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|The city of Kathmandu is in a valley at 1300m.
|Metal shops in the old city.
|Hindu woman.
|A typical Kathmandu shrine.
|Shop selling lampshades and Tibetan carpets.
|The Sweta Machhendranath Temple is holy to Buddhists and Hindus.
|The temple dates from the 17th century and is one of the most important in the city.
|Detail of the temple interior.
|Scarves for sale.
|Drying food in a courtyard.
|Two Newari girls. The Newaris are the main inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley.
|Kathmandu has many wooden balconies.
|Carved wooden temple doorway.
|Carved window of a family house.
|Newari man.
|Carved wooden window.
|Stone carvings around an ornate wooden door.
|Three children.
|The Kumari Mahal was built by a king to house a young girl who is worshipped as a living goddess.
|Wooden balcony in the palace, which dates from 1757.
|Carved column.
|Ornately carved window in the palace.
|Detail of a religious wood carving.
|Postcard sellers.
|A carved screen window.
|Children on a balcony.
|Young girl at a shrine.
|Buying chickens in the market.
|Two fruit sellers n the market.
|Girl on a statue.
|Women buying and selling flowers.
|Durbar Square is the temple studdied historical centre of old Kathmandu.
|Maju Deval dates from 1690 and is a typical Kathmandu pagoda style temple.
|The 18th century Shiva-Parvati Temple.
|Guardians at the Shiva-Parvati Temple.
|The Taleju Temple is 35m high and dates from 1564.
|Matalwork on the Taleju Temple.
|The pagoda-like tower of Taleju Temple.
|Small shrine near the Taleju Temple.
|The pagoda style originated in Kathmandu and later spread to East Asia.
|The Krishna Temple is octagonal and dates from 1648.
|Kotilingeshwar Mahadev Temple, built in 1500.
|Rickshaws in the square.
|One of the many carved wooden doorways.
|A statue of Garuda.
|Kala Bhairab is the fearsome aspect of Shiva, carved from a single piece of stone.
|Vegetable sellers.
|Narsingha is Vishnu in his incarnation as a man lion killing a demon. It was carved in 1673.
|View of the square.
|The Jaganath Mandir is one of the oldest in the square dating from 1563.
|Detail of a wooden carving on the Jaganath Mandir.
|Basantapur Tower dominates the Royal Palace.
|The entrance to the palace is guarded by Hanuman, the monkey god.
|The palace was built in 1672.
|The palace consists of many buildings set around several courtyards.
|Carved window.
|The Panch Mukhi is a Hanuman temple in the Royal Palace.
|Intricate wooden balconies and windows.
|Carved wooden door jamb.
|View from the Basantapur Tower over the Royal Palace.
|View of Kathmandu and its surrounding hills reaching 2800m.
|View of the end of the city and the nearby countryside.
|Woman on her roof.
|Tibetan women.
|Child with makeup.
|Rani Pokhari is a lake constructed in 1667 with a Shiva temple.
|The entance to the new palace.
|View of the city before a thunder storm.
|Bridge over the Bagmati River.
|Crossing the river on a typical Nepalese wood and rope bridge.
|Settlement on the Bagmati River.
|Kirtipur was once a capital of a kingdom but is now a Newari town.
|Group of Newaris in Kirtipur near Kathmandu.
|The beautiful Kathmandu Valley at Kirtipur.
|An abandoned Buddhist temple.
|The Bagh Bairab Temple is sacred to both Buddhists and Hindus.
|Woman with her grand child.
|House painter.
|Daxinkali is a temple dedicated to the goddess, Kali.
|Pilgrims queuing to make a sacrifice to Kali.
|The blood of the sacrificed animal (always an uncastrated male) is allowed to flow over the images of Kali.
|Terraces in the Kathmandu Valley near Daxinkali.
|Farm land and a hay stack.
|Views from Daxinkali.
|A typical Newari village.
|Views from the edge of the Kathmandu Valley.
|Houses and trees among the terraced farmland.
|Settlement on the edge of Chobar Gorge.
|Chobar Gorge is 14km long.
|Patan is the second largest town in the valley with a Buddhist history going back to 250 BC.
|The round Krishna Temple built in 1723 in Durbar Square, the centre of Patan.
|The Hari Shankar Temple dates from 1705.
|Jagannarayan Temple is the oldest temple in Durbar Square dating from 1565.
|Krishna Mandir dates from 1637 and has strong Indian influence.
|Guardians of the Krishna Mandir.
|View of the square.
|The Bhimsen Temple dates from the 15th century and is dedicated to the god of trade and business.
|Detail of a carving on the Bhimsen Temple.
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Sleeping Beauty Awakes
Collaboratively revisited, recycled and rejuvenated in contemporary musical and narrative terms by Rachel Sheinkin (book), Brendan Milburn (music), Valerie Vigoda (lyrics) and Rebecca Taichman (direction), the fairy tale resurfaces with naturalistic whimsy in a present day sleep disorder clinic. Under an aura of psychoneurotic disenchantment, Sleeping Beauty Awakes, but without enough get-up-and-go. Those who have seen and can recall the beguiling 2006 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, as co-produced by the McCarter Theater and Paper Mill Playhouse, may recognize the fancifully articulated style of rock that defines the music of Milburn and Vigoda, members of the band Groovelily, the ensemble that was delightfully integrated into Midsummer (as directed by Tina Landau.)
Taichman has not yet gotten to the place in Sleeping Beauty Awakes where this musical's flights of fantasy are either gainfully or excitingly entwined with the show's contrasting digressions into reality. The sense of the unexpected is missing in the staging as is an element of surprise in Sheinkin's book. I kept wishing that Taichman could take every aspect and element of the production just one step farther into the surreal. There seems to be a directorial initiative to keep the performances low-key to the extreme, a decision that keeps the essentially one-dimensional characters rooted in abstraction.
Decidedly an allegory, the story is simple and clever enough. King (Bob Stillman), although distraught and weary, has not given up hope that his daughter Rose, also called Beauty (Aspen Vincent), may some day awaken. King admits to the dismayingly disinterested Doctor in charge of the clinic (Kecia Lewis-Evans) that Rose has been asleep for nine hundred years. The Doctor is skeptical:" I analyze sleep disorders." When King insists that she has one, the Doctor, who is inclined to have them thrown out insists " Not if you can't wake her."
When the Doctor is persuaded by King ("I pay cash") to monitor Rose's dreams, Rose is placed in a ward with four patients: Murray (Steve Judkins) who snores, Hadara (Adinah Alexander) who has twitching leg syndrome, Leon (Jimmy Ray Bennett) who can't fall sleep except at work; and Cheryl (Donna Vivino) who fears not being able to wake up. Their problems are amusingly revealed in a pithy little ditty "Can You Cure Me." They are deployed throughout the action as participants in Rose's dreams, harmonizing in a refreshing tune, "Still Small Hour," sung in the nostalgic style of the Mills Brothers.
Rose is undoubtedly a beauty, as she reclines comatose in a lovely party dress of rose petals (as prettily fabricated by costume designer Miranda Hoffman). Rose's dreams take her back to her search for the spindle on which, true to the story, she pricked her finger.
More importantly, the clinic's apparently only Orderly (a wonderfully eccentric and disarming performance by Bryce Ryness) is seriously narcoleptic among his other neurological challenges. Of course, he is smitten by the lovely but unresponsive Rose with whom he nevertheless can cavort in dream-time. Is he destined to become her prince in reality? Are we surprised that Rose's over-protective dad King is at the root of her problems and appears to be the cause of Rose's rebelliousness, unhappiness and her subconscious decision to escape in sleep?
It's fortunate that a character-defining song such as "Good for Me," in which Rose unleashes her rage at her father, comes along to shake up a mild building up of insouciance. In another instance, Kecia Lewis-Evans, who throws away almost all her spoken lines, miraculously reinvests herself in the show when she sings. She is also spectacularly re-invented as the Bad Fairy in a disturbing dream with Rose.
Sheinkin, lauded for her book for the Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, has been an essential collaborator on Sleeping Beauty Awakes since it was originally awakened in a much different form for the Deaf West/Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles in 2007 (Curtainup's review). Allowing for the presumably many changes that this musical has gone through already over the past four years, I suspect that some more might be in order to achieve a more engaging and more empowering contrast between what the characters dream and what they experience as reality.
Doug Verone's fluid choreography, in particular a dream sequence in which a hospital bed becomes a spinning soloist and centerpiece in an ensemble number, is a highlight and underlines the need for more surprises. It's hard to understand why the options for more fantastical dreaming have not been explored or why the ones we do see are either muted or mundane.
This is a musical of many small delights, including some pithy declarations ("I don't know how I'll fall asleep without my phone. Usually I surf online for hours before I can let go of the day") and just as many missed opportunities. The ultra cool and clinical mostly white setting, as cleanly evoked by set designer Riccardo Hernandez, allows opportunities for the abstracted projections designed by Peter Nigrini. One almost longs to see the unseen band, perhaps becoming an integral part of the dream sequences. Taichman, who dazzled us with her rose-bedecked staging of Twelfth Night at McCarter in 2009, and for her direction of Orlando and The Scene Off Broadway will undoubtedly have time to dream some more with the company as it continues to its next stop at the La Jolla Playhouse.
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Hicksville GOP club raises $778G since leader became Mangano aide
The Hicksville Republican Committee has grown rapidly from a small political club averaging $30,000 a year in contributions to a powerful organization that has raised nearly $800,000 since its leader became Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's top aide.
A Newsday analysis of state campaign finance records shows that the local committee, headed by Chief Deputy County Executive Rob Walker, received $778,795 in donations from mid-2010 through 2013, after raising only $152,149 in the previous five years.
Almost two-thirds of the 48 companies or their principals that have given the Hicksville club at least $3,000 since mid-2010 have done business with the county in that period, state and county records show.
Walker's club has now received more money since mid-2010 than any of the 68 other hamlet, village and city GOP organizations in Nassau. Those clubs' average annual take was $28,000, while the Hicksville club raised $39,000 in just three weeks after Mangano's November re-election.
Walker, 39, is a former state assemblyman from Hicksville whose mother, Rose, is a Nassau County legislator and whose late father, John, led the Hicksville West Republican club. In 2009, Walker ran Mangano's underdog county executive bid, and became his chief deputy in 2010.
Despite his position with the county, Walker said he's never asked for donations to Hicksville's committee and doesn't keep track of the donors with Nassau contracts.
"I'd be lying if I said that some of these people didn't have business with the county," Walker said of Hicksville contributors. "But at the end of the day, people do or don't donate, and one thing doesn't have to do with the other."
The rapid rise of Hicksville's club has sparked talk in party circles that Walker is trying to build his own network of influence apart from that of longtime Nassau Republican chairman Joseph Mondello.
One party source said Nassau GOP leaders have "taken notice" of Walker's activity; another said it seemed "obvious" Walker is making a statement about his fundraising ability.
But Walker said he and Mangano get along well with Mondello and other GOP leaders. He said his club's receipts only spiked because he began to focus fundraising efforts there rather than his Assembly committee after leaving the office.
That Assembly committee raised about $383,000 between mid-2005 and mid-2009, state elections records show.
"People like to create the internal problems -- they want to create the myth Ed Mangano is against Joe Mondello," Walker said. "That couldn't be further from the truth."
Mondello and Mangano declined to comment.
Changes in fundraising
Michael Dawidziak, a Bohemia political consultant who works primarily with Republicans, said Hicksville's rise highlights a shift in fundraising trends over the last 20 years. While party organizations once controlled patronage and contracts, elected heads of county and local governments now have more power.
"The party in power will still raise money, but the executives really have become the superstars," Dawidziak said. "And a local club with no ties to these executives probably no longer raises as much money."
Although the Nassau County Republican Committee still takes in far more than Walker's -- about $3 million a year -- the Hicksville committee has eclipsed the large town GOP organizations in fundraising. Hempstead Republicans have raised about $648,000 since mid-2010, the Oyster Bay GOP, $577,000, and North Hempstead Republicans, about $205,000, records show.
Other smaller clubs run by Mondello's top party aides and closest allies -- for years the county's leading local-level party fundraisers -- also have trailed Hicksville recently.
The North Valley Stream committee run by Nassau OTB President Joseph Cairo has collected $595,660 since mid-2010. The East Rockaway committee run by Mondello spokesman and Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony Santino took in $425,814.
"I don't see anyone else's fundraising as any kind of statement," Cairo said. "The difference now is the position he [Walker] is in. I don't have deaf ears, but I really don't concern myself with other areas."
Santino said: "We work hard in East Rockaway and we're proud of our success."
Hicksville's top individual donor since mid-2010 is Keith Lizza, an executive with his family's Carlo Lizza & Sons Paving. He contributed a total of $53,500 in 2012 and 2013. Aly Lizza, another company executive, gave $45,000 in 2012, the same day Keith gave $45,000.
Carlo Lizza & Sons, which is based in Hicksville, had a $4.9 million road resurfacing contract with Nassau last year, and roadwork contracts of $8 million in 2012 and $11 million in 2011, county records show.
The company didn't respond to requests for comment, and neither Aly Lizza, of Oyster Bay, nor Keith Lizza, of Jericho, returned messages.
James Hagedorn, chief executive of Scott's Miracle-Gro, is the next-highest individual donor, giving $50,000 to the Hicksville club in April 2012.
Hagedorn, of Port Washington, is secretary of Friends of Sands Point Preserve, a nonprofit that operates the county park. He didn't respond to a call Friday. But he told Newsday in 2012 his donation had nothing to do with ensuring Friends' county agreement to run the preserve -- which began in 2003 -- continued.
"I like Walker. I like working with him," Hagedorn said in explaining his donation.
In just the three weeks after Mangano's re-election last fall, when Hicksville raised $39,000, it collected $4,500 each from Brooks Wallace, whose Mississippi cleanup firm, Debristech, had a $1 million contract with Nassau for superstorm Sandy cleanup work, and Kirk Lombardi, whose Hauppauge trucking company did $90,000 in Sandy work for the county. The law firm Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West, headquartered in Providence, R.I., gave $3,000 to the Hicksville GOP and has received $900,000 in work from Nassau since 2012, primarily for representation during the bidding for the Nassau Coliseum redevelopment.
Wallace, Lombardi and partners from the Pannone firm -- all of whom have also donated to Mangano's county executive re-election campaign -- did not return several requests for comment in recent weeks.
Several political experts said donors to the Hicksville GOP likely make a connection between the club and the Mangano administration -- even if Walker doesn't promote it.
"There doesn't have to be a quid pro quo," said Blair Horner, legislative director of the nonpartisan New York Public Interest Research Group. "But clearly, given the way American democracy works, people wouldn't be forking over money if they didn't think they got something in return."
Stanley Klein, an LIU Post political science professor and a Suffolk GOP committeeman, said "most people who give sizable amounts of money expect something in return. It's just like a parent and child. If papa gives you money, he expects you to follow suggestions."
Dems allege Mangano ties
In three complaints filed between 2012 and this year with the state Board of Elections, Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs called the Hicksville committee a channel for donations to Mangano's campaign. He calls the club a source of frequent unreported contributions to Mangano, and said county contractors donate to Hicksville only to curry favor with Walker and Mangano.
As an indication of the relationship between Walker and Mangano, Jacobs cited the Hicksville committee's expenditures dated March 7 and 13, 2012, and labeled for a golf fundraiser in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Mangano's campaign also listed expenditures to vendors based in Myrtle Beach on March 1 and 3, 2012 for a golf fundraiser it held there.
"They take companies and individuals who benefit . . . financially from county government, and get them to contribute to an entity that won't be obvious in its connection to the county executive," Jacobs said of the Hicksville club.
Walker denies the allegation. Records show that the club's campaign finance filings have never listed direct payments to the Friends of Ed Mangano re-election campaign.
Walker said the bulk of the club's donations go to pay for an annual golf event at Bethpage State Park. Records show the club has spent $692,787 since mid-2010, and that the largest payments were labeled fundraiser expenses, many at Bethpage, and as consultant fees, the bulk of which went to KKL Associates, of Westbury.
Jacobs' complaints allege that the KKL payments, totaling more than $140,000 since 2012, were to benefit a former county employee with ties to Walker, and that the payments sometimes used a residential address in Hicksville instead of the one in Westbury.
Walker says that KKL did "legitimate" event planning work for fundraisers, and that the former employee did not improperly receive any funds.
"People can say what they want, but we're doing the same thing we always have," Walker said, noting that Hicksville's Bethpage golf fundraiser previously had been held to benefit his state Assembly campaign. "It's the same event. We just moved it over."
Jacobs' state complaints also cite a luxury skybox at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey that the Hicksville committee purchased for $204,000 in 2012, shortly after Hagedorn and the Lizzas gave in large amounts.
Jacobs said the box was meant to directly support Mangano's 2013 re-election campaign, but Walker responded that the box was used only for fundraising activities at New York Giants games and other events that directly benefited his club, not Mangano.
But Walker said he didn't renew the skybox in 2013 because of the attention it drew.
"It wasn't worth the headache," he said.
The state Board of Elections has not yet acted on any of Jacobs' Hicksville complaints.


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"Fastest settlement ever." That's what people all over social media are saying about the confidential settlement announced by the lawyers of David Dao, the doctor who was dragged from a Louisville-bound United flight after refusing to give up his seat for flight crew. The settlement was reached less than three weeks after Dao's violent ejection…
Why pay United checked baggage fees when young passengers get it for free?
Roslyn Lang pays $25 to check her small suitcase each time she travels on United Airlines. Although her bag could fit in the overhead compartment, she is 73 years old and can't lift the suitcase, so she always checks her bag.
United Airlines' new passenger-punishing class of service aims to prove less is less
Just when commercial air travel couldn't get any worse, United seems to have gone and done it. On Tuesday, the airline announced the details of its new class of service called Basic Economy, slated to begin in second quarter 2017.
United had two million reasons to fix this wheelchair problem. They didn't.
Bonnie Way and her elderly mother, Anne, recently flew from San Francisco to Edmonton, Canada on United. Unfortunately, they're not in any big hurry to repeat the experience.


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The Android Wear API brings the Android platform to the newest generation of wearable devices and smartwatches. With Android Wear, you can create a user experience designed specifically for wearables.
But how do you debug your applications? While it is possible to debug most Wear features using the Android emulators, sometimes it is helpful to see the application on a real device.
In this short video tutorial from my recent Android Wear course, I'll show you how to debug your applications on a physical Wear device.
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In the full course, Develop Apps for Android Wear, I'll teach you about the various UI components specifically designed for Android Wear. You will also learn how to extend your application to use the new Wear notification types.
I'll use practical examples to demonstrate how each of these new components can improve your wearable device applications, and I'll also show you how to create a basic digital watch face to help customize your users' experiences.
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In a previous article in RealKM Magazine I discussed knowledge management considerations associated with climate change, a significant global issue. As put forward in the comments on that article, initiatives to address these knowledge management issues include The Climate Web.
Another initiative from Griffith University and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has produced a set of guidelines to assist government departments and other agencies and organisations that deal with issues related to climate change to implement good practices for managing information. The guidelines have been produced for the Pacific region, but the principles and practices in the guidelines would applicable beyond this area.
There are five guidelines and a strategic framework document:
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All Virginia civil judgment orders must comply with §8.01-446 of the Code of Virginia. The "ordered" clause of the judgment order must state that it is a judgment for money, the amount of the judgment, and the full names of all parties the judgment was granted for and against (et al. is not acceptable). It should also state the amount of interest and date from which interest begins. The order also should contain the defendant's address, if known. Payment of $10.00 in cash, check, or money order may be made payable to the Clerk of the Court.
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Argentinians see WC football qualification as an obligation rather than an aspiration, but that did not stop the country's sports scribes from waxing lyrical.
Argentinians see World Cup football qualification as an obligation rather than an aspiration, but that did not stop the country's sports scribes from waxing lyrical after the national team, commonly known as the Albiceleste, secured their ticket to 2014 Brazil. Alejandro Sabella's side will play in their 11th successive World Cup finals next June and July after a 5-2 rout of Paraguay in Asuncion, Tuesday night, reports Xinhua.
"Argentina has its spot in the World Cup and Sabella's team has every right to be delighted," Buenos Aires-based sports daily Ole gloated. Four-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi netted twice from the penalty spot while Sergio Aguero, Angel Di Maria and Maxi Rodriguez also struck for the visitors.
Clarin said the team had delivered a "fiesta of goals" at the Defensores del Chaco stadium. "Joy is not only something associated with Brazilian football," the newspaper said. "Argentina's players are immersed in this feeling as they make their way back to their respective clubs."
La Nacion singled out coach Sabella for praise due to his ability to "expertly bring together a team of stars". "They were led by Lionel Messi but they also relied on a football maturity that has been forged by the winning mentality of Sabella," the paper said. "The maturity of the squad is reflected in Messi who has produced the numbers he usually provides for Barcelona."
The newspaper added that Argentina had learnt from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, when former coach Diego Maradona was criticised for denying Messi the freedom to play his normal game. "Alejandro has focused on building the team around Messi and he has shined, with the sort of form he shows at club level," the newspaper said. "Alongside Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain, it's a trio that is able to deal the knockout blow for the team."
Messi and Uruguay's Luis Suarez lead the scoring chart for the South American zone qualifiers with 10 goals each followed by Gonzalo Higuain with nine. Aguero is seventh on the list with five. Uruguay are now fifth on the table, equal on points with fourth-placed Ecuador. The top four teams automatically qualify for the World Cup while fifth will play off against the fifth best team from Asia.
In other matches, Peru saw their qualification hopes dashed with a 3-2 loss to Venezuela while Bolivia, already out of contention, drew 1-1 at home to Ecuador. The final two rounds of South American zone qualifying will take place Oct 11 and Oct 15.
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We went to a nice zoo, called Zoorasia in Yokohama. Surrounded by sprawling park grounds, a family with young ones can easily spend an pleasant day there. There are a few main attractions such as the elephants, the tigers and the unusual okapi. The end of the trail leads into a fun playground, too!
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Conversations with my 4-year old
While she was coloring her Hello Kitty coloring book and I folding laundry…. A: Mommy, why doesn't Kitty-chan have any lips? Me: Well, sometimes we can't see cants lips because their faces are furry. A: Ohhhh, Kitty-chan is a cat?? Me: Yes she is. A: I thought she was a doggy.
Cherry Blossoms in Twilight
The cherry blossoms add a happy hue to the concrete grey backdrop of Tokyo's buildings. I miss seeing the rust colored brick walls found on most New York buildings, even when they are crumbling or splattered with graffiti. The short time cherry blossoms are in bloom make it all the more special. This year the weather […]
Girl's Day
We weren't in Tokyo during the past two Girl's Days , so we missed the chance to display Arisa's hinaningyo dolls. When she first got them, she was just a few months old, so this is actually the first time she could appreciate them. We put them up rather late and I almost wasn't going to […]


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Facebook! With users easily surpassing 1,000,000,000, Facebook is arguably the most common social media platform. However, what happens to your Facebook page when you pass away? Who has access to your profile upon your death? Can you have your account deleted upon your passing?
Each person has their own Facebook page, right? The whole point of Facebook is you can make that page your own and post, share, like, whatever you want. However, when "you" are no longer available to take care of your page, what happens to it? Surprising to many, access to one's Facebook profile can become highly restricted after a person passes away, even if that person is a mother trying to access her deceased daughter's account. http://thehill.com/policy/technology/335759-german-court-rejects-mothers-request-to-access-deceased-daughters-facebook
As the desire for greater access to decedents' accounts grow, Facebook has come up with several different options for accessing a decedent's page.
One of the most common means is the legacy contact. Each person can designate one of their Facebook "friends" to serve as their "legacy contact" after they pass away. This individual has the authority to write posts on their wall, post articles (e.g. an obituary), and even shut down their Facebook page. This process can work great if you have a desire to notify distant relatives/friends of your passing when most of your communication is through social media. As social media becomes the norm for notification about such events, the legacy contact option is becoming more and more popular. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/12/facebook-policy-change-allows-one-final-post-after-death/23184757/
Another option is to have Facebook simply delete your profile upon your passing. This option is great for the individual who simply wishes their online persona to die with them. No exposure of past messages or lingering digital presence. Instead, your Facebook profile is simply deleted after Facebook is notified of your passing.
A final option utilized by some, but certainly not condoned by Facebook, involves sharing your username and password with a trusted person and informing them to login as you after your passing and shut down your profile. While this may be the simplest option, sharing username and passwords is a risky proposition, indeed!
While Facebook is just one electronic provider, there is no denying that online accounts are becoming more pervasive. And while Facebook is just one example, with online banking, automatic billing, etc. all becoming much more commonplace, knowing how your online accounts will be addressed are a top priority to ensure an easy and smooth process for the loved ones you leave behind!
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Players ready to be one of the first to KILL EVERY THING are encouraged to sign up for a chance to be selected for the Zombies Monsters Robots closed beta at www.playzmr.com. In addition, those who sign up will also be entered for a chance to win a First Blood Pack, offering an exclusive set of in-game founder's items.
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The experience of recovery has been a profound and life altering one. I am so grateful for the many people who have contributed to my own recovery and welcome the chance to continue to participate in the growing community of people who read A Year of Days.
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In The Supreme Court
In the Matter of Abbeville County Magistrate Clinton J. Hall, II, Respondent.
Opinion No. 25741
Submitted October 7, 2003 - Filed October 27, 2003
Henry B. Richardson, Jr., and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Robert E. Bogan, both of Columbia, for Office of Disciplinary Counsel.
Clinton J. Hall, II, of Calhoun Falls, Pro Se.
PER CURIAM: In this judicial disciplinary matter, respondent and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel have entered into an Agreement for Discipline by Consent pursuant to Rule 21, RJDE, Rule 502, SCACR. In the agreement, respondent admits misconduct and consents to the issuance of an admonition or a public reprimand or the imposition of a definite suspension for a period to be determined by this Court. We accept the agreement and impose a one year suspension. The facts as set forth in the agreement are as follows.
Respondent was ticketed for failing to use turn signals during lane changes in violation of S.C. Code Ann. § 56-5-2150. At the trial on the charges, respondent made untruthful statements regarding statements made to him by the arresting officer. Respondent attempted to exclude audio and video recordings of the traffic stop that showed the officer did not make the statements attributed to him by respondent. Finally, respondent was held in contempt for his gestures and behavior during the prosecution's closing argument after being admonished earlier for making signs of agreement or disagreement with questions asked or statements made during the proceeding.
Respondent admits that he has violated the following provisions of the Code of Judicial Conduct, Rule 501, SCACR: Canon 1 (a judge shall uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary) and Canon 2(A)(a judge shall respect and comply with the law and shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary). Respondent also admits that these allegations constitute grounds for discipline pursuant to Rules 7(a)(1) and (7), RJDE, Rule 502, SCACR.
We find respondent's misconduct warrants a suspension from judicial duties. We therefore accept the Agreement for Discipline by Consent and impose a one year suspension.
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This Hodaka Super Rat is one of the many dirt-oriented trailies Hodaka created in the 60s and 70s, making these bikes incredibly popular in the US.
The Hodaka Super Rat featured a 100cc engine – better suited for kids who weren't big enough for the 250cc and larger bikes of the world. The signature red frame and chrome gas tank (both of which have been restored on this bike) helped distinguish the Hodaka's from the competition.
This specific example has been completely restored, and it looks to be in beautiful shape. The tank is dent and rust free and has been freshly re-chromed. It's also had plenty of performance restoration and upgrades, including a high-compression Webco head, high performance expansion chamber, and Circle F silencer.
Find it here on eBay in Dripping Springs, Texas with the reserve not yet met at $2,225.


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Woodsman: Woodsman
There's something uniform and satisfying about the sound of Woodsman, a controlled yet vital exploration of space and texture.
WoodsmanUS Release: 2014-02-04
Label: Fire Talk
UK Release: 2014-02-04
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Woodsman's new self-titled record veers wildly away from the glitchier expansions of its predecessor, Rare Forms. That album fell somewhere between off-kilter freak-folk and primal space-rock. The shift away from that is highlighted by the fact that this album, unlike the last one, has virtually no vocals. Instead, we get hard-charging psychedelic rock landscapes. They romp and shuffle on the sturdy ever-shifting rhythm section here, which can go from the rise-and-fall tempo of "In the End, Remember When?" to the more sinister expanse of "Loose Leaf" to the propulsive energy of "All Tangled Up" and make the disparate tempos sync up somehow.
There's something uniform and satisfying about the sound of Woodsman, a controlled yet vital exploration of space and echo. The guitar and keyboard work here wanders and ripples over the bass and drums, though despite some solid work on "All Tangled Up" and working up some lacerating power on "Healthy Life", the textures and atmospheres feel almost too similar across tracks. The rhythm section here keep things interesting and moving forward, and Woodsman does indeed feel like the band finding their own identity, even if they may be identifying themselves a bit narrowly at times.


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The Flo Golden South Classic has always been one of the most forward-looking track and field meets in the country. With four full decades in the books, that tradition continues yet again in 2018.
In 1977, the first edition of the meet was also the first postseason high school meet to invite girls to compete. Its closest comparison is the Golden West in Sacramento, which first invited girls in 1988, and the first Olympic women's marathon was held in 1980.
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From its very beginnings, the meet has always been serious about being ahead of the curve.
That tradition will continue on May 19 as Flo Golden South heads to First Academy. The 47th edition will be as innovative as the first, with thrilling matchups, live music, food trucks and more.
How did we get to this point?
In the late 1970s, the Central Florida YMCA, Orlando Sentinel, and Burger King built the meet from scratch, with the Y carrying most of the load. The meet quickly became a beacon for the most talented athletes in the southeast. Future football legend Herschel Walker (and future 55m world record holder) competed in the 100 at Golden South. Before graduating high school in 1980, he was among many future collegiate record holders and NFL players who sprinted at Golden South in the meet's first decade, including Michael Timpson and Eric Metcalf. Thirty-one years later, Timpson--who went on to play football for Penn State and in the NFL and break the NCAA record in the indoor 300--still has the meet record in the boys long jump at twenty-five feet, ten inches.
But when the Orlando Magic came to town in 1989, the sports landscape in central Florida began to change. The basketball team was the city's first--and to date, still only--professional sports team in one of the four major American men's pro leagues. Long-time Golden South meet director Ken Brauman explained that the Magic's arrival forever changed the texture of sports in central Florida. Brauman says that over the course the 1990s, "financial support for amateur sports was drying up" in the region as sports became more commoditized and professionalized. Eventually, in 1992, sponsorship dollars wavered and the event's future was in jeopardy.
Enter former University of Florida long jumper and Bert W. Martin Foundation Vice President Andy Warden. As a 1992 Orlando Sentinel article puts it, Warden saw a story in the newspaper about the potential cancellation of Golden South, called then-meet director Jerry Haralson and asked him what it would take to preserve the event. Warden presented the opportunity to the family Foundation at a meeting that same week. The Foundation agreed the event was worthy and agreed to donate the necessary funding to sustain the event, at which point the event was named the Bert M. Warden's Golden South Classic - honoring the life of Bert Warden, a Foundation family member and elite sprinter from California.
From there, the meet took off, athletically and philanthropically. As the Bert Martin Foundation became involved with the meet, it named Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children as the event's charitable beneficiary. Over the years, funds from the event supported vital services and programs throughout the hospital. The most significant contributions were directed to the Pediatric Sports Medicine Program which specifically benefits young athletes like those who compete in Golden South and similar events.
Brauman glowingly says that he's never seen a more dedicated and enthusiastic corps of volunteers than the ones who have successfully put on the meet-for free-over the last two decades.
As he puts it, "it's unusual for that many people to come together to volunteer, just to do something great for young people."
Finding its stride
As the meet found its charitable purpose, it also hit a serious athletic groove.
In 1993--the second edition of the meet with the Bert Martin Foundation--Andre Scott triple jumped fifty-three feet, four inches, winning by over seven feet. Scott went on to be the Gatorade National Track & Field High School Athlete of the Year that year; he's now the jumps coach at the University of Mississippi. Scott is still the fifth best triple jumper in American high school history. Brauman is also quick to point out that the Arnold Palmer Hospital's involvement brought on a "real professional organization" that had been lacking in the wooly early days of the meet. The meet was professionally organized, and it also attracted future professional athletes of the highest caliber.
As the meet crossed into the twenty-first century, it continued to attract America's future finest athletes. The meet is so competitive that future Olympic and world champions Sanya Richards-Ross and Jenny Simpson raced there in 2000 and 2003, respectively -- and lost. With the meet now headed into its fifth decade, and the second year under the FloSports banner, who will be the next American legends to burn up the track at Golden South?
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Every now and then, while watching a game, we see a jersey flash past and it catches our eye. We're programmed to link certain words with certain mental images, and most of the time the links are pretty mundane. Cadillac Williams just makes us think of the car while anyone called slaughter makes us wish we had that surname ourselves. Occasionally, however, we see a name that tickles us. Here are a few favorites.
Let's kick this list off with, possibly the most ironically named player, Richie Incognito. A lot of fans may have heard of this player, due to his interesting name, but when it comes to other players, there are few who don't know who he is. This guy was once voted in the top ten of the league's dirtiest players, and it was his peers that voted him in. Richie is far from Incognito. In 2012 he won another award, the Good Guy Award, but don't be fooled by the name. The Good Guy Award is for media relations, not on field relations. Despite the reputation, Incognito is a solid starting lineman who made it to the Pro Bowl in 2012 and one who would start on many teams in the NFL.
When you hear Guy Whimper's name, you might be excused for thinking that he'd be the type of guy to hide away in the corner sobbing when the going gets tough, but the 6'5" 315lb Tackle has shown that he is a tough versatile player in the NFL. In 2012 he caught a pass for a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers. It was a nice grab too. He turned around, and located the ball as it fell near his knees, before scooping it up for the score. The Jaguars lost the game 24 to 15, and the Whimper catch was the only TD that they scored. Not the best day for the Jags, but a nice highlight reel moment for Blaine Gabbert and Guy Whimper. It isn't the first time that he has played at being receiver either, earlier in his career he made a nice catch and run for 17 yards. Far from playing with a whimper, Guy Whimper plays with a swagger.
Who's in charge here, Captain Munnerlyn or Major Wright? These two guys have military ranks as their first names, and if they were normal every day guys, you might think that their names were ill suited. Being in a job that requires strong leadership and something similar to military style self discipline, however, makes it seem like their names were pre-destined. Thankfully, neither of these two guys joined the army. Captain Captain Munnerlyn or Private Major Wright would confuse the heck out of everyone.
Could there be a player out there that outranks even the Captain and the Major? Sure there is. King Dunlap is a king. Okay, perhaps he isn't a king in the regal sense, but his heritage is certainly noteworthy. He comes from a long line of sporting family members. His dad played in the NFL for Tennessee and Baltimore, and his mother was a track star at Tennessee Sate. His sister also plays basketball at a high level. If those credentials weren't enough, King's full name is King Dunlap V, and he has a son called King Dunlap VI. Vive le Roi! As a side note, Prince Amukamara could have made this list, but he's only a prince.
From professional military and regal names, we now travel right to the other end of the scale, and delve down into the gutter. Although most people in the media pronounce this next guy's name like an aftershave synonym, Willie Colon's name is spelled like something a lot less sweet smelling. It is fun to sit in your arm chair and make butt jokes every time a commentator mentions his name, but unless you're a bigger guy than this 6'3 315lb Guard from the Bronx, you'd never make those jokes in his presence. Wikipedia mentions another Willie with a similar name, but he gets off the hook with a tiny little mark that appears over the 'o'. Willie Colón really can pronounce his name like cologne, but our NFL bruiser will have to live with the butt jokes.


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Intermissions: Hod's Comic #23
I think Loki is on the verge of a panic attack.
I think Loki is on the verge of a panic attack.
Loki? Hysterical? Is that even allowed?
Kudos Hodd, just, kudos. (and remind me to stear clear when he's creating) O.O
I still want to see. Loki's only real problem with it is probably that he can't control what gender he is now…. Heartbreak?
Hehe, I still think it's funny that Loki is a mother… to Sleipnir, who somehow has 8 legs…
So, a giant, under the guise of a human, made an agreement to build walls around Asgard with only the help of his horse, Svadilfari, and if he did it by the Summer Solstice, he could have the hand of the sun, the moon, and Freyja in marriage. Loki convinces the gods to accept, but after watching him work for a day, they realize this guy is not human, but a giant, who builds at a very quick rate. The gods send Loki to resolve this problem, since he somewhat began it… so Loki chooses to distract the giant's horse by turning into a beautiful mare…
I like the Wikipedia conclusion best, particularly the following:
"Loki did not manage to escape the stallion, however, and reappeared only many months later, with the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, the result of his union with Svadilfari"
[Click my name to see the full article.]
That's probably the funniest story in all of Norse mythology. I can't think of another one at the moment, so I'll say it is.
And this is a priceless comic. Heh.
This one is quite good.
I also like the one where Loki makes Skadi laugh. ^^ I won't tell that here though.
Perhaps his heart broke when he couldn't stay with the beautiful stallion?
I don't know how Sleipnir would account for heartbreak, perhaps due to the fact that (either Njord or Freyr) jumped over the vaferfire and the gate of Asgard on it to end the war of the gods (and the Aesir lost).
When will we see some Vanir btw. Freja is probably even more NSFW than those Celtic goddesses. ^^ The Valkyries should pale in comparison, even Aphrodite and Hera.
Loki's other children weren't created the same way as Sleipnir, though shape-shifting may have played a role in the fathering of Fenrir and Jormungandr.
Hel is supposedly half-black/corpse, according to Snorri again, and my theory is that her mother, Angrboda, is identical with Gullveig, who was burnt three times for bringing sorcery into the world by the Aesir (leading to the great war of the gods, because the Vanir had some family ties to her). There was some heart-eating (though not "breaking") by Loki involved if I'm not mistaken. Gullveig/Angrboda didn't die though, so Hel can indeed be the daughter of a "dead" woman (she's the youngest of the three, IIRC). I don't remember clearly if the heart made Loki turn female again, or if Angrboda actually gave birth to the children.
Ynglingatal mentions "Loka maer" (Loki's girl) too, and it's older than the Snorra Edda, so this reinforces that Hel (or someone who later merged with the female ruler of the underworld) is indeed Loki's daughter.
Several stories seem to confirm that all of Loki's children were "fathered" during the early times of the world, even before the great war. Except maybe for his son(s) (can't remember exactly) with Sigyn (again, can't remember exactly, but the intestines of one of them are used to finally bind him IIRC).
Thanks everyone, Norse mythology is not my strong suit. I think I love the comic almost as much for what I learn from you guys as I do for the comic itself.
Greek mythology, however I know a lot more about.
sprotte, I wouldn't go calling Hera a beauty by any standard. She may have managed to marry that lecher Zeus, but it wasn't her looks that got him. She's actually described at one point as horse-faced. (remind me not to go outside for a while, that goddess isn't the most reasonable and can over-react to the smallest thing. Good reason not to portray her as less then attractive.)
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Amazon makes green energy pledge
Amazon.com Inc., criticized by an environmental group this year for being among the dirtiest technology companies, pledged to reach 100 percent renewable energy usage for its cloud computing division.
In an undated post on its website titled "AWS and Sustainable Energy," the Seattle-based company announced the commitment without giving a time frame or declaring any renewable energy investments.
"AWS has a long-term commitment to achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint," said the online retailer, which operates the multibillion-dollar cloud technology business via its Amazon Web Services division.
The move represents a major shift for Amazon, according to the environmental group Greenpeace, which gave Amazon an F in an April report for failing to commit to renewable energy and for siting new data centers close to "dirty" energy sources such as coal-fired power plants. Greenpeace has been pushing technology companies to invest in renewable energy for their large data centers because they consume so much electricity.
Leah Bibbo, an Amazon spokeswoman, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Greenpeace Tuesday noticed Amazon's latest commitment to run its cloud division on renewable energy, following other technology giants that have made similar pledges.
"With the world's largest public cloud apparently joining Apple, Google, Facebook and others in committing to power with 100 percent renewable energy, the race to build a green Internet may be gaining a new crucial competitor," Greenpeace Senior IT Campaigner Gary Cook said in a statement.
Unlike Amazon, however, those companies announced major investments and green initiatives along with the pledge.
"Amazon's customers will need more information to be sure that AWS means business about renewable energy. AWS should offer a plan for how it will implement its ambitious new commitment across its footprint," Cook said.


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Part VII Structure and Operations, Ch.42 Financing and Budgets
Jacob Katz Cogan
From: The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
Edited By: Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone
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- Membership of international organizations — International organizations, practice and procedure — Resolutions of international organizations
International organizations require funds to operate, a basic and anodyne fact that has manifold and fundamental consequences. The means by which organizations are financed and the methods by which budgets are decided shape the character of the organization, its relations with and between its member states, and its policy outcomes. Consequently, formal and informal decisions and practices concerning the design of financing mechanisms and the allocation of budgets necessarily entail constitutive choices about an organization's operation and its forms of governance. This chapter describes the means by which organizations acquire resources and the methods they use to decide on expenditures. In so doing, it also considers the implications for organizations of those chosen means and methods.


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Boys Varsity Tennis, Girls Varsity Tennis · MSHS tennis teams finish in top 10 in state
MOBILE – Muscle Shoals picked up a pair of top ten finishes at the 2019 Alabama High School Athletic Association's tennis championships this week with several strong performances. The Trojans' boys finished 6th overall in the Class 6A team standings after a semifinal finish at No. 3 singles and a semifinal finish at No. 3


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This is the first time that Basu won't be able to vote because of his poor health.
His doctors have advised him to stay away from the polling booth.
Though Sports and Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty had appealed to the state chief electoral officer to make special arrangement for the veteran leader, his appeal was rejected.
"A special request was made but the law doesn't have any provision for postal ballot in such cases. A voter who has a problem can come to the booth in ambulance," said chief electoral officer Debashis Sen.


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31 luglio 1954... e uno che diverrà un famoso nikonista...
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[manifestazioni] TRATTA 29 giugno 2017
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[reportage] Tre Torri
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La Stampa in Bianco e Nero
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Nikonland Interview with Yamaki San
feb 08 2017 01:00 | Max Aquila in International
Hello Yamaki San,
we are a Nikon oriented site, so we are very interested by your development policy about our common passion : Sigma equipment, not only Nikon compatible lenses, but also your amazing Foveon cameras.
1) Your italian network (MTrading) appear us to be more open-mind than every other competitor : do you think in the next future to increase test equipments (also beta versions) to lend to a determinate sample of users in order to obtain more feedbacks ?
Yes, we're always happy to provide the samples with you. With regard to the beta samples, I don't think it possible to lend it to you before we finalize the product development.
2) We know that the Japanese industry is very reluctant to open up their programs in advance for not to encourage competition, however, there is a risk that customers buy a novelty and then not have the budget to the next your big lens, even more interesting for them.
S We think that a public roadmap of future presentations of new photographic equipment can greatly help customers in programming their purchases.
Do you have forecasts about a Sigma road-map of your next products and also about your future planning ? A 12-18 month roadmap will be great !
Every product development always has a risk. Even we start the project, we may need to terminate it due to some problems such as market change, technical problems, etc. Therefore, even if we disclose our product roadmap, we can't guarantee it. In this case, it would not be very nice to the customers. It only creates the conflicts. I hope you understand.
3) How are your relationship with Nikon co., after the lawsuit filed some years ago ? It's more difficult develop lenses for Nikon F mount than other mounts ?
Not really. Only one challenge for us is the technical issue. Nikon F mount is smaller than other mounts, so it's not easy to develop the high quality high speed lenses that fits both Canon EF and Nikon F mount.
4) We think Sigma cameras are great but we honestly think they are very improvable in terms of autofocus and high ISO
Are there some anticipation about improvements on af sensitivity and S/N rate of these cameras?
About dp series, is unthinkable to imagine a built EVF in future versions ?
We always try to improve the performance of our cameras. You can expect the better performances in the future cameras from Sigma.
5) Could we expect a 24x36mm Sigma camera or even a large format Sigma camera ? Is it scheduled in the future ?
Sorry, but I can't comment on the future product development plan. I hope you understand.
6) We very much appreciated your lens partition between Art, Sport, Contemporary: in every one of these we'd like to find many most wanted focal lenghts.
Your competitors continue to offer the usual boring 24-70 or 70-200, so we think something really new like a Sigma Art 35-70/2 and/or a 50-135/2 Art full-format (following your marvellous 24-35/2) would be particularly appreciated
Same thing about a particularly needed Sigma 70-300/4 OS Sport instead of older, obsolete ones.
Do you think we could expect some other good news about ?
Same as the question above, I can't make comment on the future product development. I hope you understand.
7) Can we expect anything exotic lens as the great Sigma 500/4 OS ? (ie a 200/2 or 400 / 2.8)
Again, I can't make comment on the specific product development plan, but you can always expect more "exotic" lenses from us. We always try to bring you the innovative, exotic products to photo enthusiasts.
8) Nikonland has tested (and successively bought) many of your last masterpieces as Art 20/24/35/50 f/1,4: how is Sigma balance about selling them ?
35mm is always the best seller. 50mm follows it, but 20mm and 24mm are also popular among the landscape photographers.
9) Considering Sony mirrorless cameras, Nikonland realized that lacks a complet offer of small and cheap lenses, as your three ones (Sigma 19/30/60mm Art) that cannot fill all needs. Do you planning something about this mount - cheap and light - or you will follow same Sony premium orienting policy (so as you're doing with success for Nikon and Canon) with big, heavy and expensive full frame lenses ? For now we imagine mirrorless as a lighter and cheaper solution, quite the opposite of big, heavy and expensive full-frame reflex.
Again, I can't comment on the future product development. As a generic comment, the relationship between the size and weight of the lens and the optical quality is a trade-off. If we're to achieve the best performance, it would be big and heavy lenses.
10) Who produces Sigma optic glass, and where?
We make our glasses. If you refer to the glass materials, HOYA and Ohara, both Japanese companies.
11) What you would not do again that which has been done over the last four years?
Sorry, but I couldn't understand this question !
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| 11.4°C Belfast
British royals, politicians and Unionist leaders will be invited to Dublin to remember those who fought for Irish freedom.
Ireland's Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said he hoped to host representatives of the Royal family and the British Government, along with the leaders of unionism, at commemorations for the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016.
Mr Gilmore also wants all sides to respectfully remember those who gave their lives at the battle of the Somme, as well as Irish men who died fighting in a British uniform.
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It is the summer of 1963, with stories of past political violence in Colombia and hints of the coming assassination of JFK in the United States. Laura, a young North American woman, visits Bogota with her Colombian husband Andres and their two small children, though strange, seemingly mystical messages have warned her not to. Conversations with her husband's "mad" sister Francisca, and Señor Vargas, a revolutionary jewelry maker who lives in the dismal hotel run by Andres's mother, help Laura come to grips with the problems of poverty and "lost children" in her husband's country. Realizing how little she and Andres know one another, and how little she knows herself, Laura builds an alliance with Francisca to rescue the tiny, bird-like Carmen, a dwarfed servant child, one of Colombia's lost children. But "La Violencia" is not yet ended. In a tale of dramatic change and shocking discovery, Condor and Hummingbird explores both social and psychological issues, while it also looks back to the wisdom of ancient myths, and Francisca's beloved "ancestors"-- the elusive Kogi of Santa Marta, who long ago retreated high into the Sierra to preserve their culture from the Spanish conquest.
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