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The Light at Bodkin Bay
Middle Kingdom, Gull Bay, Winter:
In the last year, more ships have been lost entering and exiting Gull Bay than in living memory. Gull Bay is dangerous in all seasons, tide and storms can easily drive ships into the rocks and shoals of Shipwreck Bay. This makes hugging the eastern coast of the bay vital during foul weather. Shipwreck Bay has claimed many of the lost vessels, as out-of-season storms and sudden squalls drive ships off course into the treacherous reefs, but the majority of the ships are unaccounted for. This has increased traffic on the network of Imperial and ancillary roads.
The Coast Road from Wardhill, on the shore of the Inner Sea, to Gull Port has long been neglected and has fallen into disrepair. The weather is frequently filthy along the coast this time of year – either heavy rains or thick fogs accompany each nightfall.
More background information is available on the Runes of Gallidon website – in particular the Kingdoms and Runes will probably help fill out some detail. This adventure takes place on the North shore of the Middle Kingdom in Gull Bay, near the border of the High Hills.
Your players, honorable men & women of good reputation, have accepted a commission to act as couriers from the Baron of Wardhill to the Civil Administrator in Gull Port. Your player characters are among the people who have adapted well to the changes besetting the once stable Empire. They are veterans of multiple small conflicts and intrigues of dubious merit. Each should have a horse, some coinage, and a good-quality set of gear.
A general summary of the adventure follows:
A small band of would-be-highwaymen attempt to rob the characters on the road. These robbers will run into the surrounding fields and bogs as soon as the encounter turns against them. Any of the highwaymen taken prisoner will refuse to talk, seemingly resigned to their fate. These are desperate men, mostly farmers & fishermen, who have lost hope for a better tomorrow.
The players arrive at the Bodkin Rest inn at nightfall. The inn is busy, filled by a villainous-looking crew, with only one room (two if necessary) available for the players to share. The inhabitants of the Bodkin Rest are up to no good. They have begun deliberately leading ships onto the rocks at night by manipulating the glow from Bodkin Light, the lighthouse on the point. They kill any survivors of the shipwreck and salvage what they can of the cargo.
During the night, the players will find themselves alone in the inn, locked inside their room. A quick search reveals the men of the inn have hooded the light from the lighthouse and are using a bonfire to lure a ship onto the rocks. If the players unhood the Bodkin Light, they will save the ship and face the furious wreckers on land. If they fail to save the ship, the players will find the wreckers on the beach, killing victims of the shipwreck as the near-drowned survivors make it ashore.
The leader of the wreckers is the local lord – a noble with the gift of elemental sorcery. If he is not killed at the bonfire or on the beach, the players will find him in the ruins of his family's castle. If encountered after dark, the nobleman's great-grandfather, a wight (a decayed corpse, animated by a partially intact soul seeking to undo its death) will aid him in attacking the players.
The players will face a key choice in this adventure: whether they are agents of order OR will they "loot the bodies and move on." Agents of order (honorable heroes) will have several issues to deal with: justice for the would-be-highwaymen, saving a ship of unknown people, punishing the wreckers, and dealing with a nobleman who has become a tyrant.
Dramatis Personæ
Leader of the would-be-highwaymen. Wilfred is a middle-aged man. He was a successful farmer with a sizable flock of sheep until recent years. Bad weather, poor harvests, sickly sheep and ever-increasing taxes from Lord Conri have driven him to ruin. His wife and daughter now live with their sister in Gull Port where they found seamstress work. Wilfred was too proud to "go begging in the city" and has found himself working outside the law along with many of his neighbors. So far, they've tried their hands at smuggling with little success. There have been suggestions of some sort of work with "that crew" at the Bodkin Rest, but Wilfred and his friends don't like or trust those men. This was their first attempt at robbery.
Trained NPC armed with a bow, short sword and knife.
The innkeeper of the Bodkin Rest. Large, shaggy, unkempt, but with a cheerful, friendly smile. Brocc will keep the other patrons of the inn polite and will maintain the peace. Once the players become guests of the inn, Brocc with play the somewhat addled innkeeper to the hilt. Brocc is the second in command of the wreckers.
Skilled NPC armed with a mace & knife when going into combat. He always wears a knife, even in the Bodkin Rest.
The hostler of the Bodkin Rest. Short, stocky, very strong but not too smart. When puzzled, which happens all the time, Dunn tends to scowl at everyone. Dunn handles the horses, ponies, wagons and carts that visit the inn. He is a wrecker.
Skilled NPC armed with a mace when in combat. Dunn is also a skilled brawler.
The maid & cook of the Bodkin Rest. Colette was fetching a decade ago, now she is a smiling, friendly matron. She is Brocc's sister and completely loyal to him. Her cheerful demeanor hides a bitter, rotten personality. She is also a wrecker.
Skilled NPC always armed with three throwing knives hidden about herself. She is able to move silently when she needs to.
The big, burly, official keeper at Bodkin Light, the lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper is appointed by the Administrator of Gull Port. Impostor! - This man's true name is Arvin. The real lighthouse keeper, Clydog, was murdered by Brocc three weeks ago and his body was hidden in a bog. The impostor will play at being drunk as soon as the players show up to avoid being questioned by them. He is a wrecker.
Skilled NPC armed with a short sword and knife.
Lord Conri
Lord of Bodkin Tor. Conri is the nobleman in charge of this area, responsible for collecting taxes, settling disputes and providing justice. He lives with two servants at his manor house next to the old family castle ruins. Lord Conri is the leader of the wreckers. He is strong, intelligent and charismatic. He will lend a sympathetic ear to the plight of the area commoners, but really doesn't care about them. Lord Conri seems fair, but feels foul. Lord Conri is of noble blood and a sorcerer of some skill. He specializes in fire magic.
Veteran NPC armed with fine leather armor, a broadsword and dagger.
Skilled NPC. Lord Conri's bodyguard armed with chain mail, mace & shield.
Skilled NPC armed with leather armor, a short spear & knife. He is very strong and has a frequently heard unpleasant laugh. Olcan is his brother.
Skilled NPC armed with leather armor, a sword & knife. He is very fast and has a facial scar. Marcan's brother.
Skilled NPC armed with leather armor, a hatchet & mace. He is lean & tall.
Skilled NPC armed with a mace & knife. He is a baby-faced killer.
Skilled NPC armed with a hatchet, knife & crossbow. He never shows emotion or even facial expressions.
Add more wreckers as needed depending on the size of the player's party. The odds should be at least 2 to 1.
Timeline for the Adventure
Late afternoon - the players are ambushed by the would-be-highwaymen.
Evening – the players arrive at the Bodkin Rest as a heavy rain sets in. They are reluctantly greeted, invited in, given a room, hot food and all the stout beer they can drink.
Midnight – the players retire to their room.
Lord Conri & Nicholas secretly visit the Bodkin Rest inn.
Late night – Harval & Sarai pull a cartload of tar & rope out to area B, the big rock off the coast, to help start the bonfire.
Lord Conri very quietly locks the player in their room using sorcery.
Clydog hoods the magical light at the lighthouse.
Lord Conri & Nicholas ride out across the causeway to the big rock. Conri uses fire magic to light the bonfire and lure a ship onto the Bodkin rocks.
Brocc leads all the other wreckers, all carrying their weapons, down to the shingle beach to await the shipwreck. They will kill any survivors who reach the beach, then wade out to strip the cargo from the shipwreck.
If the players don't stop the wreckers...
Predawn hours - Lord Conri, Nicholas and others take a wagon full of the night's loot back to the Bodkin Tor castle ruins for safe hiding.
The sorcerous lock on the player's door expires.
The wrecker-crew quietly returns to the Bodkin Rest to warm up and sleep.
Colette starts the fires in the kitchen to serve breakfast to the hungry wreckers.
Everyone acts innocent, comments on the night's storm, then heads out for their own business.
Bodkin Bay
Bodkin Bay is protected from the worst of any storm coming off the Inner Sea. The roughest, most turbulent seas become calm within the Bodkin Bay. Lying on the Eastern shore of Gull Bay, Bodkin Bay is not as dangerous as Shipwreck Bay due to the lighthouse, Bodkin Light, which stands at the top of the headland and warns passing ships of the Bodkins, a collection of dark, jagged rocks thrusting out of the waters, extend out from the headland. Most of the Bodkins lie just at the surface during high tide, making them very hazardous. The sheltered shores of Bodkin Bay are shingle beaches: a steep beach of small, smooth stones instead of sand. Sand bars and pebble beds extend for a hundred yards out into the bay, making for shallow wading far from shore in low tide.
The shores of Bodkin Bay rise quickly, typically in twenty to thirty foot cliffs of rock and mud, to form the headland. The land itself is a mixture of odd rock formations rising out of bog – a wetland, thick with layers of peat, scrub brush, hidden streams and deep, silent pools.
The bog is dangerous terrain for horses during the daylight hours, impossible to safely travel by night. For people on foot, it is dangerous to cross at night, but safe enough when there is light and a modicum of caution is used.
The Coast Road
A steady drizzle accompanies the players for the last few hours as they have traveled the muddy Coast Road towards Bodkin Bay. Broad, rolling hills are giving way to flat marshlands.
As they are passing the last hill, the highwaymen spring their ambush. Two men with spears climb out of their hiding spot in a ditch onto the road to face the players. Several men with bows stand up on the hill beside the road. All of these men have experience hunting. They're pretty good at hiding, not so good at banditry. These are desperate men, NOT VILLAINS.
One of the bowmen (Wilfred) shouts out in nervous tones, "Give us all your money, jewels, and such and nobody needs to get hurt! Please."
A spearman will add, "And anything ya got to eat!"
If/when any combat starts, these would-be-highwaymen prove to be fairly inept – most of the bowmen will miss due to nerves or hesitating to hit one of their friends. As soon as it becomes obvious the robbery is going badly, the highwaymen will break, running into the marshlands, no concern save escape.
If the players take any prisoners, Wilfred should be included.
The highwaymen will initially refuse to speak, resigned to their fate. If any prisoner is seriously threatened or abused, Wilfred will speak up, taking responsibility for everything and asking for mercy for the other men. They are men without hope, mostly farmers or fishermen who have fallen on very hard times. Increased taxes by Lord Conri combined with bad luck has resulted in these men taking up desperate measures in an effort to keep their homes and care for their families. This was their first attempt at highway robbery. If the players capture more than one highwayman, the prisoners will mutter and argue amongst themselves. They do not blame the players for their misfortune. Neither will they beg, plead or make excuses for themselves.
"Try our hand at being robbers. Stupid idea!"
"You went along with it!"
"I were desperate, same as you!"
"First and last time, whether we hang or no."
They will accept whatever justice the players decide to inflict upon them and honor any word they give to the players. If asked, they inform the players that they pay their taxes to Lord Conri at the Bodkin Rest inn twice a year. None of these men actually knows where Lord Conri lives.
"He has his-self a castle."
"It's a ruin. He don't live in that old pile-o-stone."
"He's got the proper big house, servants and a harem of beautiful foreign girls."
This encounter is strictly meant to be a warm-up for the players that sets the mood for the place and the times.
The Bodkin Rest Inn
The inn is on the old Coast Road at the headland of Bodkin Bay. The inn has three stories and an attached stables. The first floor is built of stone, the second and third are wood. The roof is peaked.
The first floor consists of stables, the common room, kitchen and a storeroom full of barrels of beer, salted mutton, a few casks of wine, sacks of beans, flour, oats, etc. The only truly odd thing found on the first floor is in the back of the stables. A hand cart filled with old, frayed, heavy rope (hawser) thick with tar stands in the in the shadows with old sailcloth laid over it. Next to it, also beneath the old sailcloth, is a four-foot tall leather tube, closed at one end like a huge quiver. It is constructed of two layers of thick, heavy leather. It is recently made but has no apparent purpose.
The second floor of the inn houses the private rooms of Brocc, Colette, Dunn and Clydog (the impostor). It also is home to the storage room of linens & things as well as two guest rooms that are currently occupied by other guests (wreckers). If these folk are in the inn, their armor and weapons can be found in their rooms. In Brocc's room is a stout, but cheap strongbox holding thirty gold coins worth of mixed gold, silver and copper coins. In Colette's room is a well-hidden expensive lockbox containing 300 gold coins worth of fine jewelry. These jewels are completely out of place with this setting and are actually loot from the shipwrecks.
The third floor consists entirely of guest rooms. The players will be given a room on the third floor.
At the Inn
Upon their arrival, the players will be sourly greeted by Dunn, the hostler. "Away with you, we be full up!" If the players argue, insist or show their courier packet from the Baron of Wardhill, Dunn will fetch Brocc. Brocc will smile, apologize for Dunn and welcome the players to Bodkin Rest. Brocc will order Dunn to see to the gentlemen's horses and usher the players out of the rain.
If the players have prisoners from the ambush, Brocc will offer the storage room of his stable as a cell where they can be locked up until tomorrow. Some of the prisoners will recognize Brocc, but Brocc will claim to not know any of them.
With apologies, Brocc will only be able to supply the players with a single room, but extra mattresses are offered. No one is allowed to sleep in the common room. Inside the common room, the assembled wreckers will stop talking when the players enter until Brocc makes a show of introducing the players to the room. Brocc will tell the players, "We're a quiet bunch in these parts. Don't see many strangers."
The men in the room will not warm up to the players but if the players persist in being friendly they will hear some rumors and may take part in simple dice games. Players with intrigue-type skills will quickly realize the locals are trying to scare them.
Clydog will leave for the lighthouse, apparently drunk as a sailor, "to mind the light on a filthy night such as this." Colette will supply the players with hot stew and very generous amounts of beer, or whiskey should they desire (drunk men sleep better). By midnight, the common room is closed and everyone retires to their rooms.
40 silver coins for a room and board – robbery by many standards, but the inn is remote and times are hard. Note: this is the price for the party, including stabling.
"Strange lights are seen at night out on the bog."
"Some savage beast is killing the sheep, and making others sick. The beast is immune to arrows and crossbows."
"Someone has seen dead men walking along the shore at night."
"A beautiful woman can be heard shrieking for her demon-lover on the night wind. Some have seen her running across the road."
"I saw my father at my window three nights back. Scratching at the shutter he was. And him two years in the grave!"
"Storms out of season, sickness, it's all the fault of the greater nobles that turned on the Emperor."
After Midnight
Lord Conri, nobleman, sorcerer, and leader of the wreckers, arrives at the inn to assemble his crew. He is accompanied by Nicholas, his man-at-arms. Lord Conri orders Harval and Sarai to take the cart of tar & rope out to the big rock to add to the pile of wet wood for the bonfire. They also take the leather hood from the stable storeroom out to the lighthouse on their way.
Lord Conri very quietly uses sorcery to magically lock the players in their room. He performs the spell from the top of the stairs, never actually approaching their door. Lord Conri and Brocc quietly lead the rest of the wreckers out of the inn.
The Players
Someone in the party should discover the players are locked in their room. There is no lock on the outside of the door, no bar or mechanism. The door is locked with sorcery. The party can cut their way out through a wall easier than break down the door. Their room does have a window. An agile adventurer can easily climb onto the roof, cross to a hall window, and break back into the inn.
The inn is empty save for the party and their horses (and their prisoners locked in the stable). A storm lays over Bodkin Bay. A steady rain is falling and a gusting wind is blowing. Visibility is poor, but at least one member of the party should realize the light from the lighthouse is out.
Bodkin Light
The lighthouse is an ancient stone structure towering into the night sky. Careful examination of the tower base will reveal a collection of runes carved into the stone. Anyone who uses magic will immediately become aware of these runes as they approach the lighthouse. Ghost-fire plays around the runes to those with the vision – they are old and highly magical.
In random order are the runes of Constructs, the Elements, Conjuration and Rune-weaving. A check of the door will reveal a broken lock – someone forced their way into the lighthouse in recent weeks. The lock has not been repaired.
Examination of the ground floor living quarters, spartan at the best of times, will reveal that the lighthouse keeper hasn't lived here in recent weeks – old food, moldy cheese, dust, etc. Careful examination will reveal that none of the clothes in the keeper's personal locker could possibly fit Clydog, the man the players were introduced to as the lighthouse keeper. The real keeper was a much smaller man. His body was sunk into the bog over a month ago.
If/when the players climb the spiral stair to the top of the lighthouse, they will find a circular room with glass walls. In the center of the room stands a pillar that doesn't quiet reach to the ceiling. Over the pillar is the strange leather tube. This tube is hooding Bodkin Light. Three runes are engraved on the base of the pillar: Constructs, Conjuration and Rune-weaving.
The light is a magical construct of permanent bright light built during the height of the Empire. It is obviously magical to anyone with the ability to sense magic. It cannot be dispelled by anything short of a Grand Master Ritual. But the leather tube effectively hoods the light. It is a simple matter to pull the hood off the light, but characters will see spots when the light is revealed. It will effectively ruin the night vision of anyone in the room for several minutes.
Before the players unhood the light (if they choose to), at least one player should notice a bonfire being lit despite the storm on a large rock just off the coast. The bonfire is obviously being lit with the aid of sorcery. At the same time, at least one player should spot a ship out to sea, trying to hug the coast as it travels to Gull Port. The bonfire provides a false light that will lead the ship onto the Bodkin rocks.
If the players unhood the light, the ship will be saved
Lord Conri and Nicholas will abandon the bonfire, make their way back across the causeway, gather the wreckers from the shingle beach and lead an assault on the players wherever they can be found. They mean to kill the players – there will be no mercy or negotiation.
If the players get tricky and leave the light hooded while they go after the wreckers
It is currently low-tide. The causeway out to the big rock is passable with only the occasional puddle to wave through. The shingle beach extends far out into the waters of the bay. The footing is treacherous in the dark, but navigable.
At the bonfire
(area B on the map of Bodkin Bay)
- Lord Conri and Nicholas are watching the progress of the ship towards the Bodkin rocks. Both men are distracted and confident. Together with the weather, it makes sneaking up on them very easy.
- Lord Conri has to magically maintain the large fire of lumber, rope and tar using magical means or the rain will reduce it to smoldering embers within ten minutes.
- If attacked, Nicholas will immediately move to defend Lord Conri.
- Conri will cast a spell of immunity and climb into the bonfire. Once inside the bonfire, Conri will begin throwing flaming missiles at the players.
- If Nicholas falls, Lord Conri will seek to escape, jumping out of the fire and throwing himself off the rock into the sea. Once in the sea, he will strip off his armor, drop his sword and swim to shore away from the players.
- Once out of the water, he will make his way to his home, re-equip himself and prepare to leave for Gull Port in the morning with a wagonload of salvage from previous shipwrecks.
On the beach
Brocc and the wreckers are waiting for survivors to appear in the water. They will kill any survivors before wading out towards the shipwreck.
They have a single whaleboat, a narrow boat pointed at both ends with six oars, to get out to shipwrecks before they break up to search for small valuables (jewelry and the like). They only go out in the whaleboat once they are sure the crew and passengers are all dead.
Only the two brothers, Marcan & Olcan, and Zander are wearing armor. All the other wreckers are carrying their weapons but are only dressed in their small clothes. Oddly, Brocc and Colette look more fierce without their clothes.
The wreckers are a vicious, cut-throat bunch. As long as Brocc or Colette are up, they will not break or surrender. If they realize half their number has fallen along with Brocc and Colette, the remaining wreckers will break and run. They will scatter into the countryside without a thought of revenge. They fear Lord Conri, but their real loyalty lies with Brocc and Colette.
Bodkin Tor
Bodkin Tor is a small stone hill in the midst of the bog. The modest, two-story manor house lies at the end of the narrow road through the bog on the edge of the hill.
The ruins of Castle Conri stand on the top of the rocky hill above the night mist that lays over the bog. The ruins should be played for all the creep-factor possible. Entering the castle ruins during the daylight hours is safe, but disquieting – no birds are singing, no mice or other animals in evidence, only nasty, fat flies in thick swarms.
Careful examination of the land around the manor house will reveal the tracks of a heavily laden wagon running back and forth from the ruined keep and a smaller path running around the base of the hill.
If Lord Conri is dead
The manor house is deserted. It is modestly furnished, not a lavish noble palace, but much better than anything the commoners in the area have. If a proper market could be found, the rugs, tapestries, silverware, dishes, paintings, etc. could be sold for 250 to 300 gold – a small fortune by local standards. Unfortunately, the players would have to haul all the furnishings to Gull Port to get these prices.
If Lord Conri is alive
He has replaced any lost gear, healed himself, rested, and is currently hiding within the castle ruins until nightfall. Around midnight, he will set out from the castle ruins with the wagonload of loot for Gull Port.
A wagon hidden in the ruins is already half full of loot from a previous shipwreck. Its worth to an unscrupulous shipyard in Gull Port is approximately 150 gold coins. Four draft horses are grazing in a fenced field on the opposite side of the hill from the manor house. A well-traveled path runs around the base of the hill and up to the ruins.
If the players enter the castle ruins after dark, they will be attacked by Lord Conri's great-grandfather: a wight (a decayed corpse, animated by a partially intact soul seeking to undo its death) that haunts the ruins. Play the wight for the fear factor as much as possible rather than just a combat dummy.
If Lord Conri is alive, he will act in concert with the wight – they are, after all, relatives.
The wight should be a Veteran level monster.
Several questions remain for the group of players if the game master wishes to continue the adventure: What to do with the would-be-highwaymen? How long have the wreckers been operating? Who now will own/operate the Bodkin Rest? Who will be the new lighthouse keeper for Bodkin Light. Who is in charge of the area now that Lord Conri is dead or missing? Who were the wreckers & Lord Conri fencing their loot to in Gull Port? Were they part of a larger group operating throughout Gull Bay?
A variety of high quality floor plans for inns, lighthouses, manor houses and ruined castles are widely available online. If you are anything like me, you already have a folder of them from previous games and modules. If anyone feels the pressing need to draw custom floor plans for the Bodkin Rest, Bodkin Light, or the ruins, create away. If you like your results, please share it with the rest of us!
A map of Bodkin Bay by Andy Underwood.
A map of Gull Bay by Andy Underwood.
Conversion Guidelines
We strongly encourage you to use whatever rules system you and your group are the most comfortable with. Runes of Gallidon isn't about rules, it is about collaborative story-telling adventures. Don't let rules - ours, yours, theirs - get in the way.
The key to translating Gallidon RPG modules to some popular systems is Skill Mastery. All non-player characters, player characters and creatures are rated by Mastery Skill Levels: Trained, Skilled, Veteran, Expert, Master, Grand Master.
In a level based system
Trained averages 1st Level.
Skilled averages 4th Level.
Veteran averages 8th Level.
Expert averages 12th Level.
Master averages 16th Level.
Grand Master averages 20th Level.
In a percentage based system
Trained averages a 35% chance of success at a difficult task.
Skilled averages a 50% chance of success at a difficult task.
Veteran averages a 65% chance of success at a difficult task.
Expert averages a 80% chance of success at a difficult task.
Master averages a 95% chance of success at a difficult task.
Grand Master averages a 110% chance of success at a difficult task.
A Runes of Gallidon role-playing adventure for 3-6 players.
Illustration Bodkin Light by Andy Underwood.
Illustration Great-grandfather by Andy Underwood.
This Work set in Runes of Gallidon — runesofgallidon.com.
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
First Published February, 2009
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Howdy fellas,
I've always found the best adventures to be the ones with both clearly defined objectives and several plot hooks for additional play that are not dependant on anything other than the original material. You two nailed this aspect with LaBB. I can see multiple nights of gaming goodness in this adventure. Kudos.
I also applaud the subtle tweaks this module has over the usual "These are the bad guys - go whack them" scenario. Simple farmers and townsfolk forced by bad times to become bad men adds a lot of depth to the situation. It's a detail that can become the crux of the adventure for morally driven characters but can just as easily be ignored by a more visceral group of gamers.
Overall, a fantastic effort. I'd enjoy playing this.


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6. Viewing Video – Most video surveillance is done by people, and depending on the facility and its security threats, it may be viewed live and continuously. One of today's viewing options is local viewing, directly from the DVR, NVR, or server, and is mainly applied to small facility sites. Remote PC viewing is the most common where standard PC's are used to view live and recorded video, either from an installed application or using a web browser. The most recent is mobile viewing, made possible with the many mobile devices available today, offering convenience and immediacy. Lastly, there is video wall viewing, ideal for very large facilities with hundreds of cameras.
7. Integration – More and more organizations are integrating their systems, including video surveillance. The three options for this are access control as hub, electronic, or IP access control systems (the most common way to integrate systems). PSIM as hub is more sophisticated and specialized to deliver the most relevant information from video surveillance. Video management system as hub is an option that requires only limited integration. Video management systems add support for other security systems and management features.
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The AAP experiment
Anyone remember how the India Against Corruption movement fizzled out one December at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai?
Anyone remember how the India Against Corruption movement fizzled out one December at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai? After that, the leaders fell out with each other and went their separate ways. Anna Hazare, self-proclaimed Gandhian and social activist was a bit upset that there were no crowds — unlike the hundred thousand plus who had showed up in Delhi. But from that whimpering end came a new entity which has spawned an unending use of that old cliché about new brooms.
Arvind Kejriwal, Hazare's main supporter and strategist during the India Against Corruption movement, not only ended the struggle to get a Lokpal Bill (where an independent judge would tackle corruption cases) passed in Parliament but also decided to make the jump from being an activist to a politician.
Now the Aam Aadmi Party has swept through Delhi — I use the broom metaphor like everyone else because the party's election symbol is a broom — and won 28 seats out of a total 70. That is astounding for a party which is only one year old, which has no political background and has built its network out of 'ordinary' people as its name translates from Hindi to English. It's quite clever in its short form — AAP — too since 'aap' is the polite term for 'you' in several Indian languages that have descended from Sanskrit.
But, but, but ... how can the AAP experiment be repeated across India? What about right here in Mumbai? For a few years now, there have been a few alternative political movements which have sprung up in the city: The Loksatta Party, formed by former IAS officer Jayaprakash Narayan, the Professional People's Party and some strong Advanced Local Managements. But elections have not been as kind to these parties as they just have to the AAP.
Is that because Mumbai and Delhi are so intrinsically different, as the society chatter wars between the two suggest? Or that the AAP found a readymade battleground in Delhi, between a tired warhorse, an angry public and an electorate in search of an alternative. According to people who live in Delhi, Sheila Dikshit had done a very good job with infrastructure. But that was not enough — the 2012 gang rape and the immediate fumbling political reaction galvanised public anger. Rising prices did not help. Delhi is a funny bird, where law and order is not under the control of the state government and a municipal corporation looks after sanitation, garbage and so on.
How does Mumbai compare? We have had the same combinations at the state and municipal levels for over a decade now and both are equally responsible for all our problems. But how do we vote? The upper and middle classes hardly bother. And it's not a two-way race anyway, even if there are two main political alliances. The regional angle and the sons of the soil factor will play a part.
This is not a political city, this is a busy city and this is a complicated city. The fact that the Sensex rose when the BJP won the recent assembly elections tells you that traders are BJP supporters. I went to an India Against Corruption rally at Azad Maidan a couple of years ago, there were not even a few thousand people present in spite of the hyperbole and hysteria on news channels. The ground available was not full. Even worse, South Mumbai did not come out and vote for one of their own in the last Lok Sabha elections, her foreign bank credentials notwithstanding.
Across India, there are many different combinations and equations which work in the political sphere and that makes life for the AAP a bit complicated in the next few months. There is no denying that some part of India is crying out for change from the political molasses that we are stuck in. Had the AAP come to power in Delhi and formed a government, their governance could have given the rest of India some idea of the party's mettle. Instead, it's a new muddle but still a muddle.
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Advancements in technology are transforming health care at a rapid pace. A new type of thought leadership is needed to prepare professionals with the clinical skills to diagnose symptoms and treat patients, along with an engineering mindset to solve problems, invent new technologies and rapidly move these innovative ideas to practice in patient care. With a world-class engineering program and a renewed focus on innovation through engineering, Texas A&M is addressing the most daunting health-related problems of the 21st century.
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To effectively develop the technologies required to advance health care, engineers and physicians need to work together from the very beginning. Too often, the translation between these two distinct professions is complex and time consuming. Working hand-in-hand with Texas A&M's renowned College of Engineering, the Health Science Center will reinvent how physicians are trained and how scientists work with engineers to create innovations for patients in need.
Fostering multidisciplinary research
As a member of Texas A&M University, one of the largest research universities in the United States with 19 colleges and schools under its umbrella, faculty and students are offered a wide array of transformational research opportunities. Leveraging the unique expertise across both the Health Science Center and greater Texas A&M community, the possibilities for multidisciplinary research projects are endless.
Learn how Dr. Carolyn Cannon is engineering a better drug delivery system
Training a new type of provider
EnMed, Texas A&M University's innovative engineering medicine track at Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, is educating a new kind of doctor with an engineering mindset-a physician engineer—or "physicianeer"—who will invent transformational technology for health care's greatest challenges. It's the nation's first fully-integrated engineering and medical education curriculum accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), and allows graduates to receive both a doctorate of medicine and master's in engineering in four years. While the inaugural class is set to begin in 2019, three students joined the program in 2017 to serve as the pilot class.


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UT Health Austin Imaging is a part of the whole-person focus you receive from our care teams. There is no need to make an appointment days or weeks away, or leave to get your imaging done at another location. If your provider orders an imaging study, in most cases, your imaging can be done as part of your scheduled appointment. By offering the services you need at the time of your appointment, this efficient, collaborative model of care helps to save you precious time.
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The trend seems to be that everyone runs with a Sony rumor, and then the next day Sony kills it. Still no word on the used game buzz, but it looks like the story that circulated yesterday about Sony using Xfire for their online gaming service is wrong. The rumor has merit—Sony will be using Xfire—but it looks like it will only be for one launch game. Engage the quote!
We can confirm that Sony Online Entertainment is in talks with Viacom and Xfire for a single, specific PS3 game...However, there are no announcements at this time regarding any discussions between SCEA, Viacom and Xfire," continued the statement.
...or so Sony told 1up.com. This is a little bit of what scares me about Sony's "free" online service. Since a lot of the decisions are up to the individual developer, we could end up with a mess of different online solutions and tools for each game. The great thing about Xbox Live is that you know how it works, as every game uses the same service. With the PS3 we may see a ton of different user interfaces, which wouldn't exactly be ideal. Why use Xfire for one game and a custom solution for the other? I'm hoping Sony gives developers a unified set of tools for their online service so that everything looks and acts the same. Remember, the PS2 had "free online play" as well, which translated into "if the developers don't provide it, Sony isn't interested." It's easy to provide a free service by asking the developers to foot the cost of online play.


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Welcome to the Club, Tea Party: Previous Political IRS Scandals
Republican senators didn't sound convinced, according to the Associated Press:
Explosive, perhaps, but not in fact surprising, given the history of the IRS. The nation's revenue collecting agency has been dogged by accusations of corruption, and cyclically consumed by efforts at reform, since the institution of an income tax to raise funds for the Civil War. And politically motivated uses of the agency's powers are far from unheard of.
"It's just implausible to me," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in an interview after the hearing. "Bureaucrats don't take risks by doing things that they know will get them fired, or get them disciplined by their superiors."
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said, "It's just hard to figure that there isn't more to this than they are letting on."
"How much did the political calendar influence when they disclosed this?" Thune said. "Obviously it was a presidential election year. Disclosure of something like this would have been explosive."
Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee has just set up a website to solicit information from citizens connected to what it calls "The IRS Political Discrimination Investigation." ("Your story is critical to moving the investigation forward. Taking a few minutes to fill out the form below and share your story will allow the Committee to identify key facts and take action to deal with the failures of the IRS.") Dulling the partisan edge of the story somewhat is the fact that Shulman was appointed commissioner by President George W. Bush.
But special scrutiny of right-wing groups under a Democratic president during an election season is obviously suspicious, and there's precedent for skullduggery at the IRS. Here, with a hat tip to Slate and Time, are some lowlights of the agency's last hundred years.
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Combustion gas engines require three things to function: spark, fuel and air. Normally, when more air is pumped into the engine, it's able to produce more power — and that's the basis on which turbochargers function.
A turbocharger is an automotive component that forces air into the engine's combustion chamber to increase its power output. It's driven by exhaust fumes, meaning it operates automatically when the engine is running.
As the engine runs, it produces exhaust fumes that force air back into the engine. So, how much horsepower can you expect to gain from using a turbocharger? It varies depending on several factors, though a typical gain falls somewhere between 50 and 150 horsepower. Turbochargers are also relatively easy to install, making them a popular modification among DIY mechanics.
A supercharger is a similar automotive component that also forces air into the engine's combustion chamber. While a turbocharger is driven by exhaust fumes, however, a supercharger is driven mechanically by a belt, shaft or chain. As a result, turbochargers offer greater fuel efficiency when compared to their supercharger counterpart.
The Global Vehicle Turbocharger Sales Market Report 2017 report by The Market Reports is a comprehensive study of the global turbocharger market. Among other things, it reveals the market's size, trends, import and export consumption, costs, statistics, drivers, challenges and more. Furthermore, this report contains historic data on the turbocharger market from 2012, as well as future data covering prospective scenarios through 2022. Using this information, professionals and investors in the turbocharger market can mater better decisions.
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Some people think that all they need is the time to do it and anything can be done.
I was one of those about 4 years ago. I thought that i could write an MMO on my own with only minor input from an artist friend of mine. I was very wrong. One man teams can have great ideas and can implement small wonders, but they cannot finish "grand projects". It's just not possible.
The reason you can't do it on your own is to do with the size of the project. A bit obvious you may say, but no. The size of the project has more to do with the different aspects that appear, not the workload. For example, as a single man team, you will often omit to do any of the following:
document your work
use version control
follow a schedule
look at old modules and refactor them
These are incredibly important things to do if you are working on a large scale project. If they are not done, you end up losing a lot of your time to dead ends and laziness.
Thats what happened to my MMO, I got as far as a vast world with a skinned character in it, and then couldn't bring myself to write the design for a network module, so i just coded it, and that was the end of that. You can't just write a network module.
This "one man team" is a problem even in the workplace, because some people think that they can do almost all the work, to the point where they don't trust anyone enough to be able to do what they are asking of themselves. This can destroy a multi-person project just as well as it destroys a single man project.
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Never had I seen such a split opinion then that of the sauna topic. Some love it and some loathe it. Opinion on the sauna isn't usually formed on the basis of sauna facts and the benefits of enduring the heat, but instead your preference to being exposed to the heat and sweating in a wooden box! If more people were aware of the benefits of jumping into the sauna, then I'm sure the 'sauna-opposers' would soon become advocates. I myself used to swerve the sauna, but now I'm fully on board.
Sauna Fact 1 – Flushes Toxins
Sauna's are a great way to flush out toxins that can build up in the body. Toxins develop as a consequence of eating habits, drug use and other health and environment factors. If toxin build up escalates too much, it can lead to an exhausted immune system and illness. Sweating is an effective method of flushing toxins from the body and the high-temperature in the sauna is a really effective way of inducing a sweat response, which does not involve exercising.
Sauna Fact 2 – Increased Metabolism
A study conducted back in the 80s found that sauna exposure led to a 25%-33% increase in metabolism (1). It's believed that being exposed to the heat in a sauna can cause slight oxygen deprivation, as such requiring the heart to work slightly harder to meet the oxygen demands that the body has. Therefore, short-term weight loss from sauna exposure is a result of losing water weight, however the sauna can also influence long-term weight loss by boosting metabolism.
Sauna Fact 3 – Boosted Immune System
Pilch et al. conducted a study in 2013 to examine the influence of sauna use on the immune system (2). The study concluded that sauna use increases the number of white blood cells, neutrophil and basophil and lymphocyte, all of which are signals of an immune response. Enhancing the immune system is an effective way to prevent illness and speed up recovery.
Sauna Fact 4– Stay Looking Youthful
When your skin is exposed to the heat in a sauna it aids the removal of dead skin cells and speeds up the rejuvenation of skin. This is not only a beneficial impact on keeping the skin looking youthful, but it's also a real positive for reducing and preventing acne.
Sauna Fact 5 – Improved Sleep
Having a 15-30 minute sauna, followed by a cold shower to regulate body temperature has a positive impact on getting some deep sleep. The sauna elevates endorphins, which leads to a calming effect, followed by the cold shower which boosts melatonin: 'the sleep hormone'. Synergistically I've found this routine to be very effective!
1. Leppäluoto J et al. Some cardiovascular and metabolic effects of repeated sauna bathing. Acta Physiol Scand. 1986 Sep;128(1):77-81.
2. Pilch et al. Effect of a Single Finnish Sauna Session on White Blood Cell Profile and Cortisol Levels in Athletes and Non-Athletes. J Hum Kinet. 2013 Dec 18; 39: 127–135


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A big talking point in immigration law nowadays is the onerous new regulations for travelling with minors, set to become active in June 2015. While the DHA's heart seems to be in the right place, these regulations are all but good news for anyone in the tourism industry. We of course support every effort to reduce child trafficking in South Africa.
According to the DHA, the general idea is to reduce child trafficking, kidnapping and abduction. Media reports and activists have reported around 30 000 children being trafficked every year. The African media fact-checking service known as Africa Check believes this number to be highly exaggerated and unsubstantiated. They went on to state that such exaggerations, while effective at capturing the attention of the public, create a poor platform for policymaking and resource allocation. In reality, between 2010 and 2011, the South African National Prosecuting authority reported 235 adults and 13 children as victims of human trafficking. Missing Children SA report having dealt with 304 missing children in 2012, 2% (6) of which are due to human trafficking. The amount of child trafficking cases seems to be exponentially less than broadcasted on the media and, unfortunately, it seems the DHA is basing its regulations on the media reports instead of actual statistics. Continue reading


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Every year Phd students working on geothermal energy gather to have a short informal conference. This year the ETH in Zurich is the host of the 9th edition. With about 80 participants the conference attracts a stable number of researchers from countries all over Europe and beyond. With 5 people from Delft we were one of main contributing Universities. Presentations and posters cover a wide range of topics regarding geothermal energy. From the high enthalpy systems for power production all the way to the Ground source heat pumps and from technical work on simulation and field studies up to governance and management studies. Traditionally the conference is closed with a field trip; to a geothermal power plant.
Key developments
Some general views on key developments that were presented:
- New drilling methods. Man kind has always used rotary drilling methods. With the trend towards more and deeper boreholes in more solid rocks the demand for contactless drilling increases. Promising developments were shown on sonic, laser and waterjet methods
- New concepts combining CO2 storage in geothermal reservoirs and recovery for power production
- New (composite) materials and monitoring methods to ensure well integrity.
World potential and salinity stratified aquifers
I had two contributions. On the first day is was co-author on the oral presentation of my colleague Marc Jaxa-Rozen, in which he presented our results on theATES potential world wide. The results show that thare is a lot of unexploited potential for energy savings with ATES in Asia and north America.
The second day I presented the results of my study with my promotor Theo Olstoorn on the effect of buoyancy flow on the efficiency of ATES systems caused by a salinity gradient in aquifers. The results show that under conditions occurring in The Netherlands such buoyancy effects do not affect efficiency significantly.
ATES systems in salinity stratified aquifers
One site specific condition for Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) is an increasing salinity with aquifer depth. Such conditions are often present in coastal areas where also the demand for ATES application is high because urban development is concentrated in coastal areas. The seasonally alternating extraction and re-injection between ATES wells disturbs the preexisting ambient salinity gradient and causes horizontal density gradients, which trigger buoyancy flow, which in turn affect the recovery efficiency of the heat storage.
Analytical and numerical methods are used to understand and explain the processes that cause buoyancy flow to occur in such situations, as well as to quantify the effect relative to other losses. The results of this research shows that buoyancy losses may become considerable at ambient density gradients of over 0.5 kg/m3/m in combination with a vertical hydraulic conductivity of over 5 m/d. Monowell systems suffer more from buoyancy losses compared to doublet systems.


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Horta's old quarter
Horta's old quarter
Small, low-built houses and narrow streets, tranquility and even silence. The residents of Horta's old quarter have managed to preserve the village-like atmosphere the neighbourhood has always had. Plaça Eivissa is the centre of this small old quarter. It is the focus of the neighbourhood's social life, and links the streets with the most history. Calm passageways and traditional cooking are a real pleasure in this part of Horta-Guinardó.
Heart of an old village
Horta's old quarter, in the part below the Ronda de Dalt ring road, is where the Cor d'Horta shopping hub and market can be found. Here there are some well-known streets which maintain their village-like feel with small houses and gardens. Carrer de la Galla, Carrer del Rajoler and Carrer de Sanpere i Miquel, for example, as well as others. The epicentre of all these streets is Plaça d'Eivissa. This square, recently expanded for the enjoyment of local residents, is where much of the neighbourhood's life goes on, a delightful spot with bars, terraces, places to sit down and play areas for the little ones.
Very close to this area is Can Mariner, an imposing 17th-century house, which today is a library specialising in theatre, that reinforces the rural feel of this area.
If you delve into the little streets, you will find Plaça de Santaes Creus, which was previously Horta's main square, and which still has the building that housed the district town hall. Today various municipal services are based there.
Surprising treasures
Horta also has another hidden treasure: its own eixample (extension), which grew up at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, and where you can find several examples of Modernista architecture.
The streets making up the shopping centre of this area deserve a special mention. Carrer de Lisboa, Carrer del Tajo, Baixada de la Plana and Carrer de Dante make up an enchanting group of shops offering good quality produce at reasonable prices. A morning stroll through these streets, either shopping or simply looking, can be a very pleasant journey back in time.
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Shonn Brown
Partner at Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst
Shonn Brown is a highly respected trial lawyer and bar and civic leader, who counsels and advocates for businesses and individual clients engaged in complex legal disputes. Shonn has earned a stellar reputation among her professional peers, members of the judiciary and clients. A strong believer in the right to a jury trial, Shonn thrives on the opportunity to vigorously advocate for her clients throughout all phases of a dispute, particularly in trial.
Shonn is a strategic problem solver who excels when the stakes are high, achieving solid results for her clients, efficiently, and when needed, aggressively. Shonn has experience in an array of industries including private equity, construction, professional services, real estate, direct sales, banking and financial services and manufacturing, among others. She has expertise in dealing with trade secrets, fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, employment, board governance, products liability, personal injury and contracts. In addition to her civil trial experience, Shonn has first-hand knowledge of the criminal courts from serving as a "Lawyer on Loan" to the Dallas County District Attorney's Office, where she tried numerous cases to verdict.
Clients particularly like and respect Shonn's frank demeanor, responsiveness and practical business-minded approach to handling matters. Her experience as counsel to both plaintiffs and defendants, as well as with arbitration proceedings provides her with complete perspective and the ability to anticipate her opponent's strategies and tactics, eliminating unnecessary battles and allowing her to focus on the issues that truly matter.
Shonn is an avid runner, a veteran of the New York City Marathon and a supporter of the arts, education and the empowerment of girls and young women. Shonn enjoys spending time with her husband who is also a practicing attorney, and their three children.
Representative Cases
– Obtained $1.4 million jury verdict on behalf of legacy company in Dallas against International corporation.
– Successful defense of $19 billion hedge fund and 2 of its partners in 4-week jury trial over alleged breaches of fiduciary duties and contracts.
– Obtained million dollar jury verdict on behalf of injured child at local school district against public school in 2-week federal jury trial.
– Defended private school in high profile 8-week jury trial.
– Successfully defended against purported nationwide class certification in Travis County District Court.
– Arbitrated construction claims resulting in favorable award for Claimant in design-build dispute against architect and designer.
– Tried and received favorable judgment in real estate dispute for major financial institution.
– Represented national financial services institutions in various unfair debt collection, wrongful foreclosure and other disputes.
– Provided general counsel and advice to insurance broker in multi-level sales and marketing company.
– Obtained injunctive relief against processing company for restaurant management company.
– Represented university in various litigation matters.
– Represented private university and independent parochial school in various litigation matters.
– Defended celebrity muscle car designer in complex business litigation dispute.- Represented leading independent sales company in complex matter involving board governance.
– Defended single purpose entity and individuals in major property dispute.
– Represented sales company in substantial personal injury dispute involving the State of Texas and large trucking companies.
– Represented major manufacturing company in products liability action.
– Obtained take nothing defense verdict for large international company in federal jury trial in FMLA retaliation case.- Tried and obtained JNOV for automobile company and affiliated companies in employment-related dispute.
– Obtained injunctive relief against former employees of software development company.
– Frequently handles numerous employment disputes including misappropriation of trade secrets, covenants not to compete and other general employment claims.
– Obtained favorable outcome for international athletic company in trademark dispute.
– Represented medical equipment manufacturing company as plaintiff in software action in both litigation and arbitration.
– Represent independent sales company in prosecuting trademark violation.
– Defended leading Energy company in wrongful death and personal injury matters.
Professional Associations
– Dallas Bar Association
– Vice Chair, Bylaws Committee, 2015
– Co-Vice Chair, CLE Committee, 2015
– Director, 2013-present
– Co-Chair, 2014 Equal Access to Justice Campaign (raised over $915,000 for pro bono legal services)
– Secretary-Treasurer, 2012
– Patrick E. Higginbotham Inn of Court
– JL Turner Legal Association Foundation, Director, 2001-2004
– JL Turner Legal Association
– Vice President, 2002
– Recording Secretary, 2000
– Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
– Co-Chair, Lawyers Promoting Diversity Committee, 2005
– Named one of "The National Black Lawyers – Top 100", 2016
– Recognized as an "SMU Dedman School of Law Distinguished Alumni", 2016
– Litigation Counsel of America Fellow, 2016
– Selected as a "Best Lawyer in Dallas" in the area of Business Litigation by D Magazine, 2013-2017
– Named among the "Top Black Lawyers" by Savoy Magazine, 2015
– Recognized among the "Extraordinary Minorities in Texas Law" by Texas Lawyer, 2015
– Selected as "Texas Super Lawyer" by Texas Monthly and Law & Politics Magazine, 2013-2016
– Selected as "Top 50: Women Texas Super Lawyers" by Texas Monthly and Law & Politics Magazine, 2016
– Selected as a "Texas Rising Star" in the Texas Super Lawyer editions of Texas Monthly Magazine, 2005, 2008-2013
– Selected as one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas under 40", published in D Magazine, 2006
– Recognized as a History Maker by Black Alumni of Southern Methodist University
– "The Hon. Sam A. Lindsay Award for Professionalism and Ethics"
– "Multicultural Leadership Award", Texas Diversity Council
– Southern Methodist University, B.S., 1995
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Height 71 cm x width 51 cm, depth 3 cm. Framed in a white-painted pinewood frame.
White Painting is part of the collection Minimalistic Paintings. The medium is acrylic paint on canvas, stretched on a rigid pinewood underframe.
White Painting is as minimalistic as it gets, but the question is: is it too minimalistic even for minimalism lovers? We think it would fit nicely if you have a colourful wallpaper on the wall, or if everything in your home is already kinda too much, but you still want to get one last piece to finish decorating your household.
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In the modern day Internet era, there is nothing more vital for a company or a store than to have an active and constant online presence alluring clients towards its products and inspiring them to shop for more amazing items every single day. There is a crucial importance of having an online presence, which can either be through an official informative website or a functional shopping platform, and many of the companies on the market nowadays have understood the significance of this fact. However, not all of them know which can be the most suitable form of web presence for their particular sector or field of activity. Every single business needs a different type of website and a great example in this case is none other than that of cosmetic distributors who ship their goods worldwide and cater to international customers on an impressively large scale. For these wholesalers and suppliers, there would not be a better or more efficient option than to implement a great Internet platform where to display all the products up for sale and provide all the necessary tools for the final purchase to be completed. This sort of website is also known as an online wholesale cosmetics store and it has a wide range of particularities, both in terms of structure and layout, so stick with us as we are about to detail as many of them as possible for all the interested Internet fans and technology enthusiasts.
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Boarding House for an Agricultural School / Technical University of Berlin / CODE Chair Construction + Design - Ralf Pasel
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Agronomy Campus Bella Vista: boarding house for an agricultural school in Bolivia / design and realizationThe design task was to develop an agronomy campus for the department of the recently founded agronomy faculty being part of the existing vocational school "Sayarinapaj" in Bella Vista, Bolivia. In the first phase 40 students under the direction of Prof. Pasel and his team designed and built in collaboration of interdisciplinary partners a school building, which has to serve approximately 75 students as a supportive learning environment for their agricultural studies. It was awarded with the SEED Award 2017 and the Heinze Awards. The extension of the campus was recently completed by the construction of a boarding school, equally designed and built by the team. The objective was to develop buildings that would not only meet the outstanding architectural requirements based on the incorporation of local building traditions and production methods, but that would also serve as a role model in terms of energy consumption, as well as water and waste management.
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FA charge for alleged abuse of anti-doping officials for ex-Canaries winger
PUBLISHED: 10:26 05 March 2019 | UPDATED: 10:42 05 March 2019
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Former Norwich City player-of-the-season winner Robert Snodgrass has been charged by the Football Association after allegedly abusing anti-doping officials.
The West Ham and Scotland winger was not scheduled to be tested nor did he refuse to take a test when officials visited the Hammers' training ground in February, Press Association Sport understands.
"Robert Snodgrass has been charged with a breach of FA Rule E3(1)," the FA said in a statement.
"It is alleged the player used abusive and/or insulting words towards UK Anti-Doping officials who were visiting West Ham United's training ground on 06 February 2019 to conduct out-of-competition testing. He has until 18 March 2019 to respond."
BBC Sport are reporting that the Scot could be facing a one-game ban and a fine of £8,000 if he admits the charge.
Snodgrass, signed from Hull for a reported fee of £10.2million in January 2017, has scored four goals in a total of 32 appearances for the Premier League side this season.
The 31-year-old lifted the Barry butler Memorial Trophy in 2014 after being voted City's player of the season by supporters at the end of a season which ended in relegation to the Championship under Neil Adams.
The free-kick specialist was then sold to Hull in a deal reportedly worth £8m, after 14 goals in 74 games having been signed from Leeds for around £3m in 2012.
Snodgrass suffered a serious knee injury early in his Hull spell but has rebuilt his career after signing for West Ham, spending last season on loan in the Championship with Aston Villa, before reemerging under Manuel Pellegrini at the London Stadium this season.


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When it comes to cleaning something that is as valuable as hardwood can really be intimidating especially if you are not sure of where to start and where to finish. There are different ways to clean a wooden floor and sleep it. Remember that it is important to clean your floor in other to maintain it especially if there are little rocks on the floor that could scratch the woods. One of the first things you need to find out before cleaning is to know what type of finishing is done on your floor.
Here are the basic ways to clean a wooden floor.
What kind of finish is your floor?
This is really important in that knowing the kind of finish your floor is made of will help you know what to apply to the it without damaging the floor. To tell the difference all you need to do is to rub your finger across a clean well floor. This will help you know whether the floor is surface sealed that is when you rub the floor and no smudge appears but if smudge appears, then be sure that the surface has been treated with varnish, oil finish or others.
Protect wooden floor from dirt and grime
As simple as this may sound, it can save you a lot of stress. Placing a mat in front of the entrance of your apartment can save you a lot of scratch. All you need to do is to position the mat both in and outside to reduce the dirt inside. Tiny particles like dirt can act like sandpaper and cause some scratch, so now you know the benefit of the foot mat.
Sweep your floor everyday
A lot of people actually believe that this is a bit of an old school method of cleaning, but the truth is that proper sweeping go a long way to protect your floor from scratch and damage according to these Perth specialised sweeping contractors. if you feel sweeping is not enough, then you can vacuum clean the edges just to make sure that they are properly and totally clean.
Wood Wash
This looks like what many people already know about but very few people really take their time to do this. There are several products out there that you can use to wash your wooden floor. However, you will need to confirm what kind of product it is, remember there is a sealed floor and a floor that is not sealed. Feel free to ask the seller if you can use it on both kinds of floors just to be safe. Before applying totally on your floor, you might wan to test the product at a corner just to be sure it won't damage the whole floor.
Damp mopping
This method, which involve you wetting the floor and mopping slightly you can do this by gently Dip the mop into water containing slight detergent and gently mop the floor all over just to make sure that everything called dirt is taken away.
Following theses methods will help you keep your apartment safe from scratches, damage and any other thing that will keep your floors safe. You might want to hire a sweeping contractor that will keep your apartment clean.


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City, advocates grapple over where to build affordable housing
As the need for affordable housing rises, barriers remain
Now that city officials have sidelined a mixed-income apartment project planned for an upscale area near the Galleria, a thorny question remains: Where to build now?
Academic studies and policy debates have circulated for years on how to address this very issue, which is exacerbated by stagnating incomes and sharply rising housing costs even in traditionally affordable cities like Houston.
"The gap is growing larger and larger," said University of Texas professor Elizabeth Mueller, who specializes in affordable housing issues. "Public resources are not growing larger."
Despite legal mandates to build in more desirable areas, political pushback, neighborhood opposition and even state law have stalled some local projects; others were stopped because they were proposed in neighborhoods that federal officials and housing advocates deemed too economically disadvantaged.
A recent federal report and national experts suggest Texas' system for allocating tax credits to build affordable housing is at odds with federal mandates to undo years of segregation and concentrated poverty.
The rejection of the Houston Housing Authority's most recent proposal, to build in one of the wealthiest ZIP codes in the city, has now exposed the city to increased scrutiny and potential discrimination lawsuits.
On one side, the federal government and fair housing advocates demand such projects be built in so-called "high-opportunity" neighborhoods with good schools, low crime rates and access to jobs and retail. A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision supports those policies.
From the other side are the persistent complaints from Briargrove-area residents and federal, state and city leaders who argue the project would be too costly, hurt property values, crowd the public schools and increase crime rates.
Mayor Sylvester Turner cited the $56 million pricetag, or $240,000 per unit, as the main reason he would block the Housing Authority's project at 2640 Fountain View. He called for the authority to find a new site in the same city council district and reiterated his enthusiasm to provide affordable housing throughout Houston.
Historically, though, "not in my backyard" opposition has proved powerful.
In the city of Houston, the housing authority has not built new housing in a decade and five of eight proposed projects in the past three years were blocked. Similar battles have been brewing in Harris County, where affluent suburbs have lobbied their state representatives to either keep low-income housing out or to limit it to senior-living facilities.
A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report found Texas is one of a handful of states that essentially gives city and state leaders veto power over affordable housing projects through control of tax credit applications. The report says that "could have a discriminatory influence on the location of affordable housing."
In its complex scoring method for doling out federal tax credit funds, the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs uses letters of support from state representatives and local governing bodies. It's unlikely without the support of these officials that the projects would score well enough to receive tax credits. Turner's refusal to let the Fountain View project come before the city council deprives it of $14 million in tax credits.
Local governments can get into legal trouble when giving in to community groups that aggressively fight low-income projects in their neighborhood, said Kate Walz, director of housing justice for the Chicago-based Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
"It seems to be a lesson that local governments continue to struggle to learn," she said.
The activity of a private citizen is protected by the First Amendment, but when a local government acts on that it can face the legal liability, Walz said. The provisions in Texas to allow local governments to block tax credits is a "free pass for NIMBYism to grow," she said, calling it "a dangerous pocket veto, maybe the most troubling that I've heard of."
"You really need to take the politics out of it and it just needs to be objectively measuring the viability of the project," Walz said.
Houston Housing Authority Chairman Lance Gilliam, who announced he would resign in the wake of the controversy over Fountain View, also called the system a "barrier."
"It politicizes the situation and puts elected officials in an awkward position," he said.
At the mayor's request, the housing authority is working to find another site in the same council district. The agency has not ruled out building the project on Fountain View without the tax credits. Gilliam said it will be difficult to find land that would be less expensive and still meet the "high opportunity neighborhood" requirements from the federal government.
"Land prices are what they are," said Gilliam, a local real estate broker. "... We aren't aware of any sites that are available and less expensive. There are parts of this district that have pockets of poverty and schools not as good as others."
Meanwhile, the advocacy groups Texas Appleseed and the Texas Low Income Housing Service sent Turner a letter earlier this year warning that blocking this project could violate fair housing laws and lead to a discrimination lawsuit and loss of federal funding.
Nationally, the days of inner-city projects built with all low-income residents are over. Instead, the new buildings look like market-rate apartment complexes and often are priced for people at a variety of income levels.
Examples can be found in cities like New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. In many cases, private developers build a percentage of units that remain affordable with public dollars. In others, the government buys land and controls the cost of housing.
Whatever the strategy, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has made it clear that government entities receiving federal dollars must avoid racial discrimination in housing. In Houston, the city risks losing $41 million in funding and $150 million in disaster recovery money if it does not fall in line.
HUD officials did not respond to a Chronicle request for comment.
The Houston Housing Authority has estimated that between 80,000 and 100,000 families need affordable places to live here.
Access to quality housing can improve student success in school, help adults secure and maintain employment and provide a healthier living environment for families, said Corianne Payton Scally, researcher with the Urban Institute. Scally said more education from the government and developers is needed to eradicate the perceptions of low-income housing.
She said Texas' system of requiring support of local politicians is "unfortunate" and puts the burden on the developer to educate the community about the project.
Several states, including Massachusets, New Jersey and Illinois, have attempted to pass legislation to create a system for allocating tax credits that would further housing in high opportunity neighborhoods.
"These deals are still riddled with conflict," Scallly said. "I can't say that anyone has gotten this perfectly correct."
Amanda Timm, executive director of the Local Initiatives Support Corp., said Houston, unlike other major metro areas, has only in recent years felt the stress of housing costs. She said the public sector needs to step in and create a comprehensive plan. With a plan for the upscale neighborhoods, revitalizing areas and distressed parts of town, the mayor could more easily defend projects.
"Up until 10 to 15 years ago, you could still find affordable housing, regardless of income, that was decent and accessible," Timm said of Houston's market. "Our world has changed. This will require the local government to be more proactive. We've always been reactive."
Houston has historically been hesitant to include government in land-use matters. Now, it is behind other cities in terms of income equality and diversification of neighborhoods, said Peter Brown, former city councilman and director of Better Houston. He said big cities' policies helped create mixed-income neighborhoods that do not further concentrate poverty.
"We have not evolved that kind of policy," Brown said.


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Review: 'Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s'
by Stephen Tall on March 3, 2016
Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart
The '80s are suddenly back, at least for the Labour party which has regressed to them. I was two years old when they began, so I recall a fair amount, but through the inevitably unreliable and partial lens of a child. So I thought it was about time I revised what I had lived through.
Graham Stewart's Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s is, overall*, an excellent guide. He's as comfortable writing about monetarism as he is about Madness, as informative about the SDP as he is Sloane Rangers.
What's most startling is how much society has changed, mostly for the better – indeed, reading about the rampant sexism, racism and homophobia which prevailed at the time, re-inforced by the stodgily white, male trade unions, might shock those Corbynistas who appear to think that simply turning back the clock to pre-Thatcher would right all wrongs.
We think of the 1979 election as a turning point, with Mrs Thatcher's victory a decisive pivot away from the soggy, consensus 'Butskellism' politics of the 1950-70s. Yet that wasn't necessarily how it appeared at the time. In 1955, 74% of those polled by Gallup believed there were important differences between the Conservatives and Labour; in 1979, only 54% did so.
Some things don't change, though. Labour's chancellor Denis Healey described finding Tory costings in their 1979 manifesto as "like looking for a black cat in a dark coal cellar" — a simile which will resonate with anyone who's tried to identify where the Tories' £12bn welfare cuts in their 2015 manifesto will be found.
As for the idea that the Tories are the party to trust with cracking down on welfare spending, well… try squaring that with the '80s' reality: 'after the effects of inflation are taken into account, the state still spent nearly 13 per cent more at the end of the eighties than it had done at the end of the seventies'.
There are some great lines, exposing the hypocrisies which history has a habit of laying bare, and some fascinating facts, including:
Interesting, too, is Stewart's take on the SDP's phosphorescent explosion into British politics. He rightly rejects the old leftist canard that the SDP split from Labour was to blame for Mrs Thatcher's decade of dominance: 'it was only the intercession of the SDP that stopped the Conservatives beating Labour by even greater margins in the 1983 and 1987 general elections'.
And he is pretty scathing of its intellectual contribution, invoking Ralf Dahrendorf's famous quip that the SDP offered "a better yesterday". After all, the 'Gang of Four' renegades were 'committed not to radical change but to the preservation of the post-war consensus', with their Limehouse Declaration showing they believed the settlement as per 1979 about right — for example, that a state-regulated incomes policy should be core to the government's anti-inflationary strategy.
If anything, the SDP was more left-wing than Jeremy Corbyn. It's a moot point who would be most offended by that realisation.
* I say "overall" because my confidence in Stewart's account was knocked by his lazy peddling of the myths about the infamous 1983 Bermondsey by-election in which Labour's Peter Tatchell was defeated by the Liberals' Simon Hughes. He refers to 'the smear tactics of local Liberal activists' without mentioning the really virulent campaign against Tatchell came from homophobic Old Labour-ites. (See this Wikipedia entry for a succinct and mostly accurate summary.) It's only a half a page, but unfortunately it does make me wonder how many other parts of the book rely on press cuttings.


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When Arnow shut down for renovations, it took Einstein's with it. This left students with one on-campus option for coffee and tea: the Starbucks in the STC. The Starbucks was something many students were looking forward to when it first opened last year and ran decently throughout the spring semester.


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Top 3 Ways to Make Friends at a New School
This is Catherine, the oldest child and smartest kid of the bunch! Ha! Just kidding. Today, I thought I would post a blog about how to make friends at a new school. I have been one that has moved to a new school and know how terrifying it can be, for the parents as well as the child. My mom worried to death about me making friends when I began a new school which caused me to worry too! Thankfully, I had a few tricks up my sleeve and was able to find new friends quickly. Below are a few tips to help you make new friends.
1. Ask For Help
When you arrive at a new school, search out a friendly face. Ask for help with your class schedule, even if you know where you are going. You can easily meet people by finding someone to help you get to class. Introduce yourself and even ask questions about the campus to get a feel for the person as well as the environment.
2. Talk to at least one person in each class
As you start your first day, talk to at least one person in each class. At least try. I know it can be intimidating, meeting new people for the first time, but try your hardest. Even if you are just asking about the material in the classroom, you can at least ask a question or two to one person in your class. Most people are friendly and will answer back, helping you to get to know others in every class you have.
3. Join a Club
Once you begin the school year, consider joining a club such as Drama or SADD. You can get to know people by joining a club and taking part in activities. When you join the club, the other members will greet you and you can feel more comfortable as you get to know the other members of the club. This is one of my favorite ways to meet new people as you know the members should have similar likes and interests as you do.
Overall, just be yourself. A new school is hard and getting to know people can be difficult. Be willing to put yourself out there and talk to many people so you can find friends who have like interests or goals. I have found just speaking to others can start the path to friendship.