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Niche Hunt
This story appears in the April 1997 issue of Business Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
Never rely on one single niche (or market segment) to make your business prosper. The secret is to tap several niches and know that some pay off sooner than others. If your business is in a slump, focus on the niches that give faster returns; then concentrate on the longer-return niches as your business begins to revive.
The following multiniche marketing plan can work for any business, from a printing company to a small plastics manufacturer. The niches I suggest you concentrate on fall into general categories, but don't overlook the specialty segments of your particular market area, either.
Here are six niches that produce excellent financial returns. The first three produce the fastest returns on your efforts. The last three take longer, so plan your time accordingly.
1. Satisfied past customers. If your business is just coming out of a slump, this is the fastest way to jump-start your sales. Remember, making the sale is only 25 percent of overall sales excellence. The other 75 percent is repeat business. Entrepreneurs who don't market to past customers are forced to reinvent their businesses every year.
I doubled our company's profits by beginning each new year going back to old customers and asking if I could serve them again. I discovered I could turn satisfied past customers into loyal customers--and once they became loyal customers, they became six times more profitable than onetime satisfied customers.
What's the difference between satisfied and loyal customers? Satisfied customers are still willing to listen to what the competition has to say. Loyal customers think you're the best thing out there. They spread so many positive words about you, you can hardly keep up with the business.
When you call on past customers, tell them, "I've got a problem. I need to find more good people like you to offer our product or services to regularly." That alone will get your customers drumming up names for you.
2. Your close centers of influence. You've met
this network of people in the course of your daily life; they
really have no connection to the fact that you're a business owner. You go to the health club because you like to stay in shape, not because you own the Nature's Way Cafe and want more business. You go to a certain church or volunteer at the hospital because it has become your way of worship or of helping out in the community.
However, there is nothing wrong with letting these people know what you do. Do not expect business to come your way just because you and a friend both go to the same health club or work together at the school carnival's corn-dog booth. Make it known that you want the chance to prove yourself.
Some people feel they have no right to ask friends and acquaintances to do business with them. One entrepreneur told me, "I'm not the pushy type." There's a difference between being pushy and being passionate. A person who is passionate about his or her profession has no qualms about using the following dialogue:
"You and I go back a long way, and you know me better than a passing stranger. I can take better care of you than any stranger will. I would never take advantage of our friendship by not taking your business seriously. If anything, I will put more pressure on myself to serve you well."
3. Your local business network. Here's a little personalized poetry from my business history. It may apply to you, too.
There once was a young entrepreneur who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She never joined clubs,
Or hung out in pubs,
But formed her own network with pediatricians and preachers,
Little league coaches, gas station attendants and all her kids' teachers.
I never joined professional clubs because I couldn't afford any more time away from my family than prospecting allowed. I'm not saying it's wrong to go to meetings, especially if they're productive for you, but sometimes at networking events there are several insurance agents, several clothing retailers or what have you. I wonder how much business really passes between these people. Most entrepreneurs are looking for leads, not looking to give them away to competitors.
Here's a more personalized approach that doubles profits faster: Form your own "board of advisors" within the community. Eventually, you may want to have quarterly morning breakfast meetings or luncheons with your hand-picked network. Here are some prospective board members: a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and several small-business owners such as a printer, a dry cleaner, a restaurateur, a clothier, and an espresso shop or bakery owner. The key is that no two are in the same business.
Your specially selected board is effective because there's no one competing against you. My informal board evolved over the years from doing business with the same doctor, dentist, dry cleaner and auto repairperson. When I took the children in for routine checkups, my pediatrician would give me hot leads. Of course, I recommended his services to many of my friends and clients, too.
You may already have several informal boards and not realize it, such as a network of friends from your children's school and sports activities. Don't feel embarrassed about talking to these people about what you do. Many businesses are supported by groups that have become like family to each other.
4. Past acquaintances. Get out your old high school yearbook, holiday card lists and other memorabilia. Start taxing your memory for names of people from your past you can contact. See if your former high-school teacher is still holding down the fort at your neighborhood school.
Try writing a letter such as this to your former basketball coaches, dance teachers, or even old bosses:
"It's been a long time since we've seen each other. You were always someone who brought out the best in me, and I still remember all the kindness you showed me in the summer of '62 (or "in math class when I was struggling," etc.).
"I am now an insurance broker and am looking to expand my business. I decided to write to people who have known me well and worked with me in the past--people like you who know I can be trusted to do a good job." Include a brochure about your business or any other applicable information.
5. Your telephone. Every time you find yourself with a few minutes to spare, dial for dollars. Whenever you think of a name or lead, follow up on it. Research mailing lists, and buy some current ones from a list broker. Here are a few quick telephone tips:
Get right to the point. Allow three minutes to get your message across. Use normal, but bordering on dramatic, language: "This is a shot in the dark, but are you 100 percent satisfied with the people cleaning your office?"
Find a good reason to call a prospect. Maybe it's congratulations about a new baby or promotion. Personalized reasons are highly effective.
Report news they haven't heard, such as "The tax laws change in 30 days" or "Your rates may be going up on your birthday." Consumers are impressed when business owners know something they don't know, but need to know.
Obviously, you need to report correct facts, but make this a habit and impress your prospects in the process.
Use voice mail to save time. It lets you talk directly to the prospect and get your message across as only you can do. For example, "Mr. Stolley, I wanted to stop by this weekend and present that proposal we discussed. Please leave a message on my machine with an appropriate time."
6. Your territory. This takes time to build. It's the geographic area you regularly call on to ask for business. Think of it as if you were a milkman going on your route. Not everybody in the territory has you deliver their milk, but you have some customers in the territory--so while you're delivering, you make a few house calls to improve your odds.
The first stage of building a territory is the "getting to know you" stage; this takes about six months to a year. Then comes the "getting to like you" stage where everyone recognizes your face and may even like you, but they haven't ordered your product yet. It takes between one and two years to reach this stage. Finally, there's the "getting to love you" stage; it takes about two years to reach that level of productivity.
There you have it--six niches. Work them and grow.
Danielle Kennedy presents sales and marketing seminars and keynote addresses worldwide and is the author of seven sales books as well as audio and video sales training programs. Check local bookstores for her latest book, Seven Figure Selling (Berkley Press). Write to her in care of Entrepreneur, 2392 Morse Ave., Irvine, CA 92614.

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Syrian Doctor on Aftermath of Chemical Attack
Abdul Tawab Shahroor was head of Syria's medical forensics department in Aleppo province before he defected last month. He talked to WSJ's Nour Malas about the aftermath of what he says was a chemical attack in Khan Aasal in March 2013.
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Perennial TV villain Robert Knepper is set to appear on NBC's new drama The Blacklist, TVLine.com reports.
In the freshman series, the world's most wanted criminal (James Spader) mysteriously turns himself in and offers to give up everyone he has ever worked with — a list of which he calls The Blacklist. His only condition: He will only work with a newly minted FBI agent (Megan Boone) with whom he appears to have no connection.
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Knepper, whose credits include Prison Break, Cult and Heroes, will play a member of that Blacklist during the fifth episode of the series.
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Movie Review: 'Black Gold'
Posted by TheShot on 11 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Starbucks
No, I'm not slated as the latest guest movie reviewer for TV's Ebert & Roeper. (Though I would love to be backstage to witness Robert Roeper tell his guests, "My show. Got that? It's my show now!") But last night, KQED aired a coffee-crisis-themed documentary for PBS's "Indepedent Lens," titled Black Gold: Independent Lens . BLACK GOLD | PBS.
We first mentioned this documentary back in January 2006. Last November, the Mission district's Roxie Theater gave it a weekend showing — and at first I rued missing it. But after watching the movie last night, I'm glad I didn't spend the money. PBS will also be airing this documentary on various affiliates in the coming weeks, so check your local listings.
Although the movie is of interest because of its subject matter, it largely fails as a documentary. Other reviewers have similar thoughts, calling it "nearsighted" and "not particularly well-grounded". In short, it seems best targeted to a rather green audience (in terms of both naïveté and environmentalism) who is either new to the global coffee crisis or is seeking further validation for their newfound Fair Trade ethics. The film offered no original nor particularly insightful perspectives.
What Black Gold does provide seems more of an autistic auteur's interpretation of the modern, social-issue-driven documentary: a lot of footage of the destitute, a few random statistics thrown on screen showing how little growers receive, and spliced in footage of big business coffee in the Western world. But rather than connecting all the pieces together for us in a cohesive cause-and-effect argument, it leaves us with disconnected factoids and a cloying sense of emotional appeal.
"And therefore, how could you not buy Fair Trade coffee!?"
Sure, it's not the Chewbacca defense, but, "Huh?" There are no financial breakdowns of what percentage of the price of coffee goes where in the whole supply chain. There's no critical examination of how co-operatives work, or not, for small farmers (Fair Trade ensures a minimum price is paid to co-operatives, not growers — everything beyond that isn't addressed). But perhaps the movie's worst offense was the glaring omission of the role of the Big Four and Vietnamese robusta coffee behind the global coffee crisis.
Starbucks gets a bit of unfair treatment too. Their stock price might soar on the "hot air" thermal currents created by a faux image of Fair Trade goodness (only 3.7% of their coffee is certified as Fair Trade), but lumping them in with the Big Four was a bit extreme. Unlike the Big Four, at least Starbucks popularized the notion that customers' coffee tastes could evolve beyond stale cans of Yuban.
The movie's producers have a clear Fair Trade agenda, but they do little to clearly justify it. The global coffee crisis, and the inequities of globalization, involve complex issues. Far too complex for overly simplistic platitudes such as "buy Fair Trade coffee" as the natural and only solution to the mess. For example, just reference today's Vancouver Sun — where a Fair Trade researcher concluded, "Consumers should never believe that problems of poverty are so simple they can be alleviated just by buying a certain label.": Make sure your fair trade coffee really is, researcher says.
So at best, the movie offers the emotional appeal of a Sally Struthers telling us what "just a few cents per cup" could do. But wouldn't higher incomes help the lives of just about anyone in the world living below the poverty line?
But at worst, the filmmakers' techniques of storytelling with disconnected facts, emotionally-charged imagery, no legitimate attempt to connect the dots, and a drawn conclusion without clearly supporting arguments is on par with what the American public received as justification for the U.S. military invasion of Iraq in 2003.
As for the movie's redeemable merits…
My favorite part of the film, however, was seeing Caffè Artigiano's Sammy Piccolo (who is called 'Salvatore' Piccolo in the footage) competing at the 2005 World Barista Championship in Seattle. Sammy placed third that year. If only The Roxie offered you one of Sammy's espresso shots, it would have made it worth the price of admission.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Stucco in time: Same as it ever was in Ivy
ADDRESS: 915 Owensville Road
NEIGHBORHOOD: Ivy
SIZE: 1408 fin. sq. ft.
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CURB APPEAL: 7 out of 10
LISTED BY: Owners Don and Kimberly Skelly 981-6648 or 540-832-0364
Standing on the edge of Owensville Road to get a full frontal view of this house is courting disaster. Cars career past at wicked speeds, unaccustomed to lowly pedestrians checking out the local real estate. The original parking space left little room for error, but the current owners have carved out a larger driveway on the other side of the house, away from traffic, where kids and groceries can be more easily maneuvered.
Even so, entering from the shaded, stucco front porch seems much nicer than using the kitchen entrance. Built for the farm manager of Locust Hill, Meriwether Lewis' birthplace, the house has pleasantly remained relatively unchanged. A straight-on front view does reveal a slight outline in the stucco where a second entrance used to be. Characteristic of the time when people often worked and lived in one place, the side-by-side doors kept the activities separate.
True to form, the first thing one stumbles upon is a two-sided fireplace. The current owner thinks a wall must have divided the space originally, but today the downstairs rooms are conjoined by the hearth. People who have attended parties at the house report that the crackling fire viewed from two rooms created a convivial atmosphere. The rooms are small but well-proportioned. The windows are large and original and have been painstakingly stripped of years of accumulated paint to reveal their 19th century craftsmanship.
Former residents say the best spot was in the dining room where they "could sit and watch the herds of deer at the apple trees in the back." Now, though, the deer have been replaced by a neighbor's horse ring and a different kind of herd.
The recent renovation includes central air conditioning, a dual fuel heating system, and new dishwasher and gas range– nothing fancy, just the basics of modern living.
Another former resident still curses the stairs: he fell down them once and cracked some ribs. Fortunately, the current owners hired a New Zealand boat builder who took eight meticulous months to rebuild the entire flight with the result that the stairs are no longer a safety hazard.
The second floor continues the simple theme. A large open landing could have myriad uses, not including a bedroom. Two other rooms with adjoining bathroom seem perfectly suited for a couple or maybe a small family. Deep closets are a surprise, although the house would look authentic with armoires and chifforobes. The walls and ceilings have been completely redone with horsehair plaster over lathing. There is no drywall. Original doors, floors, and hardware have been spared constant upgrading and are still in excellent condition.
The outdoors still retains some history with mammoth magnolias and buxom boxwoods scattered about. Beyond the new parking area, a wide lawn edged in stately evergreens buffers the house from a few nearby. A spacious back deck, accessed from the kitchen, supplies nice overflow for summer evening dinner parties.
All in all, the place presents a captured sense of authenticity. These days, many smaller, older homes sport blocky appendages and wind up looking like Lego castles. Not this house. The extras are not measured in square footage but in the continuous care each owner has so obviously lavished during his tenure. With houses getting bigger and families getting smaller, it's nice to know some places have enjoyed only incremental change.
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Press release: Gamma-tocotrienol kills prostate cancer stem cells25 Jul 2010
Latest study reveals that gamma-tocotrienol is effective in targeting prostate cancer stem cells, offering a potential means to prevent cancer
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Jul 25, 2010, 20:00 ET from Davos Life Science
SINGAPORE, July 25 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Scientists from Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong have found that gamma-tocotrienol is potent in killing prostate cancer stem cells. This small group of cells is responsible for the initiation of prostate cancer and is resistant to conventional chemotherapy drugs. It causes relapses in the cancer by producing new chemo-resistant cancer cells. Gamma-tocotrienol is a member of the Vitamin E family and is derived naturally from palm oil.
This study aimed to find a way to eradicate prostate cancer stem cells. It follows an earlier report that demonstrated the effectiveness of gamma-tocotrienol in targeting the bulk of the prostate tumour mass. This latest finding highlights the considerable potential of gamma-tocotrienol as a natural remedy to prevent and treat prostate cancer.
This research study involves collaboration between scientists at Davos Life Science (Singapore) and researchers at Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre — Queensland and The Hong Kong University. The findings were reported in the latest edition of the International Journal of Cancer (IJC).
The scientists found that low doses of gamma-tocotrienol cause apoptosis in the prostate cancer stem cells and suppress their colony formation capability. This results in a lower prostate cancer stem cell population (as defined by the protein markers CD133 and CD44). Further tests in mice models were conducted, where mice implanted with hormonal refractory prostate cancer cells were given gamma-tocotrienol orally. The results showed that gammatocotrienol not only reduced tumour size formed, but also decreased the incidence rate of tumour formation by 75%, as compared to the control group of mice, which had 100% tumour formation. These results strongly suggest that gamma-tocotrienol could be developed for prostate cancer prevention and treatment.
"Current chemotherapy drugs, such as Docetaxel, have limited effect on prostate cancer stem cells, although they are currently the first-line drug given to patients with advanced hormonal refractory prostate cancer. This study shows that gamma-tocotrienol is effective in preventing the formation of prostate tumours in mice models. The key compound involves the use of a natural product, gamma-tocotrienol, which is found in edible plant oils, thereby minimising potential adverse side effects," said Dr. Daniel Yap, one of the leading scientists for the study and Head of Research & Development at Davos Life Science. "As gamma-tocotrienol has shown positive results in removing the stubborn prostate cancer stem cells, it should be investigated as a more effective form of treatment strategy to achieve what conventional chemotherapy drug has failed to do — to keep the disease in remission state."
"These results provide a compelling case for developing the potential of gamma-tocotrienols to help patients with terminal hormonal refractory prostate cancer. The prospects of future studies on the cancer-fighting effects of gamma-tocotrienols are exciting indeed and we see increasing research interest by scientists in this area," said Mr. Arthur Ling, CEO of Davos Life Science Singapore.
About Davos Life Science
Davos Life Science was established in 2004 as the world's largest tocotrienol manufacturer. The company extracts natural palm tocotrienols for use in health supplements, functional foods, personal care products and pharmaceutical formulations under the brand name "Natural e3". The company has also set up the world largest research and development centre dedicated to tocotrienols. For more information, please visit www.davoslife.com
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WIU Breaks Ground for Performing Arts Center
April 26, 2011
MACOMB, IL – It was a grand day today (April 26) as the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Western Illinois University Performing Arts Center took place on the WIU-Macomb campus. In addition, a seven-figure bequest from retired WIU administrator Tate Lindahl to support the center's operation was announced.
Legislators, local organizations and campus and community members have worked together over the years to lobby for the center.
"Through partnerships and collaboration, the WIU Performing Arts Center has become a reality. I cannot thank enough our local legislators, our campus community and our many friends, Gov. Pat Quinn and Capital Development Director Jim Underwood for their support of this cultural center, which will be an incredible asset to this region. I would also like to recognize Tate Lindahl's generosity for, and support of, this project and Western Illinois University," noted WIU President Al Goldfarb.
"This project is an investment in the future of Western Illinois University, and in this region's economy," said Gov. Pat Quinn. "Not only will this project create jobs during construction, it will also enable WIU to increase its educational offerings and provide the people of Macomb with a state-of-the-art facility for music, dance and theater productions."
In Summer 2009, Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill for Illinois Jobs Now!, a jobs and capital construction plan, which provided $67.8 million in capital development funds for constructing the Performing Arts Center in Macomb.
"The Performing Arts Center project will employ hundreds of construction workers and provide enhanced educational opportunities for Western students once it's complete, helping them get better jobs as well," said CDB Executive Director Jim Underwood. "This will be CDB's largest ongoing construction project, and we are thrilled that Gov. Quinn is moving it along."
The Performing Arts Center, which has been designed by the architectural/design firms of Pelli Clarke Pelli of New Haven, CT and O'Donnell, Wicklund, Pigozzi, and Peterson (OWP/P) of Chicago and Phoenix, AZ, will include a 1,400-seat proscenium theatre auditorium with two balconies, a 250-seat thrust stage and a 150-seat studio theatre. There also will be dance, jazz and theatre rehearsal studios; dressing rooms adjacent to the theatres; a scenery/design workshop and a costume shop; administration offices; and a loading dock which will accommodate semis and buses for professional touring companies and orchestras.
"This facility will not only be a cultural landmark for the region, but an academic facility worthy of our excellent students and faculty. The facility will provide much needed instructional and performance spaces for the Department of Theatre and Dance and the School of Music," said College of Fine Arts and Communication Dean Paul Kreider. "We are excited to be working with our exceptional design team partners to realize a facility that will serve the region's people as well as Western Illinois University."
The new facility, which has been designed with five welcoming "fronts," creates a new "arts" quadrangle between the Browne Hall/PAC building, Memorial, Simpkins and Corbin halls.
"This is a great day for Macomb and Western Illinois University. Lobbying for the Performing Arts Center has been a true community-university effort, and further demonstrates the collaboration that is essential between a town and a university," said Mayor Mick Wisslead. "I'd like to thank everyone for coming together to rally for this center."
The construction documents will be designed by OWP&P of Chicago. Staff will develop the technical documents that will be used to bid the project and to build the Performing Arts Center.
"It was truly a personal honor to serve as a lead sponsor and as a lead negotiator of the 2009 capital bill that appropriated the funding for this long-awaited project. The Performing Arts Center will not only create short-term construction jobs, it will also further solidify WIU's role as a cultural center for western Illinois and serve as an economic development engine," said Sen. John Sullivan.
"It is my honor to join President Goldfarb at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Western Illinois University Performing Arts Center. This project began as a vision of the WIU Board of Trustees in 2001. Thanks to the tireless efforts of administrators, faculty, community members, and the State of Illinois, this vision will be a reality," said State Rep. Norine Hammond. "Senators Dillard, Donahue, Lightford, Sieben and Sullivan, together with Representatives Kosel, Mitchell, O'Brien, Osmond and Myers all played a pivotal role in this project."
To view architect's renderings of the Performing Arts Center, visit wiu.edu/university_planning/masterplanpac.php.
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I am interested in finding all the vertices of all polygons which are not on the inside the most outer polygon that can be formed in a shapefile. Here is how I get all the vertices:
def __init__(self,shapeFilePath):
driver = ogr.GetDriverByName('ESRI Shapefile')
self.LandUses = []
self.Codes = [] #Store Categories
self.NPolygons = 1 # number of polygons in layer
self.dataSource = driver.Open(shapeFilePath, 0)
self.layer = self.dataSource.GetLayer()
self.NPolygons = self.layer.GetFeatureCount()
self.Boundaries = [""]*self.NPolygons # store vertices of each polygon
for polygon in range(self.NPolygons):
area = self.layer.GetFeature(polygon)
Name = area.GetField(0)
Kategorie = area.GetField(1)
geometry = area.GetGeometryRef()
boundary_raw = str(geometry.GetBoundary())
#remove tail and head
boundary = boundary_raw[12:-1]
boundary = boundary.split(',')
#print boundary
#lenboundary = len(boundary)
#convert each coordinate from string to float
for x, point in enumerate(boundary):
boundary[x] = point.split()
boundingvertices=np.asarray(boundary, dtype=np.float64)
self.Boundaries[polygon] = boundingvertices
But now I am stuck with a lot of vertices, and I don't know how to get the "mantle", here is a picture displaying what I need:
Before I go hacking my own solution, I'd like to know if the GDAL Gods have been kind and made something like this already.
UPDATE: Found something call convex hull... not sure, but testing...
UPDATE #2: Of course one could just join all the polygons ...


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The only reason he is even talked about is because of his last name. He is a below-average college QB. Should be working at your local grocery store within the next three years.
i think he is a well above average college quarterback who will probably be working in a grocery store or a prison laundry within the year.
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Swiss National Science Foundation, project funding, project no. 176338
Languages have different means of linking consecutive events in a narrative structure while also highlighting...
This area of research deals with the simultaneous or successive acquisition of several languages (first, second and third languages) in various age groups and in varying demographic sectors – including the immigrant population. Through longitudinal empirical studies, researchers will shed light on the factors that influence the development of individual language competence.
Direction: Prof. Raphael Berthele
Research in this area focuses on developing, diagnosing and guiding multilingual and pluricultural competences. It addresses three main issues: first, language acquisition in its non-guided, guided (classroom) and autonomous forms; second, the didactics of second languages and multilingualism including key aspects such as teaching and learning objectives, curricula and syllabuses as well as methods of teaching and learning languages; and third, the assessment of language competence and the evaluation of language programmes.
This area addresses social and institutional issues in multilingualism. Investigation focuses on schools, the workplace, cultural and political institutions, language policy and the law. Adopting a sociological and anthropological approach, the research examines societal processes of valorising or devaluing certain languages and their speakers as well as power issues in linguistic communities, social inequalities and the impact of globalisation on multilingual practices.
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TAURON Obsługa Klienta opened a modern and functional Customer Service Office (CSO) in Wrocław at ul. Mennicza 20. It is the first facility opened under the CSO network optimization project in the TAURON Group.Read more
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On 20 September TAURON Polska Energia submitted application to the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) stating their intention to take over Górnośląski Zakład Elektroenergetyczny – now belonging to Vattenfall AB. ...Read more
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The Management Board of TAURON convened the Extraordinary General Meeting on 9 November, during which, among others, increasing of the share capital by PLN 400 million is planned. It will take place through the issue of 80 million of non-voting shares with the nominal value of PLN 5 per share. ...Read more
Construction of the 800 m level at Zakład Górniczy Janina in Libiąż belongs to strategic investment projects of TAURON Group. At the beginning of October, the next important stage of project implementation was commenced - construction of the shaft bottom of the "Janina VI" shaft at a level of 800 m. ...Read more
TAURON Wytwarzanie conducts advanced works concerning the construction of a pilot installation converting carbon dioxide from industrial installations to syngas. The surplus electricity from renewable sources will be also used for its production. ...Read more
On 4 August the Management Board of TAURON Polska Energia unanimously adopted the decision defining the borderline conditions for the purchase of a part of KWK Brzeszcze assets, based on which a new coal mine will be established. ...Read more
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The issues of mercury emission, methods of its removal and environmental impact were the main topics of the scientific conference organised on 13-14 May by the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, TAURON and KIC InnoEnergy. ...Read more
TAURON Dystrybucja started a project associated with the implementation of a smart metering system in Wrocław. During two years the company will install over 330 thousand of modern electricity meters at their clients' premises. ...Read more
In Kopalnia Wapienia Czatkowice (Czatkowice Limestone Mine) belonging to TAURON Group works associated with the preparation of the area for mining from a new deposit have been launched. The investment located across the area of approximately 50 hectares guarantees a possibility of extraction in the mine until 2060. ...Read more
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Sales revenue up 15 percent year on year (to PLN 15.3 billion) EBITDA at PLN 3.0 billion Stable electricity distribution and retail supply volumes Purchase of five wind farms with 180 MW total capacity Capital expenditure up 12 percent (to PLN 2.7 billion). ...Read more
Sales revenue up 3 percent year on year (to PLN 13.3 billion) EBITDA came in at PLN 3 billion, with EBITDA margin at 22.3 percent Net profit attributable to the shareholders of the parent company reached PLN 853 million Rising electricity distribution volume and increased number of customers connected to the distribution grid Capital expenditures of PLN 2.3 billion. ...Read more
Sales revenue up 5 percent year on year (to PLN 9.2bn) EBITDA up 2 percent (to PLN 2.2bn), with EBITDA margin of 23.8 percent Net profit attributable to the shareholders of the parent company of PLN 567m due to impairment charges (impact on the net result: PLN 303m) Electricity distribution and retail supply volumes maintained Capital expenditures of PLN 1.48bn. ...Read more
Sales revenue up 5 percent year on year (to PLN 4.8bn) EBITDA up 6 percent (to PLN 1.3bn) and EBITDA margin maintained at 26.8 percent Stable net profit of PLN 637m Positive PLN 230m impact on earnings due to dissolving of the provisions related to employee benefits at TAURON Wytwarzanie (Generation) Increased volumes of electricity distribution (by 1 percent), electricity...Read more
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TAURON Group posted solid financial and operating results in H1 2017. It would not have been possible without our consistent activities in various areas – we are streamlining management processes in place within the Group, we are watching our costs, while at the same time making sure that we support innovations and make our product offering more attractive for our existing and future customers.Read more
Sales revenue reached PLN 4,590m (up 0.5 percent year on year) – revenue increases reported in the following segments: Mining, Distribution, Supply EBITDA reached PLN 1,185m (up 35.6 percent year on year) – EBITDA margin was 25.8 percent Net profit reached PLN 641m (up 97.8 percent year on year) EBITDA was impacted by the dissolving of the PLN 190m provision related to the CCGT...Read more
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A little background:
With a lyric flow and colourful hue, Homer's epic tales twist and turn with great heights of dramatic anticipation, plausible character depth, and morsels of mythic fantasy that have dazzled readers since the days he composed his poetry. Very little is known of the Greek poet called Homer, and yet his works, which were said to have been cradled by the side of Alexander the Great during his campaigns, have never failed to ignite the imagination with dreams of one-eyed monsters, beautiful goddesses, adventures over the ocean, bitter fighting at the walls of Troy, and love which reaches the abyss of Hades. It is about hate, friendship, revenge, honour, pride, self-gratification, love, pity, remorse, heroism, and the strength of mortal man in the face of bickering gods and their enticing will to interfere in the affairs of mankind.
Historians set Homer in his native land of Ionia, which is located in the eastern Aegean. This is where ancient tradition places the poet, in which nothing else is known of his life. The era of Homer is generally considered to be during the late eighth or early seventh century B.C. His composition is framed around the life of a Greek hero, Odysseus (one of many mentioned, i.e. Achilles), who sets sail from his home upon the island of Ithaca, leaving behind his lovely wife, Penelope, to take part in the largest sea borne invasion of the great walled city of Troy, mostly outlined in The Iliad. But for this article, we will work backward in time (like a Quentin Tarantino film), beginning with the absence of Odysseus, his unruly house filled with sniveling suitors for Penelope's hand in marriage, and the stirring of his son Telemachus to search for his lost father.
Setting aside all the complicated and dramatic tales and relationships of Sparta and Greece, the Trojan Princes Hector and Paris, Helen, Priam, Agamemnon, and Menelaus all boiled together in a feud that brought 50,000 Greeks to the shores of Troy, we shall dive into the world of The Odyssey. The war with Troy will come in "The Iliad: Homer Part 2″, so keep your eyes peeled.
In all fairness, The Odyssey gives the reader in the 21st century a detailed glimpse into how the early Greeks thought, felt, conceived of the world around them, interpreted the nuances and phenomenons of nature, and interacted with themselves. Greece was ruled by city fiefdoms, or known in Koine as "polis", which made up warlike clans and kingdoms that clashed and strove for power. The two strongest, with a feud that would last for centuries, was the democratic polis of Athens and the land-trampling, heavy hoplite soldiers of Sparta. Sparta would rule the land with its ferocious fighters and stubborn attitude on the battlefield, while Athens would roar across the waves with its seasoned navy.
Homer would write his poetry at the dawning of these powers as their strength grew, and he would dictate his thoughts and imagination based upon how he saw the world through Greek eyes and man's role under the gaze of the gods. To the Greeks, life was about glory, heroism, and living the Greek life through literature, philosophy, education, personal hygiene, due respect of ancestors, the gods, art, and nature. Two things could sum up Greek life: beauty and the veneration of the body. In one word, Hellenism! This term, derived from the word "Hellas", means all things Greek in life, and was the central aspect of the quality of life that was expressed through hedonism, which is the worship of pleasure.
While Homer sticks mostly to the adventure and strength found in men and the bonds that are formed through comrades-in-arms, he also pays close attention to Greek qualities: worship of gods, mythology, lore, sex, passion, and exploring the unknown with the belief that all life is ruled by the fury of the gods and man must always act in such a way to appease them. Therefore, Odysseus offers customary sacrifices to Zeus, showing his thanks for being victorious over Troy, and yet offers prayers to Poseidon to guide and guard him on his journey home, although past offenses to the god of the sea will render his voyage much more difficult than he could imagine.
Excerpts in light of Greek thought:
The following excerpt is taken from line The Odyssey lines 294-302, 307-308, translated by Robert Fagles. This section covers the arrival of the goddess Athena with her bronze spear and how she conceals herself to talk with the son of Odysseus, Telemachus. The son, who is observing the pathetic sight of the suitors in his house, watches with disdain as they feast and drink to his father's "believed" demise, as they appeal to wed his mother and the bereaved wife of Odysseus, Penelope. This is just to give you a taste, you must read, The Odyssey for yourself.
Athena declares to Telemachus about the horrid behaviour of the suitors:
"Shameful!"- brimming with indignation, Pallas Athena broke out. "Oh how much you need Odysseus, gone so long- how he'd lay hands on all these brazen suitors! If only he would appear, now, at his house's outer gates and take his stand, armed with his helmet, shield and pair of spears, as strong as the man I glimpsed that first time in our own house, drinking wine and reveling there… just come in from Ephyra, visiting Ilus, Mermerus' son…If only that Odysseus sported with these suitors, a blood wedding, a quick death would take the lot."
The Character of Odysseus:
Odysseus is the main character and the celebrated hero. Where so many men die at the gates of Troy or under the cruel hands of monsters and sirens, Odysseus is portrayed as a king with value, strength, and most of all, honour. He is a hero in the Greek world of Homer's time and for centuries to come. He is uplifted as a symbol of virility and manhood, a model to live after. Odysseus is willing to sacrifice everything and anything to get home to his wife, who he has been separated from for ten years, and is best known for two things: being a great hunter and a man of cunning deceit.
Odysseus was a man who knew when and how to use his stealth and power of manipulation to see his will accomplished. He was a survivor, but also someone who was willing to do anything through his laborious journeys to find peace and safety back among his lands as king on the quaint island of Ithica. His cunning nature is best demonstrated in Homer's account of what Odysseus does to the unruly suitors when he finally does return, to everyone's surprise. At first coming off as understanding and hospitable, Odysseus has all the suitors distracted, locks them in his feasting hall, strings his bow, and slaughters them all in a bloody and horrific scene.
This fulfills the words of Athena to the son of Odysseus, that if he (Odysseus) were to return, there would be "a blood wedding" to befall the suitors. Thus, designed to be something of a prophetic fulfillment, Athena's words ring true at the end and Odysseus restores order as Homer leaves us with the sense that finally the mighty heart of a warrior will at last find rest.
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Former Vancouver geologist and mining executive John Gregory Paterson, who created and distributed hundreds of bogus assay results to boost the share price of Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Southwestern Resources Corp., has pleaded guilty to four of nine counts of fraud.
Paterson, 62, entered the guilty plea through defence lawyer Rod Anderson on Monday morning, just before an 83-day trial was scheduled to begin in Vancouver Provincial Court.
Crown counsel Ian Hay told Judge Harbans Dhillon that the four charges capture the essential elements of the fraud. He said he will stay the other five charges.
Hay also said he is seeking a 10-year sentence on each of the four counts, to be served concurrently. Anderson has not yet said what term he is seeking.
The 11th-hour guilty plea turned the anticipated trial into a sentencing hearing, but that doesn't mean it will be short or smooth. Hay told court there is still substantial disagreement about the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, in particular the amount of damage the fraud inflicted on the company and its shareholders.
Throughout the morning, Paterson — tall and gangly, with short, white hair and a full moustache — sat quietly behind his lawyers. He took some notes but otherwise sat motionless and expressionless.
In his opening statement, Hay told court how the fraud — which rocked the mining community and the stock market when it was discovered in June 2007 — started and ended.
Paterson was the president, chief executive officer and largest shareholder of Southwestern in 2002 when it optioned a prospective gold property in China (the Boka project).
Paterson assumed responsibility for the exploration program and served as the "qualified person," who is responsible for compiling and disseminating information about the project, including assay results.
Hay said Paterson received the first set of assay results directly from the lab in May 2003 and included what he purported to be the results in a news release.
Hay said that, from May 2003 to February 2007, Paterson issued 25 consecutive releases reporting assay results on the Boka project. Problem was, they were not true: "Every one contained false numbers created by John Paterson replacing the true numbers," Hay told court.
He said that, of the 446 assay results that were reported, 433 were "inflated values."
The release was circulated to company executives and board members, then sent to the TSX surveillance department and publicly distributed through an electronic dissemination service.
Because the results might influence the stock price, the company also filed a "material change report" on SEDAR, the national securities database.
Hay said Paterson also entered the same figures into the company's databases at the project site and its Vancouver head office. These results formed the basis for later technical reports on the property, and those reports, in turn, were used by analysts to recommend the stock to investors.
Investors and analysts, unaware of the fraud, pushed for a pre-feasibility study, which lenders require before they will finance this sort of project. Such studies include independent verification of assay results.
Hay said evidence will show Paterson engaged in "a series of ploys" to delay and defeat the verification process. He said Paterson sent emails to the on-site project manager, John Zhang, instructing him "to perform certain tasks that could only frustrate it."
He also said evidence will show Paterson transferred $200,000 US of personal funds from a brokerage account at L.O.M. Securities in Bermuda to another account in Zhang's name.
By June 2007, Southwestern executives and board members became concerned about the delays. That month, Paterson resigned and, according to Hay, nobody at Southwestern was able to speak to him again.
Southwestern set up an internal committee to investigate the matter. Members were dispatched to China to meet with Zhang, "but when they get there, Mr. Zhang had disappeared," Hay said.
Meanwhile, he continued, a "lost" drill core was found in another warehouse. New assays from that core showed considerably lower values.
At that juncture, company officials obtained copies of the original assay certificates the lab had sent Paterson and found they didn't match the assays recorded on the company's databases. In July 2007, the company issued a news release warning the public not to rely on previously issued assay results.
Hay said that, just days before this announcement, Paterson made a second payment to Zhang, this time for $300,000 Cdn, through the same Bermuda accounts.
In November 2007, an independent mining consultant verified the reported assay results had been manipulated, and disclosed the real values. The stock price plunged to pennies.
The RCMP Integrated Market Enforcement Team in Vancouver commenced an investigation and laid charges in December 2010.
Meanwhile, said Hay, Southwestern was paying Paterson hefty compensation: more than $1 million per year from 2003 to 2005, more than $2 million in 2006, and $372,500 in salary and severance during 2007 when he resigned.
Hay also said that, between May 2003 and July 2007, Paterson traded Southwestern through five brokerage accounts, including one in a Bermuda account called "Sugna" (which he deduced to be an inversion of "Angus," the Shaughnessy street where Paterson lives). He said Paterson netted $5.6 million from these trades after all costs, including tax.
After the fraud was exposed, Southwestern shareholders filed a class-action lawsuit. Hay said that, to settle the suit, the company agreed to pay $7 million, Paterson $4.2 million and his wife $3 million.
He also noted the company, based on the bogus assay results, accelerated options payments on the Boka properties, spending $4 million to acquire a 70-per-cent interest, and then another $1.7 million to boost that interest to 90 per cent.
In total, he said, the company invested $39 million in the Boka project, but when the fraud was exposed, the property was written down to $10 million.
He also noted the company engaged in a share buyback program, purchasing 1.3 million shares for $10.6 million based on the false assumption that the stock was underpriced relative to the assay results.
He further noted that the bogus assay results were incorporated, by reference, in three share offerings: the first in August 2003, which raised $15.3 million; the second in March 2004, which raised $40.2 million; and the third in September 2005, which raised $26.5 million.
Hay said witnesses will tell the court that investors lost a total of $260 million as a result of the fraud. He did not explain how this figure was calculated. Anderson is expected to take issue with this and other damage figures Hay is claiming.
After the fraud was detected, Paterson was also pursued by the B.C. Securities Commission. In June 2009, he admitted to fraud and illegal insider trading, and agreed to a lifetime ban from the B.C. marketplace. Among other things, he can never again serve as a qualified person.
Although he lived and worked as a geologist in Vancouver, he was licensed with the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in Australia. A week after he signed the settlement agreement with the BCSC, the institute permanently revoked his membership.
The sentencing hearing continues Wednesday morning.


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This post is going to show you 13 ways that you can save $378 or more by living in a tiny house. And that's just the beginning because some families are saving much more than that but for now, let's get right into it.
1. Little to no mortgage
Making the decision to build a tiny house on a trailer so that you can live in means you most likely won't have a mortgage. Actually, banks don't normally finance little homes like this even though they will help you with an RV most of the time. We'll see if someday we can easily finance our tiny houses on trailers. Even if you could somehow manage to get a 30 year mortgage on a tiny house, it would only cost you $366 a month if you had to pay 7% interest, had no money to put down, and you paid $55,000 for it. This would obviously mean that you did not do any of the labor yourself. Not too bad, right? It gets better…
2. Miniscule heating and cooling bills
I'm not sure what you currently pay for your utilities but I think you'll be impressed with how efficient a little home is. Most people having to heat or cool their tiny homes pay just $10 to $35 a month for all of their utilities. Most people that I know pay an average of $120 a month for utilities, but it can easily be much more.
3. Easy and relatively cheap to build
Costs for materials for the average tiny house on a trailer that's less than 200 square feet is about $21,000 if you buy everything new through a retail store like Home Depot or Lowe's. This, of course, does not include labor for anything you don't feel comfortable doing. You can always attend a Tumbleweed workshop to prepare yourself for your first project. Later, we'll talk about how much you can save using reclaimed materials.
4. You don't have to buy your own land
It turns out that most people who've built and now live in their own tiny house end up working something out with someone who already owns land. In these situations you can either pay a little bit of rent (as little as $100 a month) or exchange a service for your stay. You can provide care for an elderly person or labor for a small farm. Or you can simply park in a friend or family members rural backyard. And when the time comes to move, you don't have to worry about land ownership.
5. Park it in your backyard and rent out your big house
If you're lucky enough to already live in a location where you can park a tiny house on a trailer or an RV- or maybe you can build on a foundation as a shed, pool house, cabana, guest house, or accessory structure- you can start your project right away, or look for the right property to buy.
6. No more high rent or mortgage payments
I don't know about you, but I pay about $900 every month in rent as I write this. That's $32,400 every three years. I wouldn't mind parting with that, or at least turning it into something I can own free and clear someday. Some of you pay less, and some of you pay more but either way it's one of our largest expenses. If you're paying a mortgage do you think you could rent your house out and cover all of your costs, if you wanted to? This way you'd turn your current home into an asset that pays itself off while you live mortgage-free in a tiny house. Now that would be smart, wouldn't it?
7. You can use reclaimed materials to build your tiny home for cheap
I've talked to people who have built their own tiny house on a trailer for as little as $3,500 because they took the time to find free or cheap reclaimed materials like doors, wood, windows, siding, and more. It can save you a lot of money up front to dedicate an extra two or three months just for finding the right materials to suit your design. It also helps to be open to changing your design as you find cool stuff to use for your build. Whether you end up spending $16,000, $7,200, or just $5,700, you'll have a one-of-a-kind home that's fully paid for!
8. You can do the labor yourself
There are now several stories out there of everyday people, like you and me, with no previous carpentry experience, building their own tiny houses. Many of them end up recruiting the help of friends and family and others hire help when they need it (like for plumbing and wiring, for example). If you're new to construction or just the idea of building tiny and/or on a trailer, you might want to consider one of Tumbleweed's tiny house workshops.
9. No space for oversized and overpriced furniture
In a tiny or small house, there's only so much room for furniture. Most people who are living tiny just have a couch (usually built in), a bed, entertainment center, and a table. That's about it. There's also built in bookshelves, closets, and other storage. That means you'll never really see that Rooms to Go bill again just to fill all of that space in an oversized house, condo, or apartment. You won't need a huge dining set, side tables, and an enormous desk, either.
10. No space for constant new clothes
Living small usually means cutting down on your wardrobe. In a tiny house, studio, or even in most apartments there's just not that much closet space. Especially if you share the place with someone else. In a tiny house, there's only room for what you love and personally, I like that. If you love your clothes, you can always adjust your design or choose one of Tumbleweed's tiny house plans that includes the right amount of closet and storage space for you. But the point is that in a tiny home you're less likely to go buy new clothes every forty days or whatever. Instead, you'll probably buy a few really nice, high quality outfits that you really love wearing (you know, your favorites). That's what I do to stay happy with less clothes (but I'm a guy, so what do I know).
11. Less repair and maintenance costs over time
Owning less means dealing with less. Isn't that nice? So over time you're going to save on all kinds of repair costs in money, time, and stress. Need to paint the house again? No big deal. Time for a new roof? No problem. Need to fix something? That should be pretty simple (especially if you were the one who built it, right?).
12. Less room for children
This is my least favorite money saving benefit because I love children. And when I'm older, I probably won't be able to live in a tiny house anymore for this reason alone. But for those of you who don't want kids, or already have them, it'll save you money either way which leads us to the next, and last, money saving benefit for living in a smaller home.
13. Less storage space for excessive children's toys and gadgets
Most kids who live in small spaces end up find creative ways to meet their needs instead of depending on the latest and trendiest toys and gadgets which can get really expensive for parents. These kids tend to play outside more and interact with other kids. But maybe with all of the money you save on everything else, you can afford to buy the family an iPad for everyone to play with! My niece and nephews love this thing more than most of their toys because of all the available interactive games you can play on it and it hardly takes up any space in your house.
If all of the above adds up to a savings of just $378 a month for you, you would end up with an extra $13,608 in your pocket after only three years. But I believe that most of you would get to save a lot more than just $378 a month by moving into a tiny house. The main challenge is coming up with the money to build it or buy it up front or getting financing for it. But if you look around, you might find that you can come up with enough money to start by letting go of some of the possessions you have around you. Just maybe, because not all of us have that option. But if you wanted to, could you? Would it be fair to your family? If not, then don't. Your family is more important than saving money. Maybe you can ease them into the idea over time instead.
But the fact is that most of you can save a lot more than $378 a month by downsizing in some way. One young family, who I won't name, is getting to save an entire full-time salary by moving from their big house to a tiny one that they built mortgage-free. They're getting to put away at least $1,745 a month, but probably more.
Can you imagine that? That equals to $62,820 after just three years time. Wouldn't you agree that that could be very powerful for an individual as well as a young family? That's how to get ahead relatively fast. With that kind of money, you can buy a more comfortable home for a growing family, start your own business, pay for an education, or pay off your debt completely in just a few years.
Alex Pino promotes tiny houses and other small spaces through Tiny House Talk. He currently lives in a 600 square foot apartment and has been downsizing since 2007. In the summer of 2012, he's going to be traveling through the United States after pairing down to what fits in a backpack.
This post is going to show you 13 ways that you can save $378 or more by living in a tiny house. And that's just the beginning because some families are saving much more than that but for now, let's get right into it.


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The diaper area's very delicate skin can easily become irritated, especially during the baby's first year of life. Up to 60% of infants are affected during the first 12 months.
Friction from diapers, contact with feces and urine, teething, the introduction of solid foods, an episode of diarrhea, an infection and certain medications can all cause diaper rash.
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With an urge to explore, we left the house around 1pm.
For breakfast we had pancakes.
The fake nutella doesn't taste as good as I'd hoped. It tastes like whipped cream and nutella. Not terrible. It went reasonably well with the pancakes we ate this morning.
Today we went to the Hama-rikyu gardens in Shinbashi, near Yūrakuchō and Ginza.
Normally the entrance fee is 300 yen but with a Tokyo tourist guide they knocked off 60 yen. Not a lot, but almost a Crunky.
It's not the most attractive garden I've seen, but it was a pleasant stroll nonetheless.
After walking around for a while and taking a few photos we made our way to Shiodome.
This is an area of urban renewal with modern skyscapers. If the rest of Tokyo looked like this area it'd be a great looking city.
This area has a "Little Italy" feel with many italian restaurants and exhibitions.
In particular we checked out the Shiodome Italia exhibition, with an emphasis on moda (fashion).
If I remembered to charge my camera battery the night before, or not take so many pictures of the cats I could have taken a picture of this area. Oops.
From here we went into the Yūrakuchō district near Ginza. I picked up a Wonka chocolate for 420 yen. I wanted to get two but I only ended up getting the one. We were pretty hungry, so between us it was finished in less than ten minutes.
We looked around for the new Krispy Kreme shop and finally found it in the OIOI (marui) building basement.
Around the Yūrakuchō station I looked up and saw a strange building with a "boat hull" roof. This is the Tokyo International Forum, a convention centre. I don't know why I didn't notice it before. I guess I never looked up.
We were still hungry so we went to Xin-Li, a chinese gyoza restaurant near the station.
The dumplings tasted great. We also had a fried rice and pork dish, and spicy noodles that all tasted really good. For about 3500 yen all up we were fully satisfied. More so than the Shakeys pizzas we had last night.
Before heading home we passed by Roppongi near the tower and the Hanamasa supermarket for some corn chips and salsa. Don't ask me why but I've had a desire for corn chips lately.
Sunday, 2 March 2008
Hama-rikyu Gardens
With an urge to explore, we left the house around 1pm.
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Delta council has approved the controversial Southlands development in Tsawwassen, but the 30-year-old battle appears far from over as those opposed to the move say they have already started lobbying the Metro Vancouver board to reject it.
The contentious plan, which was passed 6-1 Friday by Delta council, requires a two-thirds weighted vote by Metro Vancouver to proceed. This is because the 217-hectare Southlands parcel — the site of the former Spetifore Farm — is outside Delta's designated urban containment boundary, which prescribes where development can and cannot be built.
"I really do hope if it goes ahead that people will be able to heal," Delta Mayor Lois Jackson said.
Coun. Sylvia Bishop was the lone councillor opposed to the development by Century Group, which calls for 950 townhomes, cottages, small family homes and a farmers market.
It is the latest of eight development applications for the Southlands property, which lies between Boundary Bay Regional Park and the U.S. border. The new plan proposes less than half of the original 1,950 dwellings sought in 2009 by the developer.
Century has also offered to provide $9 million to Delta for drainage and irrigation work.
Bishop argued Delta has already allowed too much farmland to disappear, and council should be looking at preserving what it has left. "The land is farmland whether it's actively farmed or not," she said before the vote. "We can build more homes through densification or infill but we can't get more farmland."
But her council colleagues countered that Delta is expected to grow by another 20,000 people in the next 15 years and it needs to provide housing for them.
Councillors also maintained the plan allows for small farms for young farmers who can't afford to set up on their own, and puts most of land under Delta's control. They also pointed out past developments on farmland, such as Captain Cove Marina, have benefited the community.
"The number 1 thing I hate is looking at fallow land completely overgrown with blackberries and thistles," said Coun. Ian Paton. "That land can be put in good farmland but we have to find a way to do it."
Coun. Scott Hamilton said 81 hectares of Southlands was farmed last year but not harvested because the land needs work to make it viable. The Southlands plan, he said, is the "best compromise" to heal the divisive community.
The development has been dogged by controversy, sparking the longest public hearing in Canadian history in 1989 and a failed attempt by Delta to have the land put back in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
The land was removed from the ALR in 1981, not by the Agricultural Land Commission but in a decision of the Social Credit government of the day, though it is still zoned for agricultural use by the Corporation of Delta. About 40 hectares of the land is used for growing potatoes and barley.
Now Delta, or the developer, can apply to Metro Vancouver to amend the agriculture designation to general urban and pull the land into the prescribed urban containment boundary. Metro directors, however, must approve the amendment by a two-thirds weighted vote after holding a public hearing on the issue. This means Vancouver alone could kill the project if it votes against it because it has a huge share, about 35 per cent, of the weighted vote on Metro.
Metro board chairman Greg Moore noted there will be directors around the table who are opposed to removing any agricultural land but said Metro has to consider the project in terms of the regional context, and what it will mean to other municipalities in Metro Vancouver.
"We're looking at it in a different lens. We're not here to second guess the local council's decision on land use," Moore said. "When we're talking about removing agricultural or industrial land, what will that mean for the rest of the region?"
He noted there have been situations in the past where Metro has allowed amendments to remove agricultural land from the growth strategy, such as the Jackson Farm property in Maple Ridge and the Tsawwassen Springs development in Delta, although both of these projects were under the previous Livable Region Strategy, not the RGS.
On the other hand, the Metro Vancouver board has refused to allow Langley Township to designate a four-hectare section of agricultural land in North Murrayville for urban development, saying such a move would set a dangerous precedent for other municipalities. Langley Township also unsuccessfully sought to change another eight-hectare area of North Murrayville from agricultural to "general urban," which was outlined in its Official Community Plan in 1979.
Metro's regional growth strategy aims to "protect the supply of agricultural land and promote agricultural viability with an emphasis on food production." The strategy is aimed at providing a framework for development through to 2040, when the region expects to see another one million people and 600,000 new jobs. Two-thirds of growth is expected to be contained in urban centres with protective pockets of agricultural and industrial land and mixed-use developments.
Developer Sean Hodgins acknowledged the Southlands project has divided the populace in Tsawwassen and said he has worked hard to come up with a plan "that would benefit everybody in the community."
"I think the project will stand the test of time," Hodgins said after the vote. "I'm just happy they voted as they did. I feel very positive we can go through with it."
The decision drew cheers and applause from those in favour, but those opposed proclaimed the vote showed democracy in Delta was dead. Bill Roberts, who has lived in Tsawwassen since 1980, said he is concerned the development will be built on a floodplain despite the fact "the Big One" is about to strike, and could be followed by a tsunami.
"The developer has been able to organize a whole lot of people because, quite frankly, he's got the money," Roberts said. "The new people who haven't been here long are the ones who don't really realize what we are losing . . . It's not a good day."
Doug Massey, a former councillor, said he has already sent a letter to Metro Vancouver, and expects more people to follow suit, in a bid to convince the board to reject the Southlands proposal.
Opponents have argued the move would pave over desperately needed agricultural land, increase traffic, overwhelm the local shopping centre and build homes on a known flood plain and wetland habitat.
"I suspected this would happen. I feel right from the beginning we've been spinning our wheels when we came to speak of preserving agriculture," said Massey, 80. "Based on their position (under the regional growth strategy) they (Metro Vancouver) shouldn't be looking at this too favourably; if there is any salvation, that should be the group you go to.
"Any remains of potential good wetland and agricultural land are very vital to preserve."
Southlands Timeline
1930s: Spetifore family acquires Gunn family farm and continues with large-scale farming in Tsawwassen.
1970: George Spetifore decides farming is no longer viable and plans a residential housing development on the property.
1972-75: B.C. New Democratic Party creates the Agricultural Land Reserve; 142 hectares of the Spetifore Farm is included in the reserve.
1971: First housing development application for the Spetifore Lands is initiated.
1981: Spetifore Farms excluded from ALR.
1982: George Spetifore sells his 310-hectare parcel to Dawn Development Corp.
1985: Delta's first Official Community Plan designates Spetifore Lands as urban, single-family.
1989: Developer sells about 90 hectares for expansion of the Boundary Bay Regional Park.
1989: Tsawwassen residents challenge a proposed 1,895-unit housing project with a resort and 18-hole golf course.
1989: Public plebiscite shows more than 90 per cent of participating Tsawwassen residents oppose development of Southlands.
1989: Project turned down after a record-breaking 25-night public hearing.
1990: Southlands is acquired by George Hodgins of Century Industries Ltd.
1992: Delta council holds a public hearing into a new plan for Southlands that would designate 300 hectares of farm and other land owned by Hodgins for agriculture. Hodgins wants to build 1,000 homes on the land over 10 years and would offer almost 130 hectares for parks. He also promises a municipal golf course, complete with club house, and to keep a dairy farm on the property for 15 years. Council refuses to allow him to submit his proposal.
1995: Council rezones a 3.5-hectare parcel of Hodgins' land along 56th street from duplex to agricultural; Hodgins says he will sue the municipality and five former or current council members.
1998 to 2008: Various proposals are put forward for Southlands, including one by a parents' group to build a private school there and another by Beach Grove Golf Course to put in a new course that would extend onto the lands.
2009: Century Group president Sean Hodgins (George's son) proposes a plan for 1,900 homes on one-third of the acreage, with the rest as public parkland and a community farm.
2010: Civic politicians send Southlands plan back to Century Group and refund fees because the land is within Metro Vancouver's Green Zone and the regional district is in the process of updating its Livable Region Plan.
2011: Delta council seeks to have the Southlands property placed back in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
2011: Hodgins gets go-ahead to come up with a new proposal for the Southlands; Delta kills ALR bid.
2012: Current proposal by Century Group for Southlands calls for 950 townhomes, cottages, small family homes and a farmers market, with 80 per cent of the land to be transferred to Delta.
2013: Delta approves latest plan, which now goes to Metro Vancouver for final decision.
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Source: Century Industries, Vancouver Sun files and Delta Optimist files


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