and assets. Read the full country profile and access the data here: http://www.genderindex.org/country/uzbekistan
The Women, business and the law
Where are laws equal for men and women?
The Women, Business and the Law, 2012 presents indicators based on laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees. Several of these indicators draw on the Gender Law Library, a collection of over 2,000 legal provisions impacting women's economic status. This report does not seek to judge or rank countries, but to provide information to inform discussions about women's economic rights. Covering 128 economies, Women, Business and the Law provides data covering 6 areas: accessing institutions,using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit, and going to court.Read more about the methodology.
For detailed information on Uzbekistan, please visit the Women, Business and the Law Uzbekistan
The FAO Gender and Landrights Database
The FAO Gender and Landrights Database contains country level information on social, economic, political and cultural issues related to the gender inequalities embedded in those rights. Disparity on land access
is one of the major causes for social and gender in rural areas, and it jeopardizes, as a consequence, rural food security as well as the wellbeing of individuals and families.
Six categories
The Database offers information on the 6 following Categories:
- National legal frame
- International treaties and conventions
- Customary law
- Land tenure and related Institutions
- Civil society organizations • Selected Land Related Statistics
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Open Thread Friday: Most Characteristic American Breweries
I'd like to include an American brewery or two (or three). The problem: there are 1700 of them and the ones I've seen are largely in Oregon. So here's your charge, should you be willing to take it: offer your choice and tell me what makes it illustrative of American brewing as well as somehow unique. A couple examples I've been thinking about.
1. Double Mountain. Reasons: the brewery is a great example of a classic American craft brewery on the one hand--they do lots of beers wholly characteristic of the region (pick an IPA, any IPA), and tend to put an American twist on every style they brew. Double Mountain is also a brewery evolving into something distinctively local. Owner/brewer Matt Swihart has orchard land--in one of America's premier fruit-growing regions--and has begun to incorporate his own fruit into Double Mountain's beer.
2. Anheuser-Busch. There's nothing quite so American as a titantic brewery, and there's no brewery quite so titantic as A-B. But more than that, A-B has been a leader in a number of technologies going all the way back to the use of adjuncts in the 19th century. Macro lager might be easily dismissed gastronomically, but as a fixture in the brewing world, it's a little hard to match.
You see how I'm thinking about these things? Give me your ideas--particularly those from beyond Beervana.
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Fullsteam Brewery (Durham, NC). Reasons: They brew classic American styles using a distinctly Southern agricultural and culinary twist. For example, there are few styles more American than a cream ale. Fullsteam brews its El Toro Cream Ale using North Carolina corn grits. The brewery also brews some of its "easy-drinking Southern session beers" with North Carolina sweet potatoes, and local persimmons, paw paws and basil are ingredients in some of its seasonal releases.ReplyDelete
Oskar Blues Brewery, Longmont, Colo.ReplyDelete
First craft beer distributed in aluminum cans, 2002. Now 450 craft beers from 150 different breweries distributed in cans; comprises 11% of volume of craft beer sales.
Founded by Dale Katechis in 1997. 36th largest US craft and 49th largest US brewing company [both based on volume 2010 beer sales]. Portfolio of more than 24 beers; the 7th canned artisan beer becomes available this Spring. Signature beer are rated Good to World Class at BA.
OBB actively supports local products, charities, and initiatives including Colorado State Univ.'s initiative to develop a commercial Colorado hops industry.
I agree with Double Mountain! My girl wanted to go to Full Sail, I wanted to go to Double Mountain We went to both, but DM had the far superior beer! And she loves the IPA beers and was glad we went! The Beer rocks even better with the pizza!ReplyDelete
I have to agree with Win about Fullsteam. While I haven't been able to visit yet and have only been able to try the Summer Basil Ale thanks to a friend who brought a growler last year, I've been following the project from the beginning. The integration of hyper-local ingredients (hell, no one even cultivates paw paws, they're all foraged) is about as American as brewing can get.ReplyDelete
I'll also advocate for including Yuengling (oldest American brewery) and Anchor (oldest craft brewery) to the list.
I suggest Deschutes. They started out small. They made good beers and people supported them. They have grown up, for sure, and their reach is substantial today. But they still make terrific beers, including special beers you generally can't get in a bottle. So much of what they do is first rate. They are a quintessential American brewery in my book. Of course, they are in Oregon.ReplyDelete
Agree about Anchor Brewing in San Francisco. Granddaddy of craft brewing, Anchor Steam is a quintessentially American beer, etc. Agree about Yuengling too. Others? Victory, Downingtown, PA, for consistently high-quality beer across a range of styles. Sierra Nevada, Chico, CA, for going the distance for more than three decades, and still going strong.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:38 PM, January 13, 2012
I'd suggest Anchor due to their history as basically the original American craft brewery, although I don't actually know much about their brewery itself.ReplyDelete
Win (and ElGordo), thanks. That's exactly the kind of obscure brewery (to me) I hoped to hear about.ReplyDelete
Well, of course Spoetzl Brewery in Texas, the makers of Shiner, founded in 1909. The brewery and the community were a snapshot of pre-prohibition Czech-American brewing until the late 1980's when Gambrinus bought them. It's still pretty quaint, just with marketing savvy and real management and quality control backing it up now.ReplyDelete
Another brewery with a colorful pre-prohibition story to tell is Oklahoma's Choc Beer. In the 1920's an Italian-born coal miner started a restaurant and served his guests untaxed homemade beer made from a scary sounding Choctaw Indian recipe. He kept it up right through prohibition. The company is still owned by the same family, but they're modern and legal now, and making some pretty good beers.
FX Matt in Utica, NY. Has brewed everything from Utica Club to Garrett Oliver's finest. Survivor in a survivor of a city. Brewing since 1888.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:25 PM, January 13, 2012
Abita Brewing Company of Abita Springs, LA (abita.com) is my suggestion. 1st craft brewer in Louisiana - uses artesian spring water that's almost like the water in Pilsen - home of the Pilsner. In addition to creating great brews (Turbodog, Purple Haze) they also do some pretty nice charitable brews - Restoration and SOS. Their Strawberry Harvest brew is a sensation -- people hoard the stuff. Love these guys.ReplyDelete
Further, I secondReplyDelete
- Deschutes
- Sierra Nevada
- Victory
All exceptional USofA craft breweries.
Nominations still open, I suggest Boulder Beer Co.
Founded at the tailend of the anti-establishment/back-to-craft 1970s, Boulder Beer became the 43rd breweries operating in the USA in 1979; 31 years later [and several name changes] it keep on ticking and is available in 35 states [of the USofA].
Interesting back stories, include: Two of the three founders were Univ. of Colorado AstroPhysic professors. And BBC is [allegedly] credited with resurrecting/reviving the Porter beer style.
Sam Adams - Started small and local then grew to be national. Started with the original family recipe from the 1870's. They brew a wide variety of seasonal styles including bocks, porters, stouts, and saisons. They support local home brewers by running a contest every year and selling the winner at Pats games. They also brew small specialty batches including my current favorite: "The Vixen" - a chocolate chili bock.ReplyDelete
Consider including a brewpub chain. A national chain such asReplyDelete
- BJ's Restaurant and Brewery [est. 1978; 103 sites in 13 states]
- Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants [est. 1988; 29 sites in 18 states]
- Rock Bottom Restaurant Breweries [est. 1991; 35 sites in 15 states]
or a regional chain such as
- McMenamins [est. 1983; 60- sites in 02 states]
Several brewpub chains report
- consistent / drinkable beer with the same recipes used nationally
- conventional beer styles
- flagship beer recipes unchanged for decades
The three national chain above have each received numerous GABF medals. Dates and numbers from wikip.
Not to be so Pro-Oregon, but what about Breakside? The brewspace (system + square footage) has an amazing output. After describing a larger brewery, it might be interesting to then compare a, "smaller, " one. I know there is an algebraic equation in there somewhere. Output ÷ (bbl system + sq ft) oh, oh and include hours in a day. Bill, are you getting excited?ReplyDelete
Jack, a chain might be an interesting idea. But maybe Pizza Port should get the nod?ReplyDelete
I have no knowledge of Pizza Port [excepting, Google search reveals 04 sites in Southern Calif.]
to me, the Beer Bible should not be too West Coast centric [it would be nice if a reader should directly utilize the information therein]
your name is the one on the title page [how cool is that].
OK, I got the Central time zone down to 20 (thouhg I'm already having second thoughts), chosen for a combination of beer and stories within the breweries:ReplyDelete
Goose Island
Great Lakes
Jolly Pumpkin
Live Oak
Lucky Bucket
New Glarus
New Holland
Real Ale
Saint Arnold
This is getting complicated. I think you'll have to go ahead and write your Beer Bible, then follow up with a Beer Book of Mormon that profiles all the offbeat breweries of North America.ReplyDelete
I'd like to throw Yuengling in there. Not only is it the oldest, and now largest American brewery, but it's also a bit of a living time capsule. Less so for the actual beer they produce than the fact that regional commercial breweries were once a huge part of the U.S. beer landscape.ReplyDelete
An American craft beer story that encompasses an appreciation for experimentation & other cultures, specifically Belgian style beers, can be seen, here, in Portland, Maine, with Allagash Brewing Company! To quote their website, "Today, Allagash has six year round beers in its portfolio, seven yearly releases and numerous one-offs and keg only releases. We continue to be successful by pushing the limits of beer and themselves. We have always strived to produce the finest Belgian inspired and experimental ales this side of the Atlantic. Allagash began as New England's original Belgian-Style brewery and have grown into one of the industry's most distinguished and well-respected brands.ReplyDelete
I'd second Jolly Pumpkin; the focus on barrel-aging, blending, and bugging makes it different than many of the other breweries out there.ReplyDelete
I certainly know the agony of trying to cover "the most characteristic American breweries" when there are far too many to write about. I included 14 in RWB b/c that was a mere 1% of the # of breweries in the US when I started. There aren't just 1,700 anymore. There are over 1,900 at this point. They open so often now, there will likely be 2,000 by summertime!ReplyDelete
So, while you could pick 30 and still leave an equally worthy 30 off your list, I'd recommend: Yuengling for its history and family-run foundation, Anchor also for its history and importance to the craft revolution, and New Glarus for its focus on localism and ingenuity. Combined, they cover East Coast, "flyover" territory, and West Coast.
Brewer's Art in Baltimore is really great. Mostly Belgian style and amazing food as well.ReplyDelete
I think a tour through the Michigan breweries would be a nice mix (from Jolly Pumpkin to Founders to Bells).ReplyDelete
Also, it may be worth looking at one of the new gypsy brewers (Pretty Things or Stillwater are good ones). While they don't have a brewery per se, the entire type of brewer could definitely be a worthwhile topic to write about.


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Following reports that Treasury Secreatary Timothy Geithner may not return for President Obama's second term, the Washington Post reports that the president is expected to be nominate Jacob Lew for the position this week.
Lew, the White House chief of staff, was also a behind-the-scenes fixture during the Clinton administration and served as chief operating officer for New York University and Citigroup, among other organizations.
Lew previously served as Obama's budget director and a senior State Department official. He also was budget director during the Clinton administration and has been negotiating bipartisan compromises over taxes and spending since the 1980s, when he was a top aide to then-House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) …
Lew will be taking over Treasury at a time of serious challenges to the nation's economic picture. Congress is facing a battle over raising the $16.4 trillion debt limit, as well as a clash over how to stop deep spending cuts, which are set to take effect in early March. A continuing resolution funding the government expires later that month, setting the stage for battle that could lead to a government shutdown.
The nomination also means that Obama will have to choose a new chief of staff. Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Biden, is among the rumored candidates, as is Denis McDonough, a deputy national security adviser.
Lew's nomination is the latest as Obama rounds out his second-term team. This week, he nominated former senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) as his next secretary of defense and counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan as director of the CIA.
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Throat full of frogs
Posted by James Briggs on May 16, 2006
In Reply to: Throat full of frogs posted by ESC on May 16, 2006
: : throat full of frogs
: I have heard: "I have a frog in my throat." Said by a person who is hoarse or needs to clear his throat.
To have a frog in the throat describes a choking sensation in the throat.
Here's a suggested origin:
In the past in was feared that a frog was really present when this sensation occurred. In olden times people often drank from ponds and streams; there was always the possibility of swallowing a whole animal or, worse, its eggs. If the eggs were taken in, then they were said to hatch inside and, when ready to come out, would cause a choking feeling.
However, 'our' archives say that it comes from OE 'frogga', meaning 'hoarseness'. Personally, the expression for me is one of choking, not hoarseness: thus I'm not convinced by the 'frogga' origin.
- Frog in my throat RRC 16/May/06
- Frog in my throat pamela 18/May/06


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Does John have a brother called Don?
Dave, Dave, or Dave?
How bout a cuppa?
Does John have a brother called Don?
Dave, Dave, or Dave?
How bout a cuppa?
'....and MINING IN NATIONAL ****ING PARKS. and these bell-ends won a landslide second term. A FIRM HAND ON THE TILL, A GREAT BIG **** PISSING ONTO A HUMAN FACE FOREVER.'
Brad McNamara @bbuzzmc
Will say this once and then nothing else. Defamation laws quite clear in Aus.be careful.
Having said that, I do like Nanaia Mahuta. No one seems to have a bad word to say about her and her work ethic. I hope the fact that she's Cunliffe's running mate won't count against her too much if Shearer wins.
Meanwhile, ACT has somehow managed to dictate education policy, despite winning less than 1% of the vote. How did that happen? Token portfolios outside Cabinet would have been more enough for that joke of a party. And it's an education policy I very strongly oppose as well.
ACT being given anything is mind boggling.
I'd find ACT's supposed libertarian philosophy a lot easier to believe if they weren't led by the far right.
Speaking of which, I have a bad feeling the Conservative Party will emerge on the scene since National need some mates under MMP. In NZ we're pretty fortunate that both major parties (in their current form) are sane and won't destroy the country (unlike say the current Republican Party in the States), but we really need to keep Colin Craig and his merry band of wankers away from parliament, and I say this as someone who voted for National in the last election.
Yep, no disagreement from me on that. Some scary ideas in that party.
I think we might also get some unpleasant surprises amongst this bunch of unknowns Winston's bringing to Parliament with him. No one thought he'd get back in - especially with that number of seats - so we haven't heard much about them, but what I have heard has been... colourful. Climate change denial, rampant xenophobia, etc.
I think the guy who wants South Island independence is awesome. He's going to be a great comedy act.
It actually makes sense economically for the North Island to ditch since Christchurch is a bottomless pit financially.
And if we found oil in the Southern Ocean we could fight the world's most pathetic war over it.
I imagine this thread will be seen as quaint by everyone else.
Shearer seems awesome. He's got a bit under 3 years to get ready for the election, and by then his profile should be nicely built. Like Ed says his credentials are amazing and on the world stage he'll put John Key to shame.
The whole John Banks ACT thing pisses me off no end. Mostly because it can be seen as a negative for the MMP system, which is still by far the best. Still, I don't see ACT gaining popularity and getting anymore people next election.
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R.I.P. Fardin & Craig
New NZ First MP: 'Ban the burqa' - National - NZ Herald News
It's starting already...
What were some of Winston's main policies heading into this election?
Do most NZ posters think he's an attention-seeking ****, or is he alright?
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Mr Becker, what makes a good landing?
Captain Becker, is a good landing necessarily a soft landing?
For us professionals, other criteria apply: The landing needs to be safe, and that has nothing to do with "soft." The airplane should be landed in the touchdown zone, which has markings similar to zebra stripes – as passengers can occasionally observe from the window. If the landing is soft in good weather, all the better, but on a snow-covered runway, where there's a risk of aquaplaning, or in high winds, the aircraft requires a harder touchdown to ensure swift contact with the ground so that the plane can brake. In other words, the first priority is to land safely, the second, softly.
Is it always the captain who lands the plane?
The captain is responsible for the safety of the flight, and so in difficult conditions – when there are heavy side winds or complex system failures – he or she is responsible for landing the plane. As a general rule, though, captain and co-pilot take turns, one flying out, say, the other back. That way, the co-pilot has the chance to gain the experience necessary to fly as a captain later on.
How do pilots practice landing?
Landing is learned almost exclusively in simulators. These days, the simulators are so like the real thing that the technique of landing an airplane safely really can be acquired there. There are some airports for which particular approaches need to be practiced, and they include Kathmandu, Nepal, and La Paz, Bolivia. The legendary but now no longer operational Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong was also a special case, where you had to fly a long right-hand curve almost until you touched down – a really exciting task for any pilot.


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The distributor has made a pre-emptive swoop on North American, Latin American and Eastern European rights. Focus Features International handles the rest of the world and introduced the Mike Leigh project at the EFM last month.
Untitled Mike Leigh 13 will star the film-maker's occasional collaborator Timothy Spall as the renowned British artist JMW Turner. Leigh has planned the film for over a decade and is finally ready to commence principal photography this spring for a 2014 release.
For full production details visit
Georgina Lowe produces and Gail Egan serves as executive producer. Production partners include Film4, British Film Institute, Focus Features International, LipSync and Xofa Productions.
The National Gallery, Tate Britain and the Royal Academy have granted special access to some of Turner's original works.
"Turner as a character is compelling," said Leigh in a statement. "I want to explore the man, his working life, his relationships and how he lived. But what fascinates me most is the drama that lies in the tension between this driven eccentric and the epic, timeless world he evoked in his masterpieces.
"I also see rich tragic-comic potential in his often turbulent relationship with the English art establishment, especially in his later years, when his increasingly radical work was misunderstood and derided."
"We are convinced Mike Leigh and JMW Turner are a match made in movie heaven," said SPC. "We are so pleased to be in partnership with Mike and his producers with a story that promises to be his best film ever."
Leigh added: "After our successful collaboration on Another Year, it is great to be reunited with Sony Pictures Classics."


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Through an interdisciplinary approach, the Digital Design program produces artists and designers who will use technology in innovative ways and promotes an understanding of the cultural impact and uses of digital technologies. Students will be prepared for as future designers and art directors entering the field on the cutting edge of electronic design.
For information about enrolling in Digital Design, visit the CU Denver Digital Design page. View examples of student work for individual courses at Camarts.org


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What's it like to walk in the shoes of Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy?
Surveying the collateral damage from Hurricane Sandy in Old Greenwich, where three homes were destroyed by a fire, Malloy became a posterboy for GORE-TEX.
And we're not talking Al Gore.
Malloy clutched the mailbox of one of the homes to avoid stepping in a large puddle.
His brown loafers seemed impractical, especially to Mr. Eastern Mountain Sports himself, fellow Democrat Jim Himes, the congressman from Greenwich.
Himes quipped, "I know what I'm getting you for Christmas."


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Is there any harm in walking away from an insurance policy without receiving confirmation that the policy was canceled by the carrier?
Walking away from a policy without following the cancellation procedure specified in the contract may not be enough to terminate the policy and could come back to bite the insured years down the road. We find a poignant example of the dangers of failing to properly cancel a policy in a recent Tax Court case that considered whether taxpayers were correctly taxed on a canceled policy loan when the couple did not specifically authorize the loan and believed that the policy had been canceled for more than 20 years. [Feder v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, T.C. Memo. 2012-10 (2012)].
As we have seen, if a policy is terminated and a policy loan forgiven, the insured will be on the hook for the amount of debt that is canceled, less their investment in the contract. What is unique about this case is that the Feders were not aware that the policy was still in existence or that they had taken a policy loan, as the loan was automatically funded due to a clause in the contract that kicked in when the couple stopped making premium payments.
Taxpayers are usually taken aback by the tax liability when their policy is canceled with an outstanding loan, but the Feders had twice the surprise because they weren't aware that the loan had been made or that the policy was even in existence.
Cancellation of Debt Income
Income from a discharge of indebtedness is generally taxed. Cash received from a loan is not taxed–the borrower will have to pay back the loan, so it is not income to the borrower. But if the loan is forgiven and the borrower is no longer required to repay, the borrower has received income.
The general principle that a forgiveness of debt equals income is applicable when a taxpayer's life insurance policy is terminated when a policy loan is outstanding.
There are exceptions to the rule that a forgiveness of debt is includable in a taxpayer's gross income. Under IRC Section 108, a forgiveness of debt is not includable in a taxpayer's gross income to the extent that the taxpayer is insolvent immediately before the loan is forgiven. The Feders did not argue that this applied to their case.
In 1982, the Feders purchased a life insurance policy with a $50,000 death benefit and $73 quarterly premium payments from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. The Feders paid the premiums for about five years. Shortly thereafter, they sent Northwestern Mutual a letter asking that the policy be canceled, effective immediately, and informing the carrier of the couple's new address. No further communication was received from Northwestern until 2008, when the policy was actually canceled.
Between 1987 and 2007, the carrier made premium payments on behalf of the Feders through the policy's automatic policy loan feature. Then, in May 2007, the policy was canceled when its cash value dropped to the point where the premium payments could no longer be made from cash value. The policy then lapsed, and Northwestern Mutual used the policy's $12,654 cash value to pay off the loan. The Feders' investment in the contract, $7,029, was subtracted from that amount to arrive at a taxable distribution of $5,625.
The Feders argued that their 1988 letter to the carrier asking that the policy loan be canceled was sufficient to terminate the policy and that they could not have taken policy loans from a canceled policy. But what the Feders didn't do is introduce the policy as evidence or show that they complied with the procedure required to cancel the policy. Because they didn't show that they followed correct procedure to terminate the policy, the Tax Court held that the policy was not canceled until the carrier terminated it in 2007 when the couple failed to make required premium payments.
Do your clients have stray life insurance policies sitting around in a long-forgotten file cabinet in the attic? Feder reminds us that even policies that a client believes are long-canceled can come back to haunt them. If they cannot document that the policy has been canceled, the most prudent course of action would be to contact the carrier for confirmation that the policy has indeed been terminated.
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didact28 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 112 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We are passionate about helping people live healthier, happier lives. To do that, we're making the fitness experience more engaging, friendly, and inclusive for consumers, from the fitness enthusiast to the casual gym patron. At the same time, we're enabling health and fitness providers to engage members more effectively.
We're a team of MIT graduates that have won multiple entrepreneurship awards and published award-winning research to support our case for fitness engagement. With our patent-pending solution, we intend to make a real impact that helps people lead healthier lifestyles. You can be a part of that process!
health clubs, personal trainers, health insurers, fit-friendly employers, fitness consumers (consumers similar to audience for livestrong.com), investors
We would like the design of the logo and website assets to convey inclusiveness and fun, while remaining professional, polished and oriented towards our customers (i.e. primarily fitness providers). We want to convey the brand as one that helps EVERY fitness consumer, not just muscle-bound people. Above all, the design should convey that we're all about improving health and wellness, and providing a great user experience. We're open to real-world designs as well as illustrated/animated designs.
We're currently using the following color palette and would prefer to incorporate these colors or close variants:
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also open to light green and love harabara font for navigation and image assets.
Keywords that capture the brand: fun, engaging, accessible, inclusive, convenient, affordable, smart, health, wellness, fitness, spark, boost
On the site, we plan to feature the solution, our team, advisors, a blog, press page, and lead generation form primarily. The design should not overpower the navigation.


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Today: Analysts cheer Facebook's big-money purchase of WhatsApp and Facebook's stock price cracks $70 for first time. Also: Hewlett-Packard beats earnings expectations, Tesla hits all-time highs.
The Lead: Facebook reaches records after WhatsApp acquisition
Facebook's stock took a tumble in the initial reaction to the social network's $16 billion acquisition of mobile messaging application WhatsApp, but shares roared back Thursday after analysts gave their approval, pushing the price of the Menlo Park company's stock higher than $70 for the first time.
Facebook committed at least $16 billion and as much as $19 billion or more in its acquisition of the Mountain View company, making it the largest purchase of a Silicon Valley company on record. After falling as much as 3.4 percent Thursday morning, the stock reversed course and moved as high as $70.11 in afternoon trading before closing with a 2.3 percent advance at $69.63, establishing new intraday and closing highs for the firm.
Investors seemed to take their cue from analysts who praised the big-money transaction, as well as reports that Google was also willing to pay a large premium for the five-year-old company.
"Facebook has, with the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, muted the strategic risk of Google acquiring its way into social media and communications in a real way," Stifel Nicolaus Jordan Rohan wrote. "We believe Facebook shares would have been pressured by more than single-digit percentages … if Google had purchased WhatsApp instead."
Susquehanna analyst Brian Nowak compared the deal to other big Silicon Valley acquisitions of recent vintage and found that the price paid per user was not that far off from those deals.
"$42 per WhatsApp user is only 9 percent higher than what Google bought YouTube for. It is 14 percent more than Facebook paid for each Instagram user. Those acquisitions seemed pricey at the time of the deals too, but they are now key parts of the Google and Facebook ecosystems and monetization stories (which trade at much higher multiples in the public markets)," Nowak wrote.
Macquarie Equities Research analyst Ben Schachter pointed out that the WhatsApp platform could provide access to other services that would boost Facebook's reach.
"While we don't expect messaging to be a meaningful near-term or even long-term revenue driver, the real value could be the evolution of the platform to incorporate new functionality such as payments, app distribution (and) social features," he told Reuters.
Not all analysts were happy with the deal, as two downgraded Facebook stock to the equivalent of a "Hold" rating in the wake of its WhatsApp purchase. Evercore Partner analyst Ken Sena performed one of those downgrades, noting that the "cost of delivering increased engagement is higher than we are comfortable with," but even he admitted that Facebook now has a stranglehold on mobile apps, with Instagram, Facebook's native app, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger holding down four of the top six spots on the app download lists for both iOS and Android.
SV150 market report: HP beats expectations, Tesla roars to new highs
Wall Street and Silicon Valley stocks followed Facebook's lead Thursday, producing gains as Hewlett-Packard rose ahead of its earnings report and Tesla Motors shot to all-time highs after projecting strong growth in 2014.
HP announced Thursday afternoon that it produced net income of $1.4 billion, or 74 cents a share, on revenues of $28.1 billion in the important holiday-shopping quarter. The Palo Alto tech giant's performance reflected a gain in profits from the same period a year ago and a slight dip in revenues that was still better than the year-over-year decreases that have hampered the personal-computer manufacturer in the past. "HP is in a stronger position today than we've been in quite some time," CEO Meg Whitman said in a company statement on the report. HP shares gained 2.5 percent to $30.19 in Thursday's trading session, and held near that price in late trading after the results were announced.
After projecting strong growth in its earnings report Wednesday, Tesla jumped to record highs Thursday, selling for as much as $215.21 before closing with an 8.4 percent gain at $209.97. CEO Elon Musk gave an interview Wednesday evening to respond to rumors about a possible Apple acquisition that helped Tesla reach all-time highs just two days before, telling Bloomberg TV that he had talked with Apple but that an acquisition of Tesla is "very unlikely" Apple dropped 1.1 percent to $531.15 on the day.
After the bell Thursday, Juniper Networks announced that it has reached a deal with Elliot Management, the New York hedge fund that invested in the Sunnyvale networking company last month and immediately demanded greater investor return and corporate cost-cutting. Juniper, which was also the focus of a rumored takeover by Nokia on Thursday, said it would push $3 billion back to investors in the form of dividends and stock repurchases while undergoing a reorganization that will "result in streamlining its operations and business portfolio." No layoffs were officially announced; Juniper stock gained 0.8 percent to $27.41 in regular trading Thursday and topped $28 in times in after-hours action.
Violin Memory announced Thursday afternoon that it will lay off more than 20 percent of its staff in a reorganization that begins just five months after the Santa Clara data-storage company raked in $162 million in an initial public offering. Violin shares, which have never reached the $9 IPO price on the open market, closed with a 1 percent gain at $3.91 Thursday and reached $4 in late trading.
Mountain View software firm Intuit announced a quarterly loss of $46 million, or 13 cents a share, on revenues of $782 million, the result of a later start to tax season, which the company had already announced would occur; shares closed with a 0.6 percent gain at $73.85 and moved higher than $75.50 in late trading. eBay gained 0.4 percent to $54.96 after naming a new executive who will attempt to share PayPal's software with startups, and Netflix rose 1.6 percent to $434.95 while pleading with its hometown of Los Gatos to let it move into a new headquarters.
Up: Tesla, Nvidia, HP, Facebook, SolarCity, Twitter, SunPower, VMware, Netflix, Yelp, Applied Materials, Pandora, Oracle, SanDisk, Intel
Down: LinkedIn, Apple, NetApp, Advanced Micro Devices, Electronic Arts, Yahoo, Salesforce
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 5.4, or 0.35 percent, to 1,559.9
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 29.59, or 0.7 percent, to 4,267.54
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 92.67, or 0.58 percent, to 16,133.23
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 11.03, or 0.6 percent, to 1,839.78
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Eight hundred gardeners on Earth and one in space
ESA's 'Greenhouse in Space' educational project began yesterday in four locations throughout Europe and on the International Space Station. This unique undertaking involves schoolchildren and ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli growing the same plants in similar small greenhouses for several months.
Growing plants is essential for us all. They not only provide food, but they are also beautiful and relaxing. And they can be educational: the Greenhouse in Space project offers European children aged 10–16 the chance to compare plants grown on Earth with those in space.
More than 800 children are now space gardeners, asking burning questions such as "How do plants know where up and down is in microgravity?" and "How difficult is it to sow seeds in space?"
Together with Paolo Nespoli, ESA's astronaut on the International Space Station, they will now discover the answers to these questions with their own experiments.
Thursday was seeding day
The project was launched yesterday in France, Germany, Italy and Portugal, along with Paolo on the Station. The children and teachers linked up via video, learning how to assemble their own greenhouses and plant the Arabidospis seeds.
Sowing was not easy because of the miniscule seeds, but the choice of plant was far from random. Arabidopsis has already proved itself to be a hardy grower in space and, even more importantly, it self-pollinates – essential in the absence of pollinating insects in space!
The students in Cologne were also treated to an impromptu appearance by Alexander Gerst, one of ESA's newest astronauts. And in Italy, there was a special space connection: part of the audience were students from Paolo's old school.
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Paolo joined the children in the afternoon by video for a 20-minute call from space, showing us his space-qualified greenhouse and watering the seeds.
He demonstrated that simple procedures on Earth such as watering is extremely complex and possibly dangerous in weightlessness.
Paolo kindly answered several questions from children in the different countries in a rare opportunity – it's not every day you get to speak to an astronaut in space.
Now the children and Paolo are eagerly following the growing plants in this 15-week experiment. The results will be posted as an online lesson in ESA's web pages once the data from the 800 greenhouses on Earth have been compared to Paolo's experiment.
The students and their teachers can send their photos and talk to each other on the Greenhouse in Space page on Facebook as well as by emailing the Human Spaceflight education team at email@example.com.
Perhaps the best message during the day came from the Lisbon event, emphasising the importance of encouraging children's interest in science at an early age.
Paulo Fonseca, a teacher at the Escola Básica D. Duarte, Viseu, said: "This was a unique occasion to talk to an astronaut and stimulate the appetite for science of our kids."


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The first step to taking control of your health is to "Know Your Numbers." Join us on Aug. 19 from noon-1 p.m. in the Heer Hall Training Room for an educational look at what numbers can tell you about what is happening inside your body. You will come away with a better understanding of what numbers such as blood pressure, cholesterol and BMI mean.
This month's presenter, Robin Conaway, holds a M.S. in Health Education and is currently a health and wellness coordinator with Medical Mutual of Ohio. Prior to joining Medical Mutual, Conaway served as the employee wellness director at Virginia Tech.
The Lunch and Learn programs are sponsored by the Division of Human Resources and are held in conjunction with Impact, the university's employee assistance program. The hour-long programs are free and open to faculty and staff. However, seating is limited and reservations are required. Employees will have the opportunity to purchase pre-packaged healthy lunches to enjoy during the presentation. If you would like to order a lunch, you must do so before Thursday, Aug. 15. This information is available on the registration form. Click here for registration.
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By now, anyone interested in budget travel has heard of CouchSurfing, a website that helps connect travelers with benevolent strangers in cities and towns around the world. The concept has hit the mainstream, even approaching trend status, best evidenced by a recent television commercial featuring a couch surfer armed with a particular brand of cell phone.
Of course, CouchSurfing has obvious advantages for travelers looking to meet locals and save money, but it can also be fun for hosts as well. Having a foreign guest, especially one eager to visit your town's tourist attractions with you, can almost be like taking a trip yourself. If you are trying to learn a foreign language, or even an international language, hosting a couch surfer is a great way to get some practice. Simply hearing someone else's stories can make for a memorable evening. Certainly, there are many reasons to participate in home stay programs, even if you don't plan to take a trip in the near future.
If you are considering becoming a host for couch surfers, be sure to check out these two, slightly different, opportunities.
AirBed & Breakfast
The basic premise of AirBed & Breakfast is familiar: travelers search for hosts listed in an on-line database, booking a night or two through the website. The significant difference is that, as a host, you can set a price for your accommodation. This means that, in addition to the less tangible benefits of hosting a guest, AirBed & Breakfast can help you make some extra money as well. The program is open to everyone, whether you have an extra room or simply a couch available, but the amount of money you can make clearly depends on what you have to offer and where it is located.
Better Than the Van
Another interesting alternative to hosting a couch surfer is to host a band on tour. Better Than the Van is a website designed to facilitate just such an arrangement. Though the thought of having a band crash in your place may be a bit frightening, it is a great way to support independent music and up-and-coming artists. If you are a fan of music, this could be a great way to meet some musicians.
What is your experience with couch surfing? Ever hosted a stranger? Let us hear about it in the comments.
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I just don't feel right about inviting in strangers because I have two small children. However, I'd love to hear about others' experiences if they share here.
I blog at www.shopliftingwithpermission.com.
Same here; perhaps its the times we live in but I could never just let strangers stay in my house. Maybe if I ran a B&B full time and had locks on every single door but I just don't trust people enough to do this
I tried couchsurfing for the first time this past August, on a trip to Paris. It was pretty out of character for me -- I'm a fairly reserved person who likes her routines -- but I'm also thrifty, and I realized that even staying at the cheapest hostel was going to set me back more than $300 (Canadian). I was convinced to use couchsurfing when I found a bunch of hosts who had more than 100 recommendations on their profiles from past surfers.
I had an _excellent_ time.
It saved me money, but the real value was getting a free pass into the city's social life. The Parisian couchsurfing community is the second largest in the world (London's is the largest), and is full of enthusiastic people who love to travel, and who meet up a couple times a week. My host was a lovely, lovely man. I did all the normal touristy stuff, but during my week I also went to a trivia night at a favourite local bar; went on a night cruise on a barge (for free!); ate a round-robin dinner of essentially French foods at a wine bar/restaurant with people from Finland and New Zealand (and Paris); and had a midnight picnic on the banks of the Seine.
Paris without couchsurfing would have been beautiful, but expensive and lonely. Paris with the couchsurfing community was divine.
I can't wait for my next trip!
We have had over 20 different people stay with us through CouchSurfing over the past 3 years, from 3 continents. I can honestly say that we have not had a bad experience yet. We have 'clicked' with some more than others, though. Definitely worth-while to give it a try.
it does the same thing as airbedandbreakfast - i.e. let travelers stay on your couch, charge them a fee - but, there isn't any transaction cost.
I always tend to have uncomfortable encounters with foreigners. It's a little strange having an old German man hit on you and rub your leg in front of your girlfriend. I guess I am lusted by both women and men alike.


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Salam everyone.. Here's hoping that everyone is in their best of health. Life had been pretty hectic for me lately. But alhamdulillah I managed to handle it the best way I could. Will try to write more later on but now, let me just upload the latest cupcakes that I've made for Puan Norazizah Ruslan of 4Life Research. She sent me a text message, for a last minute order of 100 pieces of cupcakes. And since she had given me the full freedom to deco the easiest way possible, so I agreed to take the order. It's not that I'm being fussy or that sort but I am not a professional cake baker, so the speed may most likely to be the speed of a kereta lembu. If she were to ask for a complicated design, then I would have surrendered!
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Reading have unveiled Nigel Adkins as their new manager, with the 48-year-old signing a three-and-a-half-year deal.
The former Southampton man replaces Brian McDermott, who was sacked on March 11 after a slip in form threatened the Royals' Premier League status.
Adkins himself was removed from his post at St Mary's in January, despite leading the Saints to consecutive promotions from League One.
"I am delighted to bring Nigel to our club because he is perfect for us," owner Anton Zingarevich said.
"He has great respect within the game, his CV speaks for itself and he has many attributes as a manager, he is progressive, he develops players, his teams play attacking, passing football but most of all he knows how to win games at all levels.
"This is an appointment we have made both with the short and long term in mind and Nigel can take our club forward.
"I know our supporters have been keen to hear news over the past two weeks and I am certain they will join me in saying it was worth the wait.
"I wish Nigel and Andy (Crosby) nothing but good luck and now we focus on eight hugely important games in the Premier League.
"Our supporters will also play a vital part in the finale to the season and I am certain Nigel will get an excellent reception from our fans at the Emirates on Saturday."
Gus Poyet had been Reading's first choice to succeed McDermott but the Uruguayan snubbed the offer to move to Berkshire despite talks over a switch from Brighton reaching an advanced stage.
Adkins faces a tough task to keep his new side in the top flight, with the Royals seven points away from safety with just eight games remaining.
His first match in charge will be away to Arsenal on Saturday before a reunion with his former colleagues on April 6 as Southampton travel to Reading for a potentially decisive bottom-of-the-table clash.