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1.What is the difference between a service and a merchandising business? Provide an example of each.
2.What are three new types of merchandising accounts?
3.Name at least three accounts that would normally appear in the financial statements of a merchandising business, but would not appear in the chart of accounts of a service business.
4.Michael McNamee is the proprietor of a property management company, Apartment Exchange, near the campus of Penscola State College. The business has cash of $8,000 and furniture that cost $9,000 and has a market value of $13,000. The business debts include accounts payable of $6,000. Michael's personal home is valued at $400,000, and his personal bank account has a balance of $1,200. Identify the principle or assumption that best matches the situation:
a. Michael's personal assets are not recorded on the Apartment Exchange's balance sheet.
b. The Apartment Exchange records furniture at its cost of $9,000, not its market value of $13,000.
c. The Apartment Exchange records its financial statements in U.S. dollars.
d. Michael expects the Apartment Exchange to remain in operations for the foreseeable future
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THC is a favored act for a number of metal-intensive tours and festivals, such as the annual national Rockstar Mayhem Fest, Rocklahoma, and also this year's Rock on the Range in Ohio and the River City Rockfest in San Antonio. All of those bills feature a gauntlet of modern metal headliners such as Avenged Sevenfold, old school greats like the Scorpions and just about everything in between, including the recently reunited At the Drive-In.
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UWIZM Amphibians
Version 1.4 published by The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM) on Sep 21, 2018 The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM)
This dataset contains records from the majority of the UWIZM amphibians collections.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 306 records.
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Rutherford MG and Auguste RJ (2018): UWIZM Amphibians. v1.4. The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM). Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=uwizmamphibians&v=1.4
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Occurrence; Amphibians; Anurans; Frogs; Trinidad and Tobago; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Records are mainly from Trinidad and Tobago, but also from Grenada and Dominica.
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|South West [9.536, -62.49], North East [16.51, -59.941]
Taxonomic Coverage
Amphibians were identified to species level.
|Aromobatidae, Bufonidae, Centrolenidae, Eleutherodactylidae, Hemiphractidae, Hylidae, Leptodactylidae, Microhylidae, Ranidae, Strabomantidae
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|1932-05-02 / 2016-10-04
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The purpose of this project is to make the various collections at the main institutions housing the biodiversity information available digitally through publication and the possible creation of a CariBIF portal for the region.
|Improving Biodiversity data accessibility in the Caribbean countries of Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and Suriname
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Specimens were collected by hand.
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Born in Massachusetts in 1845, Arthur MacArthur, father of renowned World War II General Douglas MacArthur, joined the Federal Army at the age of 17 in 1862. He entered the service as a 1st Lieutenant, a commission his father secured for him, and served the 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry as an adjutant. MacArthur and the 24th Wisconsin fought at Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Franklin. After seeing his color bearer fall in the fight for Missionary Ridge, part of the Chattanooga Campaign, MacArthur instantly took up the flag and "carried [it] in front of the regiment, cheering the men to follow him up the ridge." As he charged, MacArthur was "grazed in the head and fell, clutching the colors" but managed to deliver the flag to the crest where he planted it yelling "On, Wisconsin!" For his actions at Missionary Ridge, MacArthur was decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1890. At Kennesaw Mountain (the Atlanta Campaign) in June 1864, MacArthur was seriously wounded in his right wrist and right breast. Despite the seriousness of the wounds, he refused to leave the field. He remained with his regiment and found himself in Franklin on November 30, 1864. At one point during the five hour battle that day, MacArthur engaged in a saber fight with a Confederate soldier on the steps of the Carter House, each man managing to strike the other before bullets struck MacArthur in the right shoulder and left knee. For his "gallant and meritorious s ervices" at Franklin and in the Atlanta campaign, MacArthur received the rank of Brevet Colonel. A few months later, in June 1865, at the age of 21, MacArthur was commissioned Colonel of the 24th Wisconsin. He is among the youngest soldiers to ever receive the rank of Colonel.
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Consultants Launch For-Profit Effort To Assess School-Business Partnerships
Hoping to capitalize on growing concerns that corporate philanthropic efforts have done little to improve education, an Ohio-based education-consulting firm this month launched what may be the nation's first for-profit effort to evaluate school-business partnerships.
SchoolMatch, a firm started in 1986 to track school-district performance indicators, began the program after seeing the results of a survey documenting concern that school-business partnerships have been ineffective in improving the nation's workforce--the driving goal of most corperations involved in K-12 education, said William L. Bainbridge, the company's president and chief executive officer.
The survey, to be published this week by the North Carolina-based Employment Management Association, questioned 71 E.M.A. members about their relations with precollegiate education.
About 83 percent of the firms surveyed said they had some kind of partnership with schools, most of them confined to "adopt-a-school" programs targeting specific schools with cash and in-kind contributions.
Those same companies admitted that such programs had largely been ineffective in improving academic achievement.
"The recurring theme these days is that there's a great desire ofcorperations to be of help ... but a real frustration where corporato officers don't have a handle on how well their dollars are being used, [and] whether they are truly supperting outcomes and learning," said Steve Sundre, executive vice president of SchoolMatch.
The company previously has focused on using its comparative information on the nation's 15,889 public-school districts to help corporations with relocation decisions.
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Observers agreed that the SchoolMatch effort was an idea whose time has come.
The current partnership movement began in 1984 largely as a public-relations gambit, according to Susan D. Otterbeurg, a consultant who has worked with major corporations to devise self-assessment models for their education programs.
Until now, assessment of the estimated 73,000 existing school-business partnerships has been weak at best, said Maureen Erickson, a Fairfax, Va., teacher who recently completed a doctoral dissertation on partnership evaluation.
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Many business executives failed to pay attention to the slow but steady growth of corporate investment in education, said Daniel Raisch, a professor of education at the University of Dayton who is helping with the new SchoolMatch program.
"The money at first was so small, it was hardly noticed," Mr. Raisch noted. "But it just kept growing and growing, and now suddenly people are noticing just how many millions of dollars they're putting in."
Adjusted for inflation, corporate contributions to precollegiate education have risen from $18 million in 1976 to $264 million last year, according to a study released this month by the Council for Aid to Education. (See related story, page 9.)
Corporation executives also now believe that they have a legitimate self-interest in improving the workforce. In addition, tight, recession-era budgets are leading to demands that these partnerships be held accountable for documented results, Ms. Otterbeurg said.
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Aside from the new SchoolMatch program, other stirrings indicate a greater interest in holding partnerships accountable for results.
The U.S. Education Department this month awarded a $1.5-million contract to the Southwest Regional Education Laboratory in Los Alamitos, Calif., to evaluate its multimillion-dollar partnership program and to help develop replicable assessment models, said Susan Gruskin, coordinator of the department's education-partnership program.
The National Association of Partners in Education next month will release a "how to" manual on partnership evaluation and a set of criteria with which to gauge partnership effectiveness, said Daniel W. Merenda, the group's executive director.
The evaluation guide suggests that partnership managers assess: . How well the efforts have involved teachers, administrators, business leaders, and community members; . How school-board policy has been shaped to support ongoing partnership efforts; . How thoroughly everyone involved in the efforts--inside and outside the school itself--has been trained in education intervention; and, . Whether expected educational outcomes and achievement benchmarks were established by all involved parties at the outset of the partnership.
The upcoming National Association of Partners in Education manual highlights an evaluation effort by the Louisville Education and Employment Partnership that makes funding contingent on improved performance.
Angelo Vaccaro, the program's executive director, said the partnership was formed in 1988 with a group of students who would participate in the group's mentoring, job-placement, internship, and dropout-prevention programs and a control group that would not.
Continued funding depends on academic improvement as gauged by rigorous evaluations conducted by the Jefferson County Board of Education.
SchoolMatch officials would not outline their auditing procedures, saying that each evaluation would be tailored to fit the objectives of the individual corporation involved.
Mr. Bainbridge said the firm had reached verbal agreements with two large manufacturing companies and one retailer to kick off the program. Pending the signing of contracts, the SchoolMatch executive declined to name the companies or to say how much each deal would bring his firm.
Vol. 11, Issue 09, Page 4Published in Print: October 30, 1991, as Consultants Launch For-Profit Effort To Assess School-Business Partnerships
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It was, for the most part, a ho-hum term of the Supreme Court that ended on June 27. The court handed down 107 signed opinions, but not more than half a dozen had much significance. The rest were mainly for the lawyers.
The justices frittered away a vast deal of time and energy in writing dissenting and concurring opinions. They displayed unseemly petulance toward poor petitioners and they exhibited unbecoming haste in hustling capital prisoners toward the gallows.
The term will be remembered for a few opinions dealing with abortion, criminal law and the election of judges. The big news, of course, came with the retirement of Thurgood Marshall. We will have other big news when Congress takes up the nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed him.
When David Souter came on the court in October, it was widely assumed that he would cement the conservative bloc so solidly that we would witness a stream of 6-3 votes in divisive cases. Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens, we supposed, would find themselves constantly on the losing end. It didn't work out that way.
True, old alliances on the bench generally held together. Justices Marshall and Blackmun voted identically in 50 of the 65 cases in which the court divided. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, for their part, voted alike in 48 of them. Justice O'Connor found a new best friend in Justice
Souter; they disagreed in only 11 of the 98 cases in which they both participated.
Justice Souter arrived as an enigma. The reputation remains unchallenged. He was expected to provide the decisive swing vote for the conservative bloc in really close cases. The term saw 19 cases decided 5-4. Justice Souter provided the swing in only nine of them.
Justice Souter has yet to get the feel of being one of the 12 most powerful individuals in our government. (The others, of course, are his eight colleagues, the president, the speaker of the House and the majority leader of the Senate.) His slight frame uneasily bears the toga. Justice Souter wrote only seven opinions for the court. None was of consequence. He wrote one dissenting opinion and two concurring opinions. None of these mattered either. The newest justice has an orderly mind, but he dips his pen in library paste.
Thinking of separate opinions: These ego trips are getting out of hand. Out of curiosity, I checked Volume 179 of the Supreme Court Reports, covering the term of 1890-1891. The first 20 reported cases that year saw only two written dissents, and one of them was but a single paragraph long. Sixteen of the 20 cases were unanimously decided.
That collegial comity is long gone. The justices have turned into medieval theologians, counting angels on the heads of pins. This was the headnote on a Michigan case having to do with the rights of non-union employees:
"BLACKMUN, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, III-B, III-C, IV-B (except for the final paragraph), IV-D, IV-E, and IV-F, in which REHNQUIST, C.J., and WHITE, MARSHALL, and STEVENS, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts III-A and IV-A, the final paragraph of Part IV-B, and Parts IV-C and V, in which REHNQUIST, C.J., and WHITE and STEVENS, JJ., joined. MARSHALL, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which O'CONNOR and SOUTER, JJ., joined, and in all but Part III-C of which KENNEDY, J., joined. KENNEDY, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part."
This is juridical goulash. Such peacock strutting is mainly an exercise in vainglory. Justice Stevens cannot restrain himself (22 written dissents, five written concurrences). Justice Scalia is equally enchanted with the sound of his own mellifluous voice (12 written dissents, 15 written concurrences).
This is understandable in Justice Scalia's case, for he is by far the most incisive writer on the court. His stuff is always a pleasure to read. Even so, the goulash provides indigestible fare for lower courts, and the stream of dissenting opinions encourages litigants in the jurisprudential school of try-us-one-more-time.
With Justice Marshall's departure, only Justices Blackmun and Stevens remain to flutter their left-wings in the liberal dovecote. Conservatives will be pleased to see Judge Thomas confirmed, but our joy will be tempered. We won't have Justices Brennan and Marshall to kick around any more, and covering the court won't be nearly so much fun.
James J. Kilpatrick is a syndicated columnist.


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The marketing for X-Men: First Class thus far has been fairly disappointing. From the horrendous Photoshop disasters they call posters to the repetitious trailers, the whole marketing plan seems to be based on the idea that because it's an X-Men movie people will come no matter what. Come June 3 we'll see if that strategy has paid off.
I actually liked this trailer far better. It made me want to see this movie. I know the marketing campaign has been odd for this movie (and not that great) but it's still one that I've been very interested in.
That's def. a much better trailer then the rest...in fact its the best anything I've seen for this movie but I'm still not into it.
Not being much of a Kickass fan, I still have faith in Mathew Vaughn's direction.
X-Men First Class is probably the big blockbuster I'm least looking forward to this summer but this is an intriguing trailer.


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How to raise the vibration of your home to a more positive and safe place!
Feng Shui is a great tool to help keep your home vibrating and flowing with positive Chi energy. But you can also use these tips to make your home a sanctuary of safety, rest, enjoyment and rejuvenation.
Make sure that you do this process every couple of months or when you feel things are getting dark, cluttered or low and your house will always be a pleasure and lovely place to be in.
Feng Shui is a great tool to help keep your home vibrating and flowing with positive Chi energy. But you can also use these tips to make your home a sanctuary of safety, rest, enjoyment and rejuvenation.
- Let the sunlight shine in. Sunlight naturally kills germs and allows a light bright feeling within the home.
- Bring fresh flowers inside. They bring plant life which filters oxygen and adds a lovely pop of colour. It is said that Angels love flowers.
- Plant gardens around your house.
- Allow the beautiful breeze to flow through your house and fill it with life giving oxygen and move the Chi naturally through your home.
- Burn incense, White sage is a very ancient and traditional incense used to clear negative energies and entities. My favourites are Sandalwood and Rose, Sandalwood helps to clear negative energy and Rose invites love in. Be aware of any asthmatics as it can be an irritant for some. If this is the case opt for scented burning oils; mix oil with water in the burner to stop burning.
- Make your house a retreat where you come home to relax and rejuvenate. Don't let it become a shell of a shelter. Paint it relaxing and happy colours that resonate with you and fill it with comforting lighting and textures.
- De-clutter and keep it clean! No one can relax in a messy environment. A messy environment invites an energy exactly what it looks like-Chaos. But don't be OCD about it, keep it within a reasonable comfortable standard that leaves you feeling light and relaxed.
- Change bed sheets at least once a week to clear away any tension that you may have released while sleeping. Stagnant energy can lead to sleepless nights and unpleasant dreams leaving you feeling tired. If you are in a romantic relationship and share your bed the same concept applies. Change your sheets regularly to maintain a healthy romantic relationship as the stagnant energy or energy released in previous intimate contact can build up and make you feel to exhausted to express your love.
- Dust, vacuum and move furniture around once in a while, this helps shift any stagnant energy that may have settled.
- Bring in beautiful scented candles and relaxation music. Be smart with the candles though as we all know the hazards of an open flame. The candles will bring an angelic glow and a pleasant scent. The relaxation music will bring a spa like feeling and put out a gentle sound vibration through the air waves keeping the energy at a beautiful resonance. You don't have to have the music loud for it to have effect.
- Put wind chimes at the front and back entries of your house. Make sure they are a higher solid sound (not tiny or too low). Certain key notes and vibrational sounds clear and balance energy; this is the role that your wind chimes will have. As the breeze blows the chimes will sound and give your home and its entries an energy clearing. The benefit of having them both at the front and back of your house is on a windy day the sound vibration will meet and create a vortex around your house giving it a thorough clearing and balancing.
- Place crystals in your garden around your house, near entries and throughout the inside your house. Crystals are very protective, healing and clearing. Remember to cleanse and recharge your crystals every now again by putting them outside in the sun or under a full moon. You can also clear and recharge them yourself with a personal prayer or ritual. My favourite crystals are Clear and Rose Quarts for love, clarity and protection.
- Talk to your house and tell it "This is a place of Love and Light only." And follow up with a little prayer of protection and happiness of your own. Ensure you have an understanding with your house of the energies or people it can and cannot let in. "Doors open to love and light and people with good loving intentions and doors closed to anything or anyone that is not of love and light." This may sound silly, but it will contribute to the overall feeling of a loving, safe retreat and keep the vibration of your house flowing with loving light energy.
- Ask your God or Guides once a week to walk through your house; through every room and around your property to clear away any old, negative or stagnant energies or entities that may have made their way in. Ask that they take them to light for healing and transmutation. Ask that an Archangel be stationed at every corner of the house; anything that is not of the light cannot come anywhere near to these magnificent beings.
- Then say a prayer of love and protection and thank the Heavens for their help. You can say your prayer as you walk around and through your house holding a white sage or sandlewood and rose incense stick if you wish. Be sure to get the incense into the corners, under beds and in cupboards. Do this after you've had a gathering or event at your house and after a disagreement to help clear the air.
Make sure that you do this process every couple of months or when you feel things are getting dark, cluttered or low and your house will always be a pleasure and lovely place to be in.


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The Jade Villa: Emerald Nirvana, Phuket
The lush development, situated in a beautiful landscape amidst a verdant hillside facing the Andaman Sea, features a stylish interior that is perfectly in tune with nature and island living.
There's something truly magical about Phuket, a quality of sorts that has led to its undisputed crowning as the "Pearl of the Andaman". As one of South East Asia's premier yachting destinations, the island offers a nautical experience like no other, filled with dramatic limestone caves, pristine white-sand beaches and a vibrant marine life that will no doubt be a sailor's delight.
For the ocean-lover who naturally, relishes living by the sea, Phuket is the place to be and the Emerald Development Group gives you the best seats in the house with The Jade Villa @ Emerald Nirvana, a collection of eight private pool villas boasting unparalleled ocean vistas.
The Jade Villa: Emerald Nirvana, Phuket
Nestled amidst a verdant hillside facing the Andaman Sea, these unique and exclusive villas are set on the grounds of a luxury development comprising residential apartments, a five star hotel with an array of amenities as well as a private beach club. Ranging from 245 sqm to 350 sqm (approx. 2,637 sq. ft. to 3,767 sq. ft.), each villa spans three floors and features a stylish character accentuated by neutral tones, sleek expanses of white and light wood finishes perfectly in tune with nature and island living.
With four bedrooms and four bathrooms per villa, the spacious home is perfectly suited for family enjoyment and even entertaining. Welcome the ocean breeze as well as plenty of natural light as most of the home's living spaces boast floor to ceiling windows and balconies providing stretching views of the aquamarine waters.
For desired days spent languishing sea-side, Kalim beach awaits just steps away, a quiet sanctuary offering various eateries and street food, as well as snorkelling opportunities offshore with some vibrant coral to explore. Patong beach, an area certainly more popular with the crowds, is also mere minutes away. Alternatively, if venturing out is not on the agenda, a swim in your very own private infinity pool or a lounge on the spacious deck gives an equally relaxing experience, complemented by Phuket's romantic sunrises and gorgeous sunsets.
Beaches aside, Emerald's villas are also located in close proximity to Patong, a year-round playground for those seeking its eccentric nightlife, bold entertainment attractions and shopping and dining options. The world-class Jungceylon Shopping Centre is just five minutes away from the villas and houses more than 200 stores catered to one's every whim and fancy. Schools and medical facilities are also within the vicinity, with the airport reachable in under 30 minutes.
With an expected completion date for the first quarter of 2017, residents will also be privy to a "Rental Guarantee & Vacation Home Programme" option, operated by a team of experienced villa management professionals and rental providers. With this initiative in place, a yearly investment return of at least 8 per cent is expected, making The Jade Villa an excellent investment choice in one of the most popular destinations in Asia.
Price: From THB 30 million (approx. USD 865,000)
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Most Israelis think the Oslo Accords were bad for Israel, and would not vote today for a diplomatic agreement that involves an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria (Shomron), according to a new poll from Maariv/nrg.
The poll, conducted by Maagar Mohot, found that of Israelis who remember the Oslo Accords, 40% were opposed to the accords at the time, while 33% were in favor.
Today, 3% have changed their mind to support the accords, while 11% of former supporters now think the accords were a mistake. In total, 57% said the Oslo Accords were bad for Israel's diplomacy, security and economy.
Regarding the current diplomatic talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, more than half of respondents – 53% - said they would not vote for a diplomatic agreement that involves an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, even if the PA would recognize Israel as a Jewish state and give up on the "right of return."
PA leaders have firmly resisted recognizing Israel as a Jewish state due to their desire to see the "right of return" implemented, allowing millions of descendants of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel to claim Israel as their home.
Maariv/nrg took a bold approach in attributing the lack of desire to part with Judea and Samaria not to the "settlers" – the usual culprits in the eyes of the EU and US – but rather, to the public's feeling that the "core issues" in the Israel-PA conflict cannot be solved. The status of Jerusalem and the "right of return" were mentioned as two such insurmountable issues.
The PA claims all parts of Jerusalem that were under Jordanian control from 1949 to 1967, including the Old City and the Temple Mount, as the capital of a future PA state. Israel annexed the formerly Jordanian-controlled part of Jerusalem shortly after reuniting the city in 1967, and a January poll found that 78% of Israeli Jews oppose relinquishing eastern Jerusalem.
The current instability in the Arab world is also likely to be a factor, Maariv noted, as it makes Israel's security needs less flexible.
The instability in Egypt and Syria may also heighten Israelis' concerns over PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' ability to control terrorist groups within PA territory. Abbas lost control of Gaza in 2007, and faces challenges to his rule in Judea and Samaria as well. In addition, the PA Chairman's term ended in 2009, and he has not yet faced reelection, leading to concerns that his signature on a peace deal may be meaningless.


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On stage: The phantom Phantom" and a bully pulpit.Published: Thursday, September 27, 2018 By: Bruce Apar Source: THE KATONAH- LEWISBORO TIMES
Ladies and gentlemen of the audience, in the never-ending battle of Art versus Commerce, consider Exhibit P: the two musical Phantoms.
There is, but of course, Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking "Phantom of the Opera," now in its 30th year on Broadway. That's the one with familiar songs, like "Music of the Night" and the title tune. Then there's the Phantom by composer-lyricist Maury Yeston, also known as "the greatest show never to play on Broadway," and with music, you've likely not heard before.
But it has played four different times at Elmsford's Westchester Broadway Theatre, logging more performances than any other musical at the dinner theater, where it has triumphantly returned. Except for a one-month break from Nov. 28-Dec. 26, for WBT's holiday show, this Phantom will be very visible through Jan. 25, 2019.
For those who have not seen the Yeston "Phantom," it is a human-scale, intimate jewel that bears scant resemblance to the lumbering, theme park-scale Webber contraption. Talk to theater people who have seen both and chances are you'll hear a preference for the Yeston yarn. If one word had to be used to describe the appeal of "the phantom Phantom" (for its low profile relative to "the famous Phantom"), the word I'd pick is "organic." For one, the book by noted playwright Arthur Kopit is truer to the original story, with an abiding tenderness and empathy that gets drowned by the spectacle in the Broadway show.
After the show, Maury Yeston told me, "This is absolutely among the top productions ever done of this musical," which has had more than 1,000 performances since its debut in Houston in 1991. "They have a special affinity for it here. We like to call it the biggest hit never to play Broadway."
When I read, before seeing the show, that Mr. Yeston said some moments brought even cowboys to tears when it played Houston, I scoffed at that notion as hyperbole. When I saw his creation last week at WBT, instead of scoffing, I too was sniffling. The scenes between the phantom Erik (Matthew Billman) and Christine (Kayleen Seidl), his protégé who rises from street singer to budding opera star, are poignant enough, but the climactic scene with Erik and his father Gerard (James Van Treuren) is heart-wrenching.
The cleverness of Mr. Webber's commercially catchy music is eclipsed here by the authenticity of Mr. Yeston's atmospheric melodies that lovingly inform and heighten the romance, the suspense and the tragedy that are at the heart of the classic tale. Instead of overpowering the drama, the Yeston music underscores it. In the principals, Mr. Billman and Ms. Seidl, the audience is treated to a pair of exquisite and thrilling voices that blend beautifully to produce soaring harmonies that drew cheers from the appreciative audience. The numbers are well-served by WBT's eight musicians, directed by Bob Bray, who are in top form.
Everything about the production ranks it as one of the most impressive this reviewer has seen at Westchester Broadway Theater in the past decade.
The three-tiered, Gothic set, the design effectively incorporates the opera house, the catwalk, and the Phantom's lagoon-side home beneath it. The carousel-shaped stage elevator center stage never has been put to better use as it transports us—and the actors—to the masked Phantom's subterranean hideaway, where he haunts the hoipolloi. Special effects and flourishes add to the theatrical thrills, from billows of smoke wafting on stage to the shaky chandelier that alights on stage for the Act I finale.
It is is the third successive time WBT's production of Yeston and Kopit's Phantom that has been directed and choreographed by Tom Polum, whose masterly touch manages to deliver an experience that is entertainingly dark and uplifting at once. In addition to the leads, worthy of mention here are James Van Treuren, expertly essaying the pivotal role of Gerard Carriere for the third time at WBT and Sandy Rosenberg as tempestuous and jealous diva Carlotta.


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Headache Relief – Maroochydore & Buderim
Do you struggle with headaches and live in the Maroochydore area? We would like to help.
Headaches maybe a common condition but you should never accept them as normal.
Unfortunately many headaches sufferers put up with them or rely on popping pills. Taking drugs is only masking the symptoms and it is doing nothing for correcting the problem and giving you long term relief.
Headaches typically involve any pain or discomfort felt in the head area. It may be a pain behind the eyes or it can be across the forehead.
It can be both sides of the head or for others it may involve one side of the head. Some people will feel it start at the base of the skullarea. For some people they may feel that it is coming from the neck area and then spreading up to the head.
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Unlike other writers who knew they wanted to write the moment they became self aware, Richard's path to taking up the pen followed a more leisurely route.
As a child he wanted to be a fighter pilot, later he thought it would be neat to be a rock star. Unfortunately, as an introvert, he was not suited for the stage. Once he gave up the guitar, much to the relief of his parents, he turned his attention to making movies.
Armed with an 8mm movie camera, several rolls of aluminum foil liberated from the kitchen, and the spare bed sheets, he filmed his first masterpiece. The story was about a space ship crash landing in the woods behind his house. His sister starred as the damsel in distress while his little brother, wrapped like a mummy in the spare bed sheets, chased her through the woods.
His career as a famous director ended before it even got off the ground when on opening night his mother recognized the missing bed sheets and aluminum foil resulting in his grounding for the remainder of that summer.
A voracious reader, he believes writing is the most intimate form of communication possible. The reader permits the writer access to their mind, and the readers reality dissolves as they focus on the narrative of the tale being spun.
His love of the macabre was sparked at an early age when he would sit on his grandmother's porch listening to her tell ghost stories. During the summer he and his cousins would sleep in his grandmother's back yard, within sight of the abandoned haunted house next door, and spend the night scaring one another with gruesome tales of shadowy creatures that went bump in the night.
During his life he has played a series of roles, husband, father, son, and lover, but his favorite by far is grandfather. He and his wife of twenty plus years have raised four children, and helped raise eight grandchildren. They provide a secure home to a yellow lab named Max and a cat who will answer to either Flame or Furball. His loving wife, Dena has experienced first hand the exasperation of living with a writer whose mind has a tendency to wander at the most inappropriate times. Yet she manages to keep his feet firmly planted on terra firma.
Richard can be found online at:
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© AP Screen shot of the home page of HealthCare,gov.
Open enrollment is always tempting to ignore. When those weighty health insurance booklets arrive demanding that you make important elections right before the holidays, millions of Americans set them aside and either decide to look later -- or never. Whether that's because they're happy with their employer-sponsored health plan and don't intend to change it or simply because they neglect the choices until it's too late, experts say ignoring open enrollment is becoming increasingly costly.
More than half of employees find that bad choices cost them about $750 per year -- roughly $62 per month. And those who keep the same plan as the previous year aren't exempt. That's because a lot could change under the hood of your health plan from year to year, said Matthew Owensby, senior vice president of supplemental insurance provider Aflac.
"People think that they've gone to the same doctor and had the same plan for years, so they don't even bother to check if that doctor is still in their network," he said. "They just don't realize that the plans themselves can change."
In fact, roughly two-thirds of the consumers who went to a doctor or hospital that was out of their health care network -- a gaffe that leaves you essentially uncovered or underinsured -- had no idea they were doing it, said Rebecca Madsen, chief consumer officer at UnitedHealth (UNH).
Plans also can change co-payments, prescription drug coverage and other easily overlooked details that could also leave you with unexpected costs, she said. Taking a few minutes to review your plan now could help you sidestep these unexpected costs and potentially lower your future health care bills. Better yet, it doesn't necessarily have to be time-consuming. Madsen suggests that employees focus on just a handful of key items:
Changes: Look at whether your plan has changed providers, deductibles or co-payments. Most plans will provide a summary of these changes. Besides reading through those changes and evaluating how they might affect you, make sure that all of your doctors remain "in network."
And while you're considering changes, think of your own. Are you sicker or healthier than you were last year? Did you develop an illness, go on any sort of regular prescription? Did you have a child, or do you plan to in the next year? Big changes in your life suggest a more careful review of what's covered.
Costs: What did you spend on health care last year, and do you expect it to be roughly the same this year? If so, compare the options your employer provides side-by-side to see if an alternative plan could result in lower overall premiums, deductibles and co-payments. Look, too, at whether your plan offers mail-order pharmacy options, which can help people who have chronic ailments get their medications at a discount.


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The Tyranny of Neutrality
This was the other post I had considered writing yesterday.
Alignments in D&D fascinated me from the beginning.
There was a time where I thought Fallout's karma system might be better suited to the game, and I've experimented with some alternatives — not to mention a few years where I didn't use alignment at all.
But I came back. It still fascinates me.
When I first took the 'Dungeon Master exam' before judging for the RPGA (back in '05 it was…) there was a question that bothered me.
(Paraphrased) "What is the alignment of a typical commoner?"
The correct answer on this… I think it was a multiple-choice test… was "True Neutral." I couldn't find a reference to this anywhere in the 3.5 handbooks, and I knew those things pretty well. (Nowadays I don't care whether it says so or not, I believe it.)
It set me off on a path that I didn't know I was still on until recently.
I've jokingly referred to Lawful Good as the 'worst kind of Evil' in the past — it's one of my longest-running D&D injokes. Every few years, I'll joke that one of the other eight is the worst.
Today, it's True Neutral.
Dungeons & Dragons is a post-apocalyptic game. Whether it's after the end of earth culture, elf or giant culture, or crystal spires and togas culture, the core conceit of the game is that you're exploring the ruins of a failed civilization.
The adventurers who make up the principle cast of characters are pioneers, sure. Survivalists, sure. Looters and scoundrels, sure. All of that.
They're also the heirs of a world that had been broken, often more than once.
Which you'd think would be bleak enough, right?
I have seen a lot of definitions of neutrality over the years, some of them more creative than others. But none of them really compare to the neutrality I've witnessed in my own life: seeing people all around me who just don't care.
Before I go farther, there are like a million caveats.
Neutral people love, they live, they laugh. They have friends and families. They go to work, they go to church, they're normal. Neutrality isn't evil, no matter how much I might joke.
It's hella depressing though.
In self-esteem books and articles, you'll sometimes read about a thing called a "healthy selfishness." This is like, being proactive about your own interests. It's good advice for people with depression. It's about taking care of your own needs: the better to help you take care of others, right?
And when we take selfishness to its awful extreme, we get unadulterated Evil. Good is harmonic, cooperative, and sometimes altruistic — Evil is selfish in the extreme, often going clear off the edge of the map and into self-destruction.
True Neutral is this kind of awful, unconscious selfishness that could be construed as 'might makes right.' The strong take what they want and the weak suffer.
You can see it behind a lot of dice rolls, it's in the arbitrariness of some skill checks, reaction rolls, and the odd Charisma (or morale) check.
Neutral characters are always looking for an advantage. They aren't charitable. They don't give things away except to friend and family, and even then it comes down to individual temperament.
Neutral characters only trade for a profit. Unless they've read the Evil Overlord list, neutral characters don't barter or bargain unless they're getting something out of the deal. Now, they might be WRONG, like they've been tricked or they may have overestimated the value of something, but they're never going to sell at a loss if they can help it.
Again, except for friends and family. Nowhere are nepotism and cronyism more apparent than among neutral characters. Advantages, remember?
Neutral characters have the worst morale. There are exceptions of course, but neutral characters won't fight to the death to defend anything on purpose. In part because they don't BELIEVE in anything.
And this is where the depressing bit really hits home. You never know where a neutral character stands. They might have virtues, they might have convictions, and they might even have ideals.
But whatever they are, you know THEY AREN'T ENOUGH. Whatever their beliefs are, they literally aren't enough to matter. Because in the world of D&D, the forces of Capital-G Good and Capital-C Chaos et al. are physical laws.
When a terrible Evil walks the land, it corrupts everything it touches.
Who WOULDN'T want to fight that?
I'll tell you who wouldn't: neutral characters.
You know, unless it threatened their homes or families or way of life. Or unless they were conscripted by the lord they owe fealty to, or they were inspired by church leaders.
See? See why it's depressing? A neutral character might even argue that Good and Evil are just perspectives.
Are they? Well, if Law and Chaos are perspectives, then they're perspectives with CONSEQUENCE. And that's something a neutral character would rather not think about.


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Sada, Maria G. (1884–1973)
María (Chata) Sada, businesswoman and community leader, was born on December 4, 1884, in Iraxuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. She married Juan Sada in Boquillas, Coahuila, in 1901. She moved from Mexico to Texas and later obtained a permanent visa. She owned a combination trading post, general store, cafe, and hotel in Boquillas, Texas, near the Rio Grande, known to some as Chata's Store or Chata's Place. It was one of about a dozen such businesses on the Texas side of the border in the Big Bend area. It opened in the late 1920s, during Prohibition, and served Boquillas, Texas, and Boquillas, Mexico. The Sadas were bilingual. Mrs. Sada ran the business during the day, while her husband operated a silver mine in the Sierra del Carmen, Coahuila. She also offered visitors hot meals and lodging in the extra rooms she added to her house. She was known for the tacos she cooked on a flat-topped, wood-fired stove. She allegedly kept money in a trunk and cashed checks for friends. She kept beer in a kerosene-powered refrigerator. Her friendly and affectionate disposition as a hostess received praise from many. Sam Woolford of the Dallas Morning News wrote an article about her in 1955, noting that she had the bearing of a queen. María Sada's services were particularly welcomed because of the region's isolation at the time. Travelers included those workers typically found on the frontier: law-enforcement officers, boundary-commission engineers, miners, prospectors, geologists, naturalists, and other scientists. In 1920 María bought a car to travel to Marathon, 100 miles north. In 1927 the Sadas were one of only two families in Boquillas. They built their house of adobe and peeled cottonwood. María raised goats, turkeys, and chickens and tended a garden. She was also able to shoot a rifle and once killed a mountain lion. She dispensed medicine, acted as midwife, and operated as judge and teacher. She opened her home to itinerant priests for Masses, weddings, and baptisms. She served as a godmother to many children. The Sadas had a piano and featured music and musicians, including a blind fiddler and guitarist from Mexico who played at their house for a small fee. Apparently before 1910 the Sadas also either adopted or raised at least six children whose parents lived nearby or who were homeless. After Juan died in 1936, María moved to Del Rio with a son. She attended the July 7, 1960, ceremony honoring improvements at Big Bend National Park, where ranchmen, cowhands, bankers, educators, and business people greeted her. Her presence and reception there resulted in a feature story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The Sadas were friends of photographer Wilfred D. Smithers for a decade, and he photographed them. María Sada died on July 13, 1973, in Del Rio.


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The gang here at Neave Décor is already champing at the bit to start helping with our customers' Christmas décor!
We spend all year dreaming up what we'll do when the holidays come, but the boss keeps telling us we have to wait. (Apparently K-mart's holiday advertising schedule isn't an appropriate measure of when to start!)
So we're channeling our excitement into the season at hand. Here are a few fall decorating ideas from the décor pros at Neave Décor to up your festivity factor while the temperatures drop.
Fall decorating idea #1: pick some pumpkins and gourds
The best part about this fall décor: You can grab it at the grocery or hardware store or you can make an entire day of it; picking your own pumpkin straight from the patch.
But you're doing yourself a disservice by limiting yourself to a short-lived Halloween jack-o'-lantern this fall. Pumpkins and gourds now come in so many colors that you can decorate with them all season long.
There are plenty of other ways to get creative with pumpkins and gourds, too. Try painting a big pumpkin with chalkboard paint and encouraging your kids to go crazy decorating — again and again and again! Or try a combination of stencil painting and carving for a longer-lasting look that can be spooky, beautiful or whimsical.
Fall decorating idea #2: hang a wreath early
Wreaths aren't just for Christmas anymore. These days, there are door adornments for every season and holiday! And with the bounty of the fall harvest, the options for creating a beautiful live wreath are almost endless.
Want to make your own? Start with a simple foam ring from the craft store and decorate it with ribbon, burlap, dried leaves, Indian corn, maybe even a few decorative birds. Check out Pinterest for lots of autumn wreath ideas to spark your imagination.
Create a beautiful display at your home's front entrance by coordinating your fall or Halloween wreath with a showy container of mums, flowering kale and other fall plants that strike your fancy.
Fall decorating idea #3: light up the night
It may be too early to deck the halls with boughs of holly, but twinkling white lights can be used year round to add a little festivity indoors and out. (If you're feeling bold, miniature orange lights are out there, too!)
Whether you string a strand for your Halloween party or leave them up year round and change up the décor around them, simple electric lights are a simple way to punch up your décor, especially if you're using lots of rich, deep colors to decorate for autumn.
Fall decorating idea #4: add some texture
If summer is all about airy cotton, and winter is rich with velvet, then fall is all about textured fabrics like corduroy and burlap. (Yes, burlap!)
I'm not suggesting you start draping everything with swaths of that itchy brown stuff, nor should you cover every open surface with pumpkins and gourds. However, when burlap is used as an accent it adds a rustic feel to a wreath or table runner, wrapped around a banister or tied around an outdoor container.
Fall decorating idea #5: bring nature inside — and vice versa
This is the time of year we love to throw the windows open and let the fresh air in after an air-conditioned summer. So why not mix the indoors and outdoors in other ways, too?
Bring bits of nature from newly fallen acorns as accents to big branches. These can be your centerpieces inside to soften up your interiors.
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Springfield College President's Gala Raises More Than $500,000 for Student Scholarships
An evening of elegance and passion, the Springfield College President's Gala raised more than $500,000 for Springfield College student scholarships.
More than 300 gathered on Saturday, October 26 at the MGM Springfield Aria Ballroom. All proceeds will go toward need and merit-based scholarships.
"The results are nothing short of extraordinary, and because of everyone's support, we have made it possible for students to continue to choose Springfield College," said Springfield College President Mary-Beth Cooper. "We appreciate every gift from our generous community and corporate supporters, and every member of our Springfield College family, including our alumni, faculty, staff, and students. Our students are truly inspirational people and because of all of the generous donations, these funds will go toward helping the next generation of scholars. These financial contributions help to ensure that we continue to provide top-quality experiences and resources to our students so that each student has the essential tools to be successful."
The Gala also was an opportunity to celebrate the Springfield College Humanics philosophy and reinforce the College's mission of educating students in spirit, mind, and body, for leadership and service to others.
"Educating students in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others is more than the College mission; it is a way of life that makes a positive impact on communities and professions," said Springfield College Vice President for Institutional Advancement Kathleen Martin. "Enhancing access to a Springfield College education through scholarships makes it possible for students to achieve their dream of earning an education in the Humanics tradition."
In addition, the President's Gala celebrated Springfield College's 50-year commitment of having an active member of the current student body serve as a voting member of the Springfield College Board of Trustees, the primary governing body of the College. According to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, only 21 percent of independent institutions have at least one student member on the Board of Trustees.
Serving on the President Gala's planning committee were senior Alexandra Goslin, a Math and Secondary Education major from South Windsor, Conn., who is serving as the elected 49th Student Trustee this academic year and junior Kristian Rhim, a Communications/Sports Journalism major from Philadelphia, Pa., who serves as the student trustee-elect this academic year, and he will continue on as the 50th Student Trustee starting in June of 2020.
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Here's a regularly updated list of books that I've read that are broadly on the Social in silico theme. Where there are blog posts here that refer to the books, I've linked to them.
You might also want to check out:
- My post reviewing some of the books I read in 2014 (when I was "on sabbatical")
- A post reflecting on my 2017 reading experiment
- My recommendations of 5 books each on the topics of community management, leadership and team culture and online interactions
- Posts about individual books.
Community Management
- The Art of Community – Jono Bacon.
- Recommended for anyone wanting to learn more about community management.
- Dealing with Disrespect – Jono Bacon
- Suggestions about how to deal with criticism online
- Building Successful Online Communities – Kraut and Resnik
- Emergent Strategy – Adrienne Maree Brown
- Buzzing Communities – Rich Millington
- Blog post discussing the 4 stage community lifecycle model
- The indispensable community – Rich Millington
- The Art of Gathering – Priya Parker
- Connecting to Change the World – Peter Plastrik, Madeline Taylor, John Cleveland
- Blog posts discussing social-impact networks and the Connect-Align-Produce model
- Cultivating Communities of Practice – Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder
- Blog posts discussing CoPs for knowledge management and double-knit knowledge organisations
- Digital Habitats – Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. Smith
- Blog post discussing technical stewardship
- Blog post discussing community orientations
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs
- It's about urban planning…but also a fascinating read on how communities work (blog post).
Online behaviour
- Alone Together – Sherry Turkle
- Reclaiming Conversation – Sherry Turkle
- It's complicated – the social lives of networked teens – Danah Boyd.
- Much recommended discussion of how teenagers use the internet including topics such as identity, privacy and literacy (blog post).
- Society and the Internet – edited by Mark Graham and William H Dutton
- Collection of essays on the cultural, political and economic effects of the internet. Highlights include the need for forums for online deliberation in digital democracy and studies of how online petitions flourish or fail.
- Twitter and tear gas – the power and fragility of networked protest – Zeynep Tufekci
- Wikinomics – how mass collaboration changes everything – Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Culture change / leadership
- The Fifth Discipline – Peter Senge
- Key text introducing systems thinking and the 4 other characteristics of "learning organizations"
- Humanize – Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter
- The First 90 days – Michael Watkins
- A practical guide to change management
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership – Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Warner Klemp
- Practical guide to taking responsibility in the workplace and building relationships founded on integrity
- Systems Thinking for Social Change – Peter Stroh
- Whiplash – Joi Ito and Jeff Howe
- 9 suggestions for a culture of innovation
- Awake at Work, Fearless at Work, and The Mindful Leader – Michael Carroll
- Short reflections on intentional, compassionate leadership
- Finding the Space to Lead – Janice Marturano
- Practical suggestions for reclaiming your schedule and engaging more meaningfully with your work
- The Leadership Challenge – James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Mentoring, Facilitation and Learning Together
- Every Other Thursday – Stories and strategies from successful women scientists – Ellen Daniell
- Culturally responsive teaching and the brain – Zaretta Hammond
- The surprising power of liberating structures – Henri Lipmaniwocz and Keith McCandless
- The five dysfunctions of a team – Patrick Lencioni
Team Science
- Enhancing the effectiveness of team science – 2015 report by the National Academies of Science
- Collaboration and Team Science – a field guide
- The strength in numbers – the new science of team science – Barry Bozeman and Jan Youtie
Behaviour and Communication
- Do they think you're stupid? – Julian Baggini
- A fascinating and funny discussion of the many logical fallacies presented in arguments. Useful for online discussions!
- Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Compelling read on the many ways our decision making is influenced. Implications for discussions, marketing, how data is presented and more.
- If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? – Alan Alda
- Blog post about listening and how two-way communication results in change
- Quiet – the power of introverts – Susan Cain
- Daring Greatly, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead – Brené Brown
- Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
Network effects
- Critical mass – how one thing leads to another – Philip Ball
- Network Science – a collaborative, free to download ebook project from the Barabasi lab
- Six degrees of Separation – Duncan J.Watts
- Everything is Obvious – Once you know the answer – Duncan J. Watts (blog posts)


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Odisha CM Urges Union Law Minister Again To Decide On HC Benches In Western & Southern Odisha
**Bhubaneswar:** Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today dashed a fourth letter to Union Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad requesting him to take early decision on establishment of permanent Benches of High Court in Western and Southern Odisha regions, in view of the brewing resentment and mounting demands.
In the letter, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik states, "Kindly refer to my letters of 28th September, 2013, 13th February, 2014 and 5th September, 2018, on the vital issue of establishment of permanent High Court Benches in Western and Southern Odisha. There is more than adequate justification for establishment of permanent High Court Benches in these regions as highlighted in the above mentioned letters."
The letter further continues, "There is overwhelming public demand for establishment of permanent High Court Benches in both Western and Southern Odisha and the people of these areas are persistently agitating for the same. The agitations have often affected the functioning of Courts and other Government offices in these regions. While the State Government is aware of various decisions of the Honble Supreme Court as well as the recommendation of the Shri Justice Jaswant Singh Commission for establishment of the Bench of a High Court away from its principal seat, it is also a fact that Government of India has the authority to decide about creation of separate bench(es)of the High Court other than the principal seat."
"In order to facilitate the Government of India to take early decision on this pressing issue, I would like to reaffirm the commitment of the State Government that we will provide all requisite resources for establishment of High Court Benches in these areas," the letter explains.
"In view of the unrelenting agitation by the people of these regions and also considering the imperativeness of the matter, I would request that an early decision regarding establishment of permanent Benches of High Court in Western and Southern Odisha be taken by the Government of India to fulfil the aspirations of the people of these regions," the CM concludes.
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The contract includes design and construction of rf cavities with tunable frequencies from 1.1 MHz to 1.5 MHz. These cavities will be delivered over a four-year period and be operated in the collector ring, one of several FAIR synchrotron and storage rings.
FAIR will be built at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, and represents one of the largest research projects worldwide. FAIR is designed to provide antiproton and ion beams with unprecedented intensity and quality. In its final expected form, FAIR will consist of eight ring colliders of up to 1,100 meters in circumference each, two linear accelerators, and about 3.5 kilometers of beam-control tubes. The existing GSI accelerators will then serve as pre-accelerators.
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LAST of the Summer Wine fans hope work on a statue commemorating actor Bill Owen could start as early as the beginning of next year.
The plan will see a bronze sculpture of his loveable character, Compo, erected in the heart of Holmfirth, where the gentle comedy is set.
The series - now into its 32nd year of filming - is the world's longest-running TV comedy show.
Bill died in 1999 at the age of 85, having played the roguish Compo for 26 years.
Sculptor John Alder, from Somerset, who knew Bill, has been commissioned to create the £34,000 bronze tribute. It will stand in King's Head Gardens, Huddersfield Road.
A sketch created by the artist shows the statue leaning up against a dry stone wall in a scene reminiscent of the show which is broadcast around the world.
Bill's son, Tom, who joined the series as Compo's long-lost son in 1999, officially launched the memorial fund.
So far, £5,000 has been raised. It is hoped the rest of the cash can be collected by the end of the year.
Brian Kushner, an American fan of the comedy, has given £1,500.
Tom commented: "Dad would be absolutely over the moon to know this was happening."
He said of his father's continuing impact on the show: "It is really quite extraordinary. He is buried just up the road and you really do feel he's sitting on your shoulder. Although he's gone, he will always remain a huge part of Last of the Summer Wine."
John Alder said the sculpture would take about six months to make.
"This is a special commission and I'm absolutely sure I can do it justice.
"I knew Bill. I met him several times and he was a really interesting character. I really loved talking to him. He was so important in his own right, not just as Compo.
"It's a tribute to Bill Owen, not to Compo."
The quiet King's Head Garden could also be reflagged with Yorkshire stone.
Names of other Last of the Summer Wine characters would be carved into the flags as a lasting memorial to the series.
Andrew Bray, a trustee of the Bill Owen Memorial Trust, said: "The statue of Compo will be a fitting tribute to Bill."
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