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Bubbly and full of beans, Nyyrikki and Noah are spirited, curious and quite charming. Passionate creatures who love discovery and adventure, they enjoy taking risks and are extroverts who seek the company of others. They are particularly friendly with a talent for negotiation and in possession of undeniable powers of persuasion, thanks to their naturally easy manner, their quick reflexes and adaptability. These men loathe anything definitive: the more spice in their lives, the more risks they can take and all the more delighted they are as a result, however they have a tendency to spread themselves rather too thinly. They are attracted by the unknown and the possibility of conquest is a motivating factor although they quickly get bored once they have achieved their ends and run the risk of becoming superficial... Their weak spot is incontestably their excessive nervousness for which they attempt to compensate for with incessant activity, physical exercise or frequent travelling. For the same reason, they tend to be impulsive, impatient and irritable. Extremely pleasant and sociable, they need others in order to feel that they truly exist and often fluctuate between a certain feeling of inferiority and self-satisfaction. As children, they are bright, lively, impish and cunning chatterboxes who have trouble sitting still for any length of time. Highly intuitive and sensitive, they are affectionate and often very attached to their mother. Voracious and cheerful with the gift of the gab, Nyyrikki and Noah are never short of ideas and cannot tolerate constraints. It would therefore be beneficial to encourage their creativity and natural talent for expression, while keeping an eye on their tendency to embellish the truth or even tell outright lies...
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Sensitive and receptive to others, Nyyrikki and Noah love to collaborate and are very open-minded. In effect, their master number 11 confers them with high aspirations and occasionally utopian ideas. This could lead them to invest themselves in political or humanitarian movements and to explore the social sciences or the irrational. However, living with the vibrations of the 11 is no walk in the park and goes hand in hand with an excessive amount of nervousness; they therefore often choose to experience these energies an octave below, at the level of the 2, making them more easy-going, passive and dependent on their environment. In matters of the heart, they are tender and sensual with an intimate understanding of the female mind, body and soul... They therefore make charming and docile lovers but are ever so vulnerable to temptation!
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There are multiple possibilities for these young men who are not always likely to follow their first inclination because they love change too much. They could be tempted by occupations in connection with oral (singer, teacher, lecturer or presenter...) and written expression (journalist or writer...), communication, commerce or travel. They could equally find satisfaction through a career in one of the social sciences.
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Meaning of name Hai
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Hai is a contrasting character. The 4 and the 5 being antagonistical numbers, one can perceive two distinct tendencies within her personality; one makes her sociable, friendly, cheerful, communicative, cheeky and likeable with a love of pleasure, change and adventure (more pronounced if she was born on a 5th, 14th or 23rd or if her life Path Number is 5); the other makes her more reserved, responsible, industrious, loyal, buttoned-down and attached to stability (accentuated if she was born on a 4th, 13th, 22nd or 31st or if her life Path Number is 4). Her over-emotional and sensitive nature can mean that she is susceptible to mood swings and occasionally outbursts of anger. Indeed, instinctive by nature, Hai is a rather quick-tempered person. As a child, she is generally bubbly and cheerful - a sociable little girl who enjoys school as much for the friends that she makes there as for the opportunity to learn. Life is a game as far as she is concerned, and her parents would be wise to take this into consideration. Her upbringing shouldn´t be too lenient, since she is already very independent and attached to her freedom. She is a basically generous child who would greatly benefit from taking part in group activities and associations where she could fully express her creativity, leadership abilities and her taste for travel. It would also be a good idea to encourage her to make the most of her artistic talents through the practice of a musical or creative hobby.
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Hai likes change, but in continuity; because once she has set her mind on something her she has what it takes to see things through to their completion. She likes to shine, lead, manage, organize and take charge of others and situations. She hates mediocrity with a passion and cannot tolerate incompetence. She appreciates the finer things in life and would rather save up to buy one beautiful object than have several cheaper, less appealing items straight away.
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Notably if she was born on a 1st, 10th, 19th or 28th, Hai is likely to be attracted to occupations connected with esthetics (hair-dressing, decoration, fashion, jewelry, dressmaking...) or her physical appearance (hostess, model)... If she was born on a 3rd, 12th, 21st, 30th or a 5th, 14th or 23rd; she will be more likely to choose a career in sales and marketing or in connection with travel. Whereas if she has a birthday on a 4th, 13th, 22nd or 31st, she will be partial to a stable and secure career... in the civil service, for example.
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Love :Couples: The complicity between the two of you will be reinforced. Singles: An admirer will make themselves known.
Money :You are trying to decide whether or not to make a property investment. Take your time.
Health:You won't see any results without some effort Hai .
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The second project I created as a Guest Designer position for Stamp by Step was a wintry layout. I tried to use as much supplies as I can, as still leave the layout clean & simple.
In the picture you can see Tal, my SIL's son digging in the snow in Denver.
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Did you ever hear the story about a tiny spider, an exiled king and the remote island in County Antrim that personified the proverb: if at first you don't succeed, try and try again? No? Well, listen up
First things first: we have to introduce you to a 13th century Scottish king called Robert the Bruce. You may have spotted a version of his persona in Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995. Hollywood's version wasn't altogether the most accurate portrayal of the real man, but his legacy is remembered not just by the Scottish, but also by Ulster-Scots people in Northern Ireland.
Our tale takes place on Rathlin Island (the most northern point of Northern Ireland) off the coast of County Antrim. This remote island is dotted with intriguing shipwrecks and is also a haven for seabirds. Ferries travel there regularly from Ballycastle and should a bed and a pint be required, you won't be short of accommodation and a pub or two.
Back to the story…
In its entirety, the story is complex, dramatic and includes daggers drawn, a Scottish army at loggerheads with its English neighbours, and the exiled King Robert fighting for his country's freedom.
To fit his complete tale into one short story would be impossible. No, what we want to do is tell you the tale of a place named Rathlin Island, an exiled King Robert, and a very, very determined spider.
The year was 1306AD. After suffering a defeat and in exile, King Robert of Scotland was pondering his next move in a cave on the picturesque Rathlin Island. He had received yet more upsetting news from his sources in Scotland. His wife was being held in captivity, his brother had been executed and the Scottish village of Kildrummy had been taken by his enemies.
This was bad. His thoughts turned to his options. He could take himself and his brothers to the Holy Land or courageously attempt to restore freedom to his beloved homeland, knowing in his heart that the former would be both criminal and cowardly. But did he have it in him to continue?
Glancing upwards to the roof of the cave, he spied a tiny spider hanging on a thread trying to swing to a nearby rock so it could fix the line and create a web. Six times the spider tried and six times he failed to reach the beam. But he didn't give up.
Robert the Bruce had tried to free Scotland from the English and their allies six times, and six times had failed. The spider's determination was not lost on him.
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If the spider makes it to the rock on the seventh attempt, decided Robert, he would continue his fortunes in Scotland. If he fails, the Holy Land beckoned.
As he made this resolution, the spider – maybe sensing the moment, maybe completely oblivious – swung with all its might and reached the other side to fix his web. The deal was sealed and a return to Scotland followed.
Not only was this determined spider's valiant efforts a major influence on Scottish history – and by default, our Ulster-Scots heritage – it also protected spiders from those who heard the tale in the centuries that followed. On no account would people kill a spider because it had inspired a king and shown the power of perseverance.
So if at first, you don't succeed, try and try again…or at least next time you see a spider, remember Robert, remember Rathlin and remember how many lives it changed over 700 years ago.
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(See addendum below, which emphasizes that Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza did indeed use a AR-15 rifle.)
Those concerned about the $32 billion firearm industry--gun owners, investors, whatever--should shift their attention from Capital Hill to courtrooms around the country. Potentially damaging gun-control measures seem more likely to come from the country's justices than from its 535 lawmakers.
Two federal appeals courts last week reviewed the legality behind concealed carry laws. In Denver, the court decided that concealed-carry firearms aren't protected by the Second Amendment. A thousand miles away in Chicago, the court reached a different decision. It declined to reconsider a ruling that found that state's ban on concealed carry unconstitutional.
These two courts aren't the first to mull this issue. A New York federal appeals court last November upheld a state law that required concealed-carry applicants to prove "proper cause" to obtain concealed-carry licenses. Looking ahead, appeals courts in California and Virginia are set to review the issue.
Concealed carry laws have been on the rise for the greater part of three decades. They could very well soon stretch nationwide, if Illinois completes its about-face on concealed carry. Not too surprisingly, it's most prevalent in red states, especially so in Georgia, Utah and Florida; in the Peach State, for example, more than 12% of adults 20 and older have an active permit. All told, more than 8 million Americans have one. And not only has the number of licensing states increased in the past ten years (in 2002, seven states including Illinois banned concealed carry), but more and more states are recognizing others' permits, making it practical to become licensed and purchase a weapon.
Gun companies moved quickly to take advantage of this boom, as well as a growing comfort with firearms after anti-gun campaigns of the 1990s. Today, concealed carry weapons--small, compact pistols and revolvers--are one of the most crucial parts of the firearm business. Both Sturm, Ruger and Smith & Wesson sell far more handguns than long-guns; Forbes last year estimated that Ruger's ultra-popular Lightweight Compact Revolver and Lightweight Compact Pistol make up about 17% of the company's sales alone ($55 million). These small firearms are often marketed to women, a particularly fast-growing segment of firearm owners. Ruger even makes LCRs and LCPs models with pink grips.
This is all why the courtroom battle over concealed carry matters much more than whether Congress actually creates legislation that limits semi-automatic rifles (the type of weapon used in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre). Fact is, gun rights lawmakers are already posturing to declaw any gun law that comes through Congress. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is set to stand tall in the Senate, and the Republican-dominated House of Representatives would prove hard to sway toward sweeping legislation. It seems pretty safe to assume that we'll continue to be able to stock a large arsenal from a simple stop at Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods or Cabela's.
A shopping trip that could quite possibly not include any small handguns. What's next in the courts? Contradictory appeal decisions would raise the likelihood that the matter would reach the Supreme Court. It would mark the first time that the nation's highest court would weigh gun control arguments since two blockbuster cases in 2008 and 2010. The earlier case, District of Columbia v. Heller, upheld many 19th century prohibitions on concealed weapons, but also acknowledged that the Second Amendment protects a right to own guns. Then, the court took matters a step forward two years later: In McDonald v. Chicago, it established that state and local laws should also recognize the right to own firearms.
Significantly, McDonald v. Chicago said only that there's a right to keep handguns in the home for self-defense, but not anything about what types of gun control laws violate the Second Amendment. Stopping short there has set up today's brewing disagreement over concealed carry.
Reach Abram Brown at email@example.com.
(ADDENDUM: Sorry, folks, but Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook killer, did in fact use the AR-15 rifle. Here's a link directly to the Connecticut State Police debunking that theory. And if Lanza did use handguns, there's a good chance the weapons may have been models designed to attract concealed carry laws, making the odds of concealed carry bans more likely.)
Abram Brown is a senior editor at Forbes, where he covers social media and internet culture. In the past, he directed Forbes.com's features coverage and edited across For…
Abram Brown is a senior editor at Forbes, where he covers social media and internet culture. In the past, he directed Forbes.com's features coverage and edited across Forbes magazine. As a writer, he has reported from three continents—from the mines of Nigeria to the mansions of Greenwich. He has worked on over a dozen Forbes lists; profiled the 63rd, 153rd, and 478th richest person in the world; and once spent a delightful evening discussing murder mysteries over 25-year-old scotch with (top-earning author) James Patterson. Both men drink Macallan, and both believe the butler really did do it.


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Serious Eats Neighborhood Guides: Michael Laiskonis' Upper East Side
Editor's note: You've already seen our New York editors' neighborhood guides, in which the SE staff—Ed, Carey, Erin, and more—chat about their favorite places to eat in their own neighborhoods. But we're branching out to other food personalities. We've heard from Frank Bruni on the Upper West Side and Eric Ripert on Midtown West; now here's former Le Bernadin pastry chef and new creative director at the Institute of Culinary Education: Michael Laiskonis.
When Michael Laiskonis moved to New York eight years ago to take his place as Le Bernadin's pastry chef, he thought his Upper East Side digs would be temporary. He's been in the same place ever since, but he recently announced that he'll be leaving Eric Ripert's side to take a position created just for him: creative director at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), where he'll teach and work on his first book. The past two months allowed him some time off to indulge at some of his favorite neighborhood spots, and from the looks of it, he'll be staying put for a while.
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Coffee: The opening of an UES outpost of Williamsburg coffee roaster Oslo was a welcome addition to the neighborhood. I stop in for a perfect afternoon Americano.
Bagel: I don't do fancy bagels, and neither does Bagel Bob's. A still-warm poppy seed here is a thing of beauty.
Breakfast: My idea of the perfect breakfast is simply coffee and a decent pain au chocolate or croissant. Finding the latter close by always eluded me, until the recent arrival of Moulin a Café last year.
Pastry: Years after its closure, I still mourn the neighborhood's loss of the original Payard Patisserie, though I do find some small consolation in the macarons at Ladurée—rose, grapefruit, or caramel-fleur de sel—despite the lines and expense.
Burger: I walk into Cafe D'Alsace thinking about the bone marrow, but I'm always won over by the burger, which is best enjoyed with a Hitachino XH.
Bread: I've been known to go all the way to Brooklyn for a good loaf of bread, but I'm thankful for the pain au levain at Orwasher's, nearly hidden on a quiet block of 78th street.
Late-night eats: Sushi Seki more than satisfies the occasional craving for quality sushi after midnight.
Bar: A relaxed, "grown up" place to either begin or end an evening out on the town is Lexington Bar and Books.
Date night: Cafe Boulud has always been our favorite escape; we like to relinquish control and eat whatever Chef Gavin Kaysen wants to cook.
Can't miss neighborhood spot: I would easily place Spigolo among the best Italian restaurants in the city. I tend to order from the daily special board, but I always start with their take on frisée salad with soft cooked egg.
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Narcissists try to engage by hook or crook.
They're best left wallowing in their own self-centered world.
It's sad that this one is a pox on iWindsurf.
Mo, could you please bring back some of your world-class cartoons? Or maybe a new one?
Now more than ever, Slinky deserves to see them.
p.s. Your website is sorely missed.
Pueno, thanks for your kind words. After 16 years of creating and maintaining a website that had more than 1400 pages of windsurfing and kiteboarding content only one of which was cartoons I decided its time was over.
I toyed with the idea of recoding the site to make it more "web 2.0/interactive" but my desire to continue waned.
If you're interested in a particular cartoon (they're all alive and well) I'm happy to share. Anything new would require the "narcissist in our midst" to provide fresh material something he hasn't done in years.
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Steve, NW30 ... you guys can see the BS the Leftards are undoubtedly spewing about this character assassination issue; I can't, and it's not worth looking it up. Does ANY of it deserve a 103rd response from me on this topic alone, or is it just the same endless, repetitive, and redundant mis-attributions, misquotes, twisted words, and outright lying about external facts and about what I've said that got them killfiled in the first place? Have they asked even ONE valid question or raised even ONE valid issue that I, coboardhead, the VA, and others haven't asked and answered countless times? Given the number of times I DID look, in vain, for sanity and honesty before and shortly after throwing their asses of my computer, I very seriously doubt anything has changed.
Is there anything new you or the other adults here need answered about this issue?
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This is all because I called you a Nazi right?
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Milwaukee County sheriff: Don't wait for the police; arm yourselves
By Matt Pearce
January 28, 2013, 12:40 p.m.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has a message for residents in his jurisdiction: You can't rely on him anymore. You need to arm yourself.
On Friday, the nominally Democratic sheriff issued a recorded public safety announcement on the radio and on the Web that encouraged residents to take their lives into their own hands.
Here's the full transcript:
"I'm Sheriff David Clarke and I want to talk to you about something personal: your safety. It's no longer a spectator sport; I need you in the game. But are you ready? With officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back. But are you prepared? Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there. You have a duty to protect yourself and your family."
Crime is relatively rare in Clarke's jurisdiction: In 2010, the Sheriff's Department reported two burglaries, nine robberies and zero murders. (Preliminary data from 2012 were not available, and it's not clear if the department submitted its crime statistics to the FBI for 2011.)
Also rare are justifiable homicides in the U.S.: About 260 private citizens lawfully killed someone committing a felony in 2011, or less than one case per every 1 million people in the nation.
Clarke's announcement has nonetheless tapped into a raw current in American politics over the role guns play in a civil society, which has occasioned some slightly less-than-civil discourse.
"Apparently, Sheriff David Clarke is auditioning for the next Dirty Harry movie," Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's office said in a statement.
That remark drew this retort from Clarke: "Several years ago, a tire-iron-wielding suspect beat Mayor Tom Barrett to within inches of his life. I would think that he would be a lot more sensitive to people being able to defend themselves in such instances. A firearm and a plan of defense would have come in handy for him that day."
Barrett was calling 911 to report a fight when the suspect batted the phone out of his hand and began to beat him, according to a police report; the suspect, Anthony Peters, claimed to have a gun, but didn't.
Clarke has been Milwaukee County's sheriff since 2002 and, running as a Democrat, easily rolled to reelection. His remarks, however, have earned him praise among conservatives, and he has occasionally flirted with the tea party.
In the days after the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Clarke again raised the proverbial call to arms in an Op-Ed article on a tea party website.
In those remarks, Clarke said gun control advocates were "sheep" and called for "an armed tactical trained officer or security officer in every school and public place [theaters, malls, etc.] in America."
If Assault Weapons Are Bad Why Does DHS Want to Buy 7,000 of Them for Personal Defense?
Jan. 26, 2013 2:30pm Jason Howerton
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO personal defense weapons (PDW) also known as assault weapons when owned by civilians. The solicitation, originally posted on June 7, 2012, comes to light as the Obama administration is calling for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines.
Citing a General Service Administration (GSA) request for proposal (RFP), Steve McGough of RadioViceOnline.com reports that DHS is asking for the 7,000 select-fire firearms because they are suitable for personal defense use in close quarters. The term select-fire means the weapon can be both semi-automatic and automatic. Civilians are prohibited from obtaining these kinds of weapons.
The RFP describes the firearm as Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) 5.56x45mm NATO, select-fire firearm suitable for personal defense use in close quarters and/or when maximum concealment is required. Additionally, DHS is asking for 30 round magazines that have a capacity to hold thirty (30) 5.56x45mm NATO rounds.
Republican New York state Sen. Greg Ball also issued a press release this week bringing attention to the weapons purchase request.
Calls made to DHS seeking information regarding whether or not the RFP was accepted and fulfilled were not immediately returned on Saturday.
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday introduced legislation that would enact a so-called assault weapons ban. The bill would ban more than 150 firearms and limit magazines to 10 rounds. There is no expiration date on Feinsteins bill.
Critics of such a ban on semi-automatic rifles are already arguing that the government is showing its hypocrisy by essentially saying they are good personal defense for them, but not for American citizens. When civilians own semi-automatic rifles, they somehow become assault weapons.
That being said, it is reasonable for the Department of Homeland Security to request these rifles as they are indeed effective personal defense weapons. The agency is tasked with keeping Americans safe from those who wish to do the country harm, and its officials should be equipped with all the tools they need to do so effectively.
But what about Americans who want to keep themselves and their families safe from threats? Is a semi-automatic rifle unacceptable for a civilians personal defense in his or her home? According to some Democratic lawmakers, like Sen. Feinstein, it appears the answer is yes.
Just last week two students in Rochester, N.Y. scared off a pair of home intruders by simply brandishing an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. One of the students said he believes the weapon saved their lives.
Editors note The author of this post, Jason Howerton, discussed this story with TheBlaze Editor-in-Chief Scott Baker on Mondays BlazeCast:
States crime rates show scant linkage to gun laws
By David Sherfinski 1-24-13
President Obama has called for stricter federal gun laws to combat recent shooting rampages, but a review of recent state laws by The Washington Times shows no discernible correlation between stricter rules and lower gun-crime rates in the states.
States that ranked high in terms of making records available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System also tended to have tighter gun laws but their gun-crime rates ranged widely. The same was true for states that ranked poorly on disclosure and were deemed to have much less stringent gun-possession laws.
For example, New York, even before it approved the strictest gun-control measures in the country last week, was ranked fourth among the states in strength of gun laws by the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence, but was also in the top 10 in firearm homicide rates in 2011, according to the FBI.
Meanwhile, North Dakota was near the bottom in its firearm homicide, firearm robbery and firearm assault rates, but also had some of the loosest gun laws and worst compliance with turning over mental health records to the background check system.
Analysts said the data underscore that there are no simple or easy broad answers to combating gun violence, which is a complex equation involving gun-ownership rates, how ready authorities are to prosecute gun crimes and how widely they ban ownership.
Gary Kleck, a criminology professor at Florida State University, said in an email that a simple comparison between states strength of gun laws and gun-crime rates doesnt say much about the effects of the laws because the exercise fails to control for other factors such as gun-ownership rates.
In an exhaustive analysis with data from 170 U.S. cities that did control for such factors, Mr. Kleck and fellow researcher E. Britt Patterson concluded that there was no general impact of gun-control laws on crime rates with a few notable exceptions.
There do appear to be some gun controls which work, all of them relatively moderate, popular and inexpensive, the researchers wrote. Thus, there is support for a gun-control policy organized around gun-owner licensing or purchase permits (or some other form of gun-buyer screening); stricter local dealer licensing; bans on possession of guns by criminals and mentally ill people; stronger controls over illegal carrying; and possibly discretionary add-on penalties for committing felonies with a gun.
On the other hand, popular favorites such as waiting periods and gun registration do not appear to affect violence rates, he said.
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You and mac take things so personal, kinda like you have no women in your lives or something.
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Clearly it would be best to equip every man woman and child with as heavy a military hardware as possible.
Then we would all finally be safe. And settling scores when you are drunk would be easy and final.
That is the NRA marketing plan.think of all those profits....
Or we could do as the Obama admin wants and let everyone keep their guns but tighten up on all those laws as this guy suggests.
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When you think about it, it might be better to take away all the handguns and give everyone an ar-15. It sounds crazy, but handguns kill 20 times as many people than all rifles combined....
This says it all. They even had a guy selling a rocket launcher in the crowd! Guns last hundreds of years. How do you register 300,000,000 weapons? Age and maturity are the only way to regulate this thing. Mandatory gun safes, and background checks also.
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who are you
Well, NW30, like you, I've got opinions. Seemingly, ones that are getting under your skin. We obviously see things quite differently, particularly when it comes to the issue of gun control.
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stevenbard wrote:
When you think about it, it might be better to take away all the handguns and give everyone an ar-15. It sounds crazy, but handguns kill 20 times as many people than all rifles combined....
Maybe we should give everyone a small thermonuclear device....
After all, how many people have those babies killed? In the hands of civilians, I mean...
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD, delivered at the launch of the Better Policies Series on Economic Challenges and Policy Recommendations for the Euro Area
17 February 2014, Brussels, Belgium
(As prepared for delivery)
Ministers, Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the OECD's seminar on "The Euro Area at a Crossroads: Policies for Growth, Jobs and Competitiveness" (Watch the webcast).
>> Click on the image to watch the webcast
After five years of work at every level to correct the fiscal, financial and external imbalances that led to the crisis, and to reinforce fiscal and financial institutions, the Euro Area is beginning to show signs of recovery. Financial market conditions are improving, tensions have abated in European sovereign debt markets, and debt-to-GDP ratios are stabilising after much perseverance to consolidate the area's public finances.
But, despite these positive signs, growth is still weak and uneven. The steps we take today will determine whether Europe can regain its footing tomorrow and thrive, or continue along with low, sluggish growth. Let me share with you a snapshot of our take on the Euro Area's current economic and social challenges.
A Hesitant Recovery: Sluggish Growth, Concerning Productivity, and High Unemployment
Although the Euro Area exited from the recession in 2013, the scars of the crisis are deep. Nothing shows this more disturbingly than the high unemployment, specifically among the young, which continues to weigh on the recovery in nearly all European countries. In several countries the jobless rate of young people totals between 30% and almost 60%. These people's skills are eroding, their trust in government is waning, and they are becoming out of touch with the labour market.
Unfortunately, we cannot rely on a strong push from the rest of the world to drive growth and employment in the Euro Area. The current global economic environment is still fragile, with growth having slowed in many emerging market economies and the impact of monetary tapering in the United States still largely unknown.
The Euro Area needs to boost productivity and restore competitiveness. Since the inception of the common currency in several countries, especially in the Southern periphery of the Euro Area, the unit cost of labour rose considerably, leading to yawning gaps in price competitiveness relatively to the Northern countries and the outside world. The outcome of this is well known: rising debt in the South, widening imbalances in the Euro Area between North and South, mounting vulnerabilities for all! We are turning the corner on all this, but the task is far from complete.
How can Euro Area countries revive growth and jobs in this context? What can monetary policy do when we are near the zero-bound? Can we rely on fiscal policy when countries need to maintain medium-term consolidation efforts?
At the OECD we have been saying "go structural!" for years. The document we are presenting today provides a structural reform "roadmap" that can accelerate growth. Let me begin with our recommendations on financial sector reform.
Financial Sector Reform: Key to Reviving Credit and Investment
First, the good news: bank capitalisation is improving in the run-up to this year's bank balance sheet reviews. But stress in the credit market continues, bank loans are still contracting – outstanding bank credit to the private sector declined by half a percentage point between the third and the fourth quarters of last year - and lending conditions remain tight. Small businesses in particular are being hit. Indeed, in comparison to the United States, Europe has been slow in dealing with weaknesses in the banking sector. This is one reason for the different growth speeds on both sides of the Atlantic.
The consequences are simple to understand! Without solid capital buffers, banks do not lend, posing a serious constraint on growth, and threatening financial stability. We need an institutional framework which encourages capital markets to finance sustainable growth and employment rather than housing bubbles and excessive debt accumulation.
It is thus very important to ensure that the asset quality reviews and the stress tests that will be conducted in 2014 lead to an objective, consistent and transparent overall assessment of banks' balance sheets. This assessment must then serve as an objective, consistent and transparent basis for decisions about banks' recapitalization or eventually some banks' resolution.
This makes it even more important to accelerate the pace towards a comprehensive banking union that includes common regulatory and supervisory systems, as well as a common resolution mechanism and appropriate financial backstops. This should help European financial markets to return to a normal state of play so that credit can start flowing again.
By the way, the brochure presents a discussion on the issue of leverage ratios and bank captitalisation which I believe we must pursue.
But let's be clear: financial reforms will not be enough to trigger growth unless complemented by a consistent package of structural reforms.
Structural Reform: Crucial to a Balanced and Sustained Recovery
We greatly applaud the courageous steps that have been taken by the Southern countries that were hit hardest by the crisis. Over the past five years, many have implemented ambitious reform programs in labour and product markets, and we strongly recognize this work. Indeed, our Going for Growth analysis of structural reform shows clearly that the impetus for reform has been much greater in the Southern countries than in the Northern countries in the past few years.
As we begin to see slow signs of recovery, it is crucial for countries to remain committed to their reform agenda and to take it even further. It is also essential for other countries, where progress has been slower, to step up their efforts. After all, dealing with the internal imbalances of the Euro Area and restoring its overall competitiveness is a collective challenge.
And the payoff of structural reforms for productivity growth is potentially very large. Our simulations show that if the Euro Area countries were to implement best practices in a range of different structural reform areas, such as regulation, this could amount to gains in aggregate output to the tune of 6% within the next 10 years.
In particular, further labour market reforms would have large effects in countries like Greece and Spain. Policy actions are needed to prevent unemployment from becoming structural: activation and training policies and reforms to tax-benefit systems are key.
Targeted measures are needed for some groups, such as the increasing number of young people not in employment, education or training, the "NEETs". On average in the EU, this is almost 14% of all young people (15-24). And in Greece, the NEET rate reached 27% last year. It Italy it was well above 21%, and it was around 20% in Spain!
We must also not lose focus when it comes to competition-friendly product market reforms. Despite recent efforts in many Southern countries, barriers to competition remain above the OECD average and extend to much of the services sector. Incidentally, there is much room for opening up protected services sectors to domestic and foreign competition in the Northern countries too!
For instance, after Italy and Spain, France and Germany have the highest barriers to competition in services in the Euro Area. And France's recent attempt to limit competition amongst taxi drivers moves us even further in the wrong direction. Turning to the network sector, there is no single market for telecommunications and energy, and barriers to entry are still high. Further pro-competition reforms could help achieve rapid job and productivity gains in sectors such as retail, trade and professional services.
Structural reforms can also facilitate intra-Euro Area rebalancing. Current account rebalancing has been remarkable in Greece, Portugal and Spain, which have moved from deficits of around 10% or more before the crisis to small surpluses by the end of 2013. Not all of this swing is coming from retrenchment; external competitiveness of the deficit countries is actually improving. But further reforms are needed to ensure that rebalancing persists once cyclical conditions improve.
It's also important to recognize that there has been less progress in the surplus countries. Measures to create more favourable conditions for investment in these countries would help strengthen their domestic demand and achieve more balanced growth in the Euro Area as a whole.
Ministers, Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentleman,
There are still a number of significant obstacles in the way. It is vital that we remain vigilant of the downside risks that still loom on the horizon, such as sluggish trade, investment and credit growth, non-performing loans, threats to financial stability and slowing growth in emerging economies.
Having run out of room for monetary and fiscal policies, we must implement structural reforms to rebalance our economies and to lay the foundations for higher sustainable growth and employment, which in turn are crucial for putting public finances back on a sustainable footing. We must however also remain steadfast in our consolidation commitments, which sometimes involve a truly complex juggling act by policy practitioners.
It is our great hope that the document we are sharing with you today adds firepower to the efforts of policymakers at the national and EU level to regain competitiveness and boost productivity. The OECD stands ready to continue to support the Euro Area to get its engines of growth firing on all cylinders.
Thank you.
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Table Of Contents
Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 6.2
Maintenance and Administration
Resolved Caveats for Release 6.2
Maintenance and Administration
New Features and Functionality
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 6.2
Note The terms "Unidirectional Path Switched Ring" and "UPSR" may appear in Cisco literature. These terms do not refer to using Cisco ONS 15xxx products in a unidirectional path switched ring configuration. Rather, these terms, as well as "Path Protected Mesh Network" and "PPMN," refer generally to Cisco's path protection feature, which may be used in any topological network configuration. Cisco does not recommend using its path protection feature in any particular topological network configuration.
August 2007
Release notes address closed (maintenance) issues, caveats, and new features for the Cisco ONS 15600. For detailed information regarding features, capabilities, hardware, and software introduced with this release, refer to Release 6.0 of the Cisco ONS 15600 Procedure Guide, Cisco ONS 15600 Reference Manual, Cisco ONS SONET TL1 Command Guide, and Cisco ONS 15600 Troubleshooting Guide. For the most current version of the Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 6.2, visit the following URL:
Cisco also provides Bug Toolkit, a web resource for tracking defects. To access Bug Toolkit, visit the following URL:
Resolved Caveats for Release 6.2
New Features and Functionality
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Changes to the Release Notes
This section documents supplemental changes that have been added to the Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 6.2 since the production of the Cisco ONS 15600 System Software CD for Release 6.2.
No changes have been added to the release notes for Release 6.2.
Review the notes listed below before deploying the ONS 15600. Caveats with DDTS tracking numbers are known system limitations that are scheduled to be addressed in a subsequent release. Caveats without DDTS tracking numbers are provided to point out procedural or situational considerations when deploying the product.
The ONS-SE-2G-xx.x complies with performance criteria for all intra-facility fiber cables and connectors per Telcordia GR-326-CORE, Issue 3 Sept 1999. Cisco recommends the following approved suppliers for intrafacility fiber cables to use with this product:
Maintenance and Administration
Caution VxWorks is intended for qualified Cisco personnel only. Customer use of VxWorks is not recommended, nor is it supported by Cisco's Technical Assistance Center. Inappropriate use of VxWorks commands can have a negative and service affecting impact on your network. Please consult the troubleshooting guide for your release and platform for appropriate troubleshooting procedures. To exit without logging in, enter a Control-D (hold down the Control and D keys at the same time) at the Username prompt. To exit after logging in, type "logout" at the VxWorks shell prompt.
A CTC client session can disconnect from an ONS node during simultaneous deletion of large numbers of VT level circuits (3000+). Connectivity to the node will recover without any user action. If the condition persists, restart the CTC session to reconnect. This issue is under investigation.
You can have no more than 113 DCC links in one area ID. For example, with 128 DCC Links provisioned within one area ID, 14 DCC links gray out in CTC. To avoid this issue divide the 128 DCCs into multiple area IDs (at least two). This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
After restoring a previously backed up database, the restoral of the PM history database is not time-based, but rather, position-based. The PM history database is stored or retrieved to or from position-dependent time slots from the present PM period. Thus, PM history backed up 24 hours prior to the restore will show the PM history without acknowledging the missing day. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
ONS platforms support only a single OSPF virtual link. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
Network connectivity could be lost if a backbone area becomes segmented into multiple GNEs. This occurs only if multiple ONS 15600 nodes and routers are connected to the same LAN in OSPF area 0. If a link between two routers breaks, the CTC session connected to Router 1 will not be able to communicate with the ONS 15600 connected to Router 2. To resolve, you must repair the link between the routers or provide another form of redundancy in the network. This is as designed.
If OSPF on LAN is enabled with an area ID that is the same as the area ID of any of the DCC Links, CTC will not be able to discover any of the DCC Connected Nodes. To avoid this issue, set the OSPF on LAN area ID to an area other than any of those already occupied by a DCC link. This is as designed.
Equipment alarms are always reported based on the activity of the particular card, without taking card redundancy into consideration. Thus, an equipment alarm such as CTNEQPT-PB-0 may be raised against a line card as CR(SA) even though the traffic is protected. This issue will not be resolved.
Choosing certain qualities of RES settings in the CTC Provisioning tab, Timing subtab, may trigger a reference failure. Specifically, this can occur if you select the quality of RES level such that any of the following are true.
When you then input an actual reference signal lower than ST3E quality, the failure is triggered. This issue will not be resolved.
Optical IO Cards
No graphical representations of LEDs for ASAP ports are displayed in the CTC card view. SD and SF LED representations are also absent from the CTC node view for some legacy OCn cards. There are no plans to resolve this issue.
Rarely, when an ASAP card is participating in a DCC tunnel, and working and protect spans both fail, the ASAP card might stop responding, sometimes followed by a reset. When this occurs there is no resulting traffic loss, and protection switching continues to function. To recover ASAP card responsiveness a soft reset of the card might be necessary. This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
BLSR Functionality
Path Protection to BLSR DRI RIP circuit drops traffic on primary node isolation. To see this issue, create a path protection to BLSR DRI RIP circuit and isolate the primary node using Force Switches. DRI circuit drops traffic one way. This issue will be resolved in Release 7.2.
Connections might still exist after circuit deletions on BLSR DRI rings for which the primary node is isolated. For BLSR DRI rings with several types of DRI circuits, if you isolate the primary node by deleting the database, reseat the I/O cards, then delete all BLSR DRI circuits, the SSXCs still show connections. To avoid this issue, do not delete or create BLSR DRI circuits when a node on the BLSR DRI ring is isolated. This issue will not be resolved.
If, using CTC, you attempt to create a protected VT1.5 circuit that originates on one ONS 15327/454 that is connected to the ONS 15600 via path protection to another ONS 15327/454 that is connected to the ONS 15600 via 1+1 or BLSR, the circuit creation request will be denied because of mixed protection domains. CTC is currently incapable of routing VT circuits across the ONS 15600 when mixed protection schemes are involved. VT traffic can be routed across the ONS 15600 when mixed protection schemes are involved by performing the following:
Step 1 On the ONS 15600, create an STS level cross connect with the requisite path selectors.
Step 2 Use CTC to create a VT circuit from the source node to the trunk ports that interface to the 15600.
Step 3 Use CTC to create a VT circuit between the destination node and the trunk ports that interface with the 15600.
Note While this workaround provides the ability to route VT traffic across the ONS 15600 when mixed protection domains exist, the traffic must be managed as three separate circuits instead of one single end-to-end circuit.
This issue will not be resolved.
When you attempt to configure VT circuits on a test configuration consisting of two ONS 15454 nodes and one ONS 15600 node, when both ONS 15454s are connected to the ONS 15600 node using a dual path protection connection configuration, and when the ONS 15600 node serves as an intermediate node between the two ONS 15454 nodes, you may be unable to create a VT circuit from one ONS 15454 to the ONS 15600 and then to the other ONS 15454. VT Tunnels are created, but the VT circuit is not created. A mixed protection domain error message is raised when this occurs. To avoid this issue, create the VT tunnels manually, so that the two tunnels do not create a topology where the working and protect tunnels share the same I/O card. After the tunnels have been created, the VT circuit can be successfully added. This issue will not be resolved.
Physical PM parameters can not be retrieved through the SNMP interface. MIBs released with the ONS 15600 do not have entries for the following physical PM parameters.
The standard SONET Generic MIB does not have entries for these. To work around this issue, use CTC to retrieve the values. SNMP support for these parameters may be considered for a future release.
The following PM parameters can not be retrieved through SNMP.
•Protection groups:
•Far End counts for line and path
•1-Day PM counts
To retrieve these counts, use CTC. SNMP support for these parameters may be considered for a future release.
Bridge and Roll
When a rollTo leg is not receiving a good signal, and because of this the rollPending alarm is not cleared, there is no alarm indicating the reason that the RollPending alarm fails to clear. This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
The manual bridge and roll feature allows you to perform the END command once the roll operation transitions from a ROLL PENDING to ROLL condition, even if the roll to port has an invalid signal. To avoid traffic impact, ensure that the roll-to line is alarm-free. If an alarm exists, you can choose to do nothing and wait for the alarm to clear, to delete the roll, or to proceed in spite of the alarm. This issue will not be resolved.
When the Cisco ONS 15600 is supporting 500 TL1 sessions and there is a sustained high level of management traffic the active TSC might reset. This issue is visible when the Cisco ONS 15600 is supporting 500 TL1 ENE logins to DCC-linked network nodes such as the Cisco ONS 15454. In a laboratory test it was observed that an alarm flood (approximately 70000 alarm messages) in the network would overload the active TSC and cause it to reset. The standby TSC transitions to active and the node recovers. To avoid this issue configure TL1 sessions to throttle the amount of alarm data that is sent across the management network. For example, when a TL1 session starts, the REPT^ALM and REPT^EVT messages are allowed by default. The TL1 command "INH-MSG-ALL" will inhibit all REPT-ALM and REPT^EVT autonomous messages from being transmitted. This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
A TL1 user cannot preprovision IO cards when a filler card is in the slot. Removal of the filler card will clear the slot and allow the TL1 user to preprovision the IO card. This is by design.
Resolved Caveats for Release 6.2
The following caveats were resolved in Release 6.0.x and are also resolved in Release 6.2.
Maintenance and Administration
Rarely, in a large network with many host routes the Proxy ARP server might run out of ring buffer storage, resulting in a subsequent failure of the driver to receive new packets. This can lead to DCC failure and loss of all connections. This issue is resolved in Releases 6.2 and 8.
Some circuits might be displayed as PARTIAL after one or more ONS 15600 nodes is upgraded to Release 5.0.x. This can occur when the ONS 15600 interoperates with ONS 15454, 15327, or 15310 nodes in the same network, and there exist circuits with their source on the ONS 15454/15327/15310 nodes and drops on the ONS 15600 nodes. If this occurs, run "Circuit Reconfigure" on the affected PARTIAL circuits. This issue will not occur for upgrades from Release 5.0.x to 6.0.x. For further documentation of this circumstance, see the Upgrading Cisco ONS 15600 Release 6.0 document.
Revert fails if the internal subnet differs from that in the revert database. This issue is seen in a revert from a 5.0.x release to Release 5.0. This issue is not seen in reverts from Release 5.0.x to 1.x. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
Clicking the Cancel button from the CTC network view, Software tab during a software download does not stop the download, but gives the appearance in the network view, Software tab that it has. This symptom only occurs if you click the Cancel button after the software has been copied to the node, and during the "Copying to Standby TSC" phase of the software download. To avoid this issue, cancel the software download from the node view, Software tab instead of from the network view, Software tab when canceling during the "Copying to Standby TSC" phase of the software download. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
Optical Cards
When the first and second ports of a PIM are provisioned as GIGE and, at a minimum, the second port is in a circuit, or, when the third and fourth ports of a PIM are provisioned as GIGE and, at a minimum, the fourth port is in a circuit, packets might be dropped on a soft reset of the associated ASAP card. To prevent this, avoid provisioning a GIGE port next to another GIGE port. This issue is resolved in Release 6.1.
On an OC-48 port of an ASAP card, use of the ED-STS9c TL1 command to create a dual TAP port is only accepted for STS-x-y-z-4/16/28, and is incorrectly denied for the first, and the rest of all the STSs. To work around this issue, when creating an STS-9c dual tap on an OC-48 ASAP port, start the tap on the STS 4, STS 16, or STS 28 boundary. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
Common Control Cards
Performing a TSC soft reset on an ONS 15600 with a large BLSR and circuit configuration sometimes causes subordinate I/O cards to soft reset. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
BLSR Functionality
The wrong ACT/STBY state is reported for BLSR facilities using the TL1 RTRV-OCn command. After a ring or span switch, the TL1 RTRV-OCn command might return incorrect ACT/STBY states for the affected BLSR facilities. To recover from this situation, soft reset the TSC or soft reset both matrix cards. This issue is resolved in Releases 6.0.1, 6.1, and 7.0.
Rarely, a line card might reboot after multiple times creating and deleting a BLSR with circuits provisioned for PCA and DRI. If you have a BLSR with circuits provisioned for PCA and DRI, and you then delete the circuits, delete the BLSR, and reenter the same ring ID and facilities (as the BLSR you just deleted), it is possible to see a line card reboot. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
Soft resetting both SSXC cards at the same time while the BLSR is in wait to restore results in a one-second hit. This also causes an out of sync condition where the ring appears switched on the GUI interface and CID-MISMATCH alarms are possibly declared. This issue can occur on a ring that is still switched and for which wait to restore period is active. Avoid soft resetting both SSXC cards at the same time when a wait to restore is active. Soft resets should only be performed when rings are in a steady state (switched or idle). If this out of sync condition occurs, a manual or forced switch on the affected rings will be required to resynchronize the system. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
A circuit remains in the roll_pending state after a roll attempt is cancelled on a path roll in a two-fiber BLSR, where the path has an active protection switch at the circuit destination node. To recover from this situation, restart CTC. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
Path Protection Functionality
Rarely, path protection switching can fail to switch ports in IO Slots 2-4 or 12-14. This issue might occur for path protection selectors after any of the following:
•An IO or TSC card insertion
•An IO or TSC hard reset
•A system power failure
This issue does not occur for cards in IO Slots 1 or 11. This issue can occur for cards in IO Slots 2-4 or 12-14.
There is no workaround for ports on IO Slots 2-4 and 12-14. The possibility for the occurrence is less than 1% under an IO or TSC hard reset or system power failure. This issue is resolved in Releases 5.0.7 and 6.0.1.
A Path Protection/SNCP circuit with a defect signal present (for example, AIS-P or AIS-V) on the protect path will produce RDI-P or RDI-V upstream of the detection point, but these signals will not be detected or indicated. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
TL1 Functionality
The response from the TL1 command, RTRV-NE-IPMAP, contains two rows (one duplicate) of information for each DCC connected port that has provisioned BLSR protection. This issue is resolved in Release 6.0.
New Features and Functionality
This section highlights new features and functionality for Release 6.0.x. For detailed documentation of each feature, consult the user documentation.
There are no new features for Release 6.2.
Related Documentation
Release-Specific Documents
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15600, Release 6.0.1
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH, Release 6.2
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15327, Release 6.2
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15454, Release 6.2
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15310-CL, Release 6.2
•Upgrading Cisco ONS 15600 to Release 6.2
Platform-Specific Documents
•Cisco ONS 15600 Procedure Guide
Provides installation, turn up, test, and maintenance procedures
•Cisco ONS 15600 Reference Manual
Provides technical reference information for SONET/SDH cards, nodes, and networks
•Cisco ONS 15600 Troubleshooting Guide
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As the de facto standard for dynamic media on the web, Adobe Flash supports a number of media formats. These include two core open container formats for delivering synchronized audio and video streams: F4V and FLV. F4V builds on the open standard ISO/IEC 14496-12:2008 (MPEG-4 Part 12) ISO base media file format and supports H.264/AAC–based content. It has a flexible structure and defines specific supported codecs and extensions, facilitating simplified interoperability across tools, services, and clients. FLV supports codecs such as Sorensen Spark and On2 VP6, and encodes synchronized audio and video streams in the same way as they are encoded in SWF files.
FLV and F4V File Format Specification (Version 10.1)
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Foundation Course in Professional Dance Performance (HNC)
Course accredited by the SQA and recognised by the CDMT
Qualification awarded by The MGA Academy of Performing Arts (HNC)
Duration 1 year (4 or 5 days a week)
Scheduled teaching per week 20 hours average per week
**New for Sept 2020** The MGA one-year Foundation course in Professional Dance Performance offers a pre-vocational year designed to prepare you for the demands of professional, full-time training and provides you with the skills required to audition successfully for the country's leading Dance institutions.
It is directed at those students who have left school (or are about to leave) and are intending to pursue vocational training but who either don't quite yet have the skills required to audition successfully or who do not have the required academic qualifications to start a Bachelor of Arts qualification.
The course is designed to thoroughly prepare you for the process of auditioning and the rigours of taking up a three-year place at a Dance or Drama School, expanding your skill set and enabling you to realise your full potential in your future training.
MGA Foundation students have gone on to study at, among others, the American Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Arts Educational Schools, Bird College, Guildford School of Acting, Laine Theatre Arts, Mountview Academy, Performers College, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama – and, of course, The MGA Academy of Performing Arts.
The Foundation schedule runs for one whole academic year over three full-time terms of training and an HNC qualification is awarded to those who successfully complete all the required modules.
The course is technique orientated, giving you a solid foundation in a variety of dance style that will help gain confidence and the skills required to apply for further training.
Specialist classes and training workshops include:
- Audition Technique and Performance
- Jazz Dance Techniques
- Classical Ballet Techniques
- Dance Technique for Commercial Performance
- Contemporary Dance Techniques
- Choreographic Skills
- An Introduction to Performance & Production
- Anatomy & Injury Prevention for Dancers
- Professional Dance Performance Graded Unit 1
MGA's unique focus on audition technique and professional development will ensure that students are best placed to gain entry into any of the UK's distinguished drama schools.
Though MGA has an excellent track record, given the nature and level of competition for Drama School places, we cannot guarantee that foundation students will be accepted at their chosen full-time provider and successful completion of the MGA foundation course does not automatically mean that students will progress onto MGA's own three-year programmes.
You must be a UK or EU citizen to apply for MGA's professional full-time training courses and be able to provide proof.
Tuition fees
The MGA Academy of Performing Arts is the only accredited Council for Dance and Drama Education and Training college in Scotland. We are also the largest independent SQA Approved Centre running professional training courses in Scotland. All tuition fees are kept to an absolute minimum but do reflect the expertise of the teaching staff, quality of facilities, small class sizes and sheer number of contact teaching hours offered.
Please visit our fees and funding page for more information and read the fee notes carefully or contact us to arrange a consultation.
Equipment checklist
MGA students are expected to have the following – a definitive list is discussed at audition stage.
- MGA Full-Time uniform – purchase here
- Jazz trainers/shoes
- Tap shoes
- Ballet tights, leotard and shoes
- Knee pads
- Dictaphone, notepad and pencil
- Boys will also need a pair of dress shoes and a black suit
- Girls must have a pair of character shoes and character skirt, and a black cocktail dress
Are there any other course costs?
There is a reading list and a kit list of important items that students need to purchase before the first day of term. This can be discussed during the interview at the audition stage and will be issued on acceptance of a place. Advanced and third-year students must also pay to join the Spotlight Casting Directory and become a member of Equity before their second term.
We run a Professional Expenses Account on behalf of our student and the costs of this are communicated during the audition process.
Is there any funding available?
SAAS funding may be available to Scottish and European students and you should contact your Local Education Authority for advice on other sources of funding for full-time training for which you may be eligible.
Several charitable trusts exist that help finance performing arts students and a directory listing these grant-making trusts and charities should be available at your local library.


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Blizzard warning issued for Litchfield County; 15-25 inches of snow possible
TORRINGTON >> Emergency officials and public works departments across Litchfield County are gearing up for a storm that could bring up to 25 inches of snow to the area Friday.
State and local officials are urging, begging, and politely asking residents not to drive during the winter snowstorm forecast to blast Connecticut Friday through Saturday. Officials say fewer vehicles on the road means fewer accidents, and faster clearing of snow.
"The more people who stay off the roads, the easier it is to do our jobs," said Kevin Nursick who is a Department of Transportation spokesman. "The road conditions are going to be bad, so it's important to stay off [them]."
Still, the state and local governments are already making preparations to clear roads.
Salt and sand will go down starting Thursday night and plows will begin to roll out. The state has 632 plows ready, plus 200 more contract plows.
A blizzard warning was put in place by the National Weather Service for Litchfield County starting Friday at 6 a.m. and ending at noon Saturday.
The NWS said in the warning that the storm will bring heavy snow, blowing snow and strong winds, with accumulations of 15 to 25 inches likely between Friday and Saturday morning. The NWS said snow rates will likely exceed one inch per hour Friday night into Saturday.
The snow is set to begin Friday morning and become steadier and heavier in the afternoon, with heaviest snowfall Friday evening, tapering off into Saturday morning. Roads will be snow covered and visibility could be one quarter mile or less, making for "dangerous travel," conditions, the NWS said.
Winds will be 15 to 25 mph with gusts around 35 mph.
A blizzard warning means severe weather conditions are expected or occurring, falling or blowing snow with strong winds and poor visibilities are likely, leading to whiteout conditions, the NWS said.
"If you must (travel), have a winter survival kit with you. If you get stranded, stay with your vehicle," the weather service advises.
Some school districts have already announced they will be closed Friday, including Torrington. Other schools that will be closed area: Gilbert School in Winsted, Canton public schools, Regional School District 1, Regional School District 10 and Thomaston public schools.
Local officials said they are ready for the blizzard, the first to hit the state since December 2010.
"We just have to be ready to open if we have to," said Rick DallaValle, Torrington's emergency operations director. "Everything is already in place. We're ready to go if anything happens and it's necessary to open the EOC and begin sheltering."
DallaValle said city officials will meet Friday morning to determine if the Water Street emergency operations center will open.
"We're expecting a lot of snow and we're prepared. It's the winter, we get 18-20 inches of snow. It's a major storm but it's not anything that we can't handle." said Jerry Rollett, Torrington's public works director.
At Carl's True Value on North Elm Street, manager Bill Lamanna said the store is ready for a rush on shovels and other supplies.
"We buy ahead of time: snow shovels, ice, you know, so basically we're prepared all through the winter season," Lamanna said. "But, today I actually ordered extra stuff for tomorrow's morning shipment. I got ice melt, I got wood pellets, I got gas cans, I got more like lamp oil, batteries, coming in tomorrow morning. If we need any extra, we get a shipment twice a week so, we really don't run out."
Lamanna said the store sold ice melt and shovels throughout the day Thursday. He said they have also been selling roof rakes, which became popular two years ago after a series of large snow storms.
"It's been pretty steady all day long so," Lamanna said. "We'll see how it is in the morning, if there's no snow on the ground or it's not snowing yet we'll be pretty busy in the morning. And then after the snow it'll be crazy too with people coming in looking for ice melt and snow shovels after the storm hits so they can get out."
In Litchfield, Fire Marshal Thomas O'Hare, who serves as the town's emergency manager, said they are getting ready.
"Public Works has been working for the past two days to make sure all their (equipment) is up to snuff," O'Hare said. "The fire departments have all run down their check lists, the shelters are all prepared and now we are waiting for it to happen.
"With any luck, it will not come," O'Hare said.
Harwinton First Selectman Michael Criss said "we will be prepared," and the safety and welfare of the town's residents is most important.
"We're taking all necessary precautions for the storm," Criss said. "Our road crew is fully ready and geared to go. We'll start pre-treatment probably early morning to afternoon (Friday). Emergency crews have been notified and are scheduled to be on standby in both ends of town in case of an emergency."
Criss said officials will be operating a small emergency operations center to monitor the storm and will decide Friday night whether or nor to open a shelter or full EOC, depending on power outages and the severity of the storm in the area.
"We've already been in touch with CL& P and have crews available to us as needed and we'll utilize them if we need to," Criss said. "Obviously if we have power outages and trees down ... We've been coordinating since the announcement of the storm and we are prepared for what Mother Nature is bringing."
DallaValle said he will be in communication with the regional operations hub in Waterbury, who will coordinate with the state.
State police have also begun preperations for the storm
"Troopers with Emergency equipment and all four wheel drive vehicles will be deployed to strategic locations across Connecticut," said State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance. "They are prepared to respond to any and all emergencies. Normal patrols force of troopers will be supplements with additional manpower to enable a quicker and immediate response to any issue or emergency. All Off-duty Troopers have been placed on stand-by and have been ordered to be prepared to be called for immediate duty if necessary."
Vance advised motorists to refrain from traveling on the roads during the storm.
The United Illuminating Co. has already made calls to outside contractors and utilities outside the path of the storm for mutual aid assistance in repairing any electrical outages the company's customers experience, said James Torgerson, UI's president and chief executive officer.
"It was just 7 days ago that we were discussing a wind storm and very quickly we're watching out for a possible Nor'easter," Torgerson said. "Our team knows what is needed and we are taking all necessary precautions to be prepared for any effects on our distribution system."
Michael West, a UI spokesman, said for internal planning and staffing purposes, the company had today's snow storm as a Category 2 storm. UI has a total of six categories for ranking storms, with Category Six reserved for the worst weather conditions.
"Hurricane Sandy was a Category 6 based on our ratings," he said. "But each level represents the severity of the weather conditions at the moment and can change very rapidly."
Tracia Taskey Modifica, a Connecticut Light & Power spokeswoman , said the utility "is preparing its fleet to better handle road conditions, and employees and resources are being pre-staged in locations across the state so they can be deployed as quickly as possible to the areas where they will be needed."
Nursick said the timing of the storm would be important. As of Thursday, the worst of the storm was expected late tonight into Saturday - narrowly missing this morning's rush hour commute. Still, his opinion is it's best to stay home.
"This is going to be a big weather event, and people really need to give strong consideration whether they need to be on roads during weather event like this," Nursick said.


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The Bill of Rights doesn't mention that freedom of speech is restricted to a special class of establishment journalists. Freedom of speech is a universal property right, regardless of what the establishment-media gatekeepers say.
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Some inequality arises naturally from freedom of choice. Some comes from government meddling. One is good and the other is bad. …
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Looking more like an old-school authoritarian regime, the US government now has the power to revoke your passport if you owe taxes.
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The true purpose of carbon taxes on gas is to make it artificially expensive to drive.
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#1 "When Dying Becomes Your 'Duty',You Have a 'Duty to Die ' !"
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'Right to die' can become a 'duty to die'
Imagine that you have lung cancer. It has been in remission, but tests show the cancer has returned and is likely to be terminal. Still, there is some hope. Chemotherapy could extend your life, if not save it. You ask to begin treatment. But you soon receive more devastating news. A letter from the government informs you that the cost of chemotherapy is deemed an unjustified expense for the limited extra time it would provide.
However, the government is not without compassion. You are informed that whenever you are ready, it will gladly pay for your assisted suicide.
Think that's an alarmist scenario to scare you away from supporting "death with dignity"? Wrong. That is exactly what happened last year to two cancer patients in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal.
Barbara Wagner had recurrent lung cancer and Randy Stroup had prostate cancer. Both were on Medicaid, the state's health insurance plan for the poor that, like some NHS services, is rationed. The state denied both treatment, but told them it would pay for their assisted suicide. "It dropped my chin to the floor," Stroup told the media. "[How could they] not pay for medication that would help my life, and yet offer to pay to end my life?" (Wagner eventually received free medication from the drug manufacturer. She has since died. The denial of chemotherapy to Stroup was reversed on appeal after his story hit the media.)
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A story similar to this one happened to a man in British C. a couple years ago with their wonderful socialized health car systemi. The patient was denied treatment because he was elderly and a bureaucrat decided that since he was old that he was going to die in a few years anyway. There was a big stink about it and the man was treated. However, this is the health care system that these stupid LIBERALS want to impose on us.
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My uncle's HMO did that to him when he had kidney cancer. Not only that, he went to his HMO doctor for a year, complaining of back pain, and all they did was give him painkillers. No X-ray, nothing. A year later, when he started peeing blood, they found he had kidney cancer, it had metasized, and had spread to other organs. They sent him home to die with Hospice services, and he was 48 years old.
And he worked at Ford and had the good insurance, allegedly. Everytime I see an ad for that particular health plan, which is owned by a local hospital chain, I cringe. The hospital has ads about what a great cancer treatment program they have, too.
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The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) Database lists all events identified in the AAVSO Solar Bulletin. These results are provided monthly by the worldwide network of SID observers in the AAVSO Solar Division. Individual results are correlated with other observers' reports and reduced to a list of events with high definiteness ratings.
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SunEntry is a data entry program for solar observers. It will help you to create reports and send them to our database where they will be used in the AAVSO American Relative Sunspot Program. The information you submit will also be used in the monthly Solar Bulletin.
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When the ultraviolet rays from the Sun hit the Earths atmosphere the energy they possess work to knock electrons off of the atoms and molecules that the atmosphere is made up of. These free electrons make up a region of the atmosphere known as the Ionosphere. The region is strongest on the daytime side of the earth since it is dependant on the energy from the solar ultra violet rays.
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Jim Creek, WA NLK 24.8 250
Lualualei, HI NPM 21.4 566
LaMoure, ND NML 25.2 500
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Rodney Howe, Solar Section chair & SID leader
So, what are we looking for? Here are a couple references of SID events and their influence on the ionosphere:
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"A" Type: One or more tiny spots that do not demonstrate bi-polarity or exhibit penumbra.
"B" Type: Two or more tiny spots that demonstrate bi-polarity but do not exhibit penumbra.
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All paddle-power boats, on the water from dusk to dawn, must have a hand held light as minimal equipment to signal their presence to other boaters. A waterproof flashlight or headlamp is best. In addition, an anchor light or deck lamp, (steady white light) located to the stern may be required (see local reg.) for boats longer than 16", or desired for extra visibility. Red & Green Navigation Lights can further enhance your visibility and indicate your direction of travel to other boaters. A Strobe light (blinking white light) is for emergency use only. Any type of light is useful to have on board for circumstances when you may be caught unexpected after dark while still on the water. Please check your local boating regulations for your area. See the related article Night Paddling .
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Giving a (software) product a numeric usability score is a thought I had in many of my past projects. Having a final verdict in form of a %-value or a grade would give me a certain comparability between projects and some customers would prefer this kind of "certificate" over (just) an elaborate text. While for full reviews I still prefer the qualitative, informal approach, this formal summary could be applied when a full review isn't demanded.
Userfocus.co.uk has a nice example for this; guidelines can be checked (3-tier: doesn't comply, complies and kind of complies) and the XLS will promptly output a %-score for all of the 9 topics, together with a beautiful spiderweb-chart.
I gave it a try on my companys website. My impressions were mixed, it did provide some tendencies where the main problems are, but the statistical value was very dubious in my eyes. Some of the topics had only few checkpoints relevant to the website and some of the questions were highly subjective to anser. E.g. the topic "Forms & Data Entry" has a full 100% but mainly because only 6 of 23 answers were given.
What do you think? Does this quantitative approach has any value for evaluation? Could it be done right to get a meaningful and statistically valid outcome?