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Zoya Akhtar's upcoming film starring Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh has already created a buzz for its casting woes
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The Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara director was keen on the Kapoor cousins Kareena and Ranbir in the family drama. However, when things did not work out with the two, names of Ranveer and Priyanka did the rounds. Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi and Dimple Kapadia were also reportedly considered for a role in the film. Though no official announcement has been made about the cast, Zoya now can't finalise a title.
Says a source, "Zoya, Farhan and his production partner Ritesh Sidhwani are having creative differences. They have been tossing suitable names for the film but have been unable to lock in on anything unanimously. The trio seems to have diverse opinions however, time is running out and they need to finalise a title soon."
Adds the source, "They have also been in conversation with many actors and will be locking their ensemble cast shortly. The project with the cast details will be announced soon and hence they are keen to find the title. As the story is about a brother-sister relationship, the name plays a vital role." Zoya's film is slated to go on the floors in April and will be shot on a cruise liner off the South African coast.
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Besides its purely academic curriculum IE offers a range of learning experiences in collaboration with companies, some of the most valuable ones for IMBA students are electives like the ICP- International Consulting Project or the GCP-Global Consulting Project (where IE partners with Wharton); where you work together closely with a company and solve a business challenge together with them. These opportunities are perfect for anybody interested to work in one of those companies.
But at the end, every occasion is a chance. Alvaro Martinez, a current IMBA student, received a job offer from a major consulting company after having excelled during the Making Change Happen week between terms 2 and 3. Most of his peers had not even started looking for a job at that point of time. Read below what he did and see whether you might want to follow in his footsteps!
C: Alvaro, congratulations once again! Very well done on your job offer and thanks for sharing your experience here.
A: You are welcome Christian. I am more than happy to do so if it can be useful or at least inspiring for others.
C: So, tell us! How exactly did that happen? You participated in the Making Change Happen week like everybody else and at the end the consulting company that provided the case just contacted you?
A: (laughing) Well, you make it sound a little bit easier than it was… During the Making Change Happen week we really put a lot of effort in developing a good proposal to address the challenge. Fortunately, my team was amazing. We were full of enthusiasm and the quality of our work was constantly high. And because of this we made it to the finals.
It was only during the cocktail for the finalists when the consultants revealed their intentions to hire students from IE. I talked to them and made my move by sending an email shortly afterwards. One week later someone from their human resources team called me and the recruiting process was on.
C: How did you prepare for the interviews and how did it go?
A: I have to admit that I did not have as much time to prepare as I would have liked. When I received the call, they wanted to start the process right away. But since I knew that the interviews needed a lot of preparation, I managed to delay it by two days. I really had not expected everything to happen that fast! So during those two afternoons I tried to do some consulting cases and to learn as much about the company as I could. I especially looked into what they wrote about their culture and values. During the interviews, my biggest surprise was that I actually enjoyed it! People were extremely nice and the cases were challenging, but in a good way.
C: You worked in Investment banking before. To what extent do you think a specific kind of background was required to be invited to the interviews? And was any of your prior experience helpful during the interviews?
A: I do not think that any prior knowledge was of help to get to the interviews – derivatives and DCM (Debt Capital Markets) have very little to do with consulting after all… But I believe that my experience was taken into account in a broader sense, in terms of expectations regarding my way of working for example.
C: Now, the big question for the next intake: Any advice on what to do during the Making Change Happen week?
A: Just make the most of it! I know that for many it is difficult to focus on the challenge since it is the week right after the exams and people feel they need a break. But I hope that my story can be a motivating example. If you try to make the most of it, and with a little bit of luck, great outcomes are possible.
Having studied together with Alvaro, I also know him personally and can congratulate his future employer at least to the same extent as I congratulate him.


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Friday's New York Times contained an article on sexual selection in birds (link and title in the picture below) by Richard O. Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Prum has a new book out, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us, which I intend to read. For now, though, he's given us a take in the Times which is both erroneous and confusing, for it misrepresents sexual selection, natural selection, and modern evolutionary theory.
Here's the Amazon summary of the book, which explains how Prum is trying to revive Darwin's theory of sexual selection—a theory, which, by the way, has not been forgotten, but either refined with additional assumptions or discarded outright because Darwin didn't know genetics or had no evidence to support his views:
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature?
Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum—reviving Darwin's own views—thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display traits that seem disconnected from, if not outright contrary to, selection for individual survival [JAC: We've known this for a long time: it's reproduction, not survival, that is impelling the evolution of these male traits.] To explain this, he dusts off Darwin's long-neglected theory of sexual selection in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons—for the mere pleasure of it—is an independent engine of evolutionary change.
It's true that Darwin was the first person to ponder sexual dimorphism—the extraordinary difference in ornamentation, weapons, and behaviors between the sexes—and to speculate about its causes. He suggested "sexual selection", and gave two hypotheses about how it worked.
The first, which Darwin called "the law of battle," was correct: males are larger and have weapons or features that enable them to compete for females, as when elephant seals or elk fight it out for mates. The ultimate cause of this difference, which I've described before, is the difference in gamete size between the sexes (sperm vs eggs), which ultimately leads to females being a scarce resource for which males have to compete. I won't describe it further; you can consult a good evolution textbook, such as Futuyma and Kirkpatrick (it shows some examples of sexually selected traits on the cover below), or read the Wikipedia article on sexual selection, which is okay but not great. Lots of experiments and observations confirm that males do fight over females, and the weapons and their size make a difference. (Males also compete for females after fertilization: the so called "gamete competition." One example is in damselflies, in which a male, before inseminating a female, will use a scoop on his penis to remove the sperm of the previous male. The selective advantages of having such a device are obvious.)
Darwin's second theory, however, was largely wrong, as it was based on females preferring certain traits of males because of their appeal to the females' aesthetic sense. Here are the two theories given by Darwin in his 1871 book, The descent of man and selection in relation to sex.
"The sexual struggle is of two kinds: in the one it is between the individuals of the same sex, generally the males, in order to drive away or kill their rivals, the females remaining passive; while in the other, the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex, in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex, generally the females, which no longer remain passive, but select the more agreeable partners."
The problem here is that it takes the aesthetic sense of females as a given rather than something that can itself be the product of evolution. And of course it implies abilities not present in many species, like flies, who surely don't have "aesthetic senses". While Darwin's "aesthetic" theory can be modified to take into account pre-existing female preferences that are either evolved or the byproduct of some other evolved trait (Ronald Fisher was responsible for this advance), in itself it doesn't explain much. Darwin was correct, though, that female preferences can cause males to evolve traits that hurt the males' survival (as in the elaborate tails of peacocks), so long as the males' loss in "fitness" due to survival costs is more than compensated by their gain in fitness due to females mating more often with males having exaggerated calls, behaviors, or ornaments.
The mechanisms of sexual selection and causes for female preference still remain mysteries, for there are many reasons why females can prefer the traits of males that make them so bizarre—traits like the plumes, ornaments, and behaviors of the New Guinea birds of paradise. And distinguishing among these hypotheses—which include the "runaway hypothesis", direct benefits models, handicap models, sensory bias models (a refinement of Darwin's ideas), "good genes" models, and so on—is difficult, especially because they can work in tandem. To see the hypotheses for the evolution of female preference (which Darwin took as a given) and the difficulty of testing them, have a look at this 2009 PNAS paper by Jones and Ratterman. The paper shows this table listing the varieties of ways that female preferences for male traits can evolve:
In his New York Times piece, Prum ignores most of these, claiming that sexual selection is not a form of natural selection, does not lead to adaptation, and leads to "maladaptive decadence."
Here's an example. After describing the elaborate display of the male club-winged manakin, which lures females by rubbing together its wing feathers (a trait that has caused the evolution of thick, flight-impeding wing bones, and whose results can be seen in the video at bottom), Prum says this:
This [manakin song] is an evolutionary innovation — a whole new way to sing. But the evolutionary mechanism behind this novelty is not adaptation by natural selection, in which only those who survive pass on their genes, allowing the species to become better adapted to its environment over time. Rather, it is sexual selection by mate choice, in which individuals pass on their genes only if they're chosen as mates.
It's hard to make THREE errors in two short sentences, especially when the writer is an evolutionary biologist writing about evolution, but that's what Prum has done. Here are the errors:
1.) Sexual selection is a subset of natural selection: the consistent differential reproduction of genes based on their advantage in replication. Sexual and natural selection are not two distinct processes. Here's Futuyma's definitions from the 3rd edition of his textbook.
"Natural selection" is defined as "The differential survival and/or reproduction of classes of entities that differ in one or more characteristics."
"Sexual selection" is defined as "differential reproduction as a result of variation in the ability to obtain mates." These definitions, which are held by nearly all evolutionists, clearly show that sexual selection is a subset of natural selection, the subset affecting traits involved in mate competition. Prum's claim that the two processes are distinct is confusing and wrong.
2.) Prum conceives of natural selection as only differential survival, whereas it's differential reproduction that is key. Differences in survival produce selection only if they're associated with differential reproduction. (They often are.)
3.) Neither natural nor sexual selection necessarily leads to an improvement in "species becoming better adapted to their environments over time". Selection most often operates on genes that affect the reproductive output of their carriers, but that needn't improve the adaptation of a species to its environment. For example, a mutation that increases the number of a bird's offspring, but has no other effect, will simply increase the number of young birds in the population, which isn't an improvement in adapting to the environment. In fact, this could ultimately lead to a depletion of food that could drive a population extinct. Likewise, the mechanism of "meiotic drive", in which one mutant gene simply kills the other genetic variants during gamete formation, is a form of natural selection that can and probably has driven populations extinct. Throughout the article, Prum seems to conflate adaptation (a phenomenon of genes and individuals) with the survival of a species or its adaptation to the exigent environment. While this can happen, it's not a necessary connection.
Those sentences would surely mislead a reader who wasn't acquainted with evolutionary biology.
I could go on, but I'll give just one more example of misleading prose in Prum's short piece:
Of course, females do not harm their own survival by choosing males with attractive songs; the costs are deferred to their sons and daughters. Although their daughters will inherit more awkward wing bones, their sons will inherit sexually attractive songs, resulting in more grandchildren.
In the absence of direct costs to the choosers, the population will not be saved by natural selection. Because the cost is deferred, the whole population can ease further and further into maladaptive dysfunction, generation by generation.
Evolved decadence may turn out to be common.
. . . The wing songs of the club-winged manakin teach us that adaptation by natural selection does not control everything that happens in evolution. Some of the evolutionary consequences of sexual desire may not be adaptive. Rather, they can be truly decadent. Despite the ubiquity of natural selection, organisms are not always getting better at surviving. Natural selection is not the only source of design in nature.
This is deeply misleading, and not just by confusing reproductive "fitness" with survival alone. Deferring the "cost" of choosing a clumsy-flying male by one generation doesn't throw the population into a death spiral. In that next generation, if the cost of female choice outweighs the benefits of choosing those males, females will evolve in the reverse direction, choosing males that can fly better. There is no inherent force in sexual selection that will lead both males and females to evolve beyond their fitness optima. And if natural selection (including sexual selection) isn't the only source of design in nature, what is? How does "decadence" produce design?
I hope Prum's book is better than this excerpt. I showed his NYT piece to another evolutionist, who allowed that it was profoundly confusing. But the average reader, not deeply acquainted with sexual selection theory, will think that Prum has hit on some new principle of evolution. And in that way his article does the reader a disservice, for what he says is a mixture of stuff that evolutionary biologists already know, confusing and misleading characterizations of selection, and a neglect of competing and unresolved explanations for female choice—explanations that haven't all been examined in manakins.
As lagniappe, here's a club-winged manakin singing with its wings:


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Welcome from Lesley Batchelor OBE, FIEx (Grad) - Director General, Institute of Export & International Trade
The world's second largest country by population, India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. With rising personal incomes and a growing middle class consumer base, India can be a lucrative market for British exporters with the right products, services, and commitment. This Doing Business in India guide will help prepare UK businesses who are looking to trade with this dynamic market.
India is a very large country with multiple climatic, religious and ethnic variations. These variations can influence preferences in tastes, colours, packaging, and styles, so what is successful in one part of the country may not be acceptable in another part. It is also important to compare local laws, government incentives, and the local infrastructure as these can also vary a lot from place to place.
Don't forget to check the Indian import duty for your product to see if your export is viable. It's likely to be a minimum of 35% once all additional taxes are included. You will also have a lot of paperwork to handle and you will typically need to complete 11 separate documents to export to India.
All of this means that it is vital that you take the time to research this market thoroughly and in many cases, it will be crucial to find the right partner for your product or service, one who is familiar with the local market and can help you find customers, distribution channels and handle documentation.
Owing to historical ties, British businesses will find that there are similar business and legal practices and English is the language of business but owing to the diverse nature of the country, business etiquette can vary from place to place so it is advisable to remain flexible in your approach and take your cues from your hosts. This is made easier by the fact that in business Indians place great value on personal relationships and you will be expected to take the time to develop contacts and relationships.
India represents a key growth market for British businesses and the Institute of Export & International Trade can help guide you through the intricacies of doing business in this fascinating country through our education programmes, training and practical support, our helpline and one-to-one assistance with paperwork.
Why not contact us and find out how you can join?
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This project investigated play-based approaches to teaching and learning about sustainability in early childhood education. Findings from this project were cited in the UNESCO Final Report for the UN Decade for Sustainable Education 2005-2014.
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Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Southern Cross University
Cutter-Mackenzie, A. Edwards, S., Moore, D., & Boyd, W. (2014). Young children's play and environmental education in early childhood education. Springer: Dordrecht.
Cutter-Mackenzie, A., & Edwards, S. (2013). The next twenty years. Imagining and re-imagining sustainability, environment and education in early childhood education. In S. Elliott, S. Edwards, J. Davis & A. Cutter-Mackenzie(Eds). Early Childhood Australia's Best of Sustainability. Research Practice and Theory, pp. 61-67. Early Childhood Australia: Canberra.
Edwards, S., & Cutter-Mackenzie, A. (2013). 'Next time we can be penguins': expanding the concept of 'learning play' to support learning and teaching about sustainability in early childhood education. Chapter in O.Lillemyr, S. Dockett., & B. Perry (Eds.), International perspectives on play and early childhood education, pp. 55-75 New York: Information Age Publishing.
Edwards, S. (2016, October). Play-based learning and intentional teaching: forever different? Keynote speech presented at the Early Childhood Australia National Conference, Darwin Convention Centre, Australia.
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Clough-Ballacolla made it two wins from two as they overcame a gritty Abbeyleix on home soil on Saturday evening.
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Willie Hyland was the chief tormentor of the visitors defence with a superb personal haul of 1-12 including some outstanding long-range scores from all over the park and despite their best efforts Abbeyleix were unable to stay in touch with the hosts.
Willy Dunphy set the tone with a goal from his side's first attack but it was a run of five points without reply in the final few minutes before half-time which handed them a six point lead at the interval.
Fitzpatrick's point in the fifth minute of the second-half would be Abbeyleix's last score for a full twenty minutes, by which time a rampant Ballacolla had racked up a further 3-7 to leave the result beyond all doubt.
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New London, Conn. - The Albertus Magnus College baseball team lost to in-state foe Coast Guard Academy by a score of 8-2 on Monday afternoon at Nitchman Field in non-conference play.
FINAL: Coast Guard 8 | Albertus Magnus 2
RECORDS: Albertus Magnus (7-5) | Coast Guard (7-6)
- Cody Fidler got things going for the Bears scoring the first run of the game in the bottom of the second on a sacrifice fly to center field.
- Down 1-0, junior Matt Warren (Wolcott, Conn.) connected for his fourth double of the season to allow junior Brandon Clark (Cheshire, Conn.) to score, evening the game at 1-1.
- Shortly after, Coast Guard held a one-run advantage, 2-1, heading into the top of the fourth as Nolan Johnson scored off a RBI groundout from Luke Thompson.
- In the bottom of the fifth, Coast Guard struck again scoring four runs on four hits, including a home run from Will Stephen, to push its lead to five, 6-1.
- The Falcons saw the Bears' lead grow to six, 7-1, after the hosts tacked on an additional run in the bottom of the seventh.
- Albertus tried to get a rally going in the top of the eighth as Warren kicked off the inning with a walk before crossing home on RBI double from Elijah Spataj (Cheshire, Conn.), but the Falcons rally ended with three straight outs.
- The Falcons were unable to stop Coast Guard from scoring another run in the bottom of the eighth, making the final score 8-2.
- Along with Spataj and Warren, senior Mike Browne (New Fairfield, Conn.) finished the game with a hit.
- Spataj and Warren also registered a RBI each.
- Albertus finished 3-for-31 at the plate while Coast Guard went 6-for-30.
- Jeremy Lhotka led the Bears offense with two hits, two RBI and a run scored.
- Junior Shawn McFeggan (Anaheim, Calif.) picked up the loss for the Falcons and falls to 0-1.
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My children try hard to make sure they visit me on special days like mother's day and my birthday and Christmas, particularly now that I moved back close to them as per their request. I had moved away from everything for four years. Believe it or not it was easier then. It was easier because I didn't have to worry about them showing up. I didn't have to worry that they might find me in an emotional mess, see that mother of theirs that died and was born again after leaving their father into some strange lost being. Yet I was lost when I was with them as a family too because as much as I did what I could to be the best mom and wife, I could never be "that best mom and wife". Now I was just a pathetic single mom somewhere out there that after four years my daughter didn't have to watch break over and over and over again. I did it all alone. It was appealing. It was like a sanctuary. I still do all that alone, except when they decide to come by. I'm not always a mess, but my children make me nervous and I don't know how to handle that. They are a reminder of all my failures, of all the love I feel, of all the times I tried, and of the horrifying things their father said about me as a mother during the divorce. I never said anything mean about him as a father. I felt betrayed.
This picture is the shadows of me and my children. My shadow reminds me of a beautiful caricature a friend of mine drew. I can't publish it here, but wish I could, and it was about reading guides on how to fly. I think the character was a caterpillar. I think I know the ending that was never written. But that ending I keep hoping for, and I believe in growing wings. Just not sure if it happens here.


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Commencing a profitable business is undoubtedly a tedious task for all. India since past years have found so many start-ups gyrating itself up. Now many such firms also have seen themselves to shut down. A recent study, "Entrepreneurial India," by the IBM Institute for Business Value and Oxford Economics found that 90% of Indian startups fail within the first five years. Not sure to what extent the 90% figure may hold true, but the fact is that large number of startups in India have failed including some big and well-funded ones.
This has been researched and produced by PlanThyBusiness.com, a business consulting firm for start ups which helps start ups become investor ready by preparing business plan, pitch deck and connecting to sources of funding.
Let us look at the reasons behind such crisis moments:
- Lack of innovation – 77% of venture capitalists surveyed believe that Indian startups lack new technologies or unique business models as per the survey by IBM. Repetition of ideas, replication of entire system – make the Indian Start-ups to fail. Few notables are Dazo (an application for food delivery), Tiny Owl same as Food panda, Ask Me and others too did the same thing. They invested tons of amounts and had high end qualified workforce; all did fail in the past years.
- Incorrect product market fit – The product selection must be at par with the customer's requirements. Building something which no one wants or solving a trivial problem for customer is a recipe for failure. The fit must be validated as early as possible.
- Bad timing – Sometimes, everything is fine except the timing to enter market. There were start-ups that were too ahead of their time while others that were too late to enter. An OLA in early 2000s would have made no sense.
- Lack of stamina – Tireless effort is required to successfully build and run the startup through challenging times. Lack of passion & stamina is also one of the key causes of failure.
- Competition in the market –People with a tremendous amount of fund fail to understand the fact that competition in the market like Flipkart and Oyo rooms have aced in the market creating huge entry barriers for new players.
- Too much focus on technology – Some of the startups in Food-Tech were more focused on tech rather than the actual food and logistics business. A right combination of business and technology focus is needed.
- Insufficient skills – Entrepreneurs often face issues in terms of unskilled manpower. Thus, the individual in lack of skill and practice often has to shut their business down. Some startups have strong tech founders other lack in technology. A good advisory board is also vital to sound of business plans.
- Proposing and recruiting high salary packages – The business owner most of the time crave for good manpower and thus offer the high salary to individuals who may not be a fit for the organization. This, in turn, leads to complete shattering of the business.
- Incorrect Unit Economics – Excessive funding results in startup burning more money without thinking about unit economics. But when they are not able to raise successive rounds of funding they have to shut down.
- Not responsive to dynamics of market changes – A person who is not aware of the dynamics of the market can hardly survive on the same business. If something is not working, the team needs to pivot or alter the course based on new learning. Thus, one must know the scalability and flexibility of the same.
- Too much Equity dilution – Giving up large portions of equity in the very beginning results in too many investors coming on board. This causes a lot of conflict given different opinions of different people regarding how business should be run.
- No Business Plan – Many Indian startups write business plan only to raise funds. Not having a well thought out business strategy and business plan from the very beginning can lead to one bad decision after another.
If Indian Startups avoid the above- hopefully, their chances of succeeding will be much more. PlanThyBusiness.com can help startups in creating world class business plans which can help them avoid some of the above failure traps.
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text: Live Nation's Bid for the Greek Theatre Rejected By Los Angeles City Council 2:38 PM PST 2/11/2015 by Andy Gensler, Billboard FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Robert Mora Greek Theater Overview - H 2014 Though the recommendation is non-binding, the news is something of a victory for Nederlander and AEG. The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected the recommendation of the Department of Recreation and Parks to accept Live Nation's bid for a contract to run the city's iconic Greek Theatre. The motion passed by a vote of 11-3. Though the recommendation is non-binding, the news is something of a victory for Nederlander and AEG, whose joint bid this past October was scored lower than Live Nation's by 59 points by an independent consultant hired by Recreation and Parks. The decision would seem to validate Nederlander's main argument that the proposals were not compared on an "apples to apples" basis and failed to take community input into consideration. This long and wending process will now go back to Recreation and Parks who will reconsider its findings but not necessarily have to change its final endorsement. The City Council speaker asked the council to meet behind closed doors to discuss the issue at hand because of possible litigation. While the speaker didn't specify what legal issues existed, a story in the Los Angeles Times reported on a leaked memo sent to the council by Mike Feuer, the L.A. city attorney. The memo instructed lawmakers that they couldn't overturn Park and Rec's decision at this juncture but they could reject the contract after it is negotiated and approved by the Recreation and Parks. The attorney also warned that overturning the decision could be seen as a "violation of city contracting rules and prompt a lawsuit against the city." Following the closed-door meeting the councilmen were given time to make their views known and question the Recreation and Parks commission. Representative Paul Koretz said he had spoken with just about every lobbyist and old friend in Los Angeles while considering the issue. Joe Buscaino, in a dramatic gesture, ripped a piece of paper which he said is the message the city sends to businesses making bids on city contracts if it fails to support the Greek's RFP process. In making the decision, the City Council heeded the recommendation of its Arts, Parks, Health, Aging & River Committee which reviewed Parks and Recreation's findings and heard public testimony. On Jan. 26, the committee voted 4-1 to "not concur" with the Rec and Parks Department recommendation for Live Nation.. Wednesday's lively meeting in the packed council chamber was filled with partisans that saw Live Nation clad in red sitting one side of the room and Nederlander supports in Green on the other. Each side was allowed to give 20 minutes of testimony in one-minute increments. Here Live Nation COO Joe Berchtold, chairman and president of Nederlander Jimmy Nederlander and AEG CEO Dan Beckerman gave testimony. This was followed by the commissioners of Recreation and Parks who spoke to the fairness of the RFP process for the Greek which reportedly cost $250,000. This article first appeared on Billboard.com. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Andy Gensler, Billboard firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Location: Salgenreute, 6942 Krumbach, Bregenzerwald (AT)
The relation of old and new is evident is immediately evident on seeing the new chapel's stone base and the subtle wooden structure that rises from it – and is the result of a planning and building process that involved local craftsmen and over a hundred people from Krumbach. Indeed, stone and wood are traditional building materials in the construction culture of the area, and it was this that facilitated the decision in their favour. Time and the weather are to have their effect on the modest building and increasingly change it in appearance – the façade to the south is to become darker over the years, while the one facing north is to take on the silvery-grey look of the old farmhouses of the area. As the ground plan and basic shape of the chapel are approximately in line with centuries-old church-building traditions, the building possesses the classic ecclesiastical elements of nave and apse.
The chapel rests on a solid stone base that raises it a little higher and separates it from the surrounding ground. Lending a key role to the concept of the threshold, a deliberately placed concrete doorsill requires visitors to take a conscious step upwards to the covered portal and then into the interior. As the architect says, "Whoever enters the chapel leaves solid ground and proceeds on a reflective journey".
Indoors, the furnishings merge with the overall structure as if carved out of a single piece of wood, resulting in the effect of a calm and unified whole. Visible pre-fabricated wooden frames form the structure of the delicately-formed building and underscore the verticality of the interior and its upward-striving orientation. The light entering the chapel invokes an effect of sublimity, lending it a special significance. In a pictorial reference to the old place of worship, the statue of the Virgin Mary from the previous chapel has its place in the new one again, where it is placed to the front but slightly at one side in order to enable an unobstructed view through the light-filled apse onto the verdant outdoor vegetation.
The concept arrived at by Bernardo Bader Architects in collaboration with Krumbach citizens has resulted in a building that follows traditions yet speaks a self-assured idiom of its own. Local building elements have found use, but in an adapted form that nevertheless does not seem at all out of place. The wooden shingles that completely cover the roof and exterior walls are in keeping with the language of the vernacular architecture, plus the interior walls and ceiling are clad in wood, too. The steeply-pitched saddleback roof is an understated symbol in itself, while the light admitted into the chapel from the front underscores the interior's three-dimensional effect.


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So far in the project we have undertaken four major phases of research: we have mapped counter-terrorism in the UK (as discussed here), generated a sense of the scale of counter-terrorism review building from that mapping exercise (discussed here), attempted to identify gaps in counter-terrorism review (discussed here), and undertaken a large number of interviews with persons involved in counter-terrorism review, ranging from senior politicians to cvil servants and members of civil society.
At the moment we are engaged in the analysis of these interviews and in bringing together the insights from these different stages of the project. The purpose is ultimately to prepare a comprehensive, critical account of counter-terrorism review in the United Kingdom which we will use to make proposals for reform all oriented towards, ultimately, enhancing accountability in counter-terrorism review.
Importantly, however, we are committed to ensuring that these proposals are practicable and capable of implementation. This, of course, poses some interesting but real challenges. Two are of immediate relevance here.
The first is that, even with the scale of research that we have done (which we do not believe has been matched in any previous studies of counter-terrorism review in the United Kingdom), the nature of counter-terrorism and counter-terrorism review is such that some of the mechanisms and realities of review may remain beyond our reach simply because of the limitations on knowledge sharing that flow from secrecy requirements in this field. These requirements, of course, relate primarily to substantive issues of which a reviewer gains knowledge through, for example, security cleared access to agencies, participation in closed proceedings, or information disclosed to them under secrecy laws. However, there may well be times that substantive secrecy requirements create challenges in explaining the realities of how review takes place. If this were to happen, a knowledge gap would arise for us as researchers.
The second is that, as researchers, we are (rightly) outsiders to the system so that even while we gain and develop a good knowledge of how the system works in an external sense, the realities of undertaking review, engaging with other review mechanisms, securing participation from a wide range of actors including communities, completing reviews, communicating review outcomes, and then trying to secure change as a result of review will be known to us in only a second-hand way. It is the reviewers themselves — of all kinds — who will understand best the challenges, blocks, facilitators, and practicalities of making review work.
These challenges mean that for us, as researchers who wish to see the work have an effect on the practice of counter-terrorism review, stakeholder engagement is vital not only at the earlier stages of enhancing our understanding of counter-terrorism review by speaking to those who work in it, but also as we move into the later stages of developing and proposing reforms to enhance accountability. Such engagement will help us to see unintended consequences of reforms we may propose, predict with more accuracy the challenges that may arise within reformed systems, and comprehend the practical implications of what we might propose. As a result, our proposals can be further honed and polished, if necessary, in order to make it more likely that they may be picked up in practice.
The challenge for us, as researchers, is of course to ensure that we take on board stakeholder perspectives but do not allow them to lead the research. In other words, if our research suggests it, then it would be important that we maintain a commitment to reforms that may challenge orthodox thinking within the counter-terrorism review community/communities, even if that would pose serious practical challenges.
The next stage in our stakeholder engagement on the project will be a (closed) workshop to be held in Wolfson College Oxford on September 28th where we will present our work and proposals so far to invited experts and counter-terrorism review professionals in order to test them against their 'real world' experience and expertise. The details of the workshop are on the events page, and we have a very small amount of space left. Should you be a counter-terrorism review practitioner (civil society, government, politician or political advisor, security and intelligence, NHS, higher education, local authority etc involved in any way with counter-terrorism review) and wish to participate please get in touch with us by emailing Jessie Blackbourn at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Self-guided tours around the historic and scenic settlements of The Abacos are the norm by visitors, usually on foot or by rental bicycle, car or golf cart. City and country tours can also be arranged through any of the local taxi drivers; rates are usually negotiable. A few tour companies, such as The Great Abaco Express, provide organized tours upon request. Unique cultural and historical attractions include the New England-style architecture of the original settlers, monuments to Loyalists and fishermen, museums, a bronze art foundry and the world-renowned Blue Bee Bar. But, the most colorful attraction is the candy-striped Elbow Reef Lighthouse on Elbow Cay.
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Dagenham players urging supporters to keep faith after failing to win in five
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Dagenham & Redbridge players are urging the fans to stick with them after failing to win in their opening five National League fixtures this season.
Daggers suffered a 2-1 defeat to Halifax Town on Saturday after a promising first-half from the young side as they still search for their first win of the campaign.
The Shaymen's Matty Kosylo opened the scoring in the 28th minute and five minutes later Peter Taylor's side were level thanks to striker Tomi Adeloye as he volleyed an effort into the back of the net.
But in the 59th minute Jonathan Edwards crushed Daggers hopes of picking up their second point of the season as he netted the eventual winner to seal the three points for the hosts at the Shay.
Vice-captain Matt Robinson is grateful to the 51 travelling fans on the weekend and revealed his side are desperately working hard to get a win on the board after a miserable start to the new term.
He tweeted after the match: "Not a lot I can say about today.
"The lads are trying so hard to bring the fans and ourselves a win.
"Thanks to the travelling support again."
Wolves loanee defender Ben Goodliffe also feels the result didn't reflect the game and thanked the fans for their support on the long trip up north.
"Not the result we wanted and needed," Goodliffe tweeted.
"Score line didn't reflect the performance.
"Great effort from the Dagenham fans who travelled, keep your support going."
Fellow defender Will Wright, who is on loan from League Two side Colchester United, also wanted to thank the fans and feels the turning point, is coming soon.
Wright tweeted: "The frustrations continue, thanks to the fans for backing us for the full 90 minutes.
"The tide will turn along with the luck and the points will start falling our way.
"Big week and we go again Saturday and Monday to start picking up results."
*The young squad were due to face AFC Hornchurch in a friendly at Bridge Avenue last night to allow boss Peter Taylor to experiment with his ever growing side ahead of a busy Bank Holiday weekend against Hartlepool United and Barnet.
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A Delaware school board granted a reprieve this past week to six-year-old Zachary Christie, who was punished for bringing a Cub Scout camping utensil to school in alleged violation of the school's zero-tolerance no-weapons policy. For critics, that case is just another example of zero brains and lawyer creep. Our Cover Story is reported now by Jeff Greenfield:
In the nation's capital, where laws are made . . . in the very Congress itself where nearly half the members are men and women of the law . . .
. . . a lawyer has come with a message about the law: We need, he says, a lot LESS of it.
"It's very concrete," said Philip Howard. "On the broadest level, we need a fundamental shift in the way we approach law to restore the freedom of people to actually do their jobs."
It is, says Howard, nothing less than a matter of national survival.
"We're at a unique time in our history right now. The country is an economic crisis. The institutions of our society are dead in the water. People have been reforming schools for decades and they just get worse. People keep trying to fix healthcare and it gets more and more expensive. It doesn't deliver better care. So something has to change."
Howard may seem like the unlikeliest of messengers: he's a lawyer with Covington and Burling, a powerhouse international law firm that represents some of the biggest corporations, and nations, in the world.
So why would such a figure publish a book whose title promises "Life Without Lawyers"?
"What we have is a system of justice that allows anyone to bring claims, whether it's reasonable or not, and to press it down to any disappointment, like, for example, a child's grade in a classroom," said Howard.
"Let's start with the title of your book," said Greenfield: "You're not adopting the 'First thing, let's kill all the lawyers' deal, are you?"
"No. It's about getting rid of law in people's daily lives," he said. "Teachers feel that they can't maintain order in the classroom, and doctors go through the day seeing every patient as a potential plaintiff. Camp counselors won't put an arm around the crying child. It's this idea that anything that goes wrong can be a lawsuit, and no one's drawing a boundary about what's a valid lawsuit and what's not."
A "New Yorker" cartoon this past summer neatly captures Howard's message: Says the child, "My Mom says you can sleep in the top bunk if your parents sign a release form."
Congressman Jim Cooper, a Democrat from Tennessee, is one of those legislators who likes what Philip Howard says about the law.
He offered his own take on our "over-lawed" system: "I think we have a surplus of lawyers. We have a shortage of engineers and scientists and teachers and folks who arguably do more good for society."
Howard's argument is no academic exercise. The law, he says, puts its heavy hand on us from our days as children.
"When I was a kid growing up in the streets and the playgrounds of New York the ground was fairly hard and we had monkey bars," recalled Greenfield. "Jungle gyms, I guess we called them. Is that the sort of thing that the law has affected?"
"Playgrounds have been transformed," Howard said. "There is literally nothing in a playground in America for a child over the age of four. There are no jungle gyms. There are no seesaws. There are no climbing ropes. There are no high slides. It's very important for children to learn to understand their own limits, to take care of themselves."
"Would it be fair to say that lawyers have as much to do with modern playground design as designers do?" Greenfield asked.
"I think it's kind of a balance," said Adrian Benepe.
Benepe worked in the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation since the age of 18. Today he's the Commissioner.
"Well, it's really a few safety reasons," said Benepe. "People felt that the playgrounds were dangerous. You could fall. You could break a leg. You could get a concussion. You could get a spinal injury on the seesaws. And probably, after a lot of lawsuits, the standards changed."
And if too much law is making playgrounds less playful, says Howard, it is making our schools downright chaotic, by stripping teachers and administrators of badly-needed discretion: "What we have is a system of justice that allows anyone to bring claims, whether it's reasonable or not, and to press it down to any disappointment - like, for example, a child's grade in a classroom."
"Here's the example that I suspect you've been offered many thousands of times," said Greenfield. "I'm a parent and my kid comes home and says, 'My teacher is treating me unfairly. She doesn't like this political opinion that I wrote.'"
"You go talk to the teacher, you go talk to the principal," said Howard. "But life involves all sorts of disappointments. It even involves unfairness. But when you try to push law down to guarantee fairness in daily relations, what you do is you take away everyone's freedom and you take away the satisfaction of teachers, their ability to do their jobs, etcetera.
"You have to accept the fact that life is life."
"Look, we see it every day, which is one of the reasons why Phil Howard is one of our heroes," said Randi Weingarten, who heads the American Federation of Teachers.
"There's some notion that has seemed to leave us, that teachers have a lot of common sense. And if you actually left it to their own professional latitude and judgment, and their own common sense, they could do a really good job," Weingarten said. "To trust people is what he's saying. And I think that's heroic."
But teachers' unions themselves don't trust the common sense of school administrators. The unions zealously bargain for highly-inflexible work rules, and that make it all but impossible to fire incompetent teachers.
"Common sense" sounds like a great idea. But what if it's YOUR young child severely injured when the swing breaks? Your middle school daughter strip searched on mere suspicion? Your loved on permanently injured after a surgery gone bad?
"It's ironic that a lawyer that works for a big law firm that makes millions of dollars representing banks, insurance companies and tobacco companies is talking about, 'Let's go back to common sense, and have less laws and less regulation,'" said Les Weisbrod, a Houston personal injury lawyer. Until recently, he was president of the American Association of Justice, formerly called the Trial Lawyers Association.
"You know, I have a lot of faith in juries, and in jury trials," Weisbrod said. "I think it's the best system on Earth: A jury of our peers. I believe that our judges work well, which is another thing that Mr. Howard doesn't believe. Mr. Howard doesn't believe that our judges judge, and that our judges are good."
Nowhere is the argument over "over-lawyering" more intense than in the field of medical malpractice.
Critics point to studies, like a 2006 New England Journal of Medicine report, that calls the overhead cost of malpractice litigation "exorbitant," and says the issue is so complicated that claims can result in verdicts unfair to both doctors and patients.
Not so, says Howard. And when it comes to medical claims, he indeed has no faith in juries . . . none at all . . . and wants the law changed.
Today, says the medical profession, fear of lawsuits has pushed medical malpractice insurance through the roof, and forced doctors to practice what's called "defensive medicine," meaning more tests and higher costs.
Howard wants malpractice cases decided not by a jury of laymen and women, but by special courts.
"We're advocating special health courts where if a hospital makes a mistake, that patient's going to get recovery within months, not the average of five years that it takes now," he said.
Dr. Albert Strunk enthusiastically agrees. He is a spokesperson for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. the specialty that is the most-sued of all doctors and - no coincidence - the specialty with the highest malpractice insurance rates.
Nothing illustrates the problem more dramatically, says Dr. Strunk, than lawsuits that flow from cases of cerebral palsy.
"The overwhelming evidence is that less than 15 percent of cases of cerebral palsy have anything to do with the baby not getting enough oxygen to the brain during labor," Dr. Strunk said. "And that's the premise upon which these liability cases against obstetricians are made, if a baby doesn't do as well or if a baby does have cerebral palsy."
"Sounds like what you're saying is that the way that the law, the adversary system, the jury system approaches these questions fundamentally misunderstands what doctors do, what patients need," said Greenfield.
"Well, again, a rational system is what doctors would look for because it would help us to remove the fear and anxiety that exists about the current system," said Dr. Strunk.
A common sense solution? Not if you talk to lawyers like Les Weisbrod, who says they represent the common man and woman.
"We don't have a special court for plumbers or architects or news reporters or lawyers," said Weisbrod. "And we shouldn't have a special court for doctors. And the fact of the matter is, just because someone's injured in a medical negligence case, doesn't make it a 'medical negligence case,' and doesn't make it a medical negligence case that will succeed."
And the much decried flood of lawsuits is not rising but receding. According to the National Center for State Courts, in the 10-year period ending in 2006, medical malpractice suits were down four percent; product liability claims also down four percent . . . and personal injury claims dropped a surprising 21%.
"There is no empirical evidence that lawsuits are on the increase, or litigation's on the increase," said Weisbrod. "If people are doing things because of a fear of lawsuits, in that regard, it's uncalled for, and it's been trumped up by people like Mr. Howard [who] are creating a so-called lawsuit crisis.
"Ultimately, the purpose is to take away rights of everyday people to address wrongs in front of juries, in our civil justice system. And that's not right. And it's not common sensical, either."
As for the notion of "Life Without Lawyers," well, consider what may be the most famous of all rhetorical assaults on the profession, from William Shakespeare, no less:
"First thing, let's kill all the lawyers!"
That's actually spoke by an outlaw, talking about how to undermine society.
"So, I assume even in the world that you look at there is some place where lawyers belong," said Greenfield.
"Sure; law is vital in a free society," said Howard. "But law is a framework for freedom. It shouldn't be a system of micromanagement where it gets in the way of everyone's daily choices."
"It sounds as if one of the trade-offs we would have to make as a society to get law out of our hair is indeed to accept the fact that sometimes I'm going to be hurt and there's nothing I can do about it," Greenfield suggested. "Sometimes I'm going to be treated badly and there is no remedy."
"That's absolutely right," said Howard.
For more info:
American Association of Justice
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Federation of Teachers
Covington and Burling LLP
"Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law" by Philip Howard (W.W. Norton)
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The Harold J Wilson Center for Volunteerism is a virtual center designed to connect community needs with community volunteers.
Harold J Wilson (July 22,1921 - February 9, 2002) one of the long term members of Silverbrook United Methodist Church, grew up in Michigan and served in WWII. He had a great love for young people and for volunteering in Lorton and beyond. There was hardly a time when he wasn't thinking up a new program for his church or community. His was a kind and gentle nature, taking the Sunday School kids on nature walks, putting together materials for Bible School, building bluebird houses, and being interested in the well-being of youth at church and in his surrounding neighborhood. At Silverbrook, he took on many roles, along with his wife Bettie, including being instrumental in the planning and building of the second church addition, as well as leading the effort to mark the cemetery's unmarked graves. His three sons played on the Silverbrook-sponsored Lorton Little League, for which he was coach. A champion for the incarcerated, one summer he organized and planted a large vegetable garden along with volunteer prisoners from the Lorton Reformatory. The prisoners where immensely proud of their own garden plots, and Mr. Wilson took the tons of food they coaxed from the rocky soil to the homeless shelters in Washington D. C.
After many years of service to his community as a poet, reciting his written poems at local events, openings, and get-togethers, he was named Poet Laureate of Lorton on September 11, 2000.
His volunteer spirit continues to encourage and inspire us to serve our neighbors and reflect God's love in the way that he served others.
We want to help connect people who can provide volunteer services to those individuals or organizations that need them. We believe that a connection to your community and to one another is important! Organizations, groups, individuals can contact us and let us know what we can do to help.
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Devoted to God: Blueprints for Sanctification, by Sinclair B. Ferguson. Banner of Truth, 2016. Paperback, 296 pages, list price $18.00. Reviewed by OP minister Arthur J. Fox.
This book takes time to digest. It is written, says the author, "to provide a manual of biblical teaching on holiness developed on the basis of extended expositions of foundational passages in the New Testament" (p. ix). This is not a how-to-be-holy book. This is a book on how God has provided the resources of Christ to make us holy, what those resources are, and how we are to use them to grow in holiness. If the book is read correctly, the reader will find his thinking on holiness guided and expanded by an increased knowledge of "passages that describe sanctification rather than passages that command it" (p. 10). It follows the principle that the commands of God to be holy are based on what God has done in Christ to make us holy.
Ferguson exposes the reader to ten foundational passages of Scripture that teach that transformed lives require renewed minds that understand what the gospel is and how it works holiness in us as we believe it and live on the basis of it. Each of the chapters focuses on one of these passages that reveal the spiritual resources God has given in Christ that help make us holy.
This book is very encouraging because it points to union with Christ as the foundation of holiness. All that Christ has done in redemption and earned for himself as a man has by God's grace been made ours, including his holiness. This is not a book to be read quickly. Read it with pen and journal at hand, so that the information will become truly yours. And then ask God to make its lessons part of your life.
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Paris Saint-Germain takes a gamble by hiring Ancelotti
LONDON (Reuters) -- Few sides have replaced their coach halfway through the season when top of the league and although Paris St Germain are no ordinary club, the risks they are taking in their very own French revolution could backfire spectacularly.
Antoine Kombouare, replaced by the more high-profile Carlo Ancelotti, may have been little known outside of Ligue 1 football but he had quickly gelled together a side after new Qatari owners splashed out millions in the close season.
Yes, they were narrowly eliminated in the Europa League group stages and lost 3-0 to arch Ligue 1 rivals Marseille, but the former Valenciennes coach still found top spot in a league PSG have only won twice.
He acted with dignity despite constant press reports that the new owners were so desperate for an immediate title and world domination that they were plotting to replace the man who had been in place before May's takeover.
Even PSG's own players have reservations about the speed and amount of changes underway at the Parc des Princes and if PSG end up finishing second under former AC Milan and Chelsea boss Ancelotti, ruthless ambition could turn into impatient folly.
Uruguayan defender Diego Lugano, who only joined in the last transfer window, told his own website: "It generates instability in the sense that everything is changing for the players who were there before. New players have arrived and others will follow and that creates a lot of changes.
"Of course this club in the coming years will be the biggest in Europe, I have no doubt. But it causes some anxiety within the club and we are also not sure what will happen on a personal level with some team mates. It is not easy, but you try to always be positive."
Italian Ancelotti, who has no previous in-depth knowledge of French football, has former top Serie A players Javier Pastore, Salvatore Sirigu, Mohamed Sissoko and Jeremy Menez at his disposal.
He will no doubt want to add to PSG's existing talent but has little time to formulate a January transfer window spending plan with sporting director Leonardo, ironically the man who followed him as Milan coach.
Reports say David Beckham will sign in the coming days and the likes of Chelsea's Florent Malouda, Milan's Alexandre Pato and Real Madrid's ex-Milan playmaker Kaka have all been linked with joining Ancelotti.
All previously played under him but so many egos coming in at one time could easily upset the apple cart.
A look back at recent examples of clubs suddenly flushed with cash, especially in England, shows significant time was needed for success to arrive.
It took Kenny Dalglish four years to win the Premier League title with newly-rich Blackburn Rovers in 1995 and even though he spent big on Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton, that championship-winning team boasted lesser known lights such as Stuart Ripley, Jason Wilcox and Mark Atkins.
Ancelotti knows from his own experiences at Chelsea, sacked at the end of last season despite winning a league and cup double the year before, just how merciless football owners can be.
Yet for all the chopping and changing at Stamford Bridge, Roman Abramovich's holy grail of the Champions League looks further away than ever.
Manchester City, the richest club in the world just ahead of PSG, could have panicked when Roberto Mancini only managed Champions League qualification last season but they knew it was a long-term project and that making Europe's top competition for the first time was a realistic initial aim.
City now sit top of the Premier League, just like PSG in Ligue 1. The only difference is the Parisiens have axed their coach and are almost starting from scratch again with tactics, favoured players and relations between players and staff.
Despite Ancelotti winning two European Cups with Milan as well as a domestic double with Chelsea in his first season, PSG's Ligue 1 rivals like champions Lille may actually see the change in coach as their best chance of overhauling a club only formed in 1970.
"Is Kombouare's departure the injustice of the century?" asked L'Equipe blogger Didier Roustan.
The appointment of such a successful coach in Ancelotti may turn out to be a masterstroke but if he slips up in his first official outing against lower league Locmine in the French Cup on Jan. 8, the PSG revolution could become very messy indeed.


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University of Deusto
Internet address: http://www.deusto.es
The UD is a 125 years old, non-profit university with 15% international students. 12 research institutes are spread in six main Faculty units. UD is one of 18 accredited to become an International Campus of Excellence in 2015 out of 51 applied. Interdisciplinary in nature, the present proposal is housed in DeustoTech. It is involved in national and international projects on e-learning, VET and one of the research focus is technology-enhanced learning with www.weblab.deusto.es :
E-Learning and Practical Training of Mechatronics and Alternative Technologies in Industrial Community; Strategy of Implementation of eLearning in Universities of Basque Country; Hybrid collaborative and semantic reasoning for the orchestration of services; Reusable learning objects;
WLpro: Professional equipment for remote experiments.
The remote lab - WebLab-Deusto is integrated in the current teaching, training, learning process using ECTS - lab sessions are aligned with competences and learning outcomes.
Role of the organisation in the project:
P3 will be WP3 leader and monitor/coordinate development of learning modules. With TC partners it will design 5 modules, set up remote lab for P7,P10, provide multilingual learning material, draw up manuals and coordinate its translations. In WP7 it will provide reports, communicate with P1, take part in all meetings and organize final. In WP1 it will participate in design e-surveys, analyse results and drafting reports. In WP2 P3 will trail Moodle platform (real-time experiments access, multilingual and target group adjusted environment, PLE). In WP4 P3 will organize the remote Lab session in training (P1), support execution of pilot training for TC partners and for their future authors/trainers. In WP5 it will participate in evaluation, certification, and planning of activities after the project lifetime. In WP6 P3 will participate in dissemination activities, organize iCo-op conference in Bilbao (Spain) and prepare an internal organizational plan to exploit the deliverables.
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The International Master's Degree in Landscape Intervention and Heritage Management is devoted to the specialized training of multidisciplinary experts on landscape and heritage. The Master's focuses on the design and promotion of a new generation of projects based on environmental sustainability and cultural creativity.
The Master's programme adresses to international students interested in acquiring a professional expertise in the field of landscape and heritage projects on the basis of highly specialised intervention and management skills. The programme intends to offer an academic background which is specifically configured for taking advantage of the leading excellence experience of Catalonia and the city of Barcelona regarding innovation when defining landscape and heritage strategies and policies.
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Phantom Termiticide- Insecticide is a non repellent insecticide (Termites, ants and roaches don't know it is there!) For use in: indoors and outdoors
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Phantom is not only a Termiticide that kills termites by ingestion and contact, but also a powerful and effective insecticide for ants and cockroaches . Phantom combines nonrepellency, superior control, long-lasting effects in a low-dose, virtually odorless formulation. Phantom can be used as a soil drench, wall foam or as a general use spray as desired.
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A: Phantom is a truly nonrepellent termiticide. That means that termites don't know it's there. Once Phantom has been applied to the soil and a perimeter has been established, foraging termites acquire the termiticide as they pass directly through the treated zone. Secondly, toxic doses of chlorfenapyr are transferred to other members of the colony through such mechanisms as trophallaxis, which involve shared feeding of contaminated secretions and food. As we say, "Some lines should never be crossed," and "fortunately, termites have no idea where this one is."
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The CPA Exam community & online study group to help you pass!
Late last week and into this past weekend I played some email tag with Bonni and Sonny over at Yaeger CPA Review. Sonny advised me that the recommended order of exams is F A R B, and that students will, on average, study for the following number of hours per section:
Using the Seat Availability Tool on the Prometric website, I looked ahead at what exam times were available at my local testing center. After estimating how much time I would have to study based on these exam times, I decided that it may be best if I go in the order of F A B R, in the interest of providing myself more time to study REG in exchange for BEC.
Here is the proposed schedule I came up with, along with an estimate of study time for each section. I used an average of 15hrs/week for studying, but that can potentially be increased if necessary. March and June are grayed out because there is no testing in these months, and I will be heading off to grad school in mid-late August, so I'll need to have it completed by that point.
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I think you will need more study time for FAR. It's the most voluminous material and most difficult for me. I passed all the section first try execpt Far wich I passed on second try. You will do well if you begin with the most difficult material. Once you pass it, the rest of the sections will be less stressful. my 2 cents.
Good luck Dave. I think you can do it.


text: Home > Business Philex says DENR not giving them 'due process' ABS-CBN News Posted at Sep 11 2012 04:45 PM | Updated as of Sep 12 2012 07:12 AM Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MANILA, Philippines - Faced with the prospect of paying a huge fine over the leak at its Padcal gold mine, Philex Mining Corp. on Tuesday hit the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for failing to give the company due process. Mike Toledo, Philex Mining senior vice president for corporate affairs, said the DENR has not given the company any notice or any hearing on the matter. "It's quite sad and disappointing that before we receive the actual notice or document that shows we have been found to be liable to a certain amount, which by the way is questionable, this has already been released to the media. This is a violation of due process which requires notice and hearing," Toledo said on ANC's News Now. On Tuesday, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said Philex could be fined double or triple the initial damage assessement of P325 million, after determining the spill was worse than expected. On top of the fine, Philex will be penalized P200,000 a day due to violation of the Clean Water Act. Heavy rains has caused the tailings pond to spill into the creek and river. The tailings pond has spilled a total of 6 times since August 1. Toledo said the company is willing to pay any fine the government may impose, but only after it is given due process. "We are of the position that this was caused by force majeure and we are willing to pay whatever fees are due us when it comes to cost with respect to rehabilitation," he said. "We have been transparent and open to the government and the public. We will not run away. Philex will do the right thing and show that responsible mining is possible in this country by meeting head on whatever fees due under the law and after due process and notice and hearing is properly observed, as provided for by the Constitution and the Mining Act." Philex, a copper and gold producer, is the country's biggest miner. It is led by PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan. Share Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Business,Top Stories,Philex Mining Corp.,mike toledo,Padcal gold mine Read More: Philex Mining Corp. mike toledo Padcal gold mine